Ork Aeronautica

The Eavy Bommers where assembled with big bombs and extra big shootas.

As always, started with an airbrush of black primer.  This was followed with airbrush of silver and aluminum.  There was attempt to do a zenith of aluminum, but that did not quite work.  The tail section was left bare primer as this was going to get a coat of yellow base paint.

The tail section was painted yellow base paint.  The engine cowling and the wing tips also got a coating of yellow base paint.   The leading edges of the tail were not painted, as they will get a coat of blue or black paint later.  Lead belcher was applied to the engine tech bits, the gun parts, and the engine nozzles on the tail.  The gun parts include the big shoots mounted underneath the wings.

The access hatch and under the tail structure was given a coating of skeleton horde contrast paint.  The contrast paint was thinned one part water to two parts contrast.  For the exposed section of the wings, Runelord Brass was applied.  Random vents and access holes were also given a coat of this brass.

Next on Ork aircaft to paint is the Eavy Bommer.  With all the gun turrets and ports, it kind of reminds me of a B-17 Flying fortress.  Below are some random pictures of B-17s as found on the internet.

Some American aircraft in world war 2 where not painted and left bare aluminum.  I kind of wanted to do a silver or unpainted aircraft.

Of the pictures above, the one on the right interested me the most.  It had a lot of silver/bare aluminum and a splash of that ork bad moon yellow.

The plan is to base the Eavy Bommers with silver/aluminum.  The tail section is to be yellow, along with the wing tips and the front engine cowls.  A bit of Black or dark blue to be used to accent the leading edge of the wings and tail sections.  Engines and guns painted a lead belcher steel.

One detail that I want to add is some detail to the engine cowl.  Above is a picture of a B-17 with the engine cowl having a yellow and black check pattern.  The second image is a Fokker Wolf (German plane), where there is a red and yellow pattern on the engine cowl.  Must try something along this line.

Finished painting the grot bombers.  Not a lot of details this time.

Added decals using method previously outlined.

Applied a gloss vanish followed by an anti shine varnish.

Starting to paint some of the smaller details. Some of the engine bits received a coat of gold paint.  The various exhaust pipes received a coat of lead belcher.  There are a number of Ork tooth like panels, these where painted red along with several random panels or hatches.

Two panels on the wings where painted blue in a couple of layers.  These blue panels will eventually receive a decal.

The cockpit windows were painted in layers of green in the same way as was done on the dakkajets.

I read some where that some Japanese world war two aircraft insides where given a green varnish to protect then aluminum. I have wanted to use that some place.  For the bombers there is a section of the under side, that I could see being unpainted aluminum, this section was given a wash of green ink.

The wheels and treads get a base of Black paint.  Two layers of brown/grey dry brush was applied to the wheels and treads.

Next, the grot bombs got a Olive coating.  Runelord Brass was painted on the bomb engine nozzles.

Now starting to add some of the details.

The tail plane was painted white.  A couple of coats where required.  Attempts where made to avoid putting white paint in the panel lines on the tail.

Red stripes where added to the white sections.  A little bit of going back and forth with the red and white paint was required to keep the lines neat.  Keep in mind Orks are not necessarily going to make the line perfectly straight.

Some of the panels on the engines and engine exhausts where painted brass/bronze.  This was a bit random, just to make the engines look kind of junky or made of different parts.  More bronze will be added in later steps.

Some more stippling was added to the fuselage with a lighter grey.  This was in part to fix a few mistakes.

A lighter brass/bronze was painted on the engine nozzles sticking out of the tail and the smaller secondary engine nozzles on the wings.

The yellow part of the wings were given a wash of yellow ink.  This wash helped to make the yellow look more uniform on the wings .

For this project there are some pictures that I forgot to take.  The grot bombers where primed black with an air brush.  The primer was followed with an airbrush of aluminum paint.

The wings received a coat or two of yellow paint.  The fuselage was painted/stippled several layers of grey.  The original layer of grey was a bit too dark.  Even after all the layers of paint there are still spots of aluminum shows through.

A Black wash was applied to show off the panel lines.  The wash darkened the models so another coat paint was applied.  The wing got another coat of yellow and the fuselage was stippled another layer of grey.

I had watched a documentary on the battle of Midway over the summer.  In the documentary there were several pictures and clips of film from the time.  One of the film clips showed several planes on a US aircraft carrier.  This one clip stood out as the planes where not the typical blue or grey of the time, but had bright yellow wings.  A search of google yielded several pictures of US navy planes for the time.  Below is a typical grey Wildcat with the original US navy markings; and some Dauntless aircraft with the yellow wings.

Early in the history of the US Navy, there was a belief that if the plane went down in the option, the yellow wings would make it easier to spot.  Some time early in  World War 2 this idea was abandoned.

The aircraft with the yellow wings would have the fuselage either light grey or unpainted aluminum.

Other planes had the tail painted with red and white stripes.

Also the marking at the beginning of the war, the US Navy planes sported a blue circle with a white star that had a red dot in the centre. After fighting with the Japanese, there was concern that the red dot might cause misidentification.  The red dot was removed.

So the plan is to paint the Grot Bombers aluminum, stiple grey on the fuselage, paint the wings yellow, and the tail have red and with strips.

For the final step on this squadron of Dakkajets was to apply a final clear coat.  For this I used the Army Painter Anti-Shine Matt Varnish.

Below are few pictures of the squardron.  This is the end of the Dakkajets section, stay tune for the next ork aircraft.