Thank you for your kind words!
In a fit of motivation, I decided to start putting together some heavy support for the Marines, a couple of commissars for a laugh, plus trying out a few greenskins - (mostly) assembled and primed:
The metal orks from this era are quite brilliant. The plastic box set which was a counterpart to the marines is effing terrible though - the chappy on the right is from that. They're all squatting even more oddly than the marines, have terrible mould lines, and they don't assemble well. I have quite a few...
I have a bunch of IG guys, including the two commissars, but I've lost pretty much all of the plastics, so I now don't have enough arms or weapons to finish the couple of metal command sections I have. Mind you, I no longer have any plastic IG for them to be in command of, so what the hey...