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MicroArt Studios adds gas masks to Ork heads...this could be pure win if one sculpted longcoats for them;

http://www.shop.microartstudio.com/orcs-heads-gasmask-p-208.html

The gasmasks make them look like Moomins, though...

I think they'd be great for a more military like Ork force. Like an elite unit or some Stormboyz who copy the regimentalisation of other races.

Good find

If only they had orks heads with just those hats....

Shouldn't that be Deffkorpz of Kreeg.

Wintastic! On of those plus the Tankbusta Nob (who is wearing a stolen greatcoat)= Win

A 40k koan: What is the sound of a gasmask ork yelling "Waaagh"?

For Orks are likely to eat the gasmask itself or they'd rather choke on the fumes. Is it even possible?

The masks espically the second one,would look good as a sort of a commisar or at least with some sort of coat with it.

I for one play orks and think these guys are cool. Really nice detail and they look believable considering what your trying to accomplish. Good work!

That picture is filled with win. Great concept and awesome execution.

That is full to the guts of awesomeness and win!

They look like Blood Axes to me. Very cool. -K

Wow, miht just buy those. Some day. maybe.

But still as said, quite fantastic.

those would look good on kommandos

Or Burna Boyz.

I really fancy doing a unit of Ork mercenaries to use as an allied unit with IG... if I did DKoK I'd definitely use these, it'd be ace!

bought 100 before GW legal hits em under the EU

If you hunt around on warseer, they come from an army one of their employees was doing for someone I think... Hortworth.
He did the greatcoats etc as well, looked really really awesome.

Taco_bat wrote:bought 100 before GW legal hits em under the EU

Why should GW legal hit them? I wasn`t aware that GW hold image rights to bloated gas mask heads but go figure perhaps they have copyrighted everything last Christmas while I was away.

M.

Agamemnon2 : The gasmasks make them look like Moomins, though...

They love the laughter and they love the living... DA ORKZ!!!!!

Miguelsan wrote:

Taco_bat wrote:bought 100 before GW legal hits em under the EU

Why should GW legal hit them? I wasn`t aware that GW hold image rights to bloated gas mask heads but go figure perhaps they have copyrighted everything last Christmas while I was away.

M.

GW has some extremely ambiguous policies when it comes to IP infringement, making kits which are specifically tailored to be modular with 40k stuff/ and or evocative of 'gothic sci fi' imagery has in the past caused numerous companies and individuals alot of trouble.

I can hardly imagine that WW1 German helmet styled heads are a copyright breach. These are used in many sci-fi games, comics etc.
Add-on kits are very common in the serious tank building circles, so that can't be an obstacle either.
The use of the name Ork can,but that can easily be avoided by naming it sci-fi Orc heads.
Maybe the glyphs are to much GW.

Mabey the fact that someone would make some money off them is enough to gt the line yanked. Don't be suprised to see something like this show up in the 'bitz deals' in the springtime (Springtime for Orkler and the Orksies . . .)

given the already WW1-ish look of much ork tech, pushing it further to a full DKoK look would be really cool.

Don't know if I'd buy those heads, they really wouldn't be that difficult to make from slices of plastic tubing and greenstuff stuck on normal ork heads.

I don't fancy trying to make greatcoats though - anyone make those? (Fluff point, would orks wear sleeveless greatcoats? Not sure whether that would look cool or silly....)

Blackadder wrote:I can hardly imagine that WW1 German helmet styled heads are a copyright breach. These are used in many sci-fi games, comics etc.
Add-on kits are very common in the serious tank building circles, so that can't be an obstacle either.
The use of the name Ork can,but that can easily be avoided by naming it sci-fi Orc heads.
Maybe the glyphs are to much GW.

never underestimate the petty evil that is GW legal

Blackadder wrote:Add-on kits are very common in the serious tank building circles, so that can't be an obstacle either.

But the difference is that someone making add on parts are copying a real object. There may be a grey area where they say "for use with Tamyia kit" but there isn't copyright infringement in reproduction of an image they own and many model companies probably find that someone buying a kit to convert such a fashion is giving them more custom not taking money from them, as they buy several kits to make several varients, often obscure varients which the plastic kit company have no intention of producing.

GW probably don't see it the same way. When making something compatible with their miniatures you are duplicating their image (say if you produced resin turrets for their Leman Russes). Instead of seeing that they will get more custom through people buying several of their kits to do more conversions, they just see it as people amkign money off them, and possibly taking it away from Forgeworld etc.

This won't apply to the gasmask heads here because it's too difficult to prove actual infringement IMO. But producing a series of resin add-ons for turrets on Leman Russes and doors on Rhinos would be sailing very close to the wind.

paint it black and white and you get SNOOPY!

Or moomins, as Agamemnon2 said...

The WAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH

Agamemnon2 wrote:The gasmasks make them look like Moomins, though...

Has to be done... counts as......Tau!