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Friday, 12 March 2021

Lockdown 2.0 Project Log Day 77: Ork Civilian & Grumpy Eldar

 Hi!

Here's the latest additions to my collection in the form of an Ork Civilian and a grumpy Eldar Blade Master!

Belroth of the Ebon Locks & Trev the Ork

Belroth of the Ebon Locks is the Blade Master to the court of Elraydin of Iyanden. An unparalleled genius with his Star Sabre and duelling knife, Belroth accompanies his lord in his quest to discover the fate of Glitterberry who was last seen in the company of Vash Hammersworn of the Mechanicus. He is well known for having a tongue as cutting as his blade and few seek to cross swords with him and Elraydin has brought him along to settle any honour duels that Vash is no doubt going to have to deal with when the Eldar discover that Glitterberry got smashed to a pulp by a rogue Ogryn some time ago...

 

Belroth is a Grenadier Dark Elf from their Fantasy Warriors range that I picked up at Targe about fifteen years ago and never quite got round to painting. I'm still not sure about the yellow leggings and may repaint them black as some point in the future but he'll do for the time being!


Trev is a laid back sort of an Ork and works as a trukker for the Kasselmine Grog Co. of Farpoint. Despite his mellow nature (for an Ork), Trev is still keen to get into the odd barroom brawl if someone spills his pint and can usually be found thundering across the landscape in is transport rig, the Rollin' Thunda.


Trev is one of the old Ork plastic figures and I painted him after the Eldar Harlequins I've been working on because he's such a simple figure to work on and was just the thing to recover from painting a literal ton of jewels.


With my re-imagined Imperium, I wanted to explore civilian characters for most intelligent races and started with the Orks as I just don't like the nothing but WAAAGH shenanigans and imagine that not all Orks are bloodthirsty savages and some have found gainful employment on the frontier. I've actually got a female Ork that I sculpted painted and she will be getting her own post at some point in the next day or so as what started out as a simple civilian NPC seems to be getting an awful lot of character!

I've also statted up a few characters for this weekends game using Planet 28 and will post up the battle report in the coming days along with my thoughts on the game once I've played it but in the meantime, All the best!
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4 comments:

  1. Hobbs13 March 2021 at 01:11

    Love the paint job on the elf. I vote to leave him be. :)

    The ork civilian looks great too! It's like he was meant to be one. Great job.

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    1. SpacecowSmith13 March 2021 at 13:23

      Thanks!

      I'll be posting up my next Orky civilian in todays update and thanks for the reassurance on the Eldar paint scheme!

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  2. Toby13 March 2021 at 09:50

    I remember that the Imperium used to have ambassadors to Eldar craftworlds, and many orks worked as mercenaries for humanity, but that seems to have been replaced with a dumbed-down "everyone hates everyone" mentality. In fact old 40k was probably a bit like Shadowrun in space.

    Anyhow, I quite like the yellow leggings. They're a bit weird but I think it fits the Oldhammer feel. He reminds me of someone from a Michael Moorcock book.

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    1. SpacecowSmith13 March 2021 at 13:25

      Many thanks!

      I'm not a fan of the whole universe is doomed and everyone hates everyone else Grimdark 40k and far prefer a bit more interesting sort of setting where things may be a bit grim, gritty and dangerous, but there's still hope for things to come out well!

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