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"One Scalpel Short of a Medpack" - Mad Dok Grotsnik

Mad Dok Grotsnik is the most extreme of all the Ork Doks. 
Orks go to him for the best experimental augmentations
 and to be given cybork bodies and implants...

~ Games Workshop



Welcome back to another week of 40k on The Art of Caesura!

Funny that in the year and three quarters of having this blog I haven't had any Warhammer 40k posts until now. And now, just like the Mad Dok himself, I've managed to cobble together three weeks in the Grim Darkness!

Today's post is a bit different though. Two weeks ago we looked at one of the new Primaris Marines - hot off the press. Last week we checked out an updated paint job on a sentimental model, but this week it's all about da greenskinz!
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Another great find from the basement box! Long time readers know that I love my orcs, orruks and uruks. But this is the first "Space Ork" I've painted.
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I was actually surprised at how much detail is on this blighter! From the rivets to the tubing, to his exposed brain, his "injector gauntlet", and all of the staples holding his flesh together!
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I approached him as I do my black orcs and Iron Jaw Brutes. That is to say a ramshackle mix of different metals (exposed and painted).

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I cut the syringe nozzle off of the upper part of his pistol to make it look more like a Super Soaker. Rad!

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It was funny, as I have already said, many of his surfaces are textured with rivets or other details, but his power klaw has some relatively large bare patches. I filled on of these with a decal from the Blood Bowl starter set: the white eye motif. I weathered it and gave it a nice spray of Blood for the Blood God to make it fit. 
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The base that this guy came on (like the Emperor's champion last week) was ridiculously small, so I bought a bigger blank base and went to town creating a little narrative. 

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The original mini-base!
I tried to make it look like he was performing some field surgery (perhaps bestowing a Nob with a new power klaw). So I used one of the spare arms from the Age of Sigmar Brutes box. I cut the choppa off and sculpted a humerus protruding from his wrecked shoulder. I wasn't too worried about it looking rough because I knew that I would be covering it in load of gore! (And P.S., is Orc blood red? NO! Not if the chlorophyll lore is to be believed. But it contrasts green skin so nicely!)

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Check out his brain, and base details

So, what do you think of Da Mad Dok? I certainly had a blast painting him!

See you next time on The Art of Caesura!


Reading: Londonstani - Malkani
Drinking: Dada 1 Reserve Malbec


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