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He looks fantastic! Nice freehand checkers on the missile too - that's especially hard on a curved surface and it looks really good.

EDIT: Whoops, turned the page. Here's your stuff quoted:

 makeitorky wrote:
Well, I have the painting bug again so I painted up one of the last of my orks (a problem I intend to fix soon ), a mekanik ork! I really like how this ork came out. I still have lots of room for improvement as always though. I tried experimenting with object source lighting with the flashlight on his rokkit launcher too.

 gobert wrote:
Cool Mekanik, great highlights and good job on the osl too

Thank you very much! I had a lot of fun painting him.

Up next, I painted another Burna, which my Mekanik will lead the squad of when the other two are done. I had trouble capturing the colors correctly, I'm not sure why it looks so yellow and faded, I think the camera was having issues with the dark blues and greens contrasting:


But, a bit more news, my nearly lacking minis to paint problem has been fixed. I've ordered a box of orks that'll need some converting into choppa/slugga boyz, but should be awesome when they do. So, I need more choppas/sluggas, and decided my existing roster of boyz will be entirely upgraded with shootas so I can have two distinct squads:


Fingers are very crossed that the vinegar wash they are soaking in right now to loosen the super glue of their arm joints, doesn't strip too much paint. Because, hopefully I'm just painting up their new arms, then touching up the older models with some highlights and such. Regardless, I am very excited to play some bigger games and need enough orks to do so!

 makeitorky wrote:
Up next, I painted another Burna, which my Mekanik will lead the squad of when the other two are done.

Looking good! Very nice job doing clean white on such tiny symbols.

(And RIP to all the guardsmen that will be BBQed in the future.)

 ThePaintingOwl wrote:

 makeitorky wrote:
Up next, I painted another Burna, which my Mekanik will lead the squad of when the other two are done.

Looking good! Very nice job doing clean white on such tiny symbols.

(And RIP to all the guardsmen that will be BBQed in the future.)

Thank you very much! And your guardsmen may want to invest in some nomex.

Here is my looted ork tank, a cheap goodwill bulldozer find turned into a hopefully effective vehicle.


It is armed, in Grimdark Future, with three HMGs, one rokkit launcher, and one heavy flamethrower. It also gets to ignore terrain modifiers to movement and does extract impact damage (because of the dozer-blade). I did really ponder on the name, "Dirt Muncha" was my favorite, with "Razd an Konfuzd" in a close second. It was only until after I finished painting it that I thought of "Doozy Dozer". Oh well, I'm sure I'll make another down the road.

For those that are interested, here it is with all the odds and ends glued on pre-crustard and paint:


In other news my old ork boyz are being rearmed successfully, and my new ones just came in! Which is very exciting. Lot's to do and paint down the road, hopefully enough to turn my band of Orks and Gretchin into a proper sized army.

That's a fun conversion. Thrift store toys are a great resource for Orky vehicles.

 JoshInJapan wrote:
That's a fun conversion. Thrift store toys are a great resource for Orky vehicles.

Thanks Josh! It really was and now I'm on the eye out for other vehicles my orks could put to good use.

Project-wise, my new orks are assembled and awaiting primer, and my old boyz that needed converting to shootas are complete!


So these are the orks I learned to paint on in a rare work-table photo lol. While it was tempting to completely repaint them, I decided not to. I chose this so I can still see some of the progress I made learning how to paint. I did add highlights and clean up the muddled bits, and use my new eye technique, and of course, the arms are all new. I think they came out pretty well! It was very fun to paint so many checkers

Those shoots boyz look great! Did the vinegar help any with getting their old arms off? That it conversion is amazing too, great to see the before and after pics too

 gobert wrote:
Those shoots boyz look great! Did the vinegar help any with getting their old arms off? That it conversion is amazing too, great to see the before and after pics too

Thank you so much! The vinegar did great at eating away at the super glue, all but one of the arms came off pretty easily and it didn't eat through the varnish at all on the minis. I used white vinegar, and let them soak overnight if anyone wants to try. The bulldozer was very fun I'm on the lookout now for more things to convert for an Ork Truck or Ork Buggy (GF terms). Hopefully I'll find something at goodwill soon.

I've been restructuring my forces so I can hopefully soon play Grimdark Future (and maybe 40k lol). So with my shootas all rearmed, it was time to start on the backbone of the army I am creating, with two more squads of orks, but this time choppas/sluggas. But I wanted to change up from the basic boyz, really enjoy painting ork skin, and I really agree with these orks' views on shoes. So after a bit of kitbashing and painting, the first of twenty orks, and a gretchin I painted up with him.

Nice pair of lads! The tattoos on the big uns arms and face are a neat addition