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Here's my official entry, Snazzgit da Freboota

Since the theme is Some Kind of Monster, I should mention that this guy is Nob size; the top of a normal ork boy's shoulders are about where his biceps are.

Thanks to Paradigm for providing the motivation to finally get this guy painted, I hope you all like it!

Tags: Orks, Freebooterz, Ork Pirates, Ork in Golf Pants, Proppa Choppa

Always good to see an Ork entry! Very flashy, well done!

Next three trolls are done. I'll make a start on the last two tonight and then pick the best 5.

Primer shot:



And then there were 4...

He's complete!

Feedback welcome and appreciated. Better pictures will be taken and added to this post later today.

I went with some subtle and limited Object Source Lighting on the pieces of the helmet that stuck out about as far as the cowling flange pieces of the Animus Speculum. Overall I'm very pleased with the paint job. Hope you all enjoy the finished product.











Thanks for looking, and take it easy.

-Red__Thirst-

Nice work guys!

Nice work on that black body suit thing.... not easy to get right!

Thank you Paradigm. As I said, better pictures will be forthcoming.

And SJM, thank you. That black was tricky to paint properly, and I'm still not sure I'm completely satisfied with my execution on it, but overall it looks good I think.

Black is very tough to do correctly, but I wanted a challenge and this mini definitely provided that for sure. At first, I thought I'd do a gem work on the interior of the animus speculum but then I thought why not go for a glowing energy effect. I'm very pleased with the result and the limited OSL effect I did around the very furthest forward bits in front of the face mask.

Got some stiff competition this month for sure. Hopefully I'll get a decent showing. It's my first entry into the Monthly Painting Challenge, so I'm excited to see how I stack up versus the rest of the competition here.

Thanks again, and take it easy for now guys.

-Red__Thirst-

Hello everyone,

I've been painting over the weekend, I've managed to finish one of the Mega nobs so I'd thought I would share. This guy was difficult to paint, I had to get my brush at all sorts of silly angles to get at the detail, anyway, pics -











With just over a week left not sure I'll come close to finishing the other two and I wouldn't want to rush them. May as well consider this my entry for now!

Cheers

wow SJM that is awesome, I want to comment on so many parts of it but will sum it up with I love the details you have put onto it and the paint job is impressive. You have created a brilliant Ork.

Consider me subscribed to your blob

Stunning as always SJM! Every time o see one of your painted minis I'm just blown away by the composition, the use of colour, the great texture you seem to get! Awesome!

And while I can't hope to compete with that, I'm calling mine done too.

In the cramped confines of a Space Hulk, a Blood Angel makes a futile last stand against an alien horror!

Wow - gorgeous work guys. Absolutely cracking stuff. I'm gonna try and get mine in this week too once I've recovered / fixed a minor purity seal spray disaster ><

Good stuff Paradigm, colour is great and I love the use of bits, slotter base walls, who would have thought it?

 Januine wrote:
goddam you @$%^&*^$$^*()))(*%$$#@@!##@@!#ing purity seal.......balls......

Oh crap, what happened? :(
Scariest monster in the topic: GW's spray.

Proof pic of the last two trolls, now they are stripped and ready for some primer.



Incidentally, I don't use purity deal, but I've found with other varnishes that have fogged, rubbing some olive oil into the mini is usually enough to make it go clear again.

Dear God...not oiled up stripping Trolls!

( I may have read that post wrong...)

 Buttery Commissar wrote:

 Januine wrote:
goddam you @$%^&*^$$^*()))(*%$$#@@!##@@!#ing purity seal.......balls......

Oh crap, what happened? :(
Scariest monster in the topic: GW's spray.

yeah - won't be using that crap ever again. they didnt frost too badly and I got some brush on matt varnish over here that seems to have fixed the problem thank god. scary stuff

Well, I finished. Gave me a good excuse to procrastinate on exam revision.

Here he is. Please excuse the shoddy photography.

 Januine wrote:
yeah - won't be using that crap ever again. they didnt frost too badly and I got some brush on matt varnish over here that seems to have fixed the problem thank god. scary stuff

I'm glad you fixed it!
My roomie told me of a guy who sprayed two 2000pt armies with the stuff one afternoon and it fogged them all. The local GW manager ended up having to deal with that one, quite rightly so I think.

Also! Horse butt!
I am about 3/4 done with the water and can go back to painting the Kelpie again soon. Need to work on smoothing it out into a curve now that I built up the height and joined it to the creature.

Excuse how milky this one still is, it's between coats.


Not fond of the blue paint I put on the first layer of water, but it's now way to late to change. Hoping I can slap some seafoam over it so it's hidden.

Thx fella. I got lucky(ish) Freaked out when it happened, esp after the amount of hours that went into them . gorgeous figs to paint and then for them to look like they'd just journyed north of the wall......soul destrying. However,.....this mad korean matt varnish i picked up seems to have done the trick....few metallic highlights will have to be redone but that's fine.

loving that kelpie btw....glorious work. what's the water made from? looks cracking

Not sure if an Ork Nob qualifies. But they are fairly monstrous

Very nice paintwork, and it certainly fits the theme! If you look at the rules, though, you'll need to enter a picture of it unpainted to qualify for voting.

Sorry if that's a problem!

 Paradigm wrote:
Very nice paintwork, and it certainly fits the theme! If you look at the rules, though, you'll need to enter a picture of it unpainted to qualify for voting.

Sorry if that's a problem!

That.. may be a problem Ah well I'll check if i have one when i get home from work

 Januine wrote:
Thx fella. I got lucky(ish) Freaked out when it happened, esp after the amount of hours that went into them . gorgeous figs to paint and then for them to look like they'd just journyed north of the wall......soul destrying. However,.....this mad korean matt varnish i picked up seems to have done the trick....few metallic highlights will have to be redone but that's fine.

loving that kelpie btw....glorious work. what's the water made from? looks cracking

Glad the rescue varnish worked, I've never managed to fix varnish feth ups, despite all the tips and guides online.

The water is Vallejo Water Effect, the stuff that comes in a big white (or blue) tub and you spread by hand. It's a strange material between sloppy and solid, it "sweats" and slides around sometimes, and whilst you'd think setting time depends on thickness, sometimes areas will dry in minutes, sometimes a day later, nothing. It has the edge on PVA glue because it doesn't shrink.

@ SJM: THAT ... IS ... ABSOLUTLY ... AWESOME!!!
Orks are just fun and you sir, are putting them to a new level of cool!!!

@ Paradigm: I love the diorama. Your concept is brilliant! Really cool!

K D

Kustomer D wrote:
@ SJM: THAT ... IS ... ABSOLUTLY ... AWESOME!!!
Orks are just fun and you sir, are putting them to a new level of cool!!!

K D

I second that! Truely amazing model work and the paint skills to back it up!

SJM: The chain axe alone qualifies as monstrous! Never mind the Ork lol. Nice work!

I finally have something to show, still very WIP obviously, but the base is done and the lower half basically is, too (few touch ups on the metallics).




There's some great stuff in this thread, picking a winner is going to be tricky...

Slowly making more progress, I promise I will actually have them done this time. Something I have learned though is I hate painting over white primer.

Sock, I think I met that fella at the last gig I went to...

Bloody well done so far, looking very disturbing.

i'm not going to finish. been sorting out my car the last couple of weeks, so i'm bowing out.