Quarter 2 Week 3 Update: Orktober?

Hello there. Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly painting, productivity and accountability blog. Join me for another week of checking the weekly scorecard, catching up on the quarterly goals and looking at some painted models. Oh, and it’s Orks. In October. For Orktober, Games Workshop’s most successful social media push. Did I plan this? Honest answer: I don’t remember. Maybe? If I did it was months ago and I had forgotten until yesterday. Anyway, happy coincidence or sinister plan, let’s get on with it!

SCORECARD

Well, look at that, my palette (and fingers, and desk, and brushes) is not the only thing covered in green this week. Since I dedicated 10 Hammer the Backlog points, or two week’s work, to the Ork Nob squad, that means 10 points done this week.

Even though I gave myself two weeks on these, I ended up finishing pretty close to the wire thanks to a combination of a busy two weeks in real life and the natural lack of drive that having more time creates for me.

To be honest, I probably could have done more on the details and highlights than I did in the end. But I decided to stick to the plan and call them done when the tiny was up instead of fussing the details. Especially since I have 20 more boys to do!

A small issue that came up this week is that the Kopters coming up over the next three weeks will all need flying stands, and I don’t think I have any. So a dig through the pile of shame and a trip to eBay may be in order.

THIS WEEK’S MODELS

Look at this fine bunch of lads. Were they fun to paint? Kinda. Kinda not. I hit a bit of a wall this week in Ork motivation. I’m just not that into them! Sorry, Ork people!

Part of both the fun, and the challenge, of these lads is that they are five unique models, so it was a pretty constant hunt not to miss details since there is no uniformity.

I decided to paint them pretty much the same way as the Warboss two weeks ago. Since there are five of them, the might have a notch or two few highlights than the warboss, but I did make sure the faces at least had a matching style.

I decided that the Nobs, being big bad lads, would have a little more red on them than the rank and file boys over the next few weeks of Orktober. So each of these lads has two or more pieces of red on them, either armour panels or hair or crests. The regular lads are going to have one red panel each only.

SOCIAL MEDIA

Another social media milestone this week, with Instagram hitting 6,000 followers! Who could have imagined three years ago when hitting 50 followers was worth celebrating!

Thanks everyone, see you next week for the first Kopter (hopefully)

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