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Always got a soft spot for Ork bikes. These are excellent.

Im glad you all like hope to see some more projects getting finished up soon too.

Got my entry roughly together now.
Still might add a few little details here and there. (Cant find my bloody jetpack grot to add to it yet!)
But for now its done, minus the base and paint









So yea, progress so far

OOOOOO another Grot flyer. Nice work.

This is getting interesting.....

Whoa! Loads of orky brilliance!

Good lordy lord, the qaulity of entries in this round are superb, Panda and I have a really hard task on our hands when it comes to judging...

Keep up the great work folk, make it even more difficult for us

.... there goes my sympathy bonus....now i have to compete against a fellow grot fighter....argh....


more painted pics later on mates

Da grots be taking over dis thread.

Wow haven't had much chance to check on this thread properly for a few days what with my wedding anniversary, birthday and weekend away with the wife (and no children ) lots of good stuff on show I knew orks (and grots) would be popular this round.

Anyway my red spray turned up so I had a go at this weathering technique using table salt. Not wild about the results looks good in some places and a bit crap in others but I think with practice it could turn out as useful technique to have in the painting locker. anyway a few pictures

i think either way this one will be fought among the green hides for the win....

losterikson... the build looks stunning... and i agree the peeled off look is soso in places... but i bet you can work with that when the brushes comes out to play^^...

besides... is the second coat of primer possible to flake even further due to the scrubbing off of the salt?

@Losteriksson, I wonder if the problem is that you used too fine a grade of salt? Table salt is made up of very small crystals, sea or rock salt is coarser and may have helped more with the effect possibly? Having said, that some well placed sponging on the larger areas could sort this out easily

BTW, belated Happy Anniversary, Happy Birthday and hope the weekend away was a good one

I think the problem was I used to much water to apply the salt turning the granules into much larger patches. The water pooled on the silver primer rather than flowing resulting in lumps. I think it's a technique that needs some practice.

Ahh, right I see... I've not tried the salt weathering yet, tend to go with the sponge method but I read that using hairspray to fix the salt works well...

so....update time...

at first i started with the sponge on weathering with vermin brown...at first this went quite good... but i had no real clue... so i made the paint too watery and ruined it almost...
when everything was dry again i used a mix of mithril silver and boltgun metal and drybrushed and feathered it around like crazy... well it´s also one of these akward moments you just had to see for yourself i guess... but in the ned it didn´t look too shabby (well actually it did... that was the whole point, innit?^^)
and then i used the blue wash (diluted even... so much for a learing curve today^^) in the end i added some decals... some upside down skulls for the gunner to keep track of his kills... and some old roughrider decals that had a certain orky pirate vibe for me... and they are yellow... which kinda suits the scheme...

so... here are the pics... a bit many ... but i toook with and without flash for you to see whats what...tho i think i need to make daylight pics... these are not the pics that tell the whole story...

and afterwards you see the first pics of the crew in WIP...

enjoy:












and the crew...







cheers, vik

Finally some paint on my entry

Missing about 15, left them at a friends house after a game

Looking slick, everyone!

The base for mine approaches completion:
Sorry about the flash, but the silver really is very bright, which was part of the plan. The glow is obviously still ongoing.


Course, now I want to paint bright coloured pretty stuff but, meantime, progress on the Tempest:

Woah sick work everyone!

lazarus... are these gargoyles? or what? your entry will be 60 gargoyles?... we´re about to get creamed....

Some great entries!

@Jackal- a grot biplane? Sweet!

@Losteriksson- Salt weathering looks nice and perfect for Orks. I tried salt weathering once, I try not to think about that poor Rhino........

@Vik- in my opinion, you are in front. A dive bombing grot plan actually dropping a bomb! Can't wait to see that crew.

@Hive Fleet Lazarus- I'm not sure what would be worse. Your swarm flying towards me, or over me. At any rate, I've never seen that many gargoyles painted up. Looking forward to the finished product.

@inmygravenimage- you got a cool thing going there and I love the color scheme.

Alright, so I've been feeling rather uninspired and I have a lot of work that'll need to be done with 3D modeling at college. I might do something last minute, but until then count me as being out of the running. :(

at 40ksu... man... you are too nice to me

but well... to be still on your personal best seller list ... an update...


but i did a bit of a thinking... i wasn´t in the mood to further weather down the bird... so what to do to make it orky?... right... add some grafitti...

here are some pics... and the big courtesy goes to theo...as his idea is now to be read on the bomb... (hopefully i didn´t step on your toes with the slight variation i used... i respect every bodies beliefs... no mocking was inteded...just general high spirits!)

killroy is here


"zooom" and a lightning bolt...


exclamation mark and dead smiley...


and da bomb...( i thought writing catch on a bomb would be a nice pun... i think i will write "fetch" on a rocket^^)



cheers, vik

It's looking stunning Vik.

thanks mate!

That looks awesome vik, I really like the bluish metal color.
And yes, my entry is 60 gargoyles. And they will all be mounted on a single base

Just to let you know I am still at it......

Added a few details.




Criticisms and comments welcome.

Epic... why somany orks...

 cormadepanda wrote:
Epic... why somany orks...

Speed freaks

Losteriksson wrote:

 cormadepanda wrote:
Epic... why somany orks...

Speed freaks

Loads of great entries as usual well done everyone. I think Warlord Panda has enough aircraft to launch his own Orky air force. Speaking of which in between painting my daughters bedroom, while she is holiday with her grand parents, I managed to finish Mekboy Tork Rench and his kustom Dakka Jet so here is my entry for the comp