Working on Basing

Basing isn't one of my strong points, and often it shows. Here's my latest crack at it.

The subject

Very thinly sliced cork

White Glue!

More white glue!

Sand

After cork/sand

After cork/sand/plaster chips 

Cork/sand/plaster chips/Zandri Dust/Ushabti Bone/Fleshshade/Agrax/Ushabti bone

Right, there's no magic here... Very thinly sliced cork covers the big hole in the middle and adds some height. Once dried, covering the cork with glue and then sand gives the most ghetto of finishes (attention table-top). I let this dry completely before saturating with more glue and shaking it in my bag of plaster bits. Plaster bits are nice and sharp and you can easily remove all the fines by screening it. Depending on how much time you spend with the hammer the plaster can vary in size. Now the plaster tends to drink paints so it's worthwhile to seal the whole deal with a 1:1 white glue:water mixture. Let that dry.

Come back a day layer and paint it up. I find for Martian surfaces a random mix of Reikland Fleshshade and Agrax Earthshade breaks things up nicely. I would say that at this stage we gave reached the level of table-top+. I just made that up, and I'm going to tag it.

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Ork Flesh

I thought I had a good handle on green, but it's turning out to he tougher than I expected. Not as hard as yellow, but tricky none the less (more on yellow later). Below is the line of paints, minus the highlight which is a mix of Ushabti Bone and the lightest green (very conventional).

Waagh Flesh, Loren Forest Green, Warboss Green, Skarsnik Green

 Ork 1 used Loren Forest over the base of Waaagh Flesh while Ork 2 went straight to Warboss Green. Both were then washed with Camoshade and then layered up the other greens (I lost track of the order and blending, so a "guide", this is not). Then the red accents were put in with Carroburg Crimson. Results are not too bad.

Boyz with Shootas

Boyz with Shootas

Ork 3 (seen below by ork 1 and 2) is a hybrid, where I tried to retain more green in the facial features. I think I need to push it brighter, for more contrast, then come back in with a green glaze to tint it more green.

3 Boyz with Shootas

It's all still work in progress, but they're staring to come together. So far I really like them. Once these three are fully finished I'm going to try something a little different on the next one. Mostly with the pale flesh around the ears and mouth, I might try putting it in earlier, then adding green. I'm also going to try the green glaze... hopefully they don't come out looking like grots or snotlings.

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Boyz Need Bigga Shootas

I started cleaning up the Gorkamorka Boyz, and I decided that the shootas were a bit small. ;)  Lucky for me I also bought a pack of Grot Weapons, and while these are too small for the Boyz, some cutting and pinning and suddenly the shootas are getting bigga!

Grot Weapons

Below is the before and after. Note the 1st and last in the top row .

Boyz with Shootas

Boyz with BIG Shootas

Go kit-bash, now!

Gorkamorka!

I have no idea what Gorkamorka is,  nor do I know anyone who plays it, but these Orcs are awesome. Super great facial features + silly weapons = SOLD! 

Gorkamorka, Boyz W/ Shootas

For more great stuff check out the Sentry Box the next time you're in Calgary Alberta. According to their web page it's 13000 sq. ft., which sounds about right. The sheer amount of metal on the shelves make multi- hour trips the norm...  :D

Wood Elf + Turf

Well, there's grass on the pitch, so it's time to play ball! These silly little fairies are going to get curb stomped by their Undead opposition. I need to paint the ball, seal the grass, paint their hair "scrunchies", and then spray the lot. I've got a week so it should be possible.

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Wood Elf Blood Bowl Team

Minus a football, everything is painted, so these are by definition "table" ready. From here on out I'll have to work on them as singles.

Almost mission completed.

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