Old Big Mek tells you everything you need to know about collecting, building, painting, and playing Warhammer 40,000! Old Big Mek has been playing 40K since second edition in 1995 (I told you he was old) and collects Orks as his main but also features Imperial Guard (Astra Militarum), Space Marines, Eldar (Aeldari), and even some Age of Sigmar stuff.
Thanks Old Big Mek and Stankshop!! and everyone else for all the great models!! so many great Ideas, Ill be stealing some for my red shirt clan!! Epic video!! It been a super Orktober!!
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Another great video for the books! Was interesting to see the sprues I haven't purchased yet. A look at the more complex/option heavy kits could be good, like the Battlewagon, Dakkajet and Gorkanaut/Morkanaut. Also maybe seeing how many kitbashed Trukks you can make out of one Trukk kit
Hey Ol' Big Mek, I thought you might like to know that, in Kill Konvoy, attacking the enemy Stompa with your weapons doesn't do anything. The only way to slow down the Stompa is to bomb it by ferrying the Big Bomms scattered around the map into the Stompa. You can also speed up your Stompa by getting kills on enemy players (but getting killed obviously helps their Stompa). Either way, I love Speed Freeks and am happy to see it get any coverage. Keep up the great content on the channel and thank you for working so hard to put out videos this Orktober!
@Grotkaniak ah, nuts! Guess I wasted 2 grots lol! I really love the game, I wish they would make a single player though, I'd love to just go look at all the maps.
I need to bump up my beast snagga boyz numbers. Only have a squad of 10, but they impress me every time I take them. likely going to pick up the new combat patrol. The old ork boy kit is the most versatile a warboss can have, between poses and weapon loadouts, you can take some fuel barrels and kitbash some kommandos, or pick up 2 loota boxes and make a 10 man unit of lootas and a 10 man unit of burnas. I've been doing some work with burnas.
These are excellent suggestions. I especially like the one about having units of Nobz on hand of at least one in each configuration. The old Start Collecting Orks! Boxed set had 5 in each box. Going futher back, the Assault on Black Reach Box set also had 5 Nobz in it. Those can still be found on eBay today. The Ironjawz Orruk Brutes set from AoS might make some good Nobz with Big Choppas for variety, too. Even the Orruk Ard Boyz from AoS might be good proxies for Nobz due to the armor making them look larger. A block of nine Nobz and a Warboss are a force to be reconned with in a Trukk, Battlewagon, or Da Jump'd via a weirdboy.
I think I found an even better loadout. You need: 1x new boys, 1x old boys, 1x Gretchin, 1x Burner/Looter. With that you can make 1 Warboss, 1x Boys, 1x Gretchin, 1x Burner, 1x Looter, 1x Flash gitz. You basically do what you did and then take the two extra legs and bodies to build heavy wheappon boys (big shoota as captain and one or two guns on boy) and with the 3 boys from the new one you have 5 Flash gitz boys.
@demacherius1 I like the idea! Flash Gitz are Nobz though, so your unit might be a bit small unless you bulk them up. You'll also need 40mm bases. But I love the idea!
What about first purchases? Admittedly I currently have a unpainted Tyranid Army (10 Termagants, 10 Hormagaunts, 10 Genestealers, 10 Neurogaunts, 5 Barbgaunts, 3 Von Ryan's, a Pyro/biovore, Screamer Killer, Hive Tyrant and Winged Prime) but honestly if I want to learn to play the actual table top I'd want to go orks because I've heard they're the fun derpy lol faction plus being able to try kitbashing. Currently looking at building some Grot Tanks for my first project, I know they're Legends now but I don't really care for Tournaments plus it'll just be my intro. So thoughts Big Mek?
@amightymongoose5493 I always recommend the Combat Patrol as a good start. If you like kitbashing, grab a box of Lootas and the old Boyz kit (11 models).
Hey big mek! Really appericiate your effort in your videos! For a new ork player your Content is really informativ and easy to understand, thanks man! Quick question: whats youre opinion on third party models? WaAAAaAAGH from Germany
@lukepilgrim1075 I'm glad you are finding the content useful! I like some 3rd party models. Some aren't the right scale. My big thing is that I love kitbashing, so monopose 3d printed models are just a little boring to me. I really like the ones that come in pieces.
The basic Battlewagon without the death roller up front is hugely modular as you mention. You can even leave the top (the "hardcase") off the back bed and put the main turret over the front compartment if you want using the turret base which is built to fit both the hardcase and the top of the front cab. It all sticks together well enough that you don't have to glue all of the stuff together either. The big shoota turrets, the hardtop, the main turret can just be set into place. You could magnetize it, but you really don't need to for most of it.
WAAAAAAAAAGH!! It's ORKTOBER!!! Old Big Mek gets asked all the time what units aspiring Warbosses should buy next. While each army and player is wholly unique, here are some options that are timeless no matter what detachment you run! Affiliate Links: Gretchin - amzn.to/4eYvTml Nobz - amzn.to/4flM6SZ New Boyz - amzn.to/3C3Ql7i Beast Snagga Boyz - amzn.to/3C03YEH Battlewagon - amzn.to/3NL2oJk Kill Rig - amzn.to/48oG2qC
The thing that took my ork painting to another level is getting a good contrasting undertone. Try purple to undercoat the skin. The green goes over purple so very well. A Sepia wash over purple turns the purple to a more brown color- thanks to color theory magic! Also, I came up with a great no skill rust recipe that I love to share. (I've moved on to proacryl, so the citadel conversion escapes me) 1. Basecoat with mahogany or dark flesh, wait for that to completely dry. 2. Come in with orange and dark red and stipple with an old, frayed brush, let the 2 colors mix periodically. 3. Drybrush with magnesium (a brass/ silver mix) 4. Cover with a flesh wash. This technique scales up or down very well.
It’s cool to see you use your car knowledge to dive a bit deeper into the Ork vehicle design. I still want to buy some speedbuggies in the future, but my pile of unbuilt Ork models is big enough as it is.
Solid tips! Vehicle armor / power armor episode please! Colored panels. So much more anxiety than I ever thought. Stalled me out on def dread and deffkoptas til your primer episode got me started again this Orktober. WAAAGH ON!
How would an Ork convey “put your money where your mouth is” because “put your Teef where your mouf is” is hilarious but they already do that. Maybe “quit your yappin’ and take out your teef”
Hi, I realize it's been a while since you made this video, but I'm exploring your channel since it got caught in my feed (for which I'm grateful). Just wanted to chime in on GW digital sculpting that you mentioned, since I don't think you have the timeline quite right. The first completely digital-sculpted Games Workshop model was the plastic Warhammer Giant released in 2006. The last hand-sculpted plastic model they released was the Adeptus Mechanicus Magos Dominus in 2015, reportedly as a last hurrah by Jes Goodwin who was the last person refusing to switch from hand-sculpting. Pretty much anything released in the last decade is 100% done digitally, and even a lot of the stuff done another decade back is likely digitally designed. Not trying to 'wellakshually' or 'gotcha' you, just wanted to share some factoids that I personally find fascinating - digital design for Games Workshop stuff has been around for much longer than people usually realize. They practically blazed the trail on it in the miniature wargaming market. Love the videos you are doing, have a good one!
@toferkrz946 wow that's a lot sooner than I thought! I was doing AutoCAD work in 04 and I can't imagine how clunky it must have been doing those first kits.
This really blew my mind. I’ve been putting off building my other Beastsnagga boyz because I wasn’t sure how to make them look different. But I do have the Ork Kommandos unbuilt and got some secondhand kommando bits as well. So I’ll combine those to make my beastsnagga boyz fit the Mad Max theme I’m going for. Thanks Big Mek! Waaagh on!!
That’s one Waaaghsome conversion. I’m a bit ashamed that I didn’t even start my Orktober conversion for the contest. I’ve been so busy with all kinds of things like an international painting competition and managing personal stuff. This build is definitely an inspiration!
Colorful. While I like armies that are uniform with all of their boots, pants and coats standardized colors, orks should definitely not be one of those armies (with the possible exception of those barmy yellow gitz, and those sneaky Blood Axes). My own boyz are painted in varied pallet as well. All of their kit is picked up along the way, with their green skin and forest bases being the main unifying colors. Almost all of them are outfitted in dirty blacks, browns, grays, and boltgun- and brass-flavored metallics--which are almost non-colors themselves, and then individual mobs will have a blue, red, green, yellow or some other spot color or a distinctive funny hat or other embellishment (cowboy hats for one unit of squighog boyz, leather helms and tribal tattoos for another, WWII Wehrmacht motorcycle helmets for one unit of warbikers, steppe helmets and top knots for another "biker unit" riding more recent Old World boars outfitted with dakkagun saddles) so I can identify which unit they go with. The muddy, non-colors and green skins keep them all together on the field even if they resemble a crowd of orky try-outs for the lead roles in a Village People biopic.
