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thats a nice new boy you have there. i like his face, its cool

I like the exposed brain on the painboy. In fact, I like every part of him. Bang up job! The other boyz is grim-killy lookin. Such head-jutting agression in their poses.

Mmpff! mmpff nnmmpph, mnnpff!!! {{off screen voices}} Warboss - "Iz tole ya, Dok, Een dat ting wont shut 'im up."

Today I decided to get more of the Boyz Mob finished, and after an early rise (unusual for me, trust me) I got stuck in with the building. Had to build 2 more to make up 12 for a potential Trukk Mob or for the start of my planned 20 strong Boyz Mob. After these were done I made a start with the painting, I was aiming to get half of these boyz finished today, with the others done tomorrow, as I have an interview on wednesday so might not get a chance to paint anything then.
Despite having a break for some visitors, I made rather good progress (if I do say so myself) and got all 5 done, and once I add them to the one done yesterday I have 6 completed.
Might be slightly harder tomorrow as there is a Nob to do as well, with quite a bit more armour, which I am discovering is the most time consuming part of the models.

they look great, I like the way you used parts of the stormboy kit. The red is looking good aswell. You just need to base them and they'll be ready to bash some 'eads in.

Those are looking sweet. Can't wait to see 'em done, esp. with a trukk

Wow I missed alot. Your orks are coming along brilliantly. The mob is gonna look awesome on table top.

Cheers for the kind words guys.
Unfortunately, despite motoring through the other 6 boyz, their sitting at about 90% done. So I will have to try and get them finished tomorrow. Bah

this one remoinds me of an old famous movie whose name currently escapes me.
{{"please, Boss, Can i 'ave som mo ammo?"}}

After not getting the Boyz done yesterday, I had the simple task of finishing off the last few bits today.
Still need to base them, which I will do tomorrow, and I may add some blood to the weapons. Although I will decide whether to put blood on once their based.

Going to be moving on to painting a trukk tomorrow as well, although as it is the first I will have done, I am not sure whether I will be able to complete it a day or not.
Decided to make the boyz mobs into trukk mobs instead. The plan is to have 2 trukk mobs of 12 with sluggas and choppas, and a mob of 20 with shootas.

Ben how are you mate? still enjoying the painting in this unusual sunshine lovely models by the way cant wait to gae a game against them. Decided to join this site to keep the TAU project motivated. may even post some pics.. if i can work out how and people stand well back from their screens

@ DannyK: Nice to hear from you mate, will keep a eye out for your Tau when they go up.
Cheers for the comments, will give you a game with them if I can get them all painted for next time I see you.

Argh! Just spotted some bitz on the pics that I'm not happy with, so might have a bit more painting to do before I base them tomorrow. Just small bitz, but if I don't they'll stick out everytime I look at them.

still looking good mate, What happened to the Eldar you were going to do or they next ? Think im gonna start a blog on here too,

Im plodding along with my Angels Sanguine at the mo got a counts as mephiston im working on that i will get pics up of soon

@khornatekiller: cheers dude, Eldar are on the backburner, will pick them up but not until I have finished the Orks.

With the bases of my trukk mob drying, I turned my attention to the trukk itself, I have customised the GW trukk kit by adding an Ion cannon from a tau hammerheas, which I saw done somewhere before may have even been in WD, and some extra exhausts out of the Imperial Sector.

My plan is to do all the metal on the trukk first, painting it boltgun metal, then using hairspray and purity seal to weather it. Unfortunately I'm out of both so I will have to wait to start it.
In the mean time I plan to finish the first Deff Dread. I have made some progress on it so far, but the rest will have to wait until tomorrow.

I will hopfully have a chance to upload my trukk mob bases later, but in the mean time here is the trukk and dredd. I plan to add thetrukk gunner and driver in seperately, allowing me to paint them easier.

Wow, awesome army! Great conversions and kitbashes

nice chipped paint on the dread face plate. tic cool

Great idea for the trukk. I am just cursing myself now for not coming up with it myself but you beet me to the punch and for that I congratulate you. Well done. Just one question though, the way you do the skin, it looks familiar to me, are you using the Irondog studios guide to ork skin ?

Where is that bandana with the bomb on it from?

Cheers for the comments folks.

@ Mr.Malevolent: Bandana with bomb is part of the Stormboyz kit.

@ moonshine: Not sure about if its the same skin as irondog studios, just a quick way I have used for a while.

Oh ok. Is that Catachan green ? the skin is a very warm tone of green. I like it, I must admit there are better ways to do it, but I still like it. Keep it up.

Oh and a quick tip. If you find a better way to do skin then do it now so that you don't have to re-paint 50 somthing models.

If you are interested this is my orks skin
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/217761-.html?m=2

Your way is great aswell though. Keep it up

Its Gretching Green with a Badab Black wash over the top.
Might have a bit of a work on some spare models, see if I come up with anything that I think works better.
Will take a look at yours.
Cheers

Nice, I like the long, low look to the trukk.

I also like the look of the trukk. How does it compare to the height of a normal trukk? You may see some people complain about LOS issues, but it looks nifty

Cheers, It is quite a bit lower than the standard trukk.

I will take a picture showing the size comparison, but I reckon its probably about half the height.

Some people may complain I suppose, but I'm planning to use them in games with friends mainly so I'm not too fussed. If people moan too much I generally just don't play them

As a continuation from an earlier post, after a lengthy browse of Painting tutorials I may give this a go for the skin (http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/278943.page)

Ah I see. That is much more easy than the 7 steps it takes me. Don't worry about people complaining either, every ork invention is different. That is nothing compared to a guy i met at a tournament, he was using cardboard boxes in the shape of rhinos for rhinos, when the tournament advisor complained they were not citadel products he revealed they were made from sm boxes . In short, there are more things to complain about in other armies (like my friends grots who are holding scrap metal above their heads to block line of sight.

A bit more work done on the Deff Dread today, still working on the main body, the arms seem a long way off at the moment.
Decided to stick with the skin tone for the time being, I'm happy enough with it, and if I decide to work more on it I will look at adding another layer of highlighting. I don't want to get stuck going back and working on models that I have done, I'd rather concentrate on getting new ones finished first.
Will have to make an order for some purity seal so I can start work on the trukk, but in the mean time I have the dredd and either Killa Kanz or the shoota boyz to work on (both will need made first) I will decide which I want to paint after the dread is finished.
Few pics to have a look at, whilst I go back to painting the Dread.

Looking good. The mob boy with the Black ork face is my favourite.

The Truck looks great....I think you should do a Spannaboy that looks like Xzibit.

Dread The colours are excellent as is the chipping, I'm really fond of his left eye.

Peter

Cheers dude, got a bit more done on the Dread, finished the body. Will start the arms and engines tomorrow, hopefully have it finished by sunday at the latest.

Sorry to dissapoint you but none of the heads are from the Black Orcs, all from stormboyz, bikers, the trukk and boyz kits

Is that deff dread the standard kit or have you added to it, cause i'm looking at the side profiles and not seeing any obvious connection from the Kan to the faceplate. it should have metal strips and rivets pinning it to the front of the kan, so if that's standard, then GW goofed.