Wombles innnn spaaaaace

Command

OK to follow on from my RT Orks post here are a few space wombles. These are really old paints on even older minis, a few lead but almost all the classic beaky marines from what really was a ground breaking early plastic set.

I've only taken photos of one squad, you've seen one grey marine you've seen them all, but there are several tactical squads and a couple of all lazcannon devastator squads in the army. I never really named these guys, every chapter name i came up with just didn't seam to work, Emperor's Swords, Emperor's knights, Grey Swords.. they all just didn't cut it. A massive 10 worthless points for anyone coming up with a name I really like, salient points, they are grey and have a sword emblem on the shoulder pad.

Kill!

Whirlwind conversion.

This is how dreadnoughts actually look.

Not sure where the second multi melta has gone.

The vehicles are particularly ropey paints but I love em not quite to pieces. Not sure why Space marines always write, "Kill!", on their tanks, probably because it is cool. I have some bikes knocking about somewhere and five of the riding lizards that I've yet to do anything with.

Ooorks innnn Spaaaace.

Who ever first thought about sticking Orcs or should I say Orks in space was a genius, not sure if Rogue Trader was the first some how I doubt it but who knows. Here are my RT orks, old, bad  paints but finding them in the cellar made me decide to snap them as they were with no improvements.

These are the first run of RT Orks before they got all fixated with Clans. Not that I have a problem with the clans and the plastic arm orcs of later RT, I have a bunch of them too. But I do love this incarnation, they are so piratical and brutal.

I think I painted these about the time the Iraq war started, the second one, I had some notion in my head about doing them as some sort of desert force form that.

More points for the first person to notice the 90's WD item in the shots.

I also have a load left to paint but maybe I'll update the others some time too.