Ork Expansion

Finally on to getting some sort of paint on to things.

Whilst all of my old orks were sprayed black using an assortment of rattlecans, all of my priming nowadays is done using an airbrush. I’ve only ever used “Ultimate Primer” which appears to be a repackaging of Stynylrez. This is what I’ll be using for these minis but I’m running low so I’ve had to order some more; unfortunately I couldn’t find any available and so have had to order “Surface Primer” from Vallejo.

The directions on the “Ultimate Primer” says that a 0.4 or larger needle should be used but the only airbrush I have is 0.2. Previously I thinned the primer using home made thinner to compensate for the smaller needle but I found this effected the primer; it worked but went on very thin, dripped and wasn’t ideal. I now spray this straight out of the bottle and it works absolutely fine.

In order to prepare the parts for priming I attached the Grots and small parts to sticks (they’re like large ice lolly sticks from a craft store).  Traditionally I’ve always used blue tack for this purpose having had some bad experiences with double sided tape  but this time I’ve used a mix of blue tack and tape.

The Grots are nice and easy seeing as they’re on bases; they can be tacked straight to the sticks.

The armour plates I stuck straight on the tape seeing as the backs won’t need to be painted. Similarly, the spikes were stuck down to the point where they would attach to the mini and were arranged in an offset pattern to aid in getting the paint on to them easily.

Any other small bits were stuck down as best as possible with the bigger parts left separate given that they’d need to be sprayed a few times to cover all areas and would therefore need to be turned over.

Eventually everything was black.

It took longer than expected, there were a few mishaps with bits getting knocked off, paint was spilled, there was swearing and I wished I’d paid more attention to not getting paints on connection points, but now I can actually start to get some colours on.