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Did you convert that mek/driver on the battlewagon or does that come with the kit?

Really nice colour scheme. Great painting too.

LunaHound wrote:
Super!! Finally an ork army that doesnt have any red in it o_o

But Luna da red wunz goes fasta

Great job on a very well coordinated and themed army.

The metal effect on the BW is excellent - any chance of sharing how you achieved that?

Cheers,

The metal on the battlewagon was done as follows:

1: Begin to drybrush Dwarf Bronze over a black undercoat.
2: Decide early on that the paper towel you're using to remove most of the paint isnt doing the trick, and start using your forearm.
3: Drybrush chainmail over the dwarf bronze, using the soft fleshy pasty white side of your arm to remove the paint.
4: Mix a whole lot of Thrakka Green and Asureman Blue wash in an empty blister with some water, and say to yourself "I mixed WAY too much".
5: Begin washing this over the entire area, I used a tank brush.
6: Run out half way through, mix up a whole lot more, curse your earlier statement about mixing too much.
7: Begin watching the wash dry.
8: Get fedup with it not drying, sneak into the bedroom and steal your wifes hairdryer and one of her hair ties (to hold the battlewagon without getting any wash on your hands!).
9: Begin hairdrying it to speed the drying process up.
10: Giggle at how as the wind blows the battlewagon around in circles very quickly, the rubber elastic in the hairtie is beginning to melt a little.
11: Realise that while your battle wagon is spinning around, it is throwing wash in a circle all over your new carpet.
12: Run to the kitchen repeating the mantra: "oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap crap on a crap cracker!".
13: Remove the wash from your carpet, and finish drying the wash.
14: Sparingly apply a devlan mud wash with a smaller brush, wherever you feel the model needs it. You'll often find that everywhere needs it, oddly enough.
15: Once that's dried slowly, because you're terrified of repeating the "oh crap" performance, re drybrush some chainmail where ever you feel it needs it, if you're feeling lazy, you may find that nowhere needs it


It's not normally a 15 step process, but it is when you suck :<

proximity, I think I love you.

Also, your orks look fantastic! And even if you took the 15 step method, the metals on the Battlewagon look great. I'd love to see a full army shot when you're done!

Please... Share your technique for the metal on the Battlewagon!

VERY striking stuff.


Eric

MagickalMemories wrote:Please... Share your technique for the metal on the Battlewagon!

VERY striking stuff.


Eric

Arrrghh! Groundhog day!

Look a couple of posts up ;D
Im about to paint my truck, just waiting for some greenstuff on it to dry, ill do some step by step to show it a bit more clearly.

I really wanna see those meganobs fully painted,oh and the truck,how many points is your army list already?

Well, origionally I was just going to do 1750, then 2000 for a tournament in Aus, but because of comp, I've basically had to throw out 3 killer kans and a dread as well as the regular big mek and 15 odd lootas.. all finished being painted but will never get used again :( I guess when you add all that it its probably getting close to the magic 2500 point mark. *shrug*

Thanks for the step by step Proximity - I may..uh...miss one or two steps if I try it though....

Intresting scheme. It's a nice oldskool flavor and plenty of spark. I also like the basing, except for the static grass that looks really comical at that brightness in those even lumps, when the rest of the basing is a nice gothic mess.

Looking forward to more.

Wow, the colors look very good, I love the lootas, but I love the loota models too, and any shoulder mounted weapons. the dred is great.

yellow tutorial?

proximity wrote:

MagickalMemories wrote:Please... Share your technique for the metal on the Battlewagon!

VERY striking stuff.


Eric

Arrrghh! Groundhog day!

Look a couple of posts up ;D
Im about to paint my truck, just waiting for some greenstuff on it to dry, ill do some step by step to show it a bit more clearly.

Gah! Somehow, when looking at the thread, I missed that there even WAS a second page. LOL

Excellent job on the tutorial. I'm wondering, though... Would the model be unnecessarily harmed if i ws to skip steps 11 - 13 entirely?


Looking forward to the trukk!

Eric

Amazing army, I love how you create a cohesive look for an Ork army without going overboard. It's post like this that tempt me to go out and buy the Black Reach set and start an Ork army.

Heres some pics of the metal, minus the steps that can be considered hazardous to your long term health (read: WIFE SMASH).



I think I might do this with more stuff in the future, because I have a mind like an iron sieve, and will forget stuff in record time, itll be good to come back to

WOW your stuff looks amazing Lol'd lots at the tutorials

Could you please do a blue tutorial?

Uhh, sure SamG - though its very straight forward, just mordian blue foundation -> ultramarines blue -> ultra + some white -> ultra + some more white.

Anywho, I should take some pics of some other stuff I've done over the last couple of weeks, but I finished up this test meganob, and have started the yellow on 3 others for a unit that will be 8 strong in total.

The yellow hilights are a bit extreme for now, I went a stage too far, I intend to tone it back a little, its shown me that the unit doesnt look over powering with that much yellow on it though, which was the purpose of the test figure

Nice now get to painting the rest before I blow up your house with my mind.

Brilliant Tutorials. I really like Kaptain Badmek. Got to agree with you on the highlighting of that Meganob though, it's still a lot better than my stuff however.

Yeah, heres hoping that a single sunburst glaze should be enough to bring it back.

Amazingly clean, orgazined color schemes. Hats off to you, sir.

Awesome. I'm about to start an ork army, and now I think I'll make it this scheme.

Awesome. I'm starting an ork army, and now I think I'll make it this scheme.

Slogging through, puff puff puff...



A lot of touching up to go, and 4 more to go after these - which are only about half done. Eek!

They look nice so far,wouldlove to see em done!

Wow, I've never seen a yellow/BadMoon ork paint scheme I liked before!

After looking at your meganobz, I think that your scheme looks best when there's more yellow on the model than blue. Keep up the great work

Wow those guys look great can't wait to see more. Keep up the amazing work.

Well, I just finished the first 4, though its past midnight so pics will have to wait until tomorrow...
I have some time off work whilst waiting for my new couch to be delivered, so I may be able to snap some then!

Since I last took pictures I've also gotten 30 boyz and a unit of grots painted, as well as finishing that trukk that I used for the metal Tut, so I should get around to those at some point too!

- Charlie