WH40K - Ork Characters

Here are my plastic Warboss (from the Black Reach boxed set, but bought on eBay) and Boss Snikrot, the special character for Ork Kommandos:

I had converted the plastic Warboss slightly - new boss pole, new claw etc.

I wasn't very happy with Snikrot's paintjob, because he is a quite expensive figure, in dollars and points value. But he is good enough for table top play. I stopped where I did, because I had been considering giving him camouflage on his skin (very unOrky to hide from your enemies like that) but couldn't decide on colours. I want an obvious pattern that doesn't actually obscure detail. Perhaps like the warpaint Arnie wore in Conan The Barbarian.

(Painted figure of Conan by NECA)

WH40K - Games Workshop Deff Rolla Sprue

Fresh from Issue 47 of the Games Workshop Newsletter:

Incoming! Ork Deff Rolla
Ork Warbosses and Battlewagon krew everywhere have been awaiting the release of the Battlewagon Upgrade Pack since the Battlewagon's release in Janu-Waaargh!-ry - and today at Toronto Games Day, it was finally revealed.Ork Battlewagon Upgrade PackThis new sprue - the first plastic frame to be designed exclusively as a Bitz Pack - includes the mighty Deff Rolla, a lobba, a brutal-looking killcannon and a cheeky Grot rigger. Available to order from the 1st August, make sure you check out the Incoming! article on Monday to see more of this new Bitz Pack.

I think it is a fine construction - certainly a good addition to the Battlewagon kit, and as spiky and dangerous looking as any of the scratchbuilt versions out there. I will be buying one, and finding uses for all the other gubbins that come on the frame. The only concern I have now is that, since building my own version, this one might look a little small.

Ork, Warboss, Battlewagon, Killcannon, Grot, Deff Rolla and pretty much everything else I have written on this post are trademark Games Workshop. Thanks for the cool toys, guys!

WH40K - Ork Stormboyz

I bought a box of the Ork Stormboyz when they came out and have gotten around to building them. I also bought a few more of the Stormboyz bodies and rokkit packs (jetpacks) on eBay, since I knew I had a lot of leftover arms and weapons.

I have built most of them 'out of the box' and made slight modifications on a few, trying to make each figure unique. I didn't use all of the rokkit pack bits - I wanted to make the rockets single tubes, with a minimal amount of auxiliary gubbinz. So, I clipped some of the smaller details of the small parts and just used whatever was at hand to cover the gaps in the large rockets.

A couple of these guys have bodies made from a regular ork torso with the front ground down to about half thickness, glued to a stormboy front (there are six in the set, although there are only enough other bits to make five boyz). I have also tried to make each base unique, with other pieces of scrap plastic. Obviously not all of them are 'flying'; some are just standing on the ground.

I haven't decided if I will build a 'nob' (squad leader) for them - it might be made out of larger ork pieces, and I might even buy or build a couple of Power Klaw pieces for his feet, to make the character from the Ork Codex - Boss Zagstruk. There is a metal figure of him, but he doesn't come cheap.

WH40K - STOMP-E teaser

Not really a teaser as I am nowhere near starting work on STOMP-E. I just had an idea for a logo/glyph plate for the model.

It's just a piece of scrap plastic, from the 1/35 landing craft, I think, with a variety of pieces from the bits box glued on. The 'brackets' holding the hammer and axe are made from the twisty wire that came in the packaging for a Transformers toy.