What next?

As I've been putting the finishing touches to the two big Necromunda buildings, I thought they had to be named properly. One day I did a rough counting of bits and pieces that went in to them, and the number was easily several hundreds. Gotta find out the exact number one day. This however brought up an idea about the name. The buildings are kind of TOWERS, and there might be even THOUSAND parts in them, and they currently weigh a lot (almost a TON!) despite being made around polystyrene frame(s)... So they'll be branded The Towers of Thousand Tonnes. That'll make a nice logo as well!

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So with The Towers close to being finished I was wondering what to do next. Modular boards have been hovering on my mind for a while. Then again the Sylvaneth army could be completed as well. And what about the Iron Warriors, Death Guard and the Nurgle Glottkin armies that aren't quite ready either? Skaven seem like interesting choice to start collecting too... Or should I rebase the old Warhammer armies of Dark Elves, Undead, Tzeentch, Dwarves and Orcs I've got somewhere?

Flipping through the pages of one quite new White Dwarf I found something interesting. Don't have the magazine at hand right now, so can't remember the number or any other exact details (especially the person whose army I got the inspiration from). I'll check them later to give credit, and add a link as well if I can found them online. So the army comprised of only Imperial Knights. There were propably a dozen of them (all beautifully painted and converted), but the main thing was the mention about games being rather quick and easy when you had only around four (4) big models to move around and fight with. Despite me being a big fan of crappy horde armies, this sounded super interesting.

Things started to come together. But I wasn't going to actually buy 4 Imperial Knight kits anytime soon (or should it be never?), so what to do? There were Chaos Knights available as well, but I've already got a lot of Chaos stuff done and to do. Something else then.

The current range of Ork miniatures has been irritating me for quite a while. There's just something I don't like in many of the models, and I can't quite put a finger in what that something really is. Maybe it's the faces? Most have just this stereotypical angry grin and little else going on. I'm really missing the mischievous, snarly, sneaky and even comical Ork faces of the old.

But hey! Orks build their machines just the way I like (scrap, crap and weapons quickly thrown togehter), so no need to worry about any modern Boyz miniatures being a little off. Just glue togehter big piles of pipes, gears, wheels, shootas, wires, skulls and armour plates and call it a day. A Stompa, Gorkanaut, Morkanaut and a couple of lesser creations by crazy Meks done in an instant.

Paint scheme should be simple too. Copper and verdigris this time instead of iron and rust. Dust and dirt. Black clothes with only very minor sharp highlights. Red (bloody) iconography, most likely Evil Sunz theme. Gotta try out the black and white checker pattern as well. Very dark and moody skins, just like the Orcs in the spectacular The Lord of the Rings animated film from 1978.

So lets see whether I can finish this Mek-Ork-Stompa-Dred-Killa-Kopta-Kan army before getting more interested in something else... 'Ere we go!