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Anyone know if the Klaws are two or three bladed?

 matphat wrote:
Anyone know if the Klaws are two or three bladed?

Two.

 ironicsilence wrote:

 Ketara wrote:
Oh look. Nazi orks. Never seen them before.

+1 it seems like almost every polish bits company makes these....any reason why all polish companies make a bunch of ork heads? Are orks really popular in that market?

I don't think that's it. I think orks are easier to sculpt than human heads in so much as you can skew the facial dimensions or don't have to be as accurate with them as you would a human face. Hence you don't receive the same amount/type of critism when your off with a human face. "That Ork's nose is all wrong" type of thing you just don't see as much. You do, however, get a lot of critism doing just your basic human head even before you put russian caps or pirate hats on them.

Couple that with the fact that Orks are wildly popular in their own right.

 MightyGodzilla wrote:


Couple that with the fact that Orks are wildly popular in their own right.

As an ork collector, if I have 120 orks on foot, I would like 120 unique heads if possible. Rank and file and repeats looks 'odd' in an ork army. Which is why people try to swap weapons, change armor and heads as much as possible.

I am working on 36 bikers... Hell yeah I want new heads. I will probably have a unit of 12 with mohawks and a unit of 12 with army helmets and goggles. A few extra dollars can make my ork units very unique and distinct. I suspect that is why so many head kits exist.

Some of the heads on GW orks:

Any reason Spellcrow doesn't do 10 different heads instead of 5 doubles? I love some of the helmeted ones, but don't want to have to buy two sets just to get 9 regular helmeted troopers.

More orc heads




Orks Storm Flying Squadron Heads (ver. 2)

And more orc stuff!

Yelling Orc heads




Orc Doctor conversion



Orc Bodies

 Kroothawk wrote:

 ironicsilence wrote:

 Ketara wrote:
Oh look. Nazi orks. Never seen them before.

+1 it seems like almost every polish bits company makes these....any reason why all polish companies make a bunch of ork heads? Are orks really popular in that market?

I dream of a parallel universe where all Polish miniature companies have a fetish for Elven chicks or catgirls instead like all decent nerds, but oh well

Why Nazi Orks? Guess it has to do with the fact that Germans=Nazis is a major topic present in political debate until today, being the major campaign topic by the nationalists in the last two national elections. Polish boardgames also deal with the Poles against Germans theme a lot.

I can't imagine why any of that ill feeling came about, historically....

Anyway, as for the actual Orks, despite Kroot's protests to the contrary, it's been an ongoing part of Orks as they were portrayed pretty much from the start by GW:

Initially the use of Stahlhelms and German-styled forage caps were mixed in with various ork models, probably more as biker references than anything else.



Then it became more common, and more explicit, as the Ork fluff began to build up




But before too long, it became an entrenched part of the background (particularly Blood Axes), one that the newer, more "family-friendly" GW has shied away from in more recent years. Do you like the "lightning bolt" "S" logo the Stormboyz have on their belts? Totally nothing like the Sig Rune used ...elsewhere. Right?





So basically, putting aside the slight persecution complex that Kroot has about Poles, GW has portyayed Orks as wearing German-styled helmets and using bastardised third reich iconography pretty much as long as 40k has existed.

Fluffwise, the "WW2 German Orks" look made _some_ sense for the StormBoyz, as the fluff was that "teenage" orks rebelled against their wild anarchic elders by being highly disciplined, wearing uniforms etc, so the early WW2 German army isn't a terrible match for that look (although equally GW could have instead copied other elite troop looks, e.g. the way many Kommandoes models are clearly based on WW2 British commandoes). For better or worse, the new Stormboyz have abandoned that look.

Re other old-school "WW2 German Ork" models, I'd always thought that was more coincidental: many armies' officers' caps and forage caps look very similar, both in the real and 40K universes, and 'coal scuttle' helmets are a well established part of real-world bikey culture.

Pretty sure I mentioned that as the origins of it all in the RT days, but like it or not it became much more incorporated and commonplace as they moved into the WAAAGH days. As you say, the Kommnadoes are (were) absolutely based on Brit commandoes as well, and I also said they've moved away from it. But it was a big part of the "official" Ork Kultur for quite a few years, and so now small Polish companies making heads that follow that tradition and "look" is no more controversial than them continuing to make "pirate freebooters" heads - which is another well-established Ork "look" from those days that has also been largely abandoned in recent years.

Kroot just gets a bit over-sensitive, because I'm sure there's still a lot of (reasonable, under the circumstances) anti-German feeling in sectors of the Polish culture. I mean, I'm pretty sure Kroot is personally too young to have had anything to do with anything in WW2, but these things take a long time to fade, and diverting further (briefly) into Godwin's law territory, an awful lot of people who had an awful lot to do with an awful lot of bad things pretty much just got given their jobs and fortunes back as soon as Stalin and the Soviets took the top enemy job from old Adolf. That's not going to endear a lot of fast forgiveness. (Though what the Soviets did wasn't very nice either, nor what the Allies did in the end.)

Where do people think Ork stikkbombz originated from?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Where do people think Ork stikkbombz originated from?

Carnivals where you can get any food on a stick?

Maybe take this all to Dakka Discussions or the always so lovely Off-Topic instead, just so we can avoid the whole "they are so evil" spiel again.

New ork kommando kit

Kit contains 3 Komando Ork Bodies ideal for use with 28mm scale models. Perfect for converting figures for different games. The product is high quality cast resin. Needs to be cleaned and painted.
This set includes special gratis - a knife and a granade.

Nice bodies, but not especially saying "Kommando" to me...

 ironicsilence wrote:

 Ketara wrote:
Oh look. Nazi orks. Never seen them before.

+1 it seems like almost every polish bits company makes these....any reason why all polish companies make a bunch of ork heads? Are orks really popular in that market?

I'm not sure how popular orks are but my guess is that they one of the more popular armies.

But I don't think popularity has much to do with ork heads selling. My guesses are:

1. An ork player needs loads of boyz. Pretty much every list has a lot of boyz in them (my trukk spam has 40+ boyz and when I get to 1500points it will have 80+)

2. Many ork players are into modelling (good luck trying to find the non converted models in my collection). Orks are not a rank and file army. Each ork is an individual and together them make mob. A mob isn't consistent like space marine squads.

3. There are 2 things that make a boy model stand out. The pose and the head. The official GW box comes with loads of conversion potential for posing but lacks in head variety. If I'm not wrong the box comes 3 different bare heads rest are bikernazigermanssblitz -helmeted heads which all look fairly similiar.

4. Like others have pointed out orks are easy to make.

Goblin Mechanics and Spawn Assistant have been added

Good for some mek boyz I guess

Some new Not-Plague marines from Spellcrow. (Forgive me if these were posted elsewhere, i checked the last few pages but couldn't find anything.)

Depending on how thick the resin sprues are the shoulder pads could be a bitch to cut off without damaging them, im also really curious as to why there are half dice cast onto all the sprues...

Mr Gutsy wrote:
im also really curious as to why there are half dice cast onto all the sprues...

Maybe its some strange casting method?

That's a good question, I can't believe I didn't notice that . Looks like they actually cast some dice as part of the connecting sprue, although what benefit that would give the actual cast, I'm not sure!

The dice look to be enabling an easier pour of resin into the mold. No idea why they didn't just make an angled channel like other manufacturers.

Couldn't find these on their site. Anybody know what the not plague marines are under?

I think they're still a wip

Gonna have to get some of those nurgly bits!

The Plague Legion is upon us, plague knights and plague prince are up

Kind of sucks that their legs are in packs of 6, but I guess thats for price consistency


NOT SHOWN: Plague arms. For some reason there arent any images of them

Kit contains 12 Plague Knights hands (6 right hands and 6 left hands with poisoned knives) and 4 Plasma Weapon (2 pistols and 2 guns) ideal for use with 28mm scale models. Perfect for converting figures for different games. The product is high quality cast resin. Needs to be cleaned and painted.

ork desert dog heads! Must have!

 kenshin620 wrote:

Mr Gutsy wrote:
im also really curious as to why there are half dice cast onto all the sprues...

Maybe its some strange casting method?

However, if you get the parts of the dice, it would be cool to incorporate into some terrain. Way easier than chopping up real dice.

Similar to the wargamesbakery dice of destiny base.

nkelsch wrote:


As an ork collector, if I have 120 orks on foot, I would like 120 unique heads if possible. Rank and file and repeats looks 'odd' in an ork army. Which is why people try to swap weapons, change armor and heads as much as possible.

I am working on 36 bikers... Hell yeah I want new heads. I will probably have a unit of 12 with mohawks and a unit of 12 with army helmets and goggles. A few extra dollars can make my ork units very unique and distinct. I suspect that is why so many head kits exist.

Couldn't agree more.

Hopefully this isn't viewed as necromancy! -

Does anyone know if these will be available to view (& then buy!!) at this year's Salute please?