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"Da blue sharky" nom nom nom bombing a city near you.

That blue is great vik, I can't wait to see the green grots on their to see how all the colors look together. I like the metallic effect.

That blue is fantastic! Now a dark wash around the panels and rivets and job'll be a good'un eh?

Beautiful work Vik, as always. I love the blue.

Totally personally, I would not be to bothered about "uneven" paint on ork and grot gear. They are not really known for their perfect paintwork.

I usually do painted surfaces with a thick coat of paint as I think the grots will slap it on, I really doubt they use airbrushes.

Keep at it sir, it looks amazing and promises to be AWESOME.

no, don't worry about uneven at all, a wash'll tie it all together. It's one of those painting exersizes in patience, it always pops in the end, it just sucks waiting until then.

ach.... well... i had that come out of jail card stuffed in my pants pocket too (the uneven paintjob that green hides provide) and i didn´t want to use it for now

we´ll see how a wash will make everything look... usually i use a pure wash... but that might darken the whole thing too much, eh?
also... i have looked up some decals that i want to use...if i had used a simple blue i could have used so many ultramarine stuff.... but with the metalic blue this is outa question... so i will resort to IG skulls...for trophies...any other nice additions i could use?


the "parley" writing i will soon try graven...have no fear^^

and thanks for your neverending conficence my friends...!

bombing a city near you.

brilliant LOL

Nice blue, works well on the plane.

I agree. I don't think the uneven paint is something to worry about on a grot vehicle.

thanks mates!

we´ll see after a "wash" hw everything will turn out then...

as i typed wash... i was imagine some grotsa doing the "carwash theme" *shudders*

I know vik
Did say i was building it roughly lol.

Need to break out the GS later and work on it a bit once ive trimmed some lines off it.
Just got it roughly together for now though.

and i did add it was a lovley concept

Its getting there
Ive got the jetpack grot from the stormboyz kit floating about somewhere.
Need to find him and add to the wing of it lol.

Ill start gap filling and line removing tomorrow though, having a lazy night tonight.

"Working at the Grot wash" I think they would be spending too much time beating each other with hoses and trying to avoid the water as much as possible. You should get. Small thin wire and anchor it o the tail of the plane trailing behind it, and then greenstuff some grot underwear hanging on it. The plane took off after doing the short grot safety inspection checklist and forgot to take down the clothesline still tied to the plane. Of course the pants should have hearts on it or the queens emblem on them.

well....whenever you see me posting i do nothing on the hobby front...^^

which grot would that be? i think i ordered some recently from bitzs and kits...

There is no word in Orkish for "wash"

hmmm....not even washers? got you, eh?^^

Vik, I was just referring to the pants I had suggested hanging on the line.

 Theophony wrote:
"Working at the Grot wash" I think they would be spending too much time beating each other with hoses and trying to avoid the water as much as possible. You should get. Small thin wire and anchor it o the tail of the plane trailing behind it, and then greenstuff some grot underwear hanging on it. The plane took off after doing the short grot safety inspection checklist and forgot to take down the clothesline still tied to the plane. Of course the pants should have hearts on it or the queens emblem on them.

that totally flew me by...remedy accomplished?^^

LOL.... wherever do you come up with such ideas.... damn.... i can so totally see me doing this... hmmm.... maybe i can even get my wife to cut me up some small pants... she is the one to ask for such small cloth related stuff....

 Viktor von Domm wrote:

 Theophony wrote:
"Working at the Grot wash" I think they would be spending too much time beating each other with hoses and trying to avoid the water as much as possible. You should get. Small thin wire and anchor it o the tail of the plane trailing behind it, and then greenstuff some grot underwear hanging on it. The plane took off after doing the short grot safety inspection checklist and forgot to take down the clothesline still tied to the plane. Of course the pants should have hearts on it or the queens emblem on them.

that totally flew me by...remedy accomplished?^^

LOL.... wherever do you come up with such ideas.... damn.... i can so totally see me doing this... hmmm.... maybe i can even get my wife to cut me up some small pants... she is the one to ask for such small cloth related stuff....

I'm sure the ideas are from brain damage. I cracked my head open three times as a kid, no real permanent damage they say , but they didn't know me before they stitched me up either .

Looks good mate. I'd hit up with Nuln Oil and Darkshade for sure.

I'm sure the ideas are from brain damage. I cracked my head open three times as a kid, no real permanent damage they say , but they didn't know me before they stitched me up either .

LOL.... you are such a telented nutjob mister....i even told my wife that joke and even she laughed about it

at graven... i have that former balck wash of GW... but what was darkshade again?

It's the blue Wash Vik..Asuruman Darkshade. Trust me, black will make it pop

i know... the draklining you do on your own models ... that´s where you are referring to, eh?^^...

and see...i don´t own the blue wash for that long... we are not on surenames base already^^

heh..no I don't blackline really, I just pre-shade and/or ink/wash the panel lines and rivets.

Asurmen Blue is the old blue wash, and Nuln Oil, Agrax Earthshade are some of the new ones (replacing Badab Black and Devlin Mud). The new blue wash is Drakenhof Nightshade.

Because I'm pedantic. Forgive me.

Yes that blue wash would do wonders for you. Your plane is looking great. Are you going to do rust?

Because I'm pedantic. Forgive me.

LOL.... all is good... breath in breath out

i think i feel atm a little too old to memorize the new GW paint names

at comrade... i have thought about adding rust... and i dunno if i am able to do so... could ruin very well the whole model... tho also it would make the whole model way more cool looking...maybe i test on a hidden spot if this might work...


in other news... atm started on painting the crew...but no pics of this for now...


cheers, vik

I vote no rust. Grot planes and their pilots aren't around long enough for rust to form .

lol.... in fact i was more thinking of that grots are more talented and maybe a bit more into maintenance

I need to actually put paint to model. I haven't done it in several days.

Vik, you didn't go Pink :(

Oh well, I'm over my disapointment now... Paint job looks good, but I personally think some weathering wouldn't go amiss. Maybe some simple sponging over the edges, even if not rusty, there will be paint wear to show the bare metal underneath - also some gimy oil streaks here and there?