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Blood Axes - learning and collecting

July 21, 2026

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Blood Axes. I like the sound of the less ‘head long charge’ type of Orks and being a bit sneakier. I will see if I can find any audio books on this clan. I know I want the character Snikrot and some Kommandos. Beyond that any list building will work around them and the Armageddon box contents.

I didn't want to pay the full price for the Ork character Snikrot so I found a 3d model very close to it instead. Is this IP theft? I don't know. It's very close in look and posing to the original GW model, but it's half the price, not a recast and it's the only way I will start to collect the force I want.

The Mantic Games Ork Marauder Commandos are a cheaper alternative to the regular 40K Kommandos, but they are missing some of the character of the GW models. I wanted two squads of Kommandos, but the Killteam is out of print and expensive and the regular box is out of stock in most places. I bought a box of Mantic Commandos...

...and picked up a box on eBay I was happy with price wise of the Kill Team Kommandos. I saw from unboxings that there are some spare and alternative parts that will allow me to upgrade my Commandos. The two boxes should allow me to make all the specialists and poses that I want without worrying about the price I have paid.

I was looking at some of my Of Oil and Iron left over parts and realised that my Kitbashed rigs are not that dissimilar to Killa Kans. Being new to this army I didn't realise this until I spotted them on a shelf in a GW store.

This isn't orky enough obviously, but the use of the legs and other component parts gave me enough food for thought to consider some Killa Kans as a fun kitbash project. Some of the bigger rigs in Of Oil and Iron have nice big gun options that would be appropriate even when actually designed at 15mm scale. I also have a glut of left over Chaos Wardog bits that will help flesh out the kitbash. The body might have to be something like a Kinder Surprise pot or something like that.

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