Thursday, October 15, 2015

Death Skulls Army part 1

It turns out that the one thing I have in abundance when it comes to oldhammer miniatures is space orks. I have a ton of 2nd ed. space orks so I put together a 2000pt. list of Death Skulls since they are my favorite tribe and because I have about 40 heavy weapon orks. Unfortunately I really wanted to include a Mad Mob, but I only have one Madboy. Here is the first nob I've painted for the army so far. I'm having to strip all the ork models so it is taking some time. I also have a Weirdboy that I painted up earlier that I will include in the army, but I haven't done his base yet. I don't know if its just my mood today or if I've just been looking at it too long, but I don't like the pictures I keep taking of this ork. I decided to go with a very realistic, weathered look to the army. I'm not really a big fan of electric blue Death Skulls, except maybe their tattoos, so I decided to go with a sun bleached blue. Unfortunately this model only has a little flesh showing so I wasn't really able to add any tattoos or colorful skin tones so I just went with a normal green. I decided to go a different direction with the glowing eye and made it yellow light instead of red.



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  1. ErnyOctober 15, 2015 at 11:30 AM

    Not painted red ;) ?

    This guy is always painted red so nice to see a more natural (if space suits are natural) look to him. Looks great and counts for Orc(k)tober if you want it to.

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    1. Urion FranzOctober 15, 2015 at 11:56 AM

      Lol. I find I can be a bit of a nonconformist when it comes to color selection. Yeah, totally Orktober. I'll be posting more as I paint them. In the coming days, since I've run out of fantasy chaos models and I'm waiting on arms for my hybrids.

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  2. Mr PapafakisOctober 15, 2015 at 11:54 AM

    He came out absolutely fantastic!

    Lovely colour choice, well done.

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    1. Urion FranzOctober 15, 2015 at 11:57 AM

      Thank you. Hopefully the Warboss's Retinue will turn out pretty cool.

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  3. Stuart BannisterOctober 16, 2015 at 7:25 AM

    I think this is one of my favourites that you've painted so far, he really is great. Top job on the colour choices and weathering.

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    1. Urion FranzOctober 16, 2015 at 9:56 AM

      Thank you. There'll be plenty more where he came from.

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  4. riot villeOctober 24, 2015 at 6:52 AM

    I really like your leap of faith and not reaching for a pot of red paint.

    It REALLY does the figure (which has always been a favourate of mine) justice!

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    1. Urion FranzOctober 24, 2015 at 8:44 AM

      Thank you. I felt he needed a new look. I'm use to seeing him in yellow myself. I'll be painting a few more of the power armour nobs to include in his retinue, which will be used for a Freebooterz army.

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  5. SeanOctober 27, 2015 at 10:33 AM

    Good stuff Urion. I think I saw him posted on the facebook. Although I have seen the picture of him in red, I didn't realize it was so different to not paint him that.

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    1. Urion FranzOctober 27, 2015 at 1:38 PM

      Thank you. Yeah, I post pictures on facebook as well as here, though usually I post more angles here. One of these days I'm going to take a model with armor that is usually painted red and paint it candy apple red like a hotrod. Just to see what people think. lol

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