Work in progress.

Long time readers may remember that I have features photos from my 'ork army' before. I use this army in a tabletop wargame called Warhammer 40,000.

Well at the weekend I decided to do some modelling and I know I promised you some work in progress shots of my latest creations.

The first model I made was a 'conversion' which basically is as it sounds. You take a standard model that is produced then you convert it to make it look totally different.

This is how the model I used looks in it's standard form. Just put together and painted with no alterations or tweaks.

and these two pictures show what the model looks like once I had finished and gave it a basic paint job.

I'm actually quite pleased how it turned out considering it was a very much spur of the moment conversion the inspiration for which just suddenly came to me.

But I didn't stop there. After converting one model I decided to convert a whole squad.

This is the first part of my squad of 'Flash Gitz' who are armed with 'snazzguns' (gotta love the Ork names). I only started painting them today so the paint scheme is still a big rough and spotty in place. The Giant red eyes ( the circle with the silver edge and red bit in the middle) are the Gitz in built 'gitfinders', which are basically a sort of inbuilt targetter.

and this is the complete squad with their new leader Kaptain Badrukk who I decided to get after seeing him in the shop and realised he wears a pirates hat. Stupid I know but not every army is cool enough to have a character with a pirate hate. Armies like those Rubbish Tau or dull Space Marines (saxon now waits with baited breath to see if Engineseer or Photoshop will rise to the bait :-)

Later folks