The Orlock Project (Part 2)

Orlock gang, ready (enough) for battle.

Here, in our locality, we have started a Necromunda: Skirmish campaign. The gang I assembled are these Orlocks. The majority of which are from the '96 starter set. A few of them have had some modern upgrades, and there's even a model from this century, the FW champion, that I am using as a medic. 

Assembled.

From right to left, we have the gang leader, Boz. Boz is armed with Bolt Pistol, Chainsword, Frag Grenades, photo-goggles and a Refractor Field.  Ripper is next. He is a Heavy armed with a Heavy Stubber. Then there is Fry, who is also a Heavy and be is armed with a Heavy Flamer. Brindle the ganger has an autogun. Burnz has a regular Flamer.  And finally we have Doc Dox , who you might have guessed is a Medic. She is armed with an autopistol and a fighting knife And equipped with a drop rig, medicae and Refractor Field. 

Primed.

They had their first game of the campaign vs. TheBob's Van Sar, in what I consider to be something of a revenge game.  Neither of us thought to take pics, especially me since I wasn't intending to write a battle report.  And since the paint job on these guys is currently extremely simple, I really see no need to write up a step-by-step painting tutorial.  Anyway, we had our fiight  and unlike last time,  I didn't play them like  berserker orks and I was a bit more strategic in their movements. The dice weren't against me either, and I was able to whittle down his gang while only having one go out of action myself. The Orlocks ended up winning this encounter.

Partial base coats.

The most memorable part  of this game occurred when my gang leader, Boz, was shot by a multimelta and was saved by it's lethal heat blast by his Refractor Field. He returned the gesture by shooting the multimelta wielding fiend out of the game. The fun part was that prior to playing our game we watched this chap  take one of Rob's Ogryns out of the game with ease, so I was fearful of this guy for sure.. The even funnier part was that his multimelta guy's lasting injury was "a learning experience" which gave that ganger additional XP! 

Battle ready.

One of my guys (Fry) is out in Recovery until the next Cycle. I have at least one more game to play before the Cycle ends. So far, it's been a good start but there are some tough gangs (and opponents) ahead. 

Van Sar sniper, preparing to end an ogryn's advance.

Ok, back to painting.; everything you see in the last pic of the Orlocks was done using Contrast paint. I diversified their flesh tones by using different ones throughout the gang: Fyreslayer Flesh, Guilliman Fleshwash and Darkoath Flesh. The blues were done using Macrage Blue, the red headbands was done with Baal Red and the blacks were painted in Black Templar. Of course I intend to get these guys up to parade level, as well as painting up any additional gangers that I assemble. .

More updates as they happen...