Return of the Tin Boyz

Soooo... Back in the glorious days of the unplayable game of Rogue Trader there existed Tin Boyz... See the first tin boyz post for more info... Anyway... I really wanted to recreate the feel of the original Tin boyz as the meganobz in my orkingrad list. I was shooting for 1940's techno-orki-badness. Big brutes... Here are someone else's tinboyz... the originals...


Here are my versions... As I said big brutes... They are killer kan sized (those are 40 mil bases)...

I used tamiya barrels as torsos, leman russ wheels as heads and thumb tact heads for optical sensors, skaven hands and lots of plasticard for the rest...

The back packs are from the imperial guard cadian sprue and the armour chest plates are from the Rogue Trader Battle Wagon model kit.

I have to say I am pretty pleased with how they turned out. Might make more and use them as a terminator army at some point. They need shoota/ storm bolters at some point but for now... They are fine...

Back to the Death Company!

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The "Looted" Panzer WIP

Well as I said I went on a shopping spree at my new favourite Boston retailer of toy soldiers (Hobby Bunker). I picked up a pile of plastic tanks for the Orkingrad Brigade. Here are the beginnings of the panzers... (looted boomgun wagons)

As you can see they fit the scale of GW tanks.

I have removed the fronts of the turrets because I want to replace them with actual GW battle cannon barrels (I wanted big fat barrels). The models themselves have a fair bit of detail that isn't as crisp as GW kits BUT add a few plates and bullet holes and I think they will be perfect for the boyz.

I want to add flags laying on the back as identifiers so "Fighter Bombaz" can not "accidentally" shoot the wagons when they fly by. Something about an ork pilot shooting his mates for giggles makes me laugh...


Back to work...

So... Orkingrad?

So I have more than a passing interest in WWII. And as I said last time I am pretty enamoured with the Micro Art Studios WWII Ork bitz. So why not combine the two?

As seen elsewhere in this blog, I have been creating a feral ork/ orc army for a while now. All the models are wearing heavy fur cloaks and look suitably thin and by the time I am done... (hopefully) cold!

Now Stalingrad was a major turning point of WWII. Hitler decided it would be a good idea to backstab his "up til this point" ally Stalin and invaded Russia despite fighting Europe on the other side of his growing empire. For a while it looked like it would work. The advance stalled however in the city of Stalingrad. The Russians were desperate not to loose any more ground to the Germans (or risk loosing their oil fields). The weather also began to play into the Russian's favour when winter hit. The Germans were just not prepared. Anyway, the fighting in Stalingrad was fierce and brutal. Tanks/ artillery/ infantry and everything else that could be thrown into the crucible of war was. The life expectancy of a Russian soldier in that battle was averaged to be 24 hours! Despite this the Germans were eventually overrun and surrendered sealing the fate of Germany and the war on that front.



It was a nasty, frozen fight to the death.

Sooooooo.... My orks will be geared for cold and will feature lots of armour and foot troops. (and city fighting/ snow bases)

I am thinking of 2 battle wagons with kannons, 3 looted wagons with boom guns and lots of infantry.

More soon...

Back in the Saddle... Ork ideas...

Soooo I have been checking out the ork and goblin WWII stuff for sale by Micro Arts Studios for a while and mid 37 hour flight to my parent's house in Boston (it was a bastard of a flight). I had an epiphany. Orkingrad!

I have an army of painted orks in furry cloaks... What if I mixed in WWII armour and some of these models...

Meet my Nobz:


I picked up a pack of these guys and matching heads from Hobby Bunker in Malden MA. What a cool shop. Not the best GW selection BUT they had everything I needed for my crazy ork army.

I also picked up a pack of these dudes to be my Runtherds...


Additionally I was able to pick up a pile of really nice plastic WWII tanks.

I got 3 Panzer IV's and two "Buffalo's" to be my battlewagons... Everything fits perfectly.

My Armoured Kompany is well on it's way... All I need to do is figure out how to scratch build 10 Mega Armoured Orks...

Army list and model pictures soon... And a proper explanation of the theme... (Eastcon here I come!)

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