Orcs & Goblins were my third Warhammer army, though my collection really only started as a result of me getting the 6th edition starter set for the rulebook and Empire troops, so the Orcs were really just an added bonus. Not too long after, a friend got the Battle for Skull Pass as a start for his Dwarf army, and we ended up splitting the contents so I got the Goblin half. I then got a few models here and there to flesh it out a bit more. Unfortunately, I ended up selling the whole army apart from Grimgor a few years later to make some money and space to start a Dogs of War army instead.
However, at the end of 2022 I decided to start collecting greenskins again. Avatars of War had recently released STL's for common Orcs and Goblins, so I decided to make my army out of these, with characters mainly from Games-Workshop. So I did, and painted it all up during 2023. Sadly, the Avatars of War sculpts - while nice on their own - did not quite give me the nostalgia feelings of the original Games-Workshop models, and when Orcs & Goblins were released in 2024 and GW announced they would increase their prices in Sweden by close to 20%, I decided to order over 200 greenskin models before the price increase. This in turn meant that I now in effect had twice the number of greenskins, but the same amount of display space, so I decided to part with the Avatars of War models which I ended up selling on ebay. I did not recoup my costs, but it was not a huge loss either fortunately - and at least I had fun painting them for the most part.
Of course this meant I had a whole new Orcs & Goblins army to paint, which I started in late December and finished in the middle of February, so it took a bit less than 2 months all in all. This army is all GW apart from a few Avatars of War characters in metal which I decided to keep. It's all common Orcs and Goblins plus a unit of Black Orcs; I've always preferred the "regular" greenskins over the sub-species. Would have liked to include some chariots and Trolls as well, but since I only have two shelves of display space available for this army, this is what I have.
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| Army top-view |
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| Army front-view |
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| Azhag the Slaughterer |
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| Orc Warboss on Wyvern |
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| Warboss (7th Edition), Gorbad Ironclaw, Warboss (Avatars of War) |
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| Grimlok & Gazbag (Warhammer Online Limited Edition), Warboss (Avatars of War), Warboss (Games Day), Warboss (Forge World) |
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| Badruk 'Eadsplitta (Games Day), Borgut Facebeater, Grimgor Ironhide, Black Orc Boss (Forge World) |
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| Orc Shamans (6th edition, 7th edition, Limited Edition, Avatars of War) |
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| Grom the Paunch (Avatars of War), Nasty Skulkers |
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| Goblin Bosses (Avatars of War), GW (7th Edition) |
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| Goblin Bosses on Giant Wolves |
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| Goblin Shamans (6th Edition, 7th Edition, 8th Edition) |
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| Orc Boys with additional hand weapons Battle Standard Bearer (7th Edition) |
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| Orc Boyz with shields, Battle Standard Bearer (6th Edition) |
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| Orc Boyz with spears & shields, Battle Standard Bearer (Forge World) |
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| Orc Arrer Boys |
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| Orc Boar Boyz with spears (7th Edition) |
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| Black Orcs (7th edition), Black Orc Warboss (7th Edition), Ironskull's Boyz (Warhammer Underworlds) |
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| Goblins with spears |
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| Goblins with spears |
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| Goblins with shortbows |
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| Goblins Wolf Riders with spears |
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| Goblin Spear Chukka |
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| Goblin Rock Lobba |
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| Goblin Doom Diver |
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