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Not only my first ever battlewagon, but my first ever non-walker vehicle, all done and tabletop ready. Not great but I'm happy with how it looks on the table

Looks pretty good, I think!

Looks really good man, washed the red??

I normally hate paint jobs on ork vehicles. I've been putting off painting all my wagons because I just don't know how I would do them to make them NOT look like absolute trash.

I actually like what you've done.

Some of the detail work could have used a bit more care, for example, I can see streak marks from your washes, which is something that can be fixed with experience.

But I love the way you chose to break up the colour. Edging each of the plates with the metallic, as well as making the rivets metallic, really does a lot to break up the red. Did you also wash between the red plates with black? It feels very defined, which a lot of other paint jobs on here lack. The plates tend to blend together, making most ork paint jobs a mess of brightness.

Anyway, good show. This was good inspiration showing that ork vehicles CAN look good, even if you're not a Golden Daemon winner.

I think it looks good. You don't see many ork vehicles quite as subdued so it is unique and refreshing I think.

The great thing about Orks is no matter how badly you paint them they still look like awesome Ork models but yours looks great nice job!

Some nice red. Nice dirty look.

Thanks for the C&C all! Any tips that can be applied on my future trukks/wagons/bombers are more than welcome! If it wasn't obvious, I'm still very inexperienced

jdicarlo wrote:Looks really good man, washed the red??

Yeah, the red (and most of the model, actually) was given a heavy wash with my lost pot of Devlan Mud.

latrodectus wrote:I normally hate paint jobs on ork vehicles. I've been putting off painting all my wagons because I just don't know how I would do them to make them NOT look like absolute trash.

I actually like what you've done.

Some of the detail work could have used a bit more care, for example, I can see streak marks from your washes, which is something that can be fixed with experience.

But I love the way you chose to break up the colour. Edging each of the plates with the metallic, as well as making the rivets metallic, really does a lot to break up the red. Did you also wash between the red plates with black? It feels very defined, which a lot of other paint jobs on here lack. The plates tend to blend together, making most ork paint jobs a mess of brightness.

Anyway, good show. This was good inspiration showing that ork vehicles CAN look good, even if you're not a Golden Daemon winner.

Almost all the washing was done with Devlan Mud (except the Ork and the Big Shoota), but I made sure to manipulate the excess wash to group into the sections between the plates to define them more.

Looks really good. Im going to miss you Devlan mud :(