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I am making a Speed Freak Ork army. I want to get it knocked out ASAP. I think I want to use colored primer, AOBR models, and paint as much as possible on the sprues.

I am going with very simple color shemes. Green primer for the orks. Black primer on the trukks, bikes, kopters, etc. I am going to dry brush as much as possible.

Clip them out, glue 'em up, and touch up where needed.

Anyone have experience doing this?

Bad Idea. WHen you clip everything off the sprue, you have to go back and touch up where everything was attached to the sprue.

Not really reccomended. In fact, it might actually take longer with all of the clipping and touching up.

I might suggest, however, clipping the sprues, painting them, and then assembling them. Just my two cents.

Bloodletter wrote:Not really reccomended. In fact, it might actually take longer with all of the clipping and touching up.

I might suggest, however, clipping the sprues, painting them, and then assembling them. Just my two cents.

I am so anal about painting before assembling. I cant see how people assemble then paint...

Mitty34 wrote:Bad Idea. WHen you clip everything off the sprue, you have to go back and touch up where everything was attached to the sprue.

I tried this with the cheap (5 for 8 dollars) Termagants...6 boxes of them. Not the best idea. Even the most rudimentary smoothing of mold lines and sprue connection bumps will require repainting at those points. I would recommend at least getting the parts off of the sprue, taking an xacto to the mold lines and bumps, and then priming the whole lot.

Mitty34 wrote:

Bloodletter wrote:Not really reccomended. In fact, it might actually take longer with all of the clipping and touching up.

I might suggest, however, clipping the sprues, painting them, and then assembling them. Just my two cents.

I am so anal about painting before assembling. I cant see how people assemble then paint...

I usually assemble and then paint as I like having my army usable before painting them. I can play with an unpainted assembeled model, but I can't play with a bunch of painted bits on the sprue.

I actually did this with some orks I did it works rly well for putting on base coats but past that don't. Just Prime them then put first coats and assemble then highlight and such.

Suggestion, assemble the figures but leave the arms off. Prime using Rustoleum Camo Green. Drybrush the heck out of your figures. Attach arms. Wash. Highlight.

Doing it that way speeds up the process with vehicles. I did a trukk that way in less then 3 hours. And it looks good. My BW was the same way.
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I am going to try it on a truck first.

I am a quick learner, so if my method doesn't work, I will go back to the old. Leaving the arms off is a good idea though.

This isn't much of a good idea :|.

I tried it with my Dire Avengers - not only do you have to retouch em with is a pain but if you're using plastic glue insted of superglue you gotta file off little bits down to the plastic to get em to stick which is an even bigger pain. Definitely won't do this again.
Ever.

What I did with Hive Fleet Kielbasa was to clip and clean all the parts, assemble the bodies leaving the heads, weapons and arms off, then spray paint everything

After final assembly I cemented the bodies to the already sprayed bases, then glued sand on.

The result is decent tabletop standard and will improve further once I have Quikshaded it with Softone.

It was much quicker than conventional painting because I used Montana Gold sprays which dry hard in about 10 minutes.

Sprayed parts need to be cemented with Superglue and do not bond as well as clean parts.

While it works well for Tyranids, giving a nice organic gradation to the paint boundaries, it won't work so well on SMs who have a lot of well defined edges and bits or equipment.

That said, you should be able to spray the legs, torsos and pauldrons as separate parts, then assemble, paint details and weapons, and hard highlight the edges pretty quickly. It should look good even without any shading or washes.

I think it's ok for tanks but that's it.

I used to paint that way but all the touching up looked bad especially since i use spray on primer so the spots that were un-primed looked off. now i find that it works best to assemble the body then prime every things and paint it, after that put it together (especially with anything that has its arms going across its chest like SM, the arms just get in the way when painting even with a fine brush. hope that this helped you with your decision. also as a tip when painting i find it helps if you take a old paint tub or glass bottle thing and stick that white putty for putting up posters on the top of it so you can push the base into it and have a makeshift handle to use when painting. if you want a photo of what i mean PM me and I'll get you one.

I'm not a fan of painting on the sprue either...