Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, ya gitz. Hammer the Backlog is my weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. Every week I paint some models, fill in an accountability scorecard, write up the week’s issues and news and present it all to you, the dear readers. Like many week eights, this week eight has been almost entirely uneventful. What will that mean for the blog? Read on and find out.
SCORECARD
Quite a few weeks on the trot fully in the green. With no running taking up my time, you would think that I would have more time for painting. But somehow, I didn’t. This week’s five boys were at the exact same point on their painting journey on Wednesday night as their colleagues were two weeks ago.
I’m glad I’ve got a system down for the ork boys. It means more painting time, less thinking time. With only five to go, it should be a breeze next week. But!
A slight wrinkle. I am missing one ork boy’s head. Where did it go? Not a clue. I might have borrowed it at some stage over the last 18 years to give someone else a head? I think the head that’s missing is one of the Kopta pilots’ heads. So I transferred one of the normal heads onto a Kopta pilot, leaving me one head short.
Luckily, I seem to have a spare Nob. I think you got a free nob and terminator with an issue of White Dwarf when Assault on Black Reach first came out.
I checked the ork codex from the time, and mobs of 10 boys or more can be lead by a nob, so problem solved for next week!
THIS WEEK’S MODELS
Another five boys in the bag! Well, not in the bag. In the storage box on a magnetic tray.
Lookit, these are number 11 to 15 of the same models, so I don’t have a huge amount to say about them these week!
Same colours, same paints!
Just five to go for next week!
WHAT’S LEFT
So, with Orktober officially over, what is left to do for the Orks? Well next week we have 3 normal boys, a boy with a big shoota and a nob.
The week after that I have the last Deff Kopta.
And then the last 40 Ork in my collection. I thought this model might have been Kaptain Baddruk, but it turns out that he is the, apparently quite rare, metal Flash Git with Targeting Squig. Since he is just a single flash git, he doesn’t really fit in anywhere in the army?
I guess I could treat him as a normal Nob for the second boys squad?
In the meantime, what’s really helping me get throught the Orks is the excitement of moving on to new projects. I am really excited to get my Arvus lighter done, and then either High Elves or Empire next quarter.
Nevermind that my collection of third edition Dark Eldar is looking ever more tempting! A candidate for a year 5 tray already?
See you next week!
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