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Painting Ork Terrain Quickly

Humies have a sayin': home is where da art iz. Dey're right, coz if yoo don't paint yor favourite glyphs all over your home, how will anyone know it's yors? Today's post is all about painting your own tetanus shacks for your orks, and doing it quickly. I've been using the fundaments of this technique for over 15 years, but recently iterated on it by adding a mix of rattle cans to the preparatory process for even greater speed and, I think, an improvement in quality. The result is a giant pile of old rusty metal with a few pops of colour. Harvey and I painted a full set of the Kill Team: Octarius terrain in an evening, for a total of about 6-8 man hours. Priming This wants to be in a dark brown. My preference is Colour Forge's Hyrax Brown. Rattle rattle spurt spurt Here's where you want variety, at least an orange and then a mid-brown (i.e. not too dark or light, but... mid). Orange: Colour Forge's Convict Orange Mid-brown: I used Citadel's old M...