Building zogwort

[Hard Cover]

the only reference pic I know of.

and the work I've been doing... still needs clothes and snakes. I can't tell if he's wearing fur or chainmail though. the lizardmen swarm is just temporary.

 

[cheelfy]

Really good conversions. The jumping ork is awesome.

 

[Prophecy07]

He's not jumping. He's so infused with the power of WAAAGH that gravity has ceased to affect him. There should be grots holding chains holding him down, I think.

Nice so far, HC. My ork-playing buddy and I were talking about making him but never got around to it. One thing we did experiment with, is taking thin metal wire, attaching it in random places and painting it blue with white highlights, as a lightning effect. We didn't use it for old Zaggy, but we did end up using it for his Eldrad and it worked suprisingly well. Just put a whole bunch of kinks in it, make it fork in appropriate places...

I love weirdboys. For anyone who doesn't know the fluff, all ork power (including their technology) is solely based on how hard they believe it will work. Weirdboys are so infused with the psychic belief, that they can channel it into extremely destructive bursts at the enemy.

Except when they make the heads of every nearby ork explode.

WAAAAAAAGH!

 

[Hard Cover]

My friends have been wanting to play alot of 1k to 1.5k 4+player games lately, so I figured I should start taking him for fun since I'll have a ton of IC targets.

Actually I was going to go find a toy(possibly a hero clix?) that's holding a clear green fireball(possibly yellow?) or something and chop it up and put it in his eyesockets and mouth. They're empty since his face was sculpted around a plastic ork skull for that reason.

I've got to do his foot dressings next then I'm kinda stumped on whether he's wearing furs or chainmail since he's a savage ork and that's kinda the big holdup at the moment.

 

[Prophecy07]

Going by the picture, it looks like he has bone armor?

 

[freakinacage]

i'd do whats easiest to sculpt, ie fur

nice work btw, very promising

 

[Hard Cover]

A little update here. I decided to split the middle and go with a leather tunic with some metal plates riveted to it. I started with his legs and thought I'd leave the back open, because it makes visiting Da' Dropps so much easier.

Ironically that's my old custom sculpted wierdboy in the background. I'm seriously thinking of basing him laying down like that and "seeing the sights" behind Zogwort on a permanent basis.

 

[evil tendencies]

I like the pose, but the flying stand is a bit funny...

If you like the idea of grots holding him down, maybe you could actually support him in the air with the chains that are supposedly holding him down? I'm thinking of something similar to Privateer's "Harbinger of Menoth."

What're you thinking of using for the snakes?

 

[Hard Cover]

The typical 40mm base is too small to put grots on like the picture so I decided I'd leave them out, besides he's not just some wierdboy, he's Zogwart. He turns people into squigs.You can't chain down someone like that. (also it wouldn't be as apparent if I didn't use a flash)

No, actually I've been looking for flying base alternatives. I don't want to run a pin through his foot because I like him flying at about that height. As far as molding chains to keep him aloft, I'm not sure any of the resin or epoxy putty that I have would support his weight at any kind of an angle. I know his body's just tinfoil, paperclips Greenstuff and plastic but still at an angle over a distance, it'll probably sag. I wouldn't put the grot under him, I'd have him being dragged behind him, so I'm not sure. for now the flying pin works but is something I'd really like to change when I find a good solution. I haven't even started on the scenic base so I think I've got a bit of time to figure it out.

I may nose around my local Hobby town and see if I can find a thinner clear acrylic rod I can run under him though.

as for the snakes since the teeth are so big I'll probably sculpt them myself with mouths closed(looking like piranhas) then just attach them to some greenstuff snakes wrapped around his body.

 

[JorenBSld]

First of all I really like your sculpt, it looks awesome. as for the flying heres just a little thought: maybe you could sculpt/model some smoke or waaagh energy under the lowest feet and maybe put some weight coverd in the smoke to act for some sort of balance... I dont know if it will work but it will maybe bring up some new idea

I am not really into 40k so... You said that its a savage orc, and i was wondering i have never seen them in 40k and also i've never seen shamans in 40K isnt that what the meks would be??? as i dont know the 40Kbooks i just wonderd... i think he really looks WFB to me... but thats just me

greets
Joren

 

[Tagamoga]

Hello hard cover!

I love the badages and his glossy... well... sitting place...

For the flying: I dont like this flying base either. Perhaps you can to chum to a bush? So you could take a wire to fix him to the base and hide it with a bush. So it would look like he jumps over the bush. It is only a suggestion...

Greetings, Taggi.

 

[Hard Cover]

Look... clothes. ... and a squig.

As for Feral Orks, they're mentioned in the fluff a lot. Zogwort's the only one I've known of to actually be played in the game since 2nd ed when they had Savage boar boyz, and they're the only 40k savage orks I know of ever made.

Fearal orks are just orks that basically live in the whild, their spores landed in some remote place and when they were "Birthed" they weren't with a warband so they make do in the wilds. Eventually they're usually picked up by a warband and integrated into ork society. Ol' Zogwort was a little diffrent in the fact that he left the wilds on his own attracked by waaagh energy of warbands. He still looks pretty savage acording to the artwork so I guess he didn't change... he is a little crazy, yanno?

 

[daemon boy]

that is looking really cool!
i was thinking; instead of holding him up with the clear rod, could it be possible to use pins that were entwined in chains , (like the concept art) to hold him airborne ? you could also reposition his arm and make it touching the floor, and pin through that to have even more points of stability? Then it wouldn't look as if he were being held up by a rather large 3rd leg xx

 

[cheelfy]

I love the "face" of the squig. The ork is also really good.

 

[Prophecy07]

Fearal orks are just orks that basically live in the whild, their spores landed in some remote place and when they were "Birthed" they weren't with a warband so they make do in the wilds. Eventually they're usually picked up by a warband and integrated into ork society. Ol' Zogwort was a little diffrent in the fact that he left the wilds on his own attracked by waaagh energy of warbands. He still looks pretty savage acording to the artwork so I guess he didn't change... he is a little crazy, yanno?

ALL orks are a little crazy. To say that Zoggy is crazy by ork standards... He'd make Heath Ledger's joker look downright civilized.

I love orks.

 

[DannyBoy2k]

Interesting...is he going to have the 'electric bolt eyes', too? That'd look FREAKY!

 

[mud duck]

ideas.
for the eyes, paint the inside bright yellow/green/blue and a drop of clear glue shaded very very lightly (and thin) and white?

as for the flying. run a thicker copper/brass rod up inside the leg to say the knee, and back down through the base were it is bent into a circle. And then cover the rod with some wrapping coming off his leg/foot.

so far, to cool. keep it up.

 

[Hard Cover]

I hadn't thought of disguising the pin with his wraps... hmmm..


as for the eyes, I was thinking of butchering some toy, possibly a hero clix figure to put a yellow bolt in each eye.