Sukigod's Ork Waaagh! Log

[HarlekissofDeath]

Would you by chance be able to show a step by step on how you paint the skin on your orcs? I like the color and detail and would like to know, thanks

[sukigod]

Sure thing, HarleykissofDeath

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[Meph]

Those orks look nice indeed, good job man!

[HarlekissofDeath]

Thanks Sukigod, that is nice to have a template on how to paint them. I have used something similar to that template but nothing really concrete. I love painting green, it is such a great color to paint with.

[sukigod]

Selling a house (selling it well, anyway) is hard work! Whew! Anyone know of anyone in the central Minnesota area in need of a nice 5 bedroom rambler with a lot of party space?

Anyway, I still have some painting I can do while everything else is packed. A neat bonus is if I finish the stormboyz before the house sells, I've got a Forgeworld Bikerboss coming that should help fill in the time til then. On to what I am working on though - stormboyz!

I've spent a bit of time over the last week or so (more than usual because of the house selling thing) and really didn't post anything because they were short sessions that really didn't show much difference. Now the new pics actually look a bit advanced from the old ones.

I've completed the clothing (blue to match Zagstruk, not because he's a Deffskull), the leather straps and the fur trim on the ones that have it. A problem with taking pics of this work is most of it is only seen from the underneath so showing a regular front-on shot of the mob doesn't really show much. I've picked a couple to show the general level of work I'm doing here.






They're a little better than my standard boyz as I'm using these guys to kill time - I might as well spend a little of it doing a slightly better job. I'm at the point now where I can't really assembly line paint the same things on all of the models so it's 'pick one and finish it' and repeat. Then off to the rokket packs!

Later!

[Meph]

Looks neat and crisp, mate. Welcome back after the hiatus.

[sukigod]

Slow progressd on the stormboyz, but progress none the less. I decided since I was using these to waste time until we move into the new house (which we got - probably another 30+ days before move in) I was going to use these to test and push myself. I want to try using a totally NNM technique - no metallic paints. We'll see how it goes.

The only thing I got done this week was the boots. As with all of the new ork models, the details are incredible and finely done. Since it's hard to shoot these due to angle and lighting, I'll just post a few of them...






And I picked up a little bit of usefulness at the local thrift store today...



It's a bit larger than the Forgeworld Gargantuan Squiggoth but I'm going to make this guy work. Much cheaper!!!

Later!

[Dominic]

Your orks are pretty amazing, they were the inspiration for me starting up my own project log

[sukigod]

Your orks are pretty amazing, they were the inspiration for me starting up my own project log

Thanks Dominic. I just caught your thread over on Warseer and you've got a nice start there. The battlewagon especially.

[sukigod]

Slow and steady wins the race, right? I must be winning something!

I've put in about 5 hours over the last two weeks with a bunch of piddly stuff on the stormboyz. straps and buckles, control boxes, and a couple of weapons. I find that I'v egot the NMM for small and round things down pretty good. The larger, flat open spaces need a bit of work. Here's some detail shots before I did the reds and hoses for the weapons on four of them - the ones with the under-slung sluggas.




Getting a little better at where to put the white highlights and how much - hands are still a little shakey though.



And at the end of the night, a little conga line left and right. I still have the bolt on spike/blades on the one to finish and I'll call these four done for now. I'll move on to the other six stormboyz and do their weapons as they're all pretty much the same combos of knives and sluggas. Then I'll go through and do all the shoulderpads. After all that I get to figure out what to do with all the rokket packs!

I also wanted to introduce you to my painting buddy. His name is Rowdy and he lives up to every letter in his name. When he's not raising hell around the house, he's the cutest damn thing. Whenever I do my modeling, whether painting or creating stuff, he always parks himself within a couple of feet of me and sleeps. Never in my lap, always a short step away. He gives me a good excuse to wake him up every once in a while to take a break from whatever I'm doing. I know, he looks a bit strange here but he does this all the time. Not just lying on his back all stretched out but craning only his neck up and looking at you weird like this. I see it every morning while I'm ironing my clothes for work.

Rowdy's wierd too.



It will probably be while before my next post again as my wife and I close on our new house (yay!) on Monday. Two weeks, at least. Under three if I can get enough stuff done and my painting hutch unpacked sooner rather than later. We'll see.

Later!