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So I am about to embark on creating my Mad Max themed (loosely) Ork army. I am planning on doing Evil Sunz as that seems to be the most fitting faction/scheme for them.

Should I base coat/spray the vehicles (most of the army will be vehicles) in red or leadbelcher? I know red is a difficult color to work with and i was not sure if I should spray in red then leadbelcher the engine bits or the other way around?

Would contrast paints help me in getting these vehicles out any faster as well? I definitely plan on using contrast to paint the actual Orks (their skin mostly).

I would say basecoat in red, unless you plan to have the majority of the model leadbelcher colored. Leadbelcher and other metallics do a really good job at covering up whatever's beneath. Getting a smooth even coat of red (especially on larger surfaces) is a lot harder.

Contrast paints aren't likely to be effective on vehicles.

 ArmchairArbiter wrote:
So I am about to embark on creating my Mad Max themed (loosely) Ork army. I am planning on doing Evil Sunz as that seems to be the most fitting faction/scheme for them.

Should I base coat/spray the vehicles (most of the army will be vehicles) in red or leadbelcher? I know red is a difficult color to work with and i was not sure if I should spray in red then leadbelcher the engine bits or the other way around?

Would contrast paints help me in getting these vehicles out any faster as well? I definitely plan on using contrast to paint the actual Orks (their skin mostly).

Depends on how mad max you want to go.

personally if i was going with the newest madmax movie, id do spray prime rusty brown, stipple many different shades of rust tones, then use hair spray and an airbrush to do chipping.

i think you can do it with spray paint as well but i haven't tried that yet.

Grey. The base coat should always be mid tone.

Keep the panels separate to the rest of the vehicle where possible.

For Evil Sunz I spray the panels in red and work up/down from there.

For the "metallic" bits I spray in abaddon black and drybrush with Ironbreaker to give a ramshackle, aged look. I like it but it might not be to your taste.

I tried spraying in leadbelcher and I hated it, it was far too silver and far too clean for my liking, even with liberal washes. I use that can for the odd metallic weapon now - such as the chains in the warbike set or clean choppas.

My recommendation would be to test a model or even just a bit of a model and see what you prefer. I love my ramshackle metallic but as I say it's a preference thing.

Hankovitch wrote:
I would say basecoat in red, unless you plan to have the majority of the model leadbelcher colored. Leadbelcher and other metallics do a really good job at covering up whatever's beneath. Getting a smooth even coat of red (especially on larger surfaces) is a lot harder.

Contrast paints aren't likely to be effective on vehicles.

Contrast works on vehicles, it will still need layering however and is good for getting colour on a vehicle fast.

I recently painted a blood angels razorback and it turned out quite well

Thanks for all the replies everyone. You've definitely given me something to ponder over!

i would say it depends on how mutch of each colour you are going to use.

if red will be covering majority of the vehicles, prime it red, if not prime it "iron".
mephiston red has a very high pigment amount and covers over anything exept black very easily.

I'd say it depends on how much red you're wanting. Personally I'd spray the metallic (whether it's spray black and then drybrush or spray metallic then wash) and brush the red on afterwards. Easier to brush-paint the body panels on the surface than all the recessed gubbins underneath...