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Another idea I have had based on this French Golden Demon entry.
The idea is a brown water riverine force. Lots of landing craft, small patrol boats and monitors.
Ork Landing Craft from my website.
Ork Riverine Monitors from my website (work in progress).
In case anyone doesn’t know what I am talking about, here is an excellent web article on Vietnam War Riverine Craft.
VIETNAM STUDIES – RIVERINE OPERATIONS – 1966-1969
The best chapter, as in the one with the most pics is chapter two.
It’s big and huge and mean and nasty…
This is a long term project which is taking some time to put together.
Using a WEG Star Wars Rancor 25mm model I am making a living Ork Gargant.
The model does look like a giant Ork monster of some kind and bears some resemblance to the Squiggoth.
It is my intention to add a howdah and add weapons to the arms of this giant beast.
This is really a mock-up to give some idea of scale and final look.
I have added a range of photographs I took at Bristol Conflict.
There were some nice games and I particularly liked the Ork Gargant “Dropship” or should that read Asteroid!!!
The highlight for me was the Warhammer World Ork army on display.
Still got some way to go…
Here is a model I created used bits from the Orc Warriors sprue and the Ork Boyz sprue.
Another idea…
Following on from my other post on variant Ork army lists and a discussion on the official Epic Armageddon Forums I have thought of another concept for an Ork Army, a Lootas army containing a wealth of captured and converted Imperial equipment.
It could look really cool.
Any colour you like as long as it’s black…
Have undercoated the Ork with Standard.
The crew of the Ork Trukk are on their way now, with a black undercoat and a green base coat.
Each Kopta has been converted sightly, though the pilot of each one has been heavily converted…
As you may have read in a previous entry you will realise that I have built and converted two new Deth Koptas.
This model has two four blade rotars, a couple of epic scale Pulsa Rokkits added as bombs, I also added some cables and a few other bitz.
This model is similar, but uses the three blade rotars.
The crew have been more heavily converted using the plastic components from the Ork Boyz sprue. One difference when making the crew was to glue in the joystick first, in my first Deth Kopta I waited until the model was finished which was a real headache to glue into position.
I have glued them onto Warmaster bases to make painting them easier.
On my workbench I already have some information on how I painted my Ork Trukk.
However as of now there are only photographs of the painted model available. This was in the main as I painted the model before I started the workbench feature on the website.
I recently managed to acquire a new Trukk model therefore will be updating the page to show a step by step guide.
Generally I try and build as much of the model as possible to avoid having to glue painted parts together… with this model the only bitz left off are the crew, the weapons and the front armour plate.
I have also added (though not seen) a spanner and a shotgun to the model.
The crew are painted separately as I would find it too difficult to paint them in situ.
You can tell the age of the Trukk model, as these are Gorkamorka era models and bear little resemblance to the newer Ork models.
I believe that when Orks Codex is re-done there will be a new plastic Ork vehicle, potentially a new Trukk or probably a Battlewagon.