Big Waaagh Temptations and the Never-Ending Sword Glaze
We had one of those very relatable hobby chat moments recently: one part “that unit looks absolutely awful to play against”, one part “which obviously means we now want to try it ourselves”, and one part “why does this painting technique take forever?”
Pegi kicked things off by sharing a shot of some Orruk Brute energy and immediately summed up the feeling perfectly: in Big Waaagh, they must be incredibly annoying to face. Naturally, that only made them more tempting.
That is honestly one of our favourite little truths about Warhammer. Sometimes a unit looks so mean on the table, so unapologetically aggressive, that instead of scaring us away it just makes us think: okay, now we kind of want to put that on the board ourselves.
A moment later, the conversation swerved from list temptation straight into painting pain, as Wilini dropped in a work-in-progress shot and a cry for help from the trenches: he really needs to learn how to do the glaze on swords faster.
And honestly… yes. We felt that.
There are some techniques that look fantastic once they are done, but while you are in the middle of them they can feel endless. Blade glazing is absolutely one of those. You know where you want it to end up, you know the effect is worth it, but getting there smoothly and quickly is a completely different story.
This was a very small exchange, but it captured a lot of what our hobby time often looks like:
- getting excited about nasty units we would probably complain about across the table,
- immediately imagining how fun they would be to run,
- and then going straight back to wrestling with painting techniques that test our patience.
So that was the mood of the evening: Big Waaagh menace on one side, sword-glaze suffering on the other. Pretty normal hobby balance, really.
If nothing else, it is nice to remember that half the battle in painting is not just learning a technique — it is learning how to make it efficient enough that we still want to do it on the next model.
And as for those Orruks? Let us just say the urge to put some very annoying green muscle on the table is definitely there.