Worked on a few more colors to the stompa, and it's starting to remind me of a taxi cab. I added the checks as well as an ultramarine plate on the side. I tried to give some light effects to the gaze of mork eye and tried for a little bit of "glowing embers" of the lifta droppa.
I've also started by adding some of the white as well as the first steps to work on the gretchen and ork crew. The model is in desperate need of some dirt effects as well as metal effects to show paint chipping. I think I'm going to shelve the stompa for awhile and work on the rest of the army. Right now it's at least painted enough to play.
Next up, I'm going to finish those 12 pesky Sanguinary Guard, then start up the Nob Bikers!
I had one painting marathon weekend. Probably spent about 20 hours between Friday night and now painting Sanguinary Guard and the stompa. This was a hobby first for me, my hand got so fatigued from painting the thin highlights (especially for the Sanguinary Guard wings), I had to stop since I began to lose grip on my brush. Any other time of the year I'd give it a break, but I'm so close to finishing!
Since on Saturday night, I had to take a break from the fine detail of the angel wings, I switched gears and began the broad brush strokes of the stompa. Here's my progress so far. I've put the base down on the metal parts and yellow and can now start adding extra details. I think I need some elements to break up the model - maybe some checks, scorch marks and weathering. It's definitely lacking now, but it's progress.
I'll need to reconfigure my lightbox to take better shots of the stompa, I'm not used to photographing such large models.
Unfortunately I didn't get my goal done of finishing the 12 guard. I've hit the wall with them, it may just turn into some easier painting orcs for this week until I get a little brush grip control back.
Just finished up my last batch of 30 ork boyz. That puts me at the 90 I need to have finished for Adepticon. Now the tons of other miniatures I have to do is another story. Here's a couple quick shots of the latest mob.
I have primed and ready to go the mekboy stompa. Going with the bad moons theme I'd like to have a good portion of it yellow. Either that or primarily black with maybe a large painted yellow moon on the belly. What are your thoughts?
I'll have a full day open tomorrow to get my painting on, time to make some major progress. I'm debating on whether I keep going on the ork kick or switch gears back to Blood Angels. Updates tomorrow!