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The orks look fantastic Damo. Sooo much character!

Yup yup, really great stuff...i love the way you paint orks man, they are almost glowing, between that atomic skin color and the reddish brown rust, All super warm colors, i love em! This army en massse when finished will be freaking EPIC. Youll need to post some pics...still hoping to see that fat dward make some progress...i love that sculpt...and dont you have a treasure chest with teeth lying around that needs painting...?

Ya knoiw, the Orks in berets remind me of an olkd show from Japan,,,,,Da Gargoyle gang from "Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot!"

Cheers guys! :-) Shaz I'm gonna have to google that one lol! and Bebop I do indeed have a toothy chest on my table ready for some love! I just haven't learnt how to paint a wood effect properly!

Thanks Gits, I think that's why I am falling so deeply in love with the Orks! it seems tht each individual warrior really has some character that you want to bring to the fore as a hobbyist so people can see them and imagine them coming to life and doing what they do! in fact I had a nightmare thought I sold my entire Flesh Eaters army and used the proceeds to build an enourmous Ork force! OMG!but that's never happen.......would it?........ :-)

Also, I'm actually glad it can still work as a Battleblade? or as a Looted Baneblade :-) even though it's a slim to none chance of me playing Apoc, I've always loved having the option juuuuust in case!

Could always use the converted Baney as a Battle-Wagon

Well, 40k allows one super-heavy in a normal game... so I think you can field it with no problem.

Banewagon update! went over the entire tank full of rivets with umber shade then highlighted them with gunmetal, then I used my Orky metalz meffod and washed them with a heavily watered blazing orange, some I went over heavier and others I left subtle it's a good look overall and I haven't even touched on doing any edging or highlighting yet not even sure I need to? I also painted the searchlight and then I went and had a nap

anyway I want to follow through all the vehicles in a similar vein with washed rusted metals and muted greens with the occasional coloured panel or hazard stripes?






more Ork boyz tomorrow I reckon then i'll finish up LittleH's stuff.

Really interesting watching you go through this process. I have a Baneblade that I picked up used that may get a similar treatment.

I think you missed a rivet.

Always like seeing how your small changes make huge differences.

Woooooooow! Thats looking awesome, nerd!

To echo Gits, I think its really great to watch you go through your process on this. Ork conversions are just such a personal thing, and you can really hide in a lot of little details and story. I particularly like the tacked on length of I-beam on the sponson.

Fantastic work man! That looks freaking epic so far! I love the colors you used for the light/glass...perfect choice! And the super contrast between the rust and the green..also perfect. Cant wait to see it finished man!

Natty conversion mate.

The best part of that tank is the barrel barrel.

You guys were thinking pretty much the same as I am! it's the little things that might seem pretty simple by painting standards but when you add them together they really look effective and are quite fast (if you weren't doing every rivet on a Baneblade!!)

I think I have finished the turret on the Banewagon I painted the boss pole with an Emperors spears helmet and some Imperial Fist bits that just need a little detail added and then it's done but the majority I am happy with, it does fly against my usual methods and way of painting due to no edge highlighting! I could go back and do it but I'm scared I'll ruin the overall look? thoughts welcome on this quandary





and do you remember those rather boring and bland Ork boyz from a pot or two ago? well I finished the skin on them and it makes a hell of a difference to the overall look and feel of them, keep in mind all i've done since base colour is just the green skin! even I was happily suprised at how much more advanced they look! so I've picked a few to show you the skin tones and the start of the weapons.

Lookin good and orky! I really like the powerclaw nob, looks mean, coming at you as opposed to the normal, more static nob.

Your Orks are great!!

That Bane wagon and the Boyz mob looks great! Nice job!

That last nob is spectacular! So much character and motion to it.

I think the bosspole looks great as-is, no need for edge highlighting. Damn do I still love that tank xD

Fantanktastic. Ork look great with all the red blending on the gums and added bits.

It's all looking really nice. I like the SCUBA-Ork especially!

Well what can I say but bloody awful terrible waste of my viewing time ....... Well some on had to bring you back down

They look great but have my favourites especially the running power claw also love the added colour to the tank makes it pop

 Azazelx wrote:
It's all looking really nice. I like the SCUBA-Ork especially!

True that. The ScubaOrk is pretty damn good.

Oh you guys make me blush except for LDD...... he's a hat ...... kidding of course........ I can't write what he is, i'd be banned

anyway I've more cool stuff I fiddled with today, let's not spoil it by telling you so I'll just show you...one...at....a ...time

firstly the weapons on the boyz I finished them off by highlighting edges with silver and then a light drybrush on parts, a touch of nuln on some bits and they look right proppa Orky and easy to do en-mass



secondly I added a rather fetching ram to the front of the Banewagon! I think it needed it and sets it off just nice!


Thirdly Bjorn the fell handed chasing Orks..... wtf!


Fourthly I felt the Wagon needed a little more Orkyness by the addition of moar Grots! to balance the visual weight of the vehicle I wanted a little character on each side and two in the centre (turret driver & hold Grot) I really like this guy, he's holding a powa lifta with another I beam they'll weld on and in hi other hand I've got him balancing himself by gripping another cable he quite doesn't look to sure of






Fifthly I finished the interior cargo hold of the Banewagon HA! made you wade through the other stuff to get to finished bits!!! I'm so evil.....*ahem* I like the Grot rigger hanging from a broken fuel pipe leaking fuel onto the ground and the broken computer screen behind him with the buttons showing only a few still operating, it just has a nice feel to it all I think and believably could house a bunch of Orks! well, by GW standard






Sixthly I got a package of a small commission from Gitsplitta a bunch of Cyborks to work some oily grotty mechanical mayhem on! I'm thinking darker metals to contrast the skin and operation wounds?


seventhly...... nothing I'm gonna have some dinner and a wee then lie on the bed and read some Sons of Fenris.....

No need to be so kind sir

Well plenty of pictures lost half an hour wading through but well worth it (thought I better be polite this time )
You really have pulled out all the stops on this one and plenty of character getting crammed in

The grot with power lift claw is a nice addition just wondering how you can reflect a live cable with sparks though as that would look awesome ( challenge )

As for the interior love the hanging grot, leaking pipe and the broken control panel but I think you need to add a big flashing red light as something has to be in a state of warning

The front ram is a good call but needs Orkifying maybe some h bars across the top to reinforce it.

The weapon pallet is fitting has that mix of metallic and rust with a hint of miss use

The only issue I have is your first Ork has a unpainted wrist band or have you just not got round to it yet

O yes ORKS DONT RUN

Now go wee and read

Gits group look an interesting mob looks like you will be having some more fun with them then, also is that one slipping in a pile of squig gak

All those little grots add so much character, the bane wagon iz looking pure awesome.

Bane wagon is looking great! I did the same thing with my grot mega tank... adding some grots to it here and there to give it some character & focus. Yours are much better though. Love the grot with the klaw & wire. It's like he knows *something* isn't quite right but hasn't figured out that if the cable isn't tight... it's not going to help him balance at all!

Fantastic looking orks!!

lone dirty dog wrote:No need to be so kind sir

Well plenty of pictures lost half an hour wading through but well worth it (thought I better be polite this time )
You really have pulled out all the stops on this one and plenty of character getting crammed in

The grot with power lift claw is a nice addition just wondering how you can reflect a live cable with sparks though as that would look awesome ( challenge )

As for the interior love the hanging grot, leaking pipe and the broken control panel but I think you need to add a big flashing red light as something has to be in a state of warning

The front ram is a good call but needs Orkifying maybe some h bars across the top to reinforce it.

The weapon pallet is fitting has that mix of metallic and rust with a hint of miss use

The only issue I have is your first Ork has a unpainted wrist band or have you just not got round to it yet

O yes ORKS DONT RUN

Now go wee and read

Gits group look an interesting mob looks like you will be having some more fun with them then, also is that one slipping in a pile of squig gak

Thanks dude! no I haven't forgotten the wristband i've just done the skin and weapons so far, everything else is still base colours to work on! and I think (for once ) you're righta big re light of some design is needed! I shall attend to that soon as I can.

GiraffeX wrote:All those little grots add so much character, the bane wagon iz looking pure awesome.

Thanks my man! character iz good right! thats wot itz all about wiv Orks!

Gitsplitta wrote:Bane wagon is looking great! I did the same thing with my grot mega tank... adding some grots to it here and there to give it some character & focus. Yours are much better though. Love the grot with the klaw & wire. It's like he knows *something* isn't quite right but hasn't figured out that if the cable isn't tight... it's not going to help him balance at all!

Yep, sumfin's not quite right wiv this wire? I think he looks just the right amount of Grot for that spot on the tank now I need to find others for my other planned vehicles! some already have from the great Ork conversioner Camkieri!

SJM wrote:Fantastic looking orks!!

Why thanks heaps!

Orks and converted baneblade are splendid!

Great work on the orks, and the tank is looking very nice. I like how it is a running work in progress for the occupants.

I like that even in your glorious head, nothing is ever quite finished!