a few 40k models (including my Adrian Wood style Ork Dreadnought!))
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MortiS-the-Lost
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I'm posting this in response to General Biakal's LostAndDamned-ers-WE-NEED-YOUR-BRUSHES-IN-ACTION post he made a few weeks or so back ... and also to quell the urban-myth/rumour/misunderstanding that I play 40k and collect Tyranids, that came about because I posted 1 picture of a Genestealer conversion I did (some people only look at the Sci-fi section). The truth is back when I still played 40k (before 3rd edition really put me off) I played Orkz, mostly due to me having lots of Orkz and Orky Vehicles left over from the days when I played GorkaMorkA.
First up my Adrian Wood style Ork Dreadnought. Adrian Wood's original scratch-built dreadnoughts were built from bitz he'd picked up at 'The Great Led Sale' (an event that took place when Citadel switched it's metal production from good-old-fashion led to Citadel White Metal) and first appeared in WD222, later instructions on how to build your own appeared in WD225 and shortly afterwards GW-Mail Order put out a deal allowing you to buy all the parts needed to build your own. I've seen a post on another forum where some one selling their own Adrian Wood Dreadnought on eBay claimed they paid over £70 for the parts - the Mail Order deal was much less than that (around £25? I can't remember - I'll have to dig about and see if I can find the parts list) so the guy was either lying to try and justify wanting a ridiculously high price or really was a complete idiot and bought all the parts individually ... anyway here's my version of a classic.
a slight variation on the original, my Drednought is armed with 1 Las cannon (part of an old Predator) Twinlinked Heavy-bolters from an Ork Trak and a Hop-Splat gun standing in as an extra Auto-Cannon (also note the 'beast skull' on the left 'shoulder' which I'm ashamed to admit I cut off a Citadel C-Series Ogre-Mage's staff). A later edition to the model was the power-plant/engine from a newer Ork Killa Kan. The one main comment I'd like to make about this model it was a pain to build - the parts never fitted together very well because they where never intended to and it took many many hours of filing, sawing, drilling and swearing to put it together... and then countless more repairing it, because this bastard of a model would come apart every time I transported it to a game, no matter how much I re-enforced it and carefully packed it each time. The article in WD made it all look so easy too ...
In games it didn't fair much better either, as with all scratch built or heavily converted models it became a bullet magnet and wouldn't often see it past the 2nd turn (3rd edition 40k's extreme nerf-ing of the entire Ork army didn't help much either) but it was fun to use in a GorkaMorkA scenario were a rogue Ork Drednought went rampaging around Mek-Town and 3 Mobs had to try and stop it before it caused too much damage.
Next up my looted Imperial Basilisk
Fairly standard assembly here minus the silly gun-shield bit with a bunch of Orky bitz added. Sadly the Orky Crew, which included a pointing Ork Mekboy, a Grot covering his ears and a Gretchin holding 2 ends of a cable together and getting electrocuted had been packed separately and I couldn't find them when I was taking the photos
couple more images for you now of other stuff I dug out of the cupboard while I was looking for the above models
^ a Rogue Trader era Hop-Splat gun
^ an Ork Harpoon-Gun Trak from one of my GorkaMorkA Mobs
and finally here's 1 single space marine I painted for some reason many many years ago (I can't remember but it might have been for a 28/30mm scale Inquisitor campaign that never took place in 2003) ....
First up my Adrian Wood style Ork Dreadnought. Adrian Wood's original scratch-built dreadnoughts were built from bitz he'd picked up at 'The Great Led Sale' (an event that took place when Citadel switched it's metal production from good-old-fashion led to Citadel White Metal) and first appeared in WD222, later instructions on how to build your own appeared in WD225 and shortly afterwards GW-Mail Order put out a deal allowing you to buy all the parts needed to build your own. I've seen a post on another forum where some one selling their own Adrian Wood Dreadnought on eBay claimed they paid over £70 for the parts - the Mail Order deal was much less than that (around £25? I can't remember - I'll have to dig about and see if I can find the parts list) so the guy was either lying to try and justify wanting a ridiculously high price or really was a complete idiot and bought all the parts individually ... anyway here's my version of a classic.
a slight variation on the original, my Drednought is armed with 1 Las cannon (part of an old Predator) Twinlinked Heavy-bolters from an Ork Trak and a Hop-Splat gun standing in as an extra Auto-Cannon (also note the 'beast skull' on the left 'shoulder' which I'm ashamed to admit I cut off a Citadel C-Series Ogre-Mage's staff). A later edition to the model was the power-plant/engine from a newer Ork Killa Kan. The one main comment I'd like to make about this model it was a pain to build - the parts never fitted together very well because they where never intended to and it took many many hours of filing, sawing, drilling and swearing to put it together... and then countless more repairing it, because this bastard of a model would come apart every time I transported it to a game, no matter how much I re-enforced it and carefully packed it each time. The article in WD made it all look so easy too ...
In games it didn't fair much better either, as with all scratch built or heavily converted models it became a bullet magnet and wouldn't often see it past the 2nd turn (3rd edition 40k's extreme nerf-ing of the entire Ork army didn't help much either) but it was fun to use in a GorkaMorkA scenario were a rogue Ork Drednought went rampaging around Mek-Town and 3 Mobs had to try and stop it before it caused too much damage.
Next up my looted Imperial Basilisk
Fairly standard assembly here minus the silly gun-shield bit with a bunch of Orky bitz added. Sadly the Orky Crew, which included a pointing Ork Mekboy, a Grot covering his ears and a Gretchin holding 2 ends of a cable together and getting electrocuted had been packed separately and I couldn't find them when I was taking the photos
couple more images for you now of other stuff I dug out of the cupboard while I was looking for the above models
^ a Rogue Trader era Hop-Splat gun
^ an Ork Harpoon-Gun Trak from one of my GorkaMorkA Mobs
and finally here's 1 single space marine I painted for some reason many many years ago (I can't remember but it might have been for a 28/30mm scale Inquisitor campaign that never took place in 2003) ....
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