Hi all,
I finished my first mini of 2017 I usually switch from modelling to painting in the (antipodean) winter as it's easy to do in front of the telly in the warm. I'm a bit early this year but I was inspired by the release of Shadow War to make up and paint some Space Orks. This is one of the Warhammer 40K armies I really like and have collected a few models for but haven't actually built and painted much to date.
He's a Bad Moon Ork, which means he should have some yellow on him. I don't have many (any?) figures with yellow so it's a bit different, and I do like the colour. I sprayed white primer from above where the yellow and skin areas would be to get a bright base, the rest is grey primer so there's a little bit of pre-shading from the primer highlight.
His skin is painted with washes and glazes over the primer, the rest of the colours are applied more traditionally with layered or stippled highlights and a little bit of wet blending in places. All the paints are Citadel apart from the primer and varnish which are Alclad. That reminds me - I ought to put a bit of gloss on the eyeballs before I put him away in the cabinet.
There are another eight or so which still need paint, so it's probably time to switch to batch painting mode for those (bah!) I'm also working on the scenery over in the sci-fi section.
Cheers,
Will