In early July, I spotted a fantastic post by @the_gyro_ork on Instagram of a crashing warbike with the rider flying over the handlebars.
It quite caught my imagination, and I realised that I had a spare old lead Warbike to create my own version.
The hardest bit was converting the rider. I still have quite a few unpainted plastic Orks from the 1990 box set. There are two basic sculpts and I realised that using the walking version but cutting off the left leg and gluing it back on rotated backwards by 90 degrees worked really well. I also cut the right foot at the front of the ankle to angle that foot backwards and give a real sense of motion.
The hands came from spare third-party sculpts that I use for Fury proxies; they came with quite a few spare hands which work perfectly.
The head is a combination of two of the six original plastic heads. My favourite was always the guy screaming a challenge of some kind, but I also loved the one with a fantastically over-the-top mohican.
So I cut the mohican off the latter and glued it onto the former. Perfect!
This is one of my absolute favourite conversions; completely pointless but it will definitely see action on the tabletop at some point.
Aw, that's a beaut!
ReplyDeleteRemember the old deck of Ork cards for 1st ed, that effectively wrecked your own army with various failures, disasters and explosions as the jerry-rigged ork stuff fell apart? Reminds me of that (and how awful it was to play) - but you clearly need more conversions like this for your army as bits drop off the walkers and the guns jam on the flash gitz!
Yes, I absolutely loved those crazy cards even as my army lost heavy weapons, vehicles and everything else when my opponents gleefully played malfunction cards on me. Thank you!
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