Thursday, July 20, 2023

Hasegawa Egg MiG-15 Ork Dakkajet Conversion


It all started when Adrian posted about the McDonnell Goblin fighter on the group chat. I was reminded of the Hasegawa Egg Planes series, and had the idea that I could convert one into an Ork Dakkajet. I looked at some photos of the Dakkajet, and realised that it was probably based on the MiG-15, which was one of the planes in the Egg series.

To give the plane an orky look I dug up the bits from an Ork Killa Kan I bought a long time ago but never ended up using - I was planning to make a model using a film cannister. I add some orky weapons, I ordered a pack of Orc HMG Tips and a pack of Orc Biker Heads from Puppets War.

For the construction I decided to clip off the wheels so I could fit these horns to the front of the plane and weapons under the wings.

A Gork head adorns the nose of the plane.


I glued the orc biker head to the torso of a Mad Puppet infantry trooper, and used some 2-part epoxy to sculpt a fur-lined collar and upper arms to the jacket.

After I was satisfied with the set-up, I sprayed the main parts of the model red, and then glued the weapons and orky embellishment to the fuselage and wings.

The plane was pretty plain, so I added checks to the rim of the intake and the tail, and some wedge-shaped decals from the Space Wolves sheet the the wings. I then weathered the model.

This was a fun little project, and I am tempted to do another conversion with an Egg plane soon.

3 comments:

SteveHolmes11 said...

I love this, it's the details that really make it great.

I never bought into Games Workshop's hobby, but I love absurd humour of their orc technology.
This is great, a powerful fighter that looks as through it might just fly.

Lasgunpacker said...

Love it, great little conversion, and the fur collar on the pilot really sells it.

Khusru said...

Very, 'Bommerz over da Sulphur River!'