Every Waagh has a beginning.

I much prefer working in plastic when modelling. Metals okay, but it's awkward to use, takes ages to dry when glueing, doesn't give you as many modeling options as is a pain to fix when you go wrong.

I already had a sizable Ork Army when the new plastic Dreadnought and Killa Kans were released. Despite telling myself that I didn't need them really, and that I could save my money it was no time at all before I found myself in the local games shop spending some of my hard earned cash.
Up until this point my army had been "brown" based. Meaning all the bases were sand, painted brown with a touch of static grass. However with the improvement in my painting and modeling skills I decided to try something different. I decided to try urban bases instead.

Of course painting them in DeathSkullz colours was a still given. Rather then just using Sand I had a hunt around for some other based materials and quickly found some interesting pots of rubble.

I used a similiar technique for the urban bases as I did for the browns. I painted the bases Adeptus battlegrey, before drybrushing them working my way up through the greys with each layer, codex grey, fortress grey, spacewolf grey and then finally a little drybrush of skull white.

I was very happy with how the models turned out. So happy in fact that I decided to start a new Ork army with a Urban theme.

I decided to set myself another challenge whilst I was at it. My new army would be all plastic! No out of the box complete metal models allowed

Sounds simply right?

Not as simple as you would think