WAAAGH!  ORKS  part 2

Cyboar!  The range of cyboar models available is not that great, so I decided to make my own.  I started with a plastic boar.  After removing the rear legs, I replaced them with metal legs cut off of a "Deadlands" robot model.  This also allowed me to put the boar in a rearing pose!  I took the  spiky wheel hubs from an ork Wartrak and added them  to  the foreshoulders by drilling a hole and plugging it on.  The front jaw was embellished with a metal jaw piece from the new 40K ork plastic.  The tail, a notoriously fragile piece on the boar model, was replaced with a trailer hitch  from the old ork Battlewagon kit.

The rider is made mostly from the new fantasy orc plastic.  I had to move the cleaver blade from a right hand to his left, but the spear arm is stock.  The head is from a 40K plastic ork, the upper body from a fantasy orc, and the legs from the original metal boar rider model. 

I actually made this dismounted version of the above rider first- I liked him so much, I decided to make the mounted version to match!  The only real difference is the legs- the dismounted model uses regular fantasy orc plastic legs, where the rider above uses the original metal boar rider legs.  The skull trophies hanging from this model's waist are taken from the fantasy orc metal banner pole.  I had to reproduce the trophies out of bits for the riding model above!
This is the one  Cyboar model that I really like.  Unfortunately, it is very hard to get- I think I got mine from UK mail order.  This is a stock model, except for the left arm which is straight off the 40K Ork plastic sprue.  The boar is painted dark brown with a tan drybrush.  The metal parts were painted steel, then drybrushed with copper (for the tanks) or Brass (for the mufflers), and given a dark brown wash for shading and grunge.  I made a dismounted version of this rider too.
This is an old Painboy "bad doc" model.  To empasize his vicious nature, I gave him a bone saw (one of the many cool tool bits that came with the old Battlewagon kit). 
This is one of the original metal ork Runtherd models (now known as slaverz).  There aren't any runtherder models with both a megaphone and a grabba stick, so I made my own!  I started with a metal model equipped with a megaphone, and scratch built a grabba stick out of epic ork titan bits, parts from a power axe, plastic axe handles, and anything else I could find.  This model is typical of my Snakebite ork paint scheme- lots of browns and tans, blue, and yellow details (dots, stripes, checks, etc).
Another classic metal ork oddboy model- this time, a mekboy.   This guy is stock, except his gun, which is actually from (of all things) a Space Crusade ork!  I just loved the details on this model, like the tool apron, the wristwatch, and the pencil behind the ear.  Reminds me of my 6th grade shop teacher...
Anyone remember the old ork Goffic Rokkerz?  Well, I sure do!  We have even made special rules for them to inspire and motivate orks within rokkin' range of one of these models.  The details on this model are incredible, as on the other two metal models that were made.  I'm particularly amused by the pet squig clinging to his guitar.
 My favorite weirdboy model is the old Blood Axe wierdboy seen here.  This guy is just wacky, with his baggy coat, pompous hat, and little bells everywhere.  I painted the basic coat blue with light blue drybrushing, and yellow trim with a brown wash (typical of my Bad Moon color schemes, since they are the clan best known for having Weirdboyz).
Some may recognize this Goff boss as an early incarnation of Ghazgkull Thraka.  His power claw is the old plastic ork one (again), and for extra melee, I added  a chainsword bayonet onto the kustom shoota, taken off an old plastic epic knight.   Not much compared to the current insanity that is Thraka, but a serviceable Goff boss model nonetheless....
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