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So, in working up the background for my barely-started Orks, I ended up (seeing as they were going to use a Bad Moonz colour scheme) having them encounter Imperial Fists. If your interested in the details, I should be posting the background later today in 'Dakka Fiction', but right now working on my final paper for the semester (shhh! )

Anyways, I have very few Space Marine bitz left from back when I played DA (first army, sucked at it so bad... I think I won 2 games in 3 years...), mostly a few shoulderpads, bolters and bolt pistols. I may look into getting bitz to supplement but I need ideas!

I want my boyz, not all of them but some, to have pieces of Marine gear looted and used, so far I have one boy with a old rhino hatch cover converted into a shield (with a WHFB Orc Spike to cover where the bolter used to go), and one (there will be a few more, but gotta be tasteful with this) wearing a marine shoulderpad on one shoulder. I also realized Bolters are about the size of Ork pistols, and when I get working on my next squad of slugga+choppa boyz, a few will be using those marine weapons instead.

I'm wondering, does anyone have any ideas (or previous experience) in modeling Marine bitz (or suggestions for bitz to use!) as useful Ork equipment?

Well I think a land raider used as a battlewagon would be cool.As for conversions of the boys,well perhaps just the general weapon swaps there I think.Forgive me if this was in no way helpful.

Just do what you think is cool looking, space marine parts can also be used as trophies, and looted vehicles are always a neat project. Plus if you had some of the orks wearing the monk robes from the DA that would be neat looking.
Hope this helps.

I agree with Deff dred
just do some weapon swaps (orkify th weapons) and looted vehicles

I used a load of the Dark Angel bits to marine-ify some Nobz for a friend (picture in my gallery and the Ork inspiration thread).

Adding packs worked nicely, but the marine shoulder pads are a little too small for the Nobz; not sure how they line up for boyz though. Terminator pads are a much better size.

You can also use some terminator legs, or bits of arms to provide bionics, or armour

endtransmission wrote:I used a load of the Dark Angel bits to marine-ify some Nobz for a friend (picture in my gallery and the Ork inspiration thread).

Adding packs worked nicely, but the marine shoulder pads are a little too small for the Nobz; not sure how they line up for boyz though. Terminator pads are a much better size.

You can also use some terminator legs, or bits of arms to provide bionics, or armour

I advice you dont do this, they normally end up looking like shoddy attempts at making space marine orks...
just use chunks of looted SM armour as scrap and a few orkified SM vehicles/weapons throughout the army.

corpsesarefun wrote:I advice you dont do this, they normally end up looking like shoddy attempts at making space marine orks...
just use chunks of looted SM armour as scrap and a few orkified SM vehicles/weapons throughout the army.

It depends how you use the bits really. Straight up sticking the legs or arms onto an Ork body and you're right, it can look really odd, but using bits of arms or legs as armour fits the orky psyche nicely, especially if they have decided they *are* marines. It depends what you're trying to do with them.

At the moment, not wanting Space-Marine Orks, they are on a mineral rich asteroid (part of a belt, abandoned by Imperials when they found that the two dead worlds in the system had richer and larger deposits), and produce a lot of their own stuff.

I just want things I can do to... make it look like 'We krumped 'em good, and took d'eir fings!'

Look at the FW looted rhino for what you can do. It is a rhino with ork glyphs. The key is not to over do it. When you add ork stuff do not just add some crazy 4 inch tall gun tower or large chunks of plastic. Keep to the rough outline of the orginal vehicle and then add production glyphs from GW. If it does not fit on the space you are going to put it on then do not do it. If you have to take off bolts on the orginal vehicle OK, but do not have the glyph plate over lap the edges of the vehicle. If you are adding ork weapons use the existing weapon mounts as much as possible. Most scratch built card mounts look odd and saying they are orky just does not work.

The key to making looted imperial vehicles is not to over do it! Again keep to the orginal outline of the vehicle as much as possible.

Pipboy101 wrote:Look at the FW looted rhino for what you can do. It is a rhino with ork glyphs. The key is not to over do it. When you add ork stuff do not just add some crazy 4 inch tall gun tower or large chunks of plastic. Keep to the rough outline of the orginal vehicle and then add production glyphs from GW. If it does not fit on the space you are going to put it on then do not do it. If you have to take off bolts on the orginal vehicle OK, but do not have the glyph plate over lap the edges of the vehicle. If you are adding ork weapons use the existing weapon mounts as much as possible. Most scratch built card mounts look odd and saying they are orky just does not work.

The key to making looted imperial vehicles is not to over do it! Again keep to the orginal outline of the vehicle as much as possible.

Again i disagree, the orks are all about being over the top and doing crazy "upgrades" on looted stuff.

weapons are good for making flash gitz, I used a variety of marine/eldar/tau/ ork weapons when making my flash gitz. The sky is pretty much the limit, go wild. The great thing about orks is you can do what ever you want and its fluffy. I made some ork bikers once that used un-modified scout marine bikes. The whole theme was they had just stolen the bikes, I even had a scout hanging off the back of one fighting to get his bike back. Just take some time and think of a theme ond run wild with it. Maybe have some orks wearing DA dresses in mocking/defiling manner. The shoulder pads work well for making ard boys, you could even take a marine, cybork it up and use them as tin bots or some sort of bigmek/mad dok project. Since they would be armored you could use them as nobs or flash gitz.

Yes most of the looted stuff I see is over the top. sure there is some over doing things but when do the orks know when to stop ?????

I am not saying that not make it flashy and glyph covered, but I am saying that if the model ends up looking awkward then it is over done i.e. A rhino with a baneblade turret. Now a Leman Russ with a Battlewagon turret is a nice balance.

Make some Old Skool Lootas in the style of back when a squad of Ork Lootas had the weapons choice of one single other squad from the 40k universe. Obviously everyone went for space marine devastator squads to steal the weapons from, and you can make cool Orks hefting Plasma Cannons and Lascannons etc. You can then just use them as "counts as" normal Lootas, or Flash Gitz if you build them on Nobz to start with. I'll try and take some pictures of WIP Lootas in this style I've got here.