Bad Moon Rising

[Dezmord]

I'm not the most active poster here at warseer, but some of you may know my Thousand Sons painting log. Today I want to start a new log.

When I started playing 40k in the early beginning of the 3rd edition, the army that looked most interesting for me, was the orks. I bought some models and ended finally with an eldar and a dark eldar army. After having painted an Imperial Guard, some Tau and last, but not least, my Thousand Sons, AoBR presented me with too good an opportunity to finally start painting (and playing) some orks

The thing that fascinates me most on orks, is their envention and use of creative technologies, so I wanted my orks to have a BigMek as an HQ and some killakans and a gargbot for the army. The bulk of the army will be lots of boyz - fortunately, I've got all ork-stuff out of two AoBR boxes.
When I thought about the stuff I wanted to have in the army, I also spent some time on their background and on the colour-scheme: a BigMek who wants to build some crazy stuff, needs someone to give him the ressources, so I'm pretty sure, the Bad Moon Clan would be the best place for him.

I started ten days ago by painting some boys in Bad Moon colours:


After that, there were some more models coming into my way ;-)


The boss is minor conversion out of an AoBR boss:


EDIT: By now, my 2000 points list, that I'm trying to get painted, looks as follows (will get regularly updated):
painted primed built

Warboss Gorkov Steelstompa
BigMek Orkimedes

8 Lootas
4 MAN's - Trukk

Deffdread
20 Sluggaboyz (15/6)
20 Shootaboyz
10 Shootaboyz (4/6)
7 Nobs - Trukk
Grotmob (5/6)

2 Burnabuggies
2 Killakoptas (1/1)

Looted Vehicle
Battlewagon
2 Killakans

Additional models:

Wierdboy
Warboss Gorbatschork
20 Sluggaboys
models for possibly 10 flashgits
3 Bikes (1/2)
4 Killakoptas
BigMek
Stompa
5 Nobs
10 Kommandos
10 Burnaboys

[Dezmord]

Finally I also tried a Mek from a loota-box:



I tried paint the models to a decent looking standard, that doesn't take too long to do, as there are many models to paint. It was ok for my TS to take 4-6 hours per model, but for an ork-horde that would be unthinkable.

I'd say, that some of the silverhighlights should be improved, but I'm quite happy with the rest.

What do you guys think?

[Moronguhl]

Very nice dude! That yellow really pops out at you, I don't know how you do it but it looks lovely.

What sort of Bad Moon stuff are you sticking in apart from expensive Dreads?

-Moronguhl

[Dezmord]

Thanks!

I paint the yellow like this:
1. mix of yanden darksun and sunburst yellow (70/30) as a starting point
2. Sunburst Yellow (two layers)
3. highlight with sunburst yellow and bleached bone (50/50)
4. highlight with bleached bone
5. shades are done with gryphonne sepia

For the Bad Moon theme, I want to include at least 4 nobs in mega-armour and I'm thinking about some flashgits, depending on the new nob-box GW is planning.

[Moronguhl]

Crikey, that is quite a lot of layers, but it has a great result!

I'm thinking about picking up the Ork Battleforce and Assault on Black Reach to give me a moderate sized Ork force for 40K once I've finished my current Epic IG force. I was planning on Deathskulls as I've always liked the fluff, and the blue is easy to paint too, but your Bad Moons are a mighty tempting template to follow!

-Moronguhl

[Dezmord]

You're very welcome.
First thing I learned while I was recently experimenting with orks and some of my other miniatures, is to make good use of GW's foundation colours and washes - they make life much easier and painting a lot faster. Badab black is your friend for painting orky metallics ;-)

[The Occult]

Of all the ork color schemes I like the bad moons the best, and yours are particularly awesome! I can't wait to see more!

[Dezmord]

You won't have to wait too long, there are some lootaz in the final steps of being painted

[shaw3029]

Looking good, great skin colour aswell.

[ChrisMurray]

Looks good, can't wait to see more.

[Dezmord]

As promised, here are the first four lootaz:




The silver highlights look horrible in the pictures I swear, they look much better in reality!

[Dezmord]

There was also some work done on the BigMek:




His equipment is a burna, KFF, heavy armour and a cyborg-body.

Any comments or suggestions?

[Krusty]

wow...very nice stuff...

the yellow is nice, but not done too much
kool

[Ray K.]

Subscribed! Great looking orks. How long would you say you spend painting each individual ork?

I'm looking forward to seeing more of your work

[Dezmord]

@Ray K.: I usually paint 3-4 models at one time. Three boyz take one evening, about 2,5 - 3 hours.
I painted a killakan yesterday in 2,5 hours. I try to pint the army pretty fast and to a decent standard. When I want to paint something more elaborate, I fetch my Thousand Sons.

[Ray K.]

Don't worry about the decent standard thing. they look very good. I can't wait to see the rest.

The images in this thread are being saved in one of my "inspiration" folders, lol.

[Dezmord]

Thank you for the compliment!

To give you somer more inspiration: my first killakan, which was painted on tuesday.


I was surprised, as it took only 3 hours to paint the whole model. Next picture is going to come tomorrow, as I painted a painboy today (still needs to be varnished).

[Sinny]

Awesome painting, i've just started my Ork collection and have Decided on Snakebites but, very clean crisp colours. Subbed!

[ChrisMurray]

Love it, killer kans are so cool.

[sheep]

Very impressive stuff, i really like the style, and that Big mek convo is awesome.

Cheers

Sheep