Orc Big Boss 'Chief Scarsnout'

After counting up all the vote--yes, as in the singular noun--I went ahead and did some blue and white warpaint on this green fella.  I kept it to a minimum, however, because I like how his skin turned out;  I was able to (kind of) pull off painting muscle fibers on his shoulders and some other areas, so I didn't want to cover all that hard work.  Anyway, here his is, ready to chop somebody's head off--probably not cleanly, too, looking at that crude axe.

Savage Orc Big Boss (WIP)

Howdy, folks.  I finished this guy up about twenty minutes ago, but  I'm having a bit of a painter's dilemma here, and I'd like your opinion.  Should I keep this guy as is, or should I add some blue warpaint (maybe a stripe or something down his face, and a few bands around his arms or legs)?  I like the way he looks now, but I'm on the fence if I wanna move on to another figure, or give him said warpaint.  Post a comment and let me know what you think.

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.

Happy Orktober!

 It's that time of year again--falling leaves, pumpkin spice beer, cloudy afternoons and, of course, MORE ORKS than you can swing a Thunderhammer at.  I finally finished up a Big Mek with his Kustom Force Field.  It had been sitting on the painting bench since early summer.  When I bought him, I realized much too late that it was a dreaded Finecast sculpt.   Upon opening the package, this model had more holes than Swiss cheese.  I spent a few days messing around with 'green stuff' (never ever again!), got frustrated, and set it back on the table to collect cobwebs for a few months.  I'm not sure what exactly came over me, but I decided to ork-up and just finish it.  I'm surprisingly quite pleased with how it turned out; however, it was the least fun and most tedious model I've tried painting to date--all the little wires, cables, chains, buttons, etc.  Not to mention that painting over primed Finecast--at least in my experience--gives a lot of friction against the brush.  I'm glad it's done, that's for dang sure.

I've also got some Lootas I finished up a while ago (I think I posted the first one back in May), but never got around to finishing.  Additionally, I was able to get my hands on some Meganobz--Ork Nobz covered in thick, cumbersome Mega armor--cheap on Ebay.  They were already painted, but I just cleaned them up a bit and added my own little orky flair to individualize each of the six models.   Lastly, I used some styrene sheet to cut up my own orky Aegis defense line that my squishy Lootas can fire at from behind, hopefully allowing their green butts to stay on the battlefield a turn or two longer before being blown into obscurity by lascannons, or Mork knows what else exists out there in the 40k universe.  That's about it for this post.

May your WAAAAGHs be a plenty this festive and bestive Orktober!

The Big Mek...He needs a name still.  Any suggestions?

And his Kustom Force Field

Lootas

The one with the cigar cracks me up every time I look at it

Meganobz

Orky Aegis Defense Line

Stay behind cover, boys

Tankbustas and Death Guard OSL

  I'm a pretty happy camper right now.  I entered my first 40k tournament over the weekend...and ended up getting 2nd place!  Not to shabby for playing Orks (an army whose codex is two editions behind...)  The dice were on my side and my list ended up working out pretty well.  At the last minute I painted up some Tankbustas, who basically shoot rokkits and throw bombs at vehicles.  Lot's of explosions--sometimes accidentally on the receiving end; such is Orks!  I finished painting them up today, and got back to my Plague Marines as well.  Trying to do OSL proved very challenging, and hopefully my skill will have improved the next time I attempt it

The Nob, Gas Guzzla, who leads the Tankbustas into the heat of the battlefield

Ready to blow something up

3/10 done

Death Guard Progress Report

Howdy, folks!  I'ts been a few weeks, but I've still been painting away.  My latest project is a unit of Death Guard Plague Marines.  I just gotta say these guys are so f@*%ing cool.  They're basically Chaos Space Marines who worship Nurgle, the god plague and disease.  In return Grandfather Nurgle has gifted his favored sons with putrid flesh and pestilence to spread across the galaxy...

Death Guard: Aaaaaand you're dead...

I'm almost done with the unit of six Plague Marines and one Plague Champion.  I won't go into too much detail about my painting method--I just kinda went with my instinct, and I don't remember exactly all the colors I used etc.  I attempted some new techniques on these guys, most notably, my first-ever attempt at OSL, which I'm fairly happy with, but I definitely need to study how light reflects off of objects more;  it's a work in progress... I've got two guys just about finished, so I'll leave them for you to check out.  I should have the rest done by next week.

Two Plague Marines.  Not the best lighting, and my feeble attempt at OSL on the right guy.  I'm still debating if I should have light reflecting off of his rusty plague knife.  

This over-exposed shot brings out the OSL much better I think...

All kinds of fleshy mutations...

...and, of course, rust pigments!

That's all, folks.