Ork Braincrusha

 

So it's that wonderful time of the year again ! ORCTOBER !

In case you don't know about Orctober, it's a celebration of anything orc related that starts on the 1st of orctober to the end of the month if you're a casual and to the end of the next september if you're a proper orc lover.

Anyway, I still had one massive entry ready for the event from when I did the Stompa last year.

The Brain Crusha is one of the brilliant Ork War machines designed by Kev Adams for epic, I love how Kev managed to make those look massive and heavy at such a tiny scale :

The 40k scratchbuild is also an iconic bit of old 40k :

Building wise, this was fairly easy and I mean fairly because building only implied gluing and pinning. Now I probably didn't make my life easy by deciding to pin the wheels and tracks but there were 2 reasons I did it :

- I wanted the build to be strong

- I wanted to be able to keep the wheels and tracks a little detached from the body to make it look better

So I took the big drill out again and fat aluminium rods to pin both wheels and tracks :

That also enabled me to add washers to control the space between the parts and make the axles look larger

From that, the modelling part was just adding a few bits and bobs, gap filling a few joints and that's about all really. I felt the turrets needed guns (more dakka oviously) and some battle damage, chips, and decorations.

Now painting that thing was quite a physical process, I was onve again reminded I'm a fool since I had pinned the wheels and tracks and washers, I could have attached them after painting, making my life much easier, the only counterpart being I massively worked out with my left arm holding this mammoth the whole time !

Painting wise, I was on familiar ground, having learnt from painting the Stompa so I just applied the same processes. Once I had the yellow base done, the rest was just real easy and fast.
The base of the yellow was airbrushed to preshade the whole piece then some pin washes around rivets and details. Some drybrushes were added to make the edges pop back up and a final yellow filter was airbrushed evenly to bring back some saturation and make it look like the other models.

Rest of the job was just adding details, the usual ork patterns such as checkers, dog teeth, flames and all, followed by some battle damage and rust effects (tried to be light handed for once).

Now another thing about those gigantic models is that they're impossible to photograph in regular setups and I haven't quite figured yet how to make things easy, I don't want to reconfigure my all set up just for the occsional giants (although I tend to paint more of these latey).

Just take a look at the size of it next to the Spleenrippa and the humble buggy !

Another aspect of this all is how much time it taes now to take a picture with all the orks together ! I know this is just merely skirmish material and it barely adds up to a few hundred points but it's shaping up nicely into something that might look like an army someday who knows ?

Anyway, happy orctober and happy painting to you all !