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Lone wolf and cub?! Hell yeah! Also I'm envious your girl would allow that. Dont think mine would

LOL very cool indeed

Killamop wrote:Your bird has a lot of earrings man.
However it's a very orky fix though so I approve.

HAhah - My GF and I laughed a lot at that.

Moltar wrote:Lone wolf and cub?! Hell yeah! Also I'm envious your girl would allow that. Dont think mine would

She's a good bird. I do appreciate her acceptance. And yeah - Lone Wolf & Cub is phenomenal!

bigfish wrote:LOL very cool indeed

Glad you're liking it, bigfish.

On the hobby front, I've been slowly working on custom making some Lootas - as I am feeling stingy and don't want to pay $5 a model for a unit I need 10 or 20 of... Besides, it's kinda fun to just make big guns and put them on orks myself. Once I make a bit more progress I'll post some pictures.

Are you mocking my rough English slang?

I'm thinking about adding lootas, far too expensive though. will be nice to see how you do them

brilliant!

Killamop wrote:Are you mocking my rough English slang?

I'm thinking about adding lootas, far too expensive though. will be nice to see how you do them

I had never heard that slang before, but the GF explained it to me, and now I've started to use it...

If you have some friendly people you play with, and they are ok with you subbing other units in for Lootas, you should definitely give them a try. They are super powerful. I've ripped tanks and SM's to shreds with them. Lovely amount of dakka!

@finnan - Thanks for taking a look! I hope you'll be around later to tell me to slow my painting down and do better!

So I've been playing a few games lately. I played 2 games at my FLGS with fuegan17 who ran a pretty brutal IG army that pretty much leveled both of my 750pt ork armies. That was fun though. I'm still working on those custom lootas I've been working on. Been busy with Concerts/Vet trips/DMV/Dnd/girlfriend things... This week I played a really fun game with my friend in Seattle, and I made up a battle report for it. We played on GoogleDocs Images. It worked really well. Check it out. I would love some critiques on my strategy. 500 pt Orks VS Daemons - Critiques Welcome! We're planning to have another match this weekend.

Two more battle reports have been posted.

In both of these I tried a Mek army with 9 Kans 2 KFF's 2 Dreads, and then some variation. I really enjoyed the games... though I had some terrible luck in both. I would love any advice you have, or just a friendly "Waaagh!"
1000pt Nurgle Daemons vs Mek Orks
1000pt Mek Orks VS Dark Eldar

Thanks, and sorry I have been lazy lately about posting modeling pictures. I have been dinking around on things, but none of it has felt picture worthy..

Anyway, thanks as always for stopping by!

Come on you lazy yank, make with the modelling pictures!
I'l have a look at those Bat Reps momentarily.

Also I was just wondering if you had sent my model?
Your's has seen a lot of time in my desk but work shall be begin soon.
I only ask because I saw pictures of it being packaged and have yet to recieve anything...

Killamop wrote:Come on you lazy yank, make with the modelling pictures!
I'l have a look at those Bat Reps momentarily.

Also I was just wondering if you had sent my model?
Your's has seen a lot of time in my desk but work shall be begin soon.
I only ask because I saw pictures of it being packaged and have yet to recieve anything...

Haha, fine fine. I'll try and get some up tomorrow...

The boy is still unshipped. I was going to mail it out at work since there's a drop box there that weighs your package and prints packaging... but they don't ship personal things international... sooo yeah... I still haven't made a trip to the post office. I'll do that soon too. Our friend who works at a bakery brought over a couple dozen cupcakes this weekend, and we've been feasting on them... I'm still kinda in a food coma.. Sooo tasty....

You wanna throw me one of those cakes as well?
It's fine man (I can hardly complain when yours isn't even finished yet) I just didn't want you to have sent it weeks ago to find out the post has lost it.

I have just read all 4 pages of this (B)log, its just awesome. You amphibous truck is great, and i also love the earing hanger haha mmm i wonder if my wife wouldlet me ammend any of her Jewellery hanging devices .. *ponder*

Killamop wrote:You wanna throw me one of those cakes as well?
It's fine man (I can hardly complain when yours isn't even finished yet) I just didn't want you to have sent it weeks ago to find out the post has lost it.

I appreciate the update. That would indeed be a huge bummer!

M0rdain wrote:I have just read all 4 pages of this (B)log, its just awesome. You amphibous truck is great, and i also love the earing hanger haha mmm i wonder if my wife wouldlet me ammend any of her Jewellery hanging devices .. *ponder*

Thanks a ton for the interest M0rdain! I really do need to post things more often though... On the issue of kustomizin your wifie's things, don't limit it to just earring racks! Maybe you could decorate the outside of some mirror she likes a lot with a bunch or boys running around clobbering grots? Or make he actual orky earings... or I suppose you could do this kinda thing with any race really.. but orks are the most fun

I just checked out you D&D Eliza fighter. Awesome work converting that bloke into a chick!

Ok, here's the promised update...

As said previously, I've been working on some Lootas. I feel like I've made decent progress on these guys, though looking at these pictures closer up I see a few mold lines I have to get still... The paint you see on these guys was on the model when I purchased it on ebay. They all used to be boyz but I bought a 30 boy squad for cheap so I cut them up into things I want them to be...

For these first two lootas, I used the Dakka Kannons (along with platicard) from the ork bikes. I really like the look.






This guy wouldn't fit between the guns with both arms, so I decided he lost an arm sometime in a previous fight, and got this setup by his Friendly Local Mek Boy so that he can still shoot lotsa dakka.






This was the first of the lootas that I made. The clear barrels are from a mechanical pencil. (The clear cylinder that holds the lead) I like how he turned out a lot.


I carved out his fingers a bit better than the original hand, so that it looks better


I really hate the head on this guy... It's the head of the trukk driver, I believe... not sure why I used it. I think it's a very boring face, but have been wanting to use it on something... maybe I'll start to like it better as I get to painting it. This boy couldn't quite afford the traditional deffgun, so he settled for two highly tweaked sluggas... they seem to do the trick until he can afford even more dakka.




This Lootas is just so excited about getting to shoot his gun that he had to do a fist pump! I carved out the fingers on this one. It used to be holding a gun.




Part of this guys left arm got blasted off a while back, but that didn't stop him from getting to blast away the enemy! This guy was a hassle to do... The glue just didn't seem to want to hold his arm together. I first tried plastic glue, then started over and tried Epoxy... then just super glue... settled with adding more supporting beams on the outside as you can see... THere's a lot of glue residue in there, but it's not as sloppy as it looks. Once painted it should look a lot better.






Here's a crouching Loota... (I'm clearly going to be using some boys with BigGuns as my Lootas... And if anyone has a problem with it they can suck it!


Other guys..


And a group shot.... If you look in the background, you can see the metal model of some chick that will eventually be my warboss's ork lady friend. Yeah... sometimes, my orks grow to become lady orks. Their seeds are just better than normal ork seeds.


Suggestions/Comments are encouraged/desired!

That kneeling one looked awesome

Yeah, just cut one of the legs off at the hip and reposition it. Pretty simple conversion.

I always love converted lootas. Nice work!

My favorite is the guy with the big shoota arm.

Looking very good, I'm excited to see how they turn out!

I very much approve, I've just started using lootas myself (your dreadboy as he has become called around my FLGS makes an excellent loota.)

Thanks guys!

Killamop - Finish up my Dreadboy! I need him to join my loota squad!

Love crouching guy. Armless could do with some wires and gubbinz between his stump and the ammo box - really wire him in there!

NakedBatBoy wrote:Thanks guys!

Killamop - Finish up my Dreadboy! I need him to join my loota squad!

Yes mum!
I'll throw some paint on him this weekend hopefully.

Nice lootaz. Very well done conversions.

I love your Orks! Very Nice conversions! Great attention to detail, with making sure the stikk bombs look like they are actually attached! And Black Orks are always a win! Your beach lander transport Trukk blew me away! So awesome! I may have to use that idea! Keep up the good work!

Thanks!!

An equal opportunity employer it's not as if they have a choice, I doubt that orks have a disability benefits scheme!