Ork Blood Bowl team

[Whirligig]

Please excuse the poor picture quality. I only have my phone to take pictures with. Although it's 8.1MP, it struggles with mini pictures.

Essentially I'm trying to improve my painting quality. I chose a blood bowl team as they only have 12 models. So far all I've done is the basic block painting. I'm going to apply washes tomorrow.

I freely admit to being a complete novice at painting, so any and all suggestions are gratefully received. Assume complete ignorance on my part, that way you can only be pleasantly surprised when I know something.

I used orkhide shade for the skin, scab red for the armour, blood red for the crest, adeptus battlegrey for the metal work, bleached bone for the bones (durr!), and either cathan brown or scorched brown for the leather work. The paint job isn't as neat as it looks in the picture, so I still have to neaten up a few places.

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[freakinacage]

looks neat enough from a quick glance. how much do you want to improve your painting? gaming/display/gd/other?

 

[BPI]

Hi Whirligig, what were your plans for the washes? Green over the flesh, red over the armour, etc. Or were you just going to hit the whole thing with black & brown?

Do you intend to follow up with line highlights or do you want to blend up to lighter colours?

I've got an Orc lined up at the moment, just glued him together last night, I intend to basecoat his flesh with the Orkhide & then think I'll highlight up with Kommando Khaki, Elf Flesh & Bleached Bone.

I've just painted a mini red, I went with black for the shading, highlighted up to Blood Red & I'm now considering spot highlights with Dwarf Flesh which will be glazed back with Red Ink. I shall see how it works out!

I think Scorched Brown is great for leather. Follow up with a brown wash, highlight up through Bestial Brown, Vermin Brown and then you can keep on going with Blood Angels Orange, Golden Yellow, finishing with whatever tone suits, whether Bleached Bone, Elf Flesh, Rotting Flesh, Ash Waste Grey, etc.

For the bones, be sure to get areas like the eye sockets nice & dark so that when you highlight the rims there's lots of contrast

Fun stuff :good: One of the guys I work with plays BB with his son & recently started painting up an Orc team. They look to be a nice, simple set of models to work with :good:

Picture isn't as bad as some that get posted Keep mucking about with different lighting directions/situations & holding the lens different distances from the mini. Once the image is cropped to size it doesn't matter that he didn't fill the original frame (of course, don't stand 15' away! ).

Let's see what the next update brings...

Cheers, B.

 

[Whirligig]

Freakinacage - I'm basically able to make a model acceptable for the table top, but generally that's as good as it ever gets. Like all mini painters, it would be awesome to win a Daemon, but that would be running before I can even think about crawling.

That said, you have got me to thinking about what I actually hope to achieve from my painting. So as a vaguely achievable goal, I'd like to have a mini I'd be happy to enter into GD next year, even if it didn't win.

BPI - My normal painting strategy is to do all the basic colours, and then cover the model in either badab black or devlan mud (affectionately known as 'God juice' by my local GW store manager). Not so good really. So I've washed the various sections with colour specific washes. They've only just finished, so I'll put up some pictures tomorrow morning when they're dry. After that I'm really not sure what I'm going to do. I think probably highlighting (which I've never really been able to do). Should be interesting. Photos should be up sometime tomorrow.

Thanks for the interest. As I said, think of me as a total novice when it comes to all things paintbrush related. Apologies in advance for any bone headed queries I may have.

~~Whirligig

 

[Whirligig]

I've attached the wash pictures from yesterday. Still can't get the focus right... :curse: I think the best example is the lineman. Armour was washed with red, flesh with green, leather with devlan mud and the bones/metal with badab black. Next step is to highlight, which will be a new experience for me.

 

[Whirligig]

So, post highlighting pictures.

All I've done at this stage is go over the flesh with a coat of scorpion green. I attempted to leave the original colour in the recesses etc. All feedback gratefully received, as this is the first time I've really attempted much with my painting other than dousing the whole lot in black/brown ink.

Tomorrow brings on the armour and possibly the leatherwork. CHARGE!

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[Whirligig]

After much umming and ahhing, taking of photos, and a fair amount of swearing, I've managed to get my Orcs finished. I'm quite pleased with how they came out, especially the shading on the faces, as I'm not usually very good at this.

As always, and (some?) feedback gratefully received. Although they're not badly painted, I'm completely stuck as to how to improve my standard. I've no wish to remain static with my painting.

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The thrower is probably the model that I'm most pleased with. The number on the back is a tally number (I figured orcs wouldn't use normal digits), so the players are numbered I, II, III, IIII, etc. The other thrower has 'DIS WAY' rather than ORCIDAS written on the ball.

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What do people think?