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Not many people around here know that they exist apparently, so they always get a great cheer when they are put on the table. =)

Painting red....

I've been super tired of it.
So super tired that I decided to paint these Orlocks without it. At all. No reds.
And that was/is a really interesting project. Its a bit of a limited palette, and it forces me to try and do different things with my painting.
I would normally never do the sand-colour so prominent. I'd go for a more rich colour. The green on the Tshirts is properly also a product of needing to look elsewhere for interesting colours.

But it just works better with a splash of contrast. Blue, yellowish and red, the three primary colours represented. It works.Almost everything I'm painting winds up like this. I'm pretty terrible at sticking to a limited palette.
I don't think I'm painting all the headbands red though. I've painted the flamer guys' headband a prison orange colour, works pretty well.

4 hours today while Skyping with friends got me this:
Camera angle makes the autopistol seem huge, its really not bad.



The old catachan metal models fit perfectly for Orlocks. This guy is lasgun/frag grenades. An odd mix, but I had the model =)

Awesome blog JensDK, and this 'gizmo' is truly... err... awesome...

JensDK wrote:

Great paintjobs! What was your method for painting reds?

Really great work on the Orlocks

The mekboyz are at work, tinkering away.


What will they be making, what could it be...

Hint, its a tank, and its for orks, but not driven by orks...

Looks interesting, Tracks?

Making my own from plastic card and rod. And some rivets.
Its a bit of an odd size, so the GW ones I have from a chimera wont fit, the tracs are too wide for the vehicle Im making.

Ahh nice, I'll have to pay attention to see how you get on, will most likely try something similar myself at some point.

Update of marathon work on grot tank =)
Some work from yesterday, but I couldnt be arsed to redo first picture.


Since picture I've added rivets to the tracks, and redone the gun. Might roll back on the gun tho.

Tank is 6,5 cm long, about 2.7 inches.

Nice work! Subbed and Exalted!

Also, i might have to steal some of your ideas

So, I've finished the built. Almost. I'm still looking for something cool to use as a hatch. I might built one myself, I might add a grot with a sword (you know, like this guy)

Either way, pictures of the finished built. I wound up with a tekky looking mek gun. I'm going to use it as "Mek Gun", so it's not a particular one. I plan on making one or 2 more, different, but same size. Time will show if I get it done, hehe.
Turret is magnetized for ease of transport. Also, it's fun to crank the turret around, and aim it at different stuff. I got lucky on the weight of it, it's actually pretty well balanced, so it fits quite nicely on the tank, and turns smoothly.

pumped up bodybuilder with pristine firearms for scale.



Engine is some pipes for looks, and 2 exhausts in an odd angle.


Shot of the turret on it's own


Body on its own, Tracks were very easy to do, just pieces of plastic alternating with piece of rod + rivets. I saw the idea first here on Dakka, so cudos if someone here invented it. I think it looks nice. And it was (almost ) free, if man-hours dont count hehe.


Total built time around 6 hours, research and random clicking around the internet looking for inspiration not included.

Ahh, that came out fantastically. I love the tank track treads, looks like it took a lot of effort.

Heh, I think everything takes a lot of effort with this stuff, but it is its own reward in a way. Its fun to research, plan and do.
The only thing I kinda regret a tiny tiny bit is that I havent gotten around to resin casting yet, so I dont copy any of my stuff. For instance this tank, I could have done some parts for a mould and just reused them for tank #2 and 3.
But, thats for when I get old and retire =)

Following my rather big succes with building the Mek gun/Grot tank in a few weeks (thats very quick for me), I drifted on into other stuff I thought I was missing for my Ork army.
I've already made one Scorcha, and I've begun work on another. I've wanted to do that Deffkopta => bike for a while, but I've got soooo many bikes that it feels kinda silly to make another bike.
But, Scorchas are so darn cheap (at 45? points, cant be bothered to grab the codex), so I thought "1 is good, 2 is better/Burna teheee" . And I also really wanted to use some of the bitz from the old Scorcha wartrak thing.
I'm properly gonna make the weapons interchangeable, because sometimes the twin rokkits are very usefull.




The side-cars top is a hatch/top piece from a Killa kan, cut very much down.

Done work on the front yoke/wheel thingie today, and had to cut it all off because I was unhappy with it. Spent an hour looking at custom bikes, both model and real life ones. =)

UPDATE!; Built complete! Just missing the interchangeable guns. The Scorcha turret is basicly finished. I guess I'll mount a magnet underneath it, and make a Twin-rokkit turret. I've got some twin-big Shootas with magnets from my battlewagon (that rarely sees action these days), so no need to make those.

It's quite crazy, it's been a while since I've had such a spurt of productivity. Great stuff. =D
Guess I'll have to focus on Mek Guns again next. Lets see what inspires the most.
Either way, finished the bike-sidecar Scorcha. Turned out quite nicely. Managed to squeeze in the radiator from the old buggy-kit, with an altered exhaust on it. Great bit that is.

Please note the front wheel guard, with fangs on it and everything =) Also the rear wheel guard/case (dunno the exact english word), really like how that part turned out



A hatch, because that's how you enter the sidecar, apparently.
Also note the OOP. totally vintage enginepart, namely the radiator from the Buggy kit from the 90ies. Changed the exhaust for one I had from a ..... trukk metinks.


Contrast went a bit odd on this one. In a way the rear wheel is a bit poorly suspended, but I'm just so pleased with the visible chain (made from a Spiky Ball crane from the Battlewagon kit) that I couldn't make myself put more stuff there, as it would hide the chain ect.

I've not begun painting anything, I'm worried I'll stop building, so while I'm on a great building streak I dont mind piling up painting projects.
I've begun on the next Mek Gun. The gun on this guy is inspired by Epic scale speedstas with Bubble Chuckers, and the Mek Gun Chucker from the current range.
Gun is very much in its early stages.


Tracks are about done, just missing rivets and perhaps a few more panels/armour strips.


A scaleshot. A hopefull goblin looking to crew the tank


Comments and suggestions welcome =)

Ahhh, love the work on the trike, looks spot on.

I really loved the 2.nd ed. group of wierd speed freak buggies and stuff, and I wanted to do something similar. I wanted a throng of oddly looking cars, cobbled together of all kinds of sources, like real orks would do it. At the same time I want it to look fitting with the GW style, and the scratch built stuff to not stand too much out.
I really like the space marine attack bike, and how it works, and I thought orks might want to do that aswell, hence the trike was born. I made the drive chain thing for the rear wheel from a wrecking ball. It sort of should be bulked out more back there, but I just really liked that you could see the drive chain, and couldn't make myself bulk it out more =) "Kill your darlings" - I know, but I couldn't do it hehe.

First a showcase of something I find funny, and then a request for advice.

These 2 pictures show the command console and the steering wheel + gear-stick i've made for Grottank2, and the planned "command" model. I think the gear stick and steering wheel is a funny touch.
Perhaps it is hard to see in the pictures, but there are buttons on the command console, and the coil in the back of it looks not-retared IRL =)


Now for the question.


So, I have my 2.nd grot tank nearly done. I'm now realising I didnø't really have a plan for the gun for it. Do you have any fancy suggestions for it?
I'm considering putting a sorta tesla coil ending on the end of the smaller wooden bead, but I'm unsure. I'm planning on painting both wooden beads ad weathered dented brass.

teaser of what Im working on

Amazing work here!!
This banner is wonderful!

Loving the orks

I am now going to have to dig out Boss Zhadsnark and the Mega Dredd that have been sitting unloved and unbuilt in my 'To be done' Box.... 'tis a massive box

Your free hand banner is brilliant and the lifta droppa too, all in awesome.

Thanks for the praise heh =)
Get painting on that Boss Zhadsnark, looking forward to seeing it painted. I love that model, it's great! He looks so mean and menacing, ready to slice most anybody open with that buzzsawthingy.

I went in a pretty different direction than the mock up. Once I added the big Meganob Jaw, the model looked odd with the bitz I had chosen. So, with some tinkering, I present a completed meganob.


The meganob is a black ork core, with some cut downs with the dremmel to get the boxy look on the shoulders ect. For some of them I'm gonna make a special butt, looking like the GW meganobs, for some I will leave the Black ork chain mail. Different looks work well I belive. They are not uniforms, but custom builds for each rich ork boss, atleast in my head. Also on a very real level, I'm building them one at the time.





Perhaps the image is a bit too bright, sorry about that. Looking at the rear of the shoes now, it look like crap, and I might redo it. Other than that, I'm really happy with the build.


This is a nob for a boyz-mob that lost his powerfist to a bigger, and more grim and MEGAnob. Also, he is included for scale. They are pretty tall, and don't look silly next to the Ghazkul model, that I plan on using a lot more now... and perhaps even painting!
Scaleshot, obviously =) Also a nice shot of the front of meganobs boot, where you can see there are fangs on the nose.

On both knees I've added a glyph plate. It can sorta be seen on the scale shot (where it is a bit) but no image shows the right knee, where I made one with 3 fangs on it. It all helps bulk out the chaos marine leg.

I suppose the chain on the gun-arm is there for decorative purposes only, as the gunarm is a replacement of his hand. I dont think he can take the gun-arm off. But then again, being an ork, I'm not sure he would.

Fixed post, had posted the same image twice.

Nice MegaNob! Great job on the Mek Gunz too.

Gotten 1 more done. It is sorta finished, as in I'm properly not doing anything more to it. But he looks kinda skinny. But then, I'm making 5ish, and I think he will look JUST fine with the others, once painted. He's got the height and mass. I'm missing a bit of detailing on him, but I think I will be the only one to notice.


This is where it shows, that he is a bit light on details. On his left side i've added a gun-and-stikkbomb bit, so that side is ok, but, like I mentioned, I think I will be the only one noticing.

Yet another meganob done. I've only got one more in the pipeline, and I'm looking for ideas for Kill saws for it. Working on it.

In the meantime I got this guy done (While watching Jurassic Park 1).
He is a lot more bulky and "meaty" than the others, and I'm really happy with him. He is also rather heavy set, and is bracing his big gun, which is always cool.

Sideview shows off the stick bomb launcher. I kinda think it is over-sized, but I really couldn't be bothered to scratchbuilt one at 70% the size of the bit I already had. So there you have it. Big stikk bomb =)
Also on this picture HIS ARM, which is kinda a big deal on this guy. its different from the other Meganobz in that it is mechanical. Its just pipes, and parts of pipe to "flesh" out the shoulder. I really like it, and it lends a heavy, bionic feel to the meganob.
I'm missing adding 2 thin tubes on the gun, but I forgot when I was taking the picture.



The backpack is half of a gun I was VERY surprised to find in my bitzbox. I dont think I have the other half (or I would not have used it.) But now that I've cut up the part, I'm sure the missing piece will surface =D


Really wanting him to lean to his left and brace the gun, I stuck the hovering right foot on a worky bit. Looking at his shoes, I think I have to put something to cover the bit rough cuts on his shoes, The tops look kinda sloppy done, which they werent. Or atleast they werent QUICK to do, so perhaps thats still slobby but slow. Meh.


Either way, there you have it. 3.rd meganob, with a personality of his own, I feel. Nice big mean guy with a powa claw. Gonna hate to see him in your deployment zone, when you are standing there, minding your own buisness in your tank. =D

Very very interesting. Great works and many great ideas.

Subbed.

Oh hope you don't mind might steal your sidecar skorcha idea, brilliant.

Loving this blog! Really nice Orky stuff here!

Oh please steal away. But be warned, if you build/steal any ideas from this blog (where lots of it is stolen from other people), you need to post pictures of your stuff on your (huge) blog yourself =D
Thanks for hte praise, its nice to hear from folks.
I'd also welcome comments and suggestions on what particularly works, and what doesn't =) But high-5s are never out of order hehe.