40k again. Orks
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About the Project
A friend made me an offer I couldn't refuse. He sold me the Ork half of the Armageddon 11th edition launch box. The new models had been catching my eye, but I would never of started a new army if it hadn't been for the bargain price. Looking forward to building up an 1000pts force to play smallish games with friends. I hate feeling ripped off, so have already found ways to make my hobby spend on the project stretch as far as possible.
Related Game: Warhammer 40,000
Related Company: Games Workshop
Related Genre: Science Fiction
This Project is Active
Dakkarig
I have a second one to make. Learnt a few lessons on this one. Happy with some elements but can probably improve on the overall looks on the second one.
Even when painting in subassembly, I should have probably just painted the gunner separately to get to all areas.
I primed it black and did a zenith of Leadbelcher. Next time might do that for the legs, but maybe not for the other parts.
Lloyd shot 3D Snikrot mini
Love this purchase. Looks great painted up.
Magos Purple shade over the skin gave the cuts a nice base colour. The camo was a red, burgundy and lilac pattern.
Trukk pilot
Improved on an old speed painting Salute mini to slot into my force. 
Wanted to find a use for him. I made up some headcannon as to why he's there. This helped with a name for the Trukk also.
He was a belly gunner on a Stompa. But given the lack of action, and his understanding of vehicle based dakka, he gets the job with my Blood Axes force as Trukk pilot.
Seeing as he seems so comfy behind the gun, like at the guns on the side of Flying Fortress, the Trukk is now called The Memphiston Belle.Commandos and Kommandos
To make my pennies go further, I got a Marauders commandos starter box to give me Kitbash options. I made a start with the Kommandos Nob mini. I could have built the Nob completely from the Kommandos box (above left) or completely as per the Mantic Games box (above right).
I went with a Spellcrow Orc head with beret, the Commandos resin body and the Kommandos chain axe. I used a WW2 Piat ammo box as a fuel unit for the chain axe.
I don't know exactly how the parts will share out, but keen to make all the cool specialists in the box with the GW parts only and the basic Kommandos with the Mantic Commandos. Hopefully with a uniting paint scheme they will blend together effectively.
I built all the specialists with the GW parts and then began building the Kommando Boyz with the Mantic bodies. 
Some of the body details are rather soapy but once I add the GW spare parts they look pretty good.
Needed some Greenstuff here and there to settle the arms that are curved on to the flat Mantic Games Ork shoulders.
The only GW parts (top) and the Mantic Games bodies and GW heads and arms (bottom) seem to mix in neatly so far. Killa Kan 2
Sadly my father just passed away, so threw myself into something creative that demands more attention and imagination than just a simple paint job. 
I went with the bottom half of a Kinder Surprise pot this time as the other model looked a bit tall. A 40mm beveled base fits perfectly so that closed the top off nicely. Then add a hatch ring from a bits box and then fashioned a hatch out of card on top.
Really happy with the gore and the mad rocker launcher shoulder. If they were all shot at once I imagine he would be spun in a near fatal spin and unscrew leg and fall over.
I could have done more. I think maybe he should have had the same tusk type look that's in keeping with the GW minis, but the snipped up Wardog face allowing me to make fangs into tusks looks right to me.
I was hoping this guy would be shorter, but with his legs flexed more than the other model they came out at the same height.
Lloyd shot.Kinder Killa Kans WiP
Body might be a bit bigger than hoped when the idea came to me.
Found a mix of Of Oil and Iron spare parts and Chaos Wardog parts are coming together nicely.
Once I find some feet and it has the "face" / vision ports etc. on the front this might be done.
I got quite far into the building and painting when it looked off. I checked the GW models and the teeth were lower set on the face. I think that will help and perhaps set the "eyes" further down as well. Will definitely go with only the bottom half of a Kinder pot for the next one as this has come out quite tall. It ends up being slightly more than a half but looks better. Also needs shoulder pads.
Much happier with this face and the shoulder pads are OK. Just need to base properly and improve the paint job slightly and he's done.
Kinder Killa Kan number 1 has come out great.
Already working on Killa Kan 2 but this has been a really fun start. Hopefully will make 3.Themes
I am not sure how best to approach the camo in this force given the fun lore around Blood Axes using but not understanding the colours of camo patterns. After experimenting with lines of colour over black I have a much better idea. I immediately thought of The WWF Tag Team of my youth The Nasty Boys. Rather than paint spatter I am thinking of following the pea-dot and splinter pattern tutorials on painting but using wildly inappropriate colours.
My first Ork Boyz.
I love the purple camo.
I think I am going to enjoy this scheme and the project overall.Ork Wartrakk
Kept the same Ork skin recipe from my Blood Bowl Orcs team. Though with a slightly different prime. I used blacK, a Leadbelcher zenith and quick spray of Deathguard Green over the minis.
For the skin I used a base of Death Corp Drap, then a Warboss Green, then a highlight of Ogryn Camo. The lips are any flesh colour to hand mixed with Ogryn Camo. I may come back and give the skin another highlight, but happy for now.
I got some transfers in the Kommandos kit that I dotted around.
The spring is from one of my diabetes blood sugar sensor applicators and looks enough like barbed wire to me. I can dot some barbs on there with super glue at a later date if the smoothness worries me.
