Goff Rockers - The Mörkley Krëw

So GW's recent release of the most excellent Goff rocker has seriously itched my ork and metalhead nerves, it's notthat easy you see a model without a weapon (if you leave the ammo belt and squig amp aside) just for the fun of it. On top of that, I always felt that my yet unpainted goff rockers were missing a 4th member  (even if there are several great examples of 3 heads bands). As often I usually seek any excuse to paint some models and this was the one, I had to paint the goff rockers !

Now having talented friends is a blessing but it's also a massive curse when those people get there before you, I often get a feeling of completion from my friends' work, feeling that I don't have to tick a particular box anymore, but sometimes, the urge remains and I have to do it myself as well just to get it off my head.
Go check the Mushrööm Klöwds by my man Sho3box (painted 9 years ago would you believe)

Now unlike my friend Paul, I'm a bit of a Metalhead myself so where he took his rockers towards the glam side of things (and the big hair, top hats and all certainly indicate it's the way to go), I tried to steer mine towards a more Heavy/Death shore (think early Pantera to late Pantera), keeping that in mind, I only kept vivid colours for the squigs (can't help it) and kept the rest in black leathers and jeans with not too bright hair to contrast.

The 3 string bassist is probably my favourite of the original 3 with his very punk attitude (I suspect Kev put a lot of his personal knowledge into that), the pose is absolutely spot on.

And the singer/lead guitarist, fantastic bit of Kev Goodness :

Now you can tell the new Goff rocker is a direct porting of that last ork into modern 40k, the top hat, squig, guitar and mic and all. It's a seriously good model, with a striking pose, great composition.
BUT

You saw this one comming right ? BUT I'm a bit of an obsessive type sometimes and my ork force is a complete love letter to Kev Adams's work and I just couldn't have the main guy sporting a head that wasn't his. On top of things, the new rocker makes me think of Ranw a little too much (although that's not wasted and that head migt very well find its way in another project.

See what I'm talking about ?

The easiest solution was a simple head swap of course and I just happened to have this excellent open mouthed orc from kev !

Boom ! Job done !

I reckon these guys are the Cavalera/Abott/Young brothers of the band with a powerful dynamic

I forgot to add the Slaanesh noise marine but that takes my miniature metalheads count to 10 with the Internal Organs Brofist !
I think the only logical conclusion to this is :
1) I now have to make a metal band for each of the Rogue Trader races
2) I need to organise a metal festival in my made up world (called Hellsreachfest or whatever

For now, happy painting to you all !