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Here is a flight of Deth Koptas from a recent game.
They performed well, though my opponent was somewhat confused over what they were. Were they vehicles or were they infantry.
Bikes can be confusing even more so when they are akin to Jetbikes like the Deth Koptas.
No real solution, but I may be tempted to use them as Wartrakks rather then Warbikes.
I have been adding to my Ork Boyz.
Using the same technique as outlined on my website.
It is relatively quick and quite a few boyz can be painted in a short time.
This is the progress I have made with my Ork Standard Bearer.
As with most of my Feral Orks he uses components from the WHFB Orc sprue.
As for the eventual banner design it has to be this…
As you can see from the photo:
I have painted various components of the Skorcha and some of the driver.
The main body will be a brown/orange colour with the metal parts in a dirty rusty metal colour.
I have also virtually finished the Grot who sits on the trailer.
Here is one of my Feral Orks.
As you can see it is about halfway through its paintjob.
Here are a couple of Feral Orks, using fantasy and WH40K sprues.
They use components from the Ork Boyz sprue and the Warhammer Fantasy Battle Orc sprue.
This gives them a low-tech look.
Started reading the new Turtledove novel…
I eventually got round to ordering Homeward Bound, the new Turtledove novel based from his WorldWar series.
I have only read the first thirty pages and doesn’t time fly….
Review from Amazon:
Alternate-history maestro Turtledove’s conclusion to his Worldwar and Colonization sagas, about how lizard-like aliens known as the Race invaded Earth during WWII and were fought to a stalemate by the major Allied and Axis combatants, lacks the vividly described battle scenes of its predecessors, but more than compensates by closely examining the Race’s culture and society.
While the Race have colonized much of Earth, they’re amazed by the human ability to adapt to change. (The aliens’ probe some 600 years earlier led them to expect they’d be facing armored knights.) When an American starship makes the trip to Home, the Race’s planet of origin, the lizards fear the loss of their technological dominance and decide to annihilate Earth, their colony included—until another Earth spaceship arrives, this one with the faster-than-light drive the Race never developed.
The question of how much common ground exists between the lizards and humans wouldn’t have been out of place in old issues of Astounding. The author dramatizes the old “nature versus nurture” argument through the moving stories of a human woman raised from birth by the lizards and of two aliens raised as humans. Fans will be pleased that room remains for a sequel.
Order the book from Amazon.
I already have the metal models and they are painted and finished.
Using components from the Stormboyz metal bitz I am converting some plastic Ork models into Tankbustas.
The middle model has an Orc Warrior shield arm, which I have drilled a hole through the fist. I then cut one of the Stormboyz grenades in half before putting the two halves through the hole and sticking them with superglue.
I start off with a black undercoat and then do all the metallic bitz with a drybrush of tin bitz and chainmail.
This unit will also have an Ork with a converted Rokkit Launcha.
I have finished sticking my Ork Stormboyz together.
The models which come as a multi-part plastic and metal kit have also had components from the Orc Warriors Warhammer sprue used.
They have now being undercoated black. Their jump packs have been undercoated white and I am painting them separately (hence they are glued to a strip of thick plasticard as shown here before being undercoated).
I am intending to paint the jump packs in reds and yellows.
The jump packs in my mind would make excellent large rockets for Epic Armageddon, however at £2 each they are quite expensive, if you wanted a large number it would be cheaper to buy the Stormboyz boxed set!
