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ok so this is basically where my finnished ork stuff is going to live from now on. im doing a PB and now this for everything i actually have "done".

pics below:

battle wagon




deff dreads and kanz






deffkopters





looted wagon



big squiggoth




thats enough for now. comments much appreciated and i will update when i finnish more stuff.

wow!!

i like the squiggoth, he looks kinda cute!

Not 100% convinced of the color schemes but digging some of the conversions.
Love the Squiggoth

Yugsor2011 wrote:wow!!

thank you

Far Seer wrote:i like the squiggoth, he looks kinda cute!

thanks.. i think. honestly i was'nt going for cute but still.

Ratius wrote:Not 100% convinced of the color schemes but digging some of the conversions.
Love the Squiggoth

how would you surgest improving it. they are death skulls so the blue is a must and has to stay. but im ok with everything else

I think the blue is fine, as you say they are deathskullz.
But just for my personal taste I dont really like the "graffitti" look on the boomwagon, I think its a little over the top albeit very Orky
On the converted jetbikes/skimmers I think you should tone down the yellow/red effects, if you could invert the colors I think it would work better i.e paint all the yellow blue and vice versa (perhaps even get rid of the yellow completely). I'd drop the red paint scheme altogether, I dont think it fits too well.

But of course thats just my personal opinion. Good work on the overall conversions!

Ratius wrote:I think the blue is fine, as you say they are deathskullz.
But just for my personal taste I dont really like the "graffitti" look on the boomwagon, I think its a little over the top albeit very Orky
On the converted jetbikes/skimmers I think you should tone down the yellow/red effects, if you could invert the colors I think it would work better i.e paint all the yellow blue and vice versa (perhaps even get rid of the yellow completely). I'd drop the red paint scheme altogether, I dont think it fits too well.

TBH i totally agree. i just looked at my looted wagon and yea the graffiti is'nt looking too great. i think the graffiti can stay it just needs a touch up and some bits need redoing. at the moment its just a bit too messy.

but with the deffkopters, they are surposed to be bad moon freebooters who have joined my warband. but because the rest of my army is kinda deff dread inclined i did'nt want them to have the same scheme. but hmmm its not like they could'nt be bad moons who had there kopters stolen. and with the red evil sunz one it does look out of place a little bit.

anyway im going to add those 2 units to my "possibly redoing" list which currently contains

32 boyz
a dref dread
a truck
and a stompa

Id recomend trying some transfers for the graffitt. I have found in the past that the cleaner look makes all the diffrence.

I think the red may look a little out of place because it is not a complimentry colour on the colour wheel. It might be worth looking at a colour wheel and thinking about complimentry but diffrent colours for the freebooters.

http://www.color-wheel-pro.com/color-theory-basics.html

I like the scratch building work though, lots of looting and lots of dakka. What every Ork warlord realy needs. As an ork player myself I am tempted to ask if there is enough dakka, but only because the answer is always no (Only joking, they look very killy)

Paul wrote:Id recomend trying some transfers for the graffitt. I have found in the past that the cleaner look makes all the diffrence.

I think the red may look a little out of place because it is not a complimentry colour on the colour wheel. It might be worth looking at a colour wheel and thinking about complimentry but diffrent colours for the freebooters.

what do you mean by "tranfers for the graffiti"?

and i am seriously considering going over them in a deathskulls sorta theme now, anyway.

Paul wrote: I like the scratch building work though, lots of looting and lots of dakka. What every Ork warlord realy needs. As an ork player myself I am tempted to ask if there is enough dakka, but only because the answer is always no (Only joking, they look very killy)

and thank you
I try

at the Deffkoptas.

One Buzzsaw isn't enough, let's put THREE!

So Orky.

ok this is just a heads up, but i AM in the process of repainting the looted wagon. i base coated it today. and im redoing some other stuff as well. it and the other thing will be on here in a while.

and AresX8 thanks

Those Deffkoptas are awesome!

thanks

use some washes.

which ones and where

Awesome! You used lego on the killa kanz!?

Really nice work!
The squiggoth looks like an elephant that had a "trunk accident" (I wouldn't be supprised if that is actually the case ).

Other than that, is that one of the 2 per box old school metal landraiders you used for your battle wagon? Don't see those around anymore very often!

Metal Land Raiders yowch the only 1st Ed one I've seen was plastic. The Deffkoptas are a cunning idea and I like the spider Kan.

bloodaxegit wrote:Awesome! You used lego on the killa kanz!?

yes indeed i did. they fit in really well with ork tech as depending on what bitz you have they look really sci fi'y and meky
oh and i have used it through out. not just on the kans.

fiddler6291 wrote:Really nice work!
The squiggoth looks like an elephant that had a "trunk accident" (I wouldn't be supprised if that is actually the case ).

Other than that, is that one of the 2 per box old school metal landraiders you used for your battle wagon? Don't see those around anymore very often!

it is actually the case lol (elephants). and no this is one of the first ed plastic ones. bought it at a boot fair for £1.

Llamahead wrote:Metal Land Raiders yowch the only 1st Ed one I've seen was plastic. The Deffkoptas are a cunning idea and I like the spider Kan.

thank you very much.

well as i am here i might as well add some new stuff i have done. so far the new stuff is my BIG MEK BOSS gutmelta and a squad of nobz for him to ride into battle with. pics below. (i am also working on the looted wagon and a stompa.. just a heads up)

Your deffkoptas remind me of reaver ships from the Firefly universe. Haha just thought you should know!

damn, loving your deffkoptas

Stormcallers wrote:Your deffkoptas remind me of reaver ships from the Firefly universe. Haha just thought you should know!

i had to google firefly universe then to find out if it was a compiment or not. if i saw the right stuff it was a compliment. they look cool

Teeffless wrote:damn, loving your deffkoptas

thanks

Over all, very respectable conversions. Original, interesting, Orky, and pretty dynamic.
The paint is pretty bad IMO.
I'm not crazy about how flat all the paint looks, nor do the colors really jive in any particular fashion. The graffiti all looks incredibly juvenile.
Lastly, the randomness and chaos of the paint schemes don't really look random/chaotic like an Ork might do, but more lazy/mentally challenged. And no, Orks aren't stupid, lazy, or mentally challenged. They are cunning and industrious, if not base and aggressive.
I think that army would look amazing with some thought and effort put in to painting them well.
As a side, I'm not attacking the OP, I'm just making some fairly critical observations regarding the disparity between the modeling and painting.

1)"I'm not crazy about how flat all the paint looks"
fair enough, its a good point, and its true.

2)"nor do the colors really jive in any particular fashion."
also a fair point, they dont particually "jive"

3)"The graffiti all looks incredibly juvenile."
ok its still a valid point but starting to add favours of rudeness

4) "Lastly, the randomness and chaos of the paint schemes don't really look random/chaotic like an Ork might do, but more lazy/mentally challenged. And no, Orks aren't stupid, lazy, or mentally challenged. They are cunning and industrious, if not base and aggressive."
right so here is where i started to think that you were just trying to be a . "....chaos of the paint schemes don't really look random/chaotic like an Ork might do, but more lazy/mentally challenged. And no, Orks aren't stupid, lazy, or mentally challenged." when writing that were you actually trying to give some creative critism or were you just looking to give critism. because to be honest, it seemed like the later. and that is really of no use to me what so ever.
maybe if you had added some ways that it could have been improved or links to techniques that could help, it would have been a lot less rude and alot more helpful.

5)I think that army would look amazing with some thought and effort put in to painting them well.
the last point here did'nt really feel very sincere after the point above.

but to be honest, im not a very good painter, i dont have all the paints, i dont know all of the techniques. which is really the reason i joined daka in the first place. so that i could get advise, learn things and know what to get and how to use it.

so i would appreciate it if you could give techniques or things to look into that could improve my painting. unless of course you only have the time to critise, then don't worry.

thanks for your input.

repainted the deff dreads and a boyz squad and picz will be on here soonish.

so this does'nt really count as soonish but i finished the boyz squad the other day (liturally) and the deff dreads a while ago. i was basically just redoing and cleaning up some area's.
constructive critism and comments would be great.
thanks



















and i am repainting the looted wagon with boom gun today. the only reason i have'nt got round to it yet is i have had my hands full with spacemarine stuff.

anyway thanks for looking and comments would e great

Great conversions man! Especially like the squiggot

I especially love the deffkopta on the left.He looks like he just went through a big horde of zombies and the blood splattered everywhere

.Kern. wrote:Great conversions man! Especially like the squiggot

thanks

Knobibrot wrote:I especially love the deffkopta on the left.He looks like he just went through a big horde of zombies and the blood splattered everywhere

honestly i am thinking about repainting it. i was going to redo it so that it still had the splattered blood over it but just so it was'nt black underneath and had more of a deathskulls vibe to it.
thanks as well BTW

I absolutley love this one!