Battle Brush Studios Commission Log .... In Space!

[warflag]

I disagree with Catferret about the weathering. Normally I'm all for it, but it wouldn't fit with your 2nd edition look at all. You've got this old-style clean look down to a tee and it would spoil it a bit to add chips and dirt, in my opinion.

Looking forward to the Stormboyz!

QFT

Great work, really. I´m an oldschool fetishist, even more so when it comes to ORKS. Or orcs in my case. Those models had the character that got my attention when I started this hobby.
So no chips or damage. Rust is accepted

Cheers
Bart

[Solun Decius]

The boarboyz are excellent!
Great conversions and really fun bright and contrasty paint jobs.
How many of them will there be in the end ?

[richy376]

Those boar boyz are brilliant sigur. They were great figures when they were released, and your painting really brings them up to date. The little touches where you've added pistons and whatnot work teriffically well too. Can't wait to see the boss painted up on the super cyboar to lead them.

[sigur]

@Aulbath: Bah, magnetising is for people who .....who care about magnetizing. I have no idea really at the moment. I'm just walking the earth, looking for tube-shaped plastic things or stuff like that currently.

@Catferret: I actually considered chipped metal, at least on the big "faceplate" on one of the cyboars but then I wasn't so sure about it. For now, I left everything without chipped paint since, as McMullet pointed out, it doesn't really fit with the way I paint this army. I might do chipped paint in the future but I'd have to work out a very artificial-looking way of doing it. The hooves aren't painted at all in these pictures but thanks for reminding me. Cheers for the comment on the hideous neck-fur.

@McMullet: Thank you much for the elaborate reply, sir. I really do not want to have guns on the Boars. When planning the boarboys (= the two seconds it took the primer to dry), a few months ago, I thought about those guns for a moment but I don't think that it would be a good idea and that it would somehow destroy the idea behind Boarboys. I know that it's very problematic on the table since Warbikes are quite good at shooting.

@warflag: Thanks for the reply. So rust but no chipping or other dirt, eh? Interesting. Do you have a specific "sort of rust" in mind? I can't quite envision how rust could go better with the kind of use of bright paint than "usual wethering". So if you can explain me if you are referring to a special way of painting rust, I'll gladly consider it. I'll have to have a look how your Orks are coming along; hope I don't forget about it.

@Solun Decius: Cheers mate. As for a specific number of Boarboys in the army, I'm not sure actually. I definately plan to do a witch doctor/Painboy for the cyboar-mounted Nobz and maybe I'll add some more Nobs on Cyboars to the mob later. I probably will also do a few more usual Boarboys but first I have to focus on more important things like painting my Warboss and my Warphead, finishing the Lootas, doing some work on the Kommandos and of course the Stormboys, painting some more Boys, doing Trukks and so on. There won't bemore than a few cyboar-Nobz and maybe 8 normal Boarboys in the 1500pts list I'm currently planning to do.

@richy376: What, no comment on the Stormboys? Well, that's a new one. ;-) Thanks for your reply, the Warboss definately is the next thing on my "to do list". Those boar boys miniatures (the boys themselves. I'll admit that the boars look a little dated by now) still are great by any means. The detail is splendid and the overall appearance is consistant. All that has changed is the style of Ork miniatures.

Alright, now for some pictures:







I even glued the boarboys to their mounts already. Please note that the hooves are still not painted (as well as a few details on the boarboys) because painting hooves is a thing I really detest. (I never get them right and they are always hard to reach).

But anyways, the Nobz are almost finished, yay!

edit: Hmm, I seem to have messed up the foci on the first and the third picture. Sorry for that.

[Catferret]

I win! There's battle damage/weathering on some of those armour plates!

The lack of chipped metal works to keep the overall style (ye olde 40k), but the well painted subtle damage keeps the models fresh and in touch with modern painting tendencies.

On a more serious note, SNORT-GRONK-KRUNCH! WAAAAAAGH!

[tancrede]

I really like your Orks, man ! Cool conversions and really good painting !
All your ork stuff reminds me the days I discover the GW games and the Citadel and Marauder minis...
Now, more pics, please !

[sheep]

Good looking army, i really like the painting style, a great homage to 2nd ed Keep it up and post more pics

Cheers

Sheep

[sigur]

@Catferret: Cheers, I'm really glad how the damage (which is only painted on as I told you earlier) turned out. And it seems to go quite well witht the rest of the painting.

@tancrede: Hehe, thanks. I hope to post another update tonight. I guess a part of the reason why I'm doing this army is because it also reminds me of times when everything about GW games seemed to be better. By the way, what's up with your logs? I think you haven't updated in some time.

@sheep: Cheers, I'll try to keep it up.


Well, work on the Warboss has started. Finally. :P

[Catferret]

Well, work on the Warboss has started. Finally. :P

Been waiting for him to get some attention.

[Mr. Bounce]

wow, i dont normally like the old school style of painting but you pull it of superbly.

I cant wait to see your Warboss finished.

[sigur]

@Catferret: ...and attention he got!

@Mr. Bounce: Thanks, this is a very satisfying compliment.


Alright then, on to the pictures:







So this is the current state of the Warboss. Basically every single surface on this miniature is still WIP. Sadly I messed up the lighting a bit so the ochres(?) and metallics on the boar look much flatter than in real life. What do you think of the colour composition? At first I considered the Warboss' coat to be ochre as well but this would have resulted in a curry-coloured overkill. Any suggestions concerning the colours will be considered. As some of you might know, choice of colour is one of my weak spots.

edit: Oh, by the way,i decieded to "buff him a bit up" by giving him shoulder armour (mostly made from GS).

[sigur]

...
hi again! What I also did today was pinning all the boarboys onto boars and starting to do the boarboys' bases. So I took the chance to make a little group shot of Borgut's boarboys:





Hope you like it.

[PotatoLegs]

Frikkin five thumbs up

Use your imagination to figure out how that'd work

[redstarone]

Those boar boyz are really wicked. But that Boss, now that Boss will be a thing of beauty when its done.

Keep up the great work!

[tancrede]

@Sigur:

By the way, what's up with your logs? I think you haven't updated in some time.

Multiple reasons : tons of work (and so tired when back at home I didn't want to paint), APN down (but now I have a new one) and 3 weeks holidays in Japan... But you can expect some update soon.

And for you ? How many orks left to paint ?

[Catferret]

Typical, I go to bed at 11:55 and Sigur updates a couple of minutes later...

Nice work squirrelface, the extra armour on da boss helps a lot, balances him out a bit says I.

I don't have any decent suggestions for the colour on the coat. I'm no good at choosing colour compositions either. If in doubt I always paint stuff Scorched Brown as a basecoat. If you decide on a different colour then you still have a dark colour for shading. If you decide you like the area to be brown then you're already part way done.

[MF3000]

MMMM delicioushmaschusch

sj

[McMullet]

I like what I see of the Warboss so far. The armour is a nice touch, and you have chosen good colours (so far), especially the metals on the boar. As for the colour of the coat...

- You can't do yellow/light brown as half the model is that colour already.
- You can't do dark brown as it's in shade, so it needs to be light.
- You can't do green, it's an Ork
- You can't do bright red. You CAN'T, put it away. The gun and fist are that colour.
- Black or grey are not snakebite-y.
- Put the bright red away!
- Blue might look too deathskull-y.
- Orange would be too Evil Sunz-y
- Purple? You do, after all paint purple very well. How about a slightly desaturated, natural-looking purple?
- Either that or DARK, brownish red.
- That's what I think anyway.
- The boyz look very good all together like that.

[sigur]

@potatolegs:

@redstarone: Well, I hope he will be. Thanks.

@tancrede: Well, at least you have a good list of excuses. I'll make up a list of what I still have to paint lateron.

@Catferret: Sorry, I didn't know that you go to bed at all. Hehe, good idea about the brown.

@MF3000:Put the Whisky away!

@McMullet: Cheers for the list. I think I should have mentioned that in the pictures, the coat is basecoated already. I went for a blue-ish grey colour because of two reasons: It's not too flashy and distracting and I already have a bit of grey on the boar itself. I used the combination of blue-grey coat/dark brown pants on another Cyboar Nob already it it seems to work just fine.

- [...] do bright red. [....] The gun and fist are that colour.

- [...] bright red [...]!

Sounds AWESOME! Why didn't come up with that? Thxm8!

- Purple? You do, after all paint purple very well. How about a slightly desaturated, natural-looking purple?

Well, thankyou sire. Actually, the slightly desaturated, natural-looking purple sounds like a good idea. I guess anything wouould go for his coat as long as it doesn't look too bright or flashy.

[The boyz]

Fantastic work on those Boar boyz, Sigur. I really like the 'old school' look to the paintjob, very 2nd ed. Keep up the good work, looking forward to seeing some more updates.