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Having put the boars together I gave them both a white undercoat. The right view.
The left view.
Next stage will be the metal parts, which I will then drybrush with Boltgun Metal.
Unlike my other three Boars, for these models I am using some metal Cyboar heads from the old Snakebitez bitz range – this was before Games Workshop rationalised their online bitz store.
See the full workbench feature on these Feral Ork Cyboars.
Back in 2004 at the UK GamesDay, Forge World were showing off some new Epic miniatures, an Ork Battlewagon and a Gargantuan Squiggoth.
At this point lots of new Epic Ork stuff was coming out from Forge World and we expected to see lots and lots…
Little did we know that five years later, it would be 40K Ork stuff that would see the light of day and (Ork aircraft excepted) we would see virtually no new Epic Ork vehicles.
Will Epic rise again? Probably not, which is a pity.
So the boars went together pretty easily. Though I had no tails! On the plastic boars, the tails are on the head sprue and I only ordered plastic boar bodies. Ah well out with the Green Stuff!
I then made up the riders using the same process as my other Boar Boyz.
See the full workbench feature on these Feral Ork Cyboars.
Liking my first two Ork Boar Boyz and working on a third, I decided I would model two more riders in a similar style to my other Boar Boyz. The first part of the rider model is the boar rider legs from the Warhammer Fantasy Orc Warriors sprue, though any Orc Boar Rider legs should work.
Unlike my other three Boars, for these models I also ordered some metal Cyboar heads from the old Snakebitez bitz range – this was before Games Workshop rationalised their online bitz store.
This is my favourite which has a lot of armour plates and cybernetics.
You can see how big the heads are compared to the plastic boar bodies.
Again like the other head, enhanced with cybernetics.
Next stage is to glue all the bitz together.
See the full workbench feature on these Feral Ork Cyboars.
Coming soon for Warhammer Fantasy is a new Orc on Wyvern model, Azhag the Slaughterer.
Now I started thinking about how I could use this model for my Feral Ork army for Warhammer 40K. With a little conversion work and a round base I think it would make for a very nice model.
Making some progress with my Feral Orks.
Still some way to go before I have a large number of Huntas.
It’s not uncommon for Feral Ork tribes to capture vehicles left by other forces. These vehicles will have been heavily damaged, and it’s rare that a Feral Ork tribe will either have the mechanical expertise or spare parts needed to get them going. But that does not stop the Tribes from cobbling things together with their boilers and boars to make surprisingly effective war machines.
The Junka Trukk is a model from the Epic Armageddon range.
Having a Trukk model hanging around… I decided that I would see if I could build a 28mm Junka Trukk. It would be more Trukk than the Epic version, but the idea would be the same, cobbling things together with their boilers and boars to make surprisingly effective war machines.
I built the Trukk according to the instructions, but added two extra parts, a Rhino frontal armour plate to the front and a Land Raider top front door to the rear. I had these parts left over from using resin Forge World doors.
I then added a Rhino side door as a roof to the cab of the trukk. I also added the trukk’s frontal armour plate to the Rhino front armour plate I had already stuck into place.
Of course needs more junk!
Full workbench feature on the Junka Trukk with more photos.
This is a fantasy conversion of the Forgeworld Squiggoth on display in the Warhammer World store at the Games Workshop HQ.
You can find out how I painted my Squiggoth on my workbench feature.
You can see other pictures in the Squiggoth gallery.
Gargantuan Squiggoth from the Forgeworld Display Cabinets.
Close-up of the head.
The howdah and the crew. Notice how they use parts from the Warhammer Fantasy Orc sprues, something I did with my own Feral Orks.
This is a really nice BIG model, if anything too big for most games, it is akin to a Super Heavy Tank, but I would like one. However at £200 ($400) it is somewhat out of my budget!
With a future model I may paint the armour panels in a similar style to my Junkatrukks but with this model I am going down the dirty rusty armour style.
The black painted howdah was drybrushed with Tin Bitz and then a lighter drybrush of Boltgun Metal.
Next stage is to do the skin of the Squiggoth.