Nork Deddog Conversion Painted for Drax!

 

I considered an alternate title for this post, something around “Furtling Drax’s Norks”, but thought better of it.

this is Admiral Drax’s characterful take on Nork Deddog; it’s one of the lovely old, well sculpted Ogryn, you know the ones with actual detail on them :)

A wee while back when I offered to paint something for someone due to a blog event, Drax was the name out of the hat, and he offered up this conversion, I think as he had reached a bit of an impasse with the paint job. his instructions to me were along the lines of, “keep some catachan green and some dark angles green, some camo might be nice, oh and maybe a banner”

hopefully that counts as mission accomplished.

 

Though I magnetised the banner in case he didn't like it.

Post 400!

So, time for some stats then?

400 Posts and at time of posting just shy of 370 thousand page views, with about 20k page views a month at the moment, and about six weeks from writing to post time, I might hit 400k pageviews at the same time I hit 400 posts!

Thank you all who read this, and those who repost (and link back) it keeps me going if I'm honest, as I don't play much and I don't often take my collection out of the circle of friends I play with when I get chance so this is the only place a lot of this stuff will ever see the light of day.

Its great to hear back form people on the stuff I post, and better when a tutorial I’ve written helps someone out. – that’s one thing I haven't done enough of lately and I will get back to it.

As to where I am with models-

Imperial guard – I have probably added all I should here, though I still have a list of models as long as my arm I could add, I’ll likely never get it all on the table at once so I need to tone that down a bit .. (well maybe another tank or two. oh and I DID always want ogryn..)

 

 

 

 

 

Space Wolves, I think these are next, – sort them out into coherent units under the new regime and get some progress made on the crackpile. not a lot I want to add here except maybe one of the new dreads. I may also want to rebase everything so that my entire imperial contingent has basing that matches my game boards and can be played together without the odd “it’s snowing over there, but not here” effect.

 

 

 

 

 

Orks – have been total backburner for a while, and that’s still fine – I have a lot of imperial stuff I can play all together and I still have a playable Ork force, I even have a few unbuilt units if the urge to paint green comes over me, this is effectively retired tho.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Daemonhunters – I have a single unit of termies left intact and painted, and one unpainted. that's okay, I can field them if I like, and may paint (and repaint) the units but I wont be adding to this force.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I do still have the IST i built back in the day and I have a long-term plan to use them as a base for a converted Adeptus Arbites force using the tempestus rules, but that's a ways off.

I do want to work up and Inquisitorial warband given the new codex and the ability to feild one alongside my exisiting forces.

New Stuff:

I have my eyes on a knight or two, most likely a castigator, just because awesome.

I have also always liked the sisters and if they get new models or a new book that I can use in the same way, to add a detachments I may well pick them up.

I’m also continuing to work on terrain that fits the new board I have, the idea being that it will all work together. so I guess I’m building a better world.

Aside form the fortykay above, I still have some US airborne that deserve my attention and that will happen at some point too.

So there we go, state of the union. anything you particularly want to see me do first? anything you want a tutorial on? now is the time as I draw up plans :)

Cadian special Weapon Squad - flamers

A standard paint job and some “left over” bits to make another field able unit.

Interesting to think that the game has changed slightly. it used to be that you would put your flamers in front and take the wounded ablative guardsmen from the back.

now you need to deploy as above, and use the screening guardsmen in front to take the fall, leaving enough room for template poking :)

 

They fit the board and structures well, so I’m happy :)

Forge world Turrets

I’d like to thank Ebay….

been after some of these for a while and wouldntcha know, a lot with two of em in!

Given my usual desert paint and weathering to match the IG and the desert table. I will probarbly use these with the FW elysian Tarantula stats as I think this is a discontinued mdoel, the stats arent anywhere I can find in a current edition of anything..

 

Pretty nifty tho, and as they use chimera turrets, that gives me some options for change up the weapons if I want.

Avenger Strike Fighter

Stunning model. and as the FW studio paint job fits with my forces, I decided to emulate it as best I could, I even went so far as to work out how they layered up the different decals for markings. – there are a few differences, but I think Id have to point them out for them to be noticeable.

The wings are a tricky build as they are quite fragile, as is the tail, so experienced modellers only on this one I am afraid.

this is one of those models that looks okay in pictures, but really is something special in person, its fit with the other imperial flyers I have is decent too.

I frosted the cockpit a little more than usual with the dulcoat, but its also not as clear as GW canopies, its a cast clear resin which is unusual for a FW flier, they usually come with a resin canopy and a plastic insert. but the pilots are beautiful so I left the canopy unglued.

I’m quite pleased with this, both with my matching of the original scheme and with the weathering.

Okay last flyer for a while, a thunderbolt to build for mr Zzzzzz and then we’ll see what follows :)