'Eavy Metal Haul of Vintage Orks and a classic Meganob
A friend at the gaming club decided to sell off his vintage Ork collection, so I jumped on it like a facebiter squig. I haven't counted the models yet, but I would number them somewhere north of 200, most of which are unique sculpts. I immediately pulled out a Nob in 'Mega Armour' and cut my teeth on these guys. After stripping the paint using Citri-Strip, I re-based him on a 32mm GW round and cleaned up the metal best as I could. I like to think of these older model projects as restorations of a sort. I used Vallejo German Red Brown primer and followed it with a generous soft dry brush of white as an undercoat. All of my regular paints are made by Warcolours, a gel based line out of Cypress. They are fairly transparent and glaze very well, and while this is a nice quality it does take a while to build up color. A progress shot of the 'restoration': And the model as he stands now... The planet my Orks hail from is very similar to ...