Beast Snagga Orks

   Back in February, I'd been chatting to my brothers about the wargaming we planned to do this year and one of them gave in to temptation and bought themselves a combat patrol that none of us expected them to give in to. This sort of opened the flood gates of temptation and I found myself ordering two combat patrols in less than 24 hours. The second one I ordered was the World Eaters which have already been painted and have been on the table, but the first was the Beast Snagga Orks, which lingered mostly built, some painted but with no real momentum behind them.

   One of my brothers had the aim for 2025 that he wanted to get his Ork army on the table, so I wrote the option for them to appear in our current campaign (spoilers) and decided to also do a small force* so that I could reinforce him and keep the story going if he were to flag, but I did the new patrol of Beast Snaggas so that I wouldn't be stepping on his toes.

*it has since got out of hand

   This was a combat patrol that I started to build, sprayed the first squad, then felt intimidated by how to paint them and started other things instead. I tend to try to keep to the 3 colour rule when painting, so keeping non-black/white scale colours to 3 or less as more tends to get busy and just look wrong if you don't seriously plan them. I'm not good enough at getting warm and cold colours balanced, so sticking to the 3 colours tends to give me better results.

   These orks have green skin, 2 different animal skins on their backs, armour and trousers. If I went with "colours" I would go over that magic number without even looking at details and spot colours. The decision I went for was to copy my old Lizardmen skin colour of an off desert yellow for the scaly skins, go brown trousers to keep the brightness down and then rely on whites and blacks for the big blocks of other space, including the furry skins. Although, I did allow myself a bit of red for details as the various species of Squigs in the army will also be red.

   I then finished my first unit in March, started a post about it, then did nothing with the army for nearly 5 months as other projects took the priority. Now with Orktober coming up, I wanted to get the bulk of the army done while the drive was there.

   So below, we have the warboss and the two units of boyz, which just leaves the Squighogs from the combat patrol to go. Although there are 750/1000 point lists on the table that I would like to try if I don't get distracted too hard by other things.

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