eBay Miniatures Rescues is back with another video, and this time he’s showing us the importance of testing paint schemes on rescued Orks!
eBay Miniature Rescues is a unique channel that shows you how to take beat up, damaged minis, and restore them to their fullest potential! It’s a relatively new channel on YouTube and it’s super fun to watch what Casey is able to do with some once hopeless miniatures. This week, he shows us why you should test schemes before flying headfirst into a project! He’ll be demonstrating on an army of Orks he rescued off eBay for only $150.
Testing Paint Schemes & Rescuing Orks: Tutorial
Just some of the boyz on the docket to paint! He wants this to be a fairly easy scheme and not take a ton of time. And he’s going to test on some regular boyz to start, let’s jump into some of the ideas!
First Idea
To start, he grabs all the colors he will be using: Jokaero Orange, Trollslayer Orange, Skrag Brown, White, Cadian Flesh tone, Death World Forest, Elysian Green, Silver, Dark Wash, and a rust wash. The green for the skin, browns for the leather and highlighting, silver for the weapons, and a wash for everything.
He starts with a base coat of the Elysian and Death World Forest for the skin. Then hits the pants and clothes with Skrag brown and Incubi Darkness. He then mixes with some white and Cadian Flesh to get the other tones. For this whole mini, he is using the brush, but later he will see how the airbrush works and if it can save some time.
For the metal, he starts with a base coat of aluminum. Then hits that with a pretty liberal helping of the brown wash, it takes a while to dry, but you can always just move on to the next one while waiting. If you’re painting Orks, you always have more Boyz to paint! Lastly, he hits it with the rust wash on all the metal.
Once that’s all dry, he goes onto the highlighting stage. He wants to see how long this will take considering he has so many to paint. He hits a quick highlight on all the skin with a pinkish hue by using the Cadian Skin Tone. Then hits a light purple on the pants and straps. The last step is to hit the mini with a dark wash.
Second Scheme
This time he does the majority of the model with the airbrush. This will save time overall so might as well give it a go! To start he hits the skin with the same colors from before moving from, Elysian Green to Death World Forest and finishes with Cadian Flesh Tone.
He does the same steps for the clothes as before, but this time does it all with the airbrush. Since the areas aren’t directly touching it makes it easy to do while using the airbrush. He can basically get half of all the models painted with just the airbrush. He then just comes back and fills in all the areas he couldn’t reach with the airbrush, with the same scheme as the previous one.
Which One is Better?
This is where he has to decide which is better in terms of how long they take, how good they look, and which is more important. Here is the side by side comparison. He thinks the brushed model looks a little better overall but did take almost twice as long to paint. For him, that means he has to pick the airbrush scheme for the bulk of the army. He’ll do the characters with more care, but for the average guy, it’s good enough!
That does it for this one! Just be sure to test out your paint schemes before diving headfirst into a new army!
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About the Author: Travis Pasch
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About Travis Pasch: Travis has been a Warhammer 40k hobbyist since the 1990s, playing the game since Third Edition. Through extensive traveling, he’s seen a lot of the miniatures hobby from across the world, giving him a unique perspective on the latest gaming topics and trends.
Travis’s brother even owns a commission painting studio, where he’s picked up a lot of good advice and techniques for painting Warhammer and tabletop miniatures over the years, as well. Travis joined the Spikey Bits team in 2019 and has been the lead writer since 2020.
Currently, he’s working on converting all his 40k Adeptus Mechanicus models and becoming a true tech enjoyer, complete with both sad and happy robot noises!
