This fella is my entry to the painting competition.

He has very much been a labour of love. A long time ago in the mists of time (2nd/3rd edition 40k) I made myself a Bloodaxe Warboss and being a teenager I gave him the most puerile name I could get away with actually using in a GW store. So after doing my research I decided on Bignob Grimshag. Bignob is obvious he is literally a big ork nob and Grimshag was found to be an ork name used in an old deck of GW’s combat cards. He had a commissar’s peaked cap, a huge set of epaulettes that I crudely sculpted from green stuff and a chest of medals (stolen from commissars he had krumped). Sadly, like almost all my miniatures from those days, he has been lost to the winds of time so I as I rejoined the hobby I thought it would be a good idea to resurrect him.

Being interested in 3D printing I started off by doing a ‘digital conversion’, taking parts from about 20 different sculpts that I found online and squishing, scaling and slicing them up to create a starting point that I then added a load of green stuff to. I even hand sculpted the epaulettes as I had on the original, although this time they aren’t quite as crude.

He had been languishing for a while as I got distracted by the dozens of other hobby projects I start and put aside to move on to the next one. So when I saw the painting competition on here I decided that this would give me the motivation to finish him off.

All he needed now was a pet, so I jumped onto ebay to find him a squig. After a quick browse I found a Kev Adams sculpt from 4th ed. WHFB that used to be part of my old Orc and Goblin army and the nostalgia removed a few notes from my wallet. Meet ‘Oi!’

'Oi!, GET ‘IM’

I hope you like them both and good luck to everyone entering.