New Painted Boyz and an Orky Russ!
Until recently I was using a lot of washing and drybrushing on my boyz, and they were coming out ok. But I was never totally happy with the way they looked. So I started experimenting with highlighting and also some new colors for the skin, clothes, etc. and I’m excited by the results!
(you can click the image below for a larger view)
The only thing I’m drybrushing and/or washing is the metal and the sand. Oh and I drybrushed that one guy’s hair. The skin I based in a dark green and then highlighted up with two colors. I’m slowly learning how to thin down my highlights so they’re not blotchy, though honestly I don’t mind blotchy highlights that much since you don’t notice them unless you look closely, and even then they’re not that terrible.
Here’s an exciting close up shot! Waaagh!!!
I also recently finished converting an Imperial Guard Leman Russ tank to be used as an Ork Battlewagon or Looted Wagon. Here are some pics:
The turret was built from scratch out of plasticard and foam core. The ridiculously large gun barrel is the top from a bottle of Zap-A-Gap glue.
June 6, 2008 at 11:00 am
Yay! nice to see some new stuff up. those boyz are ace! good job
the russ is looking cool, that gun is definately worthy of being a boomgun/killkannon for sure!
so pleased your using plasticard, a sure sign of being a serious ork player!
i think to improve the boomgun you should wrap some 0.5m plasticard round the barrel in different areas. build up its shape. with 0.5m plasticard you can push a biro into the other side of the card and make small rivets appear
add some orky detrus onto it like iron gobs and spikey bits like on the ram and it’l look great!
also you could do the same to the hull big shoota, orrather than a platicard tube, put the barrel of a shoota onto the lascannon stump. that looks cool
good job!
September 5, 2008 at 7:38 pm
I was thinking that that tank might be TOO bad ass, but then I realized: nothing can ever be too bad ass! Add some armored polar bears and a bloody tampon gun and I think you’ve got magic.