Well guys, instead of resurrecting an ages old thread to continue this army, I figured I'd just start up a new one. I've had a few new models added to the enclave since the inception of the new codex...

Oh wait a minute that's not orky enough...

Well boyz. Since we's gotten uz sum noo roolz and stuff, well, we gotz some noo bitz and wotnotz too. So wif orl deez ere gubbins we'z gonna start addin up sum mor bizness to da skwodz and wotnot, yeh? Den we'z gonna ave usselves a right whopper WAAAAARGH! across da galaxies an stuff, roight?

Anyway, as I was saying. More orks, more business and more conversions...althought I think it'll be less conversions than painting when I finally get down to it. I've got over 100 boys to deal with since I last finalised the lads off, so there's still plenty to do. And with the new lads to add to the waargh as well - plenty going on. Here's some pics of where we left off and also of what I have done so far with the new boys:

Da boomy flyin fing, and the truck too:


Some more boomy flyin fings and other bits:


Some trukk bizness:

(and other stuff)

The boyz:

And then there's the new stuff. I've started on a mek, a painboy, a weirdboy, a little runt and I have some lootas, burnas, models to tidy up, flying gubbins to tie down and maybe to add too (since Deffkoptas ROCK now in the new codex - well I think so) and then the concept pic of a little surprise at the end:



The weirdboy is going to have bubbling ooze on the base, sorta like my lava was but a different non glowy colour...

And the orky Deff-iler (Deff dredd) concept pic:


I love that pic, and only hope I can do it justice...I'm sure I can. And then after all that, I might make another stompa, just for the heck of it, since I sold the other one.

But as it goes, the start out diary will be a little slower than with the Iron Giants. Mainly because I'll be starting up some new terrain projects soon too. Don't worry, I'll keep you posted on those, but they don't take as long as models because, well, terrain isn't as hard (well, mostly) to paint or assemble as models and other conversions are.

Do you have any other pictures or informations about this red pile of avesomness?

Love the flying machines, remember seeing a peak of them in your IW thread. Luck with all those greenskins, yikes.

I think I've seen other work by the guy who did the spider-tractor, great stuff.

- Salvage

I'm surprised that I don't really any conversions on you characters besides the bases.

but I'm really looking forward to that truck thingy, so get on it

the blimp is awesome btw.

The zeppelins are great... now get 'em all finished up!!!! so I can get a good look at 'em.

That is a very cool looking red, defiler thingie in the pic

Another thread to keep an eye on. You can never have too many awesome Greenskin armies.

indeed

The zeppelins- do they count as trukks?

I really dig that Deff-iler idea! And judging by the caliber of work you always pump out, I'm sure it'll turn out stunning. I'll be following this one closely! In other news, that is a sea of black primer you've got ahead of you, my heart goes out to you, chief.

Zeppelins count as battlewagons. I've got other trucks for the business as well. And then the deffkoptas...

Yep it is a big sea of black. But I am thinking I might be able to do it all in 30 model bundles. I now that sounds insane but I might be able to pull it off...

We shall see.

As for the concept for my deffiler, I don't know, I haven't seen any of the guys other work. But I think I should go looking, something like this promises other interesting ideas to add to the mix...

I almost forgot these guys. Now he starts the Horde, HO HO HO!

Well guys, you'll (hopefully) be pleased to see that I've brought you some evidence of progress for the last couple of weeks! It's been hectic so I haven't posted much progress, but it works out well this way anyways. Lotsa pics for you all to enjoy!!!

So here I bring you: HAMSTERGEDDON!!!

Not really but pics will do...first of all some WIP of the Orky defiler. I can't decide whether I should call it the Deffiler, Orkfiler, Claw of Gork or Big Diggy Stabby Fing.









And then here are some new boys - take 2 boxes of Lootas/Burnas, mix in 10 spare orks, and you get 8 burnas, 8 Lootas and 4 Meks. And I got those pesky rocket arms working nicely.

And DEEEEEEEEEEHN!

This is going to be painted up with a little sign beside the opening at the bottom of the square tube, I'm thinking of something like "Food" written on it with an arrow pointing to the hole so it tricks silly snotlings into the suction path of the Shokk Attakk Intake.

I love the Defiler so far, looks too cool already, even in it's current monopedal form! Can't wait to see more, kudos.

Oh, and I cast my vote for "Big Diggy Stabby Fing"

However I think the Defiler is too big - it's like 50% bigger than a standard defiler so the Deff Dredd rules wouldn't really be appropriate. Maybe I'll make a trailer on wheels to drag behind it and kit it up like a Battlewagon, and count it as having a deff roller...at least then it would be about the right size....

Superb pace of production again! This should be a great thread to follow. The steam tompa is missing from the what you got pics hough!

Yes the steam stompa has become my greatest conversion. It has been transformed from this:



To this:



I am thinking of other types I can make that will replace it though. My biggest thought is how to make it so that it will look like it's carrying or capable of carrying 20 orks too. Maybe a giant steam mecha squiggoth or another steam stompa draggin a little red wagon full of orks...

STOMP



Impressive work on the deffiler's one leg, and good luck with all those masses of unpainted orks. Snotling trap is fun stuff.

- Salvage

I think you should use the Digga Stompa rules for the Big Diggy Stomp Fing. For reasons as obvious as how cool it is.

Digga Stompa rules??? Where is this beast and how shall I employ it to my veritable evil genius ways?

Your steam stompa is too cool can I see a pic of the back? seems like if you ran three rows of railing the twenty orks could just stand there.

I am increadibly impressed. Keep at it. I'd love to see what else you have in store!!! I'd bet your warboss looks great too.

Your scenic bases are really great- especially the mek.

And to be honest, i liked the steam stompa more before it's transformation. Too many twiddly little knobs and whatnot. No good for krumpin'.

Ok here is where I am up to... I've gotten a lot more work done on the Deffiler but I'm stuck as to what rules to use for it. There has been a suggestion to use the Digga Stompa rules listed on Bell of Lost Souls. Looks promising and fits fairly well. Apocalypse of course.

I was originally wanting to use the deff dredd rules but the problem is...well...too big a model for too small a role... lol. I've also thought of using it as a defiler and just have the count as rule from apocalypse. And it's a bit small for a stompa.

Lemme know what you guys think, it will help to decide what weapons I add.

My vote for name is "Da Klaw of Gork".

Ok, after reading through the apocalypse book as well I've decided, upon checking the sizes as scaled in the Ork Stompa bits, that this isn't too far off an Ork Stompa in size. And because I don't want a lifta droppa I've decided that the stompa rules will fit nicely.

So here is the plan: I'm going to build an armoured trailer dragged behind the clawed tractor that will contain a majority of the weapons (all the big ones basically) and the also act as the troop transport. I haven't decided if it will be tracked or wheeled. I think tracked will work better because the thing only travels at 6" a turn if I remember correctly; being a lumbering walker. Correct me if I'm wrong, I don't think it travels 12"...

Anyway, here's the pics to show where I got up to today - mainly detail work adding rivets and making the buckets more "killy".







And I'll be calling it a Deff Stompa-Truck, called "Da Klaw of Gork". I think that's appropriate now.

*head explodes ... at least a little bit*

More pure awesome, plating and extra killy buckets just sweeten the deal. A little unsure on the dragged cargo / gun trailer, but I'm sure it'll get sorted out and look fantastic. Stompa seems a good match to me, for how big it is even if it lacks in mass (structure points / armor) compared to the "official" :S stompa model.

- Salvage

When I first saw the photo in the diskussion forum I never thought someone would actually build it. I am really looking forward the trailer, because I got no clue how that what look like.

That's brilliant, man! I agree completely on you using Stompa rules for it. Yeah, it's too small for a Gargant, but I think it's definitely big enough to count as a Stompa. I'd like to suggest some grots hanging off the top as you get closer to adding some details like that - maybe even one cowering in one of the digga claws?

if you, Insaniak and Jamsessionein would team-up you could conquer the world.

that's how awesome your conversions are

I've done some work on the trailer but .. meh .. not happy. It looks like a frikkin iron duck! While I was building it I had another thought though - I could use the Brass Scorpion rules. I've got a few cool fluff ideas too:

A painboy and a big mek came up with an idea after seeing one of them Chaos boyz Brass Scorpions about making one that was driven by a weirdboy. Strangely enough, they managed to trap one and his grot "assistants" and hardwired him into the machine and thought it would be a great machine for the waagh! Instead the weirdboy went bonkers (more than normal), as a result of them being confined with the weird boy for too long so did the grots, so now they are crazy the weird boy is crazy and they're all dangerous to know.

The painboy and the mek thought it was hilarious watching the psychos destroy half their camp, but then realised that having a shortage of orks afterwards wasn't that good an idea. So they worked out how to sedate the whole thing and then let it loose in battle.

I'll count the apocalyptic explosion rules as "You ain't takin us alive!" (self destruct), BS3 because Grots are shooting, Ignore shaken and stunned because they're all nuts anyways, and guns as eksperimental weird boy wepons.

Anyway, enough blather:







I don't think I like the trailer. It seemed like a cool idea, but it looks like a duck. A big metal boomy duck.

Da Rig was screaming for underslung flamers, so happy that he's getting at least one. And with the brass scorp rules, those are some serious flamers

I can handle the BS rules for the thing, fit its spidery legged-ness better and you've got the counts as 'excuse' fluff all sorted.

But the Iron Duck, that's gonna be a battlewagon or something, right? No sense letting something big and killy go to waste.

- Salvage

I dig the Brass Scorpion rules for it. I won Most Killy in our last Apocalypse game after blowing one up. Granted, if you take away all of those killed that were on my team, the title goes away, but still. It just isn't Apoc if I don't kill more of my own team than the enemy by virtue of blowing up a titan or two!

I hate the trailer too. I think if you do it, it should be a little less solid looking, perhaps like a flat bed with a big dakka cannon on a tripod or crane arm. Something like that. Alternately, a leg at a reverse angle in the middle of the rear could hold a big pile of shoota's in a digging scoop to maintain the "scorpion" look. A scorpion dragging a tank just doesn't looke like it should be fast and scary though.

Da Rig = sweet!
Da Iron Duk = not quite so much.

I'm trying to think what you could do to it to help it...In general, I think it's too narrow and too high. The center of gravity on it looks off. I think it needs to be wider and lower. I think you need to have some fatty exposed tracks (or maybe a half-track setup) on the sides...lengthen the tail end with an open bed area...a good toothed, Orky front bumper - or a nice big dozer blade...some Orky targeters and gubbins on the sides of the turret to widen it out.

On another note, I just got information today that the buyer of the Stompa received it today in no less than 28 pieces! :shock: Apparently customs opened the box and it would appear the mongrels have failed to re-pack the item correctly. As a result the stompa has been badly damaged. Hopefully it can be repaired. But it's in the Netherlands and I am in Australia. What a sad turn of events on this issue.

The Iron Duck isn't going to be the trailer. There was considerations to make a huge set of wide tracks for it, maybe I'll still do it and count it as a gunwagon or something. Gotta have comedy in the army, eh?

Seeing the iron duck sitting behind the Dig Rig almost resembled a spider abdomen. I know it deviates from the concept art, but perhaps boy transport can be accomplished by a rear-fixed, "spider abdomen" style cabin? Magnetized to allow removal for Brass Scorpion rules lovin, of course.

Regardless, she's looking dead hard so far, great stuff.

Lemmingspawn wrote:On another note, I just got information today that the buyer of the Stompa received it today in no less than 28 pieces!

oh. so. sad.

Ok, here is Da Klaw of Gork finished. Just awaiting undercoating now. I am still working on what the equivalent weapons are, at this point it will probably be Killkannon, Supa Skorcha, and Mega Dakka Gun. They won't be exact and there will be slight differences but I need to check up all the rules to make it work.







"Did you 'ear sumfink?"

Love it! You get a hell of a lot of mileage from those things you made the cannon from. What are they, some sort of film canister?

I kinda thought they were glue stick tubes, but the interior ridges throw me off.

On the model, yeah for more underslung skorchas, but I can't help but feel that the main gun is just sorta stuck on there. Doesn't really look built in to me, mostly a stubby barrel poking outta the driver's cabin.

- Salvage

Boss_Salvage wrote:

On the model, yeah for more underslung skorchas, but I can't help but feel that the main gun is just sorta stuck on there. Doesn't really look built in to me, mostly a stubby barrel poking outta the driver's cabin.

- Salvage

Yeah you're right. I just can't work out how to make it look more integrated without going too far. I'm content to leave it how it is...

The cannon is actually a pen we got once, and it's the only one I ever got and have ever been able to find. It's really pi$$ing me of that I can't find more because that interior detail is EXACTLY what I want for more of these kinds of cannon... oh well... gotta make do with what you can.

I have nothing to add except to say that the spider walker has given me a brain storm and I intend to blatantly rip this idea off. I'm going to make it bigger (quite a lot bigger with any luck) and use the Slasha Gargant rules off Bell of Lost Souls though. Wild Wild West meets AT-AT. Amazing work. So sorry the customs goons stomped the Stompa. :(

Nice idea I was considering making something similar but couldn't find any decent pics of the WWW spiderbot.

This is todays business, I've started doing some more koptas.



Now I have these guns sitting around and think they look great from the front but weird from the side - lemme know what you reckon:

The guns do look a bit weird from the side..

Any chance of removing most of the outer casing, leaving some bands of metal to hold the pipes?

If you ask me that would look great.

They're actually a moulded gun from a real world weapon off a plane or something. Dunno what it was, just know it's a gun and the casing doesn't come off.

Brilliant! I am so happy to have you around at dakka - always worth a visit when your BLOGs been updated.

Thanks man. The feeling is mutual, I love to see the updates on your stuff as well, always worth checking out.

I rekon they look preaty sweet, at first glance from the side I thought you should drop the guns lower about a 1/2 an inch to show more of the texture of the side hull then you could put a grate top on the gun and maybe a ladder so the ork could get in the kopta "oi watch you 'ead!" good sfuff man!

Ok, here's a small update and a link to the data sheet. I've built most of the second kopta, I intend to make three more and I'll try and make them according to the pictures of the deff koptas in the codex. And you can see a pic of duckie with a mock up set of tracks. I don't know if I'll continue, but we'll see.





And a previous "kopta" with a shortened base, coz it kept falling over.



And a link to "Da Klaw of Gork"s datasheet:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Orks/DaKlawofGork.jpg

Yes! I love what you did with the Iron Duck! I would not want to face that on the battlefield. (Well, I mean, as this one is made out of cardboard, I wouldn't mind facing on the battlefield as long as I had a bottle of water I could squirt it with to make it soggy...but you know what I mean.)

Da Duck iz lookin da biznez, lik dem grindy trackers Now jes needs 2000000 rivets to hold it togever

Da Klaw sheet is a goodun too.

- Salvage

I actually like the DuckTank... it just fits as the Ork attempt at making a big killy tank like 'dem 'oomies make.

It'd have to be a Blood Axe vehicle. Maybe even call it the 'Duk' or something like that.

BYE

H.B.M.C. wrote:I actually like the DuckTank... it just fits as the Ork attempt at making a big killy tank like 'dem 'oomies make.

It'd have to be a Blood Axe vehicle. Maybe even call it the 'Duk' or something like that.

BYE

You could make it an homage to the movie Unforgiven. While the name of the tank would actually be the "Duke of Death", the way the Orks would spell it would be "Duk o' Deth".

"Deff Duk" even

- Salvage

Well, here's a small update, I got this early for my birthday (which is tomorrow) - what can I say - my brother rocks! And to prove that he came third in an air guitar comp...half cut...that's another story:



And here is the truck, which I LOVE by the way. This is another awesome model that GW has brought out in recent time and I wasn't even going to modify it, except that I don't like the front they provide standard and I wanted it to be equipped with a rokkit and I was gonna make a big snippy arm instead of the chain ball but the chain ball looked cooler than the arm I started making so I kept it....





Close up of the rocket assembly - it's a bit oversized but that's really orky!



One thing I've thought of that would be AWESOME is to cut the trukk in half between the back set of wheels and convert it into a war buggy. That would look sweet. Now to get more of the new trukks...cheaply...

I was surprised at just how awesome the new trukk is. They've outdone themselves. Surprisingly complex. I love the rokkit assembly, very cool!

(Repentia in the background, whatmadnessisthis?!)

Groovy truck, and a kit must be impressive when the Lemmspawn is content not bashing the hell out of it

Let me know what you think of the new bikes, I'm tempted to mess with them in my unending-but-top-secret mission to make lo-tech jetbikes work.

And of course, HAPPY BIRTHDAY Lemms.

- Salvage

Yeah happy birthday chief, the lads are looking great so far!

the awesomeness never ends. let me also congratulate you on your datasheet.


and birthday....

Thanks guys!

The new bikes look great, although the only real complaint I have (and it's only a little one) is that the rear wheels are moulded as part of the model, they're not a separate piece like the SM bikes. Which is kind of a bummer when you're a conversion maniac...but as far as sexiness goes, they're also an AWESOME model. I can't wait to get more. AND PLASTIC POWER KLAWS!!!!! YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!!!

Dude...those conversions...are like...dude...totally like...whoa...y'know man?

In all seriousness, I'm so stealing ideas from you.

That's what my ideas are here for! Stealing. Lots and lots of stealing.

Here I've decided to lay the entire ork army out and well! It's definitely what GW had in mind when they said HORDE! Stacks of models, and I dare not count them lest I spend the rest of my days in a crazy house.

I am going to have to add duckie to this eventually, and the new stompa I'm (thinking about) working on. So much stuff to do, so little time! Oh well, here's the pics for those who like eye candy:







And just to show you how crazy those Sisters Repentia REALLY are....

Oh yes, i really do like eye candy * slurp slurp yammy yammy*

Looks awesome man! What colors did you use on those Mega Armored Orks? I'd like my Orks to have a darker, less colorful look to them and these are definitely the kind of look I'm after.

My Mega armoured orks are painted using the same metallic technique I used on the Iron Warriors army. Basically silver then weather the hell out of it. Then I use extra colours for the details, not the main areas.

Ok, well. I've been getting a bit bored and simultaneously overwhelmed with this army because I have been adding and adding and adding to it without getting much painted! And then I go and start doing something else! Damnit!!!!

So here's what's been happening the last couple months - work more on orks, start designing template bits for the walking baneblade, start painting some (boring as) praetorian guard, enter a painting competition (which is the only thing I've truly finished lately btw!), start a new stompa and begin a new regimen of speed technique training of about 2hrs a day for guitar. So as you could imagine I've been feeling a bit overwhelmed - lol.

ANYHOO! Here's some progress on this army I am sure you'll like to look at, first of all I'll show the pics of the deff koptas with buzzsaws that I've riveted, based and finished off:



And now, I've started work on a new stompa because someone really inspired me with one of theirs over on CMoN which I won't show a pic of here for the sake of space. But what has happened is after I got the basic design for the legs done (no extra gubbins yet) I looked at the iron duck chassis that I've put to the side for the moment and had a thought. Have a look at the pics, let me know what you think and whether you guys reckon it will work. I like. I hate. I like again. So I need some feedback to assist me.

Honestly, I'm of half a mind to build another stompa similar to the steam stompa I originally did, but a little taller and more in line with the proper ork stompa rules (proper guns and stuff). So to begin either one, I've at least got the legs done...

More pics, less talk:

Leg progress - I realise that middle bit is a bit weedy, and I intend to buff that up some...


And here we have the "Squighound" pattern stompa - or if you prefer - Da Big Mecha Squiggoth-bot Stompa.

Ooh, I like. It's got a Warhoundy-type feel. As if a Mek had seen one and gone, "Anything you can do I can do better!"

I like it too, and my thought was also that it looked like a (chubby) orky warhound

The squig connection is a good one to make, does look like one of those mean little guys.

- Salvage

Ok here's progress on the Squighound Titan. Maybe I should call it Mega-Muppet lol, looks kinda like it's outta the muppets or something...heheh

No rivets at this stage, I've got a little more work to do before rivets will be getting added to this one.

Here's the pics:







Broken down into it's parts:



And a close up of the leg - I'm very happy with how these have turned out:

looking good, I can relate to feeling overwhelmed. I have my Ork Army that I want to get done by the end of the Summer. However, I also have a Baneblade that needs some love, a Nid army that needs to be painted a bit more, and I have some DA in various stages of completion. Add to this eing engaged, and of course 18 hrs of undergrad finals. I suppose school will be the priority this week and next.

Money in the bank! A bank full of money!


I like him a lot, looking great. The lil' buzzsaw arms I would have left off if it were my squighound, but I know you like you're war machine 'attachments' and extra choppa is never a bad thing

- Salvage

I've made some modifications to the stompa, made a more intimidating weapon. I'm going to make some more mods to the weapon, but I'll be adding a bit more of an arm to the weapon to make it more manouvreable. Here's some pictures:







And a close up of the missile rack on the back:



Those are some big rokkits!

Hehe that's ace, I love expression on the Squighound's face Those ARE big rokkits, what on earth did they start out life as?

Looking at the sheer number of models you have lined up to do, I feel ever-so-slightly ashamed that I haven't found the time to paint 3 measley squads of BAs...

Looks like oyur orks gonna have an early new year If i may aks that where you get those rokkits?

For some reason I can't help being reminded of Taz.

The rokkits are chopped up fuselages of a few large scale plane models. I got them from a friends spares.

Anyone think the chainblade is too big? I'm going to trim the housing a bit when I add in the articulation of the arm, but I'm wondering if it's a bit large...

If this was imperial, I'd say yes. But..

Oi! Bigga is Betta!

On another note, I think I'd love to see a gigantic iron gob on this fella. And big metallic horns too ^_^.

Now that's an integrated choppy weapon! I think with the cowling cut back some it'll look a bit smaller and fit better. On the rokkits, very nice though I would have gone with two, the third one takes away something from the squat squiggy look IMO.

- Salvage

"FRAGGLES! STAY AWAY FROM MY RADISHES!!"

Looks really cool, though I agree a bigger, more pronounced gob would really help the look.
I am not really feeling the choppa as yet... I sorta liked the little arms, but I think Salvage's idea of trimming it down a little will work too. I just envision the thing being less of a melee fighter, and more of a stand and dakka the hell out of the countryside sort of mech.

Ok more work done on the Squighound Stompa! I've boosted the jaw a bit more, looks better. Added some other details and lets not forget started on the rivets.

I'm going to cut the housing back on the chainblade further, I played around with photoshop and it looks better with less housing over the top.

Pics:







And some grot peekin holes!



Oh, and those boxes in the background are my bits boxes - in case you were wondering. About half of them...

Love it, love it, LOVE IT. This is going to make a fantastic centrepiece.

Love the rockets on his back. Very well-proportioned too. Nice!

Ok guys, here's the stompa undercoated and pretty much finished ready for painting. I'll start the painting fairly soon, I have a few other jobs to tidy up around the modelling ridges for the moment so we'll see how things go.

Pics for now:

your orks are looking good, and the stompa/gargant is very cool!
what spray do you use, may i ask
and please do another army
(sorry about my bad english)

Wow, it looks like you've laminated it with tinfoil! That's just surreal. o_O

Look forward to seeing it finished.

I went to start painting the Stompa today but I am sooooo sick of trying to paint over that silver undercoat so I'll give it another coat of flat black and then that will work much better. So what if I have to paint the dang thing all silver again, it won't tick me off so much. Here's a pic of what I started painting today:

"Da Klaw of Gork" using the rules of the Brass Scorpion:

Just thought I'd post a link here to a new modelling mag site. The magazine is excellent quality. Only problem is - it's in spanish! But the eye candy is AWESOME! The front cover has a pic of a model on it that I first thought was a painting. It wasn't until I saw the article within that I realised it WASN'T! wow...

Plus, for those of you who remember, my Ork Steam Stompa has an article in there too. But that's not why I'm posting this, this mag is excellent! I just wish it were in english....

http://www.euromodelismo.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=1_17&products_id=459

The name of the magazine is Fantasy Dimension over on Euromodelismo.com where they have a few other mags they publish. If only White Dwarf was this good! But then again...I am mainly in it for the modelling...

Lemmingspawn wrote:Thanks man. The feeling is mutual, I love to see the updates on your stuff as well, always worth checking out.

Thank you - though it's been quite silent from my part this spring and slaving away for the MA RCA...but soon, soon

Meanwhile - great work again!

Here's the progress on Da Klaw of Gork. Finished enough be the beast:







Enjoy!

Nice! Good and dirty, definitely looks the business. Impressive dingy yellow and metal, I likes. I didn't even catch the little snots and grots when it was WIP

- Salvage

Such a great model. My favorite details are the oil smudges. I haven't seen them so well done. Ever.

Here's the beginning of paint on the stompa:

Awesome Stompa!
Like the detail on the "crab", with the grot rigger!

ROIGHT! Stompa is done, I've had enough of it and it can stay as it is. I reckon it's come out well. It'll go on the auction block soon enough as well... Funny these days how I go through all that work and then just feel like selling it afterwards... Weird. It's not like that's the reason I start it!

Anyway, enough blather, here's the pics:

Stompity stompity stomp!

Looks good! I really like the way you go about painting orky vehicles. This one is no different.

Here's to you getting a good price for em. I'm sure there are some folks out there chompin at the bit to get their hands on this guy.

Well, I haven't been doing nothing, I've been pretty busy so I've got some pics and links anyway. Here are some links to the CMoN sites for Da Klaw and for the Squighound Stompa:

http://www.coolminiornot.com/193789

http://www.coolminiornot.com/193788

And some Wardiggas I did as a commission... couldn't resist showing you some pics:

Wardiggas?! WAAAAGH!!

And the stompa is tight! I think you got the proportions just right on the saw arm.

I'm pretty excited to see how Da Klaw turned out while I've been away, too - looks awesome, man!

It's official Lem, I love your work. Those Diggas look incredible! I think we were spawned from the same spores, I've been drawing up some buggies and skorchas in small go-kart and front-loading digger style. You beat me to fabrication and I definitely plan to do a little R&D on those pics. And by R&D I of course mean research and development, or rip-off and duplication.

Are those wheels lego? Or just bits from other model kits? The proportions are perfect.

In that vein, I've recently been toying with making a dread like your Diggy-Stompy-Fing, very similar to that concept art you've posted but a good bit smaller. I've got several drawings done, but with your blessing I'll get to cutting plastic! I'm tempted to name it "Lemmy" and pay homage to the idea's father, and snag a little Motorhead reference at the same time...

The 2 things that make me happy, dumptrucks and dinosaurs. You planning of making the scoops jaws or something along those lines?

Lol, the Wardiggas are finished, it's now time for them to go to their new homes. A guy commissioned me to make them for him. They turned out pretty snazzy!

Feel free to borrow my ideas and work them for yourselves - you do me an honour

Well I've been doing a little here and there - had a tournament with the Iron Warriors on the weekend and that kept me busy for the past few weeks making sure that everything was set for us to go to it.

Anyways, heres a couple of little bits and pieces that I have done in the meantime, just some meddling with stuff and things while I get everything else done. Army painting will be starting soon as well, hopefully next week.

Pics for your enjoyment:

The short wheelbase trukk (to be used as a warbuggy with TL Rokkit Launchas). If I get another to convert like this I'll build a gun platform on the back instead of mounting it where I have on this one.







The real benefit I've had here is that since I have two trukks, I can swap the wheels around, so I could balance them out a bit. Of course orks don't care for such hoo har but I did it anyways.

And Da Klaw of Gork and the Squighound Pattern Stompa are up on the auction block so if any of you keen punters wanna try getting them, you know where they are

I do not like that rocket launcher, but I love the buggy

Im totally in awe! Not only beautifull scratch building but that stompas paintjob is sweet! Totally wow. How do you do that rusty metal and scratched paint???

The rusted metal is a lot of work, basically silver with stacks upon stacks upon stacks of colour washes to dirty the hell out of it. Browns and blacks and some other funky colours thrown into the mix.

Just so you all know, I'm still working on this. Things are still setting down since I"ve been sick, but at the moment I'm in the process of batch painting a total of 35 orks at once. Really pushing that but I'm finding it not too bad. I also have a dipping method worked out that I will try on the rank and file of the troops. If you saw how many troops I have to paint you'd probably think I was insane!!!!

Anyways, back to work for this paintslave!!!!

Well - not really an update just a moment of insanity realised so I thought I would share it with everyone ... if you're interested ... otherwise - here is some mindless drivel from one driven insane by the sheer weight of a task taken on by myself...too many elipsesisesisi.......

Just did a count of the ork army to date and boy oh boy oh boy have I ever bitten a big chunk off!!!

Here's the list of what I have yet to paint:

35 Boyz in progress
101 Boyz (all a mix of 'ard boyz, shoota boyz and slugga boyz. No nobs)
9 Big shoota boyz
12 Lootas
4 Mekboys
5 Bombsquigs
7 Dethkoptas (which will increase with the release of the new box set mind you! And hopefully I'll have a bit batch painted up before then)
19 Tankbustas with their nob
25 Burna boyz
4 Commandos
1 Shokk attack gun
2 Nobs
1 Painboy and orderly
1 Weirdboy without handlers (thank GOD)
19 Bikes, half and half new and converted old
3 Warbuggies with TL Rokkits
3 Wartrakks with TL Big Shootas
1 Wartrakk with mega blasta
1 Trukk
2 Huge Zeppelin battlewagons

What I HAVE painted

14 Stormboyz and nob
5 Trukks
1 Battlewagon (regular groundhogger)
1 Mounted Warboss
3 Mega armoured nobs
1 Ghazkull
3 Killa kans
7 Nobs
1 Squig toting warboss who will probably be a nob

And the soon to be sold

1 Stompa and 1 Klaw (which btw is 1000pts worth give or take on their own!)

And what I plan to build in the future:

1 bike toting special character guy who has the crazy rules but I can't remember his name now
1 Steam stompa REDUX
1 SMALL klaw of gork as a dread because the old one was WAY too big for what I actually wanted it to be originally

Which comes to a total of:

246 on foot troops
46 Vehicles and walkers
2 War machines

In my army at the moment!

And I have 20 unbuilt, uncut, unprepared boyz sitting in a box. That I will not build. No no no no no. I will not build them. They are parts for other things...

That's roughly 4500 - 5000 pts in models.

Woah.

Let's see if I can get them painted........

The question is not "if" the question is "when" .

So Lemmingspawn, do you also play the game??

Or is all of this painted and sold off?

That is one daunting list of stuff!!! But if it's all built, then it's a big feat already to give you motivation. The end result will be spectacular!

Yeah I play it Migs - it's mainly the stuff I can't use or don't get much opportunity to use that I sell. Like the stompas and stuff are fun to build and the rules are cool, but I just don't get to use them and they take up too much space.

And I can't explain the feeling at the end - I do all this work, have the fun and pleasure of designing and building this great piece of work and then it's like "Meh, it's done, I'm over it, seeya!"

I'm in the process of painting up the main troops, I'll post some progress pics soon, maybe tomorrow. I've got 2 batches of 35 models being painted simultaneously, lol. The way I worked it was to lay the main coats for the first batch, and then developed a dip-wash to dip the models in instead of brushing it on. Works great except if you use PVA white glue on the base - then the pva keeps breaking down!!! At least if you let it reset it goes back to normal, but I had to superglue some to fix them.

Anyways, so I have 35 in the dip-wash stage, so while they dry I lay on the basecoats for the next 35, and I'm almost ready to take another 35 to the workshop to get them started soon too! At least at this rate I'll get the basic troops done quickly (136 boyz in total, so they will be done in four batches if I can keep the inspiration going!!!!).

Once I've finished the dip-wash of the first 35, which should be tomorrow, I'll wash the metals with the new GW washes to improve and bind the metallics. They're nothing amazing like my Iron Giants army, but they still look good. And in large numbers (like orks are want to be) they look very effective, even partway through the process.

Hey guys, just a quick peek at where I'm up to with the boyz I'm painting at the moment. On this table there are 99 orks with various weapons (mostly sluggas, choppas and shootas) in 3 stages of being SPEED PAINTED! Yep I'm doing them in roughly 30-35 lots, blocking in the main areas of paint and then dipping them in my SPECIAL wash mix. Here's a few pics:







That's it for today. This lot has taken me 7 days so far to get to this point (about 6hrs a day). Enjoy!

Wow. Love the effect on the burna boy head's goggles. Looks like you've been using a method to create gems or something.

Awesome work

Well, here's a brief update on the painting progress. So far I have painted:

100 Boyz various weapons
4 Commandos
14 Stormboyz and nob
5 Trukks
1 Battlewagon (regular groundhogger)
1 Mounted Warboss
3 Mega armoured nobs
1 Ghazkull
3 Killa kans
7 Nobs
1 Squig toting warboss who will probably be a nob

And left to paint:

45 Boyz (mixed weapons)
12 Lootas
4 Mekboys
5 Bombsquigs
7 Dethkoptas (which will increase with the release of the new box set mind you! And hopefully I'll have a bit batch painted up before then)
19 Tankbustas with their nob
25 Burna boyz
1 Shokk attack gun
2 Nobs
1 Painboy and orderly
1 Weirdboy without handlers (thank GOD)
19 Bikes, half and half new and converted old
3 Warbuggies with TL Rokkits
3 Wartrakks with TL Big Shootas
1 Wartrakk with mega blasta
1 Trukk
2 Huge Zeppelin battlewagons that need redoing the weapons under the new rules

Updates on the progress. 145 models now officially speed painted in a period of about 3 1/2 weeks. Not very many foot soldiers left to paint, maybe 50-60.

Here are some pics:

The horde that's been painted:



And a couple of highlights:

Is that glowy blue OSL I spy? All the same props on getting so many footsloggers painted so quickly, that's quite the feat. And they look good to boot

Have we seen your warboss(es) before? I spot Ghazzy and the standard foot boss, can't remember if close ups happened at some point ...

- Salvage

Just wow dude. Such quality AND quantity.

What washes do you use to dirty your metals n colours?
I ask because they look so Matt and beautiful I wondered if they were a special make or just your talent lol.

GW paints or otherwise?

only just seen your models, but all are top notch, love em, kinda annoyed the squighound titan sold before i saw this though :K
keep up the great work.

Good lord. You're going to end up in the loonie bin for sure.

I don't think I've seen so many painted models in such short order.

I absolutely love that goggle head ork. Very commando-esque.

I don't know how you're doing it, but keep it up!

The washes are a mixture of cheap paint and the current GW washes. I use very few GW paints, and tend more toward Vallejo. I just like them better, but I'm realising that the GW paints are actually a bit thicker than the Vallejo...

Anyways - the wash... It's a cheapass folk art paint called americana or whatever else I can get that I water down a fair bit. With these models I've been going crazy with a dip method where I mix up a batch of two colours, mid brown and black, in specimen jars and fill them right up with it. Then I dip each model into the pot after the base-coating. And that gets about 4 goes before I then go over the metals with GW washes. The GW washes are Devlan Mud (my fav), Gryphon Sepia and Ogryn Flesh. I experimented with the Thraka Green over one of the mekboys because his flesh went too dirty - it cleaned it up nicely but ended up a touch darker than I wanted. But that's ok, he's an ork of a different fungus...

There's no OSL in the mix on these though...there IS a bit of verdigris on the mekboys gun end though.

Because everyones been asking so nicely.....here's some older models I painted ages ago before I got sick of painting them last time, all the Bosses and the Nobs.





These were painted using a more traditional method, not the cheaty dippy washy style but were earlier forays into the "juice" method. I call my "Sloppy juice" method .

Okay! Here's the lootas painted up with a mek a burnaboy and a big shoota boy just because. I've done up an article on Coolminiornot that I'll provide a link to later on how I have done the dipping for all those interested in that method, but for now you'll have to settle for pics!



And here's a few closeups of one model to give you an idea of what they look like up close and personal:





Enjoy!

wow, i gave up on 12 ork boys (average paint job) but i dont have a dip so eh, like your army though keep up the hard work!

Cheers,
Gutteridge

and some day i will finish my goff army..

Here's the article link - I thought I'd put it up on CMoN because they have lots of useful modeling articles already and it's a great resource.

http://www.coolminiornot.com/article/aid/725

Ok here's an update on the orks for all those of you who want to see

I've been out of action for the past few weeks but got some time to paint lately. So far I've completed the 18 tankbustas and bombsquigs and the 24 burna boys, and I've moved onto doing the bikes. I decided I didn't want to paint the old 2nd ed bikes so I'm offloading them and going to get more of the current ed bikes.

Here's a picture of the mass of painted models - this is the entirety of the footsloggers that have been speed painted. Everything from now on will be painted at a higher level of detail. You are looking at around about 200 odd orks of various different weapon fitouts here, so look carefully so you don't blow your mind!!!!



And here are a few pics of the orks in action:

Deployment zone (1/4 table almost filled):


Off the mark 2nd turn:


And some action shots:



Hope you like!

Wow...

I've just read this thread from end to end for the first time, I'm totally in awe... Your modelling and converting skills are absolutely brilliant as we all know, but to then go and paint like that, not just that well but across that many models!!! Absolutely amazing!!

I have hordes and hordes of rank and file Ork Boyz to paint, possibly even more than you've had to do... Lord knows what I'll ever do with them, I'm not sure if I've even got a table big enough to fit them all onto at once! Anyway, loads of them are built but not painted because I just couldn't face painting hundreds of Boyz, life is too short!!! But at the same time I hate seeing unpainted or primed only minis... Thankfully, help is at hand!!! Now I've seen your speed method and seen how much can be achieved with some serious perserverance, I'm feeling much more confident about getting the little buggers done!!! I really have no excuse now!!!

Keep up the cracking work buddy, must feel really good finally fielding squads of fully painted boyz eh?

P.S: How do you make the blimps and airships? Is that real balloons papered over or what? I really like the idea of mad Orky airships raining destruction across the battlefield, probably at friend and foe alike!! And they look like the perfect Orky type creation to go spectacularly wrong as well!

Glad you like it

The airship balloons are just a basic styrofoam core with other stuff glued on top. There's nothing too mystical about them...

I'm about to put the zeppelins on ebay, because I would rather rebuild than remodel...

lemming, can you send me a link when you do ebay it please

Lemmingspawn wrote:The washes are a mixture of cheap paint and the current GW washes. I use very few GW paints, and tend more toward Vallejo. I just like them better, but I'm realising that the GW paints are actually a bit thicker than the Vallejo...

Anyways - the wash... It's a cheapass folk art paint called americana or whatever else I can get that I water down a fair bit. With these models I've been going crazy with a dip method where I mix up a batch of two colours, mid brown and black, in specimen jars and fill them right up with it. Then I dip each model into the pot after the base-coating. And that gets about 4 goes before I then go over the metals with GW washes. The GW washes are Devlan Mud (my fav), Gryphon Sepia and Ogryn Flesh. I experimented with the Thraka Green over one of the mekboys because his flesh went too dirty - it cleaned it up nicely but ended up a touch darker than I wanted. But that's ok, he's an ork of a different fungus...

Lemming, I am looking down the road at painting my 100 strong Ork Boy force.. and the sheer amount of infantry was overwhelming me.

The Dip Sloppy Juice method looks intriguing.. I have access to some cheap brown and black acrylic paint from the local craft store, and wonder about what proportion of paint to water you use. 1:1? 1 part paint to 4 part water?

base coat model with clothing and skin and weapons colors first, then the dip?

also.. you did a brown dip, then dry.. then a black dip and dry.. and repeated that 4 distinct times?

Since for my Ork Flesh, I was thinking DA Green drybrushed with Scorpion Geen .. would you recomment dipping before the Scorpion drybrush, or after?

any assistance you can provide would be golden..

-Porkuslime

There's a link at the top of this page of this thread, it takes you to a more detailed step by step on how to use this method. IIRC the wash mix is something like 40:1 water to paint? Remember, you aren't going for solid colour, all your going for is a very fine dark wash to darken the tones, dirty everything up and deepen the shadows.

Ah.. cannot access THAT site from work, but I can DD.. hope I remember to look at that later tonight..

Thanks NM

-Porkuslime

Hey dude - good luck with the army The paint consistency is roughly 20:1 water to paint, but just play with it. Make sure you get a model you can test it with. As for your skin method, I'd do the drybrush before the dip, it makes the blends look smoother.

Ok, well I've had a few people ask me to link these when I sell them so I'm providing links to those who might be interested. The Zeppelins are currently up for sale. If anyone is interested, here are the ebay links.

Now, I have checked the boards rules, and if I break them on this forum by posting this, I'm sorry in advance. I've read the rules and pretty sure I haven't missed anything that says I can't post these links:

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=320298631235

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=320298629632

Any questions - please don't hesitate to ask.

Ok, here's the latest news on the orks blog. I've finished painting up six of the new bikes. I have to say it again - the new bikes ROCK! I don't care what anyone says - GW are doing a SMASHINGLY AWESOME job of modelling lately! Just look at the box set for AoBR! WOW! 3 Piece ork warboss that looks AMAZING!

Yeah ok, anyone is gonna mistake me for a fanboi any minute!

Anyways, here are the current bikes painted - they were done using a combination of my speedpaint method and my detail method. They have taken a bit longer than normal to paint, but that's to be expected. I wanted them to look better so I spent more time:

Here they are with the mounted ork warboss who is standing in as Wazdakka at the moment


And some boy shots




And my latest baby that I am working on (this is gonna be a REAL Wazdakka!)



Soon I'll be onto some DEFFKOPTAS! Both new and old (my old).

Amazing stuff and I thought 5 in two days was pushing it (well 4 batches at various stages anyway). ....

Your work is crazy cool! Love the conversions!

awesome you inspired me to make some more orks

orks are certainly my next army keep up the awesome work

Here's my latest update. Wazdakka the crazy ass special HQ dude is pretty much built. I'm pretty happy with it, I've done a lot to stay with the concept pic while at the same time giving it my own flavour. Here's the pics:

I've never been a huge trik fan personally, but you've done a great job at adding that something extra that makes to fun and cool.

I really like the truck engine on the back end and the front end is probably the best extended fork I've seen put on the new ork bikes. Nice and 'worky' if that makes sense.

The klaw is a nice touch as well.

Looking forward to seeing some paint on him.

Lemmingspawn is like a colourful machine that churns out good minis

Rightio - just so you dont' think I've been slacking, here's a few pics of what I've been doing. I've got enough boys I think so I don't intend to assemble the Black Reach boyz anytime soon. But I do need more nobs, so I've assembled and based all of them, one of the warbosses and six deffkoptas. Here's some pics to give you an idea of the fun I had with them:

Excellent progress!

So are you planning on selling this whole army?? Or just some random stuff?

I just sell the bits I don't use...sorta...or don't want to rework or rebuild...or just feel like selling.

That's what I love about orks, you really just need the boyz, then you can build everything else yourself. Nice tractor by the way!

An idea for if you plan on making a Mad dok maybe some saws or blades rising out of his back
sort of a tech mariney feel and maybe that drug injector thing from The Fabius bile model.

Awesome Work

Hughzle wrote:An idea for if you plan on making a Mad dok maybe some saws or blades rising out of his back
sort of a tech mariney feel and maybe that drug injector thing from The Fabius bile model.

Awesome Work

That's a pretty cool idea - orkses always seem to see what the other races do and go "I can make dat killier - watch dis"

Another idea for the list

i wanted to do that with my BA techmarines sadly i ruined one because it looked to orky/Chaosy

and btw have you tried this awesome army out yet?

I've been using the army throughout it's various stages of development. I have been using 5-7 deffkoptas and about 6 bikes with a stack of footslogging troops - and was stoked about the idea of taking wazzdakka and using the bikes as troops ... until I learned that the troop type for capturing objectives is restricted to infantry type troops ... major bummer dude ...

I'm in the process of painting up Wazdakka and 2 more bikes, as well as having purchased another 6 bikes. That'll be it for the bikes I think

So I haven't read too much of this post, I just looked at pictures. But I must say, "VERY COOl!"

My original plan was to sell off my orks from the AoBR set, but you may have convinced me to reconsider....

Does the dip work for any type of Ork? e.g. Evil Sunz, Deff Skullz etc, or does it only work for Goffs?

The paint method should work for most things orkish. You just have to play around with the highlights.

Well, here are some updates. It's been a while, but I've been playing around with stuff.





















I have one more bike to finish. It's going to be a bike with an ammo trailer and that should be done up tomorrow sometime. Maybe some painting started.

Here's the last bike - with trailer and alternative chain end attachment (broadside attack, anyone?). I can remove the trailer for use as an objective, and then probably just hook it up and ride off with it...illegally of course coz dats wot orkses do!

Thats as awesome as it is hilarious.
The trailer rules.

I love the guy with the plasticard improved fender. very cool. Thx for sharing!!

Yes, superbly orky again! Thanks for sharing.

Wow. I just read through all of that in one go. All of the pieces are great. The paint, conversions, and large custom pieces.

Amazing stuff man, can't wait to see more.

Blood

goodness that claw of gork is friggin awesome! really noice job!

Absolutely amazing conversions. Keep up the good work.

I hadnt checked this in a while and i was looking foward to seeing Wazdakka for some err "borrowing" of ideas but then...

I saw him painted and he looked really really squashed up by the bike, it looked kinda like Ghazzgkull on a snotlings trike.

other than that no criticisms all good.

Hey Hughzle - no probs - that's kinda the look I was aiming for I was thinking of a few different ideas, but the main concept was for it to look like the rider wasn't as important as bigger guns and bigger engine. One thought was to try and make it look like the rider had to rider with one leg on top of the engine/gun or even standing just so they were able to control it, but it was pretty hard to pull off and keep to the concept pics as well.

Another idea I've had - and I might do this another time but I have to many things to get to - is to have the rider standing on top of the vehicle driving it using reins and a control panel... But like I say, I have too many things to get to before I start designing other vehicles. I just had a brainwave to build 3 steam stompas simultaneously - that's one thing I'd like to squeeze into the schedule...

And before I do that I've got 3 buggies, 1 trukk, 11 nobs, 1 more warboss, 13 deffkoptas and 6 more bikes to paint. And 25 grots to base and paint and 3 grotherds to model up that haven't even been thought of yet. And a big mek with shokk attakk gun, painboy and orderly and... I think that's it for painting.

Then I have a new battlewagon to build - I won't be waiting for the new one because I'm not a huge fan:



And I think I can build something that I am happier with:



Strange going on - I had to edit this to add stuff because all my text was typing backwards! Cool thing about that design is I can integrate the deffrolla into the front wheels.

Wow!!! What's that drawing from?? I did a little bit of a sex wee when I saw that... especially in contrast to the "meh" new battlewagon.

You can see the name of the artist and location on the bottom of the pic. Its from the galleries over on CGSociety. I found the original pic for the steam stompa there as well, and a couple of other projects I've tried, started, finished or thinking on...

Sorry, I look like a 'tard now, when I first looked at this thread that pic didn't load properly and I couldn't see the writing at the bottom!!! :S

Those bikes are looking great!

nice battle wagon and really nice concept pic Kudos to the artist.

Now you have made me hate you i had pouring effort and money into a blood angels army and you made me love orks too much.

It's alright - I already hate myself enough. I've got at least 4 more projects to get to and finish and I'm forcing myself to finish the orks off.

I've got the following list to finish off:

6 bikes started painting
13 Deffkoptas
24 Grots and 3 handlers
12 Nobs
Mekboy with shokk attakk
Painboy and orderly
AoBR Warboss
Weirdboy
Tankbusta nob
Trukk
3 Warbuggies

And I think that's it that I have to paint....

But now that I've seen an open topped version of the new battlewagon, it's kinda grown on me.



I like the way it looks there, so I think I might just buy one and convert it a bit for the sake of saving time so I can finish the jobs I've got left to do a bit quicker...

I had the change of heart when I saw the open topped version as well. I really really didn't like the kit when I first saw it in all plastic with the top and turrets. but without all that junk, it actually looks pretty damned cool.

one word for you.

stompamob?

Lol @ hughzle - let's not go there

The plans on the shelf at the moment are:

Painting up around 2500pts of sisters
Converting Space Wolves out of Warhammer Fantasy Chaos Warriors (the big armoured boys)
Converting a Dark Eldar army using the new Corsairs and the Cold one riders
Building 3 (YES 3!) stompas at once based on the Steam Stompa design, using a more modular build.
Walking baneblade beast

Oh, and finish touching up the rest of my armies - I have a couple squads of Firewarriors to finish, a heap of normal eldar vehicles, and the rest of the Iron Giants chaos army.

So as you can see - I've got a lot on my mind!!!!

When you say a baneblade walker do you mean: a) a stompa using baneblade rules or b) a stompa using baneblade parts or something i didnt realise.

so the hiatus that was on the iron giants has shifted to the orks?

You know your speed painting guide? I have a few questions about it.

1. Does it work if you do it in colour? (E.G. Evil sunz)

2. You mention "Dry brush gray" when talking about what to undercoat. What am I supposed to dry brush gray?

3. When using super glue to glue base terrain on, do I need to do a sealing coat too?

@ Hughzle - the baneblade walker is an Iron Giants project. I have yet to get back to that and finish it. That'll come soon enough

@ Pika_power -

1. You can use it over most any scheme, but keep in mind you might want to test it first, you need to make sure the colours and shading will be conducive to the scheme you want.

2. The grey drybrush was a bit general, I know, but it can apply to many different things. Because this army is more or less the goff type paintjob (lots of black) I do a general drybrush over the black areas, but you might find that it will work ok over greens, blues and even reds for the weathering. Again, try it out. And use a very sparse drybrush. I even use it over some brown and yellow areas.

3. Superglue is the glue of choice to ensure that all the materials are attached to the base. If you use anything porous, you need to ensure that you seal that surface, so superglue would be my sealant of choice, unless it doesn't react well to superglue (foams) or the superglue may destroy the texture effect you might have. Again - experiment.

Hope that helps out guys

OK, bigger better larger updates!

It's been prolly about 2-3 weeks since I updated this thing so here I go with some new stuff. Since last update I've painted up the rest of the bikes, all the deffkoptas and 3 warbuggies. I've also converted and based 24 grots and 3 handlers, 1 with prod, 2 with grabbas.

Over the next week or two I'll paint those up, so then after finishing this lot, all that's left to paint are:

24 Grots + 3 handlers
about 12 nobs
roughly 10 special characters
Oh! And 1 trukk

Then I've painted everything that is sitting unpainted and that ought to free me up to build another battlewagon and maybe that 3 steam stompa idea I've been toying with...

Here's some pics:

Everything I've painted since last update:


Buggies


Bikes



Coptas






Big enough update, I reckon...

WOW

They're really looking great Lem.

I love the three blade fix for the AoBR koptas, I'll definitely have to try that on a few. It hadn't crossed my mind, and for such a simple change it really changes the overall feel of the model, kudos.

Just read the whole thread from start to finish, and loving the work, lemmy!

I really like the look of the bikers, esp. the one with the skelly strapped to the front. Wazdakka's nice and the chainsaw-PK is one of my favorite bits of it.

Overall, brilliant work!

Excellent ork stuff! I love the bikes, koptas, balloons, heck I love almost everything I see... but one question. What was the mek boy thinking by adding aiming reticules to the rokkit launchas on the buggies? Was he just trying to warm up some boyz or sumthin'? "Back blast area not clear... oh neva mind him he was a git anyways!"

Nice work. Really!

Lol @ Boss Khamzi - yeah I originally was mounting shooters behind them but they die...so they still have the targetting reticules in place. Just makes em look less like pipes stuck together and more like they shoot stuff!

Well with the introduction of a fan to speed up the dip-drying process, I've been seeing some real speed come into the painting. I've only been working on the trukk today and it's almost finished, and the grots have been started. At this rate I should have the grots and trukk practically done tomorrow afternoon and maybe get a start on the nob squad. And after a quick recount, the only models left to paint after that are a Big mek with Shokk attakk gun, A painboy and orderly, the AoBR Warboss and a weirdboy sans handlers.

So next week should see the finish of the large masses of painting. WOW! It's taken long enough...but not that long at all really...I guess it feels that way because there's so much to paint!

AWSOME!!! ^^

impressive

It's so nice to see the boyz getting some paint ^_-.

Just read this from the start...truly inspiring you are Lemm...truly inspiring.

I'm set to try this new-fangled dip method this weekend

really great job, your koptas have put pictures of ork handglidas as deffkoptas into my ead, nice one

Ok, here are the final pics of the mega-uber-WAAAARGH!nificent paint-a-thon! Finally done all of the undercoated freestanding models (well - all the ones I intended to paint).

Here are the pictures of what has been done:



(Slightly dodgy pic here)




Random nob


Grots and Handlers (converted)


And a picture of the entire painted horde in all it's WAAARGH!-nificent glory!


Here is a rough inventory:

6 Rokkit Koptas
7 Shoota Koptas
6 Trukks
1 Battlewagon
3 Rokkit Buggies
13 bikes and nobs
1 Biker Warboss
1 Wazzdakka
1 S.A.G.
1 Weirdboy
1 Painboy and Orderly
13 Stormboyz and Nob
20 Nobs
3 Meganobs
3 Kans
about 40 'ard Boyz
about 100 Boyz
about 24 Burna Boyz
about 20 Commandos and nob
12 Flash Gitz
6 Mekboyz
1 Ghazghkull
About 20 Tankbustas and 6 Bombsquigs
25 Grots
3 Slavers


Now to consider the next parts of the army - later -

At the moment I'm finishing off the 35 or so praetorians I've been meaning to paint up as a commission for the last 18months or so and then to decide what is next.

as always lemmingspawn, its just awesome

that is really one helluva collection.
always enjoyed your work (specially your iw´s).

thank you for sharing. very inspirational

Now this is the true spirit of what an Ork army should be. As many Orks as you can possibly fit on the table without it giving way to the weight! But seriously, this is one hell of an army. Very nicely painted too

What did you use to get the glowy blue effect on the bike lights and on the slime from the pipe under the Nob?

It looks awesome

The army seems to work out about 5000 - 5500 pts...roughly... so that's pretty cool. I didn't think there was THAT many points worth, I was thinking more like 3500 but I sure was wrong about that!

For the glow effects it is really dependent on what colour I start with, and I build it up to white or close to white. The Pipe is a turpoise and jade green type mix-up and the lights are a turqoise and or light blue.

Ok, well here are some close ups of the Grots for now. I think I might do some other close ups as time goes on. There's just too much to photograph and post pics of all at once. So I'll do it here and there as the spirit moves me...

Here be the grots. They are a combination of the snotlings, gretchin, gnoblars and little plastic dudes I found that I don't know where they are from and a pile of strange weapons (they look like they might be from VOID I think - don't know how I got them).

First the handlers - converted from plastic nobs basically. 2 Grabbas and 1 Grotprod:

Great lookin orkses as allways!

Looks like Necromunda weapons. There was a cool metal sprue you could order from GW that had a ton of different weapons on it. Unfortunately, they've since canceled that along with all the other stuff.

What did you make those Grabba Poles out of? freehand plasticard?

I am looking for new KK CCW and those look ace!

-Porkuslime

good gravy! your orks are seriously making me jealous! everything you do to them is just pure badass orkiness!

The grabbas are a combination event...plasticard for one of the grabba ends, the other is made out of hooks off the boarding planks from a new trukk, and the handles are a combination of plastic rod and biker nob 'uge choppa handles. The handle for the grotprod is the same way, and the head is part of the 'uge choppa head and one of the glyphs.

you have quite the impressive army!!! I really like how every thing

looks so rustic and orky. how do you get those raised dirt bases? It looks really cool when the orks are standing on their own little mountain top.

one of the best ork armies i have ever seen, well done! Keep them coming please, your stuff is always a treat.

The bases are basically cork roughed up with sand glued on in most cases. If you would like to see more then you'll need to go check out my triple stompa action post. That's going to be fun

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/224127.page