Cheetor's Orks: Kommando Kill Team 16/10/18

[cheetor]

Da Captive makes me think of Averell Dalton and Rantanplan of Lucky Luke fame. It's indeed a daft, but amusing, piece. =D What's the original model? Beast?

Yep, First Class pre-blue fur Beast from a set from around 2006.  It meant that the clix had bigger feet and hands than normal, allowing for a close enough fit for ork physique.

Nice job all round. I never really liked the Goff Rockers models but do approve of the record sleeve cover and nod to Spinal Tap. =)

A nod or two to Englands loudest band was predictable, but inevitable really.  That rock oeuvre is almost beyond parody anyway, making the Tap as close to being a real band as to make pretty much zero difference in my eyes.

The painting of the rockers is absolutely brilliant though, love the jacket on the mohawk chap! Makes me view the models with fresh eyes.

Thanks.  I wasnt ever that bothered with the models myself as a teen, but my miniature tastes have (I cant bring myself to say "matured" about a subject like this) evolved since.  Painting a gaming piece that is a little different is always preferable to painting another spaceman with a gun as far as I am concerned.

[cheetor]

I have been working on a few more of these.  First up Mushhrööm Klöwd get a drummer, with drum kit:





The drummers blog post is HERE.


Next thing of note is this old Confrontation Bounty hunter, painted up as an human/ork advisor, an asset to the more cunning warlord.  He looks like the love child of Bono and Kim Jong Il.  I plan to have a squad of human mercs for this guy to boss around:



The Advisors blog post is HERE.


Last for now, but definitely not least is the old Zodgrod Wortsnagga special character from the nineties.  According to the background, that guy ended up with a load of "super runtz" - particularly skilled gretchin - after some sort of rigorous training and selective breeding program.  I figured that some Bob Olley Pedro Ramos ninja goblin sculpts fit the bill.



The post on those guys is HERE.

Any questions or comments or criticisms, fire ahead please

[OSHIROmodels]

Cracking work 

I do love the Goff Rok band 

cheers

James

[Dr. The Viking]

Just brilliant!!! Proper orky spirit!

[Commander Vyper]

Ninja gobbos. Nice@ 

[Mr Tough Guy]

  Old wortsnagga looks brilliant and I love the idea of the ninja supergrunts  , well done man

[Mason]

Bloody wonderful, mate.
 

That drum kit is quality and Bono/Kim cracked me up.
 

[cheetor]

Thanks for the kind feedback folks.  Im enjoying painting these old orks and it shows I think.

I do love the Goff Rok band 

Thanks.  A sub-project that I wrote off as a teen is now providing me with all sorts of entertainment.  Expect a lead singer and sound engineer at some point.  The Mushrööm Klöwd lineup is going to be as big as Arcade Fire at this rate   "Orkade Fire", heh.

That drum kit is quality and Bono/Kim cracked me up.
 

The drum kit was very quickly thrown together with parts, but it fits the aesthetic rather well I think, plus its a bit of a laugh.  I have a scenario using it that I am planning to play this weekend in fact.

But if you think that the drum kit is funny, you should look at the image theottovonbismark sent me when he first saw the painted advisor figure, before I had made the connection:



I am skirting the excellent "no politics" forum rule here, so other than appreciating the giggle factor in that image I wont say anything more about it (although as an Irish person I think that I should get extra leeway when talking about Bono . 

More orks to come, Im enjoying working on these guys.

[Major_Gilbear]

Fantastic work; I especially like the way you paint Ork skin.

Also, what a super model Zagrod is! 

[Westfalia Chris]

"Dat ain't workin', dat's da way ta do it - teef for nuffink and da squigs for free!"

 

Marvellous models, excellent execution. The drum set is a stroke of genius.

[Mason]

"Dat ain't workin', dat's da way ta do it - teef for nuffink and da squigs for free!"

 

Like it!
 

[TF Riley]

Brilliant stuff!

[Ramshackle_Curtis]

YOur painting is getting annoyingly good!

[cheetor]

YOur painting is getting annoyingly good!

Thanks Curtis, I think

I have two more additions to the band in the queue at the painting table.  I also have another twenty or so greenskins to work on for a game or two in August, so there will be some more stuff here soon.

 

[cheetor]

I have a game with Whiskey Priest at a con planned for August.  WP is using his old Citadel space pirates adn I decided to do some work on a Freebooter Pirate crew to take them on.



I used the same palette as I used for the rest of my orks, but took the yellow and black striped motif (the hazard lines that tend to be overused by a certain era of 40K types that I just cant resist using in this context for loads of reasons) to make sure that all the pirates have appropriately striped trousers.



I used old eighties RT ork boyz for this project as even though they really are quite titchy in comparison even with other models from that era (see above) they are scruffy and lack uniform in a pleasing way thats very appropriate for the sort of totally ridiculous seventeenth century pirate space alien look that I am going for.



Mr Killgore, the cybork Quarteremaster on "Da Dirty Doubloon" was a very satisfying old classic to paint.  A strangely small sculpt for 1990, but still a great little model.

The blog post for these guys is HERE.

Many more Skallywags should be reporting for duty over the next few weeks with a bit of luck.