Badmoon Shoota Boyz

Below you'll see some badmoons that I've had on my to-do list for quite some time. I picked up the gas mas heads back in 2010 (link to the store below), and have been waiting to do these guys and the trukk for some time.

http://basicks.eu/shop/index.php?id_product=200&controller=product&id_lang=1

The Nob has a Black Orc head that has been modified to look like a gas mask, and the big shoota boy has a burna boy head. The gas mask heads came in a pack of 10, so I needed to makeup two more to finish out the 12 boy mob.

The techniques were similar to the Badmoon trukk I did a few weeks ago, except without the weathering powders. Fun guys to paint and a mob of 12 is small enough to be enjoyable.

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How to Paint Grots (Gretchin, Ammo Runts, Grot Orderlies)

Here's another video leading up to the Ork Codex... looks like there's going to be a heavy walker in my near future along with whatever other goodies are released alongside the book.

Anyway, here's a tutorial showing how to paint up grot skin to go along with all of the other ork stuff I've got coming.

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How to Paint Ork Flesh

I suppose this will work for Orcs as well, but for the moment the focus is on 40k orks. Here's a quick tutorial showing how to layer paint Ork flesh using citadel paints. Obviously this isn't the only way to do it, but is what I'm currently using. Depending on the look you're going for you can leave out a highlight or add a glaze, or even use different greens. Whatever the case, this method will work for any base-shade-layer-layer method.

I have an Grot/Ammo Runt/Grot Orderly/Gretchin tutorial coming next.

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Ork Trukk Tutorial and Guide

Here's my latest addition to my Ork collection. I've had this truck assembled and primed for quite a while, but never got around to painting it (like so many other things). I've come up with a decent method of cutting time off Ork vehicles by spraying them with a silver base before painting. Its not a solid colour, more of a directional layer over a black base. From here the washes and a drybrush of necron compound finished with some weathering powders does the trick. The additional colours help breakup the mini, in this cae black, yellow and bronze.

I have some shoota boyz with after market gas masks to go with this, so hopefully I get to painting them up relatively soon.

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Legion of the Damned (tutorial and Guide)

My first memory of Legion of the Damned was when the first Games Workshop store opened in Toronto and they sold a limited edition Legion Sergent. Of course I was collecting Orks and my brother Blood Angels, so he got the guy. He ended up doing a full squad using regular marines with flames and bones painted on regular armour.

Anyway, these models aren't quite as old as that, and they're finecast (failcast?) but have still been around for a while. I've wanted to paint them up since the Space Marine codex came out last year, but only got around to them now. I dug out an old White Dwarf painting article (from the previous paint set) and basically followed it to paint up this squad. Nothing earth shattering, just your typical black armour, bones and flames, but the painting guide is below along with a video tutorial. Enjoy.

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