I thought I’d posted this conversion and set about writing about it in the past tense, when I found I couldn’t find an article to link to.
This is an Orlock model with a Genestealer Cultist shotgun on it. It fits really well, with only a lot of putty in his shoulder joint, and a little bit of putty in the hand/gun connection.
There’s a story. So I was agonizing about shotguns. My gang has 4 of them, and there are…zero on the Orlock sprue. Worse, the Forge World Orlock weapon expansion sets only have a single regular shotgun. Which is absolute garbage. So I did some research on third-party shotguns, decided I didn’t want to spend that much to ship a couple bits from Europe and tried to find someone to sell me the GSC bits.
Found a dude on Facebook, and he was hard to get ahold of after he’d said “yeah, I can trade those”. In fairness, he was just giving them to me, so he didn’t have a lot of incentive. But after I hadn’t heard from him after 2 messages I’d sent over 3 days, I figured he’d had enough of me. I bought some shotguns from Bitz of War, costing $10 in bits and $10 in shipping. Annoyed, I spread my annoyance to CHOP! chat enough that I think I annoyed everyone else too.
2 days later, Facebook guy contacts me, we set a time to meet and it works out.
The Bitz of War order still hasn’t arrived. >.>
This guy got the same paint job as the rest of the basic members of the gang.
I really like the scheme. It’s easy enough to paint and replicate, and it looks super nice with some good contrasting colours. It’s kind of a scheme I’ve wanted to do with my ancient Orlocks for a decade or more, but never wanted to strip them and repaint them.
And then a photo of the whole gang so far! I want the BoW order to come in so I can do another 3, and then I need to figure out what to do with the juve in my gang. So far I’m using an old Orlock juve model, but it looks weird. Stoked with how they are turning out!
