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Made in au
Fresh-Faced New User





Hi guys,

So I've been working on my orks for a while now and progress has stalled a bit. I'm a few units off my 1000 point target but finding it harder to get motivated. I'm not sure if the bases are right, I went with Martian Ironcrust and I think its just added too much colour to the army. They're already pretty busy as far as colour goes (it seems like a total reaction to my previous army, which were essentially monochrome Tau).

What's everyones opinion on the bases? I think I might change them to maybe a very dark brown with small tufts of grass. And would anyone change anything else (only minor things please! I cant go changing too much, the ork horde has weakened my resolve).

Thanks!



















   
Made in au
Mekboy Hammerin' Somethin'





Perth, Western Australia

looking good so far ...I like the skin highlighting, and they look properly dirty and grungy

...I think the bases aren't too bad, but...yeah...I think I see the issue...the models are nice and dirty, right, but it's a real dark kind of dirt, and they're in a fairly light red dirt environment, so it doesn't quite fit together...maybe a coat of agrax or nuln oil, or both on the bases, and a bit of a red-brown dusty light drybrush on the lower parts of the models (like on the feet of the kanz, but maybe a touch more), to simulate dust being kicked up as they're moving along, that would probably go a long way to tying it all together I think


...and don't worry about the motivation man, happens to all of us

don't think about the whole army, or all the other stuff you have to paint, when you're trying to paint something...just focus purely on that unit/model, then the next, and so on
(I made the mistake of sitting down around new years' and figuring out all the stuff I have to work on...turned out to be easily at least 500 models, a lot of them I bought second hand, and need to be stripped too!...I only just managed to talk myself into picking up a brush again lastnight, about 3 weeks later )

if it comes to a point where the thing you're painting is just killin ya, switch to something else for a while, then come back to it when you feel like it - it'll already be part-way done then

if you're painting boyz or something, don't be overambitious...just paint like 5 at a time...if you say, try painting a mob of 30 all at once, if you're anything like me, you'll maybe get like 3 colours on all of them, then be burnt out, hating life, and then they'll sit there half-done for months

basically, just keep chipping away at it mate, and paint often too, try not to go without painting for any more than a week, otherwise you'll have to find your rhythm again, so to speak

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...it's good to be green!  
   
Made in us
Regular Dakkanaut





They look amazeballs! I like the bases man. Could you please do a quick run down on your yellow? I really like that color for orks!

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Made in au
Fresh-Faced New User





No worries mate!

I adapted the scheme from someone i found on youtube, i cant seem to find the link just now.

Anyway it goes rhinox hide as a base, then mournfang brown, then scrag brown, then 50/50 mix scrag and yriel yellow, then yriel yellow, then highlight of flash gits yellow if i can still be bothered by that stage.

The more layers you do the better it looks (as per usual!), the biggest jump in those colours is from scrag to yriel yellow, so sometimes you need to do 2 mixes between those colours.

I generally try and make the yellow most intense where the light would hit the model. Flat surfaces pose a problem, im not so happy with the bonnet of the deffkopta but it'll do for now.

Glad you like the bases, but i really think they've got to go. Zobo, im currently experimenting with nuln oil, rikeland fleshhand and agrax to try and tone to the bases down. They're still drying, but i dont think ill be able to change them substantially with washes. Might need to re basecoat the bases...

Thanks for the input guys!

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Made in gb
Crazed Spirit of the Defiler




Newcastle

Those are amazing! I don't often see orks painted to that standard, really good job

I see what you mean about the bases too. I think the overall appearance would be better with a dull brown or maybe grey

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