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Its a waaagh in slow motion. I hope this blog will encourage me to hurry up and paint because I am soooo sllooooow! No seriously I am, a year ago I got back into the hobby after a very long break (15 years), in that time I have painted eleven Space Marines, one Rhino (almost) and two Nobs.

I haven't played since the 2nd edition but I am a firm believer in playing with painted army's. The down side to that is that I might never get to play! After painting those Marines and re-basing my old SM army I remembered how very very boring they were. I could go and play with them but bullocks to that, I want Orks!

Now I realise Orks probably aren't the best choice for a slow painter but I'm going for a Kan wall /Dread list, at 1500 points its not going to be very competitive being as it only has 40 boys but I have 11 walkers and with the Meks and Nobs the model count will only be 60 models. Still at my current rate thats going to take 5 years, so I've got to try something to speed me up. In an ideal world I want it finished by June/July.

So on to some models. These are built using parts from the Nob box and some of the Kromlech parts that Maxmini sell.





Thats all for the moment though folks. I have a boys squad assembled and waiting for priming but I'm sure no one wants to see photos of grey, and a AOBR Dread that is half way to being orkified, the rest of the army is in boxes. Hopefully the wind will die down tomorrow and I an get some priming done.

Comments, criticism and help always welcome. Oh and ork skin recipes, I want my orks to have a variety of skin tones, so if you have any give them out.

Thanks for reading

Very nice, and i like your way of painting, maybe a little to dark in some places, but its still great^^

Sometimes, slow painting is better. this is one of those times. those Nobs look wonderful!

nice work so far. I paint my orks with a base coat of orkhide shade over chaos black under coat followed by orkhide mixed with dheneb stone(not shure if i spelled that right also bleach bone works) then ork hide and dheneb stone with even more stone in it. you drybrush that over and then a final drybrush of straight dheneb stone

Slow, but excellent! Well worth the wait for you to finish more!

Thanks for all the positive comments guys.

LiveforFun666; Yeah the darkness might be a Dark Angels hangover, I was always trying to go darker. I've still got the odd bit of highlighting to do on them here and there but I think that will have to wait until the army is starting to take shape a bit more. I'm going to try to make the Boyz a bit brighter, especially the skin.

Big Mek Dattrukk & bunnygurl; Slow won't get me a fieldable army though will it , tbh its not so much that I paint slowly but more of a case that I don't often sit down to paint at all. I enjoy it but life keeps interrupting (and I'm lazy). Having people expecting/wanting to see more should, with a little luck, encourage me to do more painting.

risewiththefallen; I would love to see an example, why not put some of your Boyz up in your gallery.

Anyway the wind didn't die down but I decided to try and get some priming done anyway. I grabbed a large box from my loft and found the least windy corner of the garden and got to spaying. I only got 5 done as I had to head out for my sisters birthday, still its a start and gives me something else to paint other then the Nobs. Whilst building the Boyz I decided that the best way to paint them would be to do the arms separate from the rest of the miniature as I didn't fancy trying to paint behind the Shoota. Unfortunately I hadn't thought about how I was going to spray the arms. Scratching my head I came up with this great painting aid.



Yes that is half a potato . Still I hate to waste food, I think I may need to have a rethink.

Oh and for those that are intrested heres some WIP shots of the Nobs before any paint. There have had been changers from these photos and all but the old Ghaz (which still needs work) have been primed now. So fingures crossed I will get some more paint slapped about this week.

To bang bang boom I posted my Wip gaz with the skin I described

Yeah I like the colour, I can definitely see me using it on a few Orks

I agree slow doesn't field an army in a short time. You've got the same problem I do. So much life to do, so little time and help.

Nifty idea you had with the potato, but they're so much better when mashed up with some onion and milk. I spray mine on the sprue (which I do believe is a no-no) then snip 'em out and paint 'em as is, them glue 'em on. Not the most efficient way, but it works for me for getting to all the lil' details. Lately though I've just been gluing everything together fully and going from there.

Good luck finding some time to paint and those Nobs above are awesome!

Nice painting. I paint really slow too so last year devolved into basecoats and washes, but going slow is really better. Keep on going.

Looks good! I paint very slowly too, about a model a month. So I understand the pain of painting an army, but press on!

Again thanks for the positive comments, I'm finding them very encouraging.

iior - I appear to be starting a slow painters club . I checked out your wolfs they look great, now pick up that paint brush they won't paint themselves you know.

Wazzdig Dagga - Believe it or not the above aren't much more then a basecoat and wash.

bunnygurl - Yum mash, but personal I like to add . On a side note, how do you deal with the mold lines and sprue scars if primming on the sprue? Seems to be complicating things tbh.

So I started on a new nob today, no pictures you just have to take my word on it. I might have taken thinning my paints a little to far. I took two coats of Bleached Bone and three or four coats of Orkhide Shade to get a decent coat on the skin. Going to try out risewiththefallen's skin recipe on it but with layers instead of drybrushing. I seem to have lost my Dheneb Stone though which is a little odd.

Anyway will try to put some pics up by the end of the week, thanks for reading.

All slow painters welcome It helps me not look so slow if there's plenty of paint-sloths around

Nice work so far, keep it up.

It's more time comsuming. Prime 'em, clip 'em out, then use a knife to shave everything down. Then hand paint on where paint was scraped off. Sounds stupid, but personally I find it better than spending a chunk of time trying to find something to stick annoying bits onto. Although most of my stuff lately seems to conveniently glue together in a way where painting details isn't an issue.

About the Dheneb Stone, paint pots grow legs dontcha know?

Always happy to make others look better monkeytroll .

Lol bunnygurl that sounds like a right pain in the ass, I think I will stick with the fruit and veg approach.

I can't make up my mind what to paint yellow on the Ork I am currently working on, this is the figure



The gun will have a bunch of yellow on it, thats a given. What I can't decided is whether to paint the can or the trousers yellow? The trousers will be a lot easier but that will mean I paint the can in some kind of metal and I already have one with a metal can. A yellow can will look better if I can get it right but all the weathering that will be required is likely to go wrong, and when things go wrong I down tools and it can be months before I pick them up again. What do you guys think, take the risk or play it safe?




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I just dropped the bloody thing and the gun arm came off, and the resin chimney snapped

Anyway, I got married which was nice, but not a lot of time to get work done.

I repaired this guy and almost finished painting him.



Still some details to do and all the Tin Bitz. But thats three Nobz done, I have my first ork unit.

I painted up some Boyz this weekend as well, base coated anyway. Still lots of work to do obviously. I hope to get them finished by next weekend so I can start on some kanz, but it probably won't work out that way.




A few things I learnt this last month
1. Women take weddings very seriously.
2. Wet palettes are great.

Love the weathering on your nob. The yellow looks really good to. Good job.

Congratulations on getting married. That Nob looks great! The weathering is just superb!

Things you learned:
1. Are you really surprised?
2. I'm dying to get my hands on one of those. Went to buy one a little while ago but ended up getting a basing kit instead.

Oh my goodness, could I quote you in my signature??

Very nice, looking forward to see more.
The Kromlech bits are pretty cool too

Awesome stuff. Very awesome.

Thanks schank23 it basically just using this tutorial http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/292329.page

Cheers bunnygurl, why dont you just make a wet palette? All you need is a Tupperware pot, a sponge and some baking paper. I was always finding that at my slow pace my paint would dry on my palette/kitchen tile, now it doesn't. And yes I was a little surprised.

joshoftheforest; Knock yourself out.

The Kromlech parts are nice Ronin but I found Maxmini's service was a little lacking. Still they do nice bits and I know I will use them again.

Thanks Micromegas.

So not much done, I've finished base coating the straps and the done a very simplified version of the weathering on the yellow. Next its metals and trousers, then stick the arms on.



Sorry about the recent photos, been using a borrowed camera at night with poor lighting, the end result is that I think I've brightened them maybe a little to much.

I've thought about making my own, but I'm much too lazy. I'd rather drive for a half hour and spend $12 on one. I don't make much sense, do I? But that's how I roll.

Ze Orks be progressing very nicely might I add.

So its been what a month, six weeks something like that anyway.

I haven't had the best luck lately, my camera broke so I couldn't take any pics. Then my oven gave up, and apparently to the better half thats a great excuse to completely gut and redo the kitchen, who would have thought . Plus we have had some excellent weather here in the UK so I've spent most of spare time outside playing ball.

But thats enough excuses thats take a look a what I have done.



I finished my first group of Boyz. Well almost I still have the base rims to finish but I don't know what to do with them. I've decided that I don't particularly like the Graveyard Earth, Scorched brown doesn't give any colour change between the top and the rim and black is a bit dark.

I also decided that five Boyz at a time are to many at once for me. Everything just seems like it will take to long so I put of doing it, going to try three at once instead.

I also got some Kans which I have started building. The first is a fairly standard pose. The second was a pain in the ass, I tried to give it a running pose which I think worked ok. You can't see it in the photo but its stepping on a old rubble wall that I think came from and old starter set and I am experimenting with trying to model a dead SM leaning against it at the rear. Thats not going so well though.




Oh and a looted Dreadnought that still needs a lot of work.



So thats about it, I picked up a Big Mek with a Kustom force field. I wanted a metal one before the switch to resin but it needs a ton of work removing mold lines and the little stringy metal bits. In fact I was surprised at how bad the cast was.

I need to try to update a little more often I think, but I am of to Mexico on Saturday so I expect it's going to be a month until I have something else to show, and that damn Kitchen still needs to be finished.

Oh one more thing. I borrowed a bunch of camera's from work over the last month to try to find one I liked at the right price (read cheap) one of the fancier cameras I tried was a 3D camera, I thought it would be cool. Don't bother! they don't have macro (at least the one I tried) and if you want to show of the pics online you can't as web browsers can't display the image files (as far as I could tell)

Thats it, goodnight

Hey, not going to get any complaints at your slow progress from me Especially when you consider that even with all the motivation Dakka provides I've managed to actually, completely, absolutely finish about a dozen pieces foer my orks since last June
And no-one can blame you for going out in the sun, this is Britain, for all we know It may be snowing next week.

Anyway, boys look good, that's a nice skin tone you've got going there Dread looks cool too.

Thanks for the complements Monkeytroll, At the moment I have no one locally that I can show my work to, so its good to know that people like them.

Great to know there are those slower then myself, I think I can give up on my target completion date though.

I started on some objectives today, something to fight to the death over, springs and gears.

The Orks are looking good, I really like the weathering on the Nobz.

I tried batch painting in fives and found it nearly put me off painting so I've gone back to two models at a time now, I'm a really slow painter as well.

Thanks GiraffeX, slow and steady is best

Not much to update I have been doing some painting, hopefully I will get some pics up this week, but in the meantime...

Finecast

I decided I would see for myself what they were like. As I want both Meks in my army to have a KFF and burner I figured I would get a Finecast Big Mek and picked one up today. Best case scenario; its perfect and I have an easy figure to cut up and convert. Worst case scenario; its crap, I complain to GW, get a free figure (or two half price figures depending how you look at it) and have two figures to cut up and convert.

As a hint to how it turned out... I will be ringing customer service this week. Sorry about the pics the light wasn't great.






So to start of, yes the detail is finer. I compared to the unpainted, unassembled, half prepped metal version I have and you can really tell on areas such as the trouser stitches and the wrap on the axe/wrench thing. The plastic/resin stuff is very easy to cut as well.

But thats about it for the good points, on to the bad;
I have a air bubble hole on the end of the chin.
What looks like a mold line (but its a weird place to have one so maybe its not) on the left hand side of the face, going over the eye. It might be difficult to remove without damaging the eye, I will find out this week.
The whole left hand side of the face/helmet has thick (2/3mm) piece of resin that will have to be very carefully carved off.
The left of the head is just a general mess.
Both feet have messy lumps that will need caving off, I guess someone has that piece of the mould.
The left hand is a bit messy and figures/thumb under defined.
The pouch/bag on his left has a hole that runs all the way though close to the body.
The place on the body where the right arm joins is very very messy and has bits of the mould stuck in it.
The circular thing next to the lever thing on the KFF is missing part of the bottom just above the stick bomb handle. The position of this makes it unfixable.

Thats about it really, I will admit I had to look quite closely to find some of these problems but still. On the plus side the lever on the KFF is straight on the Finecast whilst on my metal it is bent like this )( so thats an improvement, ish

Overall I am not very impressed, as much as the metal one is a pain in the ass to clean up, I think this one may take longer. I will post further comments as I get it prepped and cleaned.

The objective markers look good. Reminds me I must build some too. Good luck with sorting the finecast out.

absolutely loving the potato technique!