Showing posts with label Snakebite. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Snakebite. Show all posts

Sunday, 22 September 2019

How to unicycle your way to victory with Orks ... (part 2)

Now where had we got to, looks at photo of half undercoated Ork on a mono-wheel, ah yes a paint scheme and I need a banner too.


For the first part head over here:
(https://oldhammer40kquest.blogspot.com/2019/08/how-to-unicycle-your-way-to-victory.html)

So what next, well let's see if that monowheel can be covered in some more paint so the day-glow orange and green is less visible.

At this stage I wasn't sure he was going to turn out okay.

First I covered the metal parts in Rhinox Hide using the method I have for the Goff Orks I have painted previously. Next it was time to base coat the Ork. Tyre black, shirt and pouches various browns, the bandolier I think I started with elven flesh for some reason. The skin was the usual Goblin Green and hair blue. Followed by a custom watered down wash of black/dark brown mix for everything that didn't get a dark angel green for the skin. This resulted in the following:

 

Life got in the way at this point, nice trips to Jersey for weddings and Whitstable for fish and chips meant our Orky friend sat on the shelf for a couple of weeks. But free time loomed yesterday and he is now complete including fancy banner. 

No time fur dat, gotz sum Oomans to nok down! Outta way!

Thursday, 15 August 2019

How to unicycle your way to victory with Orks ... (part 1)

When that mini making, converting and painting bug hits it really is a great feeling. To then be inspired whilst already enthusiastic about a project is extra exciting. Today I am going to be covering an Ork project inspired by a photo of a battle report I saw recently.

Gyro-Stabilized Monowheel Mohawk Ork gets stuck in!
Battle report and Photo by Orj Etax 

I always thought the Gyro-Stabilized Monowheel was a wacky wargear card but I never saw the actual metal part to use one in my ork army. These days they are incredibly hard to find and expensive so what is a budding ork warboss to do? Oh That's right build my own from scratch!

Stop browsing eBay Wotclankz and help me!


How does one go about creating a gyro stabilised mono-wheel ork? First you need to find something that can be used to represent the Meks madness, a wheel. I used this wonderful toy* as a base, from a long consumed Kinder Surprise egg.

*Example image, mine came in fluorescent green and orange!

Click here to keep reading :)