RE: [Epic] Painting Ork Detachments

From: Miller, Chris <CMiller_at_...>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 15:57:00 -0600

> > When I first picked up the E40k boxed set, I figured I'd paint the
> Ork
> > army just so I could get a feel for painting Epic stuff. What I
> wasn't
> > sure of is whether I was supposed to paint all the differnt units as
> if
> > they were from differnt mobz. instead what I did was paint pretty
> much
> > all my orks as if the were Goffs (Black and red motif). Everyone got
> > this basic paint job, even the Nobz, Shooty Boyz, Tanks, blah blah.
> Was
> > this just the mark of a newbie or do others do this. Since I play
> > tyranids and marines (building an IG army now), I don't really mess
> with
> > Orks that much though when I put in an order for other stuff, I'll
> > ususally get something orkish (flak waggons, fighta bommers, etc) to
> > slowly round out this force.
-------> If all you have is the stuff from the box, then it's not
unreasonable at all. If you add more stuff, you may want to vary it, say
painting some KOS stuff red, but people shouldn't be up in arms about
it. Maybe this force is just _all_ Goffs.
   My army of course is painted all kinds of really bright colors, but
that's just cause I like 'em that way. I used a gloss coat on my orks
and liked the way it came out. Lots of red, yellow & black in my force.
My Orks look more Chaotic than my Chaos troops. It mattered more in
SM/TL, but now, do it like you want.

> Different people have different priorities. I keep going back and
> forth
> on whether I'm going to do anything with my large collection of Orks.
> I'm currently planning on keeping them, so that I won't have to regret
> getting rid of them in the next flip-flop. :-)
--------> <The Vulture Speaks> If you decide to finally pull the
trigger, let me know...I keep thinking about dumping WHFB and the 3
shelves full of High Elves, Orcs, and Chaos, but the High Elves are
mostly painted, and the Orcs are fun, and the Chaos is easily
transported to WH40K and what if I actually decide to go ahead and buy
5th ed...? SO I know where you're at...
> But if/when I paint
> them, I'll be using lots of Orky colors. I don't know if I will paint
> by clans, though. I'd have to paint more, rather than choose from a
> big
> supply of generic boyz.
-------> _Generic_ Boyz? Hmmm...I smell heresy...
> The clans don't make that much difference to
> me.
-----> Badthink! Badthink!
> This is along the lines of what I asked about painting
> detachments. Fluff purists don't usually care for my approach--I
> don't
> pay much attention to Eldar aspect colors, either, or Space Marine
> fluff.
-------> Heretic! Heretic! (Though I did make up my own colors for most
of my Eldar. Aqua with bright Pink details. Looks very alien, and
everyone calls 'em fairies anyway...)

> Of course a lot of that fluff is in games I don't own. But it
> just isn't important to me. I may also make my Orks brown.
-----> HERETIC! HERETIC! BURN THE HERETIC! BROWN ORKS??!!! JUST WHAT THE
HELL GAME ARE YOU PLAYING MISTER? ORKS ARE GREEN DAMNIT! GREEN! IF I
KNEW EVERYONE COULD READ A LARGER FONT SIZE I WOULD USE IT JUST TO
CONVEY THE MAGNITUDE OF THIS HERESY! WHAT ABOUT THE GREEN WAVE? I
SUPPOSE YOU DON'T PAINT YOUR VEHICLES RED EITHER, DO YA?! WELL - DO YA?!
WHEW, I'm exhausted from typing all those caps. I can't believe what I'm
reading on this list anymore. I may have to unsubscribe.
; )
   
> But they're a way behind Eldar and Space Marines in the painting
> queue,
> anyway. :-)
>
-----> I wonder what kind of mockery you're making of them, heretic...

Chris Miller
(applause as Mr Miller threatens to drop the list, decreasing message
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