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Realm of Chaos – The Death Guard #3: Poxwalker #7 (Zomtober ’19) (Contrast Paint Experiment #12.2)

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Nurgle Poxwalker

I’ve started the next batch of Poxwalkers – seven of them this time (I found a couple of baggies of Poxwalker bits, but not all of them until a week after assembly). Now I’d usual;ly hold off until I had, well, more than one model of this sort, but the thing is that the Zomtober 2019 challenge asks us to post up the undead fellas on the Sunday. Now, given that I’ve already had a Sunday post, but my timezone is +10, (+11 at the moment, because we’re on Daylight Savings now), so this post will go up early on my Monday morning, but still on Sunday for Western Europe, the UK and the US. So I’m calling that good. I’m typing this Sunday nighgt my time as I wait for the PVA on the flock to dry, so I can take this little orange bastard outside and photograph him, so I can then edit the photos, insert them into this post, and then set the timer for 6am my time…

Nurgle Poxwalker

So yeah, this is the only Zombie I got done in the last week, and I only managed that by concentrating on the one of them today and putting the other six aside while I worked on thsi one and a few Orks. Pity my Dreadtober, which is looking like a bleak non-finish at this point as this working week’s going to be punctuated by a 12 or 13-hour day on Wednesday. Yeah, break out the tiny violins, but it does mean there won’t be much more time to paint before the end of the month, and definately not enough time to finish something as involved as a Dreadnought…

Nurgle Poxwalker

Something I really like about a numbe ro fthese Poxwalker figures is that they manage to tell a bit of a story in their sculpt. This guy for example wearing a torn protective suit with a cannister and gauge hanging off it. I decided to enmhance it a little by showing exactly what was in the cannister with a bit of freehand, and how much was left (none!) with a touch of colour. It doesn’t really come across in the photos, but the yellow strips on his outfit are a flouro yellow, and I’ve tried to get a rubbery grey appearance to his boots, gloves and hood.

I’ll see, but I don’t know if I’ll manage to get any more Poxwalkers done in time for Zomtober, let alone the four Zombicide Abominations that I started or the Survivor/Zombvivor. They will, however, most likely be finished not long afterwards, and if I manage to complete anything else before the end of the month, I’ll get them posted up. I’ve also got a few more greenskins I’m close to completing for Orctober, so they might pip the Zombies to the post as I need to have 25 of them completed by the end of this year…

WAAAAGH! Pt.20: RTB02 Space Ork Raiders Troopers (1988) (Orktober ’19)

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RTB02 Space Ork Raiders Troopers (1988) Kev Adams Rogue Trader Orks

A few months ago – back at the end of May to be precise, Wudugast posted up some shots of his 40k Ork army for Army April, and ruminated about potentially completing another 25 boyz this year for a total of 100. Seeing this, I saw a chance to help motivate both him – and rather importantly – myself to get 25 Orks painted each and offered to do it as a mutual challenge. Since then, Wudugast has completed and shown another 10 Boyz, as well as a Mek and his Grot, while I on the other hand have completed ….nothing to date. So with Orktober being a thing, as well as regular old October pointing out how close the end of the year is, I found it time to remove my fist from my backside and get some Orks bloody well finished!

RTB02 Space Ork Raiders Troopers (1988) Kev Adams Rogue Trader Orks

RTB02 Space Ork Raiders Troopers (1988) Kev Adams Rogue Trader Orks

Luckily I had at least gotten some models started. 20 old-school, Rogue Trader Orks, to be precise. The ones I’ve got here are some trooper models from the very first Space Ork boxed set (and the second 40k box set ever) RTB02 Space Ork Raiders. I’m not sure if I have a full set of the boxed set due to the many repeated sculpts (13 troopers), though I do have all of the individual models. Being that I’m going old-school with these models, I thought a nods both to the original boxes and the Rogue Trader book was in order, as well as later narratives found in the various wars for Armageddon with some of the scavenged gear being worn.

RTB02 Space Ork Raiders Troopers (1988) Kev Adams Rogue Trader Orks

RTB02 Space Ork Raiders Troopers (1988) Kev Adams Rogue Trader Orks

As with my other Orks, I’ve retained the variety of desert camo clothing being worn, in the pseudo-Blood Axe way I’m putting this force together. Mismatched camo, of couse, as it represents whatever they’ve managed to scavenge off the battlefields and trade from others. Most likely from enterprising Grots rather than directly from da humies.

RTB02 Space Ork Raiders Troopers (1988) Kev Adams Rogue Trader Orks

RTB02 Space Ork Raiders Troopers (1988) Kev Adams Rogue Trader Orks

These Orks were completed in three batches, and if I’d been posting regularly over the last couple of weeks, they’d have most likely have been in three seperate posts as I completed them. As it happens, they all fit into the one post perfectly, as they’re all models from the same boxed set. There are a few more on the way, but they sit still-unfinished on the paint desk as I type this shortly before posting this up, so they’ll likely be along in the next week – along with a few more that aren’t from the RTB02 box for variety. With these eight though, I’m at least started on my Ork Challenge Pledge. At almost the end of October. Only 17 more to go…