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I started modeling a little orkiness with a battleforce with 2 objectives:
1) Make some models that could readily "count as" normal ork units when I want to play ork-only
2) Make a sweet allied detachment to cover my anti-tank needs (ie broadsides)

The force I went with ended up being
HQ - Shas'o: TL missile pod, drone controller+2shields, 2+ armor, blacksun filter, advanced stabilization
> Counts as Deffdread
Troops - 12 fire warriors
> Counts as Grots
Heavy - 3x Broadsides: drone controller+2shields
> Counts as Killa Kans

for a total of about 500 points.
Attaching the Shas'o to the broadsides gives them slow and purposeful and night vision, saving some points for the team.

The Shas'o is still early WIP, but the broadsides are just about done
The suits were bulked out to make them the size of a Kan and magnetized for easy swapping to dread close combat weapon and other weapons (burst cannon -> big shoota pictured)

Enjoy!

That is freaking AMAZING.

Nice. the metal ball joint as a magnetization point is brilliant. I assume this isn't the first time it's been done, but it's the first time I've seen it! Really nice work, hope these guys work out well for you, it's quite a clash of styles.

The look great. Love the look

Great Concept.
Great Execution.

I must say I am inspired sir!

A very interesting idea and a very nice conversion. Looking forward to seeing them all painted up

Still WIP-ing the Deff Dread and I worked a little on getting the models table ready. I base coated everything, painted up the grot bases, and finished a test model

The scheme I went with is white and purple. The lines are currently shaded to spacewolf grey but I'm not sure If I want to make all the fine lines black instead.

What do you guys think? Subtle lines or sharp contrast?

These look awesome dude!!

They look really good . I personaly would go with a darker colour in the resses of the armor to give the white armor some more definition.

It looks like I'm at about half and half for the line repaint so I grabbed a killa-broadside and painted it up. The low-contrast white was really meant to stand out from the orkiness attached to it- it could be obviously a broadside, or with the the arms swapped out, obviously a killa kan (the model is about 1cm taller than a Kan, about the height of a battlesuit on a stick). With these done, I could use a few more comments about possible changes to the scheme before I start on the dozen models I have left

Still no more progress on my HQ due to the painting extravaganza

They look great. I just got into building things with tubes. I was curious on how you cut yours? Do you use a miter saw?

95% of the tubes I use are plastic, so I just go at 'em with a sharp hobby knife, wire cutters, or a fine razor saw. I have used a few copper tubes before which the razor saw is also good for.

Took the idea right out of my head!
At least now I know what they will look like when I do the same.
Amazing work.

Really good idea, an your execution is well done. Any plans to make Kroot slaves?

I decided against adding any kroot as I run a mech ork list. No need for expensive speedbumps in my army. I do like the conversion potential though!

They look great.

What color wash did you use on the white to get that effect ?

I'm more of a base coat it black and drybrush kinda guy, so washes on white are new territory for me.

For the white parts I used a white basecoat and covered everything with a thinned spacewolf grey- just a little thicker than a wash to make sure the full color comes out in the recesses and in the middle of surfaces. The white was then painted on as a wash on the entire surface and wet-blended with thick white from the edges. I don't have an airbrush so that's the quickest way (I know of) to get a shade. Not as even as spray, but smoother than drybrushing without using an actual GW wash over the top of it. The non-white parts got a chaos black basecoat for normal painting.

Edit: while mass-painting the squad, I ended up just doing the white as a thin wash with multiple layers in appropriate places to get the desired whiteness. i.e. "just paint the white like you normally would but layer up the edges more than the middle of a surface"

Just got my GW Ork barricade in the mail and, thanks to the new faq, there's no need to modify it to make a counts as aegis- the lengths end to end are the same, and the requirement to string them all together means it really doesn't matter if the individual pieces are a little longer. And of course I had to throw together a quick orky quad gun to go with it.

One more tau-ork painted this week, pictured next to the paintpot quadgun.

They look great. The Quad gun is all manner of interesting bits going on and the white armor on the greenskin really is eye popping, in a good way.

Firegrots complete

Started working on the deffsuit again
>Finished one of the arms and started working on the shoulder/attach-point
>Toothpick added as placeholder and size test for a dawnblade-style weapon

I think these may be the start of a renegade grots or counts-as-o'shovah army. I'm not sure if I'm going to expand this into a stand alone force or work on additional allied detachments for orks (as orkifying other armies has been pretty fun and ridiculous).

I'll take some pics of everything on a table next to the rest of my army for comparison next time I get a chance to play.

Enjoy!

Argh... I need to add some fliers to my ork army but o don't know if I want to do some dakkajets, convert some ork-riding chaos dragons (to go with the potential chaos detachment), or wait for the rumored tau flier to tie in with the Work taught I already have. What do you guys think?

Build some crazy DakkaJet stand in. Those Tau flyers could be a long way off.

Looks like it's going to be a dakkajet kit and a dakkajet-afied-F18 for me in the near future... and then making a sweet tau conversion later. No one likes the idea of an ork atop a swooping dragony thing?

2 Close combat weapons finished. I think I'm going to make the Tau-arms dedicated close combat and snap on guns in place of the little arms when the deffsuit is running as a crisis suit.

OR should I add magnets to the tau-arms so the crisis suit weapons will attach to them like they would a-la the standard kit? The poll has been adjusted!

Firegrots finally finished!



Son of a... just noticed from this picture that I didn't finish painting the krootsquigs toenails...

Finally finishing up construction. The last thing I have is the sword that it's going to be holding. This detachment is eventually probably going to be a Tau army led by commander Ork'shova, so I wanted it to at least closely resemble the dawnblade. A little bit more orkification and I'll be ready to start painting!

My jaw just dropped, Those are beyond amazing! i might steal your idea for a unit or two if you dont mind

Loving the grotz!

I started painting up Commander Ork'shova and got distracted by a whole bunch o misc projects, namely some scratchbuilt kannon and converted a dakkajet! Back to painting... or time to scratchbuild another Dakkajet!