Ork Bikes

Here are the bikes I'm painting for Makari.

Hopefully I'll get to the riders this week but I've got a pretty full plate.

So what do you want to paint my Broadsides??? LOL

no...but serious.

what is a broadsides? gotta picture link?

Tau Broadside Battlesuits.

*holds CJs hand and crosses street*

mine look better....the Railguns are on the arms and the Missle pods are on the shoulders. They give you that Mechwarrior Mad Cat feel.

I could give 1 a go. What color scheme and what quality? Any base work or just sand and gravel? Tau are usually a pretty cleaner look so it requires some more time.

Send me a PM.

SWEET! looking bikes!

Bike are looking real nice.

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I could give 1 a go.

You might have a lot of clean up on CJ's models... Just a warning

How do you figure jackass?

Have you started painting them CJ?

..cmon CJ

Tau Suits are some of the easiest pieces to paint.. clean, smooth, flat, distinct edges, etc. There is zero flesh, cloth, sinew, gems, gear, etc.

Man up Nancy

I thought that some tau had gems? Oh, and Jgemrich, awesome, as always.

Marc wrote:

..cmon CJ

Tau Suits are some of the easiest pieces to paint.. clean, smooth, flat, distinct edges, etc. There is zero flesh, cloth, sinew, gems, gear, etc.

Man up Nancy

For me I find painting smooth flat space much harder then these other items. Sinew, Cloth, flesh has distinct hi spots and low spots that allow for color to be placed appropriately following the volume of the space. But the flats are very difficult to shade and highlight correctly IMO b/c well, they are flat.

I also shake a little so it's tough to get a clean line at times.

Regards,
Nancy

See I have carple tunnel in both wrists too...so I shake as well....


Man up nancy....I got your nancy right here....lol

You know it really doesn't suprise any of us to hear you have Carpal Tunnel in BOTH wrists... see if you had just stuck to playing with the minis and not the mini you wouldn't have that issue...

Sorry man you set that up and walked right into it!

Just call me multi talented......you should see what I can do with my feet!

jgemrich wrote:

For me I find painting smooth flat space much harder then these other items. Sinew, Cloth, flesh has distinct hi spots and low spots that allow for color to be placed appropriately following the volume of the space. But the flats are very difficult to shade and highlight correctly IMO b/c well, they are flat.

I also shake a little so it's tough to get a clean line at times.

Regards,
Nancy

Cheers for your thoughts Nancy

Quite the opposite for me. I buzzed thru my Tau suits and Hammerheads much quicker then the dang blang Fire Warriors. Granted the flat areas were a 3 colour TT standard with no light source and such.. but still.

You are indeed spot on in regards high/lows of sinew, etc but from a "speed point of view" the flats of his army should allow for at least 2 colours in time for the tournament. CJ (hell, everyone..) needs those points.

After May 18th then you can afford to get details on those flats which bring character and allow the loss of redundancy from job to job (battle damage, chipped paint, weathering, weapon/engine residue, unit markings, etc)

Just remember folks, on large flat bright/clean areas use thinner than normal paints. Take the time for that 5th thinned layer as it will be much more crisp and really pop.