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A couple weeks ago my partner got me a box of ork boyz. I've painted some minis for DnD games in the past, but really liked how wacky and strange the orks looked. I also liked the idea of throwing together scraps and odds and ends to make things. I'm hoping soon, to complete the box and play some Grimdark Future Firefight together. I chose deathskulls for my ork clan because I love salvaging and remaking and repairing things. I don't like batch painting, so I paint each miniature and then move on. So with all the experimenting I am doing, there's going to be some learning and variation.

The first four I painted was a really big learning experiment, mostly of learning how to paint checkers (it's kinda addicting) and experimenting with colors. The terrain I made was a crater out of aluminum foil, baking soda paste and sand and I'm not too happy with it. The barbed wire is from some wire I found and is okay I guess. I really like how my cardboard barricades came out though with my fourth ork!


Next I got really ambitious and wanted to make some more interesting terrain and spent about four hours taking a bunch of bits and bobs and putting them together to end up with something that looked like a soda can lol. So more modification later and I have a watertank with some fuel canisters stacked up against it. I really like the tarp I made from a plastic bag, I just think a blue poly tarp is very post apocalyptic. Also experimented with metal shading with my 5th ork.


Okay, last ones for this post, three more orks and a double barricade. With these I've been focusing a lot more on shading, highlights and skin color. And while the last ork has some messy areas, I really like the expression I seemed to have captured in this photo.


Thanks for looking! Up next on my painting table are two commandos I'm making from the ork boyz box, and maybe something more grotty.
   
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not bad at all

The only thing I'd suggest with the crater would be some of that brown paper tape (or masking tape) around the edge of the cardboard - or if you can salvage offcuts of foamex (foamed pvc) possibly from a signwriters you wouldn't have the exposed corrugations.

Anyway - welcome, you're off to a nicely grimy start!

   
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Cypher226 wrote:
not bad at all

The only thing I'd suggest with the crater would be some of that brown paper tape (or masking tape) around the edge of the cardboard - or if you can salvage offcuts of foamex (foamed pvc) possibly from a signwriters you wouldn't have the exposed corrugations.

Anyway - welcome, you're off to a nicely grimy start!


Ooohh that's a great idea, thank you, I'll see if I can find some and fill up the holes. I'm hoping to find a better base material in my scavenging for supplies, fingers crossed!


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I'm really proud of my ork sniper I made. I used a carbine and a pistol arm to get the pose that way. Here he is sneaking along under his lichen. I was originally going to make a canvas tarp for him to hide under, but didn't want to loose so many painted details, the lichen looks cute and I really like how it's lichen and fungi working together:


Not so sneaky on the back Also, I try to make my blades look like they've been somewhat haphazardly hand sharpened.


Finally, here's the sneaky little fella:


Thanks for looking

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Great work! love the walls and the barbwire.

I will say though, have you thought about grading the edges on the terrain pieces so they will be flush with the battle field? Just so they blend in rather then stand out?

Either way solid stuff (really like your Deathskullz too, got a great blue on these guys)
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Really enjoy your work, that's some legit hobbying with eye for detail and I'm sure its been as much an enjoyable endeavor as is the result.

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BarryScott wrote:Great work! love the walls and the barbwire.

I will say though, have you thought about grading the edges on the terrain pieces so they will be flush with the battle field? Just so they blend in rather then stand out?

Either way solid stuff (really like your Deathskullz too, got a great blue on these guys)
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Thank you so much! That's a really great idea and I will work on fixing them up and making any future ones more trapezoidal. I really appreciate the suggestion!

Leopold Helveine wrote:Really enjoy your work, that's some legit hobbying with eye for detail and I'm sure its been as much an enjoyable endeavor as is the result.


Thank you, that's very sweet of you to say. I really like painting them one at a time and giving them bits of character on the way.
   
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I had a lot of fun making this tankbusta ork. The bombhammer is made from a debladed axe with the rocket from the rocket launcher on top. He's also in front of a classic corner terrain building, but I tried to make it look like red clay, instead of the usual concrete. I'm pretty happy with the deathskulls ork skull graffiti turned out too. He has an assortment of extra rockets on his packframe that are most certainly not stolen.



   
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Those are some good looking Orks. I like the way to sniper is peeking out from under the lichen-- very kunnin'.

Now showing more Samurai Marines, Bad Squiddo Amazons, and an Oldhammer Chaos Thug!

Painting total as of 3/28/2024: 21 plus a set of modular spaceship terrain

Painting total for 2023: 79 plus 28 Battlemechs and a Dragon-Balrog

 
   
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Hollerin' Herda with Squighound Pack




I've been making good progress through the box of orks, and my partner surprised me with another box of figures earlier this week, goblins!

I spent far far too long thinking about the color scheme for them, and have a bunch of ideas for terrain I want to make, but here's the first goblin in front of a shaman's ritual site I made for them. (The lichen is painted with glow in the dark paint that unfortunately dried a little goopy, but it glows in dim and dark lighting which is super cool!!!)






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 JoshInJapan wrote:
Those are some good looking Orks. I like the way to sniper is peeking out from under the lichen-- very kunnin'.


Thank you very much. I really loved making that sniper for that very reason.

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Hey mate,

This blog is off to a great start. You've got a really nice handle on detail work, that background in D&D minis really pays off there.

The terrain looks brilliant and super orky - and now I'm excited to see where the goblins go.

Thanks for sharing!

t z you are k 
   
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I like that you "spent far too long thinking about the color scheme for them" and then painted them blue. Skullz orks, Skullz gobbos; blue is da luckiest color after all

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in the computer?

Some good honest Orkin' going on in this thread. Keep it up!

 
   
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tzurk wrote:Hey mate,

This blog is off to a great start. You've got a really nice handle on detail work, that background in D&D minis really pays off there.

The terrain looks brilliant and super orky - and now I'm excited to see where the goblins go.

Thanks for sharing!


Thank you very much I think painting the occasional dnd mini has given me a good foundation to work from. I'm also super excited to paint more gobbos

Gulgog TufToof wrote:I like that you "spent far too long thinking about the color scheme for them" and then painted them blue. Skullz orks, Skullz gobbos; blue is da luckiest color after all


Blue is a lovely color, can't seem to get away from it. thank you!

Thumpingbear wrote:Some good honest Orkin' going on in this thread. Keep it up!


Thank you very much, that's very sweet of you to say


I'm rather proud of this ork, I really wanted my ork leader to be a weridboy, I thought the idea of being led by a completely mad psychic is very orky, so here's the Nob kitbashed with other bits to make my ork leader shaman for GFF. I spent about six hours on him today and it was completely worth it, even if the edge highlighting at the end was making me go a bit mad myself:


I had initially wanted to give him some face paint and tattoos, but I figured the model was busy enough as is and I am very happy where he ended up.

Also the night before I painted up an ork to test some of the techniques I'd be usuing on my shaman:


Thanks for looking!
   
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Welcome to the madhouse! And as a fan of the da blue Boyz, I approve of your scheme!

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 inmygravenimage wrote:
Welcome to the madhouse! And as a fan of the da blue Boyz, I approve of your scheme!


Thank you so very much!

The rainy cold weather has really kept me from too many outdoor adventures, so that means a lot more time making things and painting. First up is a grot tank!



I loved the concept of these things, and the are in GFF, so I got lucky at goodwill and found a small toy tank missing it's turret. I added some orky bits like teeth, and the axe head from my bombhammer conversion. I made a turret out of cardboard and pen parts, and some side things out of aluminum cans. It's definitely small, even for a grot tank, maybe a one or two-grot vehicle at most, but I think it came out pretty cute.

Okay next is a work in progress, same goodwill trip I found a simple wooden locomotive with a freight car. I need more terrain, and an orky loco was right at the top of the list. I'll get to the freight car later, but right now here is the little 0-4-0 loco awaiting a little bit more pondering if I should add anymore bits, and then a coat of primer



Thanks for looking!

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Ork train! Looks good, looking forward to seeing it painted up.

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Toys-to-vehicles is classic Orky-ness.

Now showing more Samurai Marines, Bad Squiddo Amazons, and an Oldhammer Chaos Thug!

Painting total as of 3/28/2024: 21 plus a set of modular spaceship terrain

Painting total for 2023: 79 plus 28 Battlemechs and a Dragon-Balrog

 
   
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Mostly, on my phone.

Ork train already looks pretty orky in those colours

Theophony"... and there's strippers in terminator armor and lovecraftian shenanigans afoot."
Solar_Lion: "Man this sums up your blog nicely."

Anpu-adom: "being Geek is about Love. Some love broadly. Some love deeply. And then there are people like Graven.  
   
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ork land train is a great idea!! "Choo Choo daka daka daka daka" and so on awesome
   
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ph34r wrote:Ork train! Looks good, looking forward to seeing it painted up.


JoshInJapan wrote:Toys-to-vehicles is classic Orky-ness.


inmygravenimage wrote:Ork train already looks pretty orky in those colours


BarryScott wrote: ork land train is a great idea!! "Choo Choo daka daka daka daka" and so on awesome


Thanks everyone! This project has been really fun. Here's an update the ork train with the car. Also, inside the car is a goblin cannon I made, it won't live in there, but I'm really glad it fits. The car sides are mostly open so orks can get in and out easily. Now just waiting on a non-windy or rainy day to prime it.



Also, I got the gretchins box and am having fun painting them alongside my last couple orks:



And finally! I made a scrub/woodland terrain piece for my gobbos, and here's one I've painted up to be a mushroom hunter, with a basket pack made from burlap



Thanks for looking!
   
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Choo choo! That bad boy's gonna look great all painted up. How good is an ork army for recycling...

I am a huge fan of gretchin - all gretchin, old gretchin, new gretchin. Such fun and characterful sculpts. His skin looks great. And so does the brass/blue combo on the gobbos.

Keep it up!


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 tzurk wrote:
Choo choo! That bad boy's gonna look great all painted up. How good is an ork army for recycling...

I am a huge fan of gretchin - all gretchin, old gretchin, new gretchin. Such fun and characterful sculpts. His skin looks great. And so does the brass/blue combo on the gobbos.

Keep it up!



Thank you so much for your kind words! I hope the loco and car come out okay.

While everything is now primed, I am currently dreading painting such a big object, and that might end up being a little bit more delayed as I figure out a proper paint scheme. In the mean time I've been making some terrain pieces and finished the last figure from my ork boyz box. I really love painting wacky orks and really enjoy painting ork skin.


I can never get that little skull on the helmet to look good, if I get another box down the road I'm going to file them off and just paint on stuff instead.

The terrain that is somewhat in the photo is a piece of burst copper pipe that's some industrial thing. I've also made the normal tarp over boxes and a satellite dish thing. I'm just trying to have more terrain for the next time I play GFF and I think it's going well.

Thanks for looking!

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Very nice. Found object terrain is the best!

Don't give up on little details like the skull. It's a good chance to practice your highlighting. Try to make it visible at arm's length.

Now showing more Samurai Marines, Bad Squiddo Amazons, and an Oldhammer Chaos Thug!

Painting total as of 3/28/2024: 21 plus a set of modular spaceship terrain

Painting total for 2023: 79 plus 28 Battlemechs and a Dragon-Balrog

 
   
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 JoshInJapan wrote:
Very nice. Found object terrain is the best!

Don't give up on little details like the skull. It's a good chance to practice your highlighting. Try to make it visible at arm's length.


Thank you very much! I will try that on my next ork with a helmet thank you for the suggestion.

I've been busy with other things recently but have have finished a to do project on my list, better storage for my minis:


There's another similar tray beneath this one filled with gobbos, and room for a third one. It works great for storage and I think it will work well next time I move. I left space in between the orks and the top of the next tray to fill with newspaper for padding.

I assembled some orks (as you can see in the photo above) and primed them, but have been pretty busy so here's three grots I've finished and had a lot of fun painting.


Thanks for looking!
   
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Mostly, on my phone.

Cracking wee grots, and nice solution to the eyeball struggle!

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 inmygravenimage wrote:
Cracking wee grots, and nice solution to the eyeball struggle!


Thank you very much. They are very fun to paint, I love all the character the models have.

I've been busy lately, but here's what I've painted. First is a burna boy and grot, they were both really fun to paint and I think putting a tooth pattern on the bandanna is just really fun and silly. These two really make me feel like I've made some progress with becoming a better painter.


Next up is an ork boss (runtherd model) with an adorable squig and grot. (also have been experimenting with better camera lighting and angles, not sure if it's working)


Thanks for taking a look
   
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These are looking really good but the terrain could be improved simply by covering the corrugated card corrugations by using masking tape or fillers.

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Some good looking Orks, really nice skin tone you’ve got and the metallics are looking good!

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 gobert wrote:
Some good looking Orks, really nice skin tone you’ve got and the metallics are looking good!


Thank you very much! Skin is my favorite to paint, I really like doing so, I'm still experimenting with technique but it is getting there. I also like painting the metals and for the blades I try to think about how the poorly sharpened fieldwork tools at my job look and think that fits with the orks pretty well.

My first named ork is complete! (Well I named 'em). This is take two on an ork shaman/weirdboy and I really like how the kitbash turned out. I just used a bunch of bits, and the cloak is made out of blue painters tape. I tried a speckled approach on the hair but I don't think it worked, but otherwise I think he turned out great. There's also a grot with a pirate-y bandana I painted alongside.


Thanks for looking!
   
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I love the weird boy especially the cape. It's great seeing someone paint a Deathskullz army. It's the one clan I haven't added to my tribe yet. Excellent work I can't wait to see more of your work.

 
   
 
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