Hello again!
This has been a good week to be an ork. Although I wasn't expecting to, I ended up getting a load of old ork models out and painting/repairing/improving them, including three dreadnoughts. Let's go!
About 20 years ago, my friend Owen gave me a broken AT-AT model kit. I sawed it up and used it to make the bodies of three ork dreadnoughts (or maybe robots, or something). One, which is yellow, I modified a couple of months ago. The other two were done over the last couple of weeks. This is the yellow model:
Now, onto the other flavours of robot tellytubby. The red one didn't need a huge amount of work. I added some more detailing and gave it a new, jollier paint job. I also replaced the gun I'd used with a big and suitably goofy laser from some toy that I dismantled years ago. His body is the AT-AT's head, up on end.
The blue robot took more work. I wasn't happy with either of his arms, so I made new ones. The gun comes from the same toy as the red robot's laser. The other arm is scratch-built. I was inspired in this by the work of Kishi Omori, a Japanese modelmaker who makes robots from junk. (His stuff is really impressive. Well worth a look.) I really like the jolly blue colour. I think his main body came from the AT-AT's butt.
As you can see from this picture, all the robots have keys so that the orks can wind them up for action.
Orks are a lot of fun.
As a bonus, here are some old metal orks that I've been painting. Here's a painboy with a metal head and bionic arm. I gave him a mechanical gun-arm to suggest that he's entirely robotic.
And here is a goff ork boss. He's a slightly later model than the others, but he shares the old-school cartoony look, before the orks took a beating from the grimdark stick. He looks as if he's seen some sights.
And there we are. Oldhammer is great, orks are great.
These tin kanz are amazing – They are proper Mek shop quality!
ReplyDeleteAnd the robotic Painboy looks very much like the Terminator – a chilling idea!
Thanks! They were very enjoyable to make. I suspect that a terminator ork would be quite a lot like a standard ork, just slightly tougher!
DeleteSir, this is brilliant. Awesome, I lack the words. What an inspired piece of work! You managed to break the "official" aesthetics yet conserved the Ork vibe perfectly. I do love it!
ReplyDeleteThanks very much! While I quite like the ancient metal model, I don't think the more recent ork dreadnoughts are that distinctive, and so long as it looks suitably wonky, it'll work! Making them was very enjoyable!
DeleteThese are really great, fun, but obvious as to what they should be.
ReplyDeleteThe red one in particular I like because it has a "stompa" look about it. In fact, with different detailing and shorter legs it could be an epic sized vehicle instead.
Thanks! I see what you mean about the red one. I'd have to give it one of those dodgy-looking groin cannons though! I never played epic, but it always looked cool, especially the titans.
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