Scribbs’ Incidental Diversions

Painting productivity has been very low over the last month or so, but I have managed to get this big lad finished up. I was a bit worried about ending up with an overly simple two tone colour scheme (green skin/ blue-purple carapace), but I’m quite happy with the end results thanks to adding in some pink tones and texture marks.

Finally finished up these five craboid orks to join the troopers. These lads are the more mutated hybrids, so I tried to reflect that in the highlights of the greenskin flesh being purplish like the troopers, but just more so.

Just the big boss to paint up now.

Finally got around to painting up the last of my Dwarves from Infamous JT. Like the other figures, really characterful sculpts that were a lot of fun to paint.

More Oldhammer style Orks sculpted by Kev Adams and produced by Meridian Miniatures, this time Ork Craboids. These five are the set of ‘troopers’, and are the least mutated/hybridised models.

Genestealer Ork hybrids were one of the oddities from back in the day that were captured in the Freebooterz lists, and it is great to have some lovely chunky metal sculpts of these chaps.

I had a bit of fun trying to work out skin patterning/colouration, trying to retain the greenskin but starting to lean into more blue/purple shades as highlights. I think it just about works.

This figure is one of several designed by Trent Holbrook (aka Miscast) that are available from Ramshackle Games. This was painted very much as a palette cleanser, no real plan on the colour scheme or anything in advance, just grabbing some paints as I went, and not worrying too much about the results. I probably could have done a bit of freehand around the hood, but I’m quite happy with the end look done in just a couple of shortish painting sessions.

A trio of old Ork Boyz that a picked up second hand a whole ago. There’s a lot to love in the relative simple sculpts that are quite characterful, but also an easy paint.

Another bunch of Oldhammer inspired sculpts by Kev Adams and produced by Meridian Miniatures. Really characterful little Freebooter chaps, although with nothing inherently sci-fi on the models, they can easily be used to pillage the high seas as well as the space lanes.

Three more Dwarves from Infamous JT – a feudal King, court wizard and maiden. The wizard is probably one of my favourites, really happy with how he painted up.