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Well, I had been obsessed with Orks for a few months last year, and I started on one Nob, and did some work on a Big Boss, but I kind of let them fall to the side in favor of my World Eaters...

I picked them up last weekend and did a bit of work on both of them, and want to see if anyone has any advice or tips on where to go from here.

As for my Big Boss, he's being built from an looted old metal Space Marine Dread, this will be his Mega Armour. I've shaped the feet to look less dreadnought-y and bent the legs to give the Boss some sense of movement. I'm still stuck as to what I should do for a Big Shoota and CC arm. Anyway, here he is:



C&C Welcome, as well as suggestions for arms.

Thanks for looking!

Happy massive drinking day to you too

Looks good so far. I wish it was that easy to bend the legs on the plastic dreads

Thanks! I'm wearing Green, but I just don't have the energy to go drink as much as I used to...*sigh*

I had to use Vise-Grips to bend the legs, even though I put paper towel around the legs when I did, it still left some pretty good marks...so I figure I'll make the marks bigger and make them look like damage.
Of course, I will have to add lots of glyphs, hoses, pipes, metal "repair" plates, hydraulics and such...so there is still a long way to go. And I went with a different head than is shown. I am going to use the Nob head with a big mouth, and I am going to make it bigger. I cut out the top teeth, and the sides of the mouth. I'll sculpt a bigger mouth and wider jaw, give him some bigger teeff and maybe give him a bigger head too. I'm gonna call him Boss Bigg Mowff !

Any Ideas for a Bigg Gun?



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Also, here is a Nob I've been working on as well:




A view of his Kustom Kombi-Skorcha.


View of his Kustom Power Klaw's Hydralics and such.

Nice plasticcard work there. The power claw is wicked


Big shooter could be some sort of assault cannon.

Why not use the Dread's Weapons on him or is that too simple?

Hmmmmm. Assault Cannon. That might work. I could probably even put together some sort of gattling type gun!

@Llamahead: I put the dreadnought's original arms on it at first, but it just looked like a looted dreadnought. And since he's gonna be a Bigg Boss, I don't want the gun and CC arms to look too big, so that it looks lke a Deff Dread. It's a fine line I'm walking on this one to be Big and Bad looking without being too big!

Ork Gattling gun sounds good too me

Been getting some work done on a gattling gun, but it still needs alot of work, and I need to figure out how to attach it to the body, but I haven't taken pics of it yet.
I did however finish the head!
Before:


After:


Let me know what you think!
Still need to finish the gun arm and start on the Klaw arm!

Waaaaaagh!

Big teef

that looks really cool, and well sculpted.

My god the joules on that guy are huge. I think some ork is gonna have a drooling problem.
That nob conversion is sweet. Tipios was right nice card work there. Did you bend the pauldrons and if you did how? Always trying to find tips with plasti card.
Cant wait to see how your are gonna paint it.

I absolutely love your custom work. It looks great.

@ tipios: Thanks! I had actually sculpted the teeth much larger! These were cut in half, and I only used the tips of the teeth that I made! I have such a hard time with guess-timating the size of stuff at this scale!

Should I re-name him from "Big Mowf" to "Big Teef"? Maybe Big Toof? I kinda like that one!

What is the name of the clan who's teeth grow faster? I'm not up on my Ork-lore.


@ schank23: Thanks! Maybe I should sculpt some drool coming from the corner of his mouth! I did in fact bend plasticard to make the pauldrons! I started by cutting a 3 inch strip of 1mm card the width that I wanted...it was actually considerably wider than I wanted it, I have a horrible time judging measurements at this scale! I then clamped one end in a pair of vise-grips and submerged the strip in boiling water for around 15 seconds, then wrapped the strip around the barrel of an ink pen...this hurt like hell and did little to shape the strip! I dipped it for longer the second time, and got a slightly better bend. After several more attempts it was bent enough to get both ends in the vise-grips, and then I submerged the whole thing with along with the pen that was wedged in the bend area for around 3 minutes! It was finally bent enough to work for what I needed.

I did this twice! Once for each side! Needless to say, I do not recommend this method!!! Oh, and if for some reason you want to try this, I recommend wear gloves! The thick rubber cleaning type! Even then It hurts!

I have to find a better way to do this, or I may just try cutting up a pre-curved plastic piece of something, like a marker or something, or just doing with-out the extra aromor in the future.

I am excited to see how I'm going to paint it too! I have never painted Orks before, so I'm a bit nervous!

@ Asphalt: Thanks! I appreciate it!

I think I have the Boss's Big Shoota figured out, it's still very WIP, but it's coming along! Started on the power plant as well, add some gears and hoses and gubbins and it should look passable. And I have ideas for the Klaw arm too, hopefully get some work done on that soon and see how it works. I also have idea for a large Iron Gobb, does it need one? Or should I just make it and see? Anyway, here is my progress so far.





Any suggestions?

HA that Gatling Gun rocks. But like they say no pain no progress. I think thats what they say. But the droll idea I think would look sweet. Very nice work keep it up.

Thanks! And Good Point! If I add an Iron Gobb, it might hide the Drool!

great conversions . the dread head is ace , and the details on your warboss is spot on.

Love the gattling gun on the dredd!!

Thanks! I'm hoping to have some more done on him by Monday, it's slow going.

I'm still trying to decide if I want to have his arms be mechanical, with pistons and bolts and such, or fleshy, with his arms ending at the Gun and Klaw.

And suggestions?

Wow, OK, 6 months for an update! Well, I can only say, the Orks have to take a backseat to my World Eaters. And life of course!

I have not done anything to the Warboss since my last update, but I did get some paint on the Nob!

Here is where he stands right now, I'm not sure what to do with the Shoota and Klaw, so insights and inspiration are required! He's not done, obviously, I still need to do touch-ups to the battle damaged ares, and do some chipped paint and such. It's really mostly the weapons that have stumped me, and I can't seem to proceed due to the mental block. Sounds like a kinda weedy excuse, but I also have my female commisar taking up most of my time, so I am deistraced to say the least.

Enouff Gabbin', lets git on wif da Lookin'!




C&C appreciated!
Thanks for looking!

Love that powerklaw. Very well done!

I love the darkness of the overall pain scheme. But it does need a bit of brightness imho. I don't know what colors you want your guys to be, but maybe some small accents/highlights of red or yellow on the weapons would make it pop more?

As I said before... Awesome model!

LOVE. The. Nob.

The dreadboss, not so much. He looks like... you glued an ork head to a dreadnought. Maybe the awesomefacedness of your nob will make me eat my words by the time he's done.

Wow forgot about this one, and the awsesome conversion you done to make the claw and gun. I have know ideas on colours though sorry:(

The nobs skin looks very cool.

In regards to colour ... mmm, well i try to have diferent colours between my armys, so that i am not apinting the same colour all the time. Also what colour do you enjoy painitng, or have not tried painting and fancy having a go at?

I like Purple and Bone (in general) but that could be cool colours for this guy?

Im digging this project verymuch so far. Like many things on DAKKA, the first pics made me say "Oh man....thats not good" Then a few more pics and suddenly I change my mind "Hey....now thats going somewhere!" And your nob looks fantastic. Very nice on that one

And your nob looks fantastic.

seriously?......


Great work though, even if KC sounds dodgy! can't wait to see how he goes when done! your painting is great so you really will bring him to life! great stuff

Thanks all for the comments!

@Hindenburg- Thanks! I'll try to get some better views of the Klaw soon. It looks better from the top, you can really see the shape of it better.

@NakedBatBoy- Thank you very much! I figure I'll add color to the inside areas of the shoulder pads. A different color for each Mob maybe. Like so:


And some splashes of color to bits and pieces like the scorcher tanks, the stikk bomb and such. Thank you for the tip!

@DeathGod- I hope by the time I am done with the Dread Boss, you will eat your words! But for now, that is a fair enough assesment! I did pretty much glue an Ork head to a dreadnaught. It was a bit more detailed than that of course, but that's what it came down to.

@tipios- Thanks! and I did most of the Nob conversions before I ever got GS! I added a bit of GS to his Klaw arm where the metal bits went in, and to help his neck smooth into his head, but that's about it.

@M0rdain- I enjoy painting red, which is fortunate...since I mostly paint World Eaters! So, I'll add a bit of that to this guy, but I will switch it up for different Mobs. And I don't think I have purple anymore...I'll have to look into that.

@KingCracker- Thanks! Most of my stuff starts out like "WTF was I thinking?" And after much work and re-doing more than half of the thing by the end, I am usually happy with it....usually.

@nerdfest09- It did sound a bit dodgy! Although, I think it looks alright. Anyway, thanks! I'll probably slpash some more paint on this guy while I paint my female commisar, so, soon I hope!

Thanks again everyone for the encouraging comments, and the tips!

I like the photoshopped paint scheme there. Very sexy. I like the plans for the skorched burna tip, and the variation of color for each nob will be great for making them all more individual! Looking forward to more progress...

thanks! For the Burna, I want to try the technique done by Truffle on his thread here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/395630.page
I think it looks really good, I just hope I can pull it off. And hey, it's another reason to buy purple!

Yeah, that's about what I was imagining. Though, I originally saw the idea from redscorps' landraider. It's a super cool look! I'm not quite sure how I would go about it, but I'm sure you can pull it off!

So as not to steal your thread... Here: