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

[Hatemonger]

the right balance between silly and serious

I believe you may have just stated the ultimate secret to Orks, if not 40k in general. 

- H8

[FramFramson]

Oh these are just wonderful.

Time for a few humies to WALK THE SPACE PLANCK.

[aliensurfer]

the painting is 

[cheetor]

No love for squigs?

Plenty of love for squigs PF and I do have a couple in the pipeline, but when I saw an opportunity to paint a green cyborg cat in a pirate hat I had to go for it

Of course things are allowed to be silly, but doesn't need to be full blown clown college 

I imagine that the Skallywags here will be too silly for many and not silly enough for others.  Im comfortable with the Saturday morning cartoon level that they are turning out at.

Time for a few humies to WALK THE SPACE PLANCK.

You betcha!  A few of them will be scraping the astro-barnacles off the hyperdrive vents too, not to mention hoisting the folding space.  Etc me hearties.

did these pirate goblin kickstarter with Kev Adams sculpts ever became available to the public?

I forgot about those.  The FB page seems rather quiet.

how is it everbody has commisioned kevin adams to do goblins the last few years but NOBODY did old school space-orks!?

I was thinking that myself.  Im sure that there is a market for a sci-fi ork that bridges the gap between the fun but small RT types and the more extreme modern ones.  I would like a few orks in things liks space suits too, rugged and well worn hi-tech things, rather than covered-in-glue-and-rolled-in-a-scrapyard.

I want him to make me space monkeys, something in the middle of these old orks and a Judge Dredd ape gang.

Everyone wants space apes surely?

The freebooter Painboy is a good character too.

I would like one of those and one of the Freebooter Mek too.  Some day maybe.

Thanks for all the feedback guys.  Im working on gretchin for the next instalment.

[warburton]

I was thinking that myself.  Im sure that there is a market for a sci-fi ork that bridges the gap between the fun but small RT types and the more extreme modern ones.  I would like a few orks in things liks space suits too, rugged and well worn hi-tech things, rather than covered-in-glue-and-rolled-in-a-scrapyard.

Agreed! I prefer the orks hi-tech myself; proper technology but more rugged and basic, to the covered in glue and rolled in a scrapyard as you so aptly put it look that began in 3rd edition 40k.

[cheetor]

Four Goblinaid and two Hasslefree models this time (although confusingly, one of the Goblinaid models has since become a Hasslefree model).



The gretchin in the spacesuit with a rifle - I see him as a pilot - isnt really part of this unit, but I painted him alongside.

The models had a couple of weapon swaps to make half an effort to make the space pirates, but it was a minor thing really.



The associated blog post with more info and images is here.

[Mason]

Top drawer, mate.
Really top drawer.
 

Now please stop it.
 



 

[weismonsters]

These pirates are really colourful and characterful. Love them.

[Hawkeye]

Brilliant! You have those stripy pants down to a fine art, and the green of the skin is handled really nicely. Great stuff, this!

[Vermis]

I imagine that the Skallywags here will be too silly for many and not silly enough for others.  Im comfortable with the Saturday morning cartoon level that they are turning out at.

I think some elements of 40K are better all serious or grimdark (I can't imagine jokey nids, for instance. Not that I don't want to, I just can't) but orks should be the anarchic nutters in the setting. They're like 40K's Eddie Blake: they saw the true face of the 41st millenium and chose to become a reflection, a parody of it.

Best portrayal of orks? Deff Skwadron.

Everyone wants space apes surely?

After some movies and new trailers on tv, I'm thinking we need more apes with guns...

I've got to admit I was never a big fan of Kev Adams' greenskins, but this topic has gone some way to convert me. That guy with the big white beard is excellent!

[Katsuhiko JiNNai]

Excellent! I really love these vintage greenskin models 

[cheetor]

Top drawer, mate.
Really top drawer.
 

Thanks Mason.

Now please stop it.

Not for a while yet Im afraid.  I have a few more ork miniatures that I have to get finished before I take a trip to Foundry for the Oldhammer/Bring Out Your Lead day in early August.  I will see where that leaves me regarding ork-thusiasm levels.

These pirates are really colourful and characterful. Love them.

Thanks! Definitely on the goofy side, but the older that I get them more this sort of lighthearted thing appeals to me. 

Brilliant! You have those stripy pants down to a fine art, and the green of the skin is handled really nicely. Great stuff, this!

Thanks.  The striped trousers have been a big hit.  Its not that hard to paint or anything, but people seem to like it.  I do too, which helps.

They're like 40K's Eddie Blake: they saw the true face of the 41st millenium and chose to become a reflection, a parody of it.

I have been pondering this sentence since you wrote it Vermis.  I think that I agree pretty much 100%.  It also gave me an urge to make an ork version of the Watchmen, which has all sorts of fun potential   A "Komedian" at the very ;east would be fantastic fun to game with.

I've got to admit I was never a big fan of Kev Adams' greenskins, but this topic has gone some way to convert me. That guy with the big white beard is excellent!

The cybork is one of my favourites for sure.  I had only painted a handful of orks and goblins before 2011 and almost every Kev Adams goblinoid that I own was acquired late last year/early this year.  I dont have a significant history with them. 

I can say that this ork project has for a number of reasons proven to be quite rewarding.  I think that my painting has both improved and speeded up as a direct result of painting these guys, which is about as good a result as I could have hoped for

Excellent! I really love these vintage greenskin models 

Thanks!

[cheetor]

Mushrööm Klöwd got themselves a "Toor bus"...





(bus blog post here)


...and Skabsquigs Skallywags got a troll/ogryn/big ork to repel boarders and shiver timbers and the like...



He is a big fella...



(the Big Billy post)

[Mason]

 

Bloody brilliant!
 

While the big fella is excellent, you have made me sit here with a massive grin gawping at that 'Toor Bus'.
Love it!

So much!
 

[OSHIROmodels]

That's fantastic 

You need some groupies next 

cheers

James