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I just started a ork army...
bought a lot of painted boys and some bikes on e-bay to quickly fill out the ranks of the army. The biggest reason to start a ork army is of course that you can convert and build a lot of cool stuff... so naturally I started whit that right away

so now I have turned this:


into this:





It´s almost done, just some more bigshotas or rokkit launshas and some paint, maybe a grott or two...

Next upp is this:

Nice! The tank looks great. What color is your army gonna be?

Good luck!

Nice simple but effective conversion, look forward to seeing it painted.

the mega dread is coming along nicely...

Head


Legs

Looking good mate, love to see that tank painted

Looks ded killy!

Nice looking battlewagon, deffrolla looks great.

Thansks for the comments guys!

Here´s a update...


engine


head and upperbody... thinking of attaching some cables to the eye here


the whole thing with out arms... with a grot rigger on the leg and a ork pilot on top (I'm going to use another model then that one)

I really like this model in a general sense - you've done great work making a big battlefield robot fit for a 40K battlefield. I love the Grot on the back too!

But...

It just doesn't strike me as "Orky." It seems a little too sophisticated, upright, and well-put-together looking. I imagine Ork mechs to be really clumsy, hulking, randomly bolted together monstrosities who are terrors on the battlefield because of their brute force and tons of (often misfiring) weapons. This mech, though great in its execution, and really cool-looking, just doesn't seem like what I've described above at all. Now, I'm not the judge of what is and is not Orky, but based on the GW/Forge World line and art, it doesn't fit well from an overall design perspective.

That's just my 2 cents. Please take it in the spirit of goodwill in which I offer it.

catharsix wrote:I really like this model in a general sense - you've done great work making a big battlefield robot fit for a 40K battlefield. I love the Grot on the back too!

But...

It just doesn't strike me as "Orky." It seems a little too sophisticated, upright, and well-put-together looking. I imagine Ork mechs to be really clumsy, hulking, randomly bolted together monstrosities who are terrors on the battlefield because of their brute force and tons of (often misfiring) weapons. This mech, though great in its execution, and really cool-looking, just doesn't seem like what I've described above at all. Now, I'm not the judge of what is and is not Orky, but based on the GW/Forge World line and art, it doesn't fit well from an overall design perspective.

That's just my 2 cents. Please take it in the spirit of goodwill in which I offer it.

obviously you are wrong... and to prove my point here´s a second opinion

But on another note I see what you mean... Personally I think that the legs are to straight, the robot thingy was originally supposed to become a admec knight, but I never got around to finish it. So I suppose that the orks looted it

The plan is to ad more bitz and orky stuff to it... and of course some really big killy weapons


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small update...


WIP Big killy gun...

Tried to orky up the legs a bit...




what do you think? orky enough?

and some weaponry...


guess what this is going to become


big gun done

a bit blurry (bad light...) but the gun is done and fixed to the torso



better pictures coming soon

big chainsword

That's a great looking conversion. Nice work, can't wait to see it finished!

A good day to be an Ork Loota when this thing starts stomping across the battlefield. Outstanding work!

Thats freaking Awesome!!

thanks guys!

the most freakisly about this is that you CAN run it in a "normal" ork army. use it as a looted wagon!

now off topic your name NEXUS 6 is that a refrance too the wwe? becuase Cena was suckered into the NEXUS he was hit by Husky!!!!

fatty wrote:the most freakisly about this is that you CAN run it in a "normal" ork army. use it as a looted wagon!

I was thinking of running it as a count as battlewagon whit a árd case and a deff rolla (the big chain sword...) or get hold of the mega dread rules and use them...

fatty wrote:now off topic your name NEXUS 6 is that a refrance too the wwe? becuase Cena was suckered into the NEXUS he was hit by Husky!!!!

is that wrestling or some thing? being a swede I never understood that... must be something american

No Nexus 6 is in references to Roy Batty the combat android that Rutger Hauer played in Blade runner

God movie!

haha allright. indeed nexus is a wwe team amarican show wrestling.
but i am no american check my flag Holland 4 life

The big guy is done and primed...











sure the legs are still a bit to straight and a bit weedy, but I'm pretty pleased whit it anyway.
some more building to be done whit the boyz... then time for painting


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fatty wrote:but i am no american check my flag Holland 4 life

sorry didn't see that

not that its bad to be american mind you

Awesome work on those conversions, really impressive mega dread, and that tank conversion is sweet...

Jim..

time for some kind of update...


Village people warboss...




Nobs on bikes...


and a looted rino loaded with angry boyz

just a little building left to do, then its painting time

what... no comments? oh well... maby if I update the tread a bit



Warboss Noggron of the white gobs (white gobs being the name of my make up clan... white face paint on the jaw being there ting )




Looted wagon with lots of boyz hanging on

well i suppose the marine would normally be sittig in a rhino. How many are there in there 10? looks great

Some more painting done... it is premier fighting time for my boyz on Sunday and I want them to look there best when they get crunched by the marines
anyway... here they are

First out some nob bikers... that actually are going to sit the awaiting fight out...








some grethin artillery...




Battlewagon... ready to church some marines beneath its track (and deffrolla...)


scratch built deff dread




And the big boy

nice looking dread how did you made that?

It looks great! I especially like the tank.

fatty wrote:nice looking dread how did you made that?

I cant take the credit for the dread... not fully anyway. I bought it from a guy on e-bay that used it as a Ad-mech dred or some thing like that. I orkyfied it... or looted might be more appropriate...
the tracks seems to be made from chimera tracks saws of in both ends and glued together, the body is a dreadnought. I added the skull plate, the gun, the mekboy and the claw. the claw is from the battlewagon kit the rest (well not the mek...) is more or less scratch built form plasticard and bitz