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Childish I know

So my life has been a bit hectic this last month. Works been busy and my laptop blew up (well HDD failed). Checked in on here a few times on my phone but its not the same you know. I still found time to do some painting a little bit of modelling and fixed the laptop so its not all that bad.

Anyway photos, I downloaded Gimp to see what it was like. As a general rule I don't like doing anything other then cropping my photos because I don't have a clue what any of those fancy options do. On these I just tried auto adjusting the white balance and sharpening the image up. The original image is at the bottom, which one do you prefer?







Thats one of my Cybork Nobs from the start of the blog. I hadn't planed on painting him as the Nob squad isn't going to see action until I get to 1500p and well, I'm still trying to get the first 500p painted. But he was primed and I just haven't had the chance to prime anything lately so I figured what the hell. Going to use him to lead a boyz squad in the 500p list for the meantime.

And talking about Boyz



Yeah I know blurry isn't it, I just couldn't get the camera to focus properly. My first 15 Boyz, all based and everything. Didn't get any terrain done to take a photo on though, just not enough time.

So what else have I been working on I hear you ask, what you didn't, tough gonna tell you anyway. I got no photos though so you will just have to take my word on it.

I actually got around to starting the arm on my Big Mek, need some more supplies because none of my rod is the right size for fingers. Got a new Kan on the go with a looted rokkit launcher which is looking good. Oh and my Mega gargant for comp, thats coming on, ish, kinda, well slowly, very slowly. I have a funny feeling it won't be finished on time

Anyway will try to get some photos up of those bits later in the week. Now I'm of to see how many blogs I can catch up on before BF3 beta starts calling again.

Cybork looks great, and I'm not just letting my natural prejudice dictate that Is that an old black vincent bike wheel? Class

Adjusted pic does look better, I really should do something with mine before I upload them.

monkeytroll wrote:Is that an old black vincent bike wheel? Class

lol no but that would be cool. Its the front wheel from a very old SM attack bike.

lol.

That's what I meant, Vincent Black shadow, not black vincent



As I said, class

lol I stick by what I said though, spokes rule. Get some spokey dokeys on it and it would be full of win.

£2.50 talk about inflation.

killer nob. Looks like something monkeytroll would come up with. And I'm a huge fan of his work. Those boyz are very well done. Loce your yellow. Not sure if that gear base is an objective marker but really like that also. Nice to have ya back.

That was a serious case of real live.

Got a bit of work done, don't worry though it wasn't to much. Third Kan is basically finished, the base needs something still, but its painted.




I've painted a hand full of Boyz and I got around to painting my pain boy. He still needs his Hurty Syringe finished but first I need to find out how to get that liquid in a syringe look, any ideas? And basing of-course, I've got a few bits of basing to do but I am waiting to do a batch.



I finally got round to building the arm on my Mek and I decided to go with a different head, I hope you like it. The build is more or less finished, I plan on trying the hot salt technique to reposition a leg, and the base will need a raised bit for his other foot, other then that I think he is done.





Thats all folks

Hey, good to have you back Hope whatever it was got sorted.

Nice kan, that's some lovely gem work on the lights to go with your standard fantastic weathering Also nice to see some looted smurf-boy gear

Painboy's looking sweet, never had any success with attempts at painting liquid-in-container type things, so not much info to share there I'm afraid.

Mek is looking great, that is a sweet looking arm you gave him, very nice

And thanks schank If you read this, pop back on sometime dude, you're being missed

Nice stuff you got here. The Waaaghbanner is my favorite.

Nice Painboy. I used the technique in the 'Eavy Metal Masterclass book (for Urien Rakarth) for mine - I can give you the steps if you want. How did you do the blood? I still have to do that on mine...

The front of your Big Mek reminds me of mine (so obviously cool!) - though obviously different from the side and back - nice.

The Doc looks good, and the Mek has a lot of potential.

Subscribed.

Thanks Monkey, was nothing major, just a trukk load of little things compounded by Christmas. All sorted now though, and I've got a new laptop

Its one of my fav's as well TaWaaagh, thanks for dropping by.

It's ok Arakasi, I found it online just what I was looking for. The blood was done with a sponge (most of my painting is it seems) I mixed a red with a brown in to two shades one dark one light. Sponged on the dark first then the light. With hindsight I wish I had done more dark and less light.

Hows your Mek going, have you painted him yet? I've got some serious plogage to catch up on but they've got so big its a bit daunting. Think I will spend Monday catching up and see if I can fill the whole front page with Ork plogs Hehe.

All welcome Swordwind, hopefully the paint job on my Mek will do him justice... when I get around to it.

Anyway my water effect problem. I tried to mix paint with water effects to create a wet paint in a bucket look. For some reason it pulled away to the side leaving a hole in the middle? Any idea what I done wrong? how to fix it? Pics below





Started to slap paint on some Boyz with big shootas as well, just to proof I've started working on my Waaagh! again.

Happy painting

My Big Mek is still in a state of partial painting - He's not even on the agenda at the moment

Water effects look great! Try adding some more in the hole?

Yeah I tried that Arakasi, twice I don't know where the water effects go but each time it drys I am left with that hole, very strange. I suppose the best thing to do is fill it with GS and try again.

I tried the salt technique for bending plastic tonight in an attempt to reposition the legs on my Mek . I have photos if anyone wants to see them but they aren't very good.

In summary its a bit rubbish. The process might work for bending thin things like tails and whips, anything thicker though and the plastic on the outside deforms before the middle is flexible enough to bend. I almost got the feet into the position I wanted and I should be able to fix/cover up the damage done. In the long run I think I would be better of attempting to learn how to sculpt legs though.

Finished the AOBR big shoota. Base still needs doing of course, should be doing a batch of them soon. I tried highlighting the muscles with a sinewy look, it defiantly needs improving but that's what practice is for. Tried some highlights on the fabric as well, something I don't normally try (normally just wash) that had mixed results I feel. Overall I am happy with the results.

Going to practice a few more things and then I think I will tackle my Mek, getting quite excited because once the HQ is done I will actually have a legal and painted army, a small army yes but these Waaagh!s have a habit of growing so I am told.

Going to wait for 6th to drop before I learn the game though. No point learning 5th ed rules now is there.

Anyway some slightly out of focus pics;




Happy painting

No actually he isn't finished just noticed the stitchers on the back

Ha, these Orks are really awesome! I love your conversions and painting! Your yellow and the weatheringa re suberp, I will DEFINETLY be following this!

edit - Cheers Mr Merlin, you snuck in there whilst I was composing this post, all are welcome - /edit

edit II - today was a bad day - /edit

"One boy at a time, your get there in the end." That's what I keep telling myself, but secretly I feel that I am lying.

Another boy finished(ish) last night. Found the head a little tricky on this one, couldn't get the mouth the way I wanted and that damned missing eye. I missed loads of mould lines and he has a weird lump on a tooth, don't know what happened.



Also had a little luck on eBay and this turned up today. My first Forgeworld model and boy is it bad.

I was expecting a little bit of work but whilst trying to dry-fit I discovered that nothing fits, NOTHING. Just as a quick example; the wheels dont fit on the rear subframe and will need the holes made bigger, the rear subframe is warped and will need straightening, the socket it attaches to the main frame with is also warped and will require removing to get a tight fit, the part by the springs will need resculpting as well as it has been removed from the sprue to close to the model, the pins on the main frame dont line up with the jet engine etc etc thats just the back end. Oh and you get no instructions, just a list of parts and a few photos of the finished model.

Because of this I am going to put up stage by stage updates as I do them. It might help someone else.



No rush though




Seriously no rush, I want to get this Badmoon army finished in time to learn the game when sixth drops. Thats what four months? time to pick it up a gear.

Not tonight though, today was a bad day. Staff sickness, six or seven separate visits from the police, shoplifters, scumbags and arseholes. So if I sound like I'm in a bad mood I apologise.

grumblegumblegumblegrumble

I spent the day building some Boyz, I wanted to achieve two things; Make them look more bad moony and add some variety to the pose. The Boyz are meant to be wealthy so to try to represent this I spruced up the shootas a bit and add pouches where I could, its not a lot but I think it helps. One of them is so wealthy he can afford two shootas

The poses where a little more tricky. As I'm sure most of you know there isn't a lot of variety you can get with the shoota arms, my Google-fu wasn't working, I literately couldn't find anything on converting the shootas. I did find lots on turning AOBR boyz into Shoota Boyz though. Anyway you can see the photos below, I've got a bit of greenstuffing to do to finish them and some heads will be swapped but the basic pose is done. Only got four of them done because I'm a slow arse modeller as well as painter.

I hope to get them finished and primed by Thursday, then with a bit of luck I will see if I can start and more importantly finish the painting in one day.

And if anyone can point me in the direction of more poses that would be great.






Thanks for looking

You call that slow? Some nice poses there. For some reason I particularly like the last boy - can't put my finger on why though....

A lot of the advice on AOBR can be brought across to the Shoota boyz - changing the angles of the arm, cutting at the bands, gloves, etc to rotate to new angles etc etc

I'm really liking your poses!
I am also a very slow worker (who else needs 3-4 days for a boy?)

For inspiration, I'll share some of my models:

Sorry Arakasi will try to lower my productivity a bit. Don't want to get a reputation.

Thanks for the pics MrMerlin Iove the angry(ier) boy

Things didn't go to plan last week the damn weather did not lend itself to priming, which slowed things down. I did try though, honest. I even gave using gesso a go which did not work. I read you can use it without thinning but my experience differs quite a bit. Luckily all I ruined was an old and broken 2nd ed boy so no harm done. I think I will try again, thinning it a little and adding some paint in the future, but if anyone has experience using it as a primer then I am all ears.

In the end I did get some priming done and even started painting.

I HATE BATCH PAINTING.

There I said it, I don't know why I still even try painting like it. I find it boring so end up trying to "rush" it. This leads to a sloppy base coat X(number of models). The biggest problem is that looking at this is the most unmotivating thing ever.



A bunch of half basecoated boyz, which have been sitting on my table for almost a week now. I did manage to push on and get one more or less finished though.



Cross fingers for a burst of productivity and an update at the weekend, I might get another boy finished .

The finished boy looks neat, I like the pose a lot!

Also, how do you do your skin? with knarlock green?

Catachan green I think MrMerlin.

All my skin is done in the same basic way. Choose a random green as a basecoat. Mix in a random beige/cream colour with a little random yellow for the highlight. Keeping lightening the colour though the highlights, normally in about five layers. I follow this with green and brown washes to smooth the transitions and darken if necessary.

I don't have hard and fast skin recipes that I stick to. Because of this I tend to paint all the Ork flesh on a model at the same time, and I don't worry about it matching the other Orks. They are Orks after all and variety is target.

The Ork in question was painted like this...Maybe?

DA Green
DA Green/Catachan (maybe 30/70 or 40/60)
Catachan
Catachan / kommando khaki / darksun
add a little more kommando khaki to that mix
and then a little more
wash thraka green thinned a lot at least 50/50
wash devlan mud thinned.

Hope that helps.

Oh I forgot to included this last night. I had 150 yellow dice arrive yesterday, I don't think I have ever had so many dice so decided to take a photo



So cool

Got to come over and see those amazing Kanz and everything else You did and painted, awesome and subbed!

Thanks SelvaggioSaky should be doing some more soon.

I've had camera problems again, I think I'm on my 5th now in the last 12 months anyway finished work early today so got to take some photos in some OK light (not great, just OK). BST starts this weekend though so longer evenings and easier photos

A few things to do to these boyz before they are finished but they are 95% done.



A Nob for my second boyz squad, fairly standard to be honest. The only real conversion was to reposition the slugga hand in a more gangsta pose. The body is from the Nobz box, the arms and accessories are from the Nob in the Boyz box. Surprisingly I found the bits from the Boyz nob were a little smaller then the bits from the Nobz box. This is him built minus boss pole, some bits are still blue tacked though.




So right now I'm basing the last 10 Orks I painted. My hope is that by the end of the weekend to have them done. I also want to get some greenstuffing done to bulk out the Nob's arms and my Mek needs a little GS. With a little luck I should be able to get them primed this weekend as well.

Happy painting

I love the highlighting on the skin of these boys, it looks great! I ususally do that as well.
Also, gangsta pose looks very cool

Thanks MrMerlin it's something I'm still trying to get to look right but practice makes perfect.

So here is my converted Landraider. What you weren't expecting 40k scale were you? Its my Orky EOD bot


That's a lie, no explosive disposal going on here.

I was digging though my bits box looking for things to decorate bases with (which are all done now) and he just came together. It will count as a boy with big shoota in my 3rd boyz squad. Which is going to have more of a cyborg feel even though they will be played as plain boyz. The plan is to make an ork with a remote to control it. Anyway a few more boyz started to come together as well but the 3rd squad is well down on the priority list, it's just a little teaser.


Been trying to bulk out the arms with green stuff on the Nob but that's not going well. Truth be told I hate the stuff.


Loads of work to go. I'm trying to work on each muscle group one at a time as I tend to mash previous work with my fat fingers. I did get a strap on his knife though and his boss pole is done.


Lastly I am having a problem with my Mek. Here he is


I built him so that I could paint in parts and then construct


But I have this big gap


So I have two choices

1/ Sculpt the shoulder and make it big enough to fill the gap

2/ Build and paint, then fill the gap and repaint area.

Personally I am leaning towards option 2 but I am looking for opinions on the best way to tackle it.

Thanks for reading, let me know what you think.

How about cover it with a shoulder pad? You could glue to one part only and keep your pieces for painting.

The cybork boys are looking really cool, mate! get The Mad dok, then you can use them as cyborgs as well!
Though its not very competitive......

Also, I think I have said that before: I love that big mek, great looking conversion!
I'd advice you to do it the second way, the model will look cooler in the end cause the painting will be easier!

Thanks guys, I figured I should post an update on what I've been up to.

I spent a few days trying to fit a shoulder pad in a way that I liked the look of, a real simple idea Arakasi I can't believe I hadn't thought of it. Unfortunately I couldn't find anything that would fit in a position I was happy with and still do the job. In the end I bulked out the joint by putting two small squares of plasticard over the pin, clipping them to size then smoothing it with green stuff.

Anyway here is where I'm at with the paint job. I still need to start the actual KFF but the Mek himself is almost finished. A few details and touch ups then I will glue him together.




Hope to get my next update up a little quicker then this one.

Thanks for reading.

The skin is superb! Also loving the blue lenses... and the weathered yellow.... and the base....

That mek will be epic when he's done!