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Hi Dakkanauts! I've been playing with incomplete models for far too long, and figured that the peer pressure of regularly updating a blog would serve me better than my own dubious self discipline. I have literally hundreds of orks that need painting, in addition to more WIP vehicles trapped in Development Hell (tm) than I'd like to admit. Anyway, expect to see lots of orks, ork conversions, kustom vehicles, and I've got a terrain project running on the side at a bud's house that I'll add here as well.



Let's get to work shall we?

First off the bat, I've got around 130ish orks speed painted up from about a year ago. Over the next week, I'm going to touch up / fix / repaint all of them. Yes. All of them. I've already got one mob down, three to go.


This is the quality I'm starting at. Frankly, it's not baaaaaaaad but I wouldn't call it good either. It's like, low tier tabletop quality. And I'm not joking myself into thinking I am going to be painting above TTQ, but I'd like to climb the ladder a few rungs for posterity.


Look at that stupid idiot face.

This is the new standard that's been set for my infantry:







I can proudly say that Orange Mob has been fully finished, bar ancillary orks, like that one choppa nob in there I'll realistically never use, and a dedicated painboy (which I will definitely use). I'm working my way up from the most roughly painted mob to the best painted, so Yellow Mob is up next.


Look at these doofy idiots.

I bought most of my army secondhand, and the previous owner apparently didn't know how to hands, so I'm going to have to actually realign most of the mobs hands and arms so they are actually HOLDING THEIR SHOOTAS. Additionally, I'm gonna have to scrape their bases, some of which I PVA + sanded before priming (easy to scrape off) or the previous owner used superglue and what seems like sawdust or something. Point is that its incredibly difficult to remove, and most of the orks in orange mob that were mounted on such a base, I simply removed them from the base entirely (usually destroying the base in the process) and starting with a new one. Ugh.

Wish me luck Dakka.

EDIT: Actually, just realized I need to drill orange mob's barrels. Ohohohohoho.


-Bolg out

нужно сверлить ствол оружия! шов на деталях, не удален
need to drill the barrel slagga! seam on the details, is not removed.
great painting. forward to continuing...

After drilling both orange and yellow mobs' barrels and disassembling then properly reassembling yellow, I really wasn't feelin' the painting. Maybe tomorrow. However, I was feeling like getting one of my warboss conversions hammered out. I have a few warbosses with different armaments, but when I want a relatively "regular" warboss and I'm not running Grukk because I want a relic or something, this is the guy. The bulk of him is the AoBR boss.





A close up on the xenos hide. Gonna let this first layer of green stuff dry before I go back and hit up the deets. His neck needs some serious tlc



Tomorrow I'll do my best to deliver a finished yellow mob.

Very cool, nice to see a dynamic ork pose rather than the more typical static poses that they get stuck with most of the time. I also like the skin tones you've done on the boyz, very impressive.

That awkward moment when someone calls their work 'low-tier tabletop quality' and it's still infinitely better than anything I'll ever paint

Self-pity aside, you've got some great looking Orks here, the group picture really reminds me of the artwork in the Ork codex

Keep up the good work, I'm excited to see more of your greenskin horde

Thanks for the kind words guys! I really appreciate it. I know I missed the self imposed deadline already, but with good reason! Two reasons actually: Number one being my terrain side project I'm working on at a friend's place, so when the opportunity to do that came up, I seized it. Behold the fruits of my labour! They have since been based with sand and rubble, and the next time we see them, they'll be fully painted.

A big vent thing that has been hastily fortified into a foxhole type gunbase:




A rocky hill, made by following this tutorial: http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Making%20Dynamic%2C%20Craggy%20Hills



A rocky ridge type deal, basically acts as impassable for non-skimmer vehicles:



And finally, my favourite of the batch, a blasted out former Imperial bunker / fallout shelter / hovel that has since been claimed by greenies:




So that's what I was doing Tuesday. Today, I got yellow mob pretty much done. All thats left is sealing the base in then getting some grass on it, and thats all just a waiting game anyway. It took a lot longer than I thought it would to get yellow mob hammered out. Bit off more than I bargained for. As mentioned previously, the former owner somehow managed to assemble the shoota boyz rather... for lack of a better word... wrong. At first I gave him the benefit of the doubt, having never actually assembled a boy from the sprue myself before, thinking that the right and left arms were paired and maybe he botched it, but then I realized that thats not the case at all, and basically every arm is compatible with every other arm because the shoota is independent from the arms. Baffling.


Yellow mob: painted poorly, assembled even worse


A wave of dismemberment (sounds like a metal album) ensues


How do I hold all these arms???

After getting the arms situation sorted out, I was able to get started with the painting process, which was rather arduous to say the least.

Progress Shot 1: Skin repainted, metal touched up, yellows saturated.


Progress Shot 2: Leathers washed again, metals washed, warpaint daubed, checkers embroidered


Group shot:


Nob 1 front:


Nob 1 back:


Nob 2:


Nob 3:


Boy 1:


Boy 2:


Boy 3 (pants):


And the nob from orange mob that needed finishing got his base done and rust effects:


The repainted horde thus far



bolg out

Awesome stuff , keep it coming! What recipes do you use for the yellow and the skin?

Dear Dakka,

Me again. Here to fulfil my end of the bargain. Here's another mob repainted as of a few days ago. Was too preoccupied with work to get them uploaded. All thats left is to repaint the skin on red mob because I'm actually rather happy with everything else about them. Additionally, blue and red mobs are going to need basing, but I'll have to wait until my next visit to the FLGS for more agrellan earth.

Anyway, here's the step by step for the skin. Brace yourself, it's a pretty long process.

Step One:
Gather da boyz


Step Two:
Randomly grab one of these pots and paint a few boyz. Move on the the next pot. Rinse and repeat. I tend to favour Warboss green and elysian green. I do about a third of the mob in each of those, and the final third in a mix of the zanier colours. I think I might do more brown orks in red mob because I like the grittiness they bring to the unit.



For posterity, the paints are, in order of darkest to lightest:
-Waaagh Flesh
-Castellan Green
-Warpstone Glow
-Warboss Green
-Elysian Green
-Zandri Dust
-Karak Stone

Don't fret if elysian green and karak stone seem too light and weedy. The next step saturates them substantially as long as you are a bit more careful with your wash choice.

Step Three: Wash em!

Randomly grab a handful of boyz of random colours, and wash all their skin with one of the pictured washes. I favour the first three, but Camoshade looks pretty nice on elysian green, and the Sepia likewise looks nice on the browns. The sepia also looks good on the green boyz if you're going for a nasty, greasy look. Makes em look sweaty and gross, like a proppa ork!



I think those are pretty legible so I'll skip typing them out.

Step Four: ???

Step Five: Profit



Ok so the long process thing was a blatant lie. However, I feel like going back and doing the teeth, and at least some of the eyes really adds a lot to the unit.

After playing a match against a fellow ork player today, I am supremely tempted to go back and redo all my checks in the style he did them. He used a felt point pen and absolutely made ace looking checker patterns that really popped and were gorgeous and I don't even have enough adjectives to praise this man with. So that's next on my painting to do list after getting red mob's flesh redone. I'm gonna have to redo the black and white checks on all 4 mobs and my dread mob because damn they were crisp. Anyway, I've been sort of side tracked from red mob by other endeavours, like a custom build Morkanought (it's a riptide-defiler-centaur-ork thing) and a battlewagon I'm cooking up. I have named him Bad Squig. Here's a sneak peek:



EDIT: Oh and the yellow! How I did it was a layer of Karak Stone followed by Geedubs' yellow glaze. Iyanden Darksun I think?

Sincerely,

Bolg