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sw33t. What did you use for the yellow and red? They really pop out.

The red and yellow are vallejo Gold Yellow and Bloody Red, in lots of layers.  Lots and lots of layers.

Just a quick update for todays painting before the weekend hiatus. Just to show where I've removed a majority of the blue panels, leaving the stuff that looks like it's been ripped of a passing Ultramarines tank as it is, and then washes and floods of dirty water (paint) to weather it down.

Oh.  And scratches.

Lots of scratches.

Yeah. Painting red or yellow is never fun.

A truly awesome project. Very nice. Maybe you could break the ironlook with adding some copper- and brassaccents. Should fit right in with the steampunklook.

It's more than impressive, though i do miss the head.

Very orky, i love it. I honestly think its fine how it is a heas would ruin it. Id like to see it alongside that other stompa conversion on here, (sorry cant remember name of guy who made it) i think it would fit perfectly in a feral ork army, like to see some steam trukks etc to go with it

Yikes, that is a truly awesome mini (if "mini" even applies to it!). It looked great in progress and looks fantastic now that it's (mostly?) finished. Much kudos to you.

Wow i am really impressed with the way you weathred this model.

YES.

Now build me one.

Please?

Just wait for that baby to start walking and smashing stuff. You won't
need a Steam Stompa syr.

Yeah I kinda liked the head too, but it took away from the section I wanted to dominate the piece - being the central tank. So it had to go. I still have it to cool my drinks though...

It certainly isn't very mini, base and all comes in at a smidgeon under 12" and painting takes just over 3 times the amount of paint I've ever used on a single model OR squad before. The weathering is proving to be a relatively slow process, but we'll get there.

Copper and brass will definitely be coming later.

Damn cool. I love seeing a concept come to life in such a dramatic fashion!!! The walkways around the top are just too cool.

Spectacular!

Can't wait to see this thing ready. Maybe I asked already, but where can we soo more of your orks??

Sure, no probs!

Here are a couple of links from WargamerAU where I listed some army stuff a while ago:

www.wargamerau.com/forum/index.php

www.wargamerau.com/forum/index.php

The Army looks AWESOME and deserves another thread at Dakka! (and a group shot of the lot!!)

I especially like the care you've took in basing them and the great metallics contrasted by the colorful glyphs. Excellent!

I love those balloons i think they should be in the new ork codex or apocalypse or something with there own rules, there just so cool. The steam stompa is wonderful and hopefully pics of my stompa will be up on here eventually ive been working on it for 6 months (im just real slow).

Here it is, todays work.  1.2 million layers of weathering later and I'm halfway there (with weathering).  Now I have to rehighlight the reds and yellows to bring them back up a bit, although most of them are close to where I want it.  Some of the panels went really streaky which is weird considering most didn't....  how that works I'll never understand....

And the wife said I had to do checkers.  So checkers I did.  No checkers = no sex so checkers are good! lol...it's not really like that but I thought it would be funny to say....hehehe...especially to see the look on her face when she gets to read this....

My rambling is over and here be PICTURES!

Always listen to the missus.

The checkers are keen.

They provide a very good optical illusion to show more texture without adding more texture. IMO, you should have added a small bit o' checkering on a panel on the cannon side.
But then again, its not something you want to overdo anyways. Its prudent to do too little than to do too much.

On the subject of weathering and colours.
Red and yellow are an obvious predominant theme here. (with a minimal blue)
You plan to add bronze/copper/brass.
The bluing could easily be achieved with a base of copper/bronze and weathered verdigris. (sort of like that blue-ish fly wheel in the front, but with a copperbased metal as a base)
Red could be achieved in places with harsh rust.

With orks, corrosion is your friend.
In this case, they are harmonious colours and united by nuance, atleast according to colour theory as I understand it.

Well, you'll all be happy to know I've taken the camera with me today to give you some more insight into my progress on this beast.

Getting close to finishing but I still have a lot to do.  Once the orks are done there'll be abundant touchups left.  Anyone got any ideas on how to paint asphalt with lines convincingly?  Destroyed.... of course....

Rightio, I'm fairly happy with it enough to call it finished now.  I could probably spend days picking out little bits and trying to make it the ULTIMATE PAINTWORK OF EXCELLENCE but frankly.....I'm getting a bit bored with painting this.  So it's done.  Except for the fact that I am considering putting snow on the base.

The idea for the snow came from when I was making the road.  I used salt as the texture (that's a WHOLE other story I wont' go into right now) and while it was drying, it looked like snow.  And it actually looked quite good....it made the model stand out more instead of disappearing into the junkyard base.

Can't decide atm....lol

Anyways, here's the orgy of completed pics....(first a mega-strap-on then an orgy of pics?  What next?)

CMon Link

Pics:

Junkyard steampunk, FTW!!!!!

Nothing says "Dis wurks cuz we sez it wurks!" like this model.....ahhh, only in the Land of Ork-believe....

I know that its obvious that I would say this, but that verdigris is damn hawt.

Damn, I love this model.

I do soooo love geek porn.

By the way, you should send pics of this to the person who made the pic that inspired this creation. Nothing says flattery like blatant plagerism, with a twist.

Damn, this thing is awesome, seriously awesome.

Looking great.

Very impressive.

See, now that's exactly right. Good Show!

Thanks heaps guys for your kind words. It was heaps of fun to build, and a bit challenging in places to both build and paint. I had a couple of games today with it using VDR rules, and all I can say is - My stompy likes the taste of Imperial Guard!!!! Mmmmmm, taking out 3 lascannon squads with a single pieplate sure is TAAAAAA-STEEEE!

Three squads in one hit, what 'pie plate' are you using, dustbin lid?

Awesome work man!! you brought new light into my small mind, orks meet steampunk!! Im gonna go make a looted howls moving castle right away!! XD

When I say squads, I mean lascannon and crew based on 60mm bases. Positioned really well so that I could pieplate them.

My favorite part is the hand.

Hopefully you'll get to use it when Apocalypse comes out.