Orks, Orks and moar Orks (new Orks on p8)

The trading standards agency better be ready to start arguing with a space dorf and a whole bunch of rowdy orks. I reckon they should bring some sort of weaponry. Oh, and armor. Definitely armor.
 
Time to get some more orks done; unfortunately, they have been languishing somewhat as of late. Well, no more!
The Deathskulls keep arriving:
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Here's a lovely Runtherd with a gun he happened to find somewhere and secured to a carriage that was just standnig around someplace.
The oiler grot from the gun crew is the third model in the force that's not a Kev Adams sculpt but this particular Perry grot comes with a soft spot for it.

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Next up, a Deathskull painboy with the coolest and most overpowered option available on the Biono Bits table - the fabled stink-squig attack arm.
Also, a leader for the Deathskull mob sporting a pair of modern rokkit pistols.

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Tried to snap a pic of the fiddly bits. Can you tell I'm running out of ork arms?
 
Michael Stockin said:
Gotta Paint Em All!!
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Haha, I see what you did there.
Odd, while I was building the painboy I realized that while his arm is pretty 'readable' today, in '91 it would just have been an strangely unfitting colour scheme.

As to literally paintning them all, would that I could but I'll paint what I got.
63 Goffs and 19 each of the Bad Moons, Deathskulls and Evil Sunz aaand a bunch of oddments which will eventually bring the entire collection to a nice round 140 models. It's all mapped out except for the last three. Painted 101 of 140.
 
Michael Stockin said:
Is it a squig? It looks like Krang from TMNT
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Ha, I'll take that as a compliment, kind sir!
Yup, it's meant to be a squig; I was going for a larger, more menacing version of the same kind of squig currently perched on top of his head. As to why there is a squig on his head, ManicMan, excellent connoisseur of the fine points of squig-lore has already pointed that out.
Going for different eye designs on the two squigs does ruin the intended effect, I fear. I sculpted some small round googly eyes on the big squig but of course I had to smush and smosh them up so they ended up growing ever larger.
The entire conversion is based on the best result a Painboy can roll up on the Bionik Bitz table:
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A roll on that table, desgined to give the painboy a random weapon at 5pts, also has a 2% chance of kitting him out with this .
 
^I have someone's early 90s version of this buried in a box of bits and pieces. One of these days I ought to pull him out and clean him up. (The original artist was long on dreams, but still short on skill like so many of us were when we started out, but apparently ran out of dreams before getting the skill, or he probably wouldn't have sold the box to me.)

Anyway, yes! Great conversion. :) And a nice use of shoulder pads!
 
symphonicpoet said:
The original artist was long on dreams, but still short on skill like so many of us were when we started out, but apparently ran out of dreams before getting the skill
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Man, that is such an apt description of circumstances. I might be in a happy place right now simply because my skills can finally keep up with the dream and I can make it come true in a satisfying way.
 
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