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Here's a few things that I've been working on. Hope the photography is ok- a few details are pretty dark, like the grot gunners in the sponsons, and the lighting came out odd in the last pic. Inspiration for the Russ was mainly the ork codex art... it had to be a barbaric heap of scrap held together by a mixture of luck, ork tenacity and grot riggers! The orks are the first army I've painted (I started with black reach in 2009) and the Lieutenant is probably the best individual guy I've done so far (got many more Tallarns to come...).

C&C welcome!















Thanks for looking!

Wow that's an extremely well done looted tank.

This is something that wouldn't look out of place in the ork codex as "this is how you can loot a tank" if they still did that sort of thing.

Looks great! The lieutenant looks fantastic, can't wait to see his buddies.

Now THAT is what I call looted..

Thanks for the positive feedback guys, better than I was expecting! Dr.NiiNJA there's a few pics of the first Tallarn squad I did in my dakka gallery, though I took them a while ago and the lighting wasn't great. I've got a whole army of them ready to (re)paint- two 35 man platoons, 3 heavy weapon squads, HQ squad, 10 rough riders, 3 FW tallarn sentinels, al'rahem, tanks, ogryns... it's quite a project and my ork army is taking precedence atm.

Really like the shades on the Tallarn Lt

Great contrast in styles! The Tallarn is so clean and technical, while the looted Russ is just plain gritty and ridiculously over-cluttered (in a very good way, though). Do you have any WIPs of the Russ pre-paint? I'd love to see all of the components and materials you used. Really fantastic stuff, Arclaw

Thanks a lot for the compliment armyman! I like switching between the two armies because they're so different, although TBH I like painting ork vehicles and tallarn infantry. I've yet to try any tallarn armour, although I have a bassie and sentinel on my table... I can't decide whether or not to do it heavily weathered like the ork vehicles or more factory fresh. I've added extra stowage and would love to try out some camo netting, but so far my experiments have failed... thoughts about any of that, anyone?

My ork boyz are kinda cartoony, which contrasts with the weathering on the vehicles. I'm not exactly happy with them, but can't bring myself to add extra skin highlights to 50 or so models... When I started doing them I had no idea how to paint really, and I'm stuck doing them the same for uniformity.

As for the tank, I wish I'd taken some in-progress shots (but no camera back then)- sorry! I can tell you what I used, though... Here we go!

1x old style (comes in more bitz so better for lootin') leman russ off ebay, unpainted.
Battlefield accessories set- has material for patches (ammo box lids and so on) and oil drums, and the spikey tank trap parts make great patches.
1x stompa crewman for the cheeky grot mechanic
0.75mm plasticard.
0.75mm diameter plastic tube for rivets (To be added to any plain plasticard patches- like on the tracks and oil drum)
plasticard textured to look like metal industrial flooring
Chain from forge world (why oh why didn't I shop around for that, I probably got ripped off).
Tamiya sand effect diorama paint- after the whole thing was painted I slapped this on everywhere for mud, then painted it bestial brown, then drybrushed snakebite leather, graveyard earth, bleached bone.
A whole lot of bitz, both leftovers and purchased, from the Boyz, Nobz, Grots, deff dread, trukk and stormboyz sprues.

The two grot sponsons worked out great- For each, I used the top of the rokkit pack with the grot pilot from the stormboyz set, added a shoota and greenstuffed a grot head from the grot set so that its looking down the barrel rather than staring at the sky. Miraculously these clip in right where the heavy bolter was as they're just the right size for the sponsons! With some twisting you can get them in and out when the sponson is built as well, so I painted them separately and put them in last.

A lot of the clutter actually comes from me ruthlessly taking a set of clippers to it after it ready to be primed. Totally mutilate it- scratches, bullet holes (pin vice needed), chips, gaping holes, twisted metal- just be brutal! Made a big hole? Roughly patch it with battlefield accessories and then attack the patch with the clippers! Leave no straight edge untouched! Apart from anything else, this process is extremely fun .

Even though I don't play orks, this is something I love about them - that you can take pretty much anything and use it it their army. +1 when it is done so well too.

That is one Awesome looted russ! The Lieutenant is really nice as well.

Thanks a lot guys

That is one super cool, beat up, amazing ork tank.Nice job

Fantastic stuff! Incredibly smooth blends on the guardsman and the tank has the perfect level of orkification - like Da Big Mek said, this wouldn't look out of place in a lineup of studio models in a "how to loot" article.