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Finally, an army theme I can sink my teeth into
Topic Started: 30th December 2007 - 09:41 PM (438 Views)
tnailor
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Alright, so yesterday I was thinking (yet again) about what army I wanted to start. And as I was browsing about the empire section on GW.com, I was becoming more and more intrigued. And then, while looking at some of my non-skaven, mostly broken mini's I realized something
I LOVE painting orcs! And this may seem like a small thing to most people but trust me--I love my skaven but it takes me forever to paint them because they never come out looking very good. But looking at my models of Ruglud's Armored Orcs, purchased way back when 4 years ago, I realized they looked pretty darn good, especially because i didn't spend much more than 20-30 minutes per orc. Put that in an assembly line, and the 10 of them took me about 2 hours if I got going strong enough!
But...I still needed a theme. My hatred for the undead and chaos (or at least for their always beating me) caused me to think of that...but what Orcs would want to destroy the undead/chaos menace? And then...a theme song we all know and love came on my itunes:
"If there's something strange
in your neighborhood
Who ya gonna call?
GHOSTBUSTERS"
The ghostbusters movies have always been a favorite of mine, and then I realized...the banners could be the symbol from the movie (the ghost with a cross out through him..just look it up, I can't describe it.) So that gave me a good theme, a strong paint scheme (either the clothes painted up like the ghostbusters themselves, or merely the red/black/white/...I just needed a great name...
and then it came to me, a name to live in infamy everywhere:
Morgrim's Ghostbustaz!!!
In Morgrim's own words, "dem boyz is da bestez when you be wanten to get ridz of any o' dem skellies, zomboys, or anything else! We be orcs, and we be here ta bust up dem ghosts!"
Obviously a heavily anti-magic army, primarily consisting of heavy, fearless orcs to bash about those VC, TK, Chaos, DE, and other evil armies out there! (except skaven..for whatever reason Morgrim has a great respect for the vile ratmen!)
More fluff to follow but let me know if you like it!
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Heh. Sounds like a funny idea. Yet I can imagine it work too.
Go for it , and keep us informed ;)
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That is a very amusing idea, definitely pursue it. The orc name for the army is hilarious.
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Thanks to everyone who's responded/read! In terms of my army, I've decided to stick with Morgrim's Ghostbustaz and also decided to include very few goblins, probably either a Night goblin squid herd (huge!) painted up like the real ghostbusters with transluscent green squigs like the ghost that helped them out (the hungry one) and some spider riders cause, I mean bugger look at those guys! Of course, I'll most likely need to have some rock lobbaz and such but nothing too major. I am planning to make and TRY MAYBE to convert a giant into looking like the state puff marshmallow guy, though that'd probably only be if someone gifted me with a giant and a lot of green stuff or I found a model of the real state puffed guy and did a "counts as."
I'm also gonna be converting my black orc warboss/orc warboss basded on a white dwarf article I saw, using a 40K orc warboss with one arm extended, squig climbing off of it and a regular orc boss axe--you guys think that'd be cool?
Also, I may or may not make my shamans have little boxes at their feet with fake spirit hosts/ghosts getting sucked into them, you know run with the theme, and I may make my arrer boyz champion have a little pack/gun to make him look extra cool
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wow nice,
i love the idea and would like to seee saome pics (even consept art)
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ha i rember the mashmellow man that was class you have to try and do it :lol:
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and more: http://toys.search.ebay.co.uk/ghostbusters...ZR34QQsacatZ246
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