Looks good, but I think it would be better if the eye spot was oval. A rectangle following the panel lines looks...off somehow.

Seriously though, the orca paint job versions of this ship are the only ones I have seen that make the ship look good.

Looks good, but I think it would be better if the eye spot was oval. A rectangle following the panel lines looks...off somehow.

Seriously though, the orca paint job versions of this ship are the only ones I have seen that make the ship look good.

I am happy with it.

Awesome! Second Orca paint job I've seen on here, and I'm hoping to contribute my own eventually.

The other fellow decided to break up the paintjob with some coloured areas. My plan is closer to yours, emulating the natural pigmentation of the Orca as closely as possible, but seeing your end result has convinced me about one thing I was undecided on -- I think I'll use 1 or 2 shades of dark grey on some of the panels in the black section to break up the monolithic uniformity of the pure, unrelenting black.

I'm also going to paint the inset middle section pink, which might look disastrously dumb, but I wanna go all-out on the Orca scheme, and their natural colouring doesn't offer much beyond the white/black.

Your rotated tail fin is a pretty cool mod. I think I'm going to pilfer 40K bits and add a literal dorsal fin to my version.

I dry brushed with 2 shades of grey, a blue grey, a metallic and a white. The concept was to break up the pure black area that basic black has.

I also used the dry brushing to highlight but in the future I will do the highlighting parts last instead of first like I did this time.

I did do a nuln oil wash over the black areas about 3 times as well.

As I told you in person, I think it's a great design, but I think you would do well to do a bit of inking into the creases. Do so without relying on a wash, but just go real finely with a sharp brush. You want those to stand out and make it look like a piece of technology.