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Made in gb
Been Around the Block





High, I hope everyone is well.

I've gotten into the hobby, at least the painting/collecting side, and I've been trying to do a shoota-based freebooter brigade.

///UPDATE///



Been painting my army, got a bunch of paint and have been slowly repainting my old minis and working on new ones.

I've gone waaagh-flesh>warboss>skarsnik on the skin, and been using a basic purple on the inner flesh.
Been alternating between pyjama tops and trousers with red/blue stripes, and going for a redish brown opposite.
For the armor plates and guns I've primarily been going for yellow/red and blue/white-checkers.
Went for red eyes, initially I gave them a white centre to imply they glowed, but it just looked cheap, was tempted to go for a black sharkeye, but wussed out

I've popped my some individual shots of my units below...

Badrukk
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He has had a subtle white glint in his eye now, but I need to do nicer gun glyphs


Birdboyz (Kommandos)
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I've put off doing these guys for now, got a lot of guys to work on, and I'm thinking I'd prefer tankbustas + nobz instead, with some stormboyz for objectives


Nobz + Banner Nob with Kustom-Shoota
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I bought a few kombi weapons online, and hacked off the rokkits for my tankbustas, looking forward to finishing them and running them in the squiggoth
With the banner-nob I read that it came with a KS and practically did BC damage so I combined a big-shoota with a big-choppa and a spacemarine(???) flag, very happy with how he looks


Big Shootas
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Not much to say, I've neglected the rest of their unit (16 shoota and 10 slugga) for now, and need to work on them some more, I've got some green-stuff, so maybe I'll be able to make my own hats for some of them


Also I have a bunch of unfinished boys, flashgitz and gretchin, I had bought and painted the flashgitz earlier in the year, but I decided to strip them of paint with some antiseptic, smelly... I've got Kpt.B and a flashgit repainted, just need to get through the other 9.
My squiggoth's paintjob wasn't too thick but I did have to fill the joints with GreenStuff and give it another layer, however the transport platform ontop I'm currently stripping of paint as I had layered it on far too thick.
I'm probably going to give the platform the same skull and crossbones you see on my banner-nob.

Hope they don't look too lame, I've been pretty pleased with them, despite how much better some you vets get them looking!

I'm thinking of taking on a small conversion project, I have a Dark Eldar raider that I'm thinking would be a great vessel for my tankbustas as a transport, the question is whether I go for the chinork transport kopter, or a trukk. The trukk will be easier and safer, but the kopta can take more dakka, perhaps feel more piraty, so you can see where I'm leaning, let me know if you have an opinion!

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So I've got; Kaptain.B + Painboy, flashgitz + runtz, and some boyz I'm kitting out with shootas, with some stormboyz that double as slugga (magnets).
But I've also got some Nob and Kroot.

I'm trying to keep the models legible though, so my 1st question is... what is considered a kustom-shoota?
Where I'm at now is looking to buy and remove the under-weapon from a bunch of kombi-shootas, but the kombi-shoota is 2 shot versus the kustom's 4.
Does anyone know what the official model looks like and where I can get one, or alternatively where I might get a suitable substitute?

Also, as mentioned, I have some kroot-deviants that ate too much ork-flesh, so I'm thinking of using them either as Kommandos, with a couple of heavy shootas, and a "Nob" with kustom, can i get away with that?


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Made in au
Mekboy Hammerin' Somethin'





Perth, Western Australia

righto, first off, welcome! secondly, nice choice going with orks!, thirdly, double-nice choice going with freebootas!

now onto business...so, kustom shootas...they're essentially just shootas that fire twice as much - being orks, this can be modelled/represented in a wide variety of ways!...the usual way (and perhaps most logical by 'umie standards) is to have them be double-barreled...but really, you just need to have "a shoota" that looks like it's been "kustomized" by some mad mekboy, to give it more dakka somehow...be it 2-or-more barrels, a larger magazine/ammo container, electronic/mechanical gizmos, you name it!...heck, you could probably even just paint the word "kustom" on the side of a shoota
...the simplest and most readily available existing model for it though, would probably be the boss nob's shoota from the boyz kit:

...looks like they're going for around a pound each on ebay

as for the kroot, well, some would call it downright unorky...but I dunno...I think they could actually work pretty well, specially as kommandos, and specially as freebootas, who don't exactly follow proppa orky kultur - it's why they're freebootas, after all...so yeah, I think it's kinda interesting, go for it, imo!

...it's good to be green!  
   
Made in gb
Been Around the Block





Cheers and cheers man, always liked the flashgitz from Dawn of War: Winter Assault when I was a teen, Badrukk and the new gitz were too cool looking not to get. Also they wear pyjama pants, what's not to like.

Hmm, they're classed as assault even though they act as an offhand weapon, so I think I'll go for a kombi-shoota/shoota base, I've got quite a few big shootas and pistols (more than I can use), I'll have to salvage them for the bits and do as you suggest.

I've done a bit more research and it seems by default the warboss and banner-nob have a kustom-shoota...
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The Warboss kustom-shoota looks a lot like the kombi with a 2nd barrel, the banner-nob like a shoota with an extra ammo pack. So I guess I'll work from there.

Sadly my bird-nob can't take a alternate-shoota, a shame I liked the idea of having 2 big shoota and a kombi-rokkit, but I guess the other 3 are just getting sluggers :( Might phase them out with something else.

If all else fails I my BS goblin.
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Made in gb
Been Around the Block





Posted an update (see uptop), thinking of converting a DE Raider into a Chinork Warkopta or Trukk, and sticking my tankbustas on them, what's better these days? Also does anyone know the Warkopta dimensions? I would have thought bigger than a raider, but I was pretty surprised by how small the squiggoth is.
If it's not too much bigger I'll likely buy some grill platforms and guns for the sides and hook up a bunch of rokkits to it, but that might be too much work so I'm interested in opinions

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