OMG AN UPDATE!
Its been a long time since I last wrote anything on here, mostly due to the hobby taking a back seat to video games ,movies and television. Since last year its been slow going in terms of painting miniatures and terrain.
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| Eleven Orks Painted for Gorkamorka |
But recently I got some inspiration to paint some Orks from GW Warhammer 40k. About five years ago, A Proper Cuppa bought me a Gorkamorka box set for my birthday, and while we haven't gotten too big into it, I bought a box set of orks from GW to go with the orks in the big box. They look great but look a lot bigger than the Gorkamorka orks, so we used them as orks and the smaller orks as yoofs.
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| Ork with Heavy Shoota and Rokkit Launcha |
I was looking through the box one day and decided to paint an ork for fun. I didn't put the model down till it was finished. I finished the Nob first, and upon completing it, I was so pleased with how easy and effective the paint job was, I decided to complete them all, one at a time. I normally batch paint, and that can get quite tedious, even though its much more efficient. But painting one a time can be a good break from the tedium of batch painting, and its great for small projects like this. Its taken me over two months to paint all of them up, but I took my time and experimented with colours and shading.
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| Boss Nob with Shoota and Choppa |
I've been painting orks for many years and I've only ever painted skin one way, with Citadel paints. With these guys, I decided to use primarily Army Painter paints, and the skin itself painted in multiple layers of green. Starting with Army Painter Green Skin as a base, I layered Army Painter Goblin Green, leaving recesses untouched. Going further, I layered Army Painter Scaly Green, making sure to highlight less and less, with Army Painter Necrotic Flesh being applied lightly. Finally a quick wash of Army Painter Green Tone wash to dull it and shade it, and the flesh is complete.
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| Three Boyz with Choppas and Sluggas |
I decided to have their clothes be black leather, I painted their jackets Army Painter Dark Stone, and highlight their pants the same colour. The metal started off with Army Painter Rough Iron and highlighted Army Painter Gun Metal. Red was simply Army Painter Pure Red, and red metals were highlighted with Army Painter Gun Metal too. Rings, bullets, piercings and horns were either Army Painter Weapon Bronze or Army Painter Gun Metal. All this was washed Army Painter Dark Tone.
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| Three more Boyz, one with a Stikk Bomb |
Leather and boots is primarily Army Painter Oak Brown, with string and rope with one of two colours not from the Army Painter range, Vallejo Khaki. The other colour not from the Army Painter range is Vallejo German Camo Beige, used for the backpack of the heavy gunner. Teeth and nails are all Army Painter Skeleton Bone. All these are washed with Army Painter Soft Tone.
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| Two Boyz with Shootas |
The bases are painted Army Painter Desert Yellow, dry brushed with Army Painter Skeleton Bone and washed with Army Painter Soft Tone. The ring on the base is Army Painter Matt Black and finally some Army Painter Highland Tuft 6mm tufts glued to the base.
Thank you for reading, and hopefully it doesn't take me another six months to get something else painted.
