A Hulking Brute

 

Warlord and his mob.

An Update! Today I finished off three Ork models, a large Ork Warlord with twin power klaws that I 3D printed with a large batch of prints I did a while ago. The other two models I finished painting is an Ork with a rokkit launcha and one with a blunderbuss.

Big Git and his Smaller Gits.

All these models were painted with Contrast paints, with minor details using standard acrylic paints and washes. These are going to look quite differently to my regular 40k Orks not only because they are 3D prints and look different, but the colour scheme will be looking different, such as the skin itself.

Blunderbuss Git.

Mega Git.

Rokkit Git.

The prints themselves look pretty good, with print scan lines visible upon closer inspection, and with the painting process being quick and nasty, the scanlines are much more visible than they normally would be.

"We'z gon' be ignorin youz."

I've printed a total of forty-five Ork models, and they will be making up a force of entirely 3d printed models for 40k. The aim of this is simply to paint miniatures with the "slap-chop" method. Simple and effective method that goes well with these ork models.

Big Shoota.

There have been some misprints, with some being so bad that they are unusable, but as they are orks, some kit bashing and model making was called for, and they look suitably janky for orks. I'll slowly over time use these models to take a break from painting my other miniature projects, and in time will have two ork units of twenty, a warboss and a mega warboss.

My painting setup.

Update Part Deux! Some Failed Prints.

Six New Orks.

 So today I decided to print another batch of orks, and to my shock, four of the seven I had put on the build failed in one way or another, with one completely failing and printing a puddle of nothing. As I was cleaning the plate and about to throw out the three other failures, I decided not to toss them away as failures, but instead attempt to save them by sending them to the Doc!

Fit and healthy boys.

"Fit" and "Healthy" boys.

While one of the four was completely borked, the other three were either missing limbs or their guns completely failed. The first one I worked on was the Big Shoota Ork, who has failed in the past with missing bottom and the gun failing completely too. This time round he was missing half of his left leg. No worries, the Doc will just give him a new leg, a better leg! A bit of sprue and a Space Marine Proximity mine will do the job.

Mine new leg!

The second ork had his hand and gun barrel turn into a blob, so I carefully broke off the offending piece and glued on a gun from the GW ork boyz sprue, cutting it in two and attaching it so as to look like his bionic arm connects to the side of the gun. with a shoulder plate to cover up the gap, and filled in with blue tack mixed with superglue. Looks weird, but that's perfectly orky in nature, a Doc's gotta do what a Doc's gotta do!

Shoota Arm FTW!

The last ork had his gun melt off his hand, and his hand wasn't much better either. A quick snip and he had a bare arm with a stump. I was in two mind about him, should I give him a shoota arm or give him a powerclaw and cut his choppa off and replace it with a slugga? Rummaging around the bits box I found this cabling connected to a scorcher bit, and decided that a shoota arm with this cabling coming off it and connecting to his waist would look better. Again, blue tack mixed with superglue helped fill in the gaps and another shoulder pad to make it look like the patch job that it is.

The boys are ready for a priming.

With that, I'm preparing to re-print them again, to see if it fails in the same way. If they do, then I might have another opportunity to send some more boys to the Doc!

Some 3D Prints

The Four Brothers.

In todays update I have four Orks painted up slap-chop style, all done in one day. These orks are 3D prints I've had for a while, and decided to get them printed out, and managed to finish them in one day. I printed these four, along with a larger Warboss model, which I don't have a big enough base to put him on, and a sixth ork model, but that one failed to print correctly and as such a tossed it away.

Big Bro Buzzog!

The first ork of the bunch is a Nob sized ork with one shoulder pad and a big rocket powered hammer. He seems to have his legs being powered by cybernetics, and the hammer has some jets on the back of it's head to propel it into somethings head even faster than he can swing it.

Smart Bro Kurgor!

The second ork of the bunch is a regular sized ork boy, but he seems to have had some doc work on his brain, and it seems to have done him a world of good, because he's actually aiming with his weapon, sighting down it's length instead of just aiming in a general direction like most other orks do.

Dakka Boy Snazgob!

The third ork of the bunch is slightly misprinted, his mouth section jutting out weirdly. I decided not to scrap him, thinking that he could simply be gobsmacked, literally having his jaw smashed and healing incorrectly. This guy is obviously learnt his lesson and now keeps his distance and shoots his weapon, making sure he never runs our of ammo with his large capacity magazine.

Mean Boy Gurrok!

 The last ork of the bunch is sporting a choppa and slugga, intending to shoot his enemies point blank and bashing their heads in. This one has a tyre protecting one of his shoulders, since he's going to have to make his way to his prey on foot.

The brothers having a meeting.

The ork flesh was painted with Contrast Ork Flesh, so its a more cool green than Snikrots skin, works quite well for space orks, and doesn't need an additional brown wash over it to look good. The pants I decided to use Contrast Terradon Turquoise, for that jeans look, which came out perfectly. I painted all the metal bits Contrast Black Templar and then sparingly picked out details with a silver. The straps, belts were done with Contrast Gore-Grunta Fur, and the boots was Contrast Snakebite Leather.

Get Em Boyz!

The bases are the usual Vallejo Desert basing with Agarax Earthshade. The metal bits were washed Nuln Oil, and teeth and nails were painted Cold White and washed with Agarax Earthsahde. Any red is Flat Red washed with Nuln Oil.

All Dat Booty!

Excellent results and fast too. Quite happy with how they came out, and am looking forward to painting more.