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Regular Dakkanaut





UK

I'be been painting these ork HQ to kick of my painting journey of my orks army, and I would love to get some critics and comments on them before I do a clean up pass fixing mistakes, followed by a varnish and some dead grass on the bases.
If you are interested on the process of painting, I got a blog here where I upload my WIP regularly:
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/120/793314.page

For anyone wondering, the models are:
-Warboss in mega armour is from the new combat patrol box
-Warboss on foot, conversion from a black ork character from blood bowl.
-Artwel ork HQ models, including a paintboy, a wierdboy, a mechboy and the Iron raider warboss. The models have minor conversions on them.


I hopeI can take better pictures when the models are 100% finished, my camera is not particularly good.

Iron Raider, warboss on bike.
This is the miniature that sold me into this. It is truly spectacular and without a doubt the one of the best ork models out there.
Really fun painting project, although I painted most of the parts separately and only at the very end I saw it completely built. Some of the detail on the ork itself got obscured, but overall it shows really well, cant wait to use them in a match.



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Painboy
Big fan on this mini too. GW painboys are okey, but this one has a lot of character and the carrying a wonded boy is such a nice touch.







Wierboy
Pretty much what a wierdboy should be. I wanted to have some Object source lighting on the mini, mixing greens and blues for the waaahg energy, which I ended up quite happy with.
By far the smalles of the group, but still quite iconic.




Mechboy
Big fat mechboy design reminds me of the original dawn of war.This Artwel miniature has options for claws or different guns, but I wen for a simpler design since I generally run them to carry vehicles or those invulnerable saves. Again some object source lighitng to make the backpack stand out a little bit.



Warboss
This warboss is a conversion of a black ork character from bloodbowl, which ended up being quite an energic and suitable base for a klaw world destroying boss.
I am converting nobs from the black ork models from bloodbowl too, so soon this guy will have his bodyguard ready for a fight.




Warboss in mega-armour
And last but not least, the mega armoured boss from the ork combat patrol box.Although I am not a super fan of the two handed axe, I would admit the model is quite well designed and put together.



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These look great! Bright and very eye catching and I like that you have added some lighting to the more magical elements of the ork kit

Looking forward to seeing those Nobz
   
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Off the shoulder of Orion

Great models and great painting. They look proper brutal (but cunning).

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Great stuff. Love the amputee, and the marine that's been run over. Nice touches. Gotta admit though, when I saw the title, I was hoping for a peice of terrain, like an ork base haha

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A garden grove on Citadel Station

All the colors here really pop. Great job.

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Regular Dakkanaut





UK

Finished all my ork miniatures that had some paint on them! (except the squiggoths)

For the last months I've been going in and out of building, converting and start painting a good group of ork minis, but didnt finish any of them. I had them on an almost done state and I gave it a last push to get them completed.
Really happy with the results, and this is a great start for my ork army. I got a good amout of miniatures, a lot of them from a really long ago, but this is the first time I got some of them painted in a scheme I am happy with.
My initial plan with the orks was to paint them much faster and putting less attention to the paintjob, but I am naturally driven to push myself with every miniature. Painting the HQs obviously push you in that direction, but even with less important units such as the koptars or the noobs I still felt the same drive, and to be honest, was not as hard as painting the marines.
I hope you enjoy seeing the finished pics, and feel free to give me any feedback so I can get better for the next ones!



HQs
Already posted a bunch of images of these guys, here I just fixed some mistakes and added the grass to the bases.
Took some more ics on the warboss on bike, since its my favorite model so far, and for the rest of the HQs you can check on previous posts if you are interested on more details





Nobs
Really happy with these guys. I had a bunch of nob miniatures since the box and bits are pure gold, but I was never happy with the look of the bodies. They all look pretty boring, just walking forward with no dynamism or action on their poses. Also, they are not as bulky as they should, and even new boyz look better, with some extra armor.
Some time ago I was browsing orky miniatures and I found the blood bowl black orks, and felt in love with the idea of converting them into 40k nobs. I have not seen this conversion on the internet, which is extrange since it suits it so well, so I am happy to maybe be the first one XD
As a conversion its an interesting challenge, since there are only 3 unike sculps and they are a bit expensive to get. Making the same bodies look different is great fun, and it forces you to be creative on how to modify the miniature.
I will be making more to have enought to field an unit of 10, + have spares for my ork boyz units.






Koptars

Ork koptars have always been a fun miniature to me, and I've used it on the tabletop a lot. The miniatures look cool (the black reach box ones), but I wanted to make some of my own, since it looked like a nice scratch build project, which ended up looking really nice.
Thus, 3 of these are scratch build and the 4 of them are old kopters. I got 3 of the new ones unpainted as well, so that would bring the number up to a nice 10 once I finish them all. All the heli-blades are scratch built too, since I find the original ones too long to be practical on the table.
Painting-whise these have been a nice way to come up with a method to paint ork behicles, wich I will be applying specially on my future bikers. Koptars also allow for some creativity with the color and patterns, specially on the custom made ones.












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Great models! The color really pops without being cartoonish in style. Your new Warboss from the combat patrol looks way better than the GW team did. The only critique would be for some separate photos of individual models. It is hard to see some detail in group shots. Hopefully you will be posting pictures of your Squiggoths soon. I am interested in your take of the creatures.

 
   
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Regular Dakkanaut





UK

Pointer5 wrote:
Great models! The color really pops without being cartoonish in style. Your new Warboss from the combat patrol looks way better than the GW team did. The only critique would be for some separate photos of individual models. It is hard to see some detail in group shots. Hopefully you will be posting pictures of your Squiggoths soon. I am interested in your take of the creatures.


Cheers! I try to get some decent pictures for the characters, whereas for the other squads I tend to do it in group to not have that many pics posted. My phone cant really get too close to small infantry, so I need to play with that a bit XD
If you are interested on checking more of the images or progress, particularly the squiggoths, look at my blog here:
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/120/793314.page#11255791

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Regular Dakkanaut





UK

Updating with my orky work from the lasts few months:

On Christmas I finished a batch with 40 boyz and 12 bikes and my orks start to look like an army now.




Infantry
Infantry is a mix of old and new ork models, most of them have some modification to make them a bit more unique. Relatively basic paintjob but effective even up-close.








Bikers
Really happy with these, both on conversion and painting. All bikes look different and some of them have been heavely converted/scratchbuilt. Painting followed the same method I used for the koptas.







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Regular Dakkanaut





UK

Next, my Squiggoths, my biggest and best project to date.
These guys started as a fun list to play on tabletop simulator, and when I looked into getting them physically...the GW models look nicely detailed, the poses are boring as can be, thus I decided to make my own.
Its been quite a learning experience and specially a lot of fun, designing them and making them out of nothing, making them as unique and characterfull as I wanted. Now after a year working on and off on them I managed to finish them.
If you are interested on the process, go to the blog:
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/180/793314.page
Sorry for the low quality pics, I'll do better ones when I get a good camera.



These squiggoths make redemptors look small by comparison XD


Squiggoth 1:
My favorite. Lots of energy and orks happy to charge head first into combate. The castle has an interesting shape to it, and there are fun details spread all over the miniature.





Details:




Probably the last thing some marines see:



Squiggoth 2:
Although the overall shape I find less interesting, there are a lot of areas on this model that Im quite happy with. The energy cannon at the top will serve as a great proxy for a kill rig, and it contrasts nicely with his more energetic brother.






Details:






Both minis have a magnet system for easier maintenance, tweaking, storage and transport.
I do magnetize some miniature to keep some of the weapon options interchangeable, but this particular magnetization is something I will be implementing on some of my bigger models, since It helps a lot with the process and use of the figure. Plus, Its much easier to get a good contact that I though, and once built the transition between the different components its invisible.




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Regular Dakkanaut





UK

After the squiggoths, I got to do some speciallists and smaller vehicles. Yes, all of them scratchbuilt, both old and new.



Specialist
Burnas, tank bustas and kommandos. Most of these where built using the new kill team kommando box, which has really nice body sculps for specialist. There are 2 burnas and 2 tankbustas that look really similar and that was on purpose, since where the only from a group of 15 and 20 that had that issue, and wanted to make them different mostly with the paintjob.
I want to make a propper nob for these specialists squads, since the ones I currently got are pretty basic. They do have some conversions, but they could be so much orky and over-the-top. There is a miniature on Etsy that has a ork burna electric guitar that I love, and I hope I can get one to lead my burna squads.

Painting-whise I wanted to make these guys different from my boyz, since otherwhise its just a blob of similar looking minis, which is not great for gameplay, and its kind of boring artisticly.
The cammo clothes and skin on the kommandos worked quite well. Really simple to execute and definitely makes them recogniseable.
Burnas had an easier time with the this since I modeled most of them with flames coming out of the weapon, making minis really stand out from a mass of green.
Tankbustas relied on the rockets to be really visible, and I think I will make them pop even more in the next ones adding flames patterns and other markings to them.

Overall really happy with the results, and will be painting more of these soon. I want to play certain lists that need certain units, with the exception of kommandos, the rest need other support minis that I have not yet started working on (wagons and bunkers). Thus I will probably paint some flashgitz first, then build a couple of wagons, paint meganobs and then come back to these specialists? I'll see what I do.





Vehicles
These trucks and grot artillery where a blast to work on.
The building on the trucks was extremely fun and I love the look I got with them. Trucks are one of the minis I know I need on an ork army but I never really bought the look of the GW trucks. And they are expensive, so I never got any of them. During 8th and 9th I managed to play orks without trucks since 30 boyz where arguably better in most cases, but with the new codex trucks have a better place on the table.
I knew I could build my own and make them look decent, but most of the conversions I see online didnt exactly had the asthetic I wanted, until I saw some conversions with the turox guard model.
Based on that design I made these and even though all 3 models are different, keep some recognizeable design rules that make them easy to recognize and interesting.

When it came to painting them I was surprised at how fast it went. I did had a tested method to paint vehicles both big and small (koptars, bikes and squiggoths), but I always felt medium and large vehicles where much bigger projects. In reality I get them painted much faster than infantry, and its a fun and creative process.










The grot artillery where old scratchbuilds, some of my first ones from over 10 years ago. I added a couple things to make the models a bit better, but overall these came back from the grave. I could have modified them a lot or almost scratch them and use them as a base for better models, but I found them cute and wanted to keep them mostly untouched for nostalgia's sake.
I will probably build more regular grot artillery sometime, but they do not play as big of a roll on the tabletop as they used to.

The painting here followed my vehicle recipe, and I'm pretty happy with the gradient of red peaking at the top front of the tanks. All of them had different little details or shapes but the painting felt quite seamless.











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Ork jets done!

Fun project. Originally I wanted to get one GW jet and use the parts to create 2 scratch built jets, but ended up getting 2 rescued models on ebay instead. Maybe I do a super bommer some day. Pretty much no conversions
but the painting had some room for experimenting and learning, specially the masking and checkers which I'm pretty proud off.
One of the jets was the zappa version but I prefer having a more dakka look to them, although in-game I'll use them as any of the jet variants I want.















Next I will be painting some flashgizts to mount my squiggoths on the tabletop!

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Awesome stuff thanks for posting. Loving the grot artllery.

My painting and modeling blog:

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Brutal. And cunning?

Or vice-versa? Mostly just brutal?

Anyway - the aggro is palpable. Paint is top-notch. Bravo

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Gobbo's Grotty Garage

Love these!

Can you please describe your painting method? I really like the use of orange edge highlights, and the gradients you achieve on the reds and yellows.

Looking to improve my own techniques, so any advice greatly appreciated - most definitely gona be doing a squad of my boyz in this colour scheme.

 
   
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Regular Dakkanaut





UK

Finished walkers and Scrapjets! 1000p of orks ready for da fight.

I started painting them exactly a month ago, and I managed to finished them despite the limited time I have lately for the hobby.




Mega ScrapJets

These where a blast to build and I am super happy with the end result. You really cant tell these are hand made, they are unique, recognizeable as what they represent, tabletop friendly, and the paintjob ended up looking really nice, specially with the high contrasted reds.
I've done other hand made models in groups of 3 with the same philosophy and always there is one model of the 3 that is either my favorite or my least liked one, but in this case I cant choose between them, all 3 have elements that I really like. Which one you like the best?
I might do 3 more generic looking buggies to have 6 to play with, but for now I'll be using these models to represent any of the available buggy options, although scrapjets are generally fairly good on the tabletop.












Killa Kans

I bought some kans a while ago and I didnt got to build them since I had other projects going on. I got inspired and ended up making 6 of them, as you might recognize, some of them have scratch-build elements to fill the bits I was missing.
I might do more in a far future, and those will make way crazier poses and design ideas, since these where quite standard. Even the open cockpit grot one is a fairly common conversion.
Nevertheless I quite like the look of them and I hope to be able to play with them soon, they look quite fun.









Dreads

I started my dreads building 3, one mainly with GW bits and the other 2 scratchbuilt. Then I bought 2 resin ones that ended up being smaller than I though (wanted to use those resin ones as mega-dreads), so with that I had 5 dreads. Thus, I built a last one to go up to 6, since I liked the symetrical composition and to be able to field 2 full squads of dreads, using the resin ones as "squad leaders". Admittedly is going to be quite hard to field 6 dreads in a single game, but if I ever do its going to be quite a stompy match!

The dreads might be the ones I am less happy about, for 1 small reason: I did not pose them a bit more creatively. 3 of them are quite static, which is great for stability of the figure, but sadly make them a bit too similar to eathother. Hopefully I manage to get some interesting desings on the top of the minis to make them disticng, and the 2 I scratchbuild look quite well compared to the other 2.
Overall I think they look fine, and with the addition of the 2 resin dreads this posing issue is not too much of a problem, but is something I'll keep in mind for future projects.















Resin Dreads

I cant recomend these models enought. Got them from Etsy- Fully cycled. They are cheaper, they have a great design and the parts are exangeable. I though they where going to be a bit bigger, but other than that I am really happy with them.











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That's a very cool paint scheme. I might try it out myself, if I get around to adding some orks to my collection. Also excellent (or better orkcellent) excecution.

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Regular Dakkanaut





UK

Bosses finished!
Here are some pics of the results. The photos are a bit over exposed, might take some better ones once I get a better camera.



GHAZ

Super fun to convert, great to paint. This guy is BIG, almost the size of a redemptor.
For the painting I used an airbursh to speed through the reds, but I had to spend a couple evenings doing glazes on the shadows to bring the needed contrast. I used purples on the shadows since it makes the model so much interesting, and the difference before and after this contrast pass is night and day. I feel like I need to practice my airbrush a lot more to squeeze more out of it, since at the moment I barely use it since I dont have yet enough fine control with it.
If you paint this model in different pieces is quite easy as long as you paint from the most hidden parts outwards, and overall It was an enjoyable time.













All my warbosses so far:
Ghaz is my biggest boss yet, but I love all the my ones too. With this I get my set up to 5, I'll be interested on knowing how you'll rate them in a top 5 XD



Makari:
Honestly, although it can be userfull on the tabletop to a degree, I dont care about this guy. I painted it just to complete the ghaz set. The conversion is a bit lazy just because I wanted the banner on Ghaz instead.
The eyes are painted but the lihgting does not show them here XD


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Regular Dakkanaut





UK

More ork specialist done!
I've been in a rush to finish these guys since I'll be needing some of them for a few matches this weekend.
Not the stars of the show, but the conversions on the models and the decent paintjob made them quite flashy on the tabletop. Particularly happy with the nobs of each squad, which are unique and made more recognizable than the other models on the unit.







Im quite happy with the stormboy. I most of the models from Max Mini miniatures and added the jumpacks, modify the poses and converted the models to make them into the flying counterparts of the normal boyz.
Each model is different and the detail was amazing to work with.






With this I managed to get my finished 10 man squads, thus half of these models are done (Need 5 more tankbustas and 4 stormboyz, simple easy conversion to do at some point.). This is clearly more for collection and completion rather than a more practical use within the army, but still fun to do though. The other half will probably wait for some time unless I want to field a ton of them.


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UK

Batch DONE!
This might be one of my best batches so far, adding some really needed vehicles, finishing a few supa fun projects and finally paying my debt to a friend.
This batch of almost 1000[ of orky goodness had a few challenges painting wise, particularly the squig and grots took some mind and pacience. The last 2 days or edge-highlighting the metals and picking up every single rivet was a bit of a chore, but managed to get trough it with some music.

I'll upload the images in multiple posts since there are a lot of them, and have spoiler sections for the more filler pics since I dont want to spam over 100 pics in a row in this blog.




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DA SQUIGS!

This group of mounted orks was a gift from a friend (the same one that will be receiving the sculpted squig from above), and despite I've had them for some time, I did not got around to paint them. Felt a bit guilty for not finish them but I had other projects going on, and now the debt is finally closed.

Beastboss on squiggasaur
This guy rocks! Used him in a couple games already and did fantastically, killing Yarrick 3 times in a single charge, quickly becoming a favorite on the tabletop.
The miniature is heavily converted, specially on the dynamism of the pose and some elements on both the rider and the squig that make them stand out from other similar models. You should be able to find more details about the building aspect earlier on this blog.

Painting-wise I was afraid about this model when I started painting it, since I have not painted big organic smooth models before. I experimented a bit with the airbursh and ended up liking the look a lot, particularly the purple from below make it look more organic and interesting. I subtly edge-highlighted the organic areas with suitable colors, and washed some of the shadow areas as well, but left most of the airbrush work on most of the large surfaces.
The rest was pretty much standard painting for me. Some of the bone and white areas look a bit too bright on the pics, but that's my camera not being able to capture the values correctly. For example, the eyes have a much more yellow tone to them, with just the center being a bit brighter.






Squighogs
Little brothers from the boss above, these where quite fun to work with. As I said before, from the announcement I never was too much of a fan of these guys, and I am still not completely on-board with them, but I have to say they are quite charming.
Barely any modifications on the mdoes, and the painting followed a similar process from the squigasaur. I do like how well the colors work on these, separating the model on green, red and yellow in a way I find quite appealing.
I have another box of them ready to be painted so I can field them more effectively in a match, only with 3 if feels they would be a bit lonely.




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MEKS!

Big Meks

Although I have a ArtelW mek with force field, I do need a few more for vehicle-heavy lists, to keep my walkers, wagons, kannons and buggies nicely maintained.
These are simple easy conversions from the necromunda ambot kit, which I am sure everyone and their model has converted an ork from. They are not super original, but they do the job.
Plus, it was a good opportunity to paint some more energy effects, which are really satisfying to do.

After this the only mek I am missing is the one with the Shokk Attack gun. I will convert one at some point when I find the proper inspiration for it.








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WAGON

Big guys territory now. I was screaming to finish this guy since I need him for many ork lists, and finally having a wagon will open up a bunch of ideas and units that currently I am barely using on the field.
I really like the results here. Although I admittedly stole the overall design from a youtube video, the execution here has worked really well. The models is both instantly recognizable as a wagon, unique, tabletop super friendly and the design of it makes sense. Big fan of the plenty and huge wheels and some of the mechanical details.

Painting-wise was really straight forward. There are not that many hard to reach areas that are visible. The turret can be removed for transport or just to show this is not a big-shooting unit on the field.






Without the turret


Detail pics



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UK

And Im back!
15 meganobz, 10 flashgitz and 10 stormboyz, quite a troop to get done in a single batch! All of these models I wanted to get painted both for gaming and collection, so getting them finished is great.

Its been quite some time since the last update, just life getting in the way and having bit of a hard time keeping up with the painting.
It did felt that the amount of minis, density of the detail and not feeling 100% on the models did overwell me a bit, but managed to get back to it a few weeks ago and finish them. I honestly prefer painting medium to big vehicles than humanoids with tons of details.
Really happy with the final result. Although the initial look of the meganobz did not completely convinced me, the paintjob did unify them really nicely. Also, spending time with the 3 styles of meganobz I got made me like them more by the end of the process.








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Flashgitz
Despite being one of the most hated units on the tabletop due to the rules, these guys are some of my favorites on the ork range.
I do believe they are quite underrated, and I've managed to be somehow succesful with them by mounting them on squiggoths and charging away into my enemies while still shooting. The only thing I would change is the poses, since all of them look the same, but its a great kit and a prime example of what orks should be, with tons of modular bits. Its also easy to convert and get some big guns on nobs to get more value out of the box.

Anyway, I finished 10 more of these guys completing all my 20 guys. I believe I managed to get some good variety within the box model, and having more than 1/3 of them firing gives them a good energy. I must agree though that they are a bit of a pain to paint, since painting the ork and the gun separately does make them quite slower, and they do have a few details to individually pick up.
Happy to have this section of the army finished (I doubt I would ever add more flashgitz).










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Stomboyz
These guys are probably some of the MVP of orks right now. On the tabletop they do really well just by being orks with rockets attached, having a great role as utility ad minor damage dealers.
I never got into them since the GW models are both expensive and fairly borring, but I found some 3rd party models that with some conversion work they really made these models a joy to work with. Every models is a bit unique and I tried to give them a sense of motion in the poses.
I sitll got a few more to do, but so far these are some of my favorite infantry in my army, and having 10 more added to the bunch will make serve me well in the battles to come.








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Meganobz!

And finally the meganobz!
I've been working on and off on these guys for a long time and thus ended up with 3 styles. First would be mostly GW style, with acouple old custom models thrown in. Second a Age of Sigmar conversion, and third a much bigger chaos obliterator-based conversion.

This shot of all my finished meganob models is quite a sight. Probably could make a list only with +2 armour saves in the army!


First lets start with the GW-like models
Although the minis themselves are technically alright and the box has a good amount of bits, the posing and size kind of ruins it for me. I did try to add some dynamism of the poses, and some extra plates for variety, but I think meganobz should be much stronger than the current GW models. There are a bunch of thir party models that are considerably better ,but generally come at a premium,
In this little group you can see 2 custom models which I made almost 10 years ago and now I finally finished. There designs are a bit different and have some something quite nice going on, and although they are not as refined as my current work, Im happy to have them on my lines.











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Second group of meganobz are Age of Sigmar conversions.
Definitely a different style and aesthetics, more in line with beastsnagga models. I though those where cgoing to look less armoured than the regular ones, but that did not necessarily come to pass.
I really like the variety in each model and I would probably do another 5 of these if I ever need them. Really fun to work on and the end result is quite nice.











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Third group of meganobs is probably the most interesting one and my favorite so far.
I managed to get 4 easy-to-build chaos obliterators for cheap, and instantly though of converting them into meganobz.
With extensive conversion work I managed to get the poses varied enough, and the details orky so they feel right. The leaders an ambot conversion and is a bit bigger than the rest. Probably will use him as a warboss too.

These guys were really interesting projects from a conversion point of view, and the results are quite nice, having properly sized meganobz with armour that suits them.














Must say they they are quite bigger than regular nobs. Probably will use them for meganobz leaders when I field smaller amounts of these units.

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