{"id":6444,"date":"2023-10-07T14:43:18","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T18:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/?p=6444"},"modified":"2023-10-07T14:54:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T18:54:19","slug":"orctober-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/?p=6444","title":{"rendered":"Orctober 2023 and a NEW challenge on the horizon…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve never really participated in the yearly “Orctober” challenge before, wherein one paints orcs during the month of October. This year I figured I’d give it a shot. I have no idea who is hosting this challenge (I assume there is more than one person), so this isn’t a formal thing for me. I just feel like painting some orcs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contrary to what 90% of participants choose to paint, I will not be painting any orcs made by Games Workshop. Although I have a veritable assload of 40K Orks in metal and in plastic (still on the sprue, in most cases), I am choosing to indulge myself in some old-school lead once again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Behold! One of the first miniature sets I ever purchased, back when I was a wee lad just learning to play Red Box D&D. I painted these guys before, way back in the 80’s, using my tried (and failed) Testor’s enamel paints, which of course looked hideous. I stripped them about 15 years ago, intending to paint them again someday. That someday has arrived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pretty sure the date on the bottom is 1981; which fits with the classic gold-box era of Grenadier. No idea who sculpted these, but my money is on Andrew Chernak. Oddly enough, orcs in D&D back then were depicted as the classic, pig-faced variety; but these are more simian in appearance, kind of like the flying monkeys of Oz. Anyway, I like them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Although, 40+ years later I still have a full set, this fellow lost his axe-head at some point. I gave him a new one from the bitz box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I figured if I actually posted about my painting goal this month, it might motivate me to, you know, actually DO it. Here’s hoping I break out of this slump!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also: I’m hoping to host another painting challenge next month in honor of Movember, the month where men everywhere grow their facial hair to support men’s health. Well, men other than me, anyway. I hate facial hair. I cannot grow a beard for longer than two weeks without wanting to claw it off my face. BUT…I do love Dwarfs, and dwarfs love facial hair. Sooooooo…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DWARVEMBER, anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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