Foehammer’s Kill Team: SpetzNob’s OrkerKommandos

Quick update. With bases complete, and army painter dip dry, I finished the large number of shards rack spine terrain for kill team.

1) as these would be terrain roughly handled by my kids and fellow gamers, I attached the spines to the bases with screws through the bottom

2) I used hot glue to attach the various decorative aquarium plants

3) afterwards I Matt varnished them all with an airbrush, to kill the sheen from the army painter dip, as well as the plastic sheen on the aquarium plants

Ok, so updates to this project have been somewhat slow lately, as I’ve been side tracked working to complete the Kill Zone Terrain shown in the last update. This has been motivated by 2 factors:

1. I would like to have a nice set of terrain to actually play some kill team games on
2. I currently am working 2 sets of the Aeldari Xenoscape Terrain, one for my personal use, and one for my FLGS. I really need to get the FLGS terrain completed to get it back to the store, and the most efficient way of doing it is to complete all the terrain in one go. Its just easier due to commonality of parts and paints.

Now, I hope to wrap up most of the terrain by this weekend, as which point I’ll jump back into the Ork Killteam. However, I am looking for inspiration for additional conversions for team members. I am trying to stick to this very militaristic feel for the Blood-Axe kill team, and would like to expand upon that.

My current orks include:

1. Spetz-Nob: The commando Nob ridden by the bossman, spetz himself.
2. The Veteran Specialist – Kommando with entrenching tool choppa
3. The Soviet-Themed Gunner – with DP style big shoota
4. Krakka – my ork boy with rocket launcha, carring all kinds of fun AT goodies
5. Breecha – Demolitions Nob with lots of grenades and shoota-scorcha
6. Loota (yet unnamed) – armed with the “Mork ‘n Gork 42 (MG42)” style Kustom Defgun
7. Communications Specialist – Loota Spanner with Kustom Mega Blasta and WW2 Radio style backpack
8. Scout Specialist (unnamed) – Ork Kommando with bionic harpoon arm and Ice Axe choppa, very winter-weather themed all terrain specialist

I’m looking for other military-themed stereotypes or themes I could turn into unique Ork models for my Kill team. Things inspired by actual military units, characters from PoP culture, etc.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Took a small break from my actual kill team this week to work on the terrain for one of my Killzones. This is the GW Aeldari Deathword Terrain. It’s mostly out of the box, but I did choose to mount it to bases so I could add some undergrowth later around the bigger plants.

This gave me a chance to really experiment with the airbrush and bright colors.

Nothing too special tonight. Just some painting progress on the Ork SpannerBoy Communications specialist. While he has a custom backpack, I can’t help but think he looks too “normal”.

Any thoughts/tips/pointers to customize him some more would be appreciated.

This weeks work was diverted by painting some grots to fill out the kill team. The cool thing about these figures is they are similar scale to Bolt Action miniatures (unlike the Orks) so I can use various bits (helmets, packs, etc.) from BA rather than sculpting them.

After a couple weeks on/off work, several kill team members from my Orkerkommandos are wrapping up.

I’ve also made some additional progress on some other models. One is my demolitions specialist, “Breecha”. Ork Nob with Shoota-Scorcha, and “Kustom grenade axe.

I also made some final additions to SpetzNob. Most were to give Spetz a more authoritative appearance. Mostly it involved adding a hat, backpack, ammo pack, and binoculars from a Bolt Action Soviet plastic kit. Scale was about right for a Gretchen.

Small progress being made on the Orkerkommandos. Viktor, my Soviet-themed Ork Gunner, is mostly painted. Primarily need some fine detailing and rebasing. In the end I painted the checker pattern on the top of the disk magazine for two reasons:

1) the figure needed some color, it was very steel and tan.

2) he’s still an Ork, and was looking a little two uniformed, even for a Blood Axe.

Also making small progress on Sarge.