Flash Gitz Tutorial

Here's the promised Flash Gitz video tutorial.  These guys took forever, mostly because of all the different colours.  I'm happy to have them finished for my collection, and would love to give them a shot on the table top.

A lot of the painting tutorial uses the same colours as the GW Ork painting guide, with the main exception being how I started out.  I sprayed these guys black first, then silver and gave them a black wash.  This meant that I wasn't fiddling around with too many metallics later on, which I find takes a lot of time.  As usual, if you have questions, please leave them in the comments below.

Flash Gitz Showcase

Well, I've finally got these guys done.  I'd say that with all the extra colours these guys are similar to bikes or mounted figures in terms of workload.  I'm happy they are done, and have wanted to have impressive models like these ever since the Freebooterz book came out out oh so long ago.

I'll be putting together a video tutorial as usual, but here's a showcase in the meantime.  Baddruck and his ammo runtz were painted up a while ago, but in a similar enough paint scheme.

Flash Gitz WIP

Here's some work in progress shots of the stuff on my painting bench.  I'm finally working on the new Flash Gitz, and while I'm at it have slipped in a few runtheards for good measure.  The flash gitz were started with a silver spray followed with a dark wash, and I'll build all the colours up from there.

These guys were built back when the codex came out, but other things jumped the queue, so I'm only painting them now.  I played a game with my brother over Christmas, so that inspired me to work on my orks again.

Flash Gitz/Nobz Kitbash

Here's the results of my Flash Gitz/Nobz frankenstein project.  When the Flash Gitz box came out they were being marketed in the White Dwarf to be interchangable... so I thought I'd give it a try.  The first issue is that most of the Flash Gitz bodies have a much wider stance, and don't really fit on a 25mm base.  So, I only used the narrow stance Flash Gitz bodies, but used all of the Flash Gitz chests to make the Freebooter nobz.

On the Flash gitz side, the nob chests fit fine with some minor modifications.  I was able to get some neat snazz gun poses that were slightly different than the normal Flash Gitz, although not really enough to break up the monotony of that kit. 

I left arms off of most of the nobz to wait for the new codex to land... I don't want to build of a mob only to find out that they weren't kitted out correctly.

Flash Gitz Unboxing

Picked up a couple boxes of Flash gits today along with a box of nobs to try out the interchangeability of the kits.  That will come when I do an assembly video, but for now here's the unboxing.

I did some Freebootaz a while back using pirate heads from ebay and Baddruck (below)... I'll have to repurpose them and the painboy that went with them.

No real surprises here since the sprue pics are on GW's website.  No decal sheet, just three sprues, instructions and 40mm bases.

Flash Gitz finished video

Here's the video of the process and finished models.

More Freebooterz WIP3

This will probably be my last wip post before these guys are done. I'm basically just doing final details on Badrukk.

Ork Freebooterz wip2

Here's some more work in progress shots of the Freebooterz.

Ork Freebooterz wip

Here's some pics of the freebooterz I'm working on. I've picked up some pirate heads from maxmini via ebay and put them on fantasy orc boyz bodies. I used some old 2nd edition kustom shootas (metal) that I had in my bitz box as well as a couple ogryn ripper guns for their snazz guns. As well, I've got Badrukk in there, some powder grotz and a painboy.