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okay so my original plan was to get all my orks done before school started(i liv in america).........WRONG. i was completely unable to finish the rest of my force. damn. So i decided to make a blog out of finishing it in here and this is it. right now i need to finish 1 mek stompa, 1 squiggoth(already WIP), 40 boyz, 6 deffkoptas, 1 battle wagon,1 looted wagon, 10 nobz, 10 burna boyz, 1 painboy, 1 mekboy and 2 warbosses! FUN!
plus i found this great stone tower terrain piece thats the size of the top of the bucket im useing for the stompa and its top comes off so im gunna make a replica of the starship enterprise main deck inside except with orks! so heres my drawings for the stompa: the whole thing is a face and the deth kannon comes out the nose hur hur.

also i still dont know what the giga shoota should look like...

okay still waiting on some pvc cement so heres and update on the battlewagon. i finshed the body and all it needs is paint. could someone please tell me how to do yellow!?
crap!! camera shut down as i was posting.....DARN! well ill get them up in 5 minutes

First thing this needs is more supports. This looks like it's a box perched on top of a Vindicator. If the vindy drove off, the top would slide off and be left in the dust. Something connecting the tank body and the ork part is a must.

Next, the top compartment is way too smooth and curvy to be an orky creation. It needs more metal plates haphazardly bolted on to complete its orkification.

Also, be careful with the scale of the rivets. The shouldn't be as large as an ork fist. You can find different sized plastic rivets on some train modeling supply sites. They're usually pretty cheap, like $3 for 100.

You've got a decent frame here, it just needs more details and love (and dakka!).

And where are your drivers?

You should have a special rule wherein if you ram an enemy vehicle and cause no damage you re-roll because the thing proceeds to fall on top of the ramming target. (Tha fist of Gork in metal form!) Really, it's an excellent example of the violent madness that is Warhammer 40,000.

okay so how about instead of critisizing it warpcrafter why dont you suggest how i could make it stop from falling on the enemy.....

sorry, had to laugh at warp then

all you need to do mainly is add some supports, and, as said, make it more orky.
get some plasticard, cut out some rough shapes and bolt them onto it.

can use the plasticard for making some supports too.

I GOT BLACK REACH!!
heres a pic of the orks and thins before i paint em up. also there arre two that ive done my test badmoon scheme on....im not a very good painter

also theres some pics of the battlewagon that i finished painting. i need to do the supports and i think ill just under coat and do yellow squares of p-card for the supports.

It seems that this comes up a lot lately, but I think you could do well with a few washes on those orks.
The one called Sepia is good for yellow if you want the color to have more depth.

Alternately, you could throw on some Ogryn Flesh, if you want to dirty the orks up a bit...

That´s a quick and effective way to add more detail to your models, I´ve found it to work wonders on larger areas of colors.

This is an estimation, but I think it would look about 563% better without the tupperware container. Or whatever that is. I presume the passengers are meant to go in there.

arctik thats actually pretty funny and i do think ill change that upper container up a bit

@xanthos, -commence haiku transmittion-
i have no glue today
like morning dew with no leef to sit on
I will buy a wash when i go get glue
the dew shall find his/her leaf once more
-end haiku transmittion-

-Claps hands appreciatively-

Ooohh, I´ve never been Haiku´d before. Well not on Dakka at least...

Seriously though, washes are the best thing since sliced bread (which I think we all know is pretty awesome), they totally change what is possible to do to your mini´s.

comming n nicely now.

quick tip for assembling;
some models like the new black reach ones use pins on thier arms, its worth cutting 1/3 off of them before sticking them on, this prevents them from not connecting 100%

Xanthos wrote:Ooohh, Ive never been Haiku´d before. Well not on Dakka at least...

You still haven't Hoss. BTW, thatthing, a haiku is a 3 line poem with 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second, and 5 in the third.

But literary foibles aside, a quick question after an observation. You painting needs quite a bit of cleanup. Even with just basecoats, your minis would look a lot better if you kept the paint "in the lines," so to speak. Concentrate on making sure the colors don't spill into adjacent bits. So basically, no bleached bone on the ork skin parts, no yellow from the armor plates on the pants, etc. Also, yellow takes a couple coats at least before the primer isn't showing through.

So the question is: how large of a brush do you paint with?

okay i have part of the stompa done and hes lookin okay, and Cosmic, i dont like painting at all really so i dont take too much time on it. one of these days though i think ill put some major time into a squad and itll look okay. AND i made a new krew dek on top of the b-wag. its lookin good but i have to re-paint it. ill have pics up later today i think.

I'm a bit of a hobby snob myself so take from this what you will:

By putting a great deal of effort into a conversion and then saying that you don't plan on taking the time to paint it well you are destroying all of the hard work you have done. Since you don't enjoy painting I would suggest paying someone else to do it. If you don't want to do that and you still plan on not giving the paintjob the attention it deserves I would suggest not spending so much time on the model since the end result won't be great anyway.

I'm hoping that didn't sound too harsh. At least you plan on painting which is a huge step up from the travesty that is unpainted minis.

People Play with unpainted Minis? Not like the new thing they jus tbought, but whole armies? That's just strange to me. I'm new to 40k and I have been trying to get the painting down, but the paint section in this forum has great tips.
It isn't painting that's hard for me it's the patience to sit down and do it, but the way I see it is the more my I put into it now, the easier it'll get because I'll just get better. Or I will play with unpainted armies, just kidding.

With the pictures above, I noticed you're using yellow. I am too using yellow, I'm doing a Honey bee theme to my Tyranids, and I find yellow is hard to go over darker colors. That is why I used a white primer. What color Primer are you using? I can't do too much talking because the stuff I did isn't much better if at all.

ya i guess ill spend some more time on this expantion but i have to warn you guys I will be gone for a week starting tomorrow so get ready for a lack of posts....SORRY! also coachnitro, i new a dude who had 3 armys and had never painted a single miniature. his army was entirely grey and silver.

remeber when i said i'd be gone for a week? I LIED!
so i have some pics of the wip stompa and of the new platform on the b-wagon and of some black reach boyz WAAAAAGH!
also i started a scratch sculpted big mek so you can see him there too. hes waaaay too big.

also, the stompas mouth is the space in between the raised part of the body and the body and its eyes are the things outside the sand container the deth kannon is coming out it's nostril. there will be some grots pushing up against the other nostril to be funny. the legs and arms arent done cuz i need yet more glue.

sorry for the quadruple post but if you guys dont reply then i have to, y'know.
anyway i completely rehauled the stompa and got everything but the legs finished. imo it looks pretty sexy.
here are the pics of the over haul and the finished body w/ spray. i need to gets some silver spray paint to make it all metalic.

I like it!!!

You have to put lights in those eyes. It's just screaming for it.

BYE

Please invest in some washes, your orks would look (as said before 563% better with even one wash layer on them.

Right now, with the paintjobs that are on them, it makes me think 'So what?' about your modelling work, as you obviously aren't putting that much effort in to try and finish them.

Washes + little more time = waaaaay better looking orks.

i repainted a all of the orks that ive done in badmoons and they look a whole lot bette than before. i also sprayed that b-wagon red.. im donme with bad moons and i think ill do speedfreakz instead