The Warforge Miniature Modelling and Conversion

Fresh out of the box

Now that I have bunches of the new models, I figured I'd start putting squads together. I was originally aiming for a 15-ork strong squad of Lootas, but I ended up with 16 from the boxes I got, so I'm starting to consider maybe two 10-man squads instead.

In any case, I've been building this squad with the intention of painting them up, so I've broken the entire unit down into three pieces per loota - the 'gun rig', the boy himself, and the bases. I'm going to prime and paint these up during the next few weekdays, and then glue it all together.

I'm finding it considerably difficult to actually vary the lootas up in any appreciable way. The harnesses tend to fit together in only certain ways. I did the best I could to tack extra guns and barrels and the likes on the gun harnesses, but I don't think I'm done yet. I did a little work on the lootas themselves - some imperial helmets, that sort of thing - but I'll be adding more to them, as well; bolters, grenades, that sort of thing. I'll probably cut some rod up for their bases to act as spent ammo shells, as well.

Here's how they look put (read: loosely fitted) together!

 

Nothing too outrageous, really, just working off the standard Loota sprue and a couple extra bitz I have lying around. I'm saving the 'rocket' looking bits for my Killer Kans later down the road, and I'm trying to keep some of their heads for other projects I have in mind - namely, proper Flash Gitz. Those won't come till later, though.

I apparently have one more loota enroute to me in the mail currently, so I'm mulling over the possibility of building three more to have a full 20 for my 10-man squads. We'll see how that goes - right now, my main objective is to finish these ones off and get them primed so I can paint them over the next week.