Kaptin Badrukk

Kaptin Badrukk was a lot of fun to paint! He has so much detail, the only hard parts were: staying consistent (staying in a common color palette) and the tabbard. I wanted to paint a treasure map, and I'm not great at freehand. I settled for a simple map, but I think it works.

Kaptin Badrukk

Da Powder Grotz

These are Ork "Ammo Runts", I put the 3 of them on a single base to accompany Kaptin Badrukk.

Ork Freebooter Pirates!

Games Workshop only released a single model for this unit (plus a special character, not painted yet). So I had to get creative to make a complete squad. I kit-bashed most of the squad from Ork Nobz sprues (converting kombi weapons into Snazz-guns with more-dakka). I also replaced the heads with some custom Ork Pirate heads I found online. The heads were resin, and needed some conversion to get them to fit the bodies, but in the end I think they worked out!

Ork Painboy

Who wants Feel-No-Pain and 5+ invulnerable saves? Orks do! I painted the Painboy (and Grot Orderly) to accompany my Free-booters.

Blood Bowl Orks

I finally got around to finishing some Blood Bowl miniatures. First up, are the Orks (or Orcs, I can never remember if they spell it differently in fantasy-land). I actually started painting these on vacation (on a cruise!) and finished them at home. 3 Goblins, 1 Thrower, 3 Blitzers, 8 Linemen, and 4 Black-Orc Blockers. I had fun with the checks. I was afraid it was going overboard, but I think they need the lighter colors.

Ork Warboss with Power Klaw (from AoBR)

I finally got around to painting the Warboss from the Assault on Black Reach set. I think this is the best figure from the set! The Deff Kopta's are good, too. Amazingly, they even managed to pick decent wargear for the guy.

I like the pose a lot, and I tried to do some pretty sharp highlights. Jen asked me to repaint the tassel. The first attempt was a little too similar to the Power Klaw.

I kept the yellow theme, since his main job is to provide leadership to the Bad Moon Mega Nobz.

Ork Battlewagon

I finally finished the Battlewagon (with the Deff Rolla and Killkannon). It's overkill, I know, but I can't imagine not having both. I still have the optional gunners to paint, but they won't make a big difference to the overall effect.

I tried something different. I hard-lined the red panels with metallic silver, to make it look like the paint was wearing away from the edges. I think this could be improved in 2 ways: wider edge highlights, and darker/layered metallics.

Ork Trukk

This kit is one of the coolest kits I've assembled/painted from Games Workshop. The amount of options and accessories was great! The only downside what that it took hours just to get the thing assembled and if I had to make another one, I would definitely put it together in a different order.

It was fun to paint, but I'm just about finished with yellow. It's just so much more work to deal with (and then it just gets covered up with weathering and fake scratches).

Ork Grots

I couldn't resist painting these guys, even though they are tactically ... dubious. But 40 points for an 11-man troops choice to sit on an objective, but also an easy kill-point.

Fun to paint though!

I did 2 different techniques (half got one treatment, half the other)
1 - Highlighting the "peaks" of the flesh
2 - Highlighting the outline of muscles

Grots!

Finished painting some grots using new Raphael brushes, and trying to use more dramatic highlights.

I learned 3 things:
1 - I need to make MORE dramatic highlights, I didn't go far enough.
2 - Always keep a second CLEAN cup of water for clean ups.
3 - Never paint anything with the same water after painting metallics.

Ork Warboss

The Ork Warboss on a war-bike with a power klaw is a bargain for 125 points. Well, it's not a GREAT bargain, but it allows a Nobz or Meganobz squad to be counted as a Troops choice.

Toughness 6, with a 4+ save and 3 wounds usually soaks up a lot of firepower.