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When my wife plays the orks, they're known as "Purpleanium Predilection" - her orks have discovered a new, purple metal with super choppiness and everyone in her army has decided to make their choppas out of it.

When I play the orks, they're either Ghazghkull's Harem or "The Pink Waaaugh!" I was going with the pink tide, but then realized that was inappropriate. Paint jobs done by my wife, and this is my first attempt at basing...she insists that their home planet is gravelly pink - yes, that is pink glitter. I *REALIZE* that these aren't going to win any golden demon awards; neither of us are very good painters - but at least they're unique and stylish, right?

1. Custom-built tank bustas: Tip of a fantasy mace glued to a pistol on one, the tank-hammer is a cut-off fantasy spear melded with a filed down rokkit-launcha. The third is a shoota melded with the rokkit pack that comes with a killa-kan. I cut the rokkits off, filed them to shape and voila.




2. Sorry if the light is bad for this one - this is four out of five of her boy squads. Each is painted differently for easy recognition on the table.




3. Snikrot. With a freakkin' coke-fingernail that my wife is immensely proud of. Who else can pile onto your rear table edge with such dazzle?




4. His kommando friends, that's who! Snikrot generally comes with two burnas and 12 other kommandos - I made them using pistol arms and dagger arms from a fantasy ork box. Very sneaky / stab you in the back like.




5. Yes...this *is* a big mek with a kustom-force field. When he takes the field, the hope of my enemies droops into despair, for his presence escorts doom across the battlefield.




6. This is the doom himself, Ghazghkull Thraka - the deadliest, killiest ork in da universe. My wife painted him when I had some influence, before she decided to go completely girly on all her models. She commented last night that Ghazghkull needs to be repainted to fit her army, and I promptly hid him. We'll see how this one plays out.




7. Some posing burna boyz.




8. The Pink Waaaugh! waves hello!! And yes, those are pink jumpsuits. Those are rather famous around my parts - few Imperial or Xenos humanoids or vehicles leave the battlefield alive, but those who have go home in shame for having been beaten up by pink orks.




9. Patchwork Waaaugh! banner ork deserves special attention.




10. I didn't take any pictures of the polka-dotted battlewagons, but here's one of the trukks:

Love them

any original ideas for an army are great!
I was expecting pink skinned orks but then I realised that pink skinned orks are just catachans

That is PURE WIN!!!

The scheme is hilarious, but I think some red and blue washes would make the colours pop more.

I think you should just go with the Pink Tide and run with it. I doubt many will get it.

Owain wrote:The scheme is hilarious, but I think some red and blue washes would make the colours pop more.

1. Can you wash something that's been clear-coated already?

2. Hopefully I'll get a tutorial on washing sometime. Its been described to me a couple of times, but I'm a visual learner.

Orkette picture seals the deal for me - hilarious army =]

1) Not sure, probably not easily. Test on something that is not important

2) It is really easy. Just paint it on. If it is too thick, put some water on the model and either wash it down as you go, or wash the wash off and start again with a more watery wash

It is difficult to go wrong really.

But I would love to see an army like this which has been washed (makes so much difference) on the table.

You need to get some of the Ord cheerleaders from blood bowl as I think that will top all of this off nicely!

Gods, this is awesome.

Nice work.

I love the way that you included your other non-pink Orks in the scheme by giving them bright pink bases and flock!

WOW!

Solorg

Empchild wrote:You need to get some of the Ord cheerleaders from blood bowl as I think that will top all of this off nicely!

A little google searching got me nowhere except a video game for the Xbox 360. More details? Pictures? Notes where I could find them?

Asmodeus wrote:I think you should just go with the Pink Tide and run with it. I doubt many will get it.

LOL I do'nt get it.

Anyhoo, I get a kick out of this army, I'm quite positive you won't see another like it.

6. This is the doom himself, Ghazghkull Thraka - the deadliest, killiest ork in da universe. My wife painted him when I had some influence, before she decided to go completely girly on all her models. She commented last night that Ghazghkull needs to be repainted to fit her army, and I promptly hid him. We'll see how this one plays out.

I Rofl-ed this, my I have to do the same thing with models my GF is working on sometimes.


Here's an ork cheerleader for ya I think they fit this army perfectly.

That cheer leader is an abomination

I love them and agree that giving them a wash - especially on the uniforms - would help them pop a bit. You *can* wash over a clear coat though it's easier to wash a matte coat than a gloss. I spray paint my necrons and then clear coat them before washes because the metal spray repels water, go figure.

You should be allowed to have harlequins in that army, man. Geesh. Just call 'em the Pink Tacos and be done with it.

I just laughed for 5 minutes about the cheerleader but no....my wife was appalled. That won't make it in.

I don't wanna offend anyone, but, lol

I have never seen that cheerleader model before and rolled for a little while. Hmmm that has me thinking i need to use that model for when zogwort changes some HQs into squigs.
Back on topic though pink orks are funny especially the orkettes trukk good work and keep on keepin on.

Both you and your wife get an A+ for originailty Dash,very cool idea that's nicely executed,well done.

Hey DOP, did you used to live in Orange Park?

Yes; we moved last year. Who are you? o.O

I'm Jesse, I knew you guys from Broadsword! I played Daemons.


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Also, a bit more on topic, I still love your army. :3

OMG Jesse!!!!!

Of course we remember you! So happy to hear from you!

Hey Jesse! I talked to Randy two weeks ago before he went to Afghanistan; he's hoping to use all that money to reopen the store. Heidi and I are hoping to make a trip down to OP soon - there's a GT in Philly that I'm prepping for (thus the painting and basing here) and Dwight/Chaz are some of the best competition I know (since Randy is gone) so I'm hoping to link up with them for some prepping. Would be fun if you could join the action!

My eyes! What is wrong with my eyes! They wont stop burning!

OK, its all fun and games till someone show a pic of a female ork cheerleader.

Best models ever. I know who's winning the Golden Daemon this year.

Asmodeus wrote:Here's an ork cheerleader for ya I think they fit this army perfectly.

*Starts Crying*

The banner ork looks like he's wearing a romper suit

So we're going to be trying washes tonight I think.


Paint mixed with water, brushed over the models, where the paint being brushed over is the same color as what's underneath right? So green wash for green arms, blue wash for blue clothes, etc?

Dashofpepper wrote:So we're going to be trying washes tonight I think.


Paint mixed with water, brushed over the models, where the paint being brushed over is the same color as what's underneath right? So green wash for green arms, blue wash for blue clothes, etc?

More or less. You're better using actual inks than watering down paint. It's a better quality and you'll see better results, but it's not a big deal either. You want a darker version of whatever color you're using so that it fills the recesses of the muscles, cloth, etc. I brush it right into the creases, trying to leave it off the surface area as much as possible. Creates a good shading effect that is really popped if you highlight and/or drybrush.