Painted Orks, Trukk and Terrain!

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As of right now I have a total of 20 painted orks, including a nob and 2 lootas which I am counting as orks with rocket launchers. Eleven of these were painted using my newer technique (mostly highlighting) while nine of them were painted with the older technique (washing and drybrushing) but then touched up later with some highlights and stuff:

I am really happy with how the lootas came out, though I’m considering adding some chips and scratches to the black areas of their guns. Here are some details:

On one of the boys I did an experiment to see how small I could paint a checkerboard pattern. Here is the result:

Now on to the trukk, which I am very happy with:

Here is a wall I scratch-built over cawshis’ place a long, long time ago. I forgot to put an ork in the picture for scale. It’s pretty big! A foot across and three inches tall at it’s highest point:

I recently bought the resin ork barricades set from Games Workshop. I’ve only painted one so far. Here it is with some orks getting a cover save behind it:

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!

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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.