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Thanks Monkeytroll I had a look at the Tinboyz and I don't think thats it (also I don't think I ever owned any). I was thinking maybe its from old style Mega armour? I can't find any photos though.

I finished of (well almost) an objective, one of my piles of gears. (Edit; jesus thats a big picture of such as small item)



And my new group of boyz made some progress last night. My new approach is;

base coat the skin
paint everything else in a thin coat of grey or two
fill in the areas I want grey with more coats
base coat the yellow
base coat the brown
base coat the silver
weather the yellow
sepia wash all over
highlights etc on everything but the skin
attach arms
highlight the skin
details and base

This is where I am at at the moment, and I hope to have all the base coating done by the time I hit the sack tomorrow.



Things are on schedule to finish on Monday, a week after I started. Which will be the quickest I have ever painted anything. With this approach I should be able to start batch painting five at a time (if not more later). Finding a grey primer instead of black would speed things up even more. Anyone know of a decent grey primer you can get in the UK?

Oh and I change my base rim colour from graveyard to scorched brown. What do you think looks better guys?

I done it! well almost

I've still got to do the bases but I was up to about 2am last night finishing them off and I wasn't staying up longer to do the bases. Painting 3 Boyz in one week might not seem like a big deal to most of you but I'm quite proud. I managed to paint (half, its big and split) my kitchen this week as well, two colours 3 coats each. I figure without having to normally do that, 3 Boyz a week should be easy.



Grey primer would definitely speed things up, anyone know what the Army Painter primers are like? I read the coloured ones are quite powdery, whats the grey like?

Come on someone answer me

I also started the Tinbitz base coat on my Kan yesterday so thats my mission this week. No photos because the blurry all browny metal coloured photo seemed a bit pointless to upload.

Those boyz look quite good really. well done

Boyz look good, and I understand where you're coming from with the time thing, well done. Can't help you with the primer thing though as I've not got around to finding one myself yet

edit: Yeah, not tinboyz. Think you're on the money with mega-armour though, found a few variations on a bad moon boss in mega armour, not seen that particular arm, but there were obviously a few variants doing the rounds.

Cheers guys. Yep time's a bitch, most nights I don't get to sit down to paint till 11 at the moment, its all that damn womens fault! Think I might try and get down to the store next week to pick up the AP primer, I guess the only way I'm going to find out what its like is to try it.

Love the paint job on your orks mate! very nice conversions also, very well done!

Cheers Wolf, I just sent that photo check your PM's

Where did you get the gears for your objective markers? I've been looking for some and keep not finding any for a price that's worth it.

DeathGod wrote:Where did you get the gears for your objective markers? I've been looking for some and keep not finding any for a price that's worth it.

Old printer, old tape deck, old toy? To be honest I don't remember but I get plenty of old electronic items come though my work and the items that are no good I take a hammer to. They would have come from one of those items.

Heres a tip. Don't knock your newly purchased trukk of a 2.5 meter tall shelf.



I completed a trade with The Great Wolf for a Megaforce today (well almost still got to send my stuff). All on the sprue except for the trukk which he had built. Five minutes after I had received it this happened.

So anyway my army is growing but most of it is still on sprue.

What have I been up to since finishing the Boyz? A new Kan. Unlike the first one I haven't glued the arms yet as I want to try and hit more details this time. He took a little longer to base coat then I wanted (days ) mainly because I was a little stingy with the primer so the Tinbitz didn't cover very well. With a little luck and a bit of elbow grease I should get him finished by the end of the weekend. With even more luck I will get the Nob for the Boyz finished as well, then I can get a group shot.



Back to painting then I suppose, damn distractions.

Looks awesome.

Who cares about speed, your models look great.

Really nice bright yellow Orks and that banner is ace.

Thanks for the complements guys, they do help to encourage me. Your right of course MrH I shouldn't care but I really really want to get this Kan wall detachment done so I can play a game. Things don't stop there though, I've also got most of a 1500p speed freaks list sitting on sprue to build afterwards and far to many Orky army plans bouncing about my head.

But back to the first army, another Kan "almost" finished. Still got lens to do and I think I might add some more stuff to the base. To be honest I'm not all that happy with it but meh, time to move on, got a whole army to paint after all.





Well thats it. Weather has been great here so no time for painting, and this weekend the better half has me going to Epsom for a wedding so no time for painting. Damn all these demands on my time, I need time for painting.

I did pick up a kan of Army Painter Primer though so I hope to at least get some more Boyz primed. Don't know what the quality is like but the price is much better then GW

Happy painting folks.

Very nice, the yellow and blue look really great with the weathering

Cheers again monkey, when it comes to the Bad Moon colours I defiantly prefer the look of yellow and blue to yellow and black.

I forgot to mention although I've had no time for painting I have found time for destruction. Figuring the the truck would be easier to paint in pieces and it was already half demolished, I went to town. It's going to be painted in the traditional red in the end but first I'm going to spend the next few weeks piecing it all back together to see what I can come up with.

Slow?!? You don't know the meaning of the word slow! (for a more accurate definition - go check out my blog! ***shameless plug***)

Surprised I hadn't seen this earlier - it's right up my alley! Great conversions and painting - I'll be watching!

(Might have to try that Burna/KFF combo myself if/when I get around to another Big Mek... oh that's right - still need to finish painting my current one - and I started, what 18 months ago???)

Oh I've seen your blog Arakasi, it was one of the first blogs I started reading when I found Dakka, before I had even signed up (excellent conversions, painting and combining the two army's I collected as a kid) In fact I think it may of been the first few pages of your blog; the trukks, Mek with servo harness and Kopter you use as your avatar, that inspired me to dump the reboot of my Dark Angels and pick up my Orks again.

And 18 months thats disgraceful, you should be ashamed

I know, I know

Been working on my trukk this week, a little break from painting. After breaking it into even more parts then the fall, I discovered a few things. First was that a few parts were missing, maybe they had never been included in the original build or maybe they are still under the shelf in the stock room I will probably never know. Some like the drive shaft were easily replaced, others were not, the steering wheel for example presented me with a problem. Second was that the construction of the crew wasn't quite to a standard I was happy with.

So my solution, build a metal box to protect the hidden driver, it's still very much WIP. Oh and number plates why don't more GW vehicles have number plates.

Slow and steady killed the 'umies.

I'm there with ya man. My progress is slow going as well. I dont know how people can paint a hole army in a month.

The trukk is looking great by the way.

They must be cheating schank, I refuse to believe claims to the contrary.

Finished the basic build of my cab/cockpit/metalbox (?) and started on the rivets, I am quickly coming to realise that I hate cutting rivets. I am sure that there was a UK web store selling them but I can't remember who. Anyone have any ideas?

I think I last picked some up from Antenocitis Workshop.

Thanks monkeytroll I might give them a whirl. Although I actually started to enjoy riveting after doing it for a few evenings , now I've finished I'm looking around for more stuff to add rivets to. Thats it for the Trukk for now, going to put it back in the cupboard. I still need to sort out a gunner but I will do that later it was just a distraction from painting after all.



So on to my experiments with primer. I pick up some Army Painter Grey Uniform a few weeks ago and finally got a chance to use it today. This it what it looks like encase you don't know (Yeah to using up bandwidth for pointless photos)



The first thing I primed was the Boyz bodies, and I was quite unhappy with the results. Very course and powdery finish, I have no idea how its going to take paint but I figured I would chip on.



So I then primed the arms, these came out a lot better. I think it was due to the distance I sprayed at, The Boyz were done at about 12" whilst the arms were more along the lines of 6". So now I have a dilemma, do I try to strip the the bodies and re-prime? or leave as is and see how they take paint?



Oh yeah it's worth mentioning that I abandoned the potato, I've found sticking to a sprue much better.

Hmm, I'd say strip 'em. Powdery/grainy primer just leads to dodgy looking paint-jobs, and it's not like you're losing hours (or even days/months/years/decades) of hard work if you do it now.

I guess your right, I just so hate the smell of dettol. But it's not like I'm in a hurry so they're taking a bath now.

Rember folks if something is worth doing its worth doing right

Nob for my Boyz almost done, just the lens and the base to go. I'm actually quite happy with how he turned out, a few things here and there I wish I had done differently but its the first paint job that is close to the the image I had in my head when I started.



When I finish going to take a squad shot, might try to knock some terrain together for that though.

Wow just seen your thread from your sig when you posted in my thread and I have to say your orks are fantastic your yellow is Killer !!!
Keep up the good work

KK

Looks good Triple-B

Some nice weathering on the gob, and nice colours on the old mega-arm.

Agreed. Looking great as always.