For some odd reason, I really like painting ork rockkas. When I saw the Kromlech stage, there was no way it would not be included in my hoard. I ordered it along with the Guns N Fungus band, and the wrecking ball grot. Last year for Orktober when I came down with covid, I took a week off work and got to painting. I added 3D printed kegs, cups and 6 packs along with some modulork stage hands. One of them has the furniture stapled head of the punk off of The Young Ones and the ringmaster is none other than Lord Humongous!

When I was growing up there was this fairly awful TV show called Black Sheep Squadron with Robert Conrad. It was pure cheese, but I really liked watching it. I have always planned on making a bunch of ork flyers and having them be the Black Squig Squadron. The first entry is even a kit bashed egg F-4U Corsair. Right now they are only two, and a half finished plane that has been on the shelf for a while, but someday I’ll have a squadron. I even have a C47 Skytrain that I plan on filling with ork paratroopers!

I decided to try a Age of Sigmar model, and the Megaboss on Maw-Krusha looked fun. Mrs. PIGM00 loves dragons and I thought this would look good in our glass display cases. It was a really fun build, and I enjoyed making a big elaborate base for it. It looks pretty simple now, but at the time I thought it was great. I had been watching alot of Black Magic Craft and wanted to try building with XPS foam.

Maw Krusha was fun, but sci fi has always been my favorite. So when I came across a dragon form StationForge, I knew that Orktober that year was sorted. This thing is massive, it doesn’t even fir in my doublewide display case. It also bent the printed flight stand I tried to use and I had to replace it with acrylic. This was my second large print, and I only had resin printers at the time. The warping and gap filling was a killer, but I think it turned out pretty good.

I enjoy watching Midwinter Minis, and Guy painted a stompa a few years ago. The color scheme he used was similar to my own, and I thought it would be a fun paint. The model is expensive though. I was really surprised when Mrs. PIGM00 got me one for my birthday, which is Halloween! I didn’t set out to copy Guy’s, and they are different, but they are pretty close. I loved this piece of my collection, but man Forgeworld’s quality is bad.

My first ork model ever finished was a gorkanaut. It is way too clean, and looks like it was built by the least orky grots ever! Maybe they were like the hyper intelligent gremlin in the second movie!

When Orktober was approaching a few years ago, I was looking for a project when I came across a Baneblade that hade been gathering dust in my closet for a few years. I was never going to paint or play a guard army, and would probably just end up selling it on eBay. Then I found the ork rock band STLs from Geargutz Mekshop. How about a Mad Max style sound rig with a makeshift stage and huge speakers? This was a really fun project and I really like how it turned out.

I love painting orks, but I have no interest in Games Workshop’s games. I use my ever growing collection of little green men to play a ton of other sci fi and even fantasy games though. Stargrave, Space Gits, Frostgrave, Dracula’s America (yes, puppets war has made cowboy and bandit ork bits), and many other indie games. I started with painting traditional GW orks, and slowly moved into 3D printing to grow my Waagh. Ipaint them less often than I did a few years ago, but always add to this collection in Orktober, and even have had Mrs. PIGM00 join in some years.

Let’s start with some of my favorites in the collection, 80’s orks! all the cool characters from the movies and shows I loved growing up, only orkier?