Furioso Dreadnought

Say what?!  Another post in the same week?  I know. Crazy, right?  I've taken a bit of a break from my orks and started working on some Blood Angels.  My goal was to paint the smoothest red possible.  I made the horrible mistake of priming this model--and a squad of 10 assault marines I'm almost finished with--in brown.  Painting red over that was a ginormous pain.  What you're looking at is about 10-15 really thin coats of red to make sure it went on as smoothly as possible.  There are definitely mistakes here and there, but I really like how the wings came out.  I ended up painting them grey, and then white.  After that, I made my own wash out of turquoise paint, and then did a final highlight with white.  It's simple, but a nice variation from the grey and white wings you see on Blood Angels more often than not.  I used some Citadel texture paint to create a snowy base.

Dakka Jet!

   Happy New Year, all!  I've got quite a few things I'd been painting over the last few months, but never got around to posting them.  I'll be putting them up throughout the next few weeks, though.  Here's one I'm really happy with.  The Ork flyers are a lot of fun to paint and assemble.  They've got so many options to choose from, but I went with the dakkajet.  I did quite a bit of experimenting on this one, and things turned out pretty okay.  I based it in brown, and then drybrushed several layers of yellow with about a total of 3 highlight colors.  It ended up looking way too pretty, so then I set about dirtying it up.  It's a mixture of washes with browns and blacks, and stippling with browns and oranges.  I went a bit overboard with the exhaust fume stains, but it adds to the orkiness of the model, me thinks.  I can't really explain the method to the madness here;  I just kinda went nuts.  I almost went cross-eyed working on the cockpit panels, but it was worth the effort.  Oh, I used some of the new Citadel technical paints on the rusted out bomb sticking out of the ground for the base.  Let me know what you think.