Mage‘s Ironjawz aka my ongoing Orktober work

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These are looking great, I like that they are more muted than the GW bright yellow. Orcs should never look clean ?

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Thanks! Low on certain paint lately and sick the last few days with Bronchitis. With various stuff I’ve been not painting but getting back to it shortly.

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It’s been a while. Finished these guys a couple of weeks ago but they cooked longer than I preferred

 

 

 

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The army, for now, was rounded out by a Warchanter. Still, I’m tempted by a Mawkrusha Kit and a Start Collecting set.

 

Note: I deliberately painted the different Orc units with different skin. I’d imagine each comes from a different tribe or place as more Boyz get absorbed into the army. Different ethnicities of Orc or something.

 

 

 

 

 

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Hm, scratch that. I have a Giant and some Ardboyz I forgot to post pictures of. Stay tuned.

[limburger 21917xp 0]

those boar boyz look good, especially with the added details on the base.

the ‘start collecting’ kit is probably the cheapest way to get even more boar boyz and orks.

I must admit that I can’t imagine Orks being anything other than green.

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Yeah that’s what I was thinking with the start collecting set. Also apparently a second Warchanter is a must have according to various places I’ve asked online for advice

 

As for the skin I concur: various shades and intensities of greens and some bordering on torquisey green.

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IIRC the warchanter is one of those single pose sculpts with minimal options.
Nearly identical rank&file troops can be explained, but the ‘special’ characters in an army deserve to stand out a bit more.
I’m not into competitive gaming, so I wouldn’t bring in a second warchanter unless it worked for the background of my army.

I think the Iron Jawz codex does have the AoS equivalent to 40k death skulls, so blue body paint is definitely an option.

 

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I’m not into competitive gaming either but I don’t want to go to a tournament and get my butt handed to me either. I will be converting the next one a little. As it stands the Ironjawz dont have access to a lot of different characters and having more than one still makes sense, aside from giving an army list an edge.

I won’t be doing blue war paint: these guys are from a specific clan that don’t seem to use this and it wouldnt work visually for the army I’m doing.

 

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