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I think the idea with camo is to have your spot colours intersect - just looks like polka dots/clown suit at the moment (IMHO of course...)

I'd try adding some of the colours to the existing dots (but don't make them larger - if you see what I mean...)

Revenge of the clowns!

Seriously though, I second what Arakasi said: your colours should flow into each other to look like camo.

I see what you mean... a bit to pokladoty. I was kinda going for the german M16 camo pattern, using the red as the line in between:

I guess I'll start over and stick closer to the camo.

I don't know, disguising themselves as a bunch of clowns may get them right into the enemy's outpost Shame they can't take a tiny, grot sized trukk Hmm, better go before I start to like the idea a little too much

The Good Green wrote:I see what you mean... a bit to pokladoty. I was kinda going for the german M16 camo pattern, using the red as the line in between:

If I understand you correctly, the issue is you have too much red, and the "polka dots" need to be odd, sharper and larger shapes...

monkeytroll wrote:I don't know, disguising themselves as a bunch of clowns may get them right into the enemy's outpost Shame they can't take a tiny, grot sized trukk Hmm, better go before I start to like the idea a little too much

That would be a war buggy?

Actually I do have a clown car planned for the kommandos (based on the Tau Piranha), but that's for later.

In the mean time I'm aim more for this pattern but with different colors.


I think the sort of wacky-ness of this style of camo fits the Blood Axes well.

clowns-r-us ill take that challange up i still got too much grots.

Good green i think your a genius too use thhat cammo patern it fits the kommandos perfectly

Either pattern would look great - I still stand by the need to reduce the thickness of the red separating lines so that the pattern is more dominant to match either of those pictures though

Brightest colour should be the smallest are, then you'll do fine!

Ok, using everything that has been mentioned so far (which I think are all good points) and a desire to not do more work, I am goging to outline all the dots with black lines, leaving some of the red to show through in spots. I'll cut into some of the clown dots to make them more of an odd shape.

How does that sound. Less read, black outlines, and more random shapes. I think I will need to get a smaller brush though. Come to think of it, I need some more black paint too... I guess I should put together a paints list to replenish my pots. A lot of them are getting thick and goopy

I like your Orks The Good Green, they have alot of character and a nice mix of old and new. I also like the way you ambitiously repose some of them to look more dynamic or indeed Stealthy.

new here, and I must say your orks are friggin awsome!!! definatly inspiring.

on that note, camoflauge doesn't have an outline on each shape, the idea is to break up the pattern, not to create a new one.

rambork is pimp!!! should lay an arrow across the bow and put a little round blob of gs for the boom boom.... definately subscribing to this thread.....

Thanks for the kind words you two.

As for the proppa type of camo, if you scroll up on this page you will see the strange German camo pattern that I'm drawing from. I think it was only on helmets, and possibly only the first few shipments of helmets in WW1. I read somewhere, the Germans weren't using helmets before that... seems silly, but hey - football players didn't always have helmets either.

By the way, Perkustin, that's a great paint job on your dark eldar.

Awesome commandos! Did you drill the plasticard/white plastic add-ons for their guns? They look good on your Orks!

Ideas sound good, awaiting pics

@HF: I did pin the silencers onto the sprue guns. The silencers are made out of small lengths of plasicard tubing, though, so I didn't drill the plasticard at all.

Thanks Khaine


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I also HAVE TO spend some time on my work space. I started making some shelves for the little guys but then I got distracted (of course)...


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So how does this look? (please excuse the blur)




Still PIP, but theres the outlines for the camo. I didn't do anything but outline it, and I think that does the job. I'm thinking the skin is up next for this guy... or maybe I'll do the camo for all of them... that makes more sense, I think.

Let me know what you think. Thanks for checking it out.

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sorry, Git. I just get bugged when I am actually updating and it ends up attached to a response... I guess I just need to time my posts better, or pay attention to when I posted last.

obnoxious as heck

The pic is fuzzy, but it looks like camo now (to me anyway) Nice work!

Ditto - though a less blurry pic would be nice!

Well here ya go. To make up for my obnoxious bump I thought I'd finish off the camo for the squad before posting again. So, here are the three regular kommandos.



The burna and nob aren't in the pic cause they don't have much camo between them.

nice cammo. and finaly some better pics

Looks like camo now, so I'd say it's an imporvement

Looking good!

I like the camo too, looks pretty like the source now, and very orky.

Thanks everyone. Here's another small update. I did some work on the Kommando Rokkit boy's pack:



... and I got rid of that hair. :~/

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While I wait for bitz to come in the mail for more kommandos, and while I figure out how to finish the mopeds for the kroots, I'm gonna start working on the two Platoon Command Squads for the Super Grot Corp.


...which include (at this point):

PCS1:
Chenkov
Kommissar
Standard (Dinner sign)
Vox (Order here)
Heavy Flamer (Head Chef)
Medipack (Head Bartender)

and

PCS2:
Al'Rahem
Priest
Platoon Standard
Meltagun (Gutsnik's Mechanicus grot)
Grenade Launcher (Master Spice Identifier)
Medipack (Brew Master "Grape Inspector")
Chimera (Hauling Trukk)

I think Al'Rahem's squad is good, but I'm still working on Chenkov's/.

LOVE the plasticard details. Is that a drinking straw for the pipe on the side? Nice scavenging! What is that he's holding?

Also, I'm super curious about what you typed that offended Gitsplitta Those 'auto appended posts' that don't actually update your thread really annoy me too though...

Drinking straw, stirring straw... yeah. The thing he's holding is going to be his rokkit launcha. That's the next step on him.


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Check out this blog for some cool conversions: http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=53089

Looking good, I think the grabba stick bit will make a nice base for a rokkit launcha. And I'm looking forward to the grot corp as well of course!

Last night saw some more work on the Squig Cult. I've made a lot of progress on the Squig Hunters (night-gobos w/spears) bases and I've got the bases needed to beef up the Fungus Foragers unit.

Here's some picks



That big mound in the middle has a cave that goes all the way through, and it separates into four bases, so there's lots of room for details in the cave that will be easier to paint. (like fungus and baby squigs ) Also, the botom row in the pic is the front rank.

Also, here are a few pics of the Fungus Foragers, because I don't think I've done some work since I last updated them here.





You can just barely make out the two snotling bases on the bottom of this last pic. The base coated one is attached to the Fungus Foragers, and on the other you might be able to see the snotlings mining for warpstone. That one will go with the Cultist Miners. There are many more snotling bases to come.