Rogue Trader : Battle at the Farm - Additionnal OrkTroops part 4

Hi! I finally got my hand on these Gretchins! They arrived the day after my last post. So, now the question is : "Better to play 10 or 20 Gretchins?", I'm sure we have the same answer (^_^)

 

 

 

Rogue Trader : Battle at the Farm - Additionnal OrkTroops part 4

Hi! The last unit for the Drop Legion... I hope it's enough to beat these stupid Space Marines? Impossible for me to build an Ork brigade without  Runtherd and his tiny followers. I slightly converted the Mekboy of the Hop Spalt Field Gun, the whip is sufficient to refer to the Runt

Herd cast :)

Concerning the Grots... I'm pretty disapointed by the French postal servive... I'm waiting since 3 weeks for a parcel with 11 RT Gretchins Inside. The parcel is stuck at the Roissy Airport, it smell the custom tax! So, I use WHFB Gobbos for the moment.

Fortunatly, I keep the Mojo and I find the inspiration to create some new troops... The Fearsome Snot-Stick-Grenades, rules coming soon!

Next step for the project... The battlefield and the famous ruined farm. I want to take my time, find some inspiration and technics to build a pertinent gaming board. So, I will switch with a new project for the next weeks... Pictures coming soon :)

Rogue Trader : Battle at the Farm - Additionnal OrkTroops part 3

Hello and happy Orktoberfest! This time to help the poor Orks of the Drop Legion to complete their mission, I painted  an heavy chunk of lead ... the funny RT Ork Dreadnought :)

This Dread follow the the Red Nob and his Fokker Squadron  on every battlefieds. The gretchins Inside is considered as the mascot of the squadron ... Sort of good luck charm. To maintain him in life, he is flanked by a Painboy and a Mekboy (his creators).

Classic RT Orks models used to make my own Painboy/Mekboy!

Rogue Trader : Battle at the Farm - Additionnal Ork Troops Part 2

FURY! I upgraded an old WW1 German tank (Sturmpanzerwagen) concidered as the early panzer tank. A nice additionnal force for my growing Drop Legion army!

I bought a 28mm 3D printed tank on eBay and my objective was to transform it in a tank "in campaign". Troopers packs of the compagny and weathering are my friends! So rivets and small sculpted stuff too :)

Rogue Trader : Battle at the Farm - Additionnal OrkTroops part 1

It's time to add some new troops to these poor Orks! Let me show you 3 Nobz of the Drop Legion, these posers come from a special unit named : The (Motha) Fokker Squadron! Leaded by a big fella nicknamed "The Red Nob" or sometimes "Manfrag Uruk Richthofen".

Ok so, you probably recoganized some of the best Ork sculpted by Kev Adams during the RT era. Bulky and full of nice details, they are very cool to paint. I continu to use some WW1 references to paint my Orks, here I use the Legendary Red Baron Manfred Von Richthofen and his Red Fokker Dr.I. The black and white highlight perfectly the red color. I added some yellow to clearly show the Bionik arms and the Kustom weaponz... Hey posers Nobz !!

Manfrag  is a mix of the Renegade Ork and a Nob with power armour.
I added some stuff to feel the gaps of the conversion and I renforced his skinny calves in the same style of the other Nobz. Like on the Crimson fist I increase the details on the armours with reinforcing plates or air vents on the shoulder pads. The picture below show the conversion process, befor I scratched the ChaosStar and swap it by the IronCross.

The big question ! How the Nobz store their back banner? To answer to this existential question, I created some Orkish inventions in green stuff!
Answer : Low ranked Nobz store their back banner manually in a small backpack provided for this purpose (pretty boring!). Or for high ranked Nobz, Fokker Squadron first of course! They use a banner mounted on a telescopik tube controlled by a automatik Ork device on their back. Painted in Yellow... Hey, posers Nobz !

Low ranked Nobz!

High ranked Nobz!

Make your own banners! Here I share the banners I created for my Drop Legion, enjoy :)