Hook of Gork ( or possibly Mork )

Mr. Orkshmael all painted up and reporting for duty. 

Call me Orkshmael.

Here's the First Mate in Kaptin Orkhabs rowdy gang of misfits, Mr Orkshmael. 

Fuelled by potent fungus rum and a burning hatred of the great white void whale that ate their last krooza ( and made off with an assortment of the crews body parts ) they roam the galaxy seeking venegance, loot and a good scrap. And rum - lots of rum...

UPDATE:

And here he is with some paint slapped on him. Going for a more subtle and slightly less cartoony palette than my old orks.

Yarr!

After a month of inactivity due to relocating related activities I'm back on the air!

As you may know I'm really an ork at heart so this is truly exiting times, what with the first new ork codex coming out in Mork knows how long - not to mention all the snazzy new models! 

I've always loved the piratey-themed freebooterz so the flash gitz were a must-buy. Here's my first git made using the new kit: 

The snazz-guns seemed a tad oversized even for orks so it was shortened creating a more compact, chunky design. Still about the same size as the git himself though, which gives you an idea how huge these things are if constructed straight out of the box... 

I'm going to mix 'em up with nobz to get some variation - their kombi-shootas will make great, more reasonably sized, snazz-gunz with some bitz added from this kit ( also nobz are more or less half the price...)

200

Officio Convertorum just passed 200 followers!

To celebrate this momentous occasion I drew a space marine.

Toxirella

Working on the first female addition to the nurgly gang:

Still extremely wip. She'll be some sort of pollution incarnate - no boils, perfect white skin, but rotting on the inside

Papas boy

Here's the latest recruit to those rascally Nugle Boys. Don't have a proper name for him yet so I'll just go with Mean Machine for now.

By popular demand - here's a groupshot of all the latest nurglii models:

There'll be more to come. I think the crew is a bit of a sausage fest at the moment ( though strictly speaking the plaguebearers are Ken-dolls in the genital department...) so I'm thinking a girl or two.

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EDIT:

I got rid of the blue detailing on the gatling that some people (including me) found distracting. 

Nurgmlinator

Painting of the gatling-toting nurglii thug has commenced. As always having a blast creating those leprous hues...

Bless the rot

Accompanied by clouds of flies, a slithering carpet of rats and the sound of bells, the Plague Prophet strides forth - spreading the gospel of nurgles blessings.

I smudged some white paint on his left hand which will have to be fixed...

We will rot you

The nurglii servo-thug conversion is nearing completion. 

A few people suggested I'd lead some cables from the open intestines to the gun to make a "gutling gun" (turning it into a nurglii poopcannon) which is a fantastic, albeit slightly juvenile, idea. In the end, however, I opted for a more traditional drum-mag as it looked cooler.

I also covered up most of the exposed innards - they felt a bit over the top - giving him a bloated beer belly instead. 

In other news - the plague prophet, made ages ago, is now finished and primed and will be getting some painterly attention momentarily.

Mean machine

Yep. More nurgly stuff - dark mechanicum gun servitor / cyborg thug this time around. 

Entropy loves company.

The speedpainted plaguebearer just was so much fun I had to do another one! 

I used a different paintscheme this time around working from a bone spray basecoat and starting it off with a turqoise wash. Didn't time it but a guesstimate would be around 3 1/2 hours including the base. 

Behind blue eyes

Grimslice Fangspittle is now based, finished and ready to join my ever growing nurgle retuine.

I spent about one and a half hour converting, three painting him and about one more on the base. 

Total time five and a half hours. 

Now I got to get back to that plague prophet...

The need for speed

So there. 

After 2 hours and 59 minutes of frantic painting, here's the result of the speedpainting experiment.

I set the phone alarm to go off every hour so I could stretch my legs and take snapshots of the progress. 

Hour 0

Undercoat with black, brown and bone. 

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Hour I

Foundation and shading

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Hour II

Drybrushing, washes. Basecoating details

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Hour III

Details and general fiddling about

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Now it's only the base left - the mini stays as it is. I'll take some proper pics once that's done. 

All in all pretty happy how it panned out - it was fun as an excersise, but somewhat frustrating. The stress of having a racing timer nearby made detail work like thin highlights very difficult to pull off for some reason.

And I can't get rid of the feeling that he actually looked best at the one hour mark...