Experiment: Gears of War Locusts

[Dentatus]

Watched several Gears of War cut scenes and when the Locust soldiers appeared thought “Those look like Orks, sort of.”

Here’s a fast and cheap experiment: Genestealer heads on AoBR Ork Nobz, with shooting bitz. Not perfect but the right direction. I have five more ready for paint.







Thoughts? Suggestions?

[zizi666]

Thoughts?

Can't say I've played GoW but these minis look very nice ! 

[Criamon]

Great idea! the tyranid head on orks miniatures are perfect!

[supervike]

Excellent idea! 

[Hrothgar]

Brilliant! I think this is huge improvement on the space ork look- very alien, dangerous, and thuggish. I honestly think they look cooler than actual locust heads would. If I could find cheap tyrants heads, would definitely do the same conversion.

[Dentatus]

Thanks. Picked up all the bitz on eBay for short money.

[Commander Vyper]

Yup they work as a kitbash first off definately.

 

But maybe looking at the source, you could lose some of the bulk of the 'stealers' heads at the rear, make them a little more humanoid on 'roids.

If not no issue as they certainly look the part.

The Commander

[supervike]

Fantasy Flight Games will have a Gears board game coming out this year....The minis in it (although all plasticy) maybe useable...at least that's what I'm hoping.

[Hrothgar]

CV, are you losing close combat weapons? I know most of the AOBR orks come with them. I may cannibalize some old hourmagaunt heads to do this conversion, but I am not sure I want to deal with cutting out and replacing all those chainswords and axes.

Dude, you are no end of trouble for me these days. Thanks to your threads, I had at least THREE new projects going before this little brew-up of yours.  

EDIT: I see one has an axe now, and it still looks good. Damn, no more excuses not to do it! 

[Commander Vyper]

CV, are you losing close combat weapons? I know most of the AOBR orks come with them. I may cannibalize some old hourmagaunt heads to do this conversion, but I am not sure I want to deal with cutting out and replacing all those chainswords and axes.

Dude, you are no end of trouble for me these days. Thanks to your threads, I had at least THREE new projects going before this little brew-up of yours.  

EDIT: I see one has an axe now, and it still looks good. Damn, no more excuses not to do it! 

Lost me there mate, those are action figures from a US site no gears of war projects for me bud, have enough not to progress currently....

[Predatorpt]

Dentatus - that idea is just great. I've never been a fan of the Orks, but that little conversion of yours sold them to me!

[Dentatus]

I've never been a fan of Orks either; too cartoon-y for me. These thugs have a bit more menace and I'm pleased with the way they turned out. I'll post pix of the rest when I'm done.

[Wachaza]

Thought about the Beastmen Gor heads without the horns? Better without the elongated head and a closer fit for the face.

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440031a&prodId=prod460007a

[mattblackgod]

I like these guys. They work as aliens for me.

[Cosmotiger]

A very cool idea.  It's surprising how different the figures seem with the new heads.