Some New Death Guard!

Still inexorably grinding through my Death Guard models.  Here's some stuff that I've painted since completing the Daemon Prince.

Malignant Plague Caster 

I decided to treat myself and picked up this special edition Malignant Plague Caster from the Space Marine Heroes 3 set.

Myphitic Blight Hauler

For this happy little guy, I decided to challenge myself and learn how to paint fancy lenses, which ended up being a nice focal point.

Deathshroud Terminators

Finally, I slowly plodded my way through finally painting my Deathshroud Terminators.

At this point, I'm pretty darn close to 1,000 points of painted Death Guard! Now I need to figure out what to prioritise painting next. My first 1,000 points ended up taking to the field for my first game of 9th edition Warhammer 40k, and I had a blast. The Death Guard won, but it was a very close match vs. the Drukhari.

Some New Orks!

Weirdboy

I've had this converted Weirdboy sitting around for years and decided to take a break from painting my Death Guard and knock him out.  He's been staring at me begging to be painted for quite a while.  I decided to represent the old editions mentioning weirdboys carrying around a copper staff to ground their barely controlled Waaagh! energy by simplifying the base model's staff with a piece from the Bubblechukka mek gun.

Kommandoz

Years ago I converted 10 of these Kommandoz and then proceeded to never paint them.  The squad represents one of my initial attempts to use green stuff, and it probably shows.  Several of these models are cannibalized 2nd edition starter box plastic Goff Orks who have had their base model cut up to accept some more modern parts.  They're slightly shorter than newer models and of course predate Boyz coming with 32mm bases.  Oh well.  Here's the first 5, just in time for an amazing new plastic Kommandoz kit to be  teased.

Mek Gunz

I painted one Mek Gun (no crew yet) and converted a 2nd Smasha Gun out of spare bits and old toys, and am pretty pleased with the result.  I couldn't resist painting Pong on the screen.

Here's a spread of my converted Smash Gun next to one from GW's site using my leftover bits from building my Kustom Mega Kannon.  It uses part of an old Gorkamorka trukk as the main chassis.  I have it primed and ready to go on my painting desk after I took these photos.

I'm both excited and terrified with what the new 9th edition Ork Codex might mean for my Ork collection.  What's looking good for Orks to you?