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.
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