The road to the table
Paint first. Then play. Every system on the list, one goal at a time.
Orktober 2026
One Ork a day, every day, all October. 0 of 31 done.
The painted pile
Plenty already done. A lot of it is 3D printed, so it lives on the shelf and at home games, not at tournaments. Still mine, still proud of it.
Why this exists
Orktober has been my thing for years. A mate of mine in the Ork community, Pete, started painting an Ork a day under #OrkaDay. It was his idea, not mine. My first year I used it to clear the shelf of half-painted models and get things table-ready, and I finished over a hundred. The next year I joined him properly.
Then I had a couple of years off. This year I'm back, and Orktober is about more than the collection. It's the discipline of finally getting these armies onto a table, and of starting something bigger alongside it.
Painting is the bit I've always done. Playing is the bit I keep promising myself. This page is the promise, in writing.