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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: Willypold on 08 January 2012, 06:29:49 PM
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It's time to get on with reworking my Space Orks. Previously I used a very simple colour scheme for my Ork vehicles - spraypainted black, drybrushed with Boltgun Metal, and finally drenched in Rust-All. It got a little boring after awhile, but was sort of effective as my Orky vehicle park grew from the original Gorkamorka buggies into nearly 40 different walkers, buggies, bikes, tanks and deffkoptas, including the beginnings of a mekboy Stompa (scratchbuilt body, feet consisting of two Chimeras). The Stompa was eventually abandoned when GW released their own plastic model, as I wasn't happy with the construction method for the arms.
The Gorkamorka game had a desert planet as the setting and I've finally returned to it after working on a desert camouflage for my Imperial Guard troops. This version is basically the same, but with more rust - still using Rust-All to finish the look!
The first of three killa kans finished during the holidays:
(http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i460/willypold/IMG_1804_mini.jpg)
The second - the third and the deff dread are halfway finished:
(http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i460/willypold/IMG_1798_mini.jpg)
The first repainted vehicle, one of my original reworkings of the Gorkamorka buggy into a gun trukk, built maybe ten years ago. The driver minis are boring little blobs and I really want to find something better to use - right now it's almost (and gracefully) hidden by the gun barrel! The scenery item I painted a couple of years ago - it's one of the sections of the crashed Aquila lander from the Battle for Macragge base set of W40K:
(http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i460/willypold/IMG_1961_mini.jpg)
Colours used: Army Painter spraypainted Sand (or Desert or whatever they call it). Brushpainted Iyanden Darksun over the base, followed by a thorough Devlan Mud wash. Drybrush using P3 Menoth White Base. It's practically the same colour as Bleached Bone, but P3 has the complimentary Menoth White Highlight. Final effect is by Rust-All from Kuras Design Group.
The gun trukk got an extra inverted flatbed from another buggy and the turret from a scrapped Predator of the older type, plus an extra rear axle.
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Good dry and dusty effect.
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I really like the finish you got on them, looks very good!
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Excellent paintjob sir!
I think the blue spikes.cables don't work too well and need toning down a bit. So does the white missile tip. But otherwise excellent work. Love them!
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There is a reason for the blue and red horns and cables (the red horns on number one are actually just as bright in real life). The third will get green shields as it doesn't have any horns, and green cables. I want them to be somewhat obvious. ;)
The white tip is not quite as glaring in real life - the light from the window when I took the picture messed up the balance a bit.
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These are really cool pieces you have posted.Love the Ork vehicle with predator turret added.Painting is top notch too.Nice to see a different take on them.
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These look amazing.
And a relatively simple thing to do by the sound of it, at least for the base colours.
I've always been one of those people who has ended up with mostly dark paint jobs because brighter ones tend to end up taking so long and so much effort, which is true if you are doing a full on layered paintjob, but this is great.
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Awesome job they look GREAT!
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Two more repaints of old stuff.
The buggy is an old resin post-apoc model, but I don't remember who made it. The wheels and the cow-catcher are regular ork trukk bits, while the garbage can scorcher is from an original ork scorcher model. I still need to repaint the ork in the can, give him some teef and stuff.
(http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i460/willypold/IMG_1970_mini.jpg)
The weirdboy tower was inspired by the Epic weirdboy towers and consists of a scratchbuilt track assembly using GW track and wheels, a somewhat smashed up 1960 Triumph (probably 1:24 scale), and a scratchbuilt tower made of plasticard, covered with Campbell Scale Models corrugated siding. The rockets are a set of 1:35 scale German field rockets in their carrying cases. The decorative spikes on top are from the original ork Battlewagon.
(http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i460/willypold/IMG_1975_mini.jpg)
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This lot is brilliant :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Great stuff all round. The colour schemes work really well 8)
It's good to see another style of ork painting out there :)
cheers
James
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Very nice, and as others have said, its good to see the hardware painted in a more naturalistic colour. The basing on those kans really sets them off a treat. First rate stuff.
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Thanks everyone for the kind comments! Appreciated! Next up will be finishing the third kan and the deff dred!
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Bloody nice stuff, Olle! Really like the killakans!
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I feel your pain...
Actually, Kromlech may have a solution right now! He has just released an ork buggy (painted up in desert colours on the Kromlech.eu Facebook page, by the way, but more like the ambush colours). If the driver is not too large it may fit and it looks way better!
And if it doesn't fit maybe he can be talked into producing decent replacements for the drivers and gunners of both the wartrakk and wartrukk. I'll report his reply as soon as there is one!
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The paint job on those vehicles is lovely.
Really nice stuff.
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Had a short exchange with him yesterday, and it seems like he wasn't particularly adverse to producing suitable minis. His comment was that his buggy driver is probably a little too large, though.
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Or maybe we should just let him get on with his thing, as some of his stuff will probably phase out if GW picked him up...
All of my painted orks so far are quite ill adjusted to a desert environment - I mean, they're running around on GRASS! I really need new orks to go with the vehicles, and as the ork minis were painted several years ago, and I've improved somewhat as a painter, I know what I want. Those Kromlech ork heads are just perfect!
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What model are you using?
On schedule to be repainted are two former Polish armoured cars from the 20’s - heavily rebuilt - and a Whippet light tank, running backwards with a Soviet mine roller up front - all of them 1/35 scale.
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The third kan and the deffdredd ready for action:
(http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i460/willypold/IMG_2232_mini.jpg)
(http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i460/willypold/IMG_2227_mini.jpg)
(http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i460/willypold/IMG_2224_mini.jpg)
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I'm (ordinarily) no fan of Orkiness, but these are just fantastic.
I love the coppery skull on the shoulder too!
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Brilliant stuff.
Are we going to see the orks themselves? I'd love to see how you tackle 'da boyz'. :D
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All of my painted orks so far have a definitely non-desert appearance, particularly the grass on the bases. I do have a number of orks that have been basecoated only that I will see what I can do with. As soon as I have the time for it - probably not until tomorrow - I will take a couple of pictures of the ones I do have painted.
What I really would like to do, though, is to grab a few boxes of fresh unassembled orks and mate them with Kromlech heads.
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Great models but I'm especially impressed with your desert colour scheme. Very nice.
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Well... I started working on my space ork horde at about the time Gorkamorka was released, and had a highly productive period building vehicles for a while, then the stuff has been just sitting around for about ten years... :-)
But I'm happy that I've inspired you, of course!
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Great work on your desert orks and your vehicle conversions! I was very into Gorkamorka when it came out (still like it too) and of course one of my favourite parts was building the vehicles. I didn't build an army around it though, just Morkers and Gorkers 8)
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Someone asked about the look of the orks themselves...
The brown-clad ork on the right is one I painted about ten years ago. Very simple – brown clothes, brown wash, green skin, green wash, black metal drybrushed with Boltgun Metal.
The second from the right is an ork I painted about two years ago, using generous amounts of Devlan Mud and grey clothes in order to give the orks something that looked like an actual uniform.
The two on the left are works in progress using the same sand colour and technique as the vehicles. The weapons and other metal parts will be painted using a 50/50 mix of Boltgun Metal and Chaos Black. The goal is a rather sizeable force, which means that I'm not going to spend hours on each mini - instead I'm looking for ways of making the painting look more detailed than it actually is – wash and drybrush and just a few contrasting details. I enjoy building vehicles and constructing terrain using Hirst Arts bricks, but painting figures sometimes feels like a chore!
(http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i460/willypold/IMG_2263_mini.jpg)
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Tried it, but couldn't stand the smell of it... *ugh*
But I've seen some good results using it, though.
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Well... I'll stick to drybrushing and washes - that way I have more options, as I use a variety of inks and washes of different colours, including Rust-All, which behaves like an ink, but seems to be something else.