Kommandos, WIP

I decided I'd put my two burna boyz into action in a group of kommandoz. I had a bunch of spare boyz and figured I could kommandofy some. I picked out the ones that stood out the most, which were the ones that dual-wielded their weapons.

I bought a bunch of used models from a friend, and he had been more creative with his kit than I could be with my starter models. The result being that some boyz have two sluggas or two choppas.

I decided these guys were trying to look tough and so picked them out for kommando duty.

To make them even more kommando looking I went with the current trend in computer games. That is, the more kit you're carrying around, the more elite you are. So I started painting and clipping out ALL the spare bitz I could find and attaching to the kommandos. They're looking really kommando now! Just look at these WIP pics.

Scratch build!

I tried my hand at a scratch build. Using mostly some leftover clippings from sprues, a few leftover bits of metal thread from other projects, and also some other junk like dried-up blu-tack I made this objective marker in the shape of an orky gadget of some kind.









As you can see, da worky bitz up front connect to da know-wotz at da back thru dat fing wid da gubbins, an dat makes da gizmo run. Took me five lever-pullin' grotz before I figgered dat out.

It might be fun to develop special table rules for it. Maybe it projects a field with a 6" range that does something. Like deflects projectiles, or interferes with teleports, or something?

Yellow!

I added a couple of bits of yellow and blue and red here and there on the boyz, it helped liven them up a bit.

I remember reading somewhere that the orks held the view that rokkits painted yellow make bigger explosions. I liked the idea of yellow rokkits, so decided to make mine yellow too.

The paintjob isn't perfect, but I have over 30 of these guys painted to this stage, and ten more to go, and that's just the boyz. The nobz, all the vehicles, and the bosses are still left to paint. So at some point I'm going to have to call them ready for a wash and then table ready...

Also, the photo reveals a critical weakness in the stormboyz.

The annoying bastards won't stay upright!

Oh, and I resolved the butterfly problem by vacuuming it up. A truly orky solution.

Monster! In the studio!

I was going to go paint but there's a monster on the floor of what I have come to term my studio. The monster is a butterfly. While they're not dangerous I still find them, to quote the ork codex, "unnatural in the nastiest possible way".

It looks like it's dead... which only means it won't go away on its own...

Red eyes!

Went over all the boyz and gave them red eyes, also added blood splatter to their choppas. The red looks pretty good as blood straight out of the can, and you can make light brushes or cake it on thickly for various effects.

I also painted a couple of armbands, hair squigs etc. red. Going to go over the boyz with yellow and blue paint and then I think I can actually just give them a basic wash and call them table ready.

They've still got black boots and gloves, and they haven't got any separate colour on details like straps and belts, but what the hell...