50 Shades of Green

So, I figured: with all these new clans I'm doing, why not go for some different skin tones, as well? I like the way I currently do Ork skin, it looks decent, is easy and, most importantly, its quick, but I decided to change it up for some of the other clans. All these skin tones are made by just mixing another colour to the normal greens I use. (The quality of painting on these models is below even my usually low standards, because they are only test models. Please bear this in mind.

 

Goffs

The Goffs I see as the black orcs of space orks. I wanted them to look a whole lot darker and even more menacing than the other clans. I added brown to the green skin colour, and I really like the effect. These guys have the added benefit of being very quick to paint. After doing the skin, and the teeth and bone areas (and some areas of brown cloth), the armour is just a single highlight of Mithril Silver over the black basecoat.

Blood Axes

I wanted to give my Blood Axes a mostly grey city-fight-esque colour scheme, and to match I added a bit of grey to their skin tone. Orks are naturally adaptable in their muscle mass and physique, so I gathered their skin tone may well change depending on their surroundings, another genetic coding built into the race to make them better at what they do.

Frostbites

My take on the Snakebite clan. I've wanted to do a snow themed army for ages now, but I've never got around to doing it. I always preferred giving my armies cohesion with my desert and city themed boards, but I went against that for this army. Their skin was achieved by simply adding Ice Blue to the normal green colours, and I think it adds to their sun-depraved look.

For the time being I'm slowly working my way through my old ork models. I have over 3.5k points of orks from my previous freebooters army, ready to have their paint stripped and having a re-do. The Goff scheme above was very quick, so there will be a lot of Goffs in my collection before long.

Look at me Flash, boss!

Flash Gitz

Now that I've started adding new clans to collection, I figured it was the perfect time to add some of the more characterful units to my army. Flash Gitz are synonymous with the Bad Moons clan, so it was natural I would get some eventually. I've never used them before: I hear they're not too good, but who cares about that? I can see them being fun.
I was thumbing through a bunch of old White Dwarfs a few months back (that sounded so wrong), and I stumbled upon an article by ork legend Adrian Wood, and how he converted a bunch of Bad Moon nobz armed entirely with Big Shootas (it was possible back then). This was the inspiration I needed, and set about a box of 4 spare plastic nobz. The 5th one is in my other squad below.
I modified their guns quite extensively, added a bunch of tekky gubbinz, blades and other such stuff. I'm not a big fan of the whole pirate thing people go for with their Flash Gitz, so I opted for something more traditionally orky. (Also, I've not finished painting their ammo runts, yet.)
You'll also notice there are only 4 of them, currently illegal, but I have a painboy sitting idle on my desk, so he's going to be painted up and added to the squad, eventually.

Trukk Boyz

And alongside the Bad Moons I'm working on a small Evil Sunz army. My 'main' made up clan, da Big Teef, use orange for their clan colour, so having yellow- and red-wearing boyz made some sort of sense. These guys do not have their trukk yet, but they will get one, of course.

Inquisitor 28mm

So a while back, my friend introduced me to 28mm Inquisitor. This concept provides all the cool unique narrative rules of the Inquisitor game with the modelling/converting opportunities of regular 28mm models. He's had a small warband hanging around for ages, and while I've been meaning to get some models sorted for it, I've been putting it off for reasons I won't go into here.
Safe to say, I've done my first few little guys, and I'm quite happy with the results.

Inquisitor Devona Reinhardt

My Inquisitor. I did originally want a male Inquisitor, based off the Commissar Yarrick body, and while this guy will still be done in future, I settled for this lady instead. She's based off a female Vampire from Fantasy, with a few bits added to make her appear more 40k-ish. I think the baroque, gothic-style armour really suits 40k's atmosphere.

Brother Veraad Sobrath

Based on the Vampire Counts plastic Necromancer, Brother Sobrath is a heretic preacher. Once assigned to the Sisters of Battle as a battle orator, his descent into madness began during a battle against daemons. That very battle also took his eyesight, and since then he began to receive visions from the Warp, gradually turning him from Imperial light.
He is old and haggard, the tubes on his back pumping life-sustenance into his body. He also carries a staff, the origins of which are shrouded in mystery, but some say it has the power to control daemons.

Callus

A brutal killer, Callus is the right-hand man of Sobrath. He is based on the Wight King, again from the Vampire Counts range. His armour is ancient, but I added the Chaos Marine shoulder pad to "update" his look; maybe he found the shoulder pad and used it to upgrade his armour mid-battle?

Another fun little thing I'll be doing is using these last two guys as leaders for my cultists units in my 40k Word Bearers army, just to give those units a bit more personality and individuality.

Da Green Krusade

I think its time to gather an even Bigga Waaagh! And in doing so, other Ork tribes have gathered under Gorzag's banner with promises of an even bigger and better fight. The orks was rage across the galaxy in a tide of violence. Never before have the orks bothered to set aside their differences and unite, but when it does happen the universe will be plunged into untold carnage that none will survive. It has begun...

In a nutshell, I wanted a way to breathe new life into my Ork collection. I grew somewhat tired of painting the same scheme over and over, so I decided to change it up a little with different clans. Although I seem to have chosen some random units to paint up like this, I have written small 500pts lists for every major clan. If each of these other armies becomes big enough to be its own thing, I can use them as allies, but in the meantime they can simply be used as units from the same army without being illegal, which is nice.

Bad Moonz
The biggest rivals to my Big Teef tribe, the Bad Moonz were first to pledge allegiance to Gorzag. Although the local Bad Moonz are nothing more than a small splinter warband of the whole tribe, their riches have gotten then a lot of snazzy wargear and weapons of mass destruction, all promising to play an important role in the war to come.
Here are my Meganobz.

Evil Sunz
So I had another mob of bikers sitting on my shelf, so I thought why not add in some Evil Sunz bikers, too? Edit: I just noticed I forgot to finish the nob's wristband :P

Zl'Kahvorh and The Shifted
Ok, onto a different army altogether. I decided a while back to add some Daemon allies to my Word Bearers army. It makes sense after all, according to the fluff, and will add some much needed combat punch to my gun-heavy Chaos army... so I pick Horrors, one of the more shooty types of daemon. I know, ironic right? But I just love the models.
I rarely use psykers in my armies, so I decided to add a Herald of Tzeentch. I used the Changeling model because it's awesome. He's called Zl'Kahvorh, The Faceless one, and his Horrors are known as The Shifted.

 



Chaos Update

So I haven't updated for months. The reason? Guild Wars 2. But I've given it a break for a few days, and got some things finished up in my Word Bearers force.

Maulerfiend

I'll get the big beastie out the way first. I've never understood everyone's dislike for this model since its release. My only gripe is it looks a bit generic, but that's ok for an Undivided player like me. But it would have been nice to see different head or backplate options. I added a slight spin on the basic model by giving it 5 legs. Naturally, this meant I had to remove one of the Magma Cutters, but that's fine with me. Other than adding a few extra details, like the flames, and the scrolls to Word Bearerify(!) it, its a pretty basic build.
Its also, probably, the biggest model I've finished in my collection, not including terrain. (In fact, that does include terrain - I've not finished a terrain project either!)

As for the rules side of things, knowing this beast's limits is paramount. In my first game using it, my opponent (knowing it was my newest model) naturally targeted it with everything he had that could kill it; and kill it he duly did! But in the second game, it mashed a unit of sentinels, a Leman Russ and took a chunk out of some infantry, so at least it made it's points back. Shame it died to a single meltagun shot from a Guardsman!

Oberan's Revilers

Last blogpost, many months ago, saw the completion of my first Troops unit. Well, here's my second, so I now have my core Troops filled, at long last!
They run the same build, except the Champion has a power sword and meltabombs instead. The red blood on the skin looks especially vibrant on this squad, like it does on the Maulerfiend. Its not that bright in the flesh (excuse the pun); I need to mess around with my camera's settings a bit.

And here is Oberan's Rhino. This is still a PIP at the moment, so its not as shiny, and its missing the gunner for the time being. The top was very bare, so I added a large Chaos Star to spruce it up a bit.
I'm also working on a free-hand Word Bearer design on the right entry hatch, but I didn't photo it because it looks terrible at the moment.




Helbrute


 And finally, for today, my Helbrute, Brian. No, that's not his real name; I haven't named him yet.
I apologise for the quality of the picture. No matter how I photographed him he always came out blurry.
This guy is very much a WIP, too. I need to tidy some areas of the skin and "teeth", as you can probably tell.
I gave him a few simple convertions. I made the plasma cannon out of a spare Forgefiend gun leftover from my Maulerfiend. I also added green-stuff flames to his power fist to show his heavy flamer upgrade.