He waited 18 years to be painted.

Here is one of my old school Orks done and dusted:

AOBR Ork Warboss.

I'm really, really happy with how he turned out, he took about 15 hours to finish over 4 days so I'm glad he's finally done!

I'm such an idiot!

I just finished my first Nob and I was so happy with it, until I accidentally broke the arm off. I feel so gutted right now, he was easily my best model and I ruined him at the last minute. I glued it back on but looking at it you can see it's not flush and it's a little high, all in all I am so upset with myself, it could have been so easily avoided but I'm never happy and I have to keep pushing and prodding and poking trying to get everything perfect and yeah, sometimes that bites you in the ass and my ass is currently bleeding.

Here he is anyway:

Winter Ork?

So I was bored and wanted to try something different so I tried my hand at a "Winter Ork", he didn't come out as good as I would have liked but it was pretty fun trying something new. I'll probably be sticking with green skin from now on though!

My Ork army grows a little.

Time for an update, here's 2 models I just finished. This was the first time I painted more than 1 model at a time and I'd say it'll be the last time for now, I'm just too slow to make it work. A lot of things went wrong, mainly my GW standard brush splitting and being completely useless, I still can't believe how bad quality the brush is, splitting after 4 models is just terrible. Luckily the next time I paint I'll be using a set of Winsor Series 7 brushes.

Anyway, enough moaning. I think I improved the weapons and the mouth on these models, I used red on the gums/mouth, highlighted with Dheneb Stone and then washed with Sepia, before I just did Dheneb Stone over the black basecoat and left it at that. As for the weapons I've added some bronze which I've dulled down several times with both Badab Black and Devlan Mud, I think they look much better than my first attempt where it was just plain Gunmetal. Overall I think these 2 are a step up from my first, I'll post a shot of the 3 together at the end.

Second Ork:

Third Ork:

My massive "army" so far:

Second model finished.

So it's been awhile since I last updated this blog and that's mainly due to IRL and people being slow to post stuff on eBay. Today was the first time I've put paint to mini since I finished my first model and I have to say I'm really happy with my efforts. He was my first Ork and my second ever model and I think he's a step up from my first mini.

Playing the waiting game.

I'm currently waiting for my 10 Ork Boyz which I won off eBay and my basing stuff (fine grit & static grass) which means I'm pretty limited when it comes to options of what to do so I decided to put together another two of my Dark Angels Veterans. The first one is OK but has a couple of molds lines which I couldn't fully get because I put him together before doing it, lesson learnt there. The second model I put together today came out much better, I'm really happy with how he looks.

1st:

2nd:

Hopefully I will be basing, priming and painting soon, it's all down to the postman!