So this is a regiment that I started a few months ago for my Oldhammer Orc army, but got bogged down on during the batch painting process. These are mid-90s Orc Big'uns sculpted by Brian Nelson, accompanied by a shaman, also by Brian Nelson. Games Workshop reissued these figures with the release of Warhammer: The Old World, and 11 of these figures - two ranks of regular grunts and the shaman - were purchased either online through Games Workshop or from my local game store.
The other nine, however, including the command group, were a gift from Josh "Cauldronborn" Slater, who has produced some pretty awesome miniatures himself - I highlighted his most recent Kickstarter here. When I received my products from his last Kickstarter, I found a bag of orcs included in my box with a note that he thought they'd find a better home with me than in his leadpile.
I've experienced a lot of kindness and generosity in the miniatures hobby space, and this is a perfect example. It's also why I try to pay that same kindness forward every chance I get.
I was one shield short of what I needed (this has been rectified thanks to eBay - should have it sometime between Christmas and New Year's Eve), and as you can see I haven't painted a standard for the standard-bearer.
Unfortunately, I think the pad of heavyweight graph paper that I use for painting banners got stuck in a box that's currently in the storage area under my basement stairs. I've FUBAR'd my knee pretty good, and moving shelves and rooting through the storage area's out of the question at the moment.
Tomorrow is the beginning of this year's Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge, and that means a fresh start on painting; if I were to do additional work on this unit tomorrow, I wouldn't be able to count them towards the Painting Challenge, and it would be time spent not working towards my Challenge hobby goals - in this case, 400 points' worth of 28mm models.
So while they still need a banner and a shield, I am counting them as Done for the purposes of my own tracker because I won't be working on them again in 2025.
Figures Acquired in 2025: 246
Figures Painted in 2025: 207
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