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So I now find myself with a chunk of 40k Greenskins and a Planetary Empires campaign looming.
I have decided to try and make some progress on them and track it through this threadalation.

My friend here in Kanto, Roleplayer, has a thread for his army (Umies, pah! ) He seems to have a bit of
a perfection complex so his models get a lotta love. Check them out if you get a chance. I, on the other
hand, have a wad of figs so will not be painting anything to that standard. I play O&G for Fantasy as well and
have never gotten around to painting too many of them. I have a few different styles for painting greenskins
but I had to rethink them for these Orks (that is if I expect to ever finish any of them) I came across a fairly
simple way; Orkhide shade, Knarlock Green drybrushing and washing (still toying around with wash color and
order) This is quite easy as I am not trying to paint a developed musculature on hundreds of minis. The Ork
arms are so well defined (that reminds me that I need to go to the gym) that drybrushing is adequate. I will
have to work out which wash colors I like though. I am used to my Orks being a bit brighter so the Badab Black
washes left something to be desired, but Thrakka Green just doesn't seem to make enough shadow.

As far as Tribe, I have decided to go with the Bad Moons. I like the contrast between the green and yellow.
Painting yellow is something that I have never done in quantity (toyed with playing Iyanden before the foundation
color range came out but have up because yellow used to be a bitch to paint) Also, being able to kit out my dudes
with a load of bling is sweet (I need to practice making chains with greenstuff so I can give all of my Nobs club-worthy
chains) Play-style I think I actually prefer the Goffs (large foot mobs) but their design is black check. The only thing
more annoying than painting tons of models is hand-drawing checks on tons of models. So I will use a load of
black yellow and green footsloggin' playas. Although...the deff-roller conversion for the battle wagon does come
out soon...and I am foreseeing having trouble with the bunkers in planetstrike...ramming a bastion sounds cool!

The campaign that my friends and I want to begin is with the Planetary Empires expansion. I don't know anything
about the rules , but if the games are varied (and include Planetstrike games) I am going to have to collect a
wide range of models (which gets me wet)

I guess that is enough for now. Any other Greenskins give me a shout out if you have any advice.

Here is my workspace and evidence of why not to buy an iPhone for the camera in it

I'm guessing you are new to painting. looks good though.


as for your camera problem try using macro mode and not going so close.

I'm guessing you are new to painting. looks good though.


as for your camera problem try using macro mode and not going so close.

deadly chicken wrote:I'm guessing you are new to painting. looks good though.


as for your camera problem try using macro mode and not going so close.

No, I am not new to painting. I have quite a few nicely painted models. There is just
no way that Orks can be given a lot of individual love and expect to get finished.

And as far as macro mode, I do not know if iPhones even have that, and if they do
I am unaware as to how to apply it.

firstly sorry about the new to painting assumption i just swear i saw a starter kit. as for the picture problem. GET A CAMERA!

A camera, what a novel idea. If I stopped spending all of my money on GW maybe I could!

Why the hell aren't the left arms for Missile launcher/ Big Shoota Meks included with the
loots/burnas box? There is only enough arms to make a kustom blasta.

Argh

I am not familiar with the Iphone camera directly, but I have heard it is quite good. From the backgrounds (the focus ) in some of your pics I would say it can serve it's purpose just fine. Looking forward to seeing you spam images onto the Dakka galleries .

Welcome to Dakka Dakka.

Wrexasaur wrote:I am not familiar with the Iphone camera directly, but I have heard it is quite good. From the backgrounds (the focus ) in some of your pics I would say it can serve it's purpose just fine. Looking forward to seeing you spam images onto the Dakka galleries .

Welcome to Dakka Dakka.

Yeah, the photos are generally nice but just not for models.
Welcome to Dakka, lol. I have been here for a few months.

So I tried painting Golden Yellow over the Iyanden Darksun and it still doesn't look too hot. It looks o.k. with a bit of distance but close up you can still clearly see where the paint didn't cover so well. Cursed light colors! It's a shame too because the Golden Yellow is sooo bright. Also I made the mistake of painting the chainmail on their weapons rather than drybrushing it so it looks like everything is chromed. The black wash helped, but it is still a bit bright for my tastes. I may revert back to my usual drybrush chainmail and then fleshwash or some similar brownish wash followed by a brigther silver highlight.

Their skin looks good though (and I am glad because the technique was quite simple and will save me a lot of time) Though I may mix something with the gretchin green for the highlighting, I would like them to be just a bit brighter. And I think I am just going to go with black for most of their clothes, with a light grey highlight. Maybe some brown on a few straps, pouches, etc.

You need multiple coats of yellow to smooth out the color I am building a imp fist drop company one droppod has 2 coats of each gw yellow I can't wait till I figure out my air brush.