Continuing on the 100 miniature target for the 1 Million Miniatures challenge, here’s the next set of miniatures into the speed painting grinder: 9 Ork Meganobz!
I’ve already painted three of these quite a while ago, although in the bright yellows of the Bad Moon clan. This time I went for Goff colours, as I’ve been wanting to paint other clans for my orks.
The paint scheme is relatively simple for these, starting with a silver undercoat, followed by randomly picking out panels in Vallejo Heavy Red, black (Vallejo Model Black), light grey (Vallejo Heavy Bluegrey), and bronze tones (Scale75 Necro Gold and Vallejo Tinny Tin). For a few areas I also added markings like the checkered patterns so characteristics to Orks, as well as other simple shapes.
This accounts for most of the models, but they also have a few more organic areas, such as the flesh and clothes. The flesh was base coated in dark green (Vallejo Heavy Blackgreen) and the pants in brown (Vallejo Chocolate Brown). I then picked out all the wiring in a variety of colours, and did an all over wash of Citadel Agrax Earthshade.
For highlights, started by picking out raised areas on all metal panels (painted or not) with a bright silver (Citadel Runefang Steel). I then went over the red panels with some patchy Vallejo Heavy Red, and picked out the checkers and other white areas with a mix of the base coat (Vallejo Heavy Bluegrey) and an off-white (AK Ivory). I then liberally applied thinned down rusty brown (Vallejo Parasite Brown) all over the non-bronze metallic areas, and a copper oxide colour (Citadel Nihilakh Oxide) over all the bronze panels. For the skin highlights I did two highlights over the base coat, by first doing a 50/50 mix of the base colour (Vallejo Heavy Blackgreen) and Vallejo Goblin Green, then a final highlight of the pure Goblin Green.
Overall I’m happy with the outcome, and thoroughly enjoyed the process. Painting rusty models is always a lot of fun and lends itself well to faster painting as the whole process can be pretty loose. These models take my tally up to 79, so getting pretty close to the 100 mark which is good with a bit under a month left for the challenge.
Lair of the Lagomorph 
Oh I like these, Nic! 🙂 Very nasty/nice depending on your point of view!
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Thanks John!
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I wouldn’t have guessed you had an Ork force in 40k! While I haven’t painted a Warhammer Ork in something like 20 years, I fully admit they have a cool aesthetic and these are no exception! The weathering came out really nicely, in particular.
On a semi-related note, GW revealed a new Ork character model for 40k recently that even I have to admit (as an Ork hater) is very nice. If I didn’t have a million things to paint already, I’d consider it!
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Glad you like them! I forget it’s been quite a while since I painted any Orks! They were my first 40k army back in the depths of time so I’ve always had a soft spot for them (and a rather large stack of unpainted ork models).
I’ve also been keeping an eye on the new models and there’s some really nice stuff they’re revealing!
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I dabbled in them (as I did with many different armies back then) in the early 2000’s because the Mad Max-style vehicles some people converted were really inspiring. I’m not sure if I actually ever painted an Ork vehicle though, go figure! Glad to hear I’m not the only person who thinks that way about the new models as well 🙂
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I’m keen to paint up some vehicles, have quite a few unpainted lying around. Just deciding if I’m really feeling comfortable tackling vehicles during this challenge or if I wait till I’ve done my 100 minis 😉
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I would paint the 100 infantry sized minis first if vehicles only count as one! With that said though, I look forward to see what you work on. I know nothing about WWII tanks but I like Warhammer vehicles as much as the next person!
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