Da Grey Knightz!

Currently around the internet, there has been a growing dialog on the use of counts as armies. There are typically two groups of people, ones who love the idea and those that loathe the idea. So if you fall in the latter group I am sorry this post is not for you.

The Plan

In the ork codex there are many great legendary waaaghs and warbosses. One such figure is Tuska the deamon-killa. He is a warboss that takes special delight in killing deamons (the bigger the better). Well as it happens a new codex has been released for the Grey Knights, and now seems like a good time to jump on the bandwagon and make a Tuska counts-as Grey Knights army.

Tuska will be represented by the stats of Lord Draigo. Since we are using Draigo it seems like I will have to include some Paladins using mega armour nobz I figure that I will include at least one henchman squad that will have some death kultists possibly some mystics or deamonhosts to represent the wierdboyz that Tuska is described to have. I also want to run some purifiers (I hear they are good) as black orcs to represent the tougher, power armour orks. After that the sky is the limit. I really don't know the best way to mak

e Tuska, but I am sure that something will come up.

The Pictures

So I am aware I do a lot of talking and not a lot of doing on this blog so before I made this proposal I wanted to have a prototype model ready to show off to prove I am not crazy(well the lazy crazy anyway). Without further ado here is the first purifier:

I am really looking for feedback, do you think this will work? Does the bolter look ok? Am I a traitor to ork-kind?

Battlewagon Blitz

So this week has been pretty busy, my friend Eric and I played a game of Warhammer 40k at the local hobby store. I played my Orks(obviously) against his Deathwing army. Unfortunately the game went poorly for the Orks, the lootas never feel like firing more than one shot and the big mek with shock attack gun decided to teleport himself into Belial's squad instead of shooting at it. However, the loss cannot totally be blamed on poor dice rolling. I exposed my Nob Biker squad thinking the 4+ cover save and feel no pain would be enough to keep them alive for the first turn(at least), but Cyclone Missile Launcher Terminators would obliterate all but one nob. To top it off the nob squad on foot never managed to get into combat and was ineffective the entire game.

To help fix some of my army's deficiencies I purchased a Battlewagon, and Eric and I spent this weekend trimming and assembling it. Its primary use will be to transport boyz or nobs into combat, so it doesn't need a Kannon, Zzap gun or 'Ard Case. The seems to be very nice and it was very easy to assemble. I am excited about some of the leftover bitz as I have big plans for some of them.

I also finished an old ork bike recently and attempted to modernize it a bit. I had to get a little creative to fit the orc command boar legs to fit, but with some plasticard it turned out pretty well. My one regret is that I didn't bother spicing up the gunz but all in all I think it looks fine.

Painboy

So I have been away for awhile and a friend of mine wanted to see what I have been working on, so I present my painboy conversion.

He was pretty simple to put together, the legs, torso and slugga arm are from the boyz kit. The "doks tools" arm is from the fantasy warboss. The head and iron gob are from the plastic nob set.

The 'urty syringe is made from chopping up a scope from the boyz sprue and attaching a plasti-card rod on it. I feel like I should have done something to the eyepiece of the scope, and I still might. I am willing to take suggestions on this, so leave any in the comments. I also am debating adding some bolts to the gob to give a more "bolted on" feel.

On the back I gave him an ork skull and some knives from the kroot box. These bits were chosen to represent some smaller tools for more "delicate" operations he might have to perform.

I don't know quite how I feel he turned out. I think I did a pretty good job of creating a sense that he is a painboy instead of a nob, but wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) fanatics will have a field day with the slugga. Overall I think I could have done a little more to make him unique but as he is now he is much better than the nob-stand-in I have been using as a painboy.

First Painted Guy

As promised, here is the first figure that I finished. I think he turned out really well. Now I just have to finish the others!

Penny Arcade

Penny Arcade recently posted this comic which I thought was very relevant.

A Traditional Form

Long Overdue Return

I am sorry that I haven't posted anything in a long time, but I have been fairly busy doing nothing. Now that the season is changing and the leaves are falling I am ready to get into the swing of things and gear up for some Gorkamorka games. To kick things off I decided that it would be a good idea to paint up a gang for Gorkamorka. So I have the first five recruits below. For the paint scheme I am planning on going with a red Evil Sunz look. Hopefully I will get some of them done and post some pictures by next week.

I got all these guys from the closing event for the Glen Burnie battle bunker. It was 20 dollars to fill a large bag with as many sprues as you could for 20 mins. In addition to these guys I got a lot of good bitz and a complete old ork bike and an inordinate amount of orc chariot sprues. A sad day but at least I made off with a lot of loot.

Brewhouse Bash!

So sorry for the long delays between posts. I have been a very lazy git as of late but I hope to have some more content posted on a regular basis more often.

This post is an announcement of a new project that I have started. A very long time ago Games Workshop released a standalone game in White Dwarf I believe called "Brewhouse Bash". The premise of the game is a simulation of a orky bar fight. The only problem is that to use the board that they provide requires the Gorkamorka bases and much smaller orks than the modern ork. So with that in mind I decided it would be fun to create a board for it.

These are some pictures of some of the floor flagstones that I made. They are roughly the size of a orc warhammer base. By my calculations I will only have to make about 170 more!