Now, the Krewe has been started and ill get to explaining them (and the history by which this wip started)
The first set of minis i actually bought was the SM Commander and a box of 5 Grey Knights. At the time the color scheme was black, red/maroonish and i had quality paints in the form of Games Workshop paints.

As you can see the paint scheme looks pretty good even with my meager skills.



Theres four of these guys left, three in the pic, the missing one not accounted for in my gallery is somewhere in my house. He kinda acted like a traveler so i call him Gulliver, If i find him ill call him that at least, for now, hes out there somewhere hopefully causing a bit o trouble.

Now the remaining member of the Grey Knights has my current color scheme on him:
UGH Crappy Walmart paint job on him.

See, I moved around a bit after getting these and other models so in taht time my painting was sordid and after a longer period, the paints are now goop. So not having much money i opted for Walmart paints and Dangit you can tell the quality difference. The paints all thick and flakey or chalky or something and even tho i just painted this guy last week you can tell where the handling of him and moving around of him is having its effect on the paint. Its ok as ive been wanting to, whats it called, strip them down and repaint em, sounds like another wip projekt when i can.

I Then bought the Thousand Sons Space Marines. Handsome looking models. I had my good paints at this time so the quality here is kinda good, if you dont include My skill set lol.
Heres the pharaoh boss guy, hes like 89% done.

I enjoyed posing these guys alot, got some killer looking models from them, heres a few of my favorites.






As you can see time has not been kind on them but they still look kick ass to me. One day ill get the proper paint to get them done proper.

After those guys i bought the Battle for/of Macragge. Yeah buddy! But to my dismay there was not much posing with the models I think theres one missing from the bunch, he must be off with Gulliver. Seeing as how the models are the same (well, two different poses mainly minus the burner and bazooka guys) it was a tad easier to assembly line paint them.


I just added the dark green line around the shoulder pad things, i used a shish-ke-bob stick to get the line done as i currently do not have a very fine brush and i dont have wash, just ink (besides my walmart paints). Yeah i had no clue what paints did what when i bought them, thought hey i could just do a scheme and be omw but as ive read various forums over the years it seems the level of quality that Table top was given has been upped a bit to the point where its like Show quality, and show quality has like wised risen a notch or two, but can you really blame it, some of you guys do indeed make works of art.

So its at this point i realllllly slowed down but i was still trying to maintain interest among moving to another state, finding a job and working my ass off.

I was able to find three terminators and three other random marines, just recently worked on the Termies, they all look like this pretty much
and the metal space marines are still in the original black and green colors
with the exception of this guy, i think hes a chaplain?


Today i just got my first batch of Orks from the AoBR box set (bought separately from the actual box set) so i will probably pose them up tomorrow. I do not like that they are limited in posing them but am very excited to actually have Orks for my Ork Freeboota army

I do plan on getting a bunch of orks, a gretchin squad, a fire warrior set, Kroot set and Legion of the damned minis(with a select few other Space marine minis) to compliment this army, i have high hopes for the legion of the damned (they will be painted in a bad moons clan kind of way to honor the kaptains badmoon clan upbringing - one of the only forethought ideas ive had about this whole army thing so far lol) Oh, i do not intend to use ALL of the minis from these sets, just a few to give it a more valid concept that a few of each race joined the Ork Freebooterz, this also will make it easier when i learn to make my Ork army. The left over minis will be used for conversion/diorama/wtf ever models.

Oh as to my color scheme: its purple and green(floressence green as well as dark green) pretty much with black where needed. I wanted a pearl essence effect but have since been told and seen in person that it doesnt have the same effect i want but it did change my purple a bit. I used a pearl essence medium i got back in 1995 (Liquitex paint) I wanted a dark Green
Skull like emblem painted on the right side of the Terminator Armors' shoulders, where possible im going to do faces/helmets green, and other assorted items will be colored as needed - im still not 100% how this scheme will work with more intricately detailed models. AS for on the orks, thats another toughy, dunno how its gonna work on them so ill be looking for ideas as well as listening for suggestions. - For the Orks purple will be the main color im guessing, otherwise ill have tons of minis to redo lol but im hoping itll work out, ill do purple checkers and the like. I didnt really get to put much thought into my orkiness before i went Ork. Lets hope this works out!

For now I am going to read a few blogs and articles to get ideas for both conversion as well as "how to do's". Until next time Dakkaites have fun lootin fightin n drinkin!

Hope to update asap!