We "AAAAARRRRRGH" A Go For Freebooter Pirate 40K Orks

I've been hitting a a real wall with painting my dwarves lately. The rank and file troops just get so boring to paint over and over again.

I've decided that to spice things up I'd start painting my Orks again.

I'd seen a picture of some Freebooter "Pirate" Orks the other day and I really liked the look and feel of them. I've worked up a 500 point list and I'm hoping that by mixing up armies that I can keep myself interested in painting armies and not just single models.

Unit of Gretchin 

Unit  of Orks

Deffkoptas 

Yay for magnetizing! 

My first attempt and greenstuff modeling a pirate hat 

Side View (AARRGH)

I know that that the whole pirate ork thing has been done before and I'll be using some peoples ideas for certain things but the whole point of this project is to just have fun and to keep myself motivated. I'm going to try ordering a few conversion bitz from

http://www.maxmini.eu/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=15 

When I get my package in I'll try and do a review post so that anyone that's interested can get my opinion of their product.

Happy Valentine's Day

I just wanted to take a minute to wish everyone out there a Happy Valentine's Day!

Mini Vacation

I didn't get much painting done over the weekend because well... I wasn't home!!! I was able to get the family out of the house and we took an ultra-cheap weekend vacation to Atlantic City.

Just a few shots from our balcony on the 19th floor...

I did however get one model completed the other day though! I picked this anime style model a LONG time ago. It was nice to get away from the dwarves and paint something a little different.

I signed up for a painting challenge on the Bartertown forums. It's just a little friendly competition to try to help some members get their armies painted up throughout the year. At the end of the year the member with the most points wins... NOTHING except for bragging rights.

I haven't been to my local FLGS in ages. I really need to get down there and hang out for a bit.

Also on a side note... My new webcam SUCKS. I think that I may take my monthly hobby allowance and get something a little better. Maybe being cheap wasn't the way to go.

The Slayers have been Slayed!!!

HOORAY!!! My first unit of 2012 has been completed!!! The Dwarf Slayer unit for my next 250 points was finished just a few minutes ago and I am too happy to have finally finished this unit!!!!!

Next up on my list of Dwarves is my Dwarf Warriors with hand weapons and shield to go into my already existing unit of Warriors. I've used the airbrush to spray on brown for the base and silver for the cahinmail. I'm hoping by airbrushing on some of these colors that I can speed up the process a bit. Once I complete these then I can continue onto my next 250 points!!!

I also need to get cracking on my Warmachine Rhul army.

I've basecoated the 3 Gun bunnies. I have tried my hand at magnetizing the guns. Not too shabby!

(Gorten Grundback) 

I've also magnetized the Driller arms.

YouTube better watch out!

Got my webcam in the mail Friday. Started my YouTube channel. I'm still going to post to the blog because I find this a lot easier to take care of than making videos.

Here's a link to my first video...

http://youtu.be/GSUUjsn3f5E

Gonna do some painting on the Slayers tonight and I'll take some photos of my progress.

The Work Continues...

Work continues on the dwarves. The airbrush is a savior! Being able to spray on the base layer on the base of the minis make the time fly. I used to brush on the base color of the base and it took forever to get a base done that way. I was able to spray the base color on in barely no time for the next 250 points of dwarves.

I really need to get them done. I'm so far behind. I'm almost done with the slayers though. I thought that they would go quick but the models have so many little hidden details. I suppose that's my fault since they are a mish-mashed unit of many different slayer models.

On a side note I bid on a webcam on another website and I won! I should have it by late next week. I'm really hoping that I can use it to take better photos of my minis and maybe some videos that I can upload onto YouTube.

Airbrush Fun!!!

Had a try at the new airbrush last night and today. The only thing that I can say is... AWESOME!!! Why didn't I ever get one of these years ago! I baecoated the skin on 20 gretchin in just a few minutes and started the basecoats on the Ork Trukk. Talk about speeding up some processes. I don't know how much I'll be able to use the airbrush with my dwarves since some of the spaces are really tight on the GW models but I can see myself making a lot of headway with the ork army.

Back to the grind...