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

I’m not working with mass infantry any more.  I can stray from the core scheme and do some more interesting things now.  I’m going to try to carry over as many of the colours as I can so everything fits together, but I can have a little more fun here.

I’ve started laying the ground work with the blacks and leathers to see what I’m working with and what I want to be different.  There’s a Flash Gitz Freebooter and a Weird Boy in there that want lots of yellow, so I’ve given them a couple of  undercoats of white before going over that with P3 Mouldy Ochre, as its a yellow with good coverage.  Once I’ve painted everything around this colour I’ll tidy it up and then shade and highlight.

I’m thinking the Weirdboy will be wearing a lot of blue, and the pilot with the power sword (Bolko?) will be dressed in the darker leather I’ve been using for straps.  I’m also thinking of using that colour on the edges of the coat for the guy in the wolf pelt.  Any thoughts?

For anyone looking at those guys on paperclips and thinking of doing that, you should know theres a lot of Blu Tak underneath to provide weight and stability.  Those Orks are metal and it gets top heavy otherwise.  The paperclips are bent underneath and poke through a hole in the side of the bottle cap as well as being glued in place.  This holds everything still.  You can see this on the middle Ork in this pic.

Its been a few weeks, but these guys are now done.  I used all the same paint schemes as before wherever applicable, except as noted below

Hair:

Magenta hair was base coated with P3 Murderous magenta, and the red hair was done with GW Evil Sunz Scarlet.  They were both washed with GW Carroburg Crimson, and finally drybrushed with their base.  I should have drybrushed with an off white before applying the wash.

The hair on the severed head was painted the same as the skull and the staff, and then given two coats of Secret Weapon Sewer Water wash.

Metals:

There were a lot of metal sections near each other so I needed to break up the tones.  I used VGA 72.754 Gunmetal to produce the dark tones on the armour, and VGC 72.053 Chainmail for the chainmail.  I experimented with Mission Models Cold Rolled Steel over black on the power claw, and over turquoise for the power sword.  Everything was washed in Nuln oil and highlighted with P3 Cold Steel.

The Flash Gitz gun was painted using a 1:1 mix of Secret Weapon Engine Metal & Secret Weapon Old Oil over black.  A 1:1 mix of Secret Weapon Engine Metal & Secret Weapon Fresh Oil was used to pick out some of the puter panels of the gun.  it was then drybrush highlighted with Engine metal.  The recesses were given a targeted wash of Old Oil.

The white on the skull on hats was P3 Sickly Skin, highlighted in P3 Morrow White.

The Feathers were VMC Deck tan, washed with Seraphim Sepia and drybrushed with P3 Menoth White highlight.

The wood grain was base coated with P3 Gun Corps Brown.  the grain was picked out with Menoth White Highlight, and then washed a couple of times, pushing the wash to the back of the stock, with 1 P3Yellow Ink, 1 P3 Bloodstone, 4 parts P3 Brown ink, and then again with a little P3 Blue ink added to it.

The Cigar was painted in P3 Hammerfall Khaki and P3 Battlefield Brown and washed in Agrax Earthshade.  The glow was P3 Ember Orange, touched up with VMC Yellow Fluro.

The Power Sword was painted using Duncan’s technique here but suing the following paints, often mixing for in between colours:

VMC Panzer Aces 309 Periscopes

VMC 70.966 Turquoise

P3 Underbelly Blue

P3 Morrow White

The copper wiring is Darkstar Copper, my new favourite exposed wiring paint.  It’s a great colour.

Gold belt buckles/shields were based with Darkstar Aged Copper. drybrush with Darkstar Copper, wash with INSTAR Heavy Brown, and highlight with Darkstar Polished Copper.

The pipe was base coated with Menoth White Base, washed with thinned VMC 70.828 Woodgrain, highlighted with Menoth White base again and washed again.  A the bowl was then filled with a little Agrax Earthshade for ageing and dirt.

They were based the same, but now I finally had some large enough bases to use the Javis Scenics red tufts I’ve had for ages.  They really are too big to use on anything and I regret buying them (Internet order so I didn’t see them properly until after they arrived), but they work well enough here.

I realised last night that I forgot to add a little rust to these guys.  As such I revisited them with a slightly diluted mix of Mission Models Transparent Rust.  I applied it to a few crevices, and on to a few open surfaces before dabbing it with my finger to diffuse it a little.