Ha, no worries! GW do make some very appealing models
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This green skin was done roughly around this video from NJM. Pleasingly what I’ve done so far was around 45 minutes with airbrush cleaning. So next up I will attempt some oil washes just to learn them. Orks really are the speed painters dream.
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Now with oils added. For a second attempt I’m happy. It’s soo fast which will be great for quick army painting. Maybe a little more refinement to do. I might try a bit of a thinner wash to lose less vibrancy in the colours. But it proves the principal of the process so hordes of orks ‘ere we go!!! (When they’re delivered…)
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Moving into winter here, does anyone have a good recommendation for a liquid primer with a matte finish? Can’t spray for the next 8 months. I’ve been using Vallejo air black but the finish is gloss and I prefer something with a good tooth to it (gesso-like).
I might just finally bite the bullet and get a cheap airbrush for priming use but let’s assume I’m not going that route.
Help is appreciated as always! 
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I use the Vallejo surface primer if I’m brushing it on. Sometimes needs a couple of coats, but finishes matt.
(Feeling your pain with difficulties of spray priming in autumn/winter. It’s not really the cold here, but the wet. Have to be ready for the sunny days to mass prep for the rainy times)
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I’m afraid I’m not of much use. I just prime in the garage over the colder months.
I have an airbrush, but I’ve never used it to prime. Rattle cans all the way. I have a small bottle of Vallejo black brush on primer, but I only use it for small touchups if I need to (and I rarely need to).
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This would all be so much easier if I had a (private) garage, but unfortunately I’m in a condo. I’m in Vancouver so it’s very much about the humidity for me as well. Half the time the summer is a wild card too!
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The Vallejo black surface primer (normally airbrushed) works fine with a brush and isn’t really glossy. I airbrush it normally, but I can’t tell much difference when i find the odd shield/head that I’ve missed and I brush it on. It’s just slower.
Edit: ps the white is much less opaque than you’d think but doesn’t need to be a solid coat. Easy to overdo it though and fill the detail in pursuit of a smooth finish. White also blocks up in the airbrush more. Stick with black!
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I try to avoid white primer altogether (even rattle cans). They’re always thicker than grey or black.
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I can also vouch for the Vallejo black surface primer but stick with the black because the white or the grey always turns out a bit uneven for me
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Do we have any lefties in here? Minis being right-handed is something I’ve casually noted before, but now that I’m effectively building an avatar of “myself” for Rangers of Shadow Deep, I’m finding myself frustrated. I just converted my hero to a companion mid-build after I realized there are no “on” hand daggers. 
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Huh. There are a lot of ambidextrous characters in Infinity, but I don’t know about specifically left-handed… I’m sure there are many sculpts that would work, but that’s cyberpunk/high sci-fi, so won’t really work for what you’re going for.
Maybe something in the A Song of Ice and Fire (by CMON) might work? But it’d be expensive for just one mini…
CMON formally made the no-buy list after their NFT announcement. They were already borderline. It’ll be less of an issue for Stargrave (for which you better believe I’ll be looking at Corvus Belli!) but yes, for fantasy stuff it’s annoying. Very hard to come up with a sculpt when all the cool arms/weapons are on the right side. Might just need to say screw it and use a bow.
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But left handed archers draw with the other hand too - at least I do
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It’s true, but at least the poses are a little more ambiguous because both hands are involved. I mean, it’s a little niggle but when you’ve got this huge pile of awesome arms and all the boring ones are lefties, it makes the construction part a little frustrating. I’ll just make them right-handed for the ease of the build.
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Left eye dominant archers, you mean 
It is a tricky one with left handed people with regards to historical warfare: up till Victorian times and WWI, left handed soldiers had to learn to deal with the right hand, in order to not break up the line. On a fantasy set up, you would think you could have more room to divert from what happened in our History, but for example, my elder brother was born in the 60s and was taught to write with the right hand, even if he was naturally left handed. To this day, he only writes with the right hand, and he shoots with his bow right handed, but has to aim with both eyes open as his dominant eye is the left.
And with regards to miniatures, am I right to think that it should be easy enough to just produce them mirror-shaped? I don’t know how much of a market there would be for that, though.
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Three spectres, or possibly cultists, or maybe demons - nice models for mini agnostic games as they are very versatile in what they could represent.
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Generals in the Undead Sheep Army…
That snowy ground cover is very effective.
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