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This is a P&M Blog about a Orkz Klan called (only by the member of the Klan) "Da Krazy Pak"

I'm an Italian guy that likes every possible thing regarding Fantasy and Sci-fi and, of course, I fell in WH 40K like a lot of You moved by these interests.
Had only one game with the ladz and lost, I don't play mainly because of my job (I'm a cook IRL) that keeps me away of the normal times and days where You can find "normal" people around.
That never put me down, I just love to convert my orkz and in the last couple of years (I've been out of the hobby for almost one year recently though) I also started to enjoy painting them.

The following pages will bring You on the road that brought me to rewrite the OP today (29/04/13), the progress of my painting skills and the amazing people that fill Dakkadakka and came with me from the beginning of this adventure or jumped on on the way or yet left midway, but all of them have a piece in my army.

If You want to get along on this journey, You're welcome.

Here the pic of my (painted) army so far, enjoy!

WAAAAAAAAAAAGH!

pretty cool! awesome base.

I agree with Riffgott, he look great! Now paint him!

Paint, this unknown at the moment

Thanks guys.
Here my bikerz, enjoy

Très belle conversions. Vous devriez vraiment commencer à chercher dans les peindre.

Cheers mate, but why in french?
ehehehh

Very busy blog I see

Anyway this is my first attempt on painting, is a Hard Boy and should be my colors scheme.
Feedback more than welcome

Cheers Selvaggio. You've got some fantastic conversions here and in your gallery... you should post a few more for folks to see.

As far as your painting goes... looks pretty solid. Three things jump out at me.
1. Drill the barrels of your guns if you can. Makes a big difference in how the finished piece looks.
2. The eyes are kind of distracting as they're a bit random (or at least appear that way in the pic). Until you get really good at painting the eye detail (and there are tutorials out there), you might opt for painting them a solid color for now, then come back and put in the detail after you've gotten the technique down.
3. If I were to hazard I guess, I'd say you prime your figures black and then use a series of drybrushes over the black to build up your colors. Problem is this leaves black in the deep crevices which in the wrong place can leave the figure looking sloppy or unfinished. Consider the hair on top & on his shoulder. You can instead, paint that lighter brown all over the hair areas to cover them fully, then come in with a sepia, delvan mud or badab black wash. This will darken the cracks and natural highlights will develop in the high areas as the wash pulls away. I just think this method give a more clean and polished appearance. Zooming in I suppose it could be possible that you are using washes in these areas, but perhaps too much black? Not sure...

Anyway, just some ideas for you to ponder. Your builds are brilliant though.

Thanks a lot for the tips on painting Gitsplitta!
really what I needed.

And following Your request for more conversion, here are my buggies:

The first one I made, there is also a gunner





Second one, with sentinel cockpit





And third one, my favorite







The squad!

nice looking stuff, keep going! Just don't get too distracted building stuff, make sure you keep up on the painting part.

hey there, why dont you post the images here? its fairly easy:
right click on the image and chose "view image", then copy the images url.
Then head to your blog, and type this:
[ img]url of image[/img ], but leave out the space

Done MrMerlin, thanks

I'ts easy. When you're viewing your picture, go down below it on the right. The second box down is entiled "Forums"... just copy that string and paste it directly into your blog post.

Very nice conversions.

I especially like the Nob Biker with the flag/banner. Where did you get that from? Or how did you make it?

The flag is from the orc and goblin fantasy warboss and standard bearer.

Thanks for the compliments

AWESOME conversions there. Very inspiring! And your painting isn't half bad. Gitsplitta's advice is good, but most of the ability just comes with practice and a bit of trial and error. Glad ya like converting so much, it's a blast to watch!

Now, after all this wonderful replies, I'll post my first Kan.
Beware of the dream of a Space marine Kan:

That's one of my favorites... it's kind of obvious but I've *never* seen anyone do it before... so I guess it's NOT quite so obvious, eh??

That's lovely marine kan! I like your othe rmodels too, but that one really jumps out... Nice work!

Thanks Git and Khaine.
To keep up with the Kan mood, here we are with Smashin Kan.
Enjoy






I'm also in a painting mood and working on ten hard boyz (10 out of 30 with Nob)

Great pose, and I like the wrikkin' ball. This figure reminds me of those gobbos from WH Fantasy with the big metal balls on the end of the chain.

Good stuff! Some nice conversions here, I'll be watching

Bike and side-car kombo and the buggies particularly caught my eye - buggy-sized buggies at that

Lovely posing on the latest kan too.

Keep 'em coming

Thank You Monkeytroll, I really love your blog as well

Now my progress with the paint and a question: Which is the best way to turn down the bright orange?

Highlight with a lighter orange or golden yellow, then try washing with either baal red or sepia and see which you like better. You might look up CommisarKhaine... he does screaming orange grots and his army looks fantastic.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/266318.page

Since they're orks, you can chip the daylights out of them too, that would help.

Thanks for the plug Gits!

For the orange, I use Macharius solar orange as a basecoat. Highlight with vomit brown, shade with ogryn flesh wash. For extreme highlights, you can use bleached bone before washing. Glad to see someone else painting orange!

Thanks to both of You!

I'm following the blog of the Commissar anyway!

My pleasure CK, I'm a great admirer of your work!

Let's finish with my "almost out of the box cans".
An hour or so to fit a dread legs in to It and a grabbing Klaw that is always useful.
Here for You "Da Grab":

Great stuff here keep up the good work

SelvaggioSaky wrote:Cheers mate, but why in french?
ehehehh

You know, I'm not sure why I chose French. My bad yo.