Warhammer Border Patrol Forces

[tabletop]

Yes, I've been distracted again by the mention of WHFB and have started assembling a Border Patrol force from plastics. At the risk of giving away my force disposition I've so far constructed:

1 Chariot with crew
5 Wolves
25 torsos blue tacked to bases.

By Wednesday I should at least have -something- on a base to represent each model.

[tabletop]

But hey, if I don't play this week I'll probably have everything assembled ready for next week!

Also, anybody got any tips on speed painting Orc rank and file? Dustan?

I'm thinking prime white, maybe a couple of green ink-wash for flesh tones and then a quicko uniform/metal paint over brown base coat to get 'brownlining' (instead of my usual messing around with chestnut ink).

[Dustan]

Speed painting orks.

1. DONT glue the arms and heads on, the torsos have no arm skin and the head/neck joint hides the join, its heaps easier to paint the body/legs and the arms seperately.

2. Black undercoat, orks should look a little darker anyway (unless your mad and painting them yellow)

3. Use a big brush for base colours, especially for you arms, and heads, contrayry to GW's advice tou can get a smooth coat with a big brush. most of the detail on orks that isnt shirts, pants or metal can be painted black or red (this will be things like belts, pouches and boots) I paint my base colours over these and then paint whats left in black

4. Pick a palette, obviously you will have a lot of browns, metals and red. Try and start all your browns with something dark (wet brush of scorched brown works for me) then use various different browns for a slightly less wet brushing. snake bite leather works well and dark flesh gives a nice red leather look.

5. Limit your highlights. they are orks, from dirty dark places, the less pronounced the highlights are the more drab they look.

6. dark flesh is the best colour to paint red over

7. anything metal should start out with tinbitz. it should finish with boltgun metal.

8. try not to paint to many black shirts or pants, its easier but doesnt look as good.

9. Flesh is fast if you start with forest green (dark green) and highlight with I think snottling green.

10. goblin green is a yuckky colour.

11. mount the torsos and legs on the bases so they are easy to hold. Mount arms and heads on paperclips with one bend straightened out. you can just heat the metal and push it into the plastic.

12. paint all of one colour in one go and font worry if you go over the edges. in general I painted in these orders

torso/legs
*Clothing
*metal
*Skin (usually knees, legs and neck)
*belts and boots (unless they are the same as clothing)
*Anything else and touching up my black lines

Arms
*Flesh
*Metal
*Details

Heads
*Flesh
*Teeth & Eyes
*Hair (you can leave this till its mounted on the model)