Initial Ideas

The first major part of this Warhammer 40k project is to decide what exactly I want to design and make. I originally thought about designing my own characters from 3 preexisting races, these would be; Space Marines, Orks and Tyranids.

Although doing this could have produced some interesting and good results I wanted to go a step further. I wanted to create my own race!

Creating a new race would give me the largest scope for original ideas and designs, the challenge is therefore keeping it realistic within the Warhammer 40k universe.

Technically creating a new race would be a very complicated if they were to be played with. For example if Games Workshop created a new race they would need to create all the different units required, ensure they were balanced and work out exactly how they would be played with.
Fortunately this isn't the goal of my project, I am focusing purely on what it takes to make a 3D Warhammer 40k model.

I want to keep things relatively straight forward and simple and am therefor going to do a race 'cross over' using preexisting Warhammer 40k models to help me stylize and design  my own models.

Chaos - Orks 

Both Chaos and Orks have large, varied and interesting armies but they don't overlap. I find both armies extremely interesting and awesome looking, along with Space Marines they are my favorite races in the 40k universe. A cross over between these two races if done well could work really well.

I'm pretty set on going this cross over, out of all the possible cross overs that could be done I think this own has the most potential for me personally.



If you don't already know you can check out the basics of each army here:
Orks
Chaos

You can also check out their complete armies on the Games Workshop website which can be found here!