Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-6078851-20150114163201/@comment-6078851-20150120153240

i love painting. the single reason i got into 40k in the 1st place was to paint the models. orks are a pain to paint because of their numbers, tyranids will be too when i get round to them, but for me it's a double pain as i like all my models, not just characters,  to be painted to the best of my ability, which includes shading and highlighting every bit of detail :P

i will be painting bad moons, i've got flash gits to assemble and paint (awesome models by the way). but i'm trying to get a sizeable force together before adding some elite bad moons, and the quickest way (relatively speaking) for me to get a sizeable force is to make the majority goffs (and even with a foundation yellow base it takes ages to get even coverage of bad moon yellow). my orks also fit in with the lore: goffs are the most numerous klan and generally have contingents from other klans, and eventually i'll add some speed freaks too once i get some bikes. plus, i've a painted ghazghkull (awesomely painted if i say so myself :P) who is a goff, so my orks are his orks, which would mostly be goffs :) and i consider the goff klan to be the defining klan of the orks species.

i can understand why some people aren't into the painting/modeling side of things as it's very time consuming, and does indeed require patience, but patience i have in spades and as much as i love the lore of 40k the painting/modeling aspect is still my favourite part of the 40k franchise.