Shaw 3029's Ork Army

[shaw3029]

SKULLHAMMA START PAGE 2.
GHAZGHKULL & MAKARI START PAGE 4.
TRAKKED TRUKK START PAGE 5.
LOOTED WAGONS FINISHED PAGE 6.
TRUKK MOB FINISHED PAGE 6.
BATTLEWAGON & NOBS START PAGE 7.
BIKES, TRUKK & QUAD EAVY SHOOTER TRAKK FINISHED PAGE 8.
TRAKKED TRUKK FINISHED PAGE 10.
GOFF TRUKK & KILLA KANZ STARTED PAGE 10.
DEFF DREAD & GOFF MOB PIP PAGE 11.
ORK ARMY APPEARS ON THE GAMES WORKSHOP WEBSITE PAGE 11.
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/co...p?aId=5800017a
1000 point Army Shot Page 11.
Armies on Parade Preperation 2012 Page 12.
Armies on Parade Store Winner 2012. Page 13
Finished Battlewagon Pictures Page 13.

Here Is my Ork Speed Freak army,

Well the new stuff is out now! And I've decided to take the army to 1500 points. I've got all the stuff I need but first il build it up to 1000. And after 1500 who knows maybe il keep going. Need to fit Ghazghull in and mob of his best boys. Oh and a battlewagon. I've got some ideas for that. And that Baneblade I've got has to fit in somewhere!


I would really appreciate some suggestions on how to Improve the look of the army as a whole, and tips on how to Improve the Individual units.



Army Pic...



Biker Mob...



Trukk Boyz Mob...



I've got the new trukk now so this one wont be used anymore. Anybody want it? I've taken the dethrolla from it for the baneblade.

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[Xenocidal Maniac]

Looks great! Nice and red.

[shaw3029]

Thanks Xenocidal Maniac.


Heres where a huge part of the problem was for me... But Im not going to use him anymore



Ork Warboss / Nob On a bike..



Im going to keep the bike for now and then make a normal boy to go on his bike.


Thanks

[shaw3029]

And now for the Stormboyz and trakks.




I'm happy with this Mob. I usually break It down into two units of ten.





The Trakks...




Thanks

[shaw3029]

And now for the artillery...




Grot Lobba.



Lobba Guntrukk.





Any comments and suggestions on how I can Improve this army are hugely appreciated, If you have any suggestions on how to bring it up to a new level. Then please tell me.


Thanks

[mortus]

Fella all I'd say is fantastic work!

The Warboss's hand, have you thought about plating over it with plasti card or the like? I'm a great believer if you can't see it it doesn't worry you. Or use mesh to cover the hand?

As for the Trukk, how about boarding planks like the ones in Gorkamorka or having a walkway round the outside for troops.

Good work, more please.

[tancrede]

man, you make me feel very, very happy !
for a long time, i wanted to see a nicely painted ork army !

keep on the good job !

[Mrlemonjelly]

It all looks good to me. Apart from the bikers' skin. Why is it so dark? I think if you were trying to achieve a soot-covered look you may have overdone it.

[Perfect Organism]

I actually like most of this stuff. There's a load of really nice detail. Just a couple of suggestions:

All of the vehicles look as if they could use some small rivets. Try cutting thin strips of plasticard (or even very thin metal) and push a spike into them at regular intervals to make a strip of metal with rivets which can be used to cover joins (push the spike almost all the way through but not quite so that it forms 'rivets' on the opposite side).

All the bikes, but especially the nobs, look kind of short. Plastic rod to extend their front spokes might make them look much more impressive.

Bionik arms are always tricky. Try one with only two or three fingers so you have more room to work and use plasticard or bits cut off plastic models so you have more anglular shapes.

Some railings and planks around the edge of the truck might make it more interesting and also make it easier to put models on it without worrying about them falling off. A few spikes at the front carved from sprue, cocktail sticks or matchsticks could make it more menacing, and you could maybe decorate it with some barbed wire like you have the lobba guntrukk. Also try and find or make some baggage and stowage for it - weapons and tools lashed to the sides, bags and boxes stuck wherever they will fit, nets, ropes and straps holding stuff together, that kind of thing.

Hope that helps.

EDIT: a bit of drybrushing and washing could give you a more weathered and realistic look if you want that kind of thing. Khaki drybrush for dust around wheels and tracks, brown paint splashed on for mud, orange ink wash for rust, black drybrush for soot around exhausts and engine compartments, etc.

[shaw3029]

Thanks very much for all your nice comments guys.

I have just decided to start painting the bike riders and once I get them done I will start painting some more patterns onto the vehicles and then paint some on the Stormboyz rokkit packs.

I will try and experiment and paint some dirt and things onto the Trukks. As for the bionic arm I think I'm going to get out some green stuff and try and make it look good.



Mrlemonjelly..
The Bikers skins are dark because I havnt actually painted them yet.

mortus..
Thats a cool idea, I think I will have to add one to the Trukk. I have made a small walkway onto the side of one of the Trakks which will have a grot rigger on it. Its the trakk at the front of the picture.

Perfect Organism..
I don't think I really understand what you mean about the rivets how are you meant to add them? I have tried to add rivets to them by using a leather punch and plasti card.

I like the Idea of adding stuff to the trukk, just have to have a look through the bits box some bits.

I've had a look at the bikes and I see what you mean, I think the standard boyz bikes look fine but the nobs certainly looks a bit small. I was thinking Instead of adding something to extend the front I will make It wider, Perhaps adding another gun to one of the sides or another exhaust pipe.




Thanks very much.

I will get some more pictures up once I have painted the Bikers. If anyone wants some more closeups then I may be able to take some.

[shaw3029]

The Bikers are on the way to being finished. But In the mean time I have some pictures of some of my other ork models that arn't in the current army.

Ork Mek..



This Is the guy thats in my Avatar, The Kustom force field Generator is the old Shokk attack gun.

Ork Slaver and Grots...





I made these before I started the army for a Gorkamorka gang. Then I decided that I wanted a proper ork army. Eccept I didnt fancy painting tons of troops so I decided on speed freaks. Which Is why I havnt painted up any more Gretchin apart from the odd rigger.

But now under the rumoured new codex, I can still have a speed freaks army and have some grots and loads of other cool things to! So it seems pretty likely that il be using the slaver, and the Mek with his Kustom Force field!


Thanks.

[floyd pinkerton]

looking good mate. I like the bikes

[shaw3029]

The bikers are finished!!!



A groups shot.




Individual closeups.




more to come...

[shaw3029]

More closeups.








All the bikers are now finished, unless I can get hold of Skarsniks snotling il put him on the gun mount for the biker with the axe.

After seeing the new model's I have decided that I'm going to get rid of the trukk (but keep the deathroller) and get rid of the Nob/warboss on bike. I also have a few burna boys that I was going to paint but I won't bother now!

Theres not to much of the army left to go before the new release's. Just got a fair few Gretchin and snotlings to finish and then the vehicles will be complete.

I'm working on the Wartrakks now so expect to see some more pictures of them soon.


Thanks very much.

[Bwana]

Man, your orcs look cool, that skin is just great and i just love your artillery tanks. I especially like how that red turned out. I'd personally go for a bit rustier looking metals (not an expert on metals myself), but maybe a thinned down brown-black-(and maybe a dash of green) ink wash on the metals. Gonna have to start a speed freak army myself when the new orks come out

[dugaal]

Dude, how can you complain? It all looks incredible, well painted, all around great army! I like the grot holding onto the bike for dear life

with the fingers I think they look alright, perhaps gs some knuckles half-way down the sticks so they dont just look like poles coming outof the hand. And maybe highlight the red a bit on the trukk, and try to pick out some details with more colours, because its a little monotone (try BW checkers, painted glyph symbols, oil stains, etc. ) Otherwise i see no complaints

[Mr Zephy]

I know the problem with the hand: It's a hand!

An ork would never bother with that, try a klaw!

[floyd pinkerton]

looking great mate. ooh i want to do orks!

[shaw3029]

Thanks guys!!

Bwana...

I definetly need to add some oily streaks and some mud to the vehicles. The oily streaks I can do, But the mud Im a bit worried about. I dont want to ruin the vehicles. I've never really tried mud before because of this very reason.

Dugaal..

Thanks very much, I think the army should hopefully really come together well once its complete. The trukk and the Nob on the bike I'm not going to use anymore. Cos the new trukk looks way better!

The guntrukk with the grot bomb on it I have to wait a while before I can do anything with it because I varnished it.

But I will definetly be adding things to it as well as the other Guntrukk.

Mr Zephy...

But then he would have two claws! I've decided to not use him now anyway, Im going to be making a new warboss on one of the new bikes once he comes out. But I now need to add a new biker to take up the other bike.

Floyd pinkerton...
Thanks!

Thanks very much.

[shaw3029]

A couple of pics of my Mek boy/ Burna boy. I first made him for my Gorkamorka mob but I've never used him in my ork army. But he will probably sneak in there eventually, along with the slaver and the Mek with the Kustom force field...

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