Identifying, Updating, and Painting a Bucket of 90's Era 40K Orks with Lawnor

This just leaves the 3 vehicles and the Shokk Attack gun to paint.  Everything was zenithally primed at the same time as the Orks a long time ago.  The Ork in the Skorcha got a coat of gloss varnish to protect it, and then was masked off with silly putty.

The vehicles were given an undercoat of VMC 70.985 Hull Red as its a great colour.  Red has poor coverage and this will provide a great foundation and shade colour.  I then airbrushed VGC 72.010 Bloody Red only from the sides and from above to allow for shadows to form naturally with the Hull Red.

I have some Darkstar Brozes from Asset Drop I’ve been wanting to work with for a while and the fuel tank for the Skorcha seems like an ideal target.  It got an even coat of Darkstar Blackened Bronze, and then a drybrush of Darkstar Bronze.  I say drybrush, but I’ve found metallics rarely drybrush the same as non metallics.  This was almost an overbrush, just with the direction of light kept in mind.  It then got 2 heavy washes with diluted Secret Weapon Sewer Water.

AssetDrop this month gave me 3 new colour shift metallics from a company I’ve not heard of before: Turbo Dork.  I’ve decided to try out their Dark Net on the gun. The gun was undercoated in gloss black, as is always recommended for colour shift paints.  it then got 3-4 airbrush coats of Dark Net, which seems to be metallic black, with a greenish shimmer to it.

The spinny part of the gun (Fins?  Blades?) and the banner got a base coat of VGA 72.753 Chainmail Silver.  I’ll be rusting up the banner, painting over that rust, and then chipping through it later.  The gun will have sections picked out in iron and brass later to make it match the blades and its handle back on the Ork.

I’ve also applied the textured paint to the bases.  I hope to get more painting done this weekend.  If I’m lucky these models will be simple and I can finish them off this weekend and start something new for the first time in forever.  This project is wearing a little thin, but I am enjoying finally being able to try different things.

I finished these guys off over the weekend, starting with an extra airbrush highlight of VGC Bloody Red mixed with VMC 70.845 Sunny Skin Tone.  I then removed the silly putty, and finally pin washed with Hull Red.  I then blacked out the tyres, hand grips, tracks and anything that would be iron.  Ammo Mig Dark Tracks was then applied in irregular splotches using an old drybrush over all the tracks.  Once everything else was finished Alcad II Mid pigment was then brushed on dry over the tracks and partially on to the wheels inside.  A little Ammo Mig Gun metal pigment was finally rubbed on to the edges using my finger tip.  This looks like soot, but must be graphite as it gives it a dirty metallic glint.

The tyres and hand grips were painted using Secret Weapon paints.  Based with Tire black, drybrushed with Rubber, and finally a gentle drybrush with Rubber Highlight.

The Irons were painted the same as normal, but I picked out some pipes on the bike with VMC 71.064 Chrome.  This was not shaded or highlighted.

The gold and copper was painted the same as with the Orks.  The hourglass on the big gun was painted with Dark net Afterburner colour shift paint as I wanted ti try it out and I wasn’t sure where to begin painting an hourglass.

The headlights were undercoated in white and then given a couple of washes with VMC Yellow Fluo.  Once dry I added a little Fluo to P3 Menoth White Highlight and painted the middle of the horizontal lines on each of the lights.

The wood was painted the same as the gun stock for the Flash Gitz Freebooter.

the green bed rolls were painted with P3 Iosan Green, and then washed with Vallejo Model Wash 76.519 olive green because its on my desk and I don’t know if I’ve ever actually used it.  They were highlighted back up with the Iosan Green afterwards.  This made the whole thing look a little more christmassy than I was happy with, but its a WIP so we will see.

The suspension on the handelbars was based with P3 Ironhull Grey and washed with Nuln Oil.  They didn’t seem to need a highlight afterwards.

The glowing blue lights were undercoated white and then given an even coat of P3 Arcane Blue before being washed with P3 Meridious Blue.  They were given an edging wash of P3 Turquoise Ink mixed with Coal Black, and final highlights of Arcane Blue mixed with increasing amounts of Menoth White Highlight.  I toned the whole thing back done (Probably too far) with a glaze of Arcane Blue.

The Banner was given a patchy coat of GW Typhus Corrosion and then drybrushed with GW Ryza Rust.  I coated the edges of everything with liquid mask and then painted the 2 faces with VGC 72.147 Heavy BlackGreen.  Due to the damage caused by cutting and drilling the plastic the paint wanted to stay away from the edges anyway.  Once the paint was fully dry I removed the liqud mask with the help of a rubber.

The bronze tank was given another drybrush of Darkstar Bronze and washed with diluted Secret Weapon Green-Black wash.  After everything was finished but before gluing the guy on to it a watery mix of Secret Weapon Faded Blue pigment was applied all over.  Once it had dried I took a drybrush and cleaned it off, hoping to leave the worst of it in the crevices.

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Everything was assembled on to its bases, varnished and then flocked.  I’m very glad model kits have come along so far.  Its like the different parts were designed with no thought about how they go together or how big the contact points will be.  These guys are going to break in storage unfortunately.