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Although the new plastic ork models by Brian Nelson are
quite nice, I still have an affinity for the classic ork models.
This is one of the old metal Bad Moon boss models, and it's still nice
even by today's standards. I painted it yellow, black and white,
and gave the yellow details a brown wash to make them stand out.
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| Another classic Boss model, this time a Blood Axe.
I use a dark green for the uniform (to stand out from the ork's olive green
skin), and found that red makes a great trim color for dark green.
The armor is painted black with steel details. Just a clean, straightforward
paint job, but the model is very strong loking. Again, I added a
pet squig to the base. |
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An old metal Freebooter Kaptin model. I mixed a custom
purple color, trimmed with yellow for contrast. It sounded odd at
first, but I found that purple actually looks good on orks- in my opinion
anyway. I call it the "Incredible Hulk phenomenon". |
| To make the power claw stand out, I painted white "bony
finger" lines along the fingers for emphasis. The skull and crossbones
decal on the back actually came from a Macross model, but equivelant decals
can be found on the old Epic Imperial Guard decal sheets. |
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Just to show what a wide range of models can be used for
conversions, this ork is actually a plastic Goliath ganger with a Gorka
Morka ork head in place of the original one. The gun was also replaced
by an orky shoota. The skull shoulder pad is from the metal line
of Chaos marine pads, and fit nicely on the model. |
| This is an old Death Skulls nob model with a plastic power claw (from
the original plastic orks set) added. I like to use Freebooterz
and Death Skulls orks interchangeably, and so have painted them with the
same color scheme of purple with yellow trim. The bony bits were
painted white and washed with light brown. |
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This is one of the new Gorka morka metal models, converted into a Death
Skullz looter. I added an ork skull to his head and a shield to his
side ( both from the plastic fantasy orc set), a shoota arm and ammo belt
from the new 40K plastic orks, and some additional gear from the marine
sprue. The skull shoulder pad is from the plastic Khorne Berzerker
set. |
| A back view of the looter. More gear added on here (this
looter has been busy!) including a metal skull glyph plate on the left
shoulder, stikkbomz from a plastic Warzone backpack, and a chainsword from
a mutie raider. The rope grapple is actually on the original model-
I had to be careful not to cover it up! |
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This Goff Nob started out as a plastic Black Ork from 2nd? edition
Warhammer Fantasy Battle. I replaced his left arm with another one
of those old plastic power claws (love those things) and painted lots of
checks on his back, but otherwise this is a stock model. Be sure
to look out for other models to use as orks- you can get a good variety
of poses if you do. |
| Here's another great example of simple conversion. I started
with a plastic model from the Mutant Chronicles board game, and simply
carved out the original head and added a head from the 40K 2nd edition
plastic orks. The end of the original gun has been replaced with
the end off a plastic ork shoota- but that's it, simple conversion and
a nice pose to boot. Any model that is bulky enough can work as an
ork, usually a head swap is all that is required. |
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