Finishing up on some other projects, spending time watching some inspiring Ork blogs/ projects and making time to clean my shop got me pulling out the boxes of Orks I've been collecting and not doing anything with. All in all base pts come out to 4100. Not sure that the combination of models and units are that competitive, but they do look like fun to play.
So first things first. I needed a theme. If you search for Orks on the’ Dakka’ gallery, you’ll find an amazing Ork painted with white skin tones. Not sure who painted it and I have no expectations on being able to reproduce it, Still it was a cool enough concept that made me want to push my meager painting skills and go for something unconventional. So grey/ white or Albino Orks was born.

Next were thoughts about the overall look. What Clan to do... if any? Bad moon are popular. So that’s out. Deathskulls are out as well as it would totally break my ‘Albino’ theme. I’ll probably do an Ork band on its own and keep with the unconventional. So I’ll have to think about the secondary colors. Namely for the inf. For the overall metals ( thusly vehicles ), I’m going with a ‘Scrap’ concept. So I’ll be basing them in a rust theme. Red oxide, light rust highlights and some ‘ironbreaker’ drybrushing.
For the makeup I wanted to have a lot of options, Obviously I’ll need to have ‘Da Boys’ . Necessary in any standard FOC. But I wanted to be able to field a well rounded Ork force. I’ll have the options for a Warlord or 2 but I’ll center my Army on a Big Mek whom for lack of a better name I’ll call ‘Da Ghost Mek’. I’ll base his color off a genetic mutation (either by nature or my some Painboy experiment). A Mek banished from normal Ork society for …‘looking like he’s bad luck’. One of the side effects of his mutation is his inability to see color. So I’ll give him yellow eyes.

I’m going to place his Warband on a Rok that has drifted in the darkest space. His fungus producing more of his genetic band in the years of isolation. For the vehicles I’m planning on adding very little color with my rust oxide color. As Painting things just isn’t that important to someone who can’t see color. I’ll add spot color to break up the models and will go with white and red as the major choices. White should adorn most of the faceplates as a representation of the ‘Albino’ theme. My Grots will keep with this theme.
I’ll be working on a test model for the skin tone as well as the red oxide color of the vehicles.
In the beginning I’ll be doing all the painting in measured steps. All Prime, All Base, all skin tones ect. Till I get further into the individual models.

So what’s on the list.
1 Deff Dread (weapon options) - Complete
Morkanaught - Complete.
1x20 Slugga Mob with Nob - Complete
1 runtheard with grots Complete
1 DakkaJet - Complete
Truck - Complete
5 kopters- Complete
1x10 Nobs - Fully loaded - In progress - Complete
3 Big Guns (with all the options) - Complete
Next.. plans in the following order…
9 Meganobs - 6 built/ 3 NIB
1 Battlewagon with DR - built
1x20 Slugga Mobs with Nob
1 kopters- need to prime arms
Truck
1x10 Nobs (Basic) - built
6 to 9 Kans - 6 complete 3 WIP
1x20 Shoota Mobs with Nobs
1 DakkaJets (modified to make options to fields as other planes)
1x20 Shoota Mobs with Nobs
6 bikes (Updated 1/20/2015 ) 3 of 6 built
1 runtheard with grots
Gorkanaught - Built

Untouched but purchased!
Grot krew for Kannons
[color=red]3 normal mek’s - NIB
Big Mek ( obviously – though I’ll work on finding a appropriate figure to represent him ) - Still looking
5 Komandos- NIB
10 Lootas or Burnas -NIB
10 Stormboys - NIB
Pain boy - NIB
Bunch of grots for hanging off of things. - Need purchased!
STOMPA!



As I work on a permament Light box..I'll be using my camera phone.

Here is a shot of a Ork Pilot and his Gretchen gunner on where I'm going. The plane is in progress, so I'll wait to show you the finished result when it can be photo'd correctly.

I'm liking the pale green skin tone. Works well with the bright red.

A few thoughts at this early stage:
The Mek's eyes, you said red. But aren't Ork eyes usually red? Other options are green, as a mixture of red and green make black, therefore representing the inability to see colour. Or, I would have done them black to show a lack of colour, literally.

Spot colours to go with red... green you can't use due to the green tinge of the skin, so blue or yellow... blue may be too close to the green skin, so yellow?

Just thoughts.

I agree with Dr H. Albinism is typically associated with a lack of eye pigment as well as skin pigment. You should do something different with the eyes.

A very pale yellow might be good... it would be creepy as well.

Nice work. Looking forward to seeing more.

Thanks for the suggestions. Thou the 'green' tint is actually a grey not green. I'll try some yellow and see how it looks. I'm working on 20 slugga boy faces currently. Trying to get the skin technique down. Lot of opportunity to test it out. Yello might not have enough contrast with the pale skin. Green might be better as a tie in to the 'greenskin' genetics. Maybe green with a dot of yellow in the center or maybe reversed. ( note sur I can pull that off thou). Black on the other had would be the easyist to paint, but somewhat boring.

I have a lot built (at least to the point that it'll need to be painted prior to final assembly) and I hope to use some combination of them in a game against YB SW's soon. Git has given me some good list suggestions so I focus on some of these first.

Thanks Cleatus. I'll see about getting some pics of some of the base coated vehicles so you can see where I'm going with them.

Less crop'd picture.

Nice. Subbed, and then some

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Nice. Subbed, and then some

Always good to have your keen insight!

Weekend of painting.. ( if my shop doesn't run out of propane ) I'll take some pics of some of the stuff primed and based. Looking at playing a 1850 SW vs, these guys on Monday! It all won't be painted but should be able to field!

I am (not) stalking you.

 Briancj wrote:
I am (not) stalking you.

Stalk away my friend!

Ok, as promised.. Here is some of the progress I made this weekend. First .. Base coating of some of the vehicles.
Truck


Battlewagon




A Deff Dread. Finished… I magnetized the weapon load out for 4 CC weapons, 2 Plasma, 2 shootas, and 2 rockets. Shown with Kustom Mega Blasta.



Dakka jet. I modified this with what I thout was a generic fighter. It is set up to be a Dakka jet or a Blitza Bomber. The next flyer will be set up as a Dakka jet or a Burna Bomber. So I have options.




Now the Center of my army. Mork and Gork.. A lot of work to do on these. I’m also going for a better arm positions, by rounding of the arm Hex slots.







Also three Gretchen run Mek Guns frames

Start of the Inf.

Six of the 9 Kans. About 4 have magnetized weapon load outs

Stompa Base coated. I’m going to add some panels in Marine colors indicating used part of vehicles. Probably UltraMarines. this should make a good contrast with all the red oxide color.


In the meantime I've worked on the final Inf. Look and painted some detail for 2 of the 3 Mek Guns in prep for my game tonight against YB's Space wolfs. Brought Camera this time Hopefully I get some pics.

My army for tonight will be ...
Big mek w/Kff
Weird boy - for humor
10 sluggas w truck & Nob
10 slugga & Nob
10 Shootas & Nob
5 MegaNobs with BW
Gork w 3 Meks & 2 burnas
Mork w/ 3 Meks & 2 burnas
Dakka jet
2 Mek Guns with Tractor

DA plan.. Part 1 - not looking for a win. just will try to get a 'feel' on how these units play. Part 2 - have something fun happen with my WB!!

Holy crap SL... can't believe how much you've gotten done. Wow! They look fantastic too. Love those warm browns.

Wow....they jumped up pretty sudden like.

Good going - I like the pale grey skin, good choice.

Base coats on the vehicle pool look great.

All good stuff

Yeah, nice work SL. Quality and Quantity.

Wow... Already you've got some great progress! That didnt take you much time at all.

The albino angle is a really interesting take on ork skin. I'm REALLY liking the overall rusty basecoat you've given to the vehicles. The white details on them are a bit stark, but I think that might actually work to your favor- Bright white skin on the orks, bright white accents on the mechs


Any chance of seeing these guys at Adepticon?

This should be entertaining. Looking for what you come up with. Maybe some insporkration as I embark on my own Ork project.

Try an image search of "albino plants" and "albino fungi". It yields some interesting results to use as possible source material.

The skin and rust make an excellent contrast.



Looking forward to seeing how this progresses.

Wonderful contrast SL. For some reason the kans really interest me

Oh OT but, I should have your GMS mini done at start of the month. I know you're busy and if you don't like him fully I will redo it. Don't worry about getting the Lamenter done ie; take your time, I mean feth all, watching you and your crews' results is good enough for me.

Frack me fantastic twist.

They all look great. My one comment is that the clean white stands out a lot on the mechs, maybe try to dirty it up a bit with a black wash?

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Holy crap SL... can't believe how much you've gotten done. Wow! They look fantastic too. Love those warm browns.

We'll usually at this time I'm building 1 or 2 displays so I go pretty much non-stop on the weekends. Being winter helps a bit ( when the shop heats up) as there is less chores to to around the farm.

Thanks MT and the good Dr. H.

 Ramos Asura wrote:
Wow... Already you've got some great progress! That didnt take you much time at all.

The albino angle is a really interesting take on ork skin. I'm REALLY liking the overall rusty basecoat you've given to the vehicles. The white details on them are a bit stark, but I think that might actually work to your favor- Bright white skin on the orks, bright white accents on the mechs

I was thinking the white face on the Dread is in keeping with the white albino Face of my Big Mek. Thus its more of a Clan symbol. Even the Naughts and eventually the Stompa will have the same Albino face. Ties the Clan together.

The overall rust color will get muted a bit down with a nice ' Meph. Oil wash.

 Ramos Asura wrote:
Any chance of seeing these guys at Adepticon?

Not even thought about what to bring to Adepticon yet. Lamenters for sure.

 Veteran Sergeant wrote:
This should be entertaining. Looking for what you come up with. Maybe some insporkration as I embark on my own Ork project.

They been one of the many armies I like to have available to play with. Get Crackin, and post a link here so other can get inspired too!

 albinoork wrote:
Try an image search of "albino plants" and "albino fungi". It yields some interesting results to use as possible source material.

The skin and rust make an excellent contrast.
Looking forward to seeing how this progresses.

Thanks for the suggestion. Will do.. Decided to go with 'Yellow' eyes. The do look a bit creepy and much better than the normal red. I think the white skin will 1. be unique and 2. with the darker rust color draw the eye towards the figure. So far I'm happy with the overall look.

 Stormwall wrote:
Wonderful contrast SL. For some reason the kans really interest me

Oh OT but, I should have your GMS mini done at start of the month. I know you're busy and if you don't like him fully I will redo it. Don't worry about getting the Lamenter done ie; take your time, I mean feth all, watching you and your crews' results is good enough for me.

My original build was very Mek'y. Dreads and a Kan Wall with min Inf. but I never stop at a certain buils , I have to have alot of options when I build a list so it's my curse.

OT.. Your Guy is almost finished. I need to fix a couple of mistakes. I try to do my best work on the GMS's. Do you want me to post or do you want to do that? And I'm sure your guy is great.

 Miss Dee wrote:
Frack me fantastic twist.

Thanks... I don't think I've ever seen these 4 words used together.. Glad you approve!

Moving along. lost my game last night.. 14 to 11. Good game. We played a different version of the scenerios. Roll for a Eternal war mission with Maelstrom cards as secondary. So you get points for cards and in this game for kills. Unfortunitly I just couldn't finish off the Grey hunter squads. At the end there was still 3 squads; thou they only had 2-3 guys remaining. YB fielded a TWolf Deathstar that chewed through everything it hit. Managed to wittle at them but my shooting was horrible and his saves were good. As soon as I check out the few pic I took and upload off the camera, I'll see about posting a few game shots. Not a battle report , but a synopisis.

Worked on the Mek guns a bit and got 2 most of the way done. I also finished a single Ork. Spent a lot of time on what the upper and lower colors should be . I'm leaving all the Armor the rust color. the upper clothing will be red and the pants black. More Goff looking but with the white skin it seems to be not so obvious and I think it works.

Lastly the Morkanaught fell out of the bag when I was loading the car on the way home breaking a few peices, so I'll have to pull it out and access the damages. Initial assessment looks like nothing major.

Again thanks all.. more to come.


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 Ustrello wrote:
They all look great. My one comment is that the clean white stands out a lot on the mechs, maybe try to dirty it up a bit with a black wash?

Good call...Just a bit more to get it looking right.

Got word my 3 additional Kans came in today. 3 more Grotzooka's ready to be magnitized.

The skin colour looks great, the rest of the colour scheme too, particualrly like that fighter-bomber

 thegreatchimp wrote:
The skin colour looks great, the rest of the colour scheme too, particualrly like that fighter-bomber

Thanks GreatChimp.. I hope to get more details done this weekend.

Plan is to finish the SW I put off to start this then finish up the Mek guns ( just cause they are already in progress ). Then work on more inf. since these will take the longest time. We'll see where my mind is come Sat.

Finished building the remaining 3 more Kans last night. I'll put off doing any more on them till I get my additional weapons bits so I can magnitize the lot... Namely grotzooka's

I always love these kind of oddities. That skin color looks great. Looking forward to see more of that pale tide

Solar_lion wrote:

 Veteran Sergeant wrote:
This should be entertaining. Looking for what you come up with. Maybe some insporkration as I embark on my own Ork project.

They been one of the many armies I like to have available to play with. Get Crackin, and post a link here so other can get inspired too!

Mine is linked in my signature.

Subbing because I'm excited to see how this goes

 Veteran Sergeant wrote:
Mine is linked in my signature.

Excellent.. Nice conversions.. I agree the Kans are a difficult kit to convert. Very funy DV battle report!

Welcome Doppler.. Comments and suggestions always welcome.

Nice stuff! Well done!

With the colours, they would fit nicely as allies next to mine

Eh, I can post Solar. I am just waiting for the FLGS painting day like I always do to get tons done, it's around the first of each month.

I am trying to build up the plate colors but, keep the paint thin. I hope to be trying new highlight techniques too. He's no where near where I want him yet.

And to be not OT, those Dakka jets turned out great too, I missed them the first time I browsed this. (Though now that I have my laptop it is easier.)

Wow I never would have expected orks too look so sinister in white skin tones. Awesome job! They make me think of a strain that is more akin to mold then traditional orks.

 Stormwall wrote:
Eh, I can post Solar. I am just waiting for the FLGS painting day like I always do to get tons done, it's around the first of each month. I am trying to build up the plate colors but, keep the paint thin. I hope to be trying new highlight techniques too. He's no where near where I want him yet.
And to be not OT, those Dakka jets turned out great too, I missed them the first time I browsed this. (Though now that I have my laptop it is easier.)

PM me your Address then. No rush on mine...Do what you have to do to make it meet your approval! No Worries.

 Red Corsair wrote:
Wow I never would have expected orks too look so sinister in white skin tones. Awesome job! They make me think of a strain that is more akin to mold then traditional orks.

I do like the uniqueness. It's taking me while to work through the first base coat on all the Inf models. Fungus comes in many colors. I'll try to get some pics of progress this weekend. I'll however be working on finishing up on my friends SW primarily.

Wow, gotta subscribe to this.

The Stompa sans arms, face and legs looks like a giant Dalek

 Greldinard wrote:
Nice stuff! Well done!
With the colours, they would fit nicely as allies next to mine

Thanks Greldinard.. you have one of the coolest theme going with your Orks. Awesome and inspiring.

The very very next time I'm in Belgium, I'll be sure to look you up.

 lindsay40k wrote:
Wow, gotta subscribe to this.

The Stompa sans arms, face and legs looks like a giant Dalek

Thanks,, I should but back banners on it that say ' Exterminate'

Exceptional work!

These are looking soooo good.

I love 'not green' greenskins, and the albino idea is fab.

Also the brown/rust palette is so right for the orks. Cant wait to see more.

 lindsay40k wrote:
Wow, gotta subscribe to this.

The Stompa sans arms, face and legs looks like a giant Dalek

You mean Dalork, right?

@Solar_lion : thanks, man.
If you happen to pass by, you're more than welcome


In the meantime: will love to see your army grow...

Not much done this weekend on the Orks. Worked a bit on the Mek Guns. Again I'll try to get pic tonight.

Worked on Getting the SW's finished. 10 Grey hunters and an addiitonal Storm Wolf. Unfortunitly I cannot remember all the little details on the one I finished ( in YB hands now ) so I'll go get it from YB and hopefully finish it tonight or tomorrow. Then Back to Orks.

Finished the SW last night. Back to Orks.
Here is the 2 Mek guns I started on . They are very Much a WIP. Still missing some details, an Oil wash and dry brushing. They are currently sporting the 'Tracktor' Cannon variant. The other versions are magnitized so I can do all 4 versions. The Camera phone isn't really showing the ' Tracktor' very well. They look more ' Glowing' in Real life.

Looking good SL. Have a unit of mek guns for my game tonight... we'll see how they do. Of course mine are strictly the old-school figs. Tiny in comparison.

For the points they are rarely disappointing.

I have tomorrow off, as I have no furnace. So while the technicians are working on racking up the labor costs, I'll see about spending time in my heated shop.

Still have to come in to Play YB and the dreaded SW's.

This time I'm going for a more mek Army.
Deff dread. 2 units of Kans, Squads of 20 shoota boys. Mega nobs in BW, Warboss. 6 War bikes, Warphead and Dakka jet. Sure to face TW cav. again.

You're right about that. Grot artillery really threw it's weight around tonight. I am pleased.

2nd Game using Orks complete. This time for the win. The list seemed to work well as the Kans and MegaNobs formed a big mob that took on the TW cav. Over all I think this is a tough codex to win with but a great army to have fun with. I love'd all the Kans and Deff Dread lumbering down the center of the table. So animated.

I took lots of Pic but it'll take me some time to put them together. Another weekend... Thus some more work on the Ork Inf. while I wait for my bit's orders.

Necron codex comes out today so I'll have to see what I must get built to make my tourney Army viable again.

No progress this weekend due to illness. All I managed to do was pull out some Necron tomb Blades to see If I have enough to make a viable list. Back to bed.

Sorry to hear that you're ailing brother, but I am pleased that you had success with your orks. Indeed... they are great fun!

Make a few sacrifices to Tzeentch, let papa nurgle go rot...

I hope you feel better, being sick always blows. (I wrote this once before. Guess I didn't hit send.)

Get well soon, SL!

If ya need a break, take a break! You're making fine progress without killing yourself over it

Thanks for the well wishes.. Feeling better. At Least well enough to return to work. I'm working thru the Ork Inf. so not much to see untill I get a sizeable amout to show.

However tonight a 1850 pt game with a local player. I won't be breaking out my Orks thou as I suspect this person is a bit more competitive than the normal player I game with. So I'll be trying out the new Necron codex. ( for which I have about 90% of the models I need to make the new codex formations ) I suspect to face his CSM / Demon Army.

Game was amazing. We'll for me that is. I tabled a IG army in 4 turns. Still learning the new Necron codex but it seems to work. My dice were hot and his was pretty poor so there is some reasoning behind my win. But was impressed that I manages to take so little losses against an all Mech. Guard army.

Still working on the Ork inf. Got a lot more faces done ( I consider the hard part ) I'm looking forward to taking on one of the Naughts soon!

Took a break from painting all the Inf. and worked on getting a Ork truck finished. Almost finished except for the passenger gunner.

If it warms up I'll try and get him finished so I can take a Pic.

 Solar_lion wrote:
Start of the Inf.

I know your last update here was a bit over 2 weeks ago, but I have to say this is a very promising scheme! Will definitely be watching (would love to see an ork in the flesh at AdeptiCon, too!)

Thanks RiTides. I'll bring a finished Inf fig. but not planning to bringing the army as they are too unfinished at this time.

Managed to do some painting this weekend. Got a Truck done. All that is left is the gunner. Pic came out a bit brighter that real life.

The 3 remaining Grotzooka's came in so I can start magnitizing them and work can begin on finishing up the Kan wall.

I really like the white front as it is kind of the "face" of the trukk. Nicely done my friend. I'm very cranked up about the way this army is going. It'll be fantastic on the battle field!

The truck is looking nice and rusty Solar.

 GiraffeX wrote:
The truck is looking nice and rusty Solar.

Thanks, I'll probably wait to do any more Orky stuff till after Adepticon. I'll be bringing the camera and taking tons of pics of all the displays and 40K goodness. Usually Ice starts our team blog, but not doing a team this year I'll look at starting a traditional Warders blog when I return.

Hopefully the Wardens will be able to re-group next year!


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 Gitsplitta wrote:
I really like the white front as it is kind of the "face" of the trukk. Nicely done my friend. I'm very cranked up about the way this army is going. It'll be fantastic on the battle field!

This summer I should come up some weekend and do a big Ork vs. Ork battle for who's gonna be da big boss on dis here planet!
LoW and all. Gitsplitta's grots vs the Da ghost Meks boys.

Would love that. I guess that means I'd have to build and paint up a LoW (besides Ghazzy).

Great color scheme!
I love the albino theme!
Keep it up!!

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Would love that. I guess that means I'd have to build and paint up a LoW (besides Ghazzy).

Yeah.. chance to build/use your Kustom Mek Stompa. AND.. use that cool Ork terrain you have. Perfect narritive all around

 Khanjar wrote:
Great color scheme!
I love the albino theme!
Keep it up!!

Thanks, It's been fun to do something different. at least I'll not mix my Orks up with other Ork Players.

That rust came out well. I assume you use powders?

If you two do that, you better make a great bat rep.

If the Wardens go to AC in full ork mode, I am totally there.

 Stormwall wrote:
That rust came out well. I assume you use powders?
if you do that, you better make a great bat rep.

Bat rep for sure.

No powders. The amount one would need to do all these would be too expensive.. all paint,

 Briancj wrote:
If the Wardens go to AC in full ork mode, I am totally there.

That would be funny. Though I'd set the goal of coming in the bottom 10% to make it challenging!

It'd give me an excuse to finish my air force and mobile control tower bunker...

I'm in. God knows I have enough orks to field all 4 teams.

Good work on the truck.
Odd thing to pick out specifically, but I like the tones on the underside of the boarding plank thing.

Unique looking army for the win.

 Dr H wrote:
Good work on the truck.
Odd thing to pick out specifically, but I like the tones on the underside of the boarding plank thing.
Unique looking army for the win.

Thanks. The tones are a result of a heavy wash. I'd like to say it was intentional but I just washed and go! The plank is magnitized as well so easy to represent wysiwyg.
I got another trurk the other day so another add to the mob!

Back from AC... Next to make some base Orkish buildings for Ice. Nothing too fancy just playable and functional Terrain like the peices I did for my FLGS. Inbetween more Inf. orks.

Oh wow, these are awesome.

Thanks Matthew, they have been fun to paint and challenging to play. I hope to get back to the vehicles soon. Lots of Inf to finish first!

Some More from AC 2015..the Ork edition

I would love to go there.

Still working on the over 60 boyz. working on the whole lot at once. color by color.
Camera phone pics sucked so I'll try again tonight.

Nice to see you back in the saddle SL. Looking forward to the pics!

I've been painting. FInished up two more 5 man SW squads for YB.

The poor camera pics of the Albino Orks boyz are in my gallery. They are blurry.

Been frustrating for me over the last week or so since I haven't had any time to paint. Would like to finish up some projects before I start on the skitarii but so far have made no progress.

nice force you have there. looking foreward to seeing more

Thanks Jonny5.. I'll try to get more regular posts.

Gits, You alway hava lot on your plate. I will start to get busy as it warms up and outside farm work begins. So I'm hoping the days getting longer help me get more done.

I'm pretty much done with SW for now. Need to touch up a dread then I'm waiting for Parts. I have some Dev Lamenters in the Que as well.

Better pics of the Inf. Completed so far. Ork Boss, Nob and Inf to date. More in various stages.

Warboss Front then back.


And a quick Camera phone shot of the first grot. I’ll get a better group shot when they are all completed.


I have about 40 more Inf to do, 20 Nobs as well.. all in various stages of painting. I’m trying to completed each step of the process before moving to the next. Very boring but it’s getting paint on them.... And as always soe things to fix on the warboss that only close up pics display ~sigh~

Yea I try to batch paint 4 Orks at a time...and I struggle with that, so goodluck to you.

Thanks SJM. Your 4 orks have alot more work into them than any group of mine so I see why. I struggle with doing too much detail on basic troops. Still I do only one standard so it'll take as long as it takes. I'll probably jump into something else to break up the pain. Looking at some Defkopters.

How are you going to base them?

Not sure... that's why they are not. Most likely I'll match the rust color with a debris/ ruin theme.. I'll wait till I have a bit more done before I jump in to the mass basing process.

Worked a couple hrs on the grots and the Runtherd. Much progress, but still very much a WIP. Nothing tonight.. YB and I will be fighting it out. SW vs. Lamenters Marines. He won the first 2 games and I the last 2. So our final 1850 series is decided tonight.

I'm trying to get them done on friday as I want to do some more terrain stuff for Ice this weekend.

Another victory for the Lamenters.. Honestly I think the vengence batteries is what saved me from the 'Wolf rush'. So I'm not considering this anything than a moral victory. 1-1 he would have destroyed me.

Looking to get the first unit of Grots done this weekend. Some terrain and putz around on the twin Naughts. ( if it doesn't snow again!)

Well done SL. Yellowbeard's Space Wolves are no push-overs!

Just love the colour scheme, properly eerie orks. Warboss Azog required!

Thanks.. It's been a fun project.

Finished the grots. However I positioned the only Grot with a upright gun in front of my Runtheard so it blocks his face. Didn’t notice till I loaded the pic. I have another 10 grots to go plus some for the artillery to finish.

SO I just started putzing with the Morkanaught, Next thing I know it’s dark and I’m almost done. A few more details, Glyphs, Engine and Ork lookout to finish.
From this...

to this...





Back to another 10 Inf. Nobs I think.

Man, that Morkanaught looks fantastic! Wow!

Morkanaut is amazing! The white and rust just look gorgeous together...

Thanks guys. I think they look better in person. A lot more on the original list page one for current.

That's a lot of painting. Time to prioritize... I'd start with the most important things that are in progress... Gorkanought, Battlewagon, Trukks, Big Guns. Then boys... lots of boys.

I refuse to make a list, I'd cry at the amount of stuff to do in bits

Love that 'naut! It reminds me of the skeleton halloween costumes that you wear in the dark and the bone bits sort of hover. Great aged metal look and perfect contrast.

Super, super cool!

Thanks everyone, The plan is to do a set of ten Boys between other units. That way I can space out the drudgery.

 Solar_lion wrote:
Thanks everyone, The plan is to do a set of ten Boys between each other peice. That way I can space out the drudgery.

I do the same thing, or try to at least haha.

Sounds like a plan, thats what I do when I'm painting an army.

Love the little white Grots, they look fantastic.

Thanks FPS & Gir. The grots were fun to paint. So small but great poses.

Sadly when you look at the list it seems somewhat daunting but I've beeen getting some games in with them as they are currently mostly assembled. I'm feeling good about the amount so far so I'll keep at it. I still have 1/2 finished Eldar, Necron and some Lamenter projects to distract me when I've run out of light grey paint.

I already have enough marines and Necrons painted to play against the SW rush if need be.

I'm setting a deadline for July 26 for all the major Ork stuff. I'll need to take a wee break so I can work on some practical Ork terrain for Ice. This should take a weekend only!

This is all looking fantastic. It's eerie - and disturbing, creepy orks are a real rarity. Kudos.

Thanks Master Graven.

Finished the first squad of 20 slugga boys last night. I have another Slugga boy squad of 20 to do. My evil plan is to do a troop choice in between other more interesting units to keep me from draining my momentum. Next 6 Kopters.

Updated list on page one

First things first... pics or it didn't happen.

Now that that's out of the way... looks like you've got a good selection of stuff there to work on. Lots of variation. Should keep you occupied and entertained for a good while!

I agree, pics! May we have a full army pic?

 Gitsplitta wrote:
First things first... pics or it didn't happen.

Now that that's out of the way... looks like you've got a good selection of stuff there to work on. Lots of variation. Should keep you occupied and entertained for a good while!

Understood!

I wouldn't be able to get my head around all that work, I generally don't look an further than a unit at a time, and even that is a little too much!

 Matthew wrote:
I agree, pics! May we have a full army pic?

Will do, but I'll wait til the Kopters are complete.In the meantime I snap a pic of the Kopter WIP as well.

Camera photo on the way out the door this morning – 20 Ork mob

My test Kopter. Only 5 more to go.

Nothing better than a block of Orks, I really like the contrast between the white/brown/reds.

Finished 5 out of the 6 Kopters. The 6th is just waiting on the arms as I forgot to prime and base coat them)
These a bit grainy pictures. Da Red Shirts...


Next up a Mob of 10 Nobs. These will be the 'All in ' Load out Nobs while the other 10 will be basic load out Nobs. all interchangeable


time to reset my white balance on my camera.

Love the way those are turning out SL. Going to be just a fantastic looking army on the table. What are your thoughts about the basing?

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Love the way those are turning out SL. Going to be just a fantastic looking army on the table. What are your thoughts about the basing?

If I could only take decent pics. I'm unsure what to do with the basing, so I'll wait till I get an epiphany.

I'm slowly replacing all the 25mm bases on the old NOB figures with the 40mm ones in the new box. I'll probably need a few more to finish replacing the other 10 Nobs. 2 more of this squad will have big Choppers, an additional Power Claw, 1 combi-flamer the rest - combi-missiles ( x4). The Other ten will all have basic choppers and pistols except for the Nob boss who will have a PC. About 60% complete.

After the first 10 Nobs I'll be finishing the 'Big Guns' followed by the MegaNobs. First page list updated!

Nobs are on 40mm bases?? Who knew?

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Nobs are on 40mm bases?? Who knew?

I think the GW website still says 25mm but the Orks I got recently ( I believe in the Stormclaw release ) had them all on 40mm iirc. Plus I think they look better on a bigger base so I went there.

Whatever you do on the base, you need to take it somewhere that is NOT brown... you need bases that contrast with the figures (like I'm trying to do with adding so much green to my skitarii bases.

Tried some different things on my computer to see if I can get better pics.. hopefully these are better…

Boys

Grots

Dreads



Big Daddy


Truck touch up

Da Plane

And as promised.. Only what’s complete as of date.

Bravo my friend! They look fantastic! (and the new photos really do help) That's gotta be at least 1k yes?

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Bravo my friend! They look fantastic! (and the new photos really do help) That's gotta be at least 1k yes?

According to AB 1275 pts. Only 3000 more to go!

Good work, Solar. Nice looking army.

Thanks Dr. H. Hopefully I'll get the 10 Nobs and big guns this week.

They are great! Bizarre, brilliant, bonkers.

Full load out Nobs complete. I also magnetized a big pet squig to the base of my Warboss. This way if I add the wargear I can represent it on the figure. This and hopefully pics of the big guns on Monday!

Those army shots look amazing. Love the look you have to the army. Very distinctive, very orky, great stuff.

Thanks Cam! I'll be able to pick my Orks out on the table.
As promised...
Nobs. This unit has 2 PK, 3 big coppas, 4 Kombi RL and 1 Kombiflammer

The brutal 5

The shooty 5

Magnetized the big squig for the Warboss.


And Lastly the 4 versions of the Ork ( Gretchen) Kannons… all Magnetized





Updated the Page one list! What's next?

Very pretty.

You need trukks.

Good advice.. I have another truck NIB. Probably need a third.

I have 9 Meganobs ( all with magnetized weapons ) next on the list. These should go fairly quick as they are mostly armor followed by a Battlewagon and all its variants.

Tonight I see some action with my Orks. Playing a 2 vs 1 battle against Tau and SW. Nice that all the figures I'll be bringing will be painted.

Big mec ( Warboss figure )
20 slugga boys
10 Nobs w truck
Deff Dread and 4 Kans
4 Kopters
10 Gretchen with RH
Gorkanaught

Being such a low Tier army, I will bring the 2nd half of my team with My Necrons. Should be a interesting game with this Combo.

 Solar_lion wrote:
Tonight I see some action with my Orks. Playing a 2 vs 1 battle against Tau and SW. Nice that all the figures I'll be bringing will be painted.

Big mec ( Warboss figure )
20 slugga boys
10 Nobs w truck
Deff Dread and 4 Kans
4 Kopters
10 Gretchen with RH
Gorkanaught

Being such a low Tier army, I will bring the 2nd half of my team with My Necrons. Should be a interesting game with this Combo.

The brutality of close combat Ork style mated with the ranged power of the Necrons, it should be painful if played right!

The brutality of close combat Ork style mated with the ranged power of the Necrons, it should be painful if played right!

That set of grot kannons is a thing of meknificent beauty!

 inmygravenimage wrote:
That set of grot kannons is a thing of meknificent beauty!

Thanks Master! What is thy Bidding! ( Heavy Breathing )

Two players dropped out last night so YB and I went at it. Him 2500 pt of wolves ( though he was limited by the figures and proxies we could find) against 1250 or Orks and Necrons.
Victory for the bad guys! ( that'd be me ). I was amazed on how good the 2 armies played together. Concentrating my Orks in a supporting blob forced the SW to throw lots at it while my Cron went about systematically eliminating the threats 1 by 1. I still did get lucky with we Doomsday cannon and managed to pound anything in groups. All the ' cheese' in the Necron army paid off as I only lost 4 Warriors in my list by game end.

Next week we are being blessed with the presence of none other than "Gits" himself. So we'll for sure be doing a 2 vs. 2 battle. As Simon Phoenix says " ohhhh exciting"

This is an excellent and entertaining army you have going here. I love the unique color style and the striking contrast between white and rust-brown on the vehicles. Great work so far. Keep it up.

Nice looking orks. I love the simple color scheme.

TRoS and Waaazag.... Thanks.. I'm glad you like. I got a lot to do but having an alt theme does add to my motivation to get them all painted.

Though I have a lot of models and almost 1 of every kind I don't expect these to be currently competitive. I do however enjoy playing them and they make great allies to most other codex's.

Unfortunately it's slowing down to the RL of summer. I have started picking out a few details on my Stompa while waiting for my Mega nobs to dry.

Not much progress all summer on any Army. But I've been trying to get caught up on the projects for other folks.
A while back I made come basic foam core building for my FLGS. They were simple, but were all painted and looked like a set. Ice wanted some but in a 'Ork Flavor'
While these are Generic building and not showcase pieces they turned out pretty well.
These are supposed to be basic Ork reinforced human buildings. There will be 5 in total and all different sizes.

Here is the first one with its basic paint job. A wee bit more to do! It's gonna be used on the cold and snowy planet thus the lighter colors. I'll frost it from the top before I'm done.



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After these I might try a Ork version of a Bastion.

That looks awesome. One heck of great piece of terrain. Does it have internal flooring.

Those dreads look great. You really know how to pull off white!

Excellent work SL. Perfect feel for orkses.

Man I love the white skin on your models. And those Kannons last page look just perfect!

But this latest creation has to be the "orkiest" building I've ever seen

That building looks really good, very orky.

Oooh, inspiring building...

Makes me want to start building a Ztahlinorkgrad...

Love the building! is that plasticard or cardboard?

Amazing Mad Max feel off these dudes Solar Lion, and the scheme is working so freaking well on them. Super brights for the skin versus the dirty rusty effects are really working.

The scenery is unreal. I can barely put a figure together with instructions, I can't comprehend building this stuff out of nothing but imagination, absolutely crazy. Subscribed!

 Camkierhi wrote:
That looks awesome. One heck of great piece of terrain. Does it have internal flooring.

Yeah, Like the other stuff I built the bottom floor is up about 1in. then the space between floors are a bit taller, enough to fit a dread ( not a Eldar one though) or crisis suit.

 LeCacty wrote:
Those dreads look great. You really know how to pull off white!

Thanks, My Army is based on all the dreads, naughts and walkers

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Excellent work SL. Perfect feel for orkses.

Thanks, Unlike the previous stuff I've done for my FLGS, These 5 Ork buildings each have a different theme, Garage, store ect. So many rivets... Taking forever.

 Greldinard wrote:
Oooh, inspiring building...Makes me want to start building a Ztahlinorkgrad...

That be cool ... U must do!

 Kiblams wrote:
Love the building! is that plasticard or cardboard?

Very easy to do.. they are all formboard held together with Hot glue. I use a standard template to get all the floors and window the same height. I seal the foam edges with a flexible Modeling Putty. ( I use this instead of say wall Spackle. Though more expensive, the flexible modeling paste is less brittle thus less likely to break. Since this is for My good friend Ice , I'm putting more into it than I would normally do for a generic piece for my FLGS )

The 'Plating is corrugated cardboard for the 'wavy' sheeting and mattboard cut into odd shapes ( the kind they use to frame pictures - this is a bit thicker than posterboard and can get expensive if you buy from a hobby or art store. I get mine for free from a framing shop. Remnants for the Win!) . The rivets are GW box tops cut into fine small strips and then into squares and glued on with white or ' school' glue ( this dies clear ).

Primed black, sealed multiple times, then spot painted using an Iron rust color, grays and black. For this set they will get a white ' Top down' coat to blend in with Ice's winter themed table. For these I'll do some additional streaking of the rivets and maybe some Ork details depending on the time.

 Ifalna wrote:
Amazing Mad Max feel off these dudes Solar Lion, and the scheme is working so freaking well on them. Super brights for the skin versus the dirty rusty effects are really working.

The scenery is unreal. I can barely put a figure together with instructions, I can't comprehend building this stuff out of nothing but imagination, absolutely crazy. Subscribed!

Thanks... ( pause ) from the women whom just painted an amazing Star themed Wraithknight. Now that's ' Unreal" !

That Orky building looks great.

Here is 3 phone camera pics of the Ork Buildings done with their base paint Jobs for Ice. I’ve 1 more side each to rivet on the remaining 3 buildings.



Here a couple of blurry shots that hopefully show you the scale


I might do some removeable walkways to add some twist to these.

There's a marine in that building!! You need one of your orks to act as the showroom model.

I tried that and with my Orks being albino they blended in too much. Great cover for MY Orks though!

They're like snow hares, adapting to their environment

Buildings look suitably ramshackle and gravity defying! I would love to see some splashes of color, though - maybe just some red (a bit of graffiti?).

 RiTides wrote:
They're like snow hares, adapting to their environment

Buildings look suitably ramshackle and gravity defying! I would love to see some splashes of color, though - maybe just some red (a bit of graffiti?).

Yeah that'll come after they are all at this stage. Some Ork glyphs and other popular ork decorating symbols for sure. Some additional weathering for the rivets and probably some additional rust!

Nice buildings. The little one looks quite grumpy though

Ah that sounds good just don't want it to feel too "Frank Miller" (like just black/white/grey). Just a little splash of other color here and there will make it look awesome I think

How many total are you making!?

Grumpy.. nice..

I've got 5 for Ice,, These are using the same basic template that I did for the red buildings for my LFGS. But with all the riveted plate they are 10 times heavier and way more sturdy. ( the FLGS ones are already seeing wear ).

I'll do some walkways so if Ice wants to connect them together at least they will match. Again he's free to repaint, add, cut up, subtract anything to these. They are just meant to be simple terrain and not show pieces and semi Moonpie proof ( like anything really is!!)

I'm tempted to do a 'Landing pad in this style as a test. I'm sure he could use one of those.

How'd the game go last night?

 Gitsplitta wrote:
How'd the game go last night?

Check out my Eldar blog. I put a brief comment there on last nights game.

You have an Eldar blog?

Please share

Here

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/564985.page

Thanks will have a read through