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Jul 11 2026
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Hard times demands `Ard Boyz

My re-entry into blogging started with my big summer project of 2026 of a heavily converted and custom kitbashed Ork army for WH40 2nd edition. Since that post I have changed one unit up entirely and made a new unit.
If you remember I had this mob;

My first take on an “Ard Boyz mob.

Albeit fun, and with models time accurate they didn`t really do much for me, but this all changed when I received my own sculpts in pewter.

The first batch of Orcs sculpted. These will be sold through Horde of Colors. The theme is that this warband has taken down a company of knights and then flogged them of their equipment. You can see scatterings of examples of this. All of my minis are barefoot as it just makes more sense. Like, would they really care about shoes or would they care about what can bash your head in. At least that was my reasoning, and I believe looted shoes would chafe and give blisters being to small for the larger more simian bodytype of the green skins.
The troll has horse armor on his head, and a saddle as a shoulder pad.
The boss has a knights helmet on his head and a smattering of armor cobbled on him.
The shaman has flogged the horse and uses the pelt.
The goblins has also nicked a few bits and bobs from the knights. Note that my take on gobs has an overbite, while the orcs have the more traditional underbite.

So that was a sample of my sculpts in pewter. I will paint up the entire stock set for my own use late summer/early autumn.
As for the sculpting I do all on an iPad in Nomad Pro. Here are some of the sculpts in 3d;

So back to the “Ard Boyz. Getting three complete sets meant I could spare a few into proper nobs as mine are taller/more upright than the standard GW orcs.

A fun unit combining my sculpted bits with oldhammer era appropriate bits (and then some newer albeit pewter ones).
Three nobs where not enough so I made a few more, but I’ll get back to these in a later blog post! Can you spot the source models for these?

But what of the original Ard Boyz mob I imaginary can hear you say!(?)
Fear not, no lead is spared here!

Oh my, reimagined as Genestealer Orks! Note my two squid sculpts on those iconic old spiders from the goblin spider rider models. The printed genestealer inspired bits are made by Fordalminiatures and something I used in my 2nd ed Tyranid army.
Much more happy with these as you can see the original sculpts a lot better! I don`t really know what to use them for in-game but they look cool at least 🙂

So two new mobs and even more pewter in the army – hard times!
The Genestealer inspired bits can be bought and downloaded as STLs here at Fordal miniatures over on Cults 3d.
Horde of Colors havent opened the web store yet but you can see his current and ongoing kickstarter here, and on instagram here.

I will keep you updated when my sculpts hit his webstore 🙂

Hope you like!

-t

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Jul 05 2026
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Change Marines

Hi again!
As I mentioned in my last post I started dabbling with 3d sculpting back in 2024. One of my main goals was just getting more out of the printer I got as a printer in 2022 and that I wanted to give oldhammer style sculpting a crack on a medium that is very low threshold to do. As in doodling on an iPad whenever time presents itself. So I did! Being a massive tzeentch fan I dug in and gave it a proper crack.

https://www.myminifactory.com/users/bigbossredskullz?show=store

That is the link to my Myminifactory page. All downloads are free of charge – because sharing is caring and I do not do this for money (not judging those that do!).

Oldhammer tzeentch flamer inspired model and my very first 3d sculpt.

But it didn’t start with a Change Marine (more on them in a little bit), it started with making an old hammer tzeentch flamer inspired model. Mind I did not have a single clue on simple things as remeshing and so on, I just work around my limitations until I came to this point. Funnily enough this is by far my most popular mini as far as downloads go, and I am really proud of him still.
This model did give me a ton of confidence and after sculpting a whole set of various oldhammer tzeentch inspired models I moved on with trying to craft my own pitch on that very iconic known knight in space model from you know who.

The 1st edition Change Marines in all their glory mounted on a 25mm base.

I really didn`t want to copy to much so tried to keep the inspiration at there but adding things that are unique and gives something new to that iconic oldhammer range while still retaining my style of sculpting in there. I feel I succeeded but alas I am biased 🙂 I then just moved on and tried to expand on my range using that first one as the basis for the others.

Another variant where I used one of my daemon heads and spliced it into the marines chest.
A variant with a plasma weapon.
A dread with an inverted daemon as its head. If you look closely you can see the arms and legs splayed over its back.
Panels to pimp up the OG Rhino model.
Painted. Love this model!
A BSB model where the hand was made so that you can add your own banner. I was not confident enough to make one in resin at this stage.
The champion model with a plasma pistol and an energy claw.
Had to make a sorcerer model on a disc obviously! Here you can see small cactuses I made for base ornaments.
Painted version.
I made some awesome jet bike riders too. The center one is the main build. Miscast sculpted the jet bike and I did the rider. The ones on the sides are conversions to diversify the unit.
I think they painted up great!

I also had to make some Chaos Squat inspired models as it would just make so much sense.

Arms are separate so you can swap them around, add your own, or just pose after your own choice. Here you can see the daemon forcing itself out of the mouth.
Painted – maybe some of my very favs as they where very fun and quick to paint up and look great!
Another one of my fav painted ones, my take on that old termie variant.

So with that massive pic dump showing my progress these last years both in my ability to sculpt, but also the evolution of the army. I have a lot of stuff left though, and I plan on integrating more standard/stock GW minis into the army just to blend it all together with minis that I really love and want to feature.

The second edition Change Marine on a different take of a pre-supported STL.

As a wrap-up of the post remember that all my sculpts are free to download over on Myminifactory
I hope that I can get a printer/supplier to be able to sell physical models this year, so I’ll keep you updated on that one.

Hope you like!

BR

-t

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