Drybrushing the Gunwagon

In a post the other day I showed how I drybrushed my Ork Looted Rhino. I used the same technique with my Ork Gunwagon.

I had given the Gunwagon an ink based wash, after this had dried, I gave the model a drybrush.

This brings out the detail, but I did try and avoid being too heavy with the brush.

I will now need to go back over some of the metal details to lose some of the the dusty dirty look.

I also want to go over the front “teef” and add some weathering and scratches – well do you expect Orks to look after their vehicles and keep them clean and looking like they just came out of the showroom?

Full workbench feature on my Ork Gunwagon.

More pictures of Ork Gunwagons.

Washing the wagon

Having finished the base coat and got the metal bitz looking all metallic, I gave the Forgeworld Gunwagon a wash consisting of Chestnut Ink, Scorched Brown paint (which helps remove the gloss of the ink) and some water to thin the wash down.

Turned out well, though it’s a pity that the “teef” at the front and blended into to the bodywork too much, I need to think about how to work on that.

Full workbench feature on my Ork Gunwagon.

More pictures of Ork Gunwagons.

Painting Tanks, well an Ork Gunwagon

In my recent Painting Tanks blog entry I said:

I am now thinking that maybe I should give my tanks a black undercoat and then use something like Tausept Ochre from the Foundation Paints range for the base coat. I would follow this with a wash (as above) and then highight with a lighter brown, before weathering the tanks.

After thinking about this for some time, I remembered that I had my Ork Gunwagon, and it was undercoated black. So it was out with the paints and here is the initial result.

Ork Gunwagon

I was really pleased with this, that I will be using this method on my Daemonhunters’ tanks. Before though I will finish the Gunwagon off first.

There was an article on the Games Workshop website which got me re-thinking about how I was going to paint my tanks.

Epic Ork Trukk

Epic Ork Trukk in the ruins of an Imperial city.

Epic Ork Trukk

This is a conversion, it used an Ork Flakwagon and the Ork Buggy Gunnerz from two buggies. It had a white undercoat, I then painted the metal parts black, drybrushed with Tin Bitz and Boltgun Metal. The red parts were painted red, I then gave it a wash of Chestnut Ink.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, I now when giving my models a wash, add paint to the ink which removes the gloss you can see in this photograph. You can see that effect on these models.

Ork Gunwagons

The wash has given them a matt look which looks more “realistic” than the gloss finish of the Trukk above.

Workbench feature on how I painted those Gunwagons.

Ork Gunwagon

Having cleaned the parts I started to try dry runs and then sticking the track units together.

The track units went very easily together though did requires some cleaning and they did have some large chunks of superfluous resin. The tracks went on easily and are separate from the wheels.

They came together nicely.

I then stuck the gun shield and the engine block to the main structure. I used epoxy resin for this as superglue wouldn’t be strong enough as the resin filled in the slight gaps between the parts.

I then stuck the two tracked sections to each side and the exhausts.

Next stage is the undercoat.

Forgeworld Ork Gunwagon Kannon

See my previous post on the Kannon, having cleaned the parts, they were ready to be stuck together.

The actual Kannon model does go together quite nicely.

I did stick the Kannon together and intially I did include the base which in fact isn’t required when using the Kannon with the GunWagon, and this isn’t clear on the instructions.

I undercoated the Kannon with a black undercoat.

I have also been working on the Gunwagon itself.