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That would be better to do mass shoulders with them lol Barely used them transfers as used other methods to make them show what group they work for

I like the middle one, entirely blue shoulder pad, best.

It does make it a lot easier when you are not building for gaming - less waste of models! I am gonna have a left-over ogryn. Ot does occur to me that I could try and convert him for Blood Bowl though...

Awesome! I think I'll be going with that one.

Exactly! thats why I decided to do all three ogryns and it's a pretty expensive kit so I don't wanna waste models. Aah yes Blood Bowl a good way to make use of your left over models!

Thanks!

I reckon that I could have some nobs wielding battle mauls if I swapped the arms at the base of the ogryn's wristband.
Same for some wannabe Badrukks with looted rippa guns.

I think not freehanding all the symbols was a good idea.

Hmmm. personally I'm leaning to shoulder pad 1 or 3. The full blue plate seems to look a bit too busy or out of place compared to the rest of the model. But that might be because of the lack of highlighting. or maybe becaus ethat blue is a bit too blue to nicely suit with the uniform's grey. Perhaps a slightly greyish blue would suit it better?
Or I might be suffering from post-weekend-trauma and I'm rambiling without rhyme nor reason...

I think the blue is too stark compared to the rest of the colours. I've struggled with the blue before and its now a mix of GWs Macragge Blue and Vallejo's Magic Blue, but it's still too bright. I'll try your greyish blue suggestion Meph, thanks!

If you want a dark blue I'd recommend you place down a medium shade of blue (so somewhere not too dark to start but not ultra bright) and once dried to give it a wash of blue as that will darken the entire shoulder down to let the symbol be more standing out then the rest of the shoulder

2nd for sure

Thanks for the feedback Styro! Will do a 4th shoulder pad (blue grey one) next week or so, will post pics of that when it's ready.

In the meantime, enjoy this little Orky update:



Yesterday me and a colleague wanted to do a battle between Orks and Blood Angels, but due to circumstances the battle was canceled *cough*theorksgotscared*cough* so we sat down and painted instead
Grukk was eager to get some paint on him so I decided to work on his skin (under envious looks of the Blood Angels- especially the tactical squad whom been waiting for like forever).

Boy I'm really switching between projects am I Oh well, next week the Tyrant's Legion will get an update (perhaps some green stuff). Stay tuned!

Very nice Ork Must admit thought I miss the dark green skinned Orks from 4th edition and 5th edition. But the lighter skin is growing on me slightly.

Watch out for green stuff Lev, don't underestimate it lol takes all manner of scrubbing like mad to get it off your hands if sticks lol

 DarkMistro wrote:
Very nice Ork Must admit thought I miss the dark green skinned Orks from 4th edition and 5th edition. But the lighter skin is growing on me slightly.

I try not to do them as light as GW does their Orks now (a bit too light green for my tastes- it does fit the gretchins though). The nobz on the other hand are going to be a bit darker. But since Grukk is my warboss, I wanted to make him pop more.

 DarkMistro wrote:
Watch out for green stuff Lev, don't underestimate it lol takes all manner of scrubbing like mad to get it off your hands if sticks lol

That's why I have a whole pot of petroleum jelly by my side to make it less sticky But green stuff is still a tricky business, it's so soft and flexible after you mix it, you'll easily destroy your newly sculpted shapes, so I think I'll just wait a couple of minutes and let it harden a wee bit, otherwise all my hard work will be for naught

While a nice paint job for sure, the skin feels a bit too cold for my taste.
Pehaps worth experimenting with a thinned wash with maybe a brown, a blue, or a dark green tint?

Just an idea of course, as said, it's a nice paint job and just a matter of personal taste.

Thanks for the feedback Meph! Although I like the colour scheme it looks indeed a bit cold (I'm not sure if it's because of the picture though), perhaps a wash or a warm glaze will fix it.

Ah good idea with having that next to you when green stuff is at work lol well if want it to set quicker then put more yellow then blue (only bit of green stuff I 100% know of ratio effects lol)

Aye with brighter green skins for Gretchins is better as they are smaller so darker skin would make them dim, whilst as you having darker skin on Nobz and such is just ideal as larger model, should have more darker sections to compliment brighter

Sorry for the lack of updates guys! But I did hobby the past few weeks, I bought a load of secondhand orks, so I was busy assembling them all.

And that's not all! I also managed to get my hands on... *drum sounds*



Space Hulk!! I missed out on the last one so I had to get this release Man love those models, I'm definitely gonna use the termies for my Blood Angels army! Anyway, on to the real updates.

First some Astral Claws! I'm painting up the assault squad. I still need to buy some bits for the sergeant so he's on hold for now, but I want to finish at least one of them to see if my painting scheme works out:

Heads on sticks!

On to the orks. Like I said, I've bought some secondhand orks, mostly boyz, stormboyz and an old warboss, and the Black Reach orks were part of the deal too! You really gotta love them Deffkoptas:


I had a Stormboyz grot laying around so I decided to make him a bit more useful. Stikk bombs away!


Some old skool Stormboyz:


I really wanted to make an own converted Warboss with lots of techy stuff. So those new warbosses were destined to be converted. At first I wanted to use the Black Reach one but he looked too much like Grukk, thus the old metal warboss was my next victim er... choice.
His bionic arm is a bash of Kromlech's Mechanical CCW Arms, Kromlech's Mechanical Crushers and Nobz shoulder pads. This is still a test assembly so ignore the glue tack. Behold:


I've also bought some Maxmini Orc Tech Freaks heads and while I love them, they're quite big, perhaps a bit too big for my warboss. Could you guys help me decide here?
First option, the standard head that comes with this model. Not very techy so I'll have to sculpt on some techy stuff then:


At this point his arm with the gun kept falling off so it's not included in the next pictures. The first Maxmini head:


The second:


The third one:


My favourite is the first Maxmini head, but it's quite big (especially with that large jaw) so it makes the model a bit goofy. The third one is a bit better but doesn't have all the cool gubbinz. Perhaps the original is still the best... hmmm... what do you guys think?

Unfortunately no mutated ogryns in this update :( I had no inspiration whatsoever to work on them, perhaps next week but I can't promise anything
Anyway, thanks for ready guys!

Them Orks look very fearsome, good work of the blending of resins and metal there can't wait to see more updates on that

Ah Space Hulk, forgot that made a small appearance again but its shadowed by Dark Eldar update which means... got to buy new Wracks and Haem for my army lol

Thanks!

Those Dark Eldar look awesome! A colleague of mine just bought them and they are great!

Aye they do look good, using the new Haem model as part of my Lore wise that the new model look is one that joins my Kabal of Twisted Spines But working on my Halloween project now for my chaos so can buy but it be in a queue lol

Ah, Space Hulk! Fabulous, fabulous game.

And good stuff you've got in the pipeline!

Thanks Meph! I still need to play the actual game oh well, I will some day, as long as I have the miniatures, I'm content

A small Astral Claws update:
Managed to paint the most of the metal on the assault marine this evening. Next up; shoulder pads, jump pack, weapons and weathering!

And his eyes need to pop more, but that's for an other day, sleep time now...

Cheers!

Looks like a very good start on him can't wait to see how he looks completed

 DarkMistro wrote:
Looks like a very good start on him can't wait to see how he looks completed

Thanks! I'm not really satisfied with the outcome at the moment, so with the next test I'll use some darker metal to see if the highlights work better.

Anyway, here's another update for you guys! The warboss made a bit of progress but not much as I liked though. It was a real struggle to put the bosspole together and it not yet glued on the warboss, so for picture purposes, glue tack time!


I used the gretchin from the warbikers box for this one as I wanted to give him an 'elper to fix possible mechanical failures. Still need to write out the fluff for the warboss, but he already has a name: Gubtoof 'Eadchoppa! He prefers to call himself Da 'Eadchoppa.

So, on to the next! I've had my eye on this for a while and I couldn't resist to put it together when I bought it. Da Ork Mek gun!


And some bikers! Da 'Ardy Deff Sunz! Still need to assemble the third one though. They have some awesomesauce trash bases from Micro Art Studio.


Used a Fantasy Warboss head to add some flair Man, these fantasy ork heads are tiny compared to the 40k ones!


Next up, the renegade ogryns! Yes, I've been green stuffin' It's not yet finished and his shoulder needs some more work (some horns etc). It's not really clear in this picture but his chest has little teeth


*Sigh*, I really need to stop buying stuff and start finishing it! Anyway, enjoy this little update. Thanks for watching!

Oh before you go, have a Lugft Huron doodle


Cheers~!

That's a nice looking sketch. Photoshop or oldskool paper & pens?

Thanks! It's all photoshop

Them Orks look really mean so far lol

Nice, I found it very difficult to get the hang of painting with a drawing pad. Always when drawing, and also when I used to paint on a drawing table/easel, I had the habit of either turnign the paper, or moving myself around a bit for certain angles.
That doesn't work with drawing pads... damn it was a hard transition that's not 100% complete yet. old dog and new tricks...dammit!

Love the sketch...Now flip it and make him Blackheart with red backdrop

Meph wrote:Nice, I found it very difficult to get the hang of painting with a drawing pad. Always when drawing, and also when I used to paint on a drawing table/easel, I had the habit of either turnign the paper, or moving myself around a bit for certain angles.
That doesn't work with drawing pads... damn it was a hard transition that's not 100% complete yet. old dog and new tricks...dammit!

A drawing pad is really hard to get used to. It took me a while too. But at work I use a Wacom Cintiq which is basically a computer screen where you can draw on. And when you've tried that, you'll NEVER want to go back to your drawing pad It's pretty expensieve, but it's worth it!

Styrofoam04 wrote:Love the sketch...Now flip it and make him Blackheart with red backdrop

Ooooh that's a good idea! Will do!

Ah that is what that was you used to do drawing. Should look into that maybe useful for planning out drawn visual of conversion ideas ^^

 Leviathus wrote:
A drawing pad is really hard to get used to. It took me a while too. But at work I use a Wacom Cintiq which is basically a computer screen where you can draw on. And when you've tried that, you'll NEVER want to go back to your drawing pad It's pretty expensieve, but it's worth it! !

Oh yeas! Those things were a wet dream when they first started appearing, back in the day when I was still doing Graphic Design. If I was still active in that sector, I would have bought one for sure by now. Those things are just what you want and need for real digital drawing and illustration. Dammit, it's making me giddy again. Curse you Lottery for not having landed in my lap yet!