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Hello DakkaDakka, I've been lurking these forums for months now and I figured it was about time I manned-up and started posting.

I started playing 40k many years ago (in 1998 to be precise) but the lack of friends who were into the game meant I didn't really play many games (that and I was too socially inept to play at my FLGS) so after a year or so I stopped and my collection went into storage until a few months ago.

On a whim, my girlfriend and I, dug out my old models and had a few games (using 3rd edition rules as that's the only rulebook I had) and decided to buy the AOBR set, she'd get the Space Marines (to be painted up as Space Wolves) and I'd get the Orks. Once we had those I set about my old collection salvaging anything that could be used for either force. Thus began 'Finrippa's Warband', named after the habit my Warboss was developing of tearing Tau vehicles to pieces by himself.

Anyway, my goal is to get my force up to about 2000pts but it's made solely for fun, I'm not going for a competitive list I'm going for models I like and enjoy playing with, here's what I've got painted up so far:



It's mostly the AOBR force but with extra Nobs, Grots and Wagons but I have more Boyz, another Deffkopa and some Lootas being painted now.

Now for some WIP stuff, being somewhat strapped for cash and loving custom models I've been trying to prove that with a few spare parts, greenstuff, plasticard and some sprue you can make pretty much anything you set your mind to, first up, an attempt at Wazdakka basing it off a SM bike.



He probably won't see much action but I had a spare bike and figured 'what the Hell?'

Next up is my attempt at a Big Mek, after seeing one of my friends use a Techmarine I fell in love with the modern model and wanted to make an Orky version. I thought I was being original until I saw at least 2 other Big Meks like that here on DakkaDakka but I liked the idea so I persisted, here's where he's at right now:



His 2 claws will be a 'counts-as' Power-klaw and I've magnetised the lower section on the backpack so he can have different load-outs, the orignal idea was to have him with a Shoota/Scorcha for the full Techmarine effect:



I can't help be refer to him as 'Dr Orktopus' when he's like that...

He's also got a Kustom Force-Field attachment as well (which If I'm honest, will get a whole lot more use) but I'll be buggered if I can get a good picture of him with it attached, I'll try again tomorrow when it's light.

So that's it for now, any comments, critique or questions are welcome. I'll try to update this as often as I can, hopefully with some better pictures .

Nice looking orks! Dr Orktopus is amazing. Keep up the good work!

Thanks a lot Cain

I've done a little more work on him tonight but nothing major, should have something of merit to show with him tomorrow (would have been tonight but, alas, run out of glue ).

Anyway, not related to my Orks but I did just finish a little project I started a little while back, I said I'd make my girlfriend a little rabbit as an objective marker (she likes rabbits, a whole lot) and I finally got around to painting it.



You can't see the paintjob particularly well right now but you get the gist (I'm no GD winner that's for sure but I get by). It's made pretty much entirely from Greenstuff and is the first thing I've tried to make entirely from scratch. That's just a standard 25mm base so it's pretty small, Hell, even my Grots dwarf it. Pretty happy with how it came out overall.

Ok, so got around to doing some more work to 'Dr Orktopus'. Properly attached his arms, added some guitar strings for cabling to his backpack and gave him a bit more armour.



I'm going to bulk up his feet a bit (make them look like they can support the weight) but I'm a little at a loss as to what to do (if anything) around the torso. Any suggestions?

I think that all he needs is some big stompin feet, they look a bit small ATM. If you wanted to put something on his torso, a small knife always looks good on an ork!

They are a tad small, yes and you can never have too much stompyness, it's next on my to-do list.

I'll see how he looks with a knife, should have one or two spares knocking about, thanks.

Ok, so the Big Mek is pretty much finished, a few little bit (mould lines etc.) to clean up and it's ready to prime. Tried a few things on the torso but looked best as it was so left it. Finally took a photo of him with his KFF although due to the angle of the 2 pylons, pictures tend to make it look smaller than it actually is.



Also, got most of Wazdakka's Powerklaw complete, it's by no means perfect (first attempt at scratch-building a weapon rather than just modifying one) but quite happy with how it's going.



Can't really do much more with Wazdakka until I can get hold of some Biker legs sadly so onto the next project: Warbuggies!

Nice project!!!

Dr. Orktopus is fething awesome, and well in line with the Techmarines!!!

Tiny Rabbit's so cute, I'll have to show it to my GF, it could the first & only mini she'll ever find "not ugly" lol!!!

I'll be following your progress closely!!

Cheers Yggdrasil

I've started work on the Warbuggy and I should have something to show of it properly tomorrow.

However, on an Ork related note, Photoshop beckoned me:



If you can't afford the model then just draw one!

Wow, shiny Looking forward to more, your mek is rocking it

very great! work!

Thanks guys

Anyway, here's the result of my weekends work:



I decided to try and make it entirely from whatever I had lying around, partly as a challenge but mostly out of the fact that I spend far too much money on Bits websites. The majority of it is sprue and plasticard but the chassis is built around an old Cavalry/Bike base (even in obsolescence they still serve) and there's a hacked apart SM bike in there too. Size-wise, I think it's near enough the official mode, that is until they finally release a replacement for a model that was out of date in 1999 that will no doubt be a lot bulkier if the newer trukk is anything to go by. Well as long as the people I play with have no problem with it I guess it's fine but, as always, any critique is welcome.

I really need to stop making things and get on top of my painting...

Really great job, Keep it up and post more photos

Really great work, wib! It's great to see what you're pulling off on a budget, keep it coming!

Ok, just a little update guys, constructed a back end of for the buggy (as previously it had none which I hid by cunningly taking a picture from the front). Nothing fancy, as it's not something that's particularly on show.




Also, I find myself in a bit of a dilemma, I have no idea what to cover these holes up with:



Normally, of course, I'd use the little hubcap things supplied with these wheels but they've all either been used or lost (since these wheels are off models over a decade old) so any suggestions would be welcome.

I'm in love with your mek. Gonna have to steal that idea later on down the road for my mekkanized ork army that I want to do later on down the road. Really nice work so far. love the conversions.

schank23 wrote:I'm in love with your mek. Gonna have to steal that idea later on down the road for my mekkanized ork army that I want to do later on down the road. Really nice work so far. love the conversions.

Hey, feel free, as I said other people have done it before (Hell, there's even a similar Forge World model) but I love to see how different people accomplish it. And thanks.

Not much to update today because I've finally started to get through my painting backlog and since I usually do most of my painting/modelling late at night I always forget to get pictures during the day, any pics I take in this light just look awful... Maybe I should look into making myself a lightbox.

I've also been putting a Land Raider Crusader together for my Girlfriend, It's one of the old metal/plastic ones that I used to use in my Dark Angels Army (I never seem to be painting anything but green) but it's been dismantled, stripped and reassembled, just working on putting some Space Wolves iconography and maybe some pelts on there. Also have some Assault Marines I did a little work on to make them fit the SW theme a bit better. I'll post those when they're done and hopefully I can talk my other half into letting me post the her final painted versions as well.

Still progressing slowly through painting but right now something I've been meaning to do for a little while.

When I first started using this army (and when I was still somewhat sketchy on the 5th Ed rules) I thought my Orks could do with a Looted Rhino transport that was closed-top, this is what I knocked up:



Now, I do like the model, It's got a fairly unique silhouette, but it quickly became apparent after a few games that the closed-top transport and Orks don't go together so well and I should probably re-purpose it, so off came the top!



Now, I still want to be able to use it in it's old form occasionally so I was going to make any new additions slot onto the top (as a quick modification has meant I can now do with the old top) rather then glueing anything to the Rhino itself. My initial thought was to make it some kind of Burna wagon, something like this (fear my Photoshop skills!):



And, if I'm making it so I can use it in multiple roles, why not make a Mek Junka (from Imperial Armour 8) as well?



Then I can have the fun of putting a lot of effort into a model and then nobody wanting to play against it!

Joking aside, does anyone have any suggestions on either design, either aesthetically or in gameplay-usefulness terms? I know Looted Wagons aren't a particularly good unit but dammit I love them and part of the fluff for my army (which I should probably post at some point) involves having quite a bit of looted Space Marine tech due to the Big Mek having a bit of a fascination with Human Technology.

Nice looking stuff here, really liking Dr Orktopus.

Hubcaps - plasticard circles (possibly made using a hole punch), plastic tubing, plasticard cut into hexagonal shapes, protuding axles made from banner-pole, the little joint bits from the old sentinel kit, the grid part from the vents on a smurf-pack?

Wagon - like both the concepts you've put up, could possibly use the old top as a basis for the mek junka - going to have to check IA8 out at some point myself Can't offer any gameplay advice I'm afraid but go with your fluff, meks love looted stuff

Thanks Monkeytroll

Yeah I went with plasticard circles in the end, did the job all right, certainly better than open holes.

Regarding the wagon: Thanks, at least I'm on the right track. The Junka is just a more reliable Looted Wagon that can be fitted with some fun weaponry that requires a turret so I'd have to remodel the old one pretty significantly. I figured it'd probably take more effort to modify the old one than build a new one.

Plus making stuff from scratch is half the fun

You could try & pm some awesome Dakkaites around: CommissarKhaine, Arakasi, monkeytroll , Gitsplitta or The Good Green ; they're pretty good at scratchbuilding Orky vehicles & could give you some advice...

Lovely stuff you got here! also, welcome to dakka

Haven't updated for a while but I haven't been resting on my laurels, oh no, I've been busy. Granted mostly what I've been busy with is playing Team Fortress 2 but I also put some time into painting and after a few pretty solid days at it finally finished 'Dr Orktapus'. Now my painting skills are nothing great usually (all right for tabletop but not something I want to show off) but I really tried to up my game for this one as he was going to be a real centre-piece for my army.

Here he is with 'Kustom Force-Field' on the left and 'Kombi-Skorcha' on the right:



I'm pretty pleased with how he came out overall, much more gritty and dirtier than my others. Although now he makes the paintjobs on my other Orks look worse by comparison but whatever. Also a shot of the rear:



The Team Fortress 2 influence came back here because he carries a 'Golden Wrench' which was an ultra rare in-game item that was given out a little while back and I couldn't make a Mek without some kind of reference to that.

Anyway, now that's out of the way I can get back to procrastinating over painting the rest of my Boyz

Omg im so jealous of these :3

love the mek and the double decked vehicle

Heh, thanks a lot Luna

So, having finished my Mek and being somewhat disinterested in finishing off the wagon (it'll get done when I next get the urge) I got to scrounging through my old models looking for anything salvageable and came across this squad of Terminators:



What with these models being obsolete now (with newer, bulkier, better terminator models being released) and suffering from a horrible 12 year old paint job I thought: 'Why not make some looted Meganobs!' (It seemed a good idea at the time) So first I got to dismantling them:



Now I started tossing ideas around as to exactly how to do it, I've seen people just throw Ork heads onto Termies and call it done but I wanted to go a little further, for one the stance and proportions are off to have an Ork inside so the first thing I did was shorten the legs and extend the body and arms. Once that was done it was simply a matter of plating and more dakka:



So I have a test model more or less done and any input would be greatly appreciated, I plan to do at least 3 of these (maybe 5 if I don't go mad before then) and want a fair bit of variation in how the armour is modified so any suggestions would be great. I was going to leave the shoulderpad with the Terminator crux thingy in it's original owners colours, because Orks like a bit of colour here and there and it shows they didn't get all this armour at once. It would have been salvaged over many battles.

Also, the stance is awfully boring here but I'm going to try and make the others a little more dynamic.

Oh, and just to prove I've not forgotten about the backlog of painting... the warbuggy... now comes in red.

Your Big Mek looks great and I'm liking the Mega Nobz. Keep up the great work.

What you might want to do on the mega nobz is maybe revisit the knee pads. Maybe some ork spikes to make it look a little less marineish. And convert the power fist into a power claw. but other than that I like it.

schank23 wrote:Your Big Mek looks great and I'm liking the Mega Nobz. Keep up the great work.

What you might want to do on the mega nobz is maybe revisit the knee pads. Maybe some ork spikes to make it look a little less marineish. And convert the power fist into a power claw. but other than that I like it.

Hmm, I'll have a look at 'orkifying' the knee area, it does look a little bland now that you mention it, thanks!

As regards the Powerfist, it's a deliberate choice to retain them to keep as much of the original armour as possible. However I was going to make one of them the 'Leader' of the mob and give him a fully-fledged PK to make him stand out a bit more. However I might try a hybrid of the 2 as well, see how that works out.

Nice, so far the army is looking great. Love the fact that you are converting everything. It really gives it a personal touch. I do some minor convertions but nothing to the extent of what your doing. Makes me want to better myself at it. great work so far.

Ok, Meganob 2 is pretty much done, just needs a few bits of tidying up and for some more 40mm bases to arrive:



And the 3rd (and for now at least, final) one is slowly taking shape:



These 2 are armed with Kombi-Weapons (skorcha and rokkit-launcher respectively) so I'll have one of each kind of Meganob possible partially for the fun of modelling them but also for the purposes of wound allocation shenanigans.

Gotta be honest, I've never tried converting a whole squad (albeit a small one) before and I didn't really anticipate how long it'd take so I'll be leaving doing the other 2 for a later time. They'll get done eventually although the speed of that will probably depend on how these three perform on the tabletop. Hopefully I should have them finished enough use them in a game over the weekend where they will undoubtedly fail, just as any model you spend a large amount of time on will the first time it's used. Still, beats paying 36 quid to buy 3 of the GW models that's for sure, not matter how awesome they look.

While the jaw on the first looks awesome, the jaw on the second hides the face too much while the jaw on the third looks like a box more than a jaw.
Furthermore, the red buggy could do with some pannels a different color to break the lines of the model from being RED!.

That said - officially awesome army and you have me rapt.