Ork-astrating Ork-ageddon 1250pts in a month: Day 16

Holy crap... I can't believe it's been sixteen days!   Today was definitely a good day.  I was home alone, not working and ready to get stuff done... and boy oh boy did I get stuff done!

I Couldn't Wait!

I'm really excited about my lightbox.  As soon as the wife gets back with the car, I'm heading straight down to Walmart for a tripod and some real lights to make it even better!

But in the meantime, some more shots of my stuff.  Most of this, Wallshammer hasn't even seen before!  I almost didn't post some of these, because the bases aren't finished.  I'm hoping to fix that soon.

I'll start with my Orc Shaman:

More after the break:

Ork-astrating Ork-ageddon 1250pts in a month: Day 14

So... red is on!  I put down the first red coat on all the models, a mechrite red.  Pretty simple!  Hell, I bet Green Feevah and his amputated finger got more done then I did.   Still visually it's a pretty big step even if it was fairly simple.

Tonight I am gonna put them on the table and play some more.  Gotta assemble the deffrolla and the kombi scorcha and banna nobz still as well.

Ork-astrating Ork-ageddon 1250pts in a month: Day 13 The Eyes Have It!

This will be a short one.  Eyes painted red.  Teeth and claws painted a suitably dirty bleached bone.  BLAM

As for the next step:  armor!  Armor plates, shoulderpads, bitz and bobz on koptas, plates on weapons.  What color?  What?  The picture above didn't give it away.  Why... red of course!  I got the first coat of mechrite red on the 5 built nobz I have currently and on 2 koptas.  I think the blood red I want to use will place well over this.

Because red ones go faster!

Ork-astrating Ork-ageddon 1250pts in a month: Day 12 Skintastic!

SKIN IS DONE!  OMGOMGOMGOMG!

So here is what I got done today.  Skin!  It was a hgue part of the army, really glad it's out of the way.  Radioactive orks FTW!   Really "simple" recipe: goblin green, wash thraka green, highlight goblin green, highlight scorpion green, highlight 1/2 scorpion 1/2 sunburst yellow.

Once I got that done I did the eyes on the nob and a layer of bleached bone on their teeth and on the deffkoptas.

Also?  Played a practice game today, our lists vs a very tailored Black Templar and Chaos Marine list.  How tailored?  2 Vindicators, gig unit of combat termies in a hurricane bolter land raider, chosen outflanking with 5 flamers, defiler, buncha meltas.  We still did really well.  Blew up a vindicator turn one, stunned the other.  My Nobz decimated the termies.  My warboss then went on a rampage after they died to tons of fire, killing all the chosen, the defiler and mopped up plague marines.   He is just so awesome.

Deff-rolla'd the land raider and the other vindicator to smithereens as well.

Go team Orks!  We're looking at getting another practice game in next week as well.  Might even have a majority of the army painted!

GO TEAM!

Ork-astrating Ork-ageddon 1250pts in a month: Day 11 THE ORKENING!

Alright, serious progress!  Sure, it's taking up every single moment of my waking life, but it's progress.

Before I talk about what I've painted, here's what I watched or listened to while painting.

Finished the newest Garagehammer Podcast.  Everyone who likes fantasy should listen to this.

Watched the first four episodes of the new Thundercats cartoon.  It's a megaton heavy on the messages and moral stories, but pretty cool nonetheless.  I doubt they made it for 35 year olds afterall.

Watched the first two episodes of the new Alphas show.  Pretty cool thus far.  Nothing earth shaking, but enjoyable.

And, of course, wasted a bunch of time on youtube.

Ork-astrating Ork-ageddon 1250pts in a month: Day 10

So... apparently I forgot to post yesterday.  Well in that case, you get two posts from myself today, regaling all with the story of my WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!

Ork-astrating Ork-ageddon 1250pts in a month: Day 9

You know, I thought this was going to be a repeat of yesterday, but I apparently was wrong.  What did I do today?  Arduous tasks I tells ya!  I started on all the straps, belts, etc.  I did the first coat, a scorched brown, on all of them.  It's seriously the longest step thus far as it's more precision work.  I also started the second step: a bestial brown highlight.  While I've been doing that I've been adding extra washes to dirty up the dakkas and choppas a bit.  I am pretty sure I can be done all of this tomorrow night.  Tuesday I would like to start putting the green on.

That is all for now!  Ciao!  Err... I mean... WAAAAAAAGH!

Ork-astrating Ork-ageddon 1250pts in a month: Day 8



Sorry folks, no real updates today!  I am off to see a My Darkest Days concert after work with some friends.  I did move my now dry orks (after the wash) back into position for the next step: straps and belts!

Hopefully tomorrow can be a better post.  Might even do my Part 2 to follow up Green Feevahs earlier post about how not to be a total powergamey douche.

Ork-astrating Ork-ageddon 1250pts in a month: Day 7

MOAR WORK DONE!

One week in already?!  Wow.

Day 5: Tragedy Strikes!

So I spent most of yesterday working on my Lion Chariot, and have it pretty much finished except for the banner which I'm free-handing.

I didn't feel much like free handing tonight, so I figured I'd get a good jump start on my Silver Helms.  And I got quite a lot of work done... until disaster struck.

I had an open paint pot... on a raised ledge... the phone rang... I'm sure you can fill in the blanks.

So my progress has been set back quite a bit.  I'll keep plugging on though.  But after that I needed to take a break and went and painted most of my Warpwolf for the Privateer Press 'One Thing a Week' challenge.

What a great way to end a crappy day...

Ork-astrating Ork-ageddon 1250pts in a month: Day 6

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!

So, we keep on keeping on!  Still a bit ticked I was actually told, in person, there was no way I could finish.  Alas... I got a lot done tonight.

Ork-astrating Ork-ageddon 1250pts in a month: Day 5

So I now have even MORE motivation.  Apparently no one thinks I can get this done.  Yeah, its probably insane I even decided to do this, let alone start it, but still.  Really?  You're going to outright tell me, to my face, I won't get done.

WRONG!!!

Progress! The Curse is Broken!

So I managed to get most of the blues laid down on the Swordmasters.  I should have the rest done by the end of the night.

Quick pic:

I'll post more tomorrow as I get more done.

Holy Crap! I Got Something Done!

This is also a quick post to say I finished the metals on 17 Swordmasters tonight.

Pretty simple really, Boltgun Metal base, P3 Armor Wash, Heavy Boltgun Drybrush, light Mithril Silver drybrush.  It's not my most inspired scheme, but that's what I started with when I started my Elves, so I'm sticking to it.

I'm hoping to spray prime my last 3 swordmasters tomorrow, get their metals caught up and then do a base of Regal Blue on all the blue cloth tomorrow.


Oh, and no photos because my phone died.  Something is wrong with both mine and my wife's phone, the batteries are draining super fast.  I blame Steve Jobs.

Ork-astrating Ork-ageddon 1250pts in a month: Day 4

Well... sorta got stuff done.

This is a short one, but hey, that's ok.

I am doing a specific, easy way to do dirty, rusty metals and a slight variation on what Green Feevah! does.

Scorched Brown --> drybrush Boltgun --> Drybrush Mithril --> Wash with Sepia

So, I got the browns done on all the metals on stuff built!  40 Boyz, 4 nobz, 6 koptas.

Ep-Orc FAIL

So here I am, on Day 4 of the great WAAAAAAGH-off, and I am failing miserably.  I have three problems:

1. I'm in a lot of pain.  That's pretty straight forward.  I can't get comfortable, and I can't paint for long periods of time.  It's killing my progress.

Ork-astrating Ork-ageddon 1250pts in a month: Day 3

Well, unfortunately, sorta, not as much completed as the first couple days.  But, let me tell you what I DID do this fine day.

Ork-astrating Ork-ageddon 1250pts in a month: Day 2

More done today!

Here's what I got done!

40 orks and 4 nobz in total cleaned: scraped mould lines, flashing and sprue bitz and bored out gun barrels.
6 koptas cleaned and such as well.

More after the break!

The Orc-tastic Orcpocalypse! 1200 points of Orcs also in one month.

Clearly I'm insane.  Thankfully I'm not alone.  So my day one ended up being cleaning off mould lines on 25 Orcs and starting on the metals.

This is a work in progress shot.  I'm hoping to get more done by the end of the night.  Also ,you might notice some color already on the models, but this is from a decade ago (wow... it's really been that long...) and every square inch of the model is being repainted.