Wow! Cheers Firestorm; the fact that i kept you interested enough for 40 pages is quite something!

YOu are right about my singlemindedness however; Epic is really the only game i play a serious amount of and i've become somewhat obsessed with painting my collection recently:  something to do with a promise to myself to not buy anything more till it's all done!
Thanks for the encouragement,
Yrs,
Ryan

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I'll give you samples of the upcoming fun if you can paint a Vaygr battlecruiser for me.

PM done a did :-)

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I just thought I should pop in and compliment you on your orkyness. I love the "organic" feel of your Ork vehicles. With organic, I probably mean "orkanik", as in bolt-this-on, add-that-on, hold-on-I-thought-I-had-an-even-bigger-gun-somewhere etc. It looks like you are having lots of fun with this army.

/Fredmans

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Very Nice looking stuff !!!!  

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Legion 4 "Cry Havoc, and let slip the Dogs of War !" ... "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."

My Ork army won Players Choice Best Painted at Into The Breach recently and a couple of people who missed didn't get to see it have requested pictures...so without further ado:

MAD MEK MADREGS MEKANIZED MOB




I attempted to Joe Jephsonise (YmeLoc) the head of the Landa and I really like how it came out: Landa's name is 'Da Flamin' Skull'! Only thing that bugs me is how all the new ork war engines are sculpted: all those indented rivet 'holes': aaargh!
Shots of some of the other Mini's can be found above.

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Great looking army. The 'hole' rivets are clearly overzealous orky attempts at countersinking to decrease wind resistance

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AFK with real life, still checking PMs

Beautiful army, MoK. Is it okay to call an Ork army beautiful?  

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"I don't believe in destiny or the guiding hand of fate." N. Peart

From a distance, yes.

Nice looking Mob!

Being obsessed with painting your collection is working for you.  An amazing array of well-painted armies in this thread!

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WAAARGH!!
The Lost & the Dipped

WowZ !!  Dat B a lotz 'ov Red Greenskins !!!      

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Legion 4 "Cry Havoc, and let slip the Dogs of War !" ... "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."

Well...it's certainly been a while! Epic Painting has been forestalled by getting games in, attending tournaments and the general burnout of finishing one army after another and needing a break...not to mention working full time having just bought my new boat (AKA home: more on that later...) and getting ready to set up a blog/website (MoK Miniatures) to show off and bring in some commision work; of which i can promise you a suprise on once it's up and running    

Anyway: i have found SOME time in the above hectic schedule to continue trying to get the rest of my orks finished. I've been reading the Forgeworld masterclass book recently (part of my plan is to get back into Sci-FI AFV modelling) so i decided to try out some of the techniques therein.
Not sure if they translate well into Epic Scale and i'd probably be better off asking Vaissh and Olly for tips on paintchips but i'd like to know what people think about the weathered style and how it fits with what i view to be my signature cartoon realism:




Comments, criticism and advice are hereby welcome :-)
R>

EDIT: I don't know what other people think BTW but I'm pretty sure that I've decided that the slasher gargant is my favourite epic model of all time: it's just go something about it: the rear detailing is really nice but something about it's simplicity and sheer silliness (that head!) just makes me smile: it seems to sum up some of my favourite points about epic all in one little (large!) model

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I only just read this and I reckon it's my favourite comment on the orks so far (not to diss anyone else )!

THanks Fredmans :-)
R>

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Nice dirty ork machine

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I am not available for that cognition on my part

ah the joys of working behind a proxy... I'll have to check them out when I get home tonight. Right now though, I'm leaning toward a combination of two methods for chipping. Sponging and stippling seem to work best at epic scale because I find salt chipping to be a bit large for the scale due to the size of the salt crystals. Sponging is good got getting a nice random pattern at very fine scale quickly, and stippling works to fill in areas where the sponging doesn't quite work as you want ot you can't get into.

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