Here is my assorted collection of Ork Nobs. These are built from a combination of Assault on Black Reach Nobs, the regular Nobs box set, as well bits from the Fantasy Black Orcs box set. I wanted all of them to look heavily armoured and ready to fight!
Shoota Boys Mob- I’m actually a big fan of Shoota Boys. Most people go for the traditional Slugga & Choppa, which has its place too. Shoota Boys still get 2 attacks, however, which is pretty solid. Plus they can soften up a target, then assault it with 3 attacks on the charge. with a threat range of 24″ (6″ move +18″ range) they can pour a ton of fire out. Yes, it doesn’t hit great, when compared to Marines, but consider that 30 shoota boys will fire 60 shots, and 20 will hit on average. Not bad at all, especially since it’s strength 4.
This is my second looted wagon, built from a Leman Russ tank kit. I liked the idea of an open area on top of the turret for spotters. It also seemed like only orks would have exposed ammunition that loads into the turret. Give it a suped up engine, and it was good to go. Note that it has been named by it’s krew, “Tuff Enuff!”
This is one of my Looted Wagons for the army. Looted wagons kind of get the short end of the stick in the current Ork Codex. They can apply some pressure on enemies, especially marines, with their AP3 boomguns, but at the same time, they have paper thin armour. I’ve found they are best kept as cheap as possible, points-wise. Even though they are the toughest ork unit out there, there are so many possibilities on how to model them. It was a lot of fun to convert! It’s parts are as follows:
I recently got a moment free to take pictures of the entire Bad Moons army. It’s taken a little while, but I’ll be posting all of the remaining pictures very soon. This has been a great project, one that has provided me with hours and hours of fun considering, planning, building, converting, and painting. When I initially started this, I never thought the army would be as large as it is today. But it was just so much fun that I never stopped.
As fun as it has been, after these I am going to change things up a bit and focus on some skirmish gaming. Additionally, I’ve been eager to build some new games boards ever since I moved out to California. Those projects will show up in the future here as well.
Continuing the Bad Moons thread, here is the second squad of Trukk Boys, as well as their Trukk:
Here is my main unit of Burna Boys. Included is a Mek with Kustom Mega Blasta.
I typically field my Mad Dok with a unit of Burna Boyz. I figure they’re an elite choice, so they can’t hold onto objectives, so i don’t really look at the whole “crazy- have to attack everything” as a negative. Plus, with the Dok, they benefit from being Fearless and Feel No Pain. My Burna boys just became the statistical equivalent of marines with power weapons. Good stuff. 
Of course, Burnas don’t get their own trukks. So they have to “steal” them from a unit of regular boys, or get a dedicated heavy support lotted wagon. I went with the looted wagon with a Skorcha, Reinforced Ram, and Open Topped. It’s fast enough (not a trukk, but that’s ok), gives me a transport that anyone can use later in the game, and it has a heavy flamer. Again…. good stuff. You really can’t have enough flame templates in 5th edition 40k.
Conversion wise, it is an Imperial Guard Hellhound, with front plates from a Stompa, a Skorcha from a Killer Kan, some old Bad Moons icons, plastic card, and resin track links from Iron Dog Studios.
The Dok is IN.
So far I’ve shown a lot of big stuff- battlewagons, squiggoth, etc. As every general knows, you need troops to fight your battles. I tend to run a mechanized army, so I have several squads of ork boys in trukks (as well as in the Squiggoth).
When I originally started building this army, I purchased a decent sized lot of 2nd edition ork boys and decided to paint them up as bad moons. Kind of as a test- which eventually turned into a larger and larger army.
Here is the first trukk boys squad & their nob.
Of course, all Trukk Boys need a Trukk to ride in……….
This is a great kit for any Ork plaer, the Forge World Squiggoth.
I converted mine by scratch building a larger howda (the old howda went onto my battlewagon). I also added leman russ style sponsons with big shootas on either side. Typically, I was playing this as a “counts as” battlewagon”, hence the two big shootas. Recently I have been playing in the Southern California 40k League, which allows and encourages Forge World in army lists. So for those league games, this was a cyborked Squiggoth. I added a power plant and tesla coils around its head to represent the ‘borking.
Here is a Battlewagon I converted for the army, the “Yellow Fever”. It’s built from a Land Raider kit, the Prow of an Ork Battlewagon, a Morser Karl artillery model, and the howda from a squiggoth.
These are fun little conversions- they are my Skorcha Wartrakks, made a little Grot Tanks. I figured only Bad Moons would be so wealthy as to allow grots to have their own tanks.
The conversions are relatively simple to do. Basically, take the back half of the wartakk model. Since that’s a bit expensive, look around for used ones on ebay. They can be in any condition, because you are just going to cut it up anyhow.
Take the back half and use plastic card to cover the front gap. There is a square bit with a circle turret hole from the trukk kit. That gets put on top, along with a magnet. Then place a battlewagon grot turret into the spot. Add a flamer to the grot turret and you’re good to go.
I haven’t seen too many people field Skorcha Wartrakks in ork armies. I have to say, they are a great addition to the army. First, they are fast vehicles, and create an annoying little unit to harass enemies with. usually opponents are much more concerned with killing the tough stuff in my army. These guys are allowed to drive around doing whatever they want, usually softening up units before trukk boyz pile into them.
These are some of my favorite Ork models, mainly because they are so “stompy”. As promised, here are more photos of the army….. Much more to come, almost 4000 points worth.
First up, the “Angry Dred”. this was a scratch build.
Next, a Killer Kan Mob. The Scrap Launcha guns are all from Iron Dog studios and count as grotzookas.
I’ve been a little busy, but I finally took some time today and took pictures of ALL of my Bad Moons orks. Other than adding some fire to the background city, everything else is untouched. Here is the 1st picture of what will be a series.
Lil’ Kong- the stompiest dred around.
Hello- I’m the other half of this blog, LittleLeadMen! I’ve been working on finishing several projects, but the one I’m most obsessed with is my 40k Bad Moons Ork army. This army started very small, and grew and grew and grew! I now have over 4000 pts of fully painted Bad Moons. Much of the work has been done over the last 1 1/2 years, but there are plenty of newer minis being added. Over the next week I’m going to bring everyone up to speed with the completed models for the army.
First up, here is an overview shot of the first 1000 pts I painted of the army (click for a larger views):
