Re: Mushööm Klöwd Goff Rokkers: Steev Tylork & Sound Guy & B
Thanks for the encouraging feedback boyz. Mushrööm Klöwd salutes you all. This one goes out to Darrell...
Mr Tough Guy":3vihkuvt said:
I've never cared much for that warp head* but he's pretty much perfect as the leadsinger of Mushööm Klöwd
Yeah, I was never really a fan of that model either. I was becoming quite switched off from the Orks around that 2nd ed era, so I never paid those models much attention back then. I picked up the Weirdboy over the last year or so on a whim, probably as part of another deal or something, I dont quite remember. I didnt have a Warphead model, so I figured what the hell. I wasnt sure if I would ever get around to painting it.
The Warphead turned out to be ideal for this role though. I really quite like the cheesy "ORKS OF CHARADON, I LOVE YOU! GOODNIGHT!" pose, it makes me laugh. I considered adding make-up, but the models screwed up face was so busy already that I figured that it would just look too messy.
On a related note, I picked up some more of the ork models from that era around then, the old pulp sci-fi looking Mega-Armour and a few of the Kommandos. The sculpting style differs from Kev Adams work, but they appeal to me a lot more now than they used to for some reason.
Count Von Bruno":3vihkuvt said:
It's all almost too awesome...coming up with Steven Tylork (both name and mini) was a masterstroke too
Thanks CVB! Sometimes the plan comes together a bit better than it really has any right to.
Did I get that Warphead from you by any chance? I cant remember for sure.
Mason":3vihkuvt said:
Long Live the Klowd!
Stunning seeing them all together like this.
Thanks Mason. You liked the Klöwd before they got "famous", pre-sellout, when they were all about the music
Bane":3vihkuvt said:
Amazing work cheetor. The musical references leave me cold and clueless, but the conversions, the paint jobs and the ideas are just phenomenal.
Thanks Bane. I really enjoy seeing your toy soldiers too. While sharing a goal (painted toys for gaming with rather than display) we approach painting in totally different ways, so I get a real kick out of seeing your stuff: its so much more painterly than my more linear, slightly graphic, comic-book look, its really lovely.
As for the Klöwds musical influences, I am very much a tourist in these waters too, with Spinal Tap, Rammstein and Van Halen being the most influential on the Klöwd from my point of view, each for different (and not always flattering) reasons. I do enjoy that some forum members with more of an interest in that musical genre found a thread about my toy rockers fun to chat on though: I must have done something right
Bane":3vihkuvt said:
Love seeing your stuff, what's up next?
I have very many things in the pipeline, but Im not sure which project will gain traction next. For the orks off the top of my head I have plans for more pirates, a group of power armoured orks (painting those old models really appeals), a unit of Minderz, a dreadmob, a stompa, a small ten to twenty strong sub group of slightly more primitive sci-fi orks (Snake Bites in the scheme above essentially driven largely by an idea that I had from a simple kitbash, a Black Ops contingent to go with the gretchin ninjas. Orks are great like that, its possible to filter pretty much any pop-culture trope through them and end up with something fun.
Beyond greenskins the things that I have in the works are the Slaaneshi renegades, cultists and daemons that I have been promising myself since the 1980s, some Ordo Malleus radicals, a cockroach man and more squishy floating alien brains with rayguns and Iron Claw Pirates/Mercs. Again, Im not sure which project will take off first. Its hard to say right now, but orks have some appeal again after a six month break, so maybe its time to tackle some more of them.
Thanks again for the feedback everyone.
