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Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to present the future of Ork Leadership.
Part ork, part machine, all Nob. I give you ROBONOB!



This started as a quick and dirty MegaNob for a friend who wanted to play with a Mob of them. However, as I was working on it, I couldn't help but notice the resemblance, and had to paint him accordingly.

Anyway, the conversion was pretty simple. Saw off shoulder shield. Grind off termie honours. Contemplate grinding off purity seals. Decide not to. Saw off Termie head, dremel out termie neck hole. Insert model putty, insert ork head. Cut off Termie storm bolter, add twin-linked shoota. The smokestack in back is a shoota stuffed in one of the back vents. I really was going for "Speed" and "Cheap". The rivets are all bits of plasticard cut out with a scrapbookers mini-hole punch.

The only complicated bit was the arms. I can't stand how limited the arm poses are on GW models. Srsly, they got it perfect on the original plastic Space Marines and have cocked it up ever since... ANYWAY - I cut the arm-pins off and the glued half a round plastic bead to each shoulder. I then used the spherical cutter head on my Dremel tool to create matching sockets on each arm. This allowed me to pose the arms in a manner that made me happy.

The paint was an attempt to match the colour scheme of RoboCop as closely as possible. It's not exactly an optimal paint scheme for minis. Technically the powerfist should be all black, but I just couldn't make myself do it. For those interested, it was Chaos Black prime, Mithril Silver dry-brush, thinned down Regal Blue wash, Mithril Silver light dry-brush.

He's been fielded once and he punched out a Battlewagon. Do Not Mess With RoboNob.

Does the armor have blue and yellow high lights?

Or just the picture?

Usually I would disapprove of such a quickie conversion, but you really executed the concept well.

Awesome.. Pure awesome.

Quite inspiring. I need to get into working on some conversions, myself.

LunaHound wrote:Does the armor have blue and yellow high lights?
Or just the picture?

Unistrut wrote:For those interested, it was Chaos Black prime, Mithril Silver dry-brush, thinned down Regal Blue wash, Mithril Silver light dry-brush.

So the blue really is there, the yellow means it may be time to calibrate your monitor.

Unistrut wrote:So the blue really is there, the yellow means it may be time to calibrate your monitor.

I dont think so , but thanks for the reply . Though i know why it looks yellow . *wink

Shaman wrote:Awesome.. Pure awesome.

Indeed.




I've been waiting for that.

Your move, punk.

Excellent work.

Yea usually nob/terminators dont look all that great. But you really did turn this one out pretty well. Nice work

Very nice, the subtle arm work really makes it look like it does not have the usual termi proportions and makes it look more orky.

nice paint job but did his legs siddenly straten out the postures not right

Didn't touch his legs at all, aside from grinding the cross-n-skull off of one knee. Stock AoBR termie legs.

RoboNob is win

Epic.

Ditto ditto, echo echo! Me likey!

Stolen.

So stealing this. Great Idea.

Stolen!

You all get together and it's going to be a RoboMob.

Crunch-wise he also makes a perfectly serviceable Warboss - they can take Cybork body even without a Painboy hanging around and RoboNob makes a much more convincing Cybork than he does a MegaNob.

win

Sweet. The legs aren't terribly orky, but the build of the terminator torso and the repositioned arms give the upper half a suitably orky shape. Also digging the subtle blue wash. Gives it a very "cold steel" kind of feel. I don't see any of the yellow in the highlights that Luna saw, just black, silver, and blue. Not bad for a quick conversion.

Hahaha, i love it!

So...cool...

//Edge

Sweet RoboNob walks and looks great.

Are you painting up a squad of these? I'd love to see it.

Robonob, the ork vesion of Robocop!

those feet is too small. nobz has bigger feet yer kno? you could also bulk it up a little (like adding a burna boy gas tank on the rear and add shoulderplates on the sides) and add some shoulder plates around the body.

Honestly I hate to be the nay sayer in this one, but really it's nothing special. You did a extremely basic conversion on a leader model. I wouldn't care if it were a basic ork boy but the Nobz are the leaders and I would think ok maybe you would bulk this part or that part out, but you didnt. The painting is solid, but beyond that it is nothing special at all. Sorry to be the nay sayer but it's the truth.

Empchild wrote:Honestly I hate to be the nay sayer in this one, but really it's nothing special. You did a extremely basic conversion on a leader model. I wouldn't care if it were a basic ork boy but the Nobz are the leaders and I would think ok maybe you would bulk this part or that part out, but you didnt. The painting is solid, but beyond that it is nothing special at all. Sorry to be the nay sayer but it's the truth.

Why lie and make people happy when you can make them miserable with the power of truth? Well done, sir, well done.

I actually think it looks pretty cool, a nice simple conversion and looks cool. Though it could use more orky bitz...(not too many though, I'd have a small problem with him standing in for a warboss too unless it was a friendly game, he looks like a nob, but not a warboss, sorry.)

Paintjob is cool, conversion is solid...powerfist is bland, but otherwise a good job.