Ork Kommando - How to Make Backpacks !!

These are the real things from Forgeworld and very nice they are to. However you can make your own pretty cool back packs from very little.

First take some left over greenstuff, or use new if you don't have, and cut into a suitable square shape.

Second take two Space Marine ammo pouches, the large ones and cut one set in half.

Now you need to raid the bits box and for all manner of accessories that you wish to add, here I have a knife/choppa, some space marine grenades and some small ammo pouches. I also used a converted Stikkbomb.

Now start gluing the ammo pouches ( in your desired combination ) onto the greenstuff square.

Next grab all your accessories and have a ball!!

The unpainted backpack in action.

The final product, Ork Kommandos in action!

Hope you enjoyed the tutorial and let me know what you think with a comment.

Vitor

Ork Deffkopta - Camo Theme Continuation!

So my Blood Axes also use both Urban and Jungle camo patterns on their vehicles, land or air. It makes them so much harder to see when fighting against them. Blame Snikrot! He keeps bringing back all those dog tags so we gotta keep up!!

I painted the urban camo using a base of codex grey with the water pattern in regal blue and the dots with skull white. The jungle pattern is painted with a base of bestial brown, water pattern in scorched brown and the dots in bubonic brown.

Hope you like the idea.

Leave a comment below if you do.

Vitor


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Ork Kommando - How to Make Stikkbombs!!

These are Stikkbombs that cost money but its easy to make your own from some bits I'm sure everybody has in their bits box.

First take the cylindrical 'thingie' , the excess from the moulding process, from large bases ( Terminator size etc ) which forms the grenade part then for the stick part, I used the bottom of a banner pole in this example, you can also use the handle of swords, choppa's etc. Clean up the cylindrical part, attach the chosen handle and voila!! you have a Stikkbomb.

These are ones I did for my AOBR Ork Kommando conversions.

 

 

Hope you enjoy making them.

As always let me know what you think with a comment.

Vitor

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Ork Nobz - You wont see them coming!!

After having so much fun painting up my Blood Axes in camo it occurred to me that the big boys or Nobz are stronger, tougher and have a few more brain cells and therefore they would use this thing called camouflage that Imperial Guard Troops wear which makes them hard to see and use it to its full potential.

To my Nobz that means wearing as many different types of camo all at once. That way it must be impossible to be seen, right?

Here they are using urban and jungle camo. Had fun just trying all sorts of things, like the tiger stripe urban pattern on the trousers. My favourite is the jungle pattern I came up with here on their shirts.

Some more shots of other patterns.

These Nobz have even gone and painted camo on their shoulder armour plates.


Hope you get the opportunity to paint camo as its fun to do and if you mess up well it might just be the best thing for your scheme!

Leave a comment if you like.


Vitor.

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Waaagh - Da Orks is Koming !!

The AOBR box set comes with my chosen army, Marines, as well as some nice looking Orks. So it was natural to use Orks as my chapters preferred enemy. My own chapter creation, Aurelius Legion, needed a foe and what better foe to have than a frenzied horde, of not very bright, green skins wanting to separate your body parts into little pieces and send them home to their momma!

After painting up all those marines in power armour I needed a change. I looked at my Orks and thought this could be fun, my chosen clan the Blood Axes have a penchant for wearing camouflage ( kommandos ) so a painting opportunity presented itself.

I love WW2 German uniforms, who doesn't, so went looking for a camo pattern and found this

I simplified my scheme using the above as a guide and painted the pants / trousers of my Orks boys. 
I started with a base of scorched brown followed by a coat of bestial brown then I painted in the watermark effect with dark angels green, the dots were completed with bubonic brown and finally a wash of devland mud.

The rest of the models are not finished off to the same standard as my Marines but I only wanted to get them to a  tabletop standard and to play with painting camouflage.

Here are a few more pictures.

While I was painting these guys, another idea popped into my head, if you want to know what it was then stay tuned for part 2 where I will show you what I did with the Ork Nobz.

Hope you like the camo, leave a comment please.


Vitor

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Creating a Space Marine Chapter - Aurelius Legion Dreadnought Fully Painted

Slight change in the posting schedule, I decided to show the Dreadnought instead as this would then complete the AOBR set i began my journey with.

Here are some more pics for you to enjoy.

I know, the bit of static grass hanging on the back is annoying but I hear it helps with the aiming of enemy troops.

Please let me know what you think with a comment or two.

I think I will show the AOBR Orks  in the next post as I used them to experiment with, little conversions and painting camouflage. Also in line with my army fluff it was natural to use Orks as the enemy they were fighting at Blood River as they came together in the same box. So stay tuned.

Vitor

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