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Here are two Deth Kopta pilots in the process of being painted.
They utilise parts from the original pilot and the plastic Ork Boyz sprue.
One difference with these then when I made the original model was that I stuck the flying handle to the model rather than try and assemble the whole thing when everything is painted.
This shot shows a work in progress of one of my Ork Boyz.
They are painted quite quickly in one respect, but I am still trying to get a good paint job on them.
I start off with a black undercoat and then do all the metallic bitz with a drybrush of tin bitz and chainmail.
I then do all the Ork skin with a dark green, highlight with Goblin Green before doing final highlights with a mixture of Goblin Green and Bleached Bone.
The orks’ teeth are first done in Bleached Bone before final highlights of Skull White.
Uniforms (and I say that in the broadest possible sense with orks) are usually Codex Grey with highlights in a lighter grey.
Bases to fit in with the snow based theme and Cityfight games are done in Codex Grey before drybrushing with Skull White.
Here is a shot of some finished Boyz.
Here is a photograph from my most recent game (today).
These are Simon’s Imperial Guard Stormtroopers about to try and take back a pre-tech village from a bunch of Orks (mine).
As you can see the models are not run of the mill Stormtroopers but are based on Space Marine Scouts.
The Squiggoth in the distance eventually charged them and lost in the second round of combat.
The buildings are from Steve Barber Models.
Wartrakk Gunner for a Trukk or Squiggoth…
If you get an Ork Skorcha or Grot Bomb Launcha, you also get as a result a spare Gunner.
This is one I am in the process of painting up.
I am going to use it on either a Trukk or my Squiggoth.
It is a pity that the rules/codex don’t allow you to use more twin-linked Big Shootas.
Here is the concept sketch for the Feral Ork Steam Gargant from the Fanatic Display at UK GamesDay 2004.
You can see the resin of the actual model in this picture.
I do like this model (and I suspect we may get a Forgeworld version one day).
Having undercoated the Ork Bommerz with white paint, the next stage is to paint the metal bitz with black paint.
Imperial Guard Salamander surrounded by Orks and about to be destroyed…
…well it is quite hard for infantry to destroy a tank, but the BurnaBoyz gave a good effort…
…especially as they has just been Tank Shocked!
Probably down to the flash and camera, this picture of my Ork Trukk and Wartrakk are darker than they really are.
They do have a black undercoat, but the drybrushing seems to be washed out by the flash. They look partially painted rather than finished…
I suppose I could drybrush the wheels with mud and stuff.
This is an overhead shot of my Orks from a recent game.
They did okay, but they still lost.
The Epic Armageddon metal Space Marine characters are released this month.
This is a picture I took at UK GamesDay 2004.
Here are the Space Marine Characters.
It’s a pity that they are based so much on the plastic characters, new designs would have been nice, as they have done with the bikes.
A pity you can’t get the bikes separately, and I am unsure how many bikes you get in the “random” blister.
The Ork characters look interesting, but again most are re-casts of the plastic characters!
