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Deffkoptas – 4 Years Later

Posted on July 18, 2014

4 years ago one of the first things I painted was a set of 3 Ork deffkoptas. I remember being so frustrated with them, I did not want to paint them, I wanted them to be over and done with and gone. I finally pushed myself to finish them… and then they were awful in my army. >.>

A couple years later, my friend Chris Jones put a lot of 8 of them up for sale for a good price. I bought them, forgetting the cardinal rule of GW stuff – “just because it’s a good deal, doesn’t mean you need to buy it”. They’ve sat in a cardboard box UNTIL NOW.

With the new edition of 40k, and a brand new Ork codex, I’m kind of a little excited to pull my boyz in blue out of the case and put them on the table again. The new Psychic Phase looks fun, the Tactical Objective deck looks like a ton of fun, and well, WAAAAGH!!

Work-in-progress

Deth Koptas 1

Posted on June 8, 2010

This is another “oh, I’m mostly done” sort of post. I promise this is the last one – I’ve run out of projects that I’ve been meaning to finish! Everything from here on will be from the start (except for my battlewagon…which is partly assembled)

Paint Scheme

Bloooooo. These guys follow my Ork vehicle paint scheme of Regal Blue base, Space Marine Blue highlight. It’s a Space Marine theme’d Ork army.
The metal is just Boltgun Metal with a Chaos Black wash (remember, my Badab fails).

Conversion

I was trying for a long while before assembling them to figure out some awesome conversion I could do. In the end, I just added some extra metal plates and called it a day. They are like…6 piece models, almost snap together, and there wasn’t a lot of room for cutting and pasting.

I’m honestly not to certain where I need to go from here. It looks like there are a lot of little details on the models that need finishing – the straps on their hats, a highlight on the green meters, some extra colour on some of the little knick-knacks around the model. Little things.

Then the bases. Need a little bit of flock, since that’s the thing I’m doing for the Orks.

Lastly, the rotor blades need some colour. Likely a blue colour. I could also do that yellow/black hazard striping, since I put that on some of my vehicles as a strong contrasting colour, to ensure that they weren’t entirely blue. Slightly unnecessary here, as the orks themselves (and the large amount of metal) keep it from being a sea of blue, but it is nice to be consistent.