I'm not the fastest painter, modeller, or sculptor for that matter. Sorry about that.
Wait, I was creating a log, wasn't I? Marvellous!
At the moment my non-work projects are these two:
My squad of Shoota boyz:
...and my canoness sculpt for my old lady:
These two were an experiment in painting only with inks. Whilst I don't hate the result I don't think I'll be doing it again any time soon!
I had a lot of fun building some new shoota boyz. It's been over ten years since I played 40K last and the only Orks I've built have been for Gorkamorka.
I can't stand the head with weird teeth so I did a spot of reconstructive work:
I did a bit more work on the shoota later as you may have already noticed.
This guy has a shoota that's new to me. The old 3rd edition boyz didn't have this particular firearm. Yummy!
More headswaps and my first bayonet. Nice!
How about some Chaos-style loose ammo?
The spare magazine is actually one of my favourite parts. A reloading Ork was just required.
His head is from Puppets War, his torso is a warbiker torso, his shoota is converted from this arm by adding some plastic tubing wrapped in dental tape. The other arm is a weird mashup of this arm and this hand. I've no idea why I didn't just use this arm. Presumably I just worked with what was lying around.
With a unit like this I figure it's better to play to its strengths rather than trying to half-heartedly make up for its weaknesses. If I went for three rokkit launchers then realistically on one would hit per turn (best case scenario with BS 2, as far as I understand it). Better to play the numbers and get some big shootas in there!
I honestly don't recall why this guy is nicknamed "Da Kraftsman":
Then there's this guy with his Beta C-Mag and paper hat:
Lastly one based on a picture in the third edition Ork codex making reference to two separate Adam Baldwin characters:
Since moving I've been doing my best to get back to getting them painted:
This chap uses arms from the Battlewagon kit, legs that didn't exist when I last built a whole unit of Ork boyz, another torso from the warbikers set, and a head I sculpted back in 2011.
So, yes. Hopefully that's okay as a first post.
Edit: fixed images
Wait, I was creating a log, wasn't I? Marvellous!
At the moment my non-work projects are these two:
My squad of Shoota boyz:
...and my canoness sculpt for my old lady:
These two were an experiment in painting only with inks. Whilst I don't hate the result I don't think I'll be doing it again any time soon!
I had a lot of fun building some new shoota boyz. It's been over ten years since I played 40K last and the only Orks I've built have been for Gorkamorka.
I can't stand the head with weird teeth so I did a spot of reconstructive work:
I did a bit more work on the shoota later as you may have already noticed.
This guy has a shoota that's new to me. The old 3rd edition boyz didn't have this particular firearm. Yummy!
More headswaps and my first bayonet. Nice!
How about some Chaos-style loose ammo?
The spare magazine is actually one of my favourite parts. A reloading Ork was just required.

His head is from Puppets War, his torso is a warbiker torso, his shoota is converted from this arm by adding some plastic tubing wrapped in dental tape. The other arm is a weird mashup of this arm and this hand. I've no idea why I didn't just use this arm. Presumably I just worked with what was lying around.
With a unit like this I figure it's better to play to its strengths rather than trying to half-heartedly make up for its weaknesses. If I went for three rokkit launchers then realistically on one would hit per turn (best case scenario with BS 2, as far as I understand it). Better to play the numbers and get some big shootas in there!
I honestly don't recall why this guy is nicknamed "Da Kraftsman":
Then there's this guy with his Beta C-Mag and paper hat:
Lastly one based on a picture in the third edition Ork codex making reference to two separate Adam Baldwin characters:
Since moving I've been doing my best to get back to getting them painted:
This chap uses arms from the Battlewagon kit, legs that didn't exist when I last built a whole unit of Ork boyz, another torso from the warbikers set, and a head I sculpted back in 2011.
So, yes. Hopefully that's okay as a first post.
Edit: fixed images
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