The Green TIEd Fighta!
Another Fork and Spork - Pink Orks Looting Story:
One fine day aboard Fork and Spork's space hulk "Da Runcible Uv Ruin" Big Mek 'Eavy Tork shouted, "Oi! Someting on da scannie!"
Da RUR (Da Runcible Uv Ruin) had been skipping through the Warp for some time now and much to the delight of Fork and Spork had brought the clan an exciting string of battles and an even more exciting chain of Lootins wif Dakka.
This particular day, the Orks pulled in a small craft which was spinning through space. Inside they found an odd Space Marine -- whose black helmet and cape were a bit out of place.
"Mus' be we iz in some galaxy far, far awayz an' maybe a long, long time ago to find someting dis strange," grunted Spork when 'Eavy Tork showed him the salvage.
"But, let's loot it!" Spork continued, "An' dat humie looks burnt already - I donts want to eat any burnt hummus!"
In the "21st century Earth timeline" it started out as a Goodwill thriftstore find. $3.19 for a Darth Vader TIE Fighter (Advanced) model. Missing the cockpit hatch; missing the little Darth Vader figure. And, right away, our Ork Lootin' gears started turning....
First of all, it seemed fair that we should add some Orky metal onto the TIE fighter's damaged panels. Would help it to go fasta and also be a place where we could have Orks with magnet boots stand on the model.
One fine day aboard Fork and Spork's space hulk "Da Runcible Uv Ruin" Big Mek 'Eavy Tork shouted, "Oi! Someting on da scannie!"
Da RUR (Da Runcible Uv Ruin) had been skipping through the Warp for some time now and much to the delight of Fork and Spork had brought the clan an exciting string of battles and an even more exciting chain of Lootins wif Dakka.
This particular day, the Orks pulled in a small craft which was spinning through space. Inside they found an odd Space Marine -- whose black helmet and cape were a bit out of place.
"Mus' be we iz in some galaxy far, far awayz an' maybe a long, long time ago to find someting dis strange," grunted Spork when 'Eavy Tork showed him the salvage.
"But, let's loot it!" Spork continued, "An' dat humie looks burnt already - I donts want to eat any burnt hummus!"
Even with the Force powers, Darth Vader has no idea what is in store for his TIE Fighter!
In the "21st century Earth timeline" it started out as a Goodwill thriftstore find. $3.19 for a Darth Vader TIE Fighter (Advanced) model. Missing the cockpit hatch; missing the little Darth Vader figure. And, right away, our Ork Lootin' gears started turning....
The raw material for our Green TIEd Fighta! $3.19 price written in Sharpie pen.
First of all, it seemed fair that we should add some Orky metal onto the TIE fighter's damaged panels. Would help it to go fasta and also be a place where we could have Orks with magnet boots stand on the model.
We found some pieces of sheet metal which were unused from an IKEA cabinet build. Bent those around and with some epoxy, done -- onto the model to reshape the damaged panel.
The Vader TIE model had a nice little panel which slid open to view the engine compartment. We decided to reshape the plastic and glue that open so that we could add some power feeds into that hardware later in the looting....
One of the fun things is always deciding how to modify looted 'ardware.
And we decided to add wings. Why add the wings? More places for guns!!! Added some turreted guns with magnet attachments we had lying around. Also -- made a nice place to hang some Ork bombs as well.
A look at some of our major modifications.
We also decided to add some bits to the bottom of the Fighta. It was pretty boring without those.... We "borrowed" the engines from a Space Marine speeder to increase top speed.
A look underneath the plane. Adding bits for more interest down here.
We had a big debate over whether or not to treat the cockpit with a Gorka/Morka face. As a compromise the face is attached with a magnet. So, when desired, it comes off. This is also fun because we can change the angle of the face for different "Ork-titudes".
A view from the front of the Green TIEd Fighta - still a work in progress...
We found a pilot who would fit down into the cockpit (most of the way). And, we added some plumbing from the engines to other areas on the plane. This was going to be one of Spork's pink Ork's vehicles. So, we used our method of super bright pink with Vallejo Paint in several areas. To break up the coloring we decided to also create black and white stripes in the cockpit area.
Making progress. Some pink in fun places and wiring and plumbing completed....
One of us is not such a great painter. So, pretty happy that the white and black pattern turned out reasonably well....
Progress so far....
Added some special effects for twin-ion-engine plus smokey exhaust
And, wrapping up, one thing we have realized is that Ork model looting is never really finished. There is always the chance to think of one more random bit to add -- one more hose or pipe to plumb -- or one more fun way to add color to the model.
Feeling good about the progress so far. But, whoah! we clearly need to do some work on our bases!
Took a photo of the Green TIEd Fighta on an attack run with squadron mate :)
Green TIEd Fighta on attack run with squadron mate
