A little speed - Freak!!!

So a few years back I had a tournament coming up and decided to field a Speed Freak army. Had some great fun testing the various options one of which was a squad of Nobs on bikes. I was imagining the carnage and thought a little converting was in order.

I kept the legs of the usual biker but replaced the torso with the standard Ork body and then repositioned arms etc to get the effect I was after. I really wanted to have one of the Orks leaning off the bike with a Choppa slicing its way through any unfortunate individuals who found themselves in the way. The results are below.

A little 'green stuff' goes a long way. I gotta tell you that these bad boyz paid for themselves and then some!

Warphead - old school

Quick pic of the Warphead for you. You know looking back on some of these models I am beginning to see that there may be a future for some of them in my force.

I am thinking that a repaint and rebase may actually work out quite well in some cases. Note to self - "I must give this some more thought / attention".

From little acorns do mighty Ork armies grow

We all start somewhere. I spent some time in the garage this morning and dug out some of my first 40k models. Nazdreg and my Bad Moon Orks. Seems such a long time ago now but the fun was there from the start.

I played with lots of unpainted models in the beginning and had no clue how to base the models either. Plenty of examples of that lack of knowledge on show here. 

White Dwarf played a fine role in educating me and slowly my painting skills improved.

This is my first Dread 'Ba Basha'. He was always a lucky model for me and the trend has continued down the years. If its bolted together by the Big Mek and walks on two legs I seem to be able to roll the right dice.

This was always my favourite model. You fired a load of grots that materialised inside a vehicle and shredded the occupants, unless it went badly wrong, those fickle dice gods Gork and Mork. How very Orky!!

Flying High

I have added a bit more paint and Da Flya Boyz are starting to look like they belong in the army :-)

Da Flyer

Ha ha, at last I have gotten my hands on the new Ork flying machine. Fun to build and no doubt will be great to paint. I have just thrown some paint on at this stage. Lots of detail to still pick out and colour to introduce. I have built the dakka dakka dakka choice but the others look interesting as well. I like that there are three very different looking options to build and that I have lots of left over bits for the 'bitz box'

It will be interesting to see how it plays. I am thinking that I will need to add some markings for the numbers of 'kills' or something. Also it has a big base and I am not sure what to do with it? Any suggestions welcome?

Diorama, Blood Angel theme

Well now, after some games against the Blood Angels I thought it fitting to contemplate life beyond the battle. It seemed to me that any decent Ork would spend time dismantling after a spell of 'plant the choppa in the side parting'. I came up with this little piece of fun.

You just got to take those Rhinos apart piece by piece ;-)

This became an objective in the next battle. Orks steal valuable data, Blood Angels attempt to get it back (in vain obviously). Life is for living and Orks are for having fun fun fun !

Picking through the battlefield

To give the army its own particular feel I like to 'mock' the armies that I play, in a good way. To this end my guys will pick their way through the dead bodies and acquire bits and pieces. After a number of battles against Space Wolves Da Boyz acquired a new look.