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Awesome piece of work, this is what I love about orcs!

I really like the conversion, however, I'm not a fan of the paint scheme. I know, it's the traditional ork colors, I just like the more realistic, dark and gritty orks.

You use the colors of your most common opponents in an effort to get under their skin?

Why that's atrocious. How very Orky of you.

I heartily approve. : )

Eric

MagickalMemories wrote:You use the colors of your most common opponents in an effort to get under their skin?

Why that's atrocious. How very Orky of you.

I heartily approve. : )

Eric

But of course! The first move of the battle is in the mind.

I've been seeing tha avatar for months now , and for the first time I realized who it is . C'mon do the "truffle shuffle".

This idea is now so blatantly stolen. Hope you dont mind.

I sourced the toys in Poundland, checked them out and will buy at least three on next stock delivery.

Orlanth wrote:This idea is now so blatantly stolen. Hope you dont mind.

I sourced the toys in Poundland, checked them out and will buy at least three on next stock delivery.

The great thing about ideas is that , you may steal it ,but i still have it. I'm getting together some to send to the states for some dakkites. I hope to see all of your efforts here in the future.

vodski wrote:I've been seeing tha avatar for months now , and for the first time I realized who it is . C'mon do the "truffle shuffle".

Now, I wouldn't be going OT like this if it wasn't the Thread's author who brought it up...

I used to have an animated .gif of it as my avatar on Bartertown.

I watched the moving again, late last year. I found it amazingly funny that, though MANY people know and love the "Truffle Shuffle," it only lasted for about 2 seconds in the movie.

Eric

This is a great job. Your work makes it look like a GW or FW model kit that has been painted up - a great conversion. Very good paint scheme too. Yeah, I want to take a week's vacation and build this and some stompas and about 300 boyz to go with them.

dietrich wrote:This is a great job. Your work makes it look like a GW or FW model kit that has been painted up - a great conversion. Very good paint scheme too. Yeah, I want to take a week's vacation and build this and some stompas and about 300 boyz to go with them.

300 Boyz! Good luck with that then. I just painted up 80 boyz , hard work, and I used the easyist paint scheme. I've just got this plane to finish, a stomper and 8 gaunts to make into gargoyles and I've painted everything! Just in time for the new IG codex to be released , bugger. New superheavys , valks , new leman russes. Will it ever end!

Great paintjob. I don't know if this is what you were going for, but the colors are very Rogue Trader-era orks rather than current ork colors.

Well I should learn to use the camera correctly. The picture is more orangey than the real thing. And I've recently given it a wash with the gw red wash ( can't remember the name ). I've also made it dirtier and battle worn . But I know what you mean. The colours were inspired by George Dellapina's army. He uses yellow as the main colour and blue and red on his markings. Which are painted nice and bright.
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.ifelix.net/gamingblog/wp-content/img_0309_2_bc01.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.ifelix.net/gamingblog/%3Fcat%3D124&usg=__uQVarn82AvZUU6KeB43uHiAiwJY=&h=524&w=450&sz=64&hl=en&start=2&um=1&tbnid=Xx4Rxti8GVGONM:&tbnh=132&tbnw=113&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dgeorge%2Bdellapina%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4PBEA_en-GBGB286GB287%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1

I believe the link is broken because i see the address and not the pic :(

Sorry try the un google version.
http://www.ifelix.net/gamingblog/?cat=124

randomfrog wrote:I really like the conversion, however, I'm not a fan of the paint scheme. I know, it's the traditional ork colors, I just like the more realistic, dark and gritty orks.

realistic? they are green killing machines that are distantly related to mushrooms :|

nice bomma though

I can take no more , and give no more time . So I declare "finished" on this one.

Heres are the last pics. First the base.



On the board.


And the final paint up. Still looks a touch more orange than in real life.




Hope you like it. If you find his toy in the poundshop and "do it up" , then please post your results. I would imagine that you dakkites could do a much more inventive job than me. Although I did think of having a grot parachute half way to the base , or hanging from a fueling hose where the pilot had taken off a bit to eagerly. But these ideas never got off the ground ( pardon the pun ). Cheers Mike

Its official, I bloody love it!

Well done old man

most awesome

That is cool. Now get another one and get a whole squad done!

It looks great, even with the skin cancer colour scheme. As with others, I might have to regard Poundland as a mecca for items other than anti-perspirant.

I was leery in the beginning but you've really pulled it off and it looks great!

thalor

That's just freaking awesome!!
Well done

How did you make those long flying stands ( the long sticks where the plane sits on)

Really great work - great to follow along from the concept to the final model. What's next?

AJC

Love it.
Very Orky.

That is totally awesome.

Uriels_Flame wrote:That is cool. Now get another one and get a whole squad done!

You first. I'm going to see if it does a job on the field of play. Then I've got to find some more of them.

floppy wrote:That's just freaking awesome!!
Well done

How did you make those long flying stands ( the long sticks where the plane sits on)

I work as an alarm engineer , so I get around factories and shops a lot. I was working in a womens clothes shop in crickhowell . ( thats Wales , england ). A place called Pips ,( big up nuff respect to the pips posse, ay!). In the back store room they had hat stands for displaying 4 hats at a time. A plastic base with 4 perspex rods and a discs on the ends . The lightbulb lit above my head and I asked if I could have a spare as a stand for my sons plane. They said ok as long as I put a sheep on the scenic base. Does a grot count as a sheep?

AJC: Whats next. Well I've got a stompa to do next , something nice and simple , box standard.

Anti Mag: Skin cancer colour scheme? If I remenber correctly , its what the advertising graphic designers refer to as a," blood and vomit" colour scheme.

Thanks to all for the positive and constructive comments.

OMG your a genius i love it the paint job, i love the grot on the base and i love it genrally.

Congrats to you

I really like the scheme; it definitely works, and it looks great on that stand. I meant no offence with the previous comment!

So... who's up for true scale Aeronautica Imperialis?

Absolutely fantastic! Perfect 'character' to it.

it looks awsome i like it much more than the FW version