Finished the head on the new warboss. I think the main difference in the new model(s) aren't so much the amount of details as the depth of them, the deep areas just seem to go deeper. Can't really describe it better. Anyway, here he is....

Started the new warboss tonight. great model but a bit static so I'm twisting the arm up a bit. Here's where it's at right now... And I think I'm over my greenstuff nervousness, now I just need the experience!

Got the time last night to test out the GW washes, well, one of them, at least. Devlin Mud will become a very popular wash, I predict.

Here's my testa boyz. In the pictures below (fronts, then backs), the top two are unwashed (heh, aren't all orks?) with two different colored pants. Both are GW Foundation colors, Tausept Ochre, the other Calthan Brown. The bottom is my first wash with the Devlin Mud. I applied this by dipping my brush into the pot, then dipping it in a water cup and "mixing" it on a palette. I thinned it out to what I thought looked right. [i]I[/i] don't know how it should look, I was guessing here. It looked a little dark right out of the put so I figured to thin it a bit.
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Finished off the deff guns, as seen here.  A pile-o-deff guns.



Ed and Ned here don't seem none too happy to be missin' their arms. Finished greenskins green.

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Got some time in on the deffguns this weekend and took a couple shots along the way. Tedious but worth it in the end, the details on ALL of the new or k models are astounding. Here's da lads noise makers with the red finished and the metals started.

 

 

And a groups shot with all the metals finished.

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I finally picked up a couple of the new GW washes - Devlan Mud, Badab Black, Baal Red and Gryphonne Sepia. I decided to test them out on some of the Deff Guns, since there's so many of them I could do a side by side comparison. I had already done a few up to the final highlight (Fiery Orange and a spot of white on the highest spots) and thought to see what it did to ones that were already done up. The others simply had the reds done up through Blood Red.

I didn't do any scientific mixing or measuring for this. I dipped my brush into the pot then dipped it into some water, then spread it around on my paint pallet until it "looked" right. It's a bit thick and dark straight out of the pot.
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My progress is slow - wish I could devote mroe time to them but such is that facts of life. The deff guns from the new lootas are, as the trukk, insanely detailed. I've taken a simpler route and coler scheme though. I saw somewhere (I wish I could find it), someone did them in a red and black fashion and they looked sharp. That fits right in with the look of my army so here it goes.

Still finishing off the main parts before moving on to the metallics - which will be a long process as well. Hopefully I'll be able to work these through to completion and not let those two new Assault on Black Reach boxes get int he way too much :)...

Now that summer's winding down, the hobby mill picks up. I'm working on two projects now. One large and one small. The large one is a Stompa for Red Jack's Waaagh! and like the battlewagon, I'll be tracking that on a WIP log in the WIP and Projects log HERE

The other is of smaller ilk and it's a dozen lootas, I'll track/blog this one here. This is a mismatched set - I purchased  the Lootas weapons and arms off ebay (spares from the lootas/burna kit) and paired them with a regular set of boys. I know the heads are somewhat different but I got a deal on 'em and can live with that. ...

Just returned from vacation and boy am I stoked. One of the things my wife and I like to do while travelig is hitting bargain/junk shops. Places like Goodwill, Salvation Army and other non-brand named second hand stores. She looks for dishes and I look for sci-fi books and toys to loot.

Here's my newest find this last week in Duluth (I love Duluth).

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You know when you decide to grow a beard (for us guys) or let your hair grow long (guys and gals) and you're in that middle stage where it's not long enough or still too short to do anything with and it looks wrong/funny/unfinished/not good/can't see the end product? Yep, that's where I'm at.

I've been on vacation for the past week and the previous two weeks were uninspiring as far as the battlewagons paint job so I grew frustrated and assembled a bunch of bikes, a truck and a dozen lootas. I'm not doing super duper jobs on 'em, just enough to play as our playing group is gathering in Aug. to have an Apocalypse Gameday at our house. My hope is to have anything I use at least based and primed - shouldn't be too tough.
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