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Good to see you back.

Flys seem like a good idea for the storm boys. Instead of buying large flys perhaps make your own insect wings like HF Izanagi did for pimp my wizard.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/269213-Pimp%20My%20Wizard%20Composite%20Photo.html?m=2

I'm looking forward to seeing what you do to the river trolls to make them in to MEGA nobs.

As for making the dreads norky I think similar to what you did with your norks...mutations, tentacles and drilling into the metal plates. Maybe have the part of the pilots cavity uncovered, rusted through and a rotten ork inside on show?

Well I'm hoping to see what you get up to.

Peter

Thanks Peter! Its good to be back

I finally ögot the inspiration to finnish my army, or keep working on it atleast

That wizard is badass! Though i fear that those wings are a little to undetailed for my taste :( but i will keep on looking til i find a solution and work on other things in the army until i do, but keep the suggestions coming!

As for the mega rivertrolls i need some help, what do you guys think of this idea: as rivertrolls are quite short and bulky armouring t heir legs and arms will be a pain in the ass so im thinking in the lines of a really fat ork with armor plates bolted to his body so the mix of his fat body and the armourplates will make up for the 2+ save?

For heads im gonna use the commando heads with the gasmasks from forgeworld.

What do you guys think of this, is it something that sounds cool?

I have also figured out what im gonna do with the dread (finally) the inspiration hit me yesterday while i was playing gears of war 3 and faced the brumak so i thought hmm that could make a really cool dread for my norks!

I cant upload a picture as im posting from my ipad but heres a link to a picture for those of you who dont what a brumak is

http://www.consolegames.ro/forum/attachments/f59-hot-story/18855d1237864430-secretul-din-spatele-gears-war-2-dezvaluit-brumak_harness_02.jpg

Of courseit will look alot more orky and corupted and i will base it on a stegadon so it can match my trukk

I have a ton of other ideas but right now im of to work on the actual models but hopefully ill be back tonight with an update!


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Oh i forgot, i have another question! Is ork blood and intestines the same color as a humans? Im in the process of painting my warboss and i dont wanna make any painting mistakes

Here are my versions of killa kans, or just Cybertrolls as i have come to name them



A close up of one, you can check the others in my gallery




I hope they give you som inspiration
And the idea of fat bloated orks with plates bolted to them sounds great to me, maybe using trolls as a base and nob heads?
Also, orks hare a dark red blood similar to humans, and the guts look the same for the most part

An update as promised

Here is the prototype for my mega armored rivertroll ork (though it is still at an extremely early stage as everything is still blutaced and there is a ton of greenstuff and plasticard work to be done, weapons to be added, hes not gonna have rivertroll feet etc etc but before i do that i want your opinion on him! Does this look ok or is it anything that i should change about him?

All comments and critisism is welcome!






As i said i also started painting the warboss so here is an early wip shot of him:







let me know what you think!


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Damn liveforfun those look badass! really great kitbashing and i like the painting, especially on the greenblue one!

Thanks for the reply on the blood question to! now i can start painting the gory details on my boss

Looking cool

For the storm boys have you considered using bloated "airship" style orks?

Thanks Shockwave i have to finish those some day.

Your prototype looks neat but the arms look wierd together, uneven. maybe bulk the troll arm up a bit to look bigger, like the other arm?
But the armour and head look good, maybe some more orky/nurgly type bitz on?

The brumak idea for the deff dread sounds great btw! using a stegadon sounds good

Hmm silver thats an interresting idea! The question is though, if the ork is like an airship, how does it land? Maybe with powerful reverse thrusters? Hmm may have ro try a prototype of this one

And liveforfun fear not my friend, he will be bulked up, i think the powerclaw will even be switched to a trollarm and ill just attach the powerclaw to it and once im happy with the armour there will be veins, filth, rust and other nurgley goodnes all over it! Almost all of the model will be covered in greenstuff and resculpted in some way.

I will be working on him all day tomorrow so hopefully there will be more to show you guys

Well i have made some progress though sadly not on my meganobz or dread as i found out that i need to order some parts before i can continue but instead i worked on some more boys since i will be needing 30 of them so now i have 10 or so to go, i am almost finnished with 4 new ones and i even took a bunch of pictures though i noticed that the new episode of the walking dead was out and i just had to watch it and now its way to late to upload them so you have to wait til tomorrow

The rivertroll-ork-thing is very cool, but needs a little more dakka, i think.

This blog is fulled with great stuff. I love your Orks!
Subscribed!

WOW.....you can paint! I assumed you just liked modelling side of the hobby The colours on the Ork Warboss are lovely and unexpected for the Norkyness. The green is perfect! Now I really want to see your scavvies painted!

The Meganob looks like it is off to a good start, the armour shoulder looks the part. The tiny head also works wonders. Though I think Logan is right it needs some more dakka....perhaps a wrist mounted shoota (or the gun off the back of a warbike).

haha thanks Peter! but you are right ive ealways been more of a builder than a painter and its just recently that i have started painting but im glad you liked it! And fear not ye of little faith cause as i said earlier this is just an extremly early version of the meganork, i just wanted to see what he looked like before i started building him, he will get all the dakka a true ork deserves and the will all have some sort of big gun either strapped to the arm or the arm and gun will have fused together like the gun arm on the warboss.

As i said i havent made any more progress on either the meganob or my brumak dread but i did manage to get some work done on da boyz! Here are 4 wip boyz i am currently working on:

First up is one inspired by the movie The Thing (which is a big inspiration for this whole army)






Next one is just a standard boy with a nurglified arm





You have seen this one before but now hes almost finnished





And the last one is a very early wip, im gonna build a huge belly on this one and he will be puking his guts out!




And last but not least a small groupshot of the ones i have finnished so far



Let me know what you think guys!

Sorry guys for the lack of updates, its december and with christmas just around the corner i am working my ass of and sadly that leaves little time for gameing and modelling. Yesterday was my last free day before xmas but fear not i did not let it go to waste cause me and Q0rbin got our hobby on and i managed to finnish atleast 3 more boys and i got some more paint on the warboss which is shaping up nicely if i may say so myself

Sadly i havent been able to take any pictures yet but i will to try to upload some tonight! Ive also ordered some more bits to make the dreadnought so once they arrive ill be working on that!

I also need some help decinding on something!

Me and my gameing group will be starting something similar to gws "A tale of four gamers" now after christmas and the goal is to have a 500pt completely painted army within the set timeframe and i am having trouble on deciding wich army i should do for this challenge?

The choices are the following:

A tyranid army based on John Carpenters the thing (both the new and the old movie)
A dark eldar haemonculus army
A dark eldar archon/warrior army with an egyptian theme
Continue building on my norks (i will of course work on them to alongside this other project)

So what do you guys think?

Yo Shockwave.....missed the last update. Nice stuff....though I think one of them Norks has been based on John Carpenter's The Thing.

I'm looking forward to seeing that warboss, the last WIP of great.

As for which army...depends on what the time frame is? And I am in two minds...part of me wants to see the Norks finished but un-rushed.

But I'd be interested in seeing your take on a Dark Eldar Haemonculus army

What is the Step by step you used to paint the shoulder pads on the Warboss? If ya don't mind.

dark eldar Haemonculus army with egyptian theme, also just realised i had'nt said it with the last update but they are awesome! i am loving th one based on the thing very very cool

Exalted and subscribed my good man.
Your work is fantastic! You've also converted my deep hatred of Nurgle into love, i never thought that would be possible!

Ok guys im back again after the holidays and a long hard month of nothing but work! But now that its finally over i hve all the time in the world to be working on my various projects =D

Lets start with a huge thanks for the kind comments! Im glad to har that my work could convert even the biggest of nurglehaters, if that doesnt warm your heart i dont know what will

As for our tale of four gamers its still not set what the timeframe will be so i havent decided on what my army of choice will be, but fear not PDH the norks will never be rushed, ill just have to work longer and harder on them during the days to get them done, i think this might actually be the foot in the ass i need to start painting them seriously! But on a sidenote, i am seriously tempted at doing a haemonculus army, the conversion possibilities would be endless =D

I am also very glad that all of you like my "Thing" orks!

Cutthroatcure that step by step is extremlt easy, its just gws iyanden darksun foundation with a few heavy washes of gryphonnesepia and a highlight of iyanden darksun mixed with just a little bad moon yellow something like 70/30 or 80/20.

Ok unto todays updates! i have quite alot of pictures to show you guys today, not all of it is nork related though cause i have some other wip projects i wanted to show you guys, some stuff ive started to paint recently and a terrainpiece i made.

But lets start with the Norks:

First up is the finnished Thing boy





Nect up is sort of a two part model, also based on The Thing. First the upper part






And heres the lower part, i imagine this ork being torn apart and the lower part is trying to reform the ork in a true The Thing style





Thats it for the Norks this time, but i have a ton of ideas for the last 9 of this squad so expect alot more pictures after this weekend!

Now onto something else, some random miniatures that i started painting.

Goreth the massive





Kelzaral the diabolical




Water familliar 1





Water familliar 2




Ron and Bones pirate





And last but not least a terrain piece i made from 2 dead bonsai trees





Let me know what you think!

me likey.

The "Thing" Norks are brilliant. The top one made me smile about the film.....the second I was err yuck and the third made me laugh. Great stuff.

The random models are looking nice....the pirate is an odd sculpt but I do like the skin tones.

Nice to see you're recycling dead things too. Hmmmmm what are you going to do with your Christmas tree?

wow, quite a update shockwave, very impressive

Those Orks are disgusting! In a good way of corse. Also great terrain piece, anyone thought of planting a live Bonsai tree on their terrain board?

Thanks guys!

Glad you like the thing boys, i think thats the direction the rest of the squad will take, i got alot of inspiration from the new movie!

glad you like the terrainpiece to, i suck at taking care of plants so when they had died i made the best of it and to answer your question flyingpooo it would be cool to have a living terrainboard but i could never take care of it XD

And sorry to dissapoint you PDH but my christmastree is plastic so no terrain from that i checked out your thread the other day and i must say that i love your inquisitorial conversions! They are awesome, especially the nurgle lord one! im gonna drop by and leave a comment later and subscribe to it!

That is just beautiful dude! Love both the sculpting and the painting! Especially the cloak on that mid nor dwarf! I start to regret starting a joint blog with you guys, my minis will look like crap compared to yours

Our Christmas tree is plastic too...oddest thing about it this year was Abi put a glittery purple deer on top of it WTF?

Thanks, the nurlge lord was something of a triumph, the model I'm most proud of. Expect an update tonight of my first ever model!

........WOW! this blog is so awesome! i love your orks and your green stuff-skills are amazing. Your painting is also great, so im subscribing and you are getting my fitht exalt! wear it with pride

c0un7_z3r0 wrote:That is just beautiful dude! Love both the sculpting and the painting! Especially the cloak on that mid nor dwarf! I start to regret starting a joint blog with you guys, my minis will look like crap compared to yours

Yeah but you know C0unt, he will have to finish his painting.

I'm loving Papa Nurgle's little Orky friends! I should really have told you ages ago 'cause i've been lurking in the background of your thread for a while. Majorly impressed with your work and your ideas, man. Only problem is, now i want to get me some to play with, damn you! Seriously though, can't wait to see them finished!

Q0rbin wrote:

c0un7_z3r0 wrote:That is just beautiful dude! Love both the sculpting and the painting! Especially the cloak on that mid nor dwarf! I start to regret starting a joint blog with you guys, my minis will look like crap compared to yours

Yeah but you know C0unt, he will have to finish his painting.

Hehe, true, but so will I!

Boy, boy oh boy Nurgle or indeed yourself shockwave, has shown me the way. Hehe, awesome minies mate. These orks are fantastic and make me wish my brother would turn his WAAAGH! into some. Keep up the ace job.

Subbed.

Wow thanks guys for the awesome and kind comments!

Mrmerlin i can tell you that i am wearing your exalt with extreme pride! Hope i can keep earning it to

Lostsoulcaseyslaw its better late than never you know and if you want your own norks i think it would be great if you started your own project, the world needs more nurgle orks =D

Crimsonfist832 i think you to should persuade your brother to turn his orks to the dark side to

Im really really glad you guys like my painting and sculpting and i will do my best not to dissapoint you. Sadly to say i have been lazy the last couple of weeks, me and my girlfriend are gonna move to a bigger apartment so we are preparing for the move, but the good news is as soon as we have moved in ill have my very own hobbyroom instead of a small closet to work in

I have some great ideas though for both my dreadnought ( which has changed shape again) and for the rest of my boys squad so stay tuned