Orks Update: Trumpeter Salute 40k Tournament

Hey guys Gord here again with an update of my favorite boyz. The Orks.
This last weekend I took them to a local tournament. The Trumpeter Salute 40k tournament. It was good times with lots of good people. The event was TOed by Lee Baxter. Thanks Lee for putting on a fun event.
Not super competitive. But that didn't stop me from losing two of my three games. :P Anyways I didn't come home empty handed as I won one of the raffle prizes. One of the GW 40k Trench Lines Terrain boxes.
I also won the best painted trophy. Yay me!

So I was up until 1:00ish the night before trying to get my objectives and Defense Line finished up. Here's a couple shots of my army.

As you can see in the front I used the Citadel Urban Barricades and Walls as a defense line. If you chop two of them in half then it all comes out to the same size as the Aegis Defense Line. Four long pieces and four short pieces.

Here's a close up on the defense line and you can sort of see the Objective markers in the back. I used the little markers you get in the Munitorum dice set only I chopped the Servo Skulls of the top and built some totems from plasticard and random Orky bits I had laying around.

So now I'm adding to the army and changing some things around that I find didn't work so well in preparation for a larger tournament in a couple months. I've also got a possible commission coming up so I'll post up progress shots and finished shots of those. Until then.

Personal Intruduction. (And Orks!!!)

Hello and welcome all. I'd like to start off by introducing myself. I am The Machine God. But my girlfriend calls me Gord. I'm mostly a 40k fan but I've got some Fantasy and some Warmachine in my collection amongst piles of boardgames and some newly acquired X-wing miniatures. I'm an avid gamer and I also dabble in some game design. (maybe we'll see some future posts involving that. We'll see)

I'd like to thank Lee for asking me to come and contribute to the Blog. I'm really not much of a writer so my posts will probably be more pictures than anything.
I love converting models and weathering the hell out of their paint jobs. So Orks are one of my favorite armies to work on. I try to convert almost every model I can. Snikrot above didn't get converted just because he's an amazing model and didn't need any more embellishment.

I took my Orks to Gottacon in 2012 and so I had lots of boyz to paint up in a short amount of time. In the process I came up with a pretty decent way of doing weathering at a nice table top quality very quickly. In a future post I'll go over some of the techniques you can use to produce a similar effect.
I'd also like to hear what kind of things people would like to hear about for other future posts. Until then. Here's some more Orks!!! Waaagh!!