The lore reason why jeans stealers and tyrranids rarely manage to properly infiltrate the orks is because the other orks will notice that a "git" is acting weird and will "crump 'em real good", thus extinguishing the threat before it even became one. Gork and Mork truly work in divine but mysterious ways.
Yeah, in theory, that's why humans are the most common. Massive hive worlds and mining planets are easy to get lost in and are already full of mutants. For Orks, space hulks have provided a few good examples where they get converted, besides the targeted jeanstealer infestation that Inquisitor Kryptman attempted on some of those unfortunate Orks. Most interesting are a few examples of Eldar being corrupted, something I want to attempt sometime later.
Thats why Orkstealers can thrive as Freebooterz since those orks are all outcasts anyways. Theres an entire Freebooter crew of genestealers called the "green brood"
There's actually a story that features infected orks. They were a raiding party or whatever that hit a derelict hulk that was already carrying some stealers. They get infected and without getting crumped they basically became far more intelligent and rational under the Patriarch. Essentially taking control of an entire system and smuggling / transporting stealer DNA to a whole bunch of worlds. It's genuinely really cool.
@boanoah6362 That's really interesting. When I was looking them up, I did wonder if they would be able to benefit from the guidance of a patriarch and be more sophisticated in their tactics. Another thought that crossed my mind was whether they would still be able to benefit from the Waaagh! field that allows Ork technology to work.
funfact about the rippers, they were made using ork DNA and when the orks first came across the early stages of rippers their ork psychic link recognized them as "orky" and took them. That is the origin of the squig in 40k.
You're thinking of biovores, which use an adaption of the orks' spores to rapidly manufacture their spore mines. Squigs have always been exclusively part of the orkoid species, they're just the "animal" type of creature that ork spores produce instead of the sentient grots and orks.
@@sekliley7587 Yeah, a few codexes ago, it was theorised in-universe that Biovores used Ork DNA, Zoanthropes had Eldar, and Tyrant Guard used Space Marine genes.
We don't see ork gene stealers more often? because they are purple and purple is the sneaky color!!!! I love Ork Genestealers (brood boyz) and they should really be a unit on the table top, IMO
Cheers! All the repainting felt like an important part of how it got there, though at one point I did consider just stripping the paint and starting over 😅
I like when kitbashers and mini painters describe their mistakes in the process. It's reassuring that even guys who do this this well still make mistakes.
I really like your Ork Hybrid, it is a great source of inspiration! I did some Hybrids in the past, using Acolyte Hybrids mixed with classic Ork Boyz. Aberrants also work really well as a base model since they have similar proportions to Orks. I hope you will do some more conversions like that in the future!
Your hybrids sound awesome, the aberants kit is really great. I wish it had a few extra models or some more bits in it through. I hopefully should, always a blast making a hybrid. Cheers!
Xenos genestealer hybrids are always a fun conversion, I've seen a bunch of guard based Gue'vesa conversions for the Tau but basing some off of a Genestealer kit could both make for an interesting kitbash and show the dangers of fraternizing with xenos scum. I really loved that initial purple base for the orc flesh, I think with a few more iterations you could have something very specal there. Also I think your initial issue with your purple contrast paint might have just been because you were trying to go over something too dark or with too much yellow in it.
They really are. Genestealer Cults make for a lot of really cool conversions, I made a few Chaos and Mechanicum proxies from them. The biggest issue I had with contrast paint was that it wasn't enough to cover the texture I made on the skin. I think if I had covered it a bit first and then applied the contrast paint, it might have worked better.
THANK YOU for making (and addressing) a proper war scythe!! Can you believe there isn't a single proper one in the entire Death Guard line? I get the iconography of the agricultural scythe, but when you have at least half a dozen of those in your army, you have the room to have a couple proper man-reapers for variety's sake!
That's a really cool idea. For me it would be a large amount of organic looking tumors everywhere, spreading their corruption to the walls around them.
Quite a random idea but I love it, I had this one idea of a nurgle corrupt tyranid, granted it wouldn't make sense because of the hive mind it still sounds like a cool idea
Cheers! :D I think there is a way it could make sense, there are many tyranids who are 'feral' and lost connection to the hive mind. Many creatures on Catachan are heavily hinted as being such feral tyranids.
ok now im thinking "hmm what if there is a orkanid (tyranid + ork hybrid) but as a orkanid queen ( i know they are called tyrants but i like to call them queens bc they remind me of the queen xenomorph)" pls try to make that i beg of you it whould be so hecking cool
That's an awesome suggestion, not sure when but I'll be revisiting ork genestealers eventually. Can't promise anything but I'll see if a hive tyrant can work. My skill is quite limited so it might be a bit out of my scope.
if a full on fleet of ork and tyranid hybrid happened....its gonna be hell trying to fight something that can be recreated as long as 1 member of the species is alive, have reality warping powers, and be damn near impossible to exterminate due to ork spores..... good damn luck
From what I've read, it seems Genestealers do indeed hijack the spore reproduction, so you're spot on there. I find it even more interesting that Orks don't use that strategically, but a Tyranid patriarch would be smart enough to understand its power as a weapon. Officially, in the lore, the Tyranids have won the war in the Octarius sector against the Orks, so maybe we will see something interesting come out of that.
@@AnotherDayMiniatures does this mean, that if a single orc and tyranid hybrid survived... it could use its spores to make an infinite biomass farm that can multiply itself for eons?
@@objectiveice573 Interesting question. Orks already use their spores for farming (squigs, grots, etc.). Tyranids could farm them, but their methods of extracting biomass are much faster and more efficient. My knowledge is quite limited, so don't take any of this as concrete; however, as a survival mechanism, I think Ork-Genestealer spores could indeed thrive on a planet while going undetected and building up a force. The chances of them thriving and not being detected are however quite slim I would imagine.
There's no such thing as "infinite biomass", because biomass is simply the total amount of living and decayed organic matter on a planet. You can't extract more from a planet than was already present on it from the start, since that would just be conjuring up matter from nothing. Tyranids trying to farm a planet for biomass would just be a far slower and less efficient method than simply stripping the planet clean from air to bedrock, and sucking up the oceans and part of the molten core.
A Screamer killer carnifex x a triarch stalker *biocron* is an idea I have been floating I'm me mind but I can't justify it with me buget, idk if you can but I think you'd make it great
That sounds super awesome, unfortunately also a bit out of my budget, perhaps one day. Were you thinking of using the stalker for the lower half and screamer for the upper, or replacing the screamkiller claws with necrons ?
The Claw way to begin with. I have some extra necron wraith faceplates that could replace the eyes. And I think I could find a way to robot up the nid-back chimneys and hoofs. Sme scarab climbing around would tie it together well. Is a Bio-C'tan working for the silent king or something idk lore yet
@@AnotherDayMiniatures exactly. But looking at this again I remembered that gene stealers often don’t look too alien to the species they are infesting. I guess I commented this expecting it to be more alien like a tyranid haha. So my original comment is actually in the wrong.
Jeanstealers go through "generations" where each one starts from base race and slowly transitions to full blown tyranid. You were probably thinking of one of the later generations where it's almost a pure strain tyranid. Not wrong just different idea, cheers mate!
You should read the New Devourer chapter from the Warhammer fanfic "Warhammer 50k: the Shape of the Nightmare to Come", the prequel of "Warhammer 60k: Age of Dusk".
The lore reason why jeans stealers and tyrranids rarely manage to properly infiltrate the orks is because the other orks will notice that a "git" is acting weird and will "crump 'em real good", thus extinguishing the threat before it even became one. Gork and Mork truly work in divine but mysterious ways.
Yeah, in theory, that's why humans are the most common. Massive hive worlds and mining planets are easy to get lost in and are already full of mutants. For Orks, space hulks have provided a few good examples where they get converted, besides the targeted jeanstealer infestation that Inquisitor Kryptman attempted on some of those unfortunate Orks. Most interesting are a few examples of Eldar being corrupted, something I want to attempt sometime later.
Thats why Orkstealers can thrive as Freebooterz since those orks are all outcasts anyways. Theres an entire Freebooter crew of genestealers called the "green brood"
@@crabbyink9849 'Green Brood' 😄 That's awesome
There's actually a story that features infected orks. They were a raiding party or whatever that hit a derelict hulk that was already carrying some stealers. They get infected and without getting crumped they basically became far more intelligent and rational under the Patriarch. Essentially taking control of an entire system and smuggling / transporting stealer DNA to a whole bunch of worlds.
It's genuinely really cool.
@boanoah6362 That's really interesting. When I was looking them up, I did wonder if they would be able to benefit from the guidance of a patriarch and be more sophisticated in their tactics. Another thought that crossed my mind was whether they would still be able to benefit from the Waaagh! field that allows Ork technology to work.
Personally I would have made the worm looking thing red instead of green to invoke the idea that it's a gene Steeler squig of sorts
Didn't make the connection at the time, but that would have been a cool little addition.
@@AnotherDayMiniatures fair
thats a ripper sir
funfact about the rippers, they were made using ork DNA and when the orks first came across the early stages of rippers their ork psychic link recognized them as "orky" and took them. That is the origin of the squig in 40k.
That's awesome. I love those old bits of lore that connected tyranids to a lot of other units.
This is old lore, nowadays they are considered to be created by the brainboyz
You're thinking of biovores, which use an adaption of the orks' spores to rapidly manufacture their spore mines. Squigs have always been exclusively part of the orkoid species, they're just the "animal" type of creature that ork spores produce instead of the sentient grots and orks.
@@tau-5794 I am thinking of squigs, specifically rogue trader era squigs. Didn’t know about the biovores being ork dna. Now I wanna loot it
@@sekliley7587 Yeah, a few codexes ago, it was theorised in-universe that Biovores used Ork DNA, Zoanthropes had Eldar, and Tyrant Guard used Space Marine genes.
We don't see ork gene stealers more often?
because they are purple and purple is the sneaky color!!!!
I love Ork Genestealers (brood boyz) and they should really be a unit on the table top, IMO
From what little Warhammer 40k lore I know, Tyranid-Orc Hybrids sound absolutely terrifying.
What a swell video of ups and downs that not many youtubers show for their painting process. Very nice
Cheers! All the repainting felt like an important part of how it got there, though at one point I did consider just stripping the paint and starting over 😅
I love the result! And thank you for talking us through all the highs and the lows of the process
Cheers! 😃
Imagine how cool Ghaz hive tyrant would be
It would be glorious!
Patriarch Ghaz kitbash when??
I like when kitbashers and mini painters describe their mistakes in the process. It's reassuring that even guys who do this this well still make mistakes.
I really like your Ork Hybrid, it is a great source of inspiration! I did some Hybrids in the past, using Acolyte Hybrids mixed with classic Ork Boyz. Aberrants also work really well as a base model since they have similar proportions to Orks. I hope you will do some more conversions like that in the future!
Your hybrids sound awesome, the aberants kit is really great. I wish it had a few extra models or some more bits in it through. I hopefully should, always a blast making a hybrid. Cheers!
Now do the reverse. Try orking up a Tyranid model :)
O! That's a pretty fun idea, it would look a bit ridiculous, but in a good orky way.
LOOTED CARNIFEX
@garlikkt6028 Tempting, I need to accumulate some additional Ork bits.
Just look at the old Biovore
Make it a propa Bad Moonz git wit all da dakka an’ shiny gubbinz
Your painting has improved massively since the start! Love your work man
Thanks mate! Glad the improvement is noticeable :D
love the intensity of this model
Thanks!
Absolutely awesome. He looks propa killy! Fantastic job mate 🙏😃
Cheers mate! :D
The White Dwarf magazine issue 468 (page 97, I think) has some official tips for kitbashing Ork-Genestealers.
I like the idea of Ork, genestealer hybrids looking similar to tyranid BIOVORE because they produce Spore-mines.
Yeah in the old lore they were result of tyranids absorbing ork dna. It was really cool to have many tyranid units linked to existing factions in 40k.
This is a work of art. It looks so cool. Thanks for sharing!!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.
This build turned out great fantastic paint job.
Thanks!
Very cool paintjob. Love the kitbash. Well done.
Cheers!
I think that this bug boy looks very nice!
Thanks!
What a beauty orkanied !
Thank you !
There is something wrong, I cannot see some parts of that ork and I do not know why....
Oi, you can't see de buggy git?
@@AnotherDayMiniatures Yeah idk why. What colour is it?
I did an ork riding a carnifex kit bash about 13 years ago might have to have a repaint soon!
That sounds propa awesome!
Interesting concept, nicely executed. Good stuff!
Thank you
Necron Tyranid Hybrid would be even scarier... 😊
I've been thinking about giving that a go lately, had someone suggest an ork looted tyranid as well, but I think it's a bit out of my skill range.
Dude that was awesome! Instantly subbed.
😄🤘
The Nurgle colours are coming to life on your palette
I think of Nurgle any time I use green paints that are in that hue. "Well I guess it's secretly a Nurgle model". 😄
Xenos genestealer hybrids are always a fun conversion, I've seen a bunch of guard based Gue'vesa conversions for the Tau but basing some off of a Genestealer kit could both make for an interesting kitbash and show the dangers of fraternizing with xenos scum. I really loved that initial purple base for the orc flesh, I think with a few more iterations you could have something very specal there. Also I think your initial issue with your purple contrast paint might have just been because you were trying to go over something too dark or with too much yellow in it.
They really are. Genestealer Cults make for a lot of really cool conversions, I made a few Chaos and Mechanicum proxies from them. The biggest issue I had with contrast paint was that it wasn't enough to cover the texture I made on the skin. I think if I had covered it a bit first and then applied the contrast paint, it might have worked better.
Beautiful piece of work ☺☺
Thank you!
THANK YOU for making (and addressing) a proper war scythe!! Can you believe there isn't a single proper one in the entire Death Guard line? I get the iconography of the agricultural scythe, but when you have at least half a dozen of those in your army, you have the room to have a couple proper man-reapers for variety's sake!
The only reason you cold see this purple Ork is because he stopped believing. No technology can unveiled a purple ork :D
The companion is a nice touch
:D
I tried doing this about 2 and half year ago but didn't turn out well but after seeing this video I think I might give it a second try
Hell yeah! 😃🤘
"I AM 200 TIMES MORE SMARTA! MORE BETTA! I AM BETTA!"
WITH MORE ARMS
The savage orc defiantly works best because the pelt can look like its hide of tyrranid or just part of own mutated skin.
Indeed. I also like the idea that genestealers view chitin and tyranids claws as superior to metal armor and blades.
I also gave in and made few months ago and made whole range of proxies, called them Git'stilers
I think that if you have painted the ground first, it would have helped you with the scales!
I like the paint job and the model but I feel like he needs more carapace/mutations as I feel like hes not Tyranid enough
Cheers! I did think about attaching more stuff like I mentioned, but I still wanted him to pass as an Ork. 😄
Hiw would you guys go about making a playfield that takes place on the inside of a spacehulk that git infected by nurgle deamons ?
That's a really cool idea. For me it would be a large amount of organic looking tumors everywhere, spreading their corruption to the walls around them.
aw man full army build of these would be awesome
Crazy amount of work, but it would be spectacular.
Quite a random idea but I love it, I had this one idea of a nurgle corrupt tyranid, granted it wouldn't make sense because of the hive mind it still sounds like a cool idea
Cheers! :D I think there is a way it could make sense, there are many tyranids who are 'feral' and lost connection to the hive mind. Many creatures on Catachan are heavily hinted as being such feral tyranids.
@@AnotherDayMiniatures interesting
Take a look at the new malstrain models coming out! They're really creepy and would take very little to Nurgify
@@TheTronmon The necromunda team has been doing some amazing things lately.
I think a Krule Boy Ork from AOS might fit the thinner look of a Genestealer better.
Interesting suggestion, might need to try that at some point 👍
The guy is pretty cool
Thanks!
Slight issue when you start painting when you turn the ork purple, he just disappears.
Great video.
😄 Cheers! You just need to use the toaster....I mean the dark age technology.
Good video and a great idea to see an orc genestealer. What kind of brushes do you use in the video?
Silver Brush 3000S-4 Black Velvet
@@AnotherDayMiniatures Thx And a Good day.
More ork kitbashes please
I plan on it! With Orks, it's just a bit more challenging for me. However, I'd like to have a go at some 'looted' stuff eventually.
ok now im thinking "hmm what if there is a orkanid (tyranid + ork hybrid) but as a orkanid queen ( i know they are called tyrants but i like to call them queens bc they remind me of the queen xenomorph)" pls try to make that i beg of you it whould be so hecking cool
That's an awesome suggestion, not sure when but I'll be revisiting ork genestealers eventually. Can't promise anything but I'll see if a hive tyrant can work. My skill is quite limited so it might be a bit out of my scope.
Tyranork
spoo glue?!
Lol I guess all we need now is a orc abductus Mechanicus LOL although anyways keep up the great work love your warrhammar bashing videos!
I wish GW would finally give us Official Models for Xenos GSC Hybrids:
- Tau
- Orks
- Eldar
All have modern mentions of occuring
hand dat boy some dakka, e's got two free 'ands an no gunz
it is kinda sad we don't get these guys
It would be cool to get some rules for them.
I think you should have used a bigger tyranid, like a tyranid warrior or something, his arms are so thin...
green is a "cold" color too.
if a full on fleet of ork and tyranid hybrid happened....its gonna be hell trying to fight something that can be recreated as long as 1 member of the species is alive, have reality warping powers, and be damn near impossible to exterminate due to ork spores..... good damn luck
From what I've read, it seems Genestealers do indeed hijack the spore reproduction, so you're spot on there. I find it even more interesting that Orks don't use that strategically, but a Tyranid patriarch would be smart enough to understand its power as a weapon. Officially, in the lore, the Tyranids have won the war in the Octarius sector against the Orks, so maybe we will see something interesting come out of that.
@@AnotherDayMiniatures does this mean, that if a single orc and tyranid hybrid survived... it could use its spores to make an infinite biomass farm that can multiply itself for eons?
@@objectiveice573 Interesting question. Orks already use their spores for farming (squigs, grots, etc.). Tyranids could farm them, but their methods of extracting biomass are much faster and more efficient. My knowledge is quite limited, so don't take any of this as concrete; however, as a survival mechanism, I think Ork-Genestealer spores could indeed thrive on a planet while going undetected and building up a force. The chances of them thriving and not being detected are however quite slim I would imagine.
There's no such thing as "infinite biomass", because biomass is simply the total amount of living and decayed organic matter on a planet. You can't extract more from a planet than was already present on it from the start, since that would just be conjuring up matter from nothing. Tyranids trying to farm a planet for biomass would just be a far slower and less efficient method than simply stripping the planet clean from air to bedrock, and sucking up the oceans and part of the molten core.
Way too dark of a paint job, hard to make out the details
It's night time ;)
A Screamer killer carnifex x a triarch stalker *biocron* is an idea I have been floating I'm me mind but I can't justify it with me buget, idk if you can but I think you'd make it great
That sounds super awesome, unfortunately also a bit out of my budget, perhaps one day. Were you thinking of using the stalker for the lower half and screamer for the upper, or replacing the screamkiller claws with necrons ?
The Claw way to begin with. I have some extra necron wraith faceplates that could replace the eyes. And I think I could find a way to robot up the nid-back chimneys and hoofs. Sme scarab climbing around would tie it together well. Is a Bio-C'tan working for the silent king or something idk lore yet
That would look like an incredible centerpiece for the army. Could have it be some strange thing Trazyn requested for his collection.
So you just made a Squig???
Cool bash but does not sell it as a gene stealer orc. Just feels like an orc decked out with gear made out of tyranids
I suppose if you remove the extra arms, I could see it having a look of that.
@@AnotherDayMiniatures exactly. But looking at this again I remembered that gene stealers often don’t look too alien to the species they are infesting. I guess I commented this expecting it to be more alien like a tyranid haha.
So my original comment is actually in the wrong.
Jeanstealers go through "generations" where each one starts from base race and slowly transitions to full blown tyranid. You were probably thinking of one of the later generations where it's almost a pure strain tyranid. Not wrong just different idea, cheers mate!
Well that's not even so much a scythe as a war pick, a bec de corbin, and those were perpendicular to the shaft.
Personally can't see it
Purple orks!
The legends of purple orks have been real all along! :D
ah yes the orkstealer
😄
Lmao get yourself some Tamiya nippers
Nobody got money for that :D
GOOD now make 20 more
Lore wise it’s possible but useless, but f*ck it we WAAAGH
Green goblin
😄
NOOOO lol
Cus dey smell weird, innit?!
Oi! You talkin bout me boyz?!
looks more like an orc just wearing tyranid armour ....... poor effort
It's very low effort, basically made it in my sleep 😎
You should read the New Devourer chapter from the Warhammer fanfic "Warhammer 50k: the Shape of the Nightmare to Come", the prequel of "Warhammer 60k: Age of Dusk".
I'll try and take a look.
Orkronz. Orkanidz. Orkrootz. No mattah wot youz make, Orkz iz best da best fer kitbashin!
😄🤘