The Badlands

One of my projects for Gorkamorka is to create a huge diorama/playing board of Mektown.  This a multi-year project.  Here is some of the work completed so far.

Here's a work in progress picture of tiny bit of Mektown, just experimenting with the little bitz of scenery I've finished so far (seeing how the different pieces look together).  Some of the stuff in the photo still needs some further touch-ups, most notably the merchant stall. 

Mektown isn't just a collection of ramshackle orky structures and sand.  Its made up of the orks that live and toil there as well.  In between painting and constructing the buildings I've been working on some Mektown personalities to populate the city.  Here's a few that I've completed recently.

Trapjaw (an infamous ork outlaw) here is a complete/repaint conversion from an old Gamesday Nob I had sitting around for years. He's a master of ambushes and is considered by many orks to be unproppa due to his tactics. 

Fairly simple conversion from Orc Rock Lobba Boss.  Replaced an arm.  And another Ork Merchant using a combination of the old plastic orks with the latest set.

This ork slop-shop owner/bouncer was a lot of fun to convert.  He's got an old warhammer ogre body, savage orc boarboy head, plastic orc command sprue arms, ogre kingdom hands, and a goblin arrow quiver converted into a dagger sheath. 

Here's a guard squig.

This ork boy was another more advanced conversion that I really had fun doing.  He uses several OOP parts.  The old bad doc body, with knives and bullets added, old gorkamorka biker arms (the left hand was converted from the standard plastic orks)

Regular visitors to this site will notice this isn't new, but I have added to it.  The piping on the front is new, along with the storage tank. 

A grabba arm has been added to the side.

If you look closely, you can see the ork in the building.

Here's my first free hand ork glyph painted on to the side.  The building still needs some touches ups (some the i-beams need to be high-lighted to match).

One of my projects for Gorkamorka is to create a huge diorama/playing board of Mektown.  This a multi-year project.  So far I've only completed a handful of bldgs.  Here are a couple of them:

The Doc's Shop (I Can't Feel My Legs!)