Captain Badrukk

Flash-gits never really caught my eye, nor my armylists. The old grumpy captain Badrukk model did however, and I really enjoyed painting this colourful character. After paint this badboy, I have been playing a little with the idea of creating some pirate flash-gits to accompany him. Until then he’ll have to do with some lootas as standins.

/Nicolai aka Atoom

W40k Ork Rokkit Buggies

Here are the latest from the paint station 3 buggies! A pretty straight forward paintjob, but I must admit that I enjoy the result…

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Modelling: Ork Deffkopta to Buggy (or bikes)

Do you want buggies instead of those koptas you got from AoBR? Here is my suggestion to converting the koptas to buggies. I really don’t like to field deffkoptas so I was looking for an alternative use for these models and here is the result of a little patience and some spare parts:

The hardest parts to come by are the wheels – I got mine off some old editions Ork trukks, but I suspect that Space Marine Bikers and other wheels will do just nicely as well. The conversion is as simple as it gets. I cut off the arm holding the rotor just above the engine. Used some green-stuff to cover the cut, and used the rotor blades to mount the front wheels.

Alternatively you could add only one wheel front and back and get a bike instead of a buggy.

Happy converting – I’m back with the painted version tomorrow :o)

/Nicolai aka Atoom



W40k Orks – Grot cannon crew

My orks are slowly getting some paint time, and this weekend I managed to finalize the Kaboom Krew. The cannons where some I picked up in 2^nd hand a long time ago and they are a mix of ork and non-ork guns. The crew for the cannons are WFB gobbos, and some bits from my bitsbox.

Thoughts on grot cannon crews: cheap, and useful if you can spare the heavy slot in your force organization. I think that this unit is just over 70 points for 3 cannons and 10 crew. That is ok for 3 high strength shots at BS 3, so I tend to have these little guys in my force. They’re usually deployed in cover, were they will remain for the entire game, or until they have annoyed the enemy enough to draw some fire (this usually breaks them…)

Da Kaboom Krew:

Banner dude, Da Chief & Da body-guard:

Ammo test dude, Da cleaner & Signal dude:

Da loaders:

/Nicolai aka Atoom

Taking the Speed Freaks for a spin...

Yesterday I had a couple of games with my orks. I tried out an alternative build, focussing on speed.

The list I played was 1600 point:

1 Battlewagon = (Deff Rolla, Red Paint Job, Kannon,  Big Shoota x3) carrying

Warboss ('Eavy Armour, Attack Squig, Bosspole, Cybork Body, Power Klaw, Shoota/Skorcha Kombi-weapon)

18 Choppa Boyz, and 1 Boyz Nob, ('Eavy Armour, Bosspole, Power Klaw)

1 Battlewagon = (Deff Rolla, Red Paint Job, Kannon,  Big Shoota x3) carrying

6 Nobz ('Eavy Armour, Waaagh! Banner, Power Klaw, Big Choppas and one combi scorcha)

1 Trukk (Boarding Plank, Red Paint Job) carrying

10 'Ard Boyz and 1 'Ard Boyz Nob (Bosspole, Power Klaw)

1 Looted Wagon (Armour Plates, Red Paint Job, Reinforced Ram) carrying

1 Big Mek (Eavy Armour, Bosspole, Cybork Body, Kustom Force Field, Burna)

8 Burna Boyz

5 Warbikers and 1 Biker Nob (Bosspole, Power Klaw)

3 Warbuggies (Twin Linked Rokkit Launcha)

The strategy:

The games were very quick, both in length and speed in movement. The two deff-rolling battlewagons safeguarded by the kustom force field carried by the big mek, was an insane combo. It wrecked havoc and allowed be to set the agenda for when and who to fight. Basically all passengers stayed in their vehicles until enemy transporters were disabled then charged out.

The warbikers and buggies served the purpose of stinging the enemy ordnance guns and other heavy weapons that posed a threat against the transporters. The strength of this list was it’s ability to set the agenda for fighting and the two deff rollers that steamrolled both dreadnaughts and defilers alike.

/Nicolai aka Atoom