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Cheers guys, I'm sitting in the same state Progreen10, my GS is old and knackered so I've been picking at it as best I can. But I'm having to wait on payday to restock (at which point my wife and I are starting rival gorkamorka gangs). I plan to stock up on plasticard, greenstuff, modelling wire etc this month since I've burnt through my old supply way to quickly. Might also be work picking up a few more tools.

I always seem to get too much yellow in GS, about 3:2 (yellow to blue)

Some cleanup required but now everyone has a head! Woohoo.

My GS came from ebay but doesnt mix right, even not using the contact point I'm getting lumps that dont mix down when mixing up my GS, forcing me to forfeit about half of each mixture to prevent lumpy textures (I've used lumpy GS when making shoddy bandages, rotten flesh etc just to add to the texture)

They have heads!

But I thought they were undead...
Only joking! Looking good.

Necks were a pain in the backside to try and add, made the mistake of glueing the head on first this time around which turned into just cramming GS into the gap until it overflowed and then trimming the excess. Fortunately the gaps themselves were only little and the rough textures work well for fat rolls in the necks.


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As mentioned earlier, hole in the Ogryn Boneheads back is for the chaos icon, here he is intact:

Two projects I've been working on over the past couple of days, the first being the completed sentinel I placed into the Showcase yesterday:



And finally I've been working on my Pirate Queen (counts as Lord Commissar or Inquisitor depending on what codex I am planning to use). She's coming together quite well and looks unique enough despite bearing the army colours.

Awesome work! It looks like you got an excellent cast with the Isabella you used for the Pirate Queen. I'm really liking the Ogryns and the Harker proxy too.

Carry on modelling!

Squigsquasher wrote:Awesome work! It looks like you got an excellent cast with the Isabella you used for the Pirate Queen. I'm really liking the Ogryns and the Harker proxy too.

Carry on modelling!

For all of the talk of bad finecast the two I've used thus far in this project have been relatively good. The Amber Wizard had a bend staff that just wasn't workable but taking away that hand left an otherwise perfectly cast model. And Isabella only had a little excess resin in places that had to be cut/filed away but in both cases I've have no bubbles/dramatic miscasts (my forge-world arms were originally ridden with faults but they rectified that no problem)

Yeah, I've had good experiences with Finecast too. Isabella is one of the riskier ones though. Anyway, nice work. Here's an idea for the Ogryns: an underslung jackhammer type thing.

In honour of having completed painting my Pirate Queen I have now rephotographed and assembled my Rogues Gallery of threats to the imperium, enemies of note each gaining their own following:

Dzarn the Bloodied - Beastmen Pack Leader (Mercenary Faction)



Hestas - Pirate Queen (Lord Commissar)



The Immortal - Primaris Cultist Psyker



The Punisher - Traitor Ogryn Bonehead



Twins of Nurgle - Zombie Guardsmen Sergeant (Harker)

The queen is a really cool model. I'm green with jealousy over your good Isabella cast, mine was crap I also am quite taken with the beastman. Of all the whfb to 40k beastmen conversion, I think I like yours the most

I love this blog, even though nurgle isn't my favourite god.
And you've just managed to make me like ol' Papa N more

Nice work.

Cheers guys, I'm finding these guys really nice to paint and the variety breaks up the monotony I've had with some of my previous armies. More coming soon

Made a little bit of progress so far, its not much but I've now painted another 2 of the cultists for my veterans squad, leaving just 3 cultists (15 traitors, 5 beastmen, 8 roughriders, 3 missile launchers and a tank) to paint.



I have been sidelined a little lately planning a gorkamorka modelling project with my wife, it seems like the best way to introduce her to small scale 40Kesque games (she likes orks) plus its one of the first games I played. Current aim is to tap the amazing ork resources between fantasy and 40K to plan out our gangs.

More on this and that soon!

Wow! You've got lots done lately! The flaggie conversions look very good!

progreen10 wrote:Wow! You've got lots done lately! The flaggie conversions look very good!

Not as much as I'd like, at this stage I have most of my force assembled and sat in the display cabinet awaiting painting, and due to work commitments cant dedicate enough time to get a decent foothold on the whole project. But I am steadily eating away at it. Unfortunately conversions are what keep me motivated most of the time and given that I need to paint before I convert more I'll be dedicating more of my conversions to Orking up a GorkaMorka mob.


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Not overly exciting but since I have to wait for a bit for my ork bitz to arrive I got impatient and decided to start moving my slotta base rounds into round bases for my upcoming pretty much 40k models but playing gorkamorka gang.

A few more bases done, I should have my next lot of bitz with me by tuesday to get a bit more modelling done, for now I content myself with 6 complete ork bases.




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Using on of the spare Nobz heads I have lying around from my Ogryn conversion I have been working on my test scheme for my Ork mob.

Here's what I have so far:

Da Red Klawz!!!

While other Orks have tried to scavenge the components for their mighty war machines Da Red Klawz found themselves without a Mek Boy for direction. Instead they were forced to rely on the Cunnin' of their Boss, specialising in sneakin and thievin Da Red Klawz demonstrated remarkable cunning stealing from other mobz, often leaving a number of dead Ladz in their wake, ripped to shredz by the mighty Klawz from which the mob gained their name. Having "borrowed" a Mek on one of their "skavengin" trips Da Red Klawz are now ready to fight "Da Propa Way".

This is my first attempt at doing a larger amount of face paint/war paint on an ork, but I intend to have the three "Klawz" present on every boy in my mob.

Nice groupshot.
Great waaaghpaint.

Cheers, I'm really happy with how the Ork turned out. Next step is to try and translate that to another 5 ladz in the mob when my stuff arrives.

Now do this many painted as cool as that face!!

Heh, sadly the reason I stopped doing Orks in the first place was a dislike of painting a few dozen boyz in green, it killed all motivation in me. If I can get the GorkaMorka gang done and then spread from there I might keep motivated, plus orks make a good break from the Renegades every once in a while.

Hrmm, ok this one I'm less sure of than the above named Waaagh Painted ork face. I have in the past been a little more lazy with my painting of ork guns, usually just a red plate and the rest in increasingly battered looking metal. Since I'm working on far fwer models this time I want to put as much effort as possible into each one (still capped by skill level).

As such I've been working on Waagh painting up the slugga for a test piece, I dislike the typical black/yellow hazards as its done alot, and instead tried a white/red paintjob (red for Red Klawz mob).



It's my first test, and even with thinning my paints down to near useless levels its a bit lumpy, I also lack the steady hand that other painters seem to have.


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Comparison between the two slugga schemes:

I like the first one better, don't know why

Well my Ork bitz have finally arrived today (I say finally, shipping was fast as always its just I'm impatient). My current working kits are spares from the Nobz box, and then a full box of Savage Orks and Ork Boyz (40K). This gives me a tonne of options and whilst I have to share these bits with a couple of others in making up GorkaMorka gangs I figured I'd get in first since it hit my wallet.

Up first I have the new Boss of my Mob, Sneakin Bossstompa, he first rose to prominence away from Junk town out in the wilds. Unable to gain a solid foothold in the Ork gangs already fighting for supremacy in "civilized" community he snuck through the night, entering a feral Ork community through a combination of cunnin and luck. In the dead of night he entered the Boss's shack and stabbed him repeatedly with his Klawz, claiming dominion over the small camp and returned to Junk town with his new found boyz in tow.

Sneakin BossStompa - Boss of Da Red Klawz



Head is currently just blutacked on but it'll be glued when I'm done with the skin across the rest of the body, I intend to carry the red war paint and prominence of claws as weapons across the rest of the gang.

Ohhhh nice orks this project is very good well done

Cheers, I should have the Boss done by the end of the night and then can see what went well/badly to carry over to the rest of the boyz. I also need to assemble some of my wifes mob at some point in the evening so she can have a go at painting.


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I ran out of Spray Primer and lack the effort needed to do it by brush on my next two members of the mob, torso/head aside these largely came from my bitz box from the day of old when I collected Orks. I'm working out a little background for each boy as I go just to get a theme working in my head.

First up:

Name: Grotsmart Pinchukka
Weapons: Multiple Stikkbombs, Knives.

Once feared as a gun savvy boy Grotsmarts downfall was his curiosity, skilled with a slugga since he was a Yoof he one day came across a stikkbomb buried in the dirt. Eager to test this weapon of destruction he pulled the pin out and threw it into a junk heap. It was only barely in time that he realised the bomb still remained in his hand, and with the pin nowhere to be seen he chucked the bomb. The detonation destroyed his fancy hairsquid and robbed him of what he called his "seein eye" (Multiple Docs contest this fact, stating that the remaining eye could have contributed upto 50% of his seeing ability). Never the smartest boy Grotsmart has now vowed to master the Stikkbomb, hanging up his slugga and loading himself full of explosives every time he goes into battle.



Name: Snagit Big'un
Weapons: 'Uge Choppa, Slugga, Armour.

Not much is known about Snagit, he always seems to be following in tow behind Bossstompa, even before Da Red Klawz rose to infamy. His most recent exploits involve "Da Tamin O Da Beast". When fighting Da Ghost Ladz for territory Snagit was nearly run down by a rogue Trukk, not one to let this offense stand he dug his Uge Choppa into the back plating of the trukk, behind dragged along behind it for miles through rubble and dirt before eventually managing to pick off the driver with his slugga. Despite having lost the trukk when it impacted with a nearby rockface Snagit claims that for "A Gud While" that trukk was his.

Woo awesome! Gorkamorka is my favorite game. I look forward to seeing the rest of the gang.

Cheers, Gorkamorka was my favourite game back when its trukks were pretty much the peak of ork models (good old days). Since I found GW have released the rules to download and couldnt locate my old books I decided to start working toward a playable force. Not overly looking forward to the cost of modern ork vehicles but as a modelling/gaming project GorkaMorka (and Necromunda) is just so appealing for the ability to field a small force.

I'll be using the standard Orks as Meks/Yoofs since they're a shade smaller than the savage ones for my Boys (and Meks arent that tough anyway). I do hope to work on a bike/sidecar buggy when I have my infantry done but that is more an idea than a plan at the moment.


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Got most of the skin done tonight (if you dont count the hands), I'll finish him off when I have better light (not to mention my hand becomes less steady the more tired I get). I'm happy with how his skin is turning out, possibly the best ork skinwise I've done yet.

Still no primer, and no luck on it till payday now so I'm making my way slowly through conversions to work out my force. I've now planned by starting Mob and am picking out the parts I'll have to lay claim to in order to make them. For now I've asembled my wife's boss at her request, presenting for opinions:

Name: Krusha Killa
Wargear: Klawz o' Doom (Counts as Uge Choppa), Six Shoota)



Krusha Killa is the epitome of Ork brutality, well known for chocking boyz who has disappointed him he found the practice to be becoming rapidly more dull, the feeling of a Boyz neck cracking just wasn't doing it for him any more. After a particularly brutal beating of a Yoof for theft of a prized squig he requested the Dok build him some "Klawz O Doom" or as he fondly calls them "Da Squeezin Klawz". Now in a position to call a gang to follow him Krusha Killa rules with fear.

I've also managed to finish painting up my own ork, now visible in the showcase but its nice to get him finished in the same thread he started:

Sneakin BossStompa:


And finally my planned list for Da Red Klawz at starting:

Nob: Sneakin Bosstompa (17 teef)
Kannon, Six Shoota, Knife

Boy: Grotsmart Pinchucka (8 Teef)
Knives, Stikkbomb

Boy: Snagit Bigun (9 Teef)
Uge Choppa, Slugga

Spanna: Wotzdat Burnin (9 Teef)
Spear, Bow (Driver: Deff Wagon), Studded Armour

Spanna: Gotza Bitz (11 Teef)
2 x Slugga (Gunner: Deff Wagon), Studded Armour

Yoof: Runtin Doza (7 Teef)
Shield, Studded Leather Armour, Shoota

Yoof: Stabbit Arda (6 Teef)
Shield, Studded Leather Armour, Spear

Deff Wagon (33 Teef)
Rokkit Launcher


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Current WIP, I have two of the Yoofs and one of the Spannas sorted:




and a group shot: