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The new models are rather nice…
Managed to see a blister of the new Ork Trukks (or battlewagons as they are referred to) and though most are new, some are conversions of the older models (as we were promised) and it does seem a little strange to see the Flakwagon Trukk as a whole casting as opposed to the three part I am use to.
…or how to save a little bit of money…
With the release of the Warhammer 40K 2004 Annual the final version of the Ork feral list is now available.
I quite like the idea of Boar Boyz I certainly use them in my Epic Ork army, but have always been a little wary of the price of the Warhammer Fantasy Battle Orc Boar Riders which are £6 each!
Having glanced around the GW online store I have come up with a potential (and cheaper) solution.
Using the Orc Command Sprue (from the Orc Boyz Regiment boxed set) you do in fact get a Boar rider. It only costs £3 and you get an additional two Orcs.
It would seem that you get three Orc bodies and four legs, however if you take a closer look at the top right you can see that the legs are slightly different!
These are the Boar Rider legs. If you have the Orc Battalion Box, you will notice you get a Orc Warlord on a Boar these are the components.
A plastic boar costs £1 for the body and 50 pence for the head, total cost is £4.50 and you get an additional two Orcs.
As the plastic components with the 40K Ork Boyz are pretty similar and you get loads of extra arms with 40K weapons to convert the Orc Boyz.
The command sprue also comes with a range of extra bitz as well including a standard, a shield and a pair of drums – perfect for any feral Ork army.
It is my intention however to use the 40mm round slottabases rather than the WHFB cavalry bases which come with the boars.
I have finished the base on one of my Killa Kans and with a virtually done paintjob it is ready to play a game with.
The base is done with a few bits of gravel from the garden, GW sand and then painted Codex Grey before being drybrushed with lighter shades of grey and then white.
The main body of the Killa Kan is black, drybrushed with Tin Bitz and Boltgun Metal.
I still have to do some of the detailing but I am quite happy with it at the moment.
I am not sure whether I should paint the missiles yet and what colour!
You find more information on the Killa Kan on the workbench section of the iFelix website.
I tried something else…
Well after much thinking, I decided to stick with the orange, but this time lay it on thick!
It has covered better and now looks like battered panels and the paint has cracked and flaked off.
I need to do some highlighting and some more weathering, but I am now more pleased with this than the previous attempt!
it is somewhat bright, but I may vary the share across different panels.
You find the previous history of my Ork Fighter Bommer on the workbench section of the iFelix website.
The orange has not worked…
Despite two coats the Citadel Orange paint is not covering the brown undercoat at all well…
Not sure what to do now, I may have to go for a different colour entirely and my dream of an orange Ork Bommer is fading fast…
Trying to ensure that the panels look battered…
You find the previous history of my Ork Fighter Bommer on the workbench section of the main website.
One effect I wanted was to ensure that the fighter looked like it was cobbled together from bits and pieces and then painted orange. I also wanted to have some “new” pieces that looked like they were from captured Imperial vehicles.
However first I needed to do the edges, and these were painted roughly in black.
These will then be drybrushed with Boltgun Metal and Chainmail to give a rough knocked about a bit look. The panels will then be painted orange (though some will be painted Cadian green as though they were taken from destroyed Imperial tanks).
When I was at GamesDay 2003, I managed to get my hands on the new ForgeWorld Epic Ork Gunwagons (which are the Epic versions of the FW 40K Gunwagons).
They are good value for money, just £5 for three, and there are four different types.
As I suspect with a lot of people, I did not paint them straight away and put them in a box to do later…
However now I have got them out and undercoated them.
They are very detailed models, though the exhausts are somewhat delicate and many of them were broken in transit.
See the full workbench feature on the Epic Forgeworld Ork Gunwagons.