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The Guardsman's ammo pouch has a stray orange brush stroke though - sorry dude

I kinda like 'em wiff da krunchy bitz all over dem... interestin' look!

Looking great, as usual!

My Lovely Bride got an airbrush setup for me for Christmas, but it was missing an adapter for attaching the hose to the actual tool... grrrrrr... waiting for it to arrive in the mail is making me nuts. After using brushes to do the salt/hairspray technique I am looking forward to doing it this way.

 Gitsplitta wrote:
I kinda like 'em wiff da krunchy bitz all over dem... interestin' look!

Its all part of the camouflage, I think NF09's going to paint each individual bit of salt as tiny rocks

Guardsman look really nice mate, that close up shot of his eyes was a bit unexpected though

 dsteingass wrote:
The Guardsman's ammo pouch has a stray orange brush stroke though - sorry dude

Pretty sure it's OSL from the red button

 Brother Payne wrote:

 dsteingass wrote:
The Guardsman's ammo pouch has a stray orange brush stroke though - sorry dude

Pretty sure it's OSL from the red button

Pretty sure it is osl from the button lol also pretty sure I need to work on that if it looks like a brush stroke!

thanks guys about the Guardsman and Kans! I 'could' paint all the salt as rocks! but i'm sure it will look better if i do it normally but it does seem pretty sturdy, perhaps other uses for the salt in the future?

Guardsman was fun to paint for the comp, tight deadline, limited palette still trying to do something different to my own and something that I thought looked cool and told a story looking through the entries so far it's gonna be a wicked tight comp! there's some truly great and adventurous entrants popping up and all of them are inspiring and creative, I don't envy the judges at ALL!

Kans, who doesn't like Kans? no one! I'll treat them as one model to paint them quickly and all at the same level as I go along, I hope the weathering works o.k? then that's the last of the models for Gits at this stage then they go flying! then i start Fulgrim

Fulgrim! Yayayayayayayay!
Really looking forward to that one

Also I thought your OSL was fine. Of course everyone can improve but it's pretty darn good as is

Hey guys, I ordered an Ork head today :-) something with a good amount of bare skin so i can try my hand again at doing a easy to follow tute on the way i particularly do Ork skin, i will try and do it on Friday in between Kan work! it's not a GW one but that shouldn't matter should it for you guys? I just don't like them as much as this one! :-)

Great work on the Ork's skin, I've always preferred more pallid Orks.

Ork skin tute I originally had the pics with the paint mix in the shot but then you couldn't see the head properly so we've had to do it old skool and just type and pic it up! hope it's o.k and still works for you?

these are the only paints I used for the skin:

first up I primed my Ork head in The Army painter Army Green:

then washed it with Agrax earthshade:

next watered down Camo Green as a first highlight:

add a tiny amount of bleached bone, about half a brush tip full

then again add the same amount of bleached bone and water down again starting your paint on the high points for the highlighting, cheek bones and brows, chin and ears etc.

more bleached bone again into the watered mix and only work on the highest points now, using a spare damp brush to blend any excess as this is the final highlight, you can go over the highlights again until the desired brightness is achieved.

now add a little amount of mechrite red or similar dark red into the last mix for the highlight and brush on to the top of his lip and ear tips, a damp brush also helps blend if it looks too strong.

I must sound repetitive but just add again a little red to the mix and brush on the top of the bottom lip darkening it.

and that's it for the skin at least, it'll be the details that you add to bring it to life, that's how i've done all my Orkish skin to date and it really doesn't take long to do but i think it looks pretty decent. onece you've done the skin you just paint everything else like this......






I also realised where i want my Korvydae head to go! special bare heads go on models i really like or want to get to see a lot of action (one day) so I figured having him as the gunner on my Dakka Baal would look cool! using the FW gunner torso makes it even better!




And a little update on the GitsKans! brushed them over again brightening the yellows and marked some areas for fresh weathering, I'd say from here it's blocking in the other colours and more weathering and grease etc. then lenses and they're done! hope they look o.k Gits so far?





aaaaand that's today done! I'm sorry and apologize in advance that some photo's aren't the clearest but i couldn't stop my arms shaking today of all bloody days

Brilliant tutorial! Now I just have to find a cool Ork model to try it on....

BRB, going to strip and repaint my Orks.

Good stuff all round Damo. The Baal gunner looks nice and furious. Gits Kans look awesome. Love the mustardy yellow you've got going. And the skin tut is real swish.

Great, all of it.

And excellent tutorial too.

Keep it coming!

Wonderful, wonderful work. All of it

Good man, Nerdy. Good tutorial. Very interesting how little green paint is used. Thanks for the paint shot too, that's useful to me if no one else.

Shouty man head is good. Suits the tank well.
He does remind me of Tidyup though with that gob of his...
(if Stoppit and Tidyup mean nothing to you see below)


Good progress on Gits's kans ( ).

Awesome tute mate

Thanks for the Tut Nerdy. I'd experimented with shading your way on my own on those nob heads I did recently and wasn't at all satisfied with the results. Nice to have the step-by-step so I can give it another go.

Kans look great! I might suggest perhaps stippling a little lighter orange or darker red/brown onto the rust spots... the random splotches of uniform red look at bit odd. I think if you broke them up a bit so they weren't quite the same, uniform color they'd look more natural.

Great tut! Makes me want to work on some Orks!

 dsteingass wrote:
Great tut! Makes me want to work on some Orks!

Or some catchans disguised as orks???

I have an Ork army! Mostly unassembled and unpainted, but I have some!

Those Kans are ace! Wonderful thread - keep up the good work!

Flashy Killa Kans

Ok..I had to start on my Kans.>Thanks Damo!

How did you decide which weapon options to use?

Great job on the tutorial nerdy. Really like how you have the pinkish red in with the green skintones. The bionic eye looks superb too!

Thanks everyone! :-) glad i've inspired Dave to stop talking cheese and do some painting! lol! and Gits, the orange bits were just the basis for some extra spotches so you were right on the ball I'm going to add more colour into them and see how they look! although I did realise one mistake :-( I kinda might have glued the arms on..... soz Gits whoops

You melted his cheese discussion.

Great orks by the way.

 n0t_u wrote:
You melted his cheese discussion.

Great orks by the way.

Lol Oh noooooooo! it's followed me here!



and thanks dude!

And nice it followed you here I thought it would be Gouda me to stop by and mention how grate that tank commanders head looks sorry to continue to string this along

I really like the tank commander, he really shows me "Drive me closer, I want to hit him with my swo...... I left it back in the armory , now I'm going to have to just shoot the out of them. RRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGEEEEEE!!!!!"

Liking the Ork skin technique. I might give it a go for some variation when I get back to Da Boyz. Good to see Korvidae's new role has helped his mood as well....

Lots of photo's tonight from a lot of butterfly hobbying! I just jumped around playing with a few things today and got quite far with a couple of projects that I hope you'll enjoy

where shall i start? how about with Gits' Kans! I have so nearly finished these guys and I will admit I was a little worried last week about them! I couldn't put my finger on why or what was wrong I think it may have been the fact that these guys aren't 'clean' models and I couldn't highlight like i normally do, so I had to choose areas that were separate and treat them as individual models in themselves like the grease on the hydraulics and the glow from the engines etc... but I think they've come together nicely and should be only a few weapon touch ups and some basing and then I'll say they're done












Now a couple of itty bitty things I started very basic trying my hand at white, I'm not sold yet and still may strip and try again? but i should do some more details before I give up the ghost!

and Seth's Chain Glaive thanks to your suggestions

and i began my first attempt at power weapons have avoided painting them as I had never known how to do something cool that i liked the look of, was reading from the warp and tried his method, a little more to go on it but it's coming along...



Finally, something for Whaley Fulgrim has some work done! he was a nightmare to assemble and I glued myself three times! but he paints up faster, I've nearly done the base so far, just the marines to work on there and some extra details, his armour is just about done in regards to the actual purple it'll be the gold filigree that brings him to the other level I think? it's nice and dark in the shadows and brighter where it needs to be so i'm quite happy so far

anyway lets see what you think....