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Wurrzag's Savage Shoota Boyz

jamsessionein — GMT

Since finishing up my warphead model, I've been quietly lamenting over the fact that warpheads and weirdboys are somewhat difficult to fit into normal lists. Despite that, I usually try cramming both that and a Shokk Attack Gun into my casual game lists, because I find the randomness of both to be unremittingly hilarious. After a fair bit of playtesting it attached to different squads, I feel that Shoota Boyz are probably in the best position to get the most use out of the Warphead's presence, though fluff-wise I have no doubt a warphead's normal rabble would tend more towards the slugga side. Shoota boyz have the advantage of moderate range, meaning that if my warphead suddenly decides he wants to use his deepstrike power (courtesy of a hapless D6 roll) they can still get a good volley of pain off at their target of choice. If no good infantry targets present themselves, you can always try for a deepstrike behind rear armor of an enemy's vehicle so that you can unleash a rokkit salvo. This adaptability beats something like slugga boys pretty solidly, and they're cheap enough to be a good 'psychic buffer' for the Warphead's leadership rolls via Mob Rule.

With that said, I turned to the idea of what the orks that hang around with a Warphead must look like. I figured that they might adopt Wurrzag's tendencies by taking up crude wooden masks of their own and adorning themselves in strange fetishes.

So, a while back, in anticipation of this very project, I entreated my good buddy, Nozeminer from The-Waaagh.com, to help me out by making a set of wooden voodoo masks that would fit on boyz, yet match the overall 'theme' of Wurrzag's. After talking a bit of design with him, he was nice enough to sculpt up some greens for me:

These masks have since been sent off to D6 Hobbies, where they have been cast and may be purchased, should anyone be interested.

Anyway, with these masks made, it was just down to the simple task of casting them up and putting them on. Given that they're mostly flat, fitting them onto an ork face poses a bit of a challenge if you don't first hack the front of their gobs down a bit. However, with a little bit of knife and filework, you can glue them right on. I'm also trying to keep other details mostly consistent across the models - all of them have loincloth-type lower bodies, and where possible (meaning, as many as I had) I used shirtless or relatively bare upper torsos. These are the sorts of details that'll stand out more on the painted models, but don't really show well on gray plastic, so I didn't bother wasting a lot of time photographing each individual boy. However, I did snap a couple shots of the group I have done so far.

There's one boy with a Rokkit lurking among that squad's numbers, and by the time I hit 20 I expect there to be a second. I find there to be nothing funnier than a Warphead deepstriking a bunch of gitz with rokkits behind enemy armor. Suck on that, Leman Russes!

Once I hit the 12th boy in the squad, I felt like making a Nob. This was mostly just because it's the right size squad to get crammed in a Trukk, and for no other reason. Still, I had to scratch my head a bit because I had a bunch of pretty good options available to me as far as the 'savage boyz' nob went.

After struggling with choosing a proper Nob body for a while, I stumbled upon the plastic runtherd body from the new(ish) grots kit, and I really liked him. The only problem I had with the body was that while larger than your average boy, he's not quite nob-stature. However, the tried-and-tested solution of plasticard spacers under the feet helps give him a little bit of extra height over his surrounding boyz, and his extra-big-and-impressive-but-not-quite-as-big-as-the-warphead's-mask helps clearly set him apart as 'da git in charge'.

Scale comparison with a boy from the squad:

I obviously wanted to give my Nob a power klaw, but I thought the image of a vicious, iron-gobbed squig fit the 'savage/feral' profile of this squad a bit more thematically than some electric snippy bitz. Hopefully the average Warhammer 40k player won't give me too much guff about using a barely-restrained snappy squig as a counts-as power klaw!

A last point to make is that the Nob'z banner actually has a bit of wood grain texture carved into it, but that's not entirely evident from these pictures due to the difficulty of getting white-on-white details to photograph nicely. I have a feeling paint will make this whole squad look a lot snappier.

6 more gitz to go, and then I'll probably try and get a bit of time in with my air brush on these guys before I have to head back to school.

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SsevenN — GMT

Those are totally cool, thanks for sharing.

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Buttlerthepug — GMT

I love em, would make for cool Feral Orks too! Do you plan on adding straps so it not just magical floating masks on faces? and can we PLEASE get some more shots of the wierdboy... Cause Im sensing some floaty action with some fanatics failing at their job to control him no?

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jamsessionein — GMT

Buttler, I covered both those things in the OP, though I don't blame you for not reading my ridiculous wall of words. I probably wouldn't, myself.

http://www.the-warforge.com/category/orks/warphead

^ More of the Warphead.

As for the straps, yes, I do intend on adding straps around the back of the head so the masks are attached by some means.

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Buttlerthepug — GMT

Oh bloody hell... I thoguht I read all of it but I must have managed to miss it... my apologies... I wasnt going to read it but I figured I should just incase you did answer my questions but I failed anyways >.< my bad

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Sarigar — GMT

Very cool. I'm happy to see another blog by you. Your Ork stuff has inspired me throughout 2009 and glad to see more in 2010. Thanks for posting.

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Razzle — GMT

Wow that Weirdboy is fantastic as are the mojo masks. Can't wait to see some of them painted

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LiveforFun666 — GMT

One word, nice!
love to see more

Cheers

LFF666

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brother_zach — GMT

The wierdboy reminds me of that wooded mask that you could get in crash bandicoot. I love these masks!

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Leigen_Zero — GMT

Very nice work ein, and give my compliments to nozeminer as well, used to hang round the waaagh myself and I'm familiar with his outstanding GS-fu.

Just to let you know, the fluff mentions that wierdboyz used to gather around themselves orks known as 'madboyz' which are basically orks that are in someway mentally challenged and in times of war they would follow a wierdboy into battle, being as likely to use a rusty bucket or stuffed animal as a weapon as a slugga etc. What you have here, with the edition of a plethora of pointless objects is a good-sized mob of madboyz!

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JaYkeH — GMT

Wow love those masks . the voodoo tribe now no one is safe, even in the jngle *evil voice on* HaHaHaHaHaHaHa!!!! *evil voice off* So Seriously they look mean, if i was playing them i'd be scared . Is it ok if i borow your idea?

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Blightdrone — GMT

Ein!!! Those are fantastic. Is there anything you can't do?

Cheers,

Jack.

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jamsessionein — GMT

So I've got myself a full mob of 20 shooty gits here.

Just need to add straps to the masks at this point... then I think it's time to paint. I'm going to get some use out of my airbrush by spraying them a bone white or khaki base color, since I figure most of them will be wearing the standard, desert-ish snakebite garb.

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LunaHound — GMT

Ah! they are so cute , my hard boys have similar mask on them xD

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Ronin — GMT

Bloody awesome. Those masks are heaps cool, so much so I might even get them for my boys....

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Lorgar's_Blessed — GMT

Anyone else see the Aku Aku mask from Crash Bandicoot in these?