Da Green Horde

The theme for April's #mortalcitizens challenge is Trader/Merchant , and I decided it's the perfect opportunity for painting a model I ordered 15+ years ago from the Mail Order. The miniature in question is a Gretchin with Oil Squig from 2nd edition Warhammer 40k, which was sculpted in 1994. Ripoff is a grot squig trader, who wanders from greenskin village to village and sells various squiggly beasts including oil squigs, hair squigs and gob squigs. Other orruks and grots accuse him of charging too much teef for his squigs, hence he became known as Ripoff.  

My entry for March's #mortalcitizens (Quartermaster/Logistics) as well as my last entry for Swordmaster's #MonsterMarch6 challenge is an Orruk Brute that has been converted to a smith. Gofbash is a skillful smith, whose job it is to forge weapons and armor for his fellow orruks. He's using his fists to shape the hot metal as it's the tradition of the Ironjawz. The base model is an Orruk Brute, the arms are from the Ork Nobz kit and the anvil is made from greenstuff. For painting the hot metal I followed this tutorial and I'm quite happy with the result. The inspiration for this conversion came from the Battletome: Ironjawz, where it is mentioned that Ironjawz are able to shape metal with their bare hands.