Prototype

This is the standard Ork Nobz ( no sniggering please that's Orkish for Noble) in Mega armour. A pretty good model if hard to convert. However for the purposes of my new armour it has a big problem. It is entirely metal!

So I decided to fallback on the plastic Ork Nobz ( again no sniggering please) sprue which I have rapidly started to find to be the most useful for converting in terms of the bits you get for the price you have had to pay.

But I knew that I wouldn't be able to match the detail of the pistons on the metal model in plastic so I decided to think about how the Orks would " Really" construct the armour. A back story for the army is already coming together in the deep recesses of that crazy place that is commonly referred to as my mind. The Army has been trapped on a planet fighting a decade long urban war. So naturally they would now be at a point where they would be scavaging for anything useful they could possibly use. It might not have a lot of pistons but in urban warfight the protection would outweight the need for sophistication.

This is my first prototype and to be perfectly honest I really don't like how he turned out. But not every conversion can turn out to be winner. Still I learned some valuable lessons, the main one is that I need to break the plasticard up so the armour looks more moulded to his body. In this case it looks more like he's wearing a box.

I will field him still though but only as part of a large squad. He might not look as hip or as cool as the Ork mega armour equpped nobz ( no sniggering at the back) but I'm sure no one would tell him that to his face.