Lots of cool looking Orks @ The Warforge.com

Any new or old Ork players should look for Master Ein for Ork inspiration. His blog at The-Warforge.com shows his very detailed and good looking Ork units. Just check out some of his marvellous work!

 Awesome all round paint and modelling skills. Plus, he's one of the rare Ork Meks that even try LED'ing his models! Just check out the lighted eye in his Killa Kanz and Stompa. Most of his minis have been submitted to coolminiornot.com and been getting good support there. He even created a playable rule for his Warboss Gargrim here. He's the equivalent of the Ultramarines' Marneus Calgar, with his dual shootin' Power Fists.... >:D

Any Ork players should save pictures of his work into computer, cause it's that damn cool.

Baltimore Games Day - DA WAAAGH VS. THE BOLTER AND CHAINSWORD ANNUAL BASH

Got this message from the-waagh.com mods, and thought it would be nice to help them propagate the announcement  :

"A couple of things going on here soon in the life of the waaagh. First up is Baltimore Games Day!  We need some good solid boyz to show up and put on a good thumpin' to the beakie boyz over at the Bolter and Chainsword.  If you are going to games day, you do not want to miss this WAAAGH!"

DA WAAAGH VS. THE BOLTER AND CHAINSWORD ANNUAL BASH

When: Start between 6:30 – 7:00 after Games Day
Where: Battle Bunker at Glen Burnie, MD.
What: Members from Da Waaagh and The Bolter And Chainsword will have a friendly mega battle game. We will take up money and order pizza and get it delivered to the store.

Rules:

1. Each person must bring 500 points of painted models. If you live closer and don’t mind, please bring more so that we can ensure sides have equal points. Suggestion is to make army lists in 500 point increments.
2. Models must be painted to 3 colors standard and must be based.
3. Army lists must be in the following guidelines:
   
   
   
   • You must have one troops choice.
   • Other than troops, all other force org slots are 0-1. You do not have to have an HQ.
   • No special characters are allowed.
   • Models can have more than 2 wounds, but their wound characteristic is reduced to 2.
   • Models can have a save better than 3+, but it is reduced to a 3+.
   • No vehicles with a total Armour Value greater than 33, except dreadnoughts (not including ironclad or venerable) and deff dreads. This is calculated by adding the front, side, and rear armour numbers.
   • No Ordnance weapons
   • Imperial Armour lists and vehicles can be used, but must adhere to the above rules.

Prizes: Bragging rights and a trophy/plaque to the winning side! There will also be some individual awards as well.

Scenario: TBD, but will most likely involve capturing objectives and killing lots of things!

Original source from the-waaagh here. Anybody interested to show them beakie boyz our choppa/klaw ends? Or at least prepare a good army list to help them boyz cave some marinez head in? Its gonna be fun to pit the best in both forums togetha!

Inspirational multiple Ork Waaagh Klans

Most of us paint our Orks and wat not in your favourite klan colors. But what if we had multiple klans in your waaagh? Warboss Tae from the-waaagh.com forums just showed us how cool is his army! His army consists of Orks from all da klans roll into one. Very colorful I should say. 

Here is what he have to say about his painting scheme :

Hey Warboss Tae here with my first ever 40k army.

Fluff-wise, it's a freebootin', world-hoppin', fungus-beer-drinkin' mob of orks that have left their separate clans to join Azbag da Stomper'er's space-farin' Waaagh!

I like painting all of the different clans and thought, "Why bog myself down with one of the six clans, when I can paint stuff from each one?" Hence, the freebooter theme.

Also, I thought, why just have squads of each clan (a squad of Deathskull lootaz, a squad of Evil Sunz bikerz) when I can mix em all up? So, my solution was to create the following table and roll a D6 for each model in the unit, to decide what clan the model originally came from, then paint it accordingly. It's kept it fun and kept me interested in continuing to find new and interesting ways to convert and paint the models once I knew where they came from.  

Go check more pictures from the original post here! And here are some samples :

Check out the Grotz looting Imperial Guardmen's gunz and uniforms, da Kool Deffskull Klown, and the "Assashun's Kreed" Deffwing Mega Nobz. It will be much more awesome if he completed his army with Pirate Orks! Or maybe Ninja Orks? This guy inspired me to paint multiple klans in my Waaagh for da perfect harmony! What'cha guys think? Big Waaagh makes Orks happy! >:D

ForgeWorld : Ork Kommandoes conversion set!

Holy crap, seems like ForgeWorld likes Orks! They never release enough of 'em, which is good fer us!

ForgeWorld says it is ready for pre-order now for release in the week commencing July 26th. Here are the new Ork Kommando Conversion set from them :

Description from the ForgeWorld website :-

Kommandoz often make use of ‘Chinork’ Warkoptas to launch the Orky equivalent of an Imperial stealth raid. In these raids, dozens of Orks cling to the sides of these huge war machines before leaping onto the heads of their hapless enemy and directly into battle.

This resin conversion set designed by Mark Bedford is available to pre-order now for release in the week commencing July 26^th.

Since this is a conversion set, this means that you need parts from da Ork Boyz box set. From the look of the pictures, this set includes resin parts of :

5 x Kommando heads and backpacks w/ tankbusta bombs and gubbins

1 x Kommando Nob head with a custom torso, arms w/ Big Choppa, Bosspole and a backpack w/ tankbusta bombs and gubbins. 

So you'll probably need  5 x slugga and choppa arms, Ork boy torsos and 6 x legs to make da kommandoes. Most of you probably have extra slugga and choppa arms lying around and da Ork boyz torsos and legs can be easily bought from bits shop online or ebay. Plus, I'm sure the Assault On Black Reach Ork boyz parts can be used with this conversion set as well! Maybe a lil' bit cutting and modelling will make them look as good as the regular Ork boy version, as mentioned in my previous post here. 

I guess its a much better bargain for £15.00 / ~USD22.95 (5 Kommandoes,1 Kommando Nob) compared to the metal GW's one (4 Kommandoes, 1 Kommando Nob) which retails at £22.50 / USD37.85 (~£20.00 or USD31.89 with discount from other stores). The only difference is that the GW's Kommando Nob looks cooler with the Power Klaw, a grot and a cigar.

With the price difference of ~£7.00 / USD9.00 and one extra Kommando, I'd rather get this over the GW one. Buying the extra bits won't cost that much anyways. Plus with the Gas masks and Night Vision goggles, they seemed more suited to run with GW's Snikrot model, which also has similar type of goggles :

GW should stop making metal Ork elites like Tankbustas and Kommandos altogether since they cost so much, and its a nightmare to convert and model metal figures. HQ's maybe OK to be metal to distinguish themselves as important units...but heck, I prefer all of them to be plastic. See how many Ork players kustomize their AOBR plastic Warboss, Deffkopta and Nobz to their imagination. All plastic Ork releases in the future please! Ork players usually like to konvert and remodel their stuff, and by making them plastic I'm very sure the sales figure of those sets will go up too.

Wanna go pre-order your FW Kommando today? :P

Custom Ork Spotlight : Warlord Nazdreg Ug Urdgrub

When the 2008 Orks codex came out, the first thing I realize after going through the unique characters list is that...there isn't any unique Warboss other than Ghazzie in the Ork codex. This kinda baffles me as Orks are very cool fluff wise, and the lack of unique characters compared to the humies/beakies codex is just ain't nice. FYI, let me run down the Unique characters da Orks currently have :

HQ

Warlord Ghazkull Thraka - Unique Warboss in Mega Armour

Mad Dok Grotsnik - Unique Painboss

Old Zogworth - Unique Warphead

Wazdakka Gutsmek - Unique Big Mek on Custom Warbike

Elites

Boss Snikrot - Unique Kommando leader

Boss Zagstruk - Unique Stormboy leader

Heavy Support

Kaptin Badrukk - Unique Flash Git leader

Only two of the unique characters are competitive tactically (Ghazzie and Snikrot), three who are OK, but rather difficult to use and expensive to field (Mad Dok, Wazdakka, Zagstruk) and two who are not very competitive and costly (Badrukk and Old Zogworth).

Realize the we don't have enough unique Warboss? Or any top notch unique character? That right! So thats why I'm gonna use Warlord Nazdreg and try to fit him in the current metagame! So here you go...

Orky Fort's version of the Bad Moon Warboss in 5th Edition :

Warlord Nazdreg in the 3rd edition Codex

Nazdreg Ug Urdgrub 190 points.

      

                  WS   BS    S     T    W     I    A    L   Sv

Nazdreg        5     3     5     5     3    4    4    9    2+ 

Wargear: Nazdreg has a bosspole, cybork body, mega-armour, stikkbombs and a Kustom Blasta-X (this replaces the normal twin-linked shoota that comes with mega-armour)

Wargear

Kustom Blasta-X:

Nazdreg 'persuaded' a Mekboy to build a powerful special kustom blasta into his mega armour. It is his pride and uses his blasta to blast anything he wishes to. It has the following profile :

                              Range      Str      AP       Special

Kustom Blasta-X       36"             7         2        Assault 1, Blast, Gets Hot!

Mega Booster

Warlord Nazdreg has a extra boost unit fitted to his suit to ensure he don't miss out any chances for a fight. The Warlord is allowed to re-roll his dice for the distance he moves.

Special Rules:

Independent Character, Furious Charge, Mob Rule, Waaagh!

Kunnin' plans: Warlord Nazdreg is known for his low cunning and sneaky plans. To represent this, one elite or troop mob in Nazdregs army can choose to have the Infiltrate ability or Deep Strike rule. If the option Deep Strike is chosen, it maybe used regardless of whether the scenario normally uses these rules. The mob chosen must be on foot and may not number more then twenty models.

Da Bad moon Warboss

Nazdreg allows one Meganobz or Flash gitz mob to be taken as a troops choice. You can also take more upgrade up to two Ork boyz as 'Ard Boyz.

Nazdreg can get one ammo runt for +5 points

More cool pictures of Nazdreg on the Internet :

So how do you think? Is his point cost good enough? :)

Hellboy Ork

If you think Orks are not cool, think again....check out this custom model from Hobby Max, a french modelling shop :

"Sergent Ork" is a limited edition figure (only 250 units made), priced at €12.50 (~USD15.70). Decent price for a limited edition figure to say the least. I'd reckon he still looks good if he's painted red-skinned though.

 He sure looks like a good substitute for a Warboss or Nob leader w/Power Klaw, and will surely stand out in your army!

New Apocalypse Data Sheets

New Apocalypse data sheets are released by GW! Orks have their own Dread-Mob datasheet where you can download here. Eldar panzees and humies have their own one as well.

The better news is our datasheet is really a competitive one! We'z all know our KFF is a great tool to protect our stuff, and now da Mek mounted it on a Da big 'Dred in the datasheet. This KFF has an expanded range of 12" instead of the usual 6", where any walker at least partially within 12" of Da Big Dred counts as being an obscured target. Our cheap Killa Kanz have 50% chance to repel almost any sort of gunz now. All walkers also have free grot riggas in them. Now dat's pretty!

Nasty Big Dred Dethklanka with KFF

Speaking of Apocalypse, there is a good article in the GW website where it teaches you how to create your own datasheet and models for your Apocalypse game. You can get the empty datasheet here, where you can fill up your own datasheet for your waaagh. 

There are many more Apocalypse articles and datasheets in GW and I have compiled and listed all of it here. Big Waaagh alwiyz give me adrenaline to bash up some 'eads! WAAAAGHHH!!

Want an easy way to get a good looking Freeboota Orks/Flash Gitz?

A nice looking Freeboota Flashgitz from Hellbrandt Grimm

If ya like Pirate Orks, liked the new Kaptinn Badrukk model but don't know where to start? You came at the right moment. After some searchin' around the Internet I'z found some interesting stuff : There is custom resin made Pirate Ork heads and bodies made to sell!

Both of them are from different shops, so you havta' get them seperately. Nob-sized pirate bodies are readily available in the Microart Studio shop and nice looking Pirate Ork heads are available in MaxMini. Alternatively MaxMini also have smaller heads for da Pirate boyz here.

So lets get to the cost of getting five Pirate heads and bodies

Pirate Bodies x 5 = 9.76 euro

Pirate Heads x 5 = 4.80 euro

Total = 14.56 euro

So thats about 17 -20 euro (USD 21.00- 24.60) with shipping. Rememba that you need Nob hands and weapons too. If you want to model them as Nobz, then you could easily get the choppa/slugga/Power Klaw bits from the plastic Nobz set. Metal may do too, with some pinning for safety. If you want to model them as Flash Gitz instead, you could bash up bits of gunz together from GW (IG models have plenty of gunz), Forge World, MaxMini, or any other custom miniature resin shop. If you're tight on budget, the cheapest way is to cut and tie up two regular shootas together.

If you're wondering about the size of the pirate bodies, My War Game website has a shot comparison of the bodies compared to a Nob. Here is what you'll get from Microart studios :

And here's the comparison of it to a Nob:

As reviewed by them, it is worth taking note that you need greenstuff/putty to stick the arms properly to the body for more dynamic poses, and careful on removing the block of resin stuck on the feed as it may break the feet off.

Hellbrandt Grimm from the Warseer forums have some good examples of his finished Freeboota Flashgitz here.

Here are his WIP pictures and completed ones:

Looks pretty nifty huh? Enough motivation for ya to start your own Pirate Waaagh now?

New Forgeworld Ork Meka Dread out!

Just when I thought the Ork wave from Forgeworld is over for now...here comes another one!

Forge World is sure trying it's best to push the sales of Imperial Armour 8 with awesome looking models in the book. Damn you FW!

Presenting...Da New Meka Dread!

Description from da Meka Dread body from Forge World :

These modified Mega Dreads replace the big shootas with multiple tool-equipped servo-arms for battlefield 'fixins'.

The Meka Dread Body is also supplied with a Big Mek pilot, holding the 'complex' Kontrol system of this unique war machine. Complete resin kit, arms shown for illustration purposes only and are sold separately. Model designed by Phil Stutcinskas, crew model designed by Mark Bedford.

Desciption of the Shunta Arm :

An outlandish experimental energy-hungry weapon, the Shunta is a compact magneto-gravitic 'traktor' gun. Similar to the Lifta-Droppa it can hurl a bubble of energy that smashes targets aside like a giant hammer. Complete resin kit for the Ork Meka Dread. Model designed by Phil Stutcinskas.

And the description of the Kil Saw Arm :

Huge saw-blade arms are often seen on Mega Dreads. Their pilots love seeing them rip through even the strongest of armour. Compete resin kit for the Ork Mega or Meka dreads. Model designed by Phil Stutcinskas.

The body set of the Meka Dread is priced at £35.00 (~USD 51.80). The inclusion of a Big Mek pilot is sure a good bonus...  :P

Basically the legs are the same as the previous Mega Dread from Forgeworld, it's just the upper body and both hands are new. The Shunta Arm and Kil Saw Arm are priced at £18.00 (~USD 26.60) and £16.00 (~USD 23.70) respectively. The Meka Dread body and both new arms are interchangable with the previous Mega Dread and it's Kil Kannon and Rippa Klaw Arm.

I like both the newer Arms over the older ones, but the older Mega Dread does look a bit more menacing than this new one with its huge gob jaws.

So in total, to get the whole Meka Dread runnin' you need to spend £69.00 (~USD 103.60).
 
I might consider getting this in the future if it's in the new Ork codex...please let this and the Grot Tankz be in!