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Necromunda – Ganger “Farok”

Posted on July 26, 2018

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!

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Necromunda – Leader all done

Posted on July 19, 2018

After doing some putty and conversion work the other day, and with a foundation in the paint scheme I had set already, this guy was pretty easy to make look awesome!

The only real difference in the scheme was to paint his armour in Calgar Blue, a somewhat lighter pastel blue. This received a couple shades of Nuln Oil and drybrushes with Runefang Steel and Ushapti Bone to weather it just the right amount!

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Necromunda – Two more Orlocks

Posted on July 16, 2018

I painted these two guys at the same time because they were the only 2 left that I had assembled. They were painted the same as the last guy, and I’m loving this colour scheme! It’s a little less yellow in person though, closer in colour to the bottom photo.

That’s a champion with a Heavy Stubber, and a Ganger with an autopistol and a fighting knife, and he has blasting charges in his pockets. I’m thinking I should paint their names on their bases, because it’ll help link them to the cards I have for each model.

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Necromunda – Orlocks

Posted on July 4, 2018

As I wrote last time, I haven’t been painting for the last few months at all due to baby and also a general lack of things I might paint for. I find deadlines very motivating, and “next game day” is a deadline of sorts, but since I haven’t been going to any game days, I have no deadlines!

I started a Necromunda gang because I have fond memories of the game and there are enough people in my club interested in playing. I assembled the models, played a game and then put them on the shelf, not expecting to get another game in any time soon. Then two weeks later I had another game, and once again explained that the models with no arms had shotguns…so I’ve reprioritized finishing these guys off!

Here’s the first colour scheme test model!

This is my champion with a Combat Shotgun. He’s a beast! He’s painted:

Ushapti Bone on his shirt and pants.
Tallarn Sand on his boots, loin cloth, gloves and headband.
Runefang Steel on his weapons and armour and the base.
Snakebite Leather on the base dirt. I think I’ll change this to something more dark on the next iteration.

The highlight layer is:

Mix the Ushapti with some White.
Mix the Tallarn with Dheneb Stone
Mix the Ushapti+White with some Dheneb Stone for his flesh.

Funny story — I hadn’t realized that Dheneb Stone wasn’t a colour anymore until I was talking with a friend who wondered why I wasn’t using Rakarth Flesh for everything like he was. We were 3 minutes into the conversation when I did a quick search and found out they were the same colour. 😛 Dheneb Stone is the best!

Next up is:

Reikland Fleshshade over the flesh, to take him from an albino guy to a slightly more tanned guy.
Seraphim Sepia over…everything else.
Lamentor Yellow on his arm and head band.

When that all dried I did:

Nuln oil in the recesses of his body and clothing, and all over his gun.
Drakenhof Nightshade over the steel and in the recesses of the base, and in the deepest cracks of his armpits and groin.
Highlight the steel back up a bit with a light touch of Runefang Steel on the edges.

The photo above is where I got to with that. Then a little bit of:

Eyes, I hate eyes. Dheneb Stone in the pupils, Nuln oil in the eye recesses, then I tried to do Ice Blue which didn’t look good, then mixed with Kantor Blue which didn’t look good, then just a touch of black which finally did look good.
A bit of Ushapti in places to clean up a couple water marks that had been left behind by the shades.

I think he looks pretty much exactly how I wanted!

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Necromunda – Orlocks

Posted on February 25, 2017

Some folks in the club started talking about Necromunda again, and I love that game so I got involved. Once again though, I have the choice between my Orlocks (who have been my first love) and my Cawdor (who I never loved, but who look way better). I sent out a link to my last old models post, to give people an idea of what my Orlocks actually looked like. Someone was disappointed that there were actually no photos of Orlocks in that link, so in order to procrastinate painting some more I thought I’d take some photos! I don’t remember exactly when I painted these. It was after the Dark Elves for sure, but before I worked at GW and learned a lot about thinning paints. 🙂

After I finished painting them, these 4 juves were in every gang list I made. They were cheap, and as long as you didn’t get into close combat they were almost as effective as a ganger. I tended to run them in pairs so they could support each other if they got into combat. I also really love the models!

Gangers have always felt kind of interchangeable to me. Sure, these guys all have different weapons, but in the end you just put them on the table and hope that the weapon you’re holding is good enough to hurt the person standing across from you.

I love this leader model too, although I’m disappointed that the new Community Edition rules don’t allow his meltagun in the initial gang. If I run Orlocks, I’m going to convert something I think. Boltgun/sword is a good combo for a leader. I’m surprised to find the stubber merely primed, since the rest of the gang is actually painted and I ran him in every list I made until I picked up a plasma gun (see further down).

These guys have a variety of stories. The pit slave on the left is likely a model that doesn’t belong to me, I think it’s actually Gavin’s. The dude next from the left is a conversion I made from a tank commander body and some plastic legs and a bolt pistol and flamer and I used him either as a scum or mercenary (I forget which). Gavin had the exact same conversion and I thought it was so cool I made my own. The next model in is a pyromancer, whenever I ran him he didn’t do to much. And lastly the guy on the far right I think ran as a telekinetic because I thought they seemed cool. He’s just an Empire wizard model from that era, I think.

After a large number of games, I got tired of running the same weapons over and over again and bought some Catachans to get some more weapons. I don’t really like them as Orlock replacements, as the Orlock models are a lot less “beefy”. Still, they aren’t bad.

Lastly, and this is also disappointing, two special edition models I grabbed at some point. It’s Scabs from the Kal Jericho comics and a PDF trooper, I think. The disappointing part is that I can’t find Kal!! Likely he was at Gavin’s at some point and now he has my Kal and I have his pit slave. Poor trade. 😛

As for the photography, there’s something missing from these photos. They don’t have the “luminescent” quality that I think they should have. Possibly my lights were poorly angled or not strong enough. I like the last photo, but not the other five.