Well, it hasn't all been funeral arrangements around here. After a good amount of building, gluing, trimming, filing, priming, and a little painting, I've got some orkish results... (Images after the cut.)




So far... all right, not that great really. I'm definitely seeing a learning curve - a lot of which is looking at the right mix of paint and water to get the consistency I want, brush control, etc. The pants on these guys could really have used a second coat of the under layer before I continued, for example, something the next batch won't have to worry about.

I'm just plain not good at highlighting yet. (I tried to do a little skin highlighting on a couple of them, but it came out badly enough that after I took these pictures, I went in and painted the darker color back over it. Flat is better than leprous...) It's a little easier on the metal - a messy highlight there can still work pretty well, especially for orks, who aren't noted for high standards of cleanliness or polish.

Looking over them, I see bits here and there I'm happy with, things that worked well. I'm quite happy with how the washes add shading and depth without, y'know, any artistic talent on my behalf. Because of the washes, the metal parts turned out pretty nice, and the leather stuff wasn't a total disaster; I'm really tempted to try a mud-color wash for the skin and see how that works out.

They'd also benefit from outlining (there's a fair amount of leather strap which would gain definition if I put a thin black line on the edge), but... that takes a steady hand indeed and I don't think I'm up to trying it yet. Sure, I can always strip them and start over if I ruin a few, but at the end of the day, if I want to play the game, I've got just a few more of these things to paint...



There's sixty more I haven't even assembled yet!

Realistically I can start playing before I get all of them painted, but as it turns out, I'm enjoying the modeling and painting aspect of the hobby (and a damn good thing, too...) Certainly I don't want to play much with primed models.

The sad part is, -all those models-, plus the sixty more boyz, aren't enough to play in the 2000-point tourney at the corner comic store on Saturday. Pretty close, but not quite yet... still need a few more lootaz to field a good unit of those, for example, and you never have enough bikers.

I do need to pick up a pin drill - I'm finding that the models that have metal parts often don't have a good connection between the metal and plastic, and the resulting models aren't very strong. I'll need to "pin" them by inserting a short bit of metal into the joint and using it as a peg, if I don't want to risk them coming apart during play. Fortunately that's only a few of them (the stormboyz, older models which I picked up for relatively cheap, and the two character models I picked up a couple of weeks ago...)

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