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Okay, I finally finished painting this thing.

If there's one thing an Ork player hates, it's being told that he can't do something. Especially being told we can't loot something.

We can loot ANYTHING.

My concept for this guy was a Tyranid of some sort with a control box wired into it's brain with a suitably maniacal looking Grot riding on top. The nice man at the local game store helped me find a Tyranid unit that was about the right size and off I went.

The body is a metal Lictor. The first thing I did was trim down the big choppy arms. One was going to be replaced with a sword blade anyway and they just generally looked too long. Then I took a plastic Kustom Mega Blasta and carved off the ork arm, drilled out and split the cuff and then clamped it onto the metal lictor arm, squeezing the fingers around the grip. Finally I took some epoxy putty and made two big, bulging eyes for it. I wanted to give it a look of horror, like it's aware that it's got a head full of Orky neural interface and it's really not happy about it.

I wanted it to be the only Lictor you've ever felt sorry for.

The rider is a Blood Bowl Goblin. I bought a pack of them ages ago with the intention of using them as Dreadnought pilots and then sort of stopped playing 40K for ten years. I'd already cut off and lost this guy's lower legs so I had to sculpt his feet out of more epoxy putty. His goggles are made from two discs of sprue with holes drilled in them. The control box is made from the body of a shoota with some plasticard levers on top and wires leading out of the side into the Lictor's head. The riding crop is made from a toothpick and more PS card. The banner pole is made from sprue and string.

Before Painting


Front View


Side View


Now, I've got a question for all of you. Kans can come in a squad of three. I'd like a squad with the theme of "The Unlootables". I've got this Lictor and the Looted Destroyer I posted earlier.

What should number 3 be?

I'm surprised that no one has commited on how awesome this is. All around great conversion and paint scheme!

That looks great.

How about looted infantry? Like unarmed 3-4 Guardsmen holding up a piece of metal with an attached autocannon that a proud Grot is manning.

Well done! I love the paint scheme, and also... GOOGLY EYES!!

Also, for the third unlootable, how 'bout either a wraithord (sentient bone ghost-construct... seems pretty difficult to loot), or an epic-scale reaver titan (via an orky shrink-ray, of course )

usually I'm not a huge fan of orks- but this is really, really cool


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for some reason, I keep thinking it would look awesome if, instead of a tongue sticking out of the grots mouth, it was a cigar...

Haha, this is great, just great. I saw a looted carnifex a while back, and always thought it would be interesting to see a grot riding another smaller tyranid beastie, so kudos to you .

However, I gotta say that I am by no stretch a fan of the eyes on the lictor. I understand what you are going for, and you want to emphasize that he is under mind-control, but the effect is leaning more towards a kinda silly cartooney-effect. What I would do, is add some hemorhage (sp?) lines to the eyeballs (or red lines, like you get when you are tired). This would make it seem more realiztic like his eyes are 'literally' popping out of his head, rather than a Bugs Bunny type thing. That is, unless you want a cartooney look.

Also, I would do a looted Tau Crisis suit. You could give it a more steampunk look, and replace the battlesuits head with a Cybork's (or grot's lol).

I think that the popped-out eyes are hilarious.

Looks great. Very... How do I say this?... Cute in an "OH GOD MY FACE" kinda way.

That's great. Love the eyes!

Perhaps you could fashion a waaaghboss who, instead of using a powerklaw, has shoved his hand up a live genestealer and is using the highly surprised and angry bug as a close combat weapon...

Darth Bob wrote:What I would do, is add some hemorhage (sp?) lines to the eyeballs (or red lines, like you get when you are tired). This would make it seem more realiztic like his eyes are 'literally' popping out of his head, rather than a Bugs Bunny type thing. That is, unless you want a cartooney look.

The camera doesn't show it too well, but that is indeed what I did.

The cigar is an awesome idea, but trying to retrofit it in now would be a total PITA, and trying to get it in place would almost certainly snap one of the Lictor's arms off. Again.

As for the various looted options the Guardsman Armed Sedan Chair makes me laugh the hardest. Now THAT will be a conversion that'll keep me busy for a while.

I love those eyes, gives it a look of being under the mind control!

3rd Kan thats looted, how about a daemon?

Brilliant! Great thinking, great execution. Go loot a Bloodthirster now!

Cilithan

This is awesome, i'm actually going to be building a looted carnifex for my neighbors ork army. This looks really good, never thought of a lictor.

Also, unlootables?
Marneus Calgar. LOOTED

Nightbringer wired up to a doom ray...

MeanGreenStompa wrote:That's great. Love the eyes!

Perhaps you could fashion a waaaghboss who, instead of using a powerklaw, has shoved his hand up a live genestealer and is using the highly surprised and angry bug as a close combat weapon...

Now that's a bloody beautiful idea.

Great job, the eyes look great color also....

When I first read your description, I was thinking "ohhh no...this cant be good" but then I scrolled down to your pictures and I LOL'd!

Absolutely GENIUS model, I love it, the eyes are a bit cartoony as someone has already mentioned but this fits in fine with the Ork universe. Brilliantly converted and great paintjob. (Do more, do more!!)

Would've loved to have known how the orks managed to capture it though!

Love the go-faster stick he's holding.
Yah, mule, Yah!

you have Necrons and Tyranids, so why not try looting Tau?
how about a crootox or something?

looting is fun and sounds so much better than stealing

Demons. Loot a herald on a chariot.

I love the eyes bugging out on the lictor

Awsome conversion!!

I jus thought of two words: Looted Monolith!!

As a looter of nids myself I say Hoorah ! well done mate. Your paintjob as well as the conversion is outstanding, you do the green lads and the bugs alike proud !

Weird, but absolutely epic.

As for the third one, do an Obliterator. Take out the head and make it look like a Weirdboy stole his armour or a Grot's been wired into it.

I like the idea for a looted demon that rashad came up with. talk about unexpected...

Absolutely love it!

They have a conversion of a looted carnifex with an ork riding it in a dislplay window at the store were i live that looks realy nice.

That's awesome. It would have been nice if you did something with one of the legs though, as it doesn't seem like it really matches the Orky looted aesthetic. Great work otherwise though!

Oh wow, words fail me. My lungs are failing me too, because I can't stop laughing long enough to take a breath!

Those eyes...man, they just MAKE the whole composition, especially the right one being a bit larger. Absolute genius!!

Love the lictor. You found a nice way to loot a biological.

Loot a bastion next.