Hello all! While Brother Muninn loses his babies under couch cushions, forgets them on the bus, and all sorts of other new-dad comedic errors, I will be pitching in by contributing to the blog with minis from my own collection. Around here I am known as Yorrik (you can see a helpful button at the top of the screen that links to my other contributions) and I am thrilled to have the opportunity to showcase my work. However, while Muninn enjoys painting skills, camera skills, and blogging skills, I alas only have numchuck skills, so my contributions will be of decidedly worse quality.
I live in the same college town as Muninn and have been painting miniatures for about 15 years. My interests overlap with Muninn's quite a bit, focusing quite a bit on nerdy activities like board games, roleplaying games, and other assorted time-sinks. Our local game store hosts a monthly painting contest wherein the entry fee is to buy a miniature from the store's stock and submit it. Feeling quite orky and flamboyant, I decided on Kaptin Badrukk, the overpriced squad-upgrade to what is probably the worst unit in the current ork codex:
I wasn't lying about the camera skills. At least my iPhone can make up for some of my incompetence. I had a blast painting this mini, and hope to do more ork pieces in the future. The skin tone was a fun adventure, as it involved building up layers of drab olive greens and ending with a purple wash. The Kaptin's Snazzgun is a favorite detail, I love how burly and nasty that thing looks. Hopefully I'll bag first place!
Nice stuff. I like the simple effect on the edge of his blade. Very good. As for the nerd thing, back in the day my skater colleagues and I decided that NERD actually stands for Never Ending Radical Dude(tte).
ReplyDeleteI'm not "Losing babies under couch cushions," I'm sending them down there in search of missing bits.
ReplyDeleteI figure they're naturals at picking up small things they aren't supposed to eat, so why fight it? I'll just have to put a tiny baby-sized Hannibal Lecter masks on them to make sure they don't make it to their mouths.
Great looking Ork by the way. May the best mini win.
~Muninn