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I have recently started an ork army and i want to make an awesome looted vehicle as a center piece for it but have no clue where to get started how to or how to do it. I have no problem converting and personalizing models but i've never done anything with a vehicle before. Also i run a nob squad in a truck and i was think of using a looted drop pod turned side ways on a skimmer base for it... again help would be appreciated... can you tell me the tools ill need and post pics of or vehicles so i can get an idea of what i want.

P.S. I also wanna make a kkf big mec, i tried using a zapgun from the battlewagon but it looked like gak... i've never done big modeling stuff before only small little things and poses.. i haven't even used green stuff yet..... I was thinking an ork army could be when i really got into this stuff

Edit: ill start posting pics of my models within a few days... please feel free to critque... my warboss will be first up

Edit 2: i really need help with this come does no one have any suggestions? BTW just finished painting my first 2 models... first models i've ever painted...2 shootas

Okay so here is my first objective base for the army soon to be painted and my first 2 models ever painted (need help with the face paint anyone got suggestion on what i should do for it or does it look fine?)






my objective marker



Also tips on taking picture of my models would be nice

Looking good for firsties, my first models were horrendous compared to your work. I dig your objective marker.

As for photographing, see if your camera has a macro setting (the symbol is usually a flower or plant of some kind; I think its called macro)... that'll help immensely with getting better up-close and personal shots without fuzzing the detail.

TY i sat down with a guy at our store who use to give painting class's and he taught me how to do orks and my friend to do spacewolves, btw my friends first model while no done.... looks amazing ill see if i can't get a picture of it


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Okay so ive got the rest of my shoota boyz sqaud primed and ready to go..... 28 models boy this could take awhile.....


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Okay i just finished painting 5 more boyz here they are... gonna wait for this sunday to do face paint with a guy at our store\




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Someone messaged me about the paints i was using.

I use darkangels green, snotgreen highlights, devlin mud wash, snot green highlight, devlin mud wash to get the skin

I use bolt gun metal and devlin mud to get the guns

I use a p34 bun corps brown paint to get the pants adn than wash it with devlin mud.

Scab red for the eyes.

P34 gun corps brown and than P34 menoth with moonlight paint for teeth and claws

REgal blue, mixture of regal and enchanted blue highlight, enchanted blue highlight for any and all blue

Looking good so far.

Maybe a slightly darker blue for the face... would help to differentiate it from the armour a little. Either use a darker blue, or give it a wash with Devlan Mud to blend it slightly with the rest of the skin.

i'm going for the face paint in the codex (nob's face paint) light blue with dark blue highlights but my next ork ill do with dark blue and light blue highlight


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Coming up.. a big mek with kff built from tau drones.. will post as i make

Sry no tau drone to clean cut to be orky but hows this for a kff i plan to use a big mek with bosspole GW model... also will green stuff the wires and other things so it fits together



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Seriously can someone give me an opinion on this.. is it a piece of crap... looks good.. what can i do to improve... come on ive had over 340 views and not a single one of you can give me criticism?

Okay, I've finished assembling the Big Mek with KFF hope you enjoy C&C welcome (Name suggestions for Big Mek welcome to)

That definitely looks like a KFF to me. As for names I'm not sure I can be all that helpful, but maybe the random Ork name generator can be? http://www.stevelange.net/orkname.php

As for a looted vehicle, this is a nice use of a drop pod here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/262608.page. If you want to make a looted vehicle the centrepiece of your force, you will need to go for something large for visual and tabletop impact. That narrows your choices down to the landraider and Baneblade families of vehicles. I think the Stormlord would make a fantastic Ork vehicle - it already has a nice bulky superstructure up front, and an open fighting platform at the back - but if you are set of the drop pod, then you could copy the general idea of the post I've linked and use a land raider hull, or do something different again.

If you are keen on a skimmer hull, maybe check out the Falcon. I'm not all that certain on how the drop pod and the Falcon measure up for size, but I'm guessing the model will look top-heavy if you attach the drop pod to where the turret normally goes. Maybe cut the drop pod in half from top to bottom and attach plasticard to where the other half used to sit. I'd then attach the fat end to where the falcon's turret normally sits and then, using a couple of plasticard 'beams', suspend the other end above the opening in the two 'arms' of the Falcon's forward hull. This would mean half a drop pod parallel to half a falcon, if you follow?

Yes i do... and instead of just being a crazy idea i think i might be able to pull this off ill see what i can do ty

Zodthug Wazzod ... first name to pop up and i loved it

Awesome, glad I could help. Can't wait to see how your looted vehicle comes along.

It may have to be put on hold im going to a kibbutz for 6 months in december-ish sooo....