Ya neva see dem koming!

 Ork goodies again today. While working on more Titans, I've been trying to put some order in the Orks box, which I have found to be quite a challenging endeavour. Mainly because, even if I call it a box, is more like a collection of boxes, bags and foam trays scattered all along the place. Which, all being said, I still find pretty Orkish anyway.

The thing is that I've put together all my Ork Kommandos:

Some of them were already mine, others came in later

 I've broken the non written rule of working only with old models, because I also happen to have this Kaptin from most awesome Knightmare Miniatures.

Da Boss

 I know that this guy kind of breaks the aesthetics of the Kommandos, but I liked the mini and felt that it should fit in here. I reckon it's a rendiditon of the old Freeboter Kaptin, but I have some plans for Freebooters in the future, so I'm taking the risk of making this mini into this unit. If I change my mind in the future, I can always pull it out.

I took some time to think about how to paint them. My first impulse was to use some weird camo pattern, something garish. The Ork idea of camouflage. But I think that's a path heavily treaded by many people over the years. However I came with some silly ideas along the way, mostly waving through real life  current camo patterns. For example, the former Belgian Army camo pattern looked like a good option:

Come on, even the troopers are already green!!

But I really didn't enjoy the idea. From that I jumped upon the US Army ACU pattern, which was once supposed to be the ultimate camouflage (and if you ever met anyone who has served wearing it, you may find different opinions on that idea). However, that's a thing I had already done long ago, and I wasn't so keen to repeat it.

At some point I even considered the idea of using Multicam pattern, i.e. some current, actual camouflage, buy I also discarded the idea. Somehow it really didn't feel right on those fatigues. It was only then when I found my particular solution. The uniforms. It was there all the time. They somehow resembled me WWII British Royal Marines, and that finally inspired me. (Disclaimer: my dear British friends, feel free to disagree, but now I see these Kommandos as Royal Marines and you cannot change my mind XD).

I cut out and replaced some weapons in order to avoid identical minis

Finding the correct colour was tricky, and I don't think I've really got it right, but at some point I had to make the decision to move along with it. After all, I'm not painting historicals, so these will have to do. In the end, these are my results:

Still sceptical about this one, but I'm keeping him for now

Kome on, Boyz, let's go infiltrate behind enemy lines

Of course there are shark mouths on the chainswords

Here you can see the whole unit:

Don't let otha Boyz ta tell yer wot iz ‘da propa way uv warfare

On this rear pic you can see the Blood Axes symbol, but in the colours of the WWII British Commandos patch, red over black:

Please note the glorious Swiss Army knives too!

 This is it. I have to say I had a lot of fun painting them, it's been a different kind of project, combining Ork foolinesh and a more serious approach. Now these fellas are ready to rock. But beware... ya neva see dem koming!