Thank you Brian. Not too far to go before it's time for the chipping and weathering.

Kinda reminds me of that robot from wallece and grommit when they go to the moon... and yeah it looks really good as well, liking the green banner

Another quality checked up mini. Can't wait to see the weathering!

Very nice.

Thank you gentlemen.

@bigfish: The green section of the boss pole was actually made from two different ork glyphs that come in the FW ork glyph set. Ones was a square with the fist on it, the other a square with the wrench. I just "liberated" the two design elements with a jeweler's saw and combined them.

I still need to do the row of glyphs below the eye slot and some more detail on the engine... a bit of dark (black or brown) lined into the recesses... then it's on to the chipping! Yippie!

Looking really good so far Gits, still very impressed by the checkers.

Ace job on the Tank Korpse man! Love the weathering you gave them.

Liking the kan so far too.

Beautyfull execution on the checkerd pattern mate

Looks tremendous mate. Great use of the micron pen, they are cracking but I'd honestly never thought of doing checks that way. Also, your 6th breakdown is most illuminating, as was the v ig list! Generally you are a most helpful chap!

@GiraffeX: Thanks Gir. Easier to do that you'd think. I took all the pictures for a tutorial. Not that I'm an expert... this is only my second attempt.

@mt: Thanks man, I really love those little guys! Can't wait to start on the other three!

@Selv: Easy as pie... just time consuming.

@graven: Glad I can be of use. Don't put too much stock in my tactical assessment... I suck pretty bad at playing the game for all I paint. Brian has much more military acumen than I do. My IG oppenent did mention that one of the issues with my list is that there were just so many things to deal with, and they all had the KFF or smoke cloud (bikes) invul going on. I think he was expecting my battlewagon list, so he had the two vendettas with tripple, twin-linked las cannons to pop the battlewagons and the rest to clean up the orks inside. Instead I gave him a trukk, 5 kans and 3 warbuggies, all with a 4+ invul, 8 bikes with a 4+ invul and 4 deff koptas that outflanked and were on him before he could shoot them (they took out a vendetta as well as a troop squad and something else before finally getting blown away). So instead of 3 hard targets (which for 5/6 las cannon hits per turn isn't that big a deal), he had 21 soft ones.

I do wish that I could give a runt herd something... ANYTHING that would be useful in assault with a vehicle.


Well, the basic painting is done. Going to take a break and actually start reading the new rule book. Chipping is next, as well as starting to work on the base. Pic's pretty big so you can zoom in if you want. Like the tanks... I'm really happy where this is right now and it takes a serious extension of will to start beating the heck out of it. But if the tanks are any indication... it's worth it.

I really like the way you go no holds barred with your weathering, even though the model looks perfect now. Thats what makes them so good!

This is you starting painting... Irritatingly talented man!

I love the cherkers Gits!!! I'm needing to get some of these do for my ork boyz, do you have any tips please?

Looks great, Gits! The checkers are awesome. Looking forward to your thoughts on 6th.

Thanks tipios... it takes some nerve to get rolling, but once you take the plunge everything goes into "automatic" mode & it's OK.

@graven: ? Second time with checkers you mean? It's just not that difficult. Honest.

@Haz: tutorial forthcoming.

@YB: Well, there's one in your inbox (or the Adepticon blog)... and it's not fit to re-print here. Generally though, I like it a lot. Going to shake things up quite a bit. Games will be zany again. If only they'd bring back the squats... all would be right with the world.

Gitsplitta wrote:If only they'd bring back the squats... all would be right with the world.

Squats are in the rulebook. I kid you not. SQUATS. IN BLACK AND WHITE. IN THE RULEBOOK.

Oh my lord... YES!

That's the only army I don't have that I'd be willing to collect!

I need to sell something quick in preparation for the $$ I'll need. (looks around)... YOU! Over there! Playing the video game! Come here little one... your mummy won't miss you at all..... *evil chuckle*

Gitsplitta wrote:Oh my lord... YES!

That's the only army I don't have that I'd be willing to collect!

I need to sell something quick in preparation for the $$ I'll need. (looks around)... YOU! Over there! Playing the video game! Come here little one... your mummy won't miss you at all..... *evil chuckle*

What have I done? WHAT HAVE I DOOOOOOOOOOOOOONE?!?!

I just meant that your basic paintjobs are generally fabulous. Ooh, squats...

Could you give a little tutorial for your checkers? Please? They look phenominal.

Ask and you shall recieve...

First, buy a Micron .05 illustration pen off the web, preferably black. Should cost around $6. I have several in multiple colors, use them for a ton of things.
Second, buy or mix an off-white. Just slightly off-white... can be grey or some super light brown... but it's important that it look white when compared with other colors *except* white.

Step #1: Paint the area you want to put into checkers with your off white. Use multiple coats of thin paint so you have a nice, smooth surface.

Step #2: Use the pen to make your checkerboard guide lines. You can measure and use a bit of masking tape to make sure you get a straight line. I only do this for the largest surfaces. Mostly I free-hand it. I also am not worried about making all the squares on the figure the same size... so I usually measure, or eye-ball the specific area I'm interested in and let that be my guide for determining square size. Things in a single pane should be neat and tidy... but exact is not necessary. It's ok to touch up some wayward lines with your off-white paint and re-draw the lines if you need to.



Step #3: Paint in the black squares. I usually look for the crappiest square & paint it black (and fix it while I'm painting it). You want to use paint that's thinned enough to flow smoothly and not glob up, but thick enough to cover in one coat. You can clean up the white boxes if you want, for grots... I didn't bother. For something Imperial it might be worth your while.



Step #4: Decide where the light is coming from and take *real* white and paint in your highlight lines with a fine brush. This will give the look of the grid being embossed as a simple painted on design would of course... not have any highlights of this type. I excuse this by thinking that the kan boss is trying to be as much of a big shot as he can... so since he doesn't have the wherewithal to actually have 3-d checkers on his kan, he has some artistic underling "fake it" using the clever application of paint. Important! Do not paint your lines at the very edges of the box, nor should they extend to the opposite corners (think of how the keys on a keyboard look, only the top edges of the upper (raised) square catch the light).



Step #5: Do the same thing with a dark grey on the black squares. A good, fine brush and thinned paint helps a lot here, but you still want it thick enough to cover in 1 coat. To be honest I was having major brush issues while painting this, so my lines are a lot sloppier than I intended them to be.



Step #6: Add a second, lighter grey over a smaller area on top of the first. This isn't a great example... I should have picked a lighter grey the second time for more contrast.



Step #7: Go back in with dilute versions of your base colors (off-white and black) and clean up the lines. Generally, the thinner the lines, the better. Come to think of it you could use your black pen to help tighten up the black highlights... hmmmm... I may have to revisit this kan again.



Step #8: If you're super anal... you can put a slightly darker off-white corner opposite your pure white corner for the shadow (I did that on my grot tank). I didn't do it here as I thought it would just make the grids too busy and visually muddled.

Viola! You'll note that even though I didn't really do a neat job with my squares or highlights... the end result is pretty impressive and the sloppiness doesn't show.




That's all there is to it. Easy-peasy.



Here's a second set of pics showing how to do a round area... the only difference is setting up the lines and eventually you lose the side-to-side highlight because the cell is too narrow.

Steps #1 & 2:



Step #3 & 4:



Step #5 & 6:



Step #7:




And... the end result!




Hope that was helpful!



FYI: I put this post verbatim into the P&M Tutorials section. Link is here: How to Paint Checkerboards

Wonderfully helpful! You have just given me an easy way to complete my harlies.

Glad you like it FH, poke me when you finish your harlequins... would love to see the final result!

Great TUT!! Gits, thanks a lot

Great tutorial, Gits! Very helpful. Thanks for posting it.

You read my mind mister: great tut!

Thanks for the tut Git!

That is some bad-assery sir!

Hey Gitsplitta, normally I shy away from yellow, but you did great work with it for your Boyz! Now if you look on my thread, I have a monster of a creashun from me Meks! Bomma dat'll make ya jaw drop!

good checkers tutorial which will come in handy for me because i won an ork stompa... which isnt complete without chekers ofc

Gits, thats an awesome tut!

It never crossed my mind to use a micron for lining like that, man that is so clever and sp much better than lining in with a paintbrush, I will totally steal and incorporate your skills!

Thank you everyone. Looking at all those close-up I see how sloppy my painting really was. *shudder* However... the end results are still pretty good and making it neater (which anyone can do) will just make the checkerboard look that much better. I was having *major* brush issues when I was making this, so I guess I'll be happy that it turned out as good as it did.

With a bit of luck I might have a 5-day weekend coming up. Once I finish this kan (hopefully by Wed) I'll embark on a major painting project. If you look back through my various blogs, you'll notice there's always a major project around this time of year... which will give you a clue. However I won't be showing pictures of the project until much later in the month (which I guess is another clue).

I will be making some chipping and weathering mini-tutorials with the kan... but they won't be as comprehensive as those same techniques when applied to the grot tanks... because the tanks are supposedly make of scrap (and look like it) while these Kans do not have the appearance of scrap. Thus my approach (especially when it comes to chipping) will be quite different. We'll see what I can come up with though. Keep in mind, there's nothing unique about my chipping or weathering... they're largely pulled off existing tutorials that are out there with some minor modifications.

@Iffy: Steal away! You can practice on the mini's I just sent you!

Thing 1 or Thing 2's birthday is coming up is it not?

Indeed. Good guess!

I went sifting through this blog and the Doom Eagle blog... and I couldn't find the pictures of the big 40k party you had for Thing 1 in which you made a bunch of objective markers for the kids.

But I'm glad I guessed right.

Again, I'm thinking it's Thing 1's birthday...

Yep, that's correct again! I only had the pics up for a short while. I try (in general) to keep my web life and my personal life separated. So I don't use real names for the kids, didn't leave the pic up for more than a couple of days so the people who helped could see the kids having fun with their contributions, etc.

I snagged some second-hand items for Thing 1 at a decent price a while ago. They need to be repainted but otherwise should be very welcome in his army and give him some serious capability he doesn't have at the moment. Their utility seems to have held out just fine in the change over to 6th, which is a relief. That's all I'll say for now as I don't want to give too much away. But it should be another nice change-of-pace... though I am kind of in "grot-mode" at the moment.

I really want to build my Grot Land Battleship.

Well, I do have a Forge World "Grot Megatank" that's on the docket for some time this summer. Unfortunately, it doesn't really proxy as anything... so the rewards for painting it are small as no one really plays with IA rules around here. I suppose now that vehicles can move and shoot, I could use it as some kind of shoot battle wagon... still, not a good proxy. I was kind of hoping 6th would officially allow at least some IA units into the main game... guess not though.


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Should have responded to this earlier...

shasolenzabi wrote:Hey Gitsplitta, normally I shy away from yellow, but you did great work with it for your Boyz! Now if you look on my thread, I have a monster of a creashun from me Meks! Bomma dat'll make ya jaw drop!

Which thread? You have 22. I assume you mean this one? "Been Seeking out oddball tanks-Big Bomma more construction done!". It's 144 pages... even 51 filtered, can you point me to a page so I can check out what you're referring to? Thanks!

If you want to see my real yellow, check out my Mantis Warrior blog, the sternguard and veteran units there get my full yellow work-up. Go to the OP and there are links to P&M summaries so you can find things quickly. My ork yellow is generally golden yellow with a sepia wash, then a light water wash over the highest surfaces to remove the excess brown. Simple, but effective for a good, earthy, orky yellow.

Which thread? You have 22. I assume you mean this one? "Been Seeking out oddball tanks-Big Bomma more construction done!". It's 144 pages... even 51 filtered, can you point me to a page so I can check out what you're referring to? Thanks!

Up page 112-114 or so will get you to the Big Bomma, a few pages before them is the Dakka-MiG

I will look at the Mantis Warriors and see what kind of yellow you have done!

Tonight's offering: I had pics for a nice chipping tutorial based on the guns but the dang camera failed to process the first two pictures in each series! Have to try again tomorrow. In any case, here's the result... RL & GZ are chipped, also got some work done on the base.

That looks bloody fantastic Gits!!

Glad you like it Vit.... twice even!!

Well actually no, thats another bug ive been noticing on dakka. Every time i double post i go back and edit one. Then for some reason Dakka removes the ohter post and you just end up with a post saying 'double post' or something.

I left the double post, and atm it appears one of the posts has disappeared.

Son of a gun.... I'll have to remember that.

Nice chip work! Pretty much different than how I did it on the Dakka-MiG. I used the Tinbtz, then the metallic color.(silvery)

I use a light metal first (chainmail), then mix in black until I have a dark metallic & put it in the deepest recesses to accentuate them. They'll fade a bit once the rest of the weathering is done, which just makes them look more convincing.

Gitsplitta wrote:Son of a gun.... I'll have to remember that.

I'll take that to mean that its not just my computer showing no double post then?

That looks fantastic, Gits. The chipping really adds a lot of character to the model.

Gitsplitta wrote:I use a light metal first (chainmail), then mix in black until I have a dark metallic & put it in the deepest recesses to accentuate them. They'll fade a bit once the rest of the weathering is done, which just makes them look more convincing.

So, you're putting down a "light" metallic then a darker "highlight" on top of that? In a couple of pictures it looks like white first and then mettallic.

Really excellent job on that weathering mate, and great tip on overlay technique.

Thanks guys! I'll have a proper tut for you this evening.

It is brainless though, but there's a bit of subtlety in the strategy that I think makes the difference in the final product.

Cool!

Got more pics for you to look over btww, that bomma is taking on a life of it's own I tell ya!

I'm subscribed now shaso, so I'll see it! No worries.

Gitsplitta wrote:I'm subscribed now shaso, so I'll see it! No worries.

Okeedokee. I do lurk around lot, and it even added the tail sections on, LOL! Gawd I need to go sleep!

Niiiice work Gits! Im loving how Boss Kan is turning out. Giving me ideas how to paint my own orks!
Looking forward to the chipping Tut!

man, that Kan looks Killa. Love the checkers!

Yes I'm looking forward to the TUT too looks real good so fa.

OK, finally got the right pics for the chipping tutorial.


Please note that there are a lot of good chipping and weathering tutorials already out there. I don't claim that this method is unique or the best... but it's just a description of how I go about it.


So... conceptually, you want to take a look at the figure and try and map out in your mind where the ware and tear is going to be. Will the edges be worn? Has paint been rubbed off from mechanical movements? Will there be areas where the metal has actually been chipped off at the edge from impacts or cuts? Is there gun fire damage? Is it rusty or muddy? If so, where do all these varying effects go? Where, and how... is the damage occurring? For this Kan arm, I'll have most of the damage on the forward part of the arm and inside the CCW.

Now, the entire "distressing" process from start to finish can be rather involved and lengthy... so rather than tackling the whole thing in one go, I thought I'd approach it in sizable bits. While the Kan is a good subject for the tutorial... it's not the best as there's not much mud involved... but it'll have to do. Perhaps some day I'll do a grot tank version of the tutorial which will be a no-holes-barred assault on a decent paint job.

Which brings me to another point. Distressing is NOT for the faint of heart. Your going to take a perfectly decently painted figure and really screw it up. If you can't handle that emotionally... don't start. I don't distress my marine vehicles very much at all. Just won't risk it. Gretchin on the other hand don't look right without a lot of abuse, so it's easier for me to throw myself into it.

With that in mind... let's begin.


Step #1: Take a lighter color of your base metal (in this case I'm choosing chainmail for boltgun metal) and edge the plates that you thing might have had the paint scraped off. Forward edges, near ground edges, "action" edges for things like the CCW. I leave occasional blank spaces so that not every ege is uniformly done. This "planned randomness" is very important in delivering a result that is more realistic, at least in my opinion. If you don't know how to edge... now is a good time to learn. Take a fine brush, dilute your paint a bit so it flows smoothly. Put the paint on your brush and *very briefly* tap it on a paper towel to remove the excess that is like to blob on your figure. Then take the *side* of the brush and run it lightly along the edge that you're trying to paint. That's it. No boggle.




Step #2: At irregular intervals, take that same light metallic paint and make little V and irregular shaped inclusions into the paint job from the edge. I nearly always limit these to areas that have already been edged. Again, focus on those areas that would take the heaviest wear, or (conversely) areas that need a little visual interest on your figure. Or areas where you didn't quite paint it up to snuff, had an unsightly collection of wash, etc. In other words, you can use this opportunity to cover your mistakes! Don't go overboard unless you really what things to look beaten up badly. I see the V-shapes as actual chunks taken out of the metal... other areas (like next to an arm joint) are where the paint has just been rubbed away by the action of the arm moving. You can also draw little dings here and there, circular areas to represent bullet impacts or streaks to represent scrapes. Remember that the dings on the edges are three dimensional and may be represented in both planes that make up the corner!




Step #3: Mix some of your metal highlight color with normal black paint until you get a dark metallic. Pretty dark is OK here, you want significant contrast between the dark and the light. Then on your biggest scrapes, but some of the dark mix inside of the area to represent shadow or depth in the ding.




Step #4: Finally, take a look at the piece and see if there are areas you'd like to add a bit of rusty or oily patina to. I just use a bit of black or sepia wash to accomplish this. Be very careful as you do this as even the sepia will greatly de-emphasize the dings and will muddle the difference between the light and dark shades. Just look at the older dings that may have been made once but generally are in areas that don't see much action. I put the black wash in the areas around the arm joints and at the base of the hydrolics to represent oil left on the metal rods.





So, here's where we stand at the moment. I anticipate that the legs and lower Kan will have a fair amount of scratching and wear. The body.... probably mostly battle damage. Have to think about that. Keep in mind the distressing is only the first step in the process. Still more to do once that's done. OH, and making some progress on the base too.

Fantastic tutorial!

Great work Gits, this is going to help out a lot of folks, including myself.

You make it sound so easy, Gits!

It is easy. I'm a biologist, not an artist. As a matter of fact, my grade school art teacher famously wrote in my yearbook..

"Art", is the only thing you have in common with my class!

If I can find that yearbook I'll scan that in and post it... he even drew a little cartoon version of me to go with it. Anyway, if I can do it... anyone can do it.

Wow, that's really funny... I see it didn't scar you, and maybe had the opposite effect- motivating you to rise above!

OK, I've been holding out on you! I've got a good collection of the original (2nd Edition) meganobs. Two were decently painted and I sent the rest off to Ifalna for her expert touch. Finally got around to basing them... which is the only thing I've had to do with any of these. I may eventually add my own touches to the boss poles. The bases are resin, care of Iron Dog Studios.

Hope you like them! It's a big pic... very zoomable. The actual picture is NOT blurry. Just an unfortunate artifact of translating onto the blog page.

Great paintjob as always by Iffy on the silvers. I like the red one. seems to have translated well to the model!
I rather like those old meganobz. They look like orks in marine armor!

I'll be honest, I like the old meganobs much better than the new ones. Iffy's got the old Bad Moon boss in mega armor right now (or, well... she'll have him when he gets delivered), he'll complete the set and be my mega armored war boss. I also have the modern Gazghull... so his boxy armor and increased size will help set him off from the rest. All together they should work pretty well.



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Update: 11 PM
Well, my last projects of the night were to fix up a trukk that Thing 2 had smashed up and to effect emergency repairs on the two battle wagons that I had to hack-saw the turrets off of. I really need to repaint them, but that'll have to wait I'm afraid. At least they don't look hack-sawed any more.

Pretty productive day if I do say so myself! Little work on the kan, made the tutorial, based 7 meganobs and fixed up 3 vehicles. OH, and cooked dinner for the family as well.

"Waiter! Check please!"

The old school meganobs are awesome! AND, I think they're somewhat viable in 6th. Even better

You know, the last 4 games I've played in 5th I've fielded a small-medium sized squad of meganobs in either a BW or trukk, and each time they've proven to be invaluable. Even if they eventually got wiped (which only happened once) they caused enough chaos to really bollux up my opponent's strategy, which tipped things in my favor. If they're even a little better in 6th, I should be in good shape.

They have a 2+ save, right? AP2 is getting pretty rare these days

Yes, I've heard that. Should make them more viable. Wonder if I can do look out sir shenanigans since they're all nobs. I'm kind of guessing "no" since they're in a unit of equals... no underlings to take the bullet. (I figure with orks, look out sir involves the nob grabbing some luckless boy and using him as a meat shield.)

Great tutorial, Gits. Thanks for posting it.


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And the Nobs look great, too!

6th is all about 2+. TEQ is the new MEQ with power weapons being AP3. Also, they just look freakin' awesome.

Only on the tournament scene, Graven. For the other 90%, 6th edition is about wacky, wild fun.

Briancj wrote:Only on the tournament scene, Graven. For the other 90%, 6th edition is about wacky, wild fun.

Very true; gits seems to cover both ends of that spectrum!

inmygravenimage wrote:

Briancj wrote:Only on the tournament scene, Graven. For the other 90%, 6th edition is about wacky, wild fun.

Very true; gits seems to cover both ends of that spectrum!

...Wacky.... Wild....Tournaments, eh?

I just wrote up the silliest 500 pt. list for practicing the basics of 6th with.

"Da Mek Wakkas"

HQ: Big Mek in mega armor, cybork body
EL: 3 mega nobs, 1 RL, 1 skorcha
TP: Deff Dred - 3 CCW, 1 skorcha
TP: 10 grots w/ herder (note that nearly all the grots are oilers or riggers)
Hvy: 3 Kans - 3x RL

Krunch... Krunch... Krunch....!



(Very silly... but you've got to admit it's hard to get any fluffier... and it does look so cool!)

I could split the Kans up into different squads in order to toss in a couple of grotzookas, which would save me enough points for extra armor on the deff dread... but with the new vehicle damage rules as they are I'm not sure that's worth it (just for the armor I mean).




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Well, Thing 1 and I just attempted our first little game of 6th Ed. I used the list above and he had an overlord, bunch of scarabs, 3 destroyers and a squad of warriors. Gods there are a lot of things to try and keep track of... and I'm sure I got more than half of everything wrong... but it was a start. I like how the damage allocation allows you to cycle things to the back of the unit if they're injured or damaged. Managed to keep a scarab-stripped meganob and a down-to-one-hull-point Kan in the battle that way. Wound allocation in assault is a bloody mess. I think I liked the old way better... and that's saying something because the old way sucked rocks!

I liked the mission with the primary and secondary objectives. I like movement a lot better now as well as focus fire... but in general, the game's more complicated & convoluted. I guess we knew that already.

Couple of pages late, but I am on vacation. Thank you very much for the tutorial. I think I will have to use that method with my iron warriors to repaint the stripes.

No problem Fosner, my pleasure!

Those are awesome original meganobs!

Very very nice.

Some highlight shots from our little game...

Trouble ahead...


The little "bug"gers attacked me!


The survivors get sweet revenge.

Wipe out!

Fixed!

They look great!

Hate to be "that guy" but technically they are second edition meganobz. Back in RT the best an ork could get is power armor (lol). Meganobz were a second edition invention. Back then, if I remember correctly, they had a 2 armor save + what amounted to a 4+ invuln if that failed. Pretty good stuff, with none of this slow and purposeful junk.

Ah the good old days when we were BS 3 and had plasma cannons.


And Meganobz are fantastic for the new edition. They are nearly invincible in assault. Just don't let them get shot. Although AP 2 has all but disappeared from close combat, there are still plenty of AP 2 guns mucking about.

Sadly you cannot do the wound allocation shenanigans with meganobz. Normally I think it was an unintended oversight that nobz and biker nobz were characters (because it was intended as the unit leader, not the unit itself), but then you take a look at paladins, who are most definitely still characters, and they were never intended as upgrade sergeants. Its to bad. Nothing would be more hilarious than this pack of 10 foot Orks clad in 2 tons of steel madly jumping in front of each other trying to catch bullets.

Its all about the "Narrative", so come on GW. Get with the program. Don't let opportunities like this go to waste!

Actually Goresaw, I appreciate the correction. I'll amend the post accordingly.

Ah yes... they are carrying plasma guns. I run them as combi-skorcha's now. It's one of those units I've had for a very long time but never got around to painting. Finally sent them off to Ifalna and she did a bang-up job... just in time for 6th! Love it when a plan comes together.

If I had to excuse "Look out sir" with the nobs... I'd say they weren't actually trying to save each other... they were shoving each other out of the way in order to get to the front where they could be the first ones to get stuck in! Getting hit by incoming fire would be just accidental.

"Moi Armer's better!" Clang!

"No, MINE'z betta!" Karunch

"Oi payed Lotsa bags uv Teef fer mine. It'z da BEST!" KRATHOOM!


"..."

"Oi fink 'ez gunna want a refund fer dat wun."

*chuckle* Well played sir!



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Chipping is done, on to the rust!

I can't wait to see what you use for rust.

Looking good gits! I love the nobs man! And RT too!!!!

love your orks! i am thinking of redoing my entire ork army in a more gun theme.

Time for the rust lesson!


This step takes a leap of faith... because you're going to deliberately *really* screw up your nicely painted figure in ways that can't be ignored or overlooked. Once you're ready to get past that... you're on your way!


Supplies: You'll need a few supplies to do rust the way I do. First, 2 or 3 rusty shades of paint. The darker, browner shades are for older rust, the lighter, orange colors for newer rust. You could go all the way up to blazing orange I suppose... I just usually stop at vermin brown. Also you'll need some open-cell foam or sponge. I usually cut up the surface a bit in order to make it a bit irregular. I also take one a taper it down to a smaller surface so I can get into those hard-to-reach places.


Start: Here's our Kan arm. Painting and chipping all done, I have the bolts washed in sepia to look a bit rusty (that doesn't need a tutorial). Sorry for the blurry pic, the rest are better.


Step #1: Dab a sponge in your darkest color and blot on a paper towel until most is off... blot hard once or twice because there will be a lot of paint hiding in the inner parts of the sponge that can come out at very inopportune moments if you dab too hard on the figure. This is basically practice for what you'll be doing on your figure. Dab until the "solid" footprint it leaves breaks up. You get lighter rust by dabbing the sponge lightly on the figure, heavier rust by pushing harder and releasing more of the paint inside the sponge. Be very careful! you can easily drop a "block" of rust on your figure if you push too hard... Practice makes perfect.

Once the sponge is shedding the right amount of paint, begin to dab your figure. Rather than just covering the whole thing... I try to think about where this rust might form naturally... though this is a kind of "wearing with age" rust as opposed to the stuff around the bolts say where water is collecting and causing rust. I do like to concentrate it in areas that I think will see wear and damage... places like edges and such. A good speckling across a large plate or surface can really make for an interesting dynamic, as well as working the edges of a hatch where repeated banging would chip the paint and expose the metal beneath.

As with the chipping... adding rust is a great way of covering mistakes, distracting from the visible edges of a decal or a poor assembly job, or adding interest to an otherwise uninteresting surface.


Step #2: As above with the next lightest paint. I usually try to stick in the areas that have already gotten the dark rust... this being slightly less old & having a lighter color. I don't get worked up over exact coverage or quantity here... all you're really trying to do is break of the visual "cleanliness" of the figure with the rust spots to show wear... and using multiple shades breaks up the rust so that it looks more confused, i.e. more natural.


Step #3: Finally you hit it with your lightest color. With the light color, I don't necessarily limit myself to just the areas that have gotten the darkest rust. This is the new stuff... it could form anywhere. Edges especially are good choices... as well as anywhere that's looking a bit too clean.


Step #4: Additionally... you can move your shades into the orange range if you'd like. After looking at the pics here I decided that some of the areas of heavy rust needed a little pop... so I mixed 50/50 vermin brown and blaze orange and used that very sparingly on the heaviest rust patches and some of the exposed edges and corners. It did the trick in my opinion.



And that's it... rust is done!



As a special bonus... let's talk about adding soot. Soot is a great thing to put around gun barrels, smoke stacks, etc to show the effects of flame or smoke. To do soot, I simply take some black weathering powder and mix it with acrylic air brush medium until is flows but is thick. The nice thing about using the air brushing medium is that it's its own sealer, so no special sealing step is required... *and* you use it just like any paint. Then I just paint it where I need it. It will dry quickly and is dead-flat black... making it perfect for other applications to, like painting the inside of gun barrels so there is no shine (I used it on the inside of the grotzooka barrel for example). Little touches can make all the difference. If you want a less than solid layer... just use it to do a dry-brush effect, which will make a nice transition from those areas you've sooted to those you haven't. I've used it here right under the yellow part of the legs in order to accentuate those parts of the pistons that probably have fresh oil and would be darker by comparison. A million-and-one uses as they say!

Love the tut gits!!!! Very good! I may have to try that tut on my orks!!!! Btw had an update on my blog...

Beauty Gits! Thanks for the tutorial!
I think im going to try alot of these techniques on my next ork vehicle.

Great tutorial, Gits! And the Kan is looking really great with the chipping and rust on.

The funny thing was, I had to teach the percussion section in school band how to play wipeout, and I played Sax.

Anywho, very nicely done as usual

So that's how you do your rust, I was doing tinbitz, then chainmail with sand to knock off later showing splotches of tin bitz and sponge dab some vomit brown

Well, I don't know that my way is any better... but it's easy and I like the look of it. I suppose now I'll have to chip up and rust the rest of my kans to match. Ah well, that can wait.

This is GREAT Gits! Well Done tut!

Holy crap, fantastic tutorial Gits.

Got across exactly why you do it in those steps, and made it clear enough so someone totally new to weathering can try it out without being intimidated!

Awesome job as always.

Thank you kind sir and lady.

Just dawned on me that I never actually posted my chipping tutorial in the tutorial section of the forum. (Duh)

Here's the linky: Chipping Tutorial (How to ruin a perfectly good paint job in 4 easy steps.)

2 very good TUTs there gits, thanks a lot

Excellent work buddy, especially the soot - often overlooked.

Thanks graven!


Finally got the basing done on the Kan which means it's good to go! Nothing like a little water effects to slow down the basing process. Hope you like it! (Large file, in focus and very zoomable.)

Wow!!! The water effects look totally killer!

Amazing job Gits- you never cease to impress!

Thanks Ramos! I'm working on a tut for that but I haven't quite worked all the bugs out. Think I'm close though.

Changed the pic, like this one better.

Well done sir, well done.

Im totally going to try your paint chipping tutorial. Ive tried "chipping" a couple times and never liked the look, but this one is a bit different. Heres hoping, because Ive got a big chunk of my biker bosses bike painted, and it looks just TOO cleanly painted Im sure a Boss would of banged up his bike running over Space Marines and whatnots

Looks great, Gits. And yet another tutorial! Fantastic.

Nice touch! The water effect on the stream is very nice!

Thanks guys, I appreciate it!

I appreciate that you're making Articles/Tutorials on this stuff. By sharing the wealth of knowledge, tips, and tricks, all of Dakka is improved. Or, at least, the Painting section. The OT forums will never be improved.

Well, I always assume that someone out there who's better than I am has already made a tutorial for just about everything... but then when I look through the tutorials I realize there are a lot of holes to fill for a lot of basic techniques. So if I think I have a good system to do something, I'll post it.

I'm kind of excited about the water effects... if my system works it should be a pretty good tool for everyone.

Yeah, basic to medium techniques are lacking, and if we can fill in the holes, so much the better.

I need to get my "Canopy" tutorial up there, soon.

That would be a good one to add Brian.

Not too many comments on the kan, though I think most people made their comments while it was being painted. Going to be cranking out some work for my son's b-day, which for obvious reasons won't get published until after-the-fact. Should be fun though and really give his army a boost. At least one person in my family should have a competitive army!

That is some amazing paint work there Gits! The paint chips are as always, my favorites!

That's a Kool Kan Git, awesome execution and (as usual) great tut.
Now keep up the WAAAAAAAAAGH!!!!!

Thanks gents! One more to go and I'll have 2 full squads, which will be nice. The next one will be a bit more "sane" & as such, should go more quickly. Going to bounce back and work on a couple of marines and Necrons.... then the orkyness shall continue!!

All tutorials are much appreciated Gits. You say it's basic, but it looks very effective.

Also looking forward to the water effect TUT.

thanks for the tut git!

No problem guys! Making tutorials is very therapeutic. You should try it some time. Makes you sit and think analytically about exactly how and what you do... and more importantly, WHY you do it. Then you need to come up with language and examples to describe it. Has always been an excellent way for me to give my interests a boost... be it painting or martial arts... nothing like teaching to help things crystallize in your mind or to remind you of the basics that age and experience tends to have you take for granted.

Good stuff and good idea

Thank you shas!

Finally got around to basing these burnas. These are second-hand (thus someone else's work), but good enough that I'm disinclined to try to repaint them with all the other projects I have going. Besides, I have 6 more that are bare metal that I'll have to paint myself that take priority. Perhaps I'll touch them up sometime later this year.

Nice looking burnas you bought there!

*chuckle* Thanks shas!

Are these guys about the same size as The newer plastic burnas?

Just about. Perhaps a smidge smaller, but not enough to look odd. I can take a side-by-side pic of you would like.

Yes, Please do! -Then show us your Gits-tastic surgery on one!

I was just asking because I really like their look but would hope they fit in will with the new ones else I'd be accused of using fire grots and their better bs (my group is moronic at times)

Well, you'd only be accused of that if you tried to use a batter BS... and flamers DON'T use ballistic skill anyway... so tell your group to stuff it!

Yeah! fear the template!

That's the joke they would try to make and think it rather clever when they did.

Ah! Got it.

Git... I have literally done nothing but read this blog for the last 11 hours ... (Bisides sleeping) Soooo entertaining, you guys crack me up. I recently decided I was going to start a bad moon army, and I saw your blog, so I read all 35 pages of it..... So worth it. You are an amazing painter/modeler and you have really inspired me to get cracking on my Ork army before my first year of high school. Only problem is you almost made me give up after I realized I will never amount to anything nearly as Orkish and awesome as your.
Hope to see more of your Bad Moonz!

Sure you will Gabe. I didn't pop out of the ground a fully skilled modeler and painter. I had to work at it same as you. Read everything you can find. Try everything. Practice until you're good. No worries man, you'll get it!

I do know how you feel though... there are other folks on dakka who's work I can't hold a candle to. You just can't let it get you down... just keep plowing ahead.

I second that..read read read read!

Hahaha thanks you guys, I will!

Looking good gits!

Great looking stuff, man!

Thanks for the tuts on chipping and rust, definitely gonna try them out on my next vehicle!

This baby is subbed!

Glad you like it Grunt! Hope the tut's help out some.

More orks gitss the burnas are nice.

They're coming corma... have to wait until I get some Crons done for my son. Should be back to orks next week.

So when is your son's B-Day?

I think your boys have a pretty good racketeering gig going on over there!

Tell me about it. Little one's B-day is in Sept... so I'll be painting Nids then!

Must...get...adopted!

Do them crons!

I love your topic.
Here we have orks including old minis (I loooove old minis), all painted to a good standard.
The walkers look so damn cool with these markings, especially that black moon and the checkerboards on the killakan.

One question though : why are your bases so disparate ? I assume it would look much better with homogeneous basing.

Hey Minus, welcome!

My basing style has changed and evolved over the last couple of years. However from about page 3 onwards, everything was done using the same basing techniques. So other than the boys squads... the rest is fairly uniform. Little bit of difference in tone from the older models to the new ones as I look at them. Not enough to be worth going back and re-doing the bases for. The old (grey gravel) bases will eventually get re-done, it's just not a priority.

I freaking love how you base.

You get such an organic finish across the board and it always compliments the models so much!

I'm going to have to start trying out some of your techs to try and improve my own stuff, basic sand and grass is getting a bit old ><

Gits, always great seeing your work on the front page

I didn't notice, cool!

You know, it's a sad state of affairs when I've posted so little in my blogs that I have to go to my profile in order to find them again.


Well, trying to drag myself out of the painting doldrums. With some encouragement from friends, I've decided to do a few one-night-projects. i.e. little projects that can be finished up in a night or so, just so I can feel like I'm making some progress on the mountain of figures I have to paint. Many of these are simple little tabletop exercises... rebasing, touching up figures purchased used or traded for in order to make them fit in with my own work, etc. I'm hoping that if I get some of these mini projects completed it'll help me get ready to take on some larger projects in the near future.

So, without further adeau (sp?)... tonight's project. A little (very little) touching up of a grot artillery piece I painted a long time ago, then placed on a very fancy base. I'll eventually get all three of these done. Probably sooner rather than later. These aren't a priority for any army... but I had been fielding them with my grot version of my bad moons and I thought some snazzy bases would make them just that much nicer. The figures are definitely painted to a low tabletop standard... the base... a bit better than that. (figure that one out!)



I was originally going to put the little grot on the tongue of the gun, but since I had to offset the gun to get it to sit evenly on the base, I set the grot to the side in order to balance things out (though I guess you can't really see that from this angle).

I love your old collection of OOP miniatures gits! Also really liking that base, even if it is square.

It's what I had lying around. It's actually a pretty cool base, just gets covered up by the gun.

Looks Good. I like the bronzy gun. could use a darker wash thou. Nice base. Is it all one peice ( you added skulls ect!)

SL

Nah, its a pre-molded base. I just painted it and added the flora.

The gun (actually, everything) is brighter here in the photo that it looks in RL... product of light box & two really bright lights. However... it is a very primitive paint job. I might tweak it a bit, but probably limit it to some black wash at the seams to deepen the distinction between plates. Please keep in mind that these are supposed to be quick, simple little projects... not complete re-paints of old figures. Just puttin' lipstick on the pig is all.

Looking good gits!!!

Hope you're not using expensive lippy then Gits, last time I tried that the porker ate my best Rimmel Purple#9

Obviously it's cool, coz it's old-skool

Did you re-paint anything on it, or was it purely a clean-up operation? Either way, good idea to ease yourself back into painting mode, hope it works for you.

I did add some details, but very basic. I painted the rim on the dials and the little pointer thingies inside (which you can't see). Painted a few bits metallic silver here and there (highlighted and washed), which you also can't see. Put a highlight on the orange tanks which doesn't show up in the photo... and put some copper on the tube hanging under the barrel of the gun... which isn't really obvious.




So no, I did nothing to improve the figure.

lol

Well, at least you know you've painted something

Progress allow yourself to be pleased, eh mate?

Actually, I am quite pleased with the way it turned out. I'll give a little more attention to the gun, but I think a unit of three of these will be very nice looking.

Everyone approve of the little grot cannoneer?? He was a last-minute add but I think he helps the feel of the figure.

I like him, I think you need the strong colour contrast.

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Actually, I am quite pleased with the way it turned out. I'll give a little more attention to the gun, but I think a unit of three of these will be very nice looking.

Everyone approve of the little grot cannoneer?? He was a last-minute add but I think he helps the feel of the figure.

yep .. otherwise it's just a gun. Bugger looks like he's pleased he's got a massive gun! ( don't go there IMGI )

Yeah you have to have a Grot with a big gun, its just one of those things that has to be!

Looks cool on the base another two would look even better lol

That is an excellent idea to easy back into painting. How many figures do you have ready to paint? As it turns out, I've got almost 990 points worth of minis ready to paint. We could egg each other on in a bit of keep-up, or something like that, what do ya say?

Sure GG. I have many. No idea the points... just many.

Cool. Well, I'll get back to work on my shoota boyz then.

Tonight's mini-project... the second zapp gun... with a pretty significant re-paint of both guns (though only part of the work is visible). That's Iffy's work on the second grot. Believe it or not, the photo is actually in excellent focus, it just doesn't look that way when posted here on the blog.



But you say "Gits, fix the black smudge on the tip of the left-hand gun barrel."
And I say "I would, but in RL that black smudge isn't there!"

Now the question is.. "Where is the third one of these and how in the heck did I get them to look this way in the first place?" (the last one isn't painted yet)

Love the new detail on the barrels! Really makes them pop out.

It's rarely a mistake to add a bit of free-hand, even something this simple.

... and thanks for commenting wyfox, appreciate it.

I hate it when you forget a paint recipe! I love the checks, boy am i a sucker for checks

The new barrels look ace

You definitely need the grots on the base, the mischevious little buggers complement the dakka.

Tin bitz, devlan, tin bitz, mithril, devlan?

I think it was an undercoat of tin bitz with a kind of super thin, wettish dry brush of boltgun metal... then aged for like... 3 years on the shelf. It's the last part that worries me a bit.

Fantastic work Gits, always good to see your stuff. I really like the patina on the artillery for the grots, shame i don't seem to know anyone who owns those arty pieces. Are good in this edition?

Thanks mekbadzappa!

Yes, I think so. Zap guns. A bit random but fun and very appropriate for grots. They actually got much better in 6th thanks to the grot gunners getting a collective increase in toughness when manning the guns (unless that's been changed by FAQ).

One more to do. I've got an old lifta-droppa from the same era that I've been using as the third zap gun, but now that I'm doing them up nicely I feel I should make an effort to find and paint the proper style of gun.

Should look good, haven't seen anything from you that wasn't well painted.

They bumped arty emplacements to T 7 right?

Also, Zzaps in general, both Wagon mounted and towed, got a fairly significant buff, in that their "Always causes Shaken (or Stunned, can never remember which is which) on a hit" means that they still stop vehicles on Glances, which pretty much nothing else does, even on Pens that's nice. Essentially, they guarantee an effect if they hit.

Thanks for the clarification Anvil!

OK, new today. Yet another installment in the long line of random projects that I'm trying to finish up... Had a friend from my FLGS donate a couple of old burnas and a metal nob to the cause when he heard I was looking for them (thanks Ben). I love "rescue projects" where I start with old figures and fix them up a bit. These weren't bady painted, just a little worse for wear... so I gave them some freshening up, some new highlights & washes.... added the copper. The end result I really like. The skin is much more vibrant that I usually manage and the greens and browns really work well together.



I did find the thrid Zap Gun. Amazingly in a bitz drawer labeled "ork artillery"... go figure. In any case it's assembled and awaiting priming & I'm working on the base.

Gits

Burnas, the best Ork Shooting since July 2012

They look good Gits, I really like the green on the left Burna.

Pretty sweet Gits. Lovely contrast between the skin and the browns/copper.

Clearly you just dipped those in a gitsplitta flavoured bucket of awesomesauce. Love seeing you work with old metals; would be great to see your take on heavy weapons (subtle hint huh?)

The burnas look excellent, really love the gun barrels on the zapp guns. I managed to miss that update somehow.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Clearly you just dipped those in a gitsplitta flavoured bucket of awesomesauce. Love seeing you work with old metals; would be great to see your take on heavy weapons (subtle hint huh?)

Such as??

Did I not send you some RT orks?

Oh yes... THOSE heavy weapons! Might make some good Flash Gitz.

ooooohhh Shiney Burnaz!

The concept of rescue projects is something im rather fond of too. You take a model someone doesnt want and ya see what you can make of it! Favorite of mine that comes to mind is the Hammerhead I got years back. All superglued and half melted from who knows what. I cut that baby open and it came out to be my DeffRay. Somehow it turned out better than I expected

Looking forward to more of your awesome work!

Man I like orcs with aviation goggles

I am, as everyone may know, a HUGE fan of rescue projects.

I think once you've been around a while... you get a bit of nostalgia and just can't bare to see the old figures go to waste. Either that or your inherently cheap and don't want to pay full price for anything, so you end up with a lot of cut-rate rescue projects.

Finally finished the last Zzap Gun! Wooo-hooo!



I also repainted some shoota boyz that I'd gotten in random trades an such. Rescue projects you know. Not worth a pic though, but I have been keeping busy.

Glorious silliness! And what a set together. Have you ever thought of taking on one of the really big FW Ork tanks?

Last zappa looks great, and together they make a very cool unit. Good job man

@graven: Like.... this one perhaps?

Why yes... yes I have. (That's Ouze's model by-the-way, I'm just borrowing the pic.)

@mt: Thank you sir! Once I got the idea of mounting the first one on it's base, I've really been looking forward to finishing the entire unit. They do look good together.

That last zzap gun looks great, Gits. They three of them together really go hand in hand. Is it just the pics, or is the most recent grot a darker shade of green then his buddies?

It is, though on the tabletop you really can't see the difference. The new one is a little darker and slightly more brown in tone. Considering however, that it was over 2 years ago that I painted the first two... I was pretty happy that I got this close (wasn't sure how I'd done it).

the zapps look great gitt! definitly got a good theme going for them.

Wooo! Big shootiness!

Ooooo Very lovely work so far Keep it up

Thanks guys, more to come!

Excellent work as always Gitz! Although I expected more handcrafted pistons (regardless of their function) from you.

OH, I haven't really done much of any handcrafting dstein, I leave that to the professionals. Though if I ever get caught up... or at least more caught up... I'd like to play around with it.

Nice artillery trio !!

The writings are definitely funny

Thanks Yggs! They don't show up very well on the in-line pic... I've got to zoom in to make them out.

Good to see you stopping by my friend. Welcome back.

I'll have more time to stop by, now that I've almost finished the GD entry

You are SUCH a tease!!

Sometimes you just live by the good grace of others...

vent painted up this beautiful version of Boss Snickrot which he very generously gifted to me. I'll give him a good home. Good excuse to get out my Forge World Kommando conversion kit and build some kommandos!

Thanks vent... he's a real treasure.

That stuff is beautiful

Especially snikrot ! How'd ya do the base?

You need to ask vent. I think there are some WIPs of it on his blog if you care to look. Just go to "blog view" and you should be able to find it readily enough.

Wow, nice !

The green is really strking !!

lovely skin gits. But the leather seems offish to me, not sure, but perhaps its the tone. Love the base he is one. Well done.

Wow, nice

Good job Vent! And nice to see someone do something over than green nv for his lenses! (OK, I know there's a couple of reds out there too )

 cormadepanda wrote:
lovely skin gits. But the leather seems offish to me, not sure, but perhaps its the tone. Love the base he is one. Well done.

I guess I'll disagree with you on this one panda (respectfully of course)... vent's taken a different approach to his leather than I usually do and I really like the result. There's more of a yellow cast in there that I find very appealing.

I'm just glad he made it there OK. I'm always a little worried about sending them off...

I love the model non the less, really i do, i am just to use to grim dark.

But the orks have always felt like, to me anyways, they are the only race above the grim dark and that they like bright colors and enjoy themselves quite thoroughly in a dark and depressing galaxy.

More grin-dakka than grim-dark

I decided I'd earned a little diversion. So, a couple of years ago I bought a couple of used battlewagons cheap. They needed paint but otherwise looked OK, but when I got them I discovered the turrets had been perma-glued to the cab roofs! Uuuugh! It took a HACK SAW to get them off. Of course the roof was now damaged to I had to patch it up & of course I'd obliterated the turret mount. Not the last bit isn't really a big deal, but I didn't have any turrets to mount to start with. So I was browsing the internets and was amazed at how expensive little grot turrets were from GW or third party sources. Looking at them, I said to myself. "That can't be all that difficult. Any idiot with a screw-on bottle cap and a bits box could probably make their own!" So... this weekend I decided to prove my own point. I've also been very inspired by the amazing work wazoo does with his ork builds. This can't hold a candle to that... but his work has definitely been an inspiration.

I started with the smallest bottle cap I could find... an old plastic ork bike that I was never going to use, some other bits, some Zinge strips (thank you Zinge!!), plasticard and rivet stock and a will to do something I'd never done before... build something 40k from scratch.

Here's the result!



And on the battlewagon...



Now... it's a bit big I admit. That was the smallest cap we could find (which we've since found out are all pretty much made to a standard size). We'll be looking for caps from smaller things like medicine bottles and such from now on. I must admit, I'm inordinately proud of it. (I even found a use for the giant chainsword teeth that come in one of the Zinge sets!) The build looks kind of a mess but I think it'll prime & paint up nice. My other thought was to make it the turret for a grot tank... but now I have to build the tank. I'm working on a foam block to rough out the shape, then I'll sheathe it in plasticard and fiddle with it from there.

This is shaping up to be a really fun little project!

Oh, man, that ork meeds two turntables and a microphone!

Beautiful work, Gits!

I might be able to arrange that...

Good effort. Looks the part.

You say it looks a bit big, but aren't Orks supposed to be of the mind-set that bigger is better?!

Assuming that's the gunner popping out to say "Hello" does he have some form of control (stick, panel, big red button) for firing the guns?
Just a thought.

Hmmmm.... that's a thought. How about a big, red "Easy" button? (sorry, American advertisement reference)

This is my very first attempt at riveting too... so it's kind of a milestone piece.

Why havn't you been scratchbuilding forever!

Very cool work Gits

nice conversion gits. Need more scratch built things.

Nothing is ever too big on Ork Vehicles. Great work, Gits!

@BLACKHAND: Not within my comfort zone... but I'm willing to try just about anything!

@cormandepanda: Thanks! We'll see how the rest goes.

@Briancj: Thank you my friend. Coming from an expert scratch-builder like yourself that's a great compliment.


After hitting it with an airbrush... it's yellow. Supposed to be shaded but that doesn't show up very well. A sepia wash will take care of that nicely. Paint did diminish a lot of the foibles of the build though.

Those checks are going to look GREAT.

Well, I cheated and used the Zinge strip that is 3-D checks (same with the rivet strip on the bottom). All I need do is paint them! MY rivets are the much shoddier ones around the hatch.

I remember hearing of a green stuff rivet tool once upon a time. Might make a good investment. Anyways, it certainly looks like something that GW would produce . Great job.

Its not cheating its..... its.... well probably cheating but thanks fella!

 Briancj wrote:
Those checks are going to look GREAT.

this

 zinge wrote:
Its not cheating its..... its.... well probably cheating but thanks fella!

LOL! They're fantastic zinge. Delighted to be able to show off your product. Those strips are exactly the right length to go around a standard bottle cap! How convieeeeeeeeennnient!

And to top things off you're now offering entire sprues of small chainsword teeth so I no longer have to cut them off of chainswords. I'm going to be SO spoiled!

it really is porportional for the purpose.. course porportion for an ork is debateable.. looks so darn orky.

Are you reapainting the whole battlewagon as well?

Looks suitably bonkers, I heartily approve!

Solar_lion wrote:Are you reapainting the whole battlewagon as well?

Yes, eventually. I'm not in a big rush.

inmygravenimage wrote:Looks suitably bonkers, I heartily approve!

Thanks graven!

I just stopped by my FLGS and picked up/ordered some supplies. Spent a bit of time working on a grot tank body but it's just not happening. I'll fiddle with it a bit more but I might stick to turrets...

Fiddle with your turrets, not your body.

Good advice.

This, from the school teacher...

Looks like a great turret !

And you definitely deserved your diversion

I like it! Those guns look badass with the chansword teeth on the top.
Zinge's stuff keeps looking better and better. i really need to get an order together one of these days!

Hey, good job fella!

Excellent build, I see nothing wrong with that at all...and now you've started on the slippery road...moar scratchbuilds...moar I say.

I think you may be right mt... we'll see.

That's a whole lot better than my first scratchbuild Gits! Now with my nick it shouldn't be surprise that I'm a massive greenskin fan in all three main systems I play (40k, Fantasy & Blood Bowl). I'm at the in-laws now but I think I've got some ork stuff from my Red Krumpany here on dakka. Inspiration for what it's worth Would have provided a link but I've only got my mobilephone.

Anyhoo, great build, love the aestetic (sp?) of it

R

edit:
Twas bloody difficult but here goes,
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/231691.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/230043.page

Red, that flyer's awesome man... just awesome!

Thanks Gits But I'm terrified of painting that monstrosity I must admit. There's just so many details on that thing. Good thing though is that I can use it in regular 40k games now as a Burna-bomma

R

I feel ya Red. I procrastinate terribly when I'm apprehensive about a project. I'd say "just jump in" but that would be hypocritical since that's not what I do. I find other projects to occupy my mind until I'm mentally "ready".... THEN I jump in! Usually works out pretty well.

Hi just read through some of this , your stuff looks great.

I am really surprised that you have not done scratch building before, that looks perfect to me.

Thanks Camkierhi, it won't be the last attempt. Now that I've got a bit of confidence I'll keep tinkering.

Hi
Loving your work so far can'twait to see more love the kommando boss sknotthe scrach building is nice too btw . possabily fisrt time back on dakka for months!!! Btw blog has had update….http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/810/357188.page

Nice to have you back HAZ, I'll be stopping by. (and thanks!)

Back from the dead.

Now that Adepticon is over, I can work on things besides my marines... Have some big orky projects on the horizon, but first some unfinished business. Little stuff, just to tie up some loose ends.

Firstly, Ifalna painted these few grots and a very special squig for me a while ago. I just got them based up. Here they are, all ready to go!

Have some big orky projects on the horizon

Oooo, Can't wait.

 Dr H wrote:

Have some big orky projects on the horizon

Oooo, Can't wait.

Me too

Very nice. Love that Squig! Looking forward to some crazu Ork goodness.

One more Iffy model to base up & show off, then it's off to the new projects!

I am happy to see you return to the truly greater side of warhammer. The orky side.

Ah, he has returned to the true faith, I see...

Looking good gits!

Oooh yay. Another Gitspillta blog to follow.

Lookin great.

I miss my squigs, used to have a horde of squigs, not got pictures it was pre digital photography. (feeling old right now) Must have had about 20, everyone used to laugh at me, until the squigs got lucky and actually worked and then they ran screaming.

Sorry, miss my squigs.

Yes definately looking great.

*chuckle* Glad I could bring back some fond memories.

Yes! your Marines are fantastic once they get the Gits treatment..but they are still marines Bring on Da Boyz!

The most recent if my Ifalna comissions. Boss Nazdreg... the original Bad Moon Big Boss. Here by himself and with his honor guard. You'll note a couple of guys in back that aren't in the same (Iffy) style. Picked those up off the internet, done up very old school. They bring back good memories so I decided to keep them as is rather than having Iffy re-paint them.



Decent group of meganobs. Glad 6th has been kind to them so I can field them regularly. Hope the new ork dex (whenever it comes out) does the same.

This boss is wonderful, Ifalna did a great job on him. Did she also paint his squad, or did you paint them yourself using the same style ?

I'm jealous, I only have 3 of these meganobz, and I love these models. The fact that they are more armoured than a battle tank on the front and almost "nude" on the back is hilarious. ^^

Iffy did most of them. The only thing I can lay claim to is the basing. I just came to the realization a couple of years back that I just didn't have enough time to paint all my figures... so I started farming a few orks out to Iffy. She's very good, paints with great humor and "life"... and I can afford her. I suspect she's too busy now to take on any more of my poor orks, but I'm very grateful that I had a chance to get some of her work.

It'll be nice to get back to doing some of my own stuff though. Have a pile of Forge World ork stuff that I've been hoarding for myself.

They're very worthwhile. Good job If.
The bases are very nice as well Gits.

Looking good gits!

Ifalna really did do a masterful job on those Orks. I really love the way she paints green.

Nice little surprise today... finished up Ghazzy. I picked up this miniature painted several years ago. Wasn't a bad job but not very fancy and not Bad Moonish (why does everyone paint their orks so dark??). So... I did a major re-paint as my first ork project this summer.

Can't have too many meganobs!

íz Bionic Bonce ain't very shiny now, izzit?

Bionic bonce??

Adamantium Skullplate. Metal Melon. Nickle Noggin. Chrome Dome.


Ghazkull's head is made of metal.

A thing of beauty. Sweet job dude. Love the blood, looks really cool.

The original story of Ghazkull, was that he had an Adamantium skull put in because he was shot in the head and many reckon that is why he was such an excellent leader, because they messed his brain up. Enhancing his Waaagh! power. He used to get a special save because of his head. Mind you Ghazkull was always a Goff too. Can't remember the last time I read up about Ghazkull, I am probably wrong now. His model always had a huge hat on so you never saw if he had a metal dome riveted on there or a nice neat skin job. I always fancied doing something like the dude in Judge Dread, you know the son from the Angel family, out in the wild who they crank up.



Anyways I think your Ghaz looks awesome, sweet job on the yellow, the blood looks like you injured yourself and very suitably Badmoon.

Now there's a model that looks alive! Lovely weathering and a cool looking update! Do you have a 'before' pic as well?

Wow, he looks brutal.
I love the weatehring and the blood splatters !

I think that you could have done better on his skin, though. But he still looks good.

Really nice job Gits. I like the metalwork and the battered armour.

Hmmmm, I'll have to think about the metal plate thing. I was pretty sure he wasn't a Bad Moon originally but I wanted to make him fit the army. The skin is part of the original paint job... though I did highlight it a bit, if rather crudely. I'll re-visit that too.

Thanks for the comments guys, really appreciate it!

To steal a LDD sentence:

finally You did a proper model
I saw It on the mobile at work and had to check It properly on the laptop now that I'm home.

It looks awesome, loving the weathering

Well Selv, this should be "the summer of the ork" and include the painting of several Forge World models... So this is just the warm-up!

Warm up for Orks! this will be a great winter (for me) and a great summer (for you) like the paint Gits especially the blood, nice consistancy and colour!

Tamaya makes a range of these. They make fantastic headlights and such too. That sniper scout I just did has this same paint in a couple of different areas. Usually I shade underneath it and then add the translucent coat over the top.

Ahh the good old Tamiya Clear Red if I'm not mistaken?

Ghaz looks awesome Gits. Scary big, and awesome.

Really liked the old school models and what you have done with them. Bad day for an ultramarine, huh?

@Nerdy: that's the one!

@San: You noticed!! Thank you!

Great job on that one !

It's been too long since you last painted some damn'ol'Orks !!

He's looking fine indeed, and all the details around the teef make him proper Boss!

Very nice, Gits. I particularly like the weathering on this one.

OK guys, here's a touched up version of Ghazzy. I added the chrome dome and touched up his skin a bit. Don't expect too much there, I've never been worth a damn with skin. Next project... 3 RT era ork bikes to complete my "grot bike mob".

You have done a fantastic job there. Chrome dome is beautiful. Skin looks ok dude. Maybe a bit dark, but you don't see that much and I always remember with affection the old Black Orkz from fantasy, they was harder than anybody else, and their dark green skin was a sign of toughness. He looks brilliant.

Agreed, and the chrome is cracking mate.

Well, I wanted to make it look "adamantium-like" in comparison to the rest, so while it is shaded... it's not very heavily shaded. (and actually there's more dynamic painting than there appears to be, the lights of the photo booth tend to wash things out on metallics).

I started the grot bikes last night, I'll give you a pic in a bit here. Have three little bikes to add to the six I already have, which will give me a total of 9 grots and a (full sized) nob/runt herder in the squad.

Great improvement with the head

Awaiting the little bikerz

that claw made my guts quiver.

The blood on the claw is fanfriggingtastic looking. I'm not at all surprised that the paintjob is 2nd to none but that blood is just the icing on the cake as far as i'm concerned.

Interesting . The skin is looking good, no worries!

He's looking fantastic Git's, I really like the weathering I never realised how much detail this model has youve really brought it to life.

Why thank you all. I just noticed that his teeth are kind of green... will have to go in and fix that too. Dang close-up photogrophy!

Well, I promised you some bike shots. Let me briefly explain my overall plan with this army. My idea is to build an army of semi-autonomous gretchin. They aren't rebels, though I love the WWII / Imperial Guard based grot lists. These are just the product of Boss Gitsplitta having run across some hard times and taking some major losses amongst his ork troops and the result of a string of particularly cheeky raids on Imperial installations. It was either fade away in ignominy as his orks defected to bosses with more powerful armies... or try and come up with some way to bolster his numbers. Since there were grots in abundance and those in charge of war machines had served well (for grots) in the raids, he decided to try and cultivate the breed for war. So, what he's got is a bunch of self-actualized grots... running around with all variety of war machines, under the watchful eye of ork masters.

So... what I'm shooting for is a nearly all grot army, using the ork dex, where everything is either actually gretchin, is proxied by gretchin, or looks like gretchin (aka some of the RT era stuff).

One of the easiest things to work on was the warbikes. The original RT era bikes are tiny when compared to the modern ork bikes, but they have a ton of character. Like so much of my ork army, these were rescue projects... cast-offs from someone else's army that I repainted a bit to make look presentable. I had 3 full-sized ork bikes painted in blue that I'd purchased used years ago, so I decided to paint the rest of the bikes blue to match. No particular reason beyond that, just a nice break from the yellow and green of my Bad Moons and Mantis Warriors. The neat thing is that the modern ork so large that it looks like a runt herd in comparison to the "grot" RT-era ork bikes... so the illusion works quite well.

So, in sprucing up this unit, I'm not only building and painting the last 3 of the RT bikes I own... but touching up the paint jobs on the existing bikes to make them a little nicer. These aren't painted to a high standard... but I would like them to be presentable. In the photo below, the two bikes flanking the nob have been touched up... the rest still need work.



I decided to add a little bit of action to the poses of the last three bikes. Gave them some rough ground and some more dynamic poses. The one guy is even flying out of his seat a bit. Should give a nice feel to the mob. If I could snag one more of these I'd have a proper grot mob!

Very nice themed project

Grots ftw

Love those classic models!

More and more interesting!

they look so good with the new ork biker in the middle.

very cool git. since i have switched to fantasy, when I do think of 40k, my freebooters dont enter my mind. all I can think of is a goblin/squig themed 40k army. I had thought of using grots riding squigs (with guns / armor strapped on) as nob bikers, but I have to say I really like where this is going.