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not sure if I've finished or not...


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he's only table top before the massive critique starts, when you paint orks you can only afford an hour for a figure or your army never gets painted

 nwns wrote:
not sure if I've finished or not...

You've not

 nwns wrote:
he's only table top before the massive critique starts, when you paint orks you can only afford an hour for a figure or your army never gets painted

It's tabletop ok ok, you did the base color and a wash, but in one hour you should at least highlight the skin. It's really too flat.

Fair comment I suppose but I'd rather have a fully painted horde that looked good on the tabletop than a couple of squads that I'd spent days on and a load of grey plastic. When you work full time and have a family it's hard to find the time to dedicate to it...

I have however further highlighted him now just to make you happy

 nwns wrote:
Fair comment I suppose but I'd rather have a fully painted horde that looked good on the tabletop than a couple of squads that I'd spent days on and a load of grey plastic.

A fair point, but this is a character model and they generally deserve a little more attention than the rank-and-file.

Nice model, haven't seen one like that before and I completely understand with the amount of time it takes to paint. I started painting 3 mobs of 30 boyz a while ago. Now they still aren't anywhere near done so I've just decided to undercoat them and start again, painting them all. Took me an hour and a half to undercoat them all and add all the red bitz then the yellow bitz. It might just be because I'm a slow painter but it's hard working full time and juggling hobbies around. I'm sure I've got a Black Reach squad around here that I haven't touched...

He's a warhammer ork shaman, I'm making him a snakebite retinue with a squiggoth as part of my overall Goff horde.

i have the standard 40k weirdboy but love the look of this guy too.

Now I have been shamed so publically I will spend two hours on my next character

I know my Chaos Terminator Lord took me a good 5 days to do,

1st day = Lighting claw
2nd day = Kai Gun (maybe Plasma based in match usage wise)
3rd day = cloak, chest and leg armour
4th = helmet and wires
final day = base with creating melted rock /w molten look

So aye take your time with HQ models as they are your Centrepiece models that everyone will look (and hopefully) fear lol

Looks good though, nice combination of colours on cloak etc.

Basic orks are like guardsmen, you need so many they just get a basic stock paint pattern, maybe bit of cammo variety but mostly same colours in different layering for simple breaking up clones.

Spent 1.5 hours on this one, it's my new Big Mek - "JIMZOG DYSUN"

Hohoho, I love that Mek!

Added his mates

Finished Skrag, Dok Lecter & Skumbad whilst on conference calls today

Wow that is one bad ass looking Kan lol I'd not want to go against them three in middle of night in an ally way lol

I'd not want to be in a dark ork allyway lol

Unless I had full terminaitor armour, storm sgeild and a big ass hammer :-)

jhe90 wrote:
I'd not want to be in a dark ork allyway lol

Unless I had full terminaitor armour, storm sgeild and a big ass hammer :-)

Lol then in their eyes, your a single canned human and they have a huge ass can opener on that Kan lol

 nwns wrote:
He's a warhammer ork shaman

Now now, he's not JUST an orc shaman. That's Wurrzag Da Great Green Prophet!!

Overall, your painting is neatly done on both. True, the weirdboy could use a little more work since it's a character, but I do understand going for tabletop first, then progressing afterwards. Just a little more highlighting I think would really help both models, but even without it, they do look nice. Good work.