Re: Zodgrod Wortsnagga and Super Runtz
Thanks for the kind feedback guys!
bulldoglopez":ejk5gkye said:
Thats great! I really like your painting style. Very crisp.
Thanks bulldoglopez. If only my photography skills could be described as "crisp". "Tolerable" will have to do
whiskey priest":ejk5gkye said:
Can't really call them a warband, more like a dojo. Your painting really rescues a model I didn't have much love for and the super-grots are perfect. More please
Adding a grot sidekick: the first super runt that broke the mould, some apprentice runtherds, a squighound or two and a runtbot will bring these guys up to a skirmish sized force quite well I think. And thats before I add a mek and a dread/kan... so plenty of opportunity to get these guys ready for all sorts of small games, or just a fun unit in larger ones.
The Zodgrod model never interested me much one way or another, but when Blue was having a clearout I decided to take a punt. Largely that was because I enjoyed painting
Nazgrub Wurrzag and the
Goff Rockers, which made me want to tackle some more of the old ork characters. Zodgrod isnt very dynamic, but its a very detailed and crisp sculpt, so it was a lot of fun to paint, although it took a little while. Zodgrod really does look a little more heroic than the regular runtherds too:
Orjetax":ejk5gkye said:
Really great. I enjoy seeing these as I do all your other orks, Cheetor. I think you've got the best (only?) super-runtz around!
Thanks very much Orjetax. Im having fun painting these old orks and I think that it shows.
Orjetax":ejk5gkye said:
You point our in your blog that what a super-runt looked like was up to the players. True! But there is one illustration of super-runts in 1991's Freebooterz:
Good catch, Im a doofus. Im mining Freebooterz for ideas at the moment, with Kim Jong Bono the
Human Advisor and these guys amongst others, so I am actually aware of the Renegade Runtmasters. I even read the entry last week but seemed to erase it from my medium term memory. Thats what I get for staying up late to post photos and write blog posts...
I have altered the blog post, added the Renegade Image that I dug up and credited you for the catch. Nice one.
Orjetax":ejk5gkye said:
Freebooterz supplies an alternative (related?) origin theory, and attributes super-runtz to "an obscure and probably deranged Runtherd philosopher called Naflug". Ol' Naflug, it turns out, had "a unique way of training runtz to a higher level of performance, creating what he claimed were 'Super-Runtz.'" His "unique way" involved "ringing of bells" and performance based rewards like "juicy squigs."
Narflug was a pretty deep thinking as greenskins go. His treatise on whether a deaf snotling falling into the drops makes any sound led to many a brewhouse bash and you have documented his Palovian response training pretty well
My copy of the second ed Ork Codex went AWOL at some point, so I havent read the exact Zodgrod text from that for a while, but I thought that his background correlates with the Renegade Runtmaster stuff. Does it not? He is essentially just a renegade runtmaster special character I thought.
Asslessman":ejk5gkye said:
It reminds me of that silly series of 80's film "the white ninja" and "the return of the white ninja" where the blonde american hero ninja fights evil asiatic artificially enhanced ninjas.
You couldnt leave the house without bumping into a few ninjas in the eighties, good times. In addition to Zodgrods squighound I plan to add one of the little squig models as as animal sidekick for the mute ninja known only as "Squig Eyes". "Timber" from GI Joe.Action Force. There is something inherently eighties about the modern notion of ninjas, so if I can echo that in these guys then thats a positive thing for sure.
