A couple of years ago while I was working on a lot of zombie and survivor miniatures I bought a pair of miniature resin portaloos/portapottys from Fenris Games. These were planned for use as respawn/reinforcement points in L4D inspired zombie games. I never got around to painting them though. Until now that is.
As I have a silly idea about a future “Waaaghstonbury!” scenario and I figured that nothing says “music festival” like sharing bodily functions with thousands of kebab and beer ingesting/excreting filthy, disgusting humans, I decided to quickly paint the crappers last week.
I added a few ork “Bog” glyph transfers to the sides of the toilets. I figure that in strictly human settings those images could easily be branding graphics of some sort. They were a simple way to give the units a little bit of extra colour.
“Bog” means exactly what you might think it does in orkish, it even looks that way. Of course then I took another look at the rest of the ork alphabet and it turned our that “Bog” is very close in appearance to “Grub” so I had inadvertently stuck glyphs that mean “food” to the side of the public craphouse… Because I am in many respects a nine year old boy shackled to the failing body of a male in his late thirties, this amuses me.
Festival Season
sho3box 
Cool Turdises! lol
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Nice. I wish I had thought of that 🙂
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Looking very much forward to Waaaghstonbury, the setup is looking better and better!
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Thanks Mikko.
Mushrööm Klöwd have had a lot if airtime recently, so I will hold off on playing the Waaghstonbury game for a while I think. It will happen, but I have a lot of other miniatures that should get some table time first I think.
I just can’t decide which ones to use next (which is a pretty good complaint to have really).
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You don’t have to justify , it is a perfect addition to the Mushrööm Klöwd setting. I think it could even serve in an orkish version of “Dokta Who”?
Oh and the little boy in me is winking at the little boy in you.
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Yeah, Danny Stevensons comment above got me thinking about that. Would “Dokta Poo” be too stupid? Probably not 🙂
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the way I see it, “overdoing” or “too much” are alien concepts to Orkish psyche, dokta poo sounds fine (with maybe Dokta WOT as close 2nd).
Oh and I had missed Danny’s first hand on the idea, my bad !
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Its a group effort 🙂
As the TURDIS is already up and running then the project only needs Da Dokta, a Kompanion (Im thinking a gretchin in drag) and maybe a robotic squighound.
We will see what actually makes it through production hell…
Thanks for the feedback.
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These would also make good transmat capsules (or Futurama style suicide booths if that’s your thing).
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Futurama looks at science fiction stories media in a way that resonates heavily with me, so using these models as proxy suicide booths is a great call. Transmats too.
I didnt really think that I would get a lot of use out of those items to be honest, but additional ideas for using them seem to be cropping up all over the place 🙂
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Haha! I love them, I did a 5 days IT consultancy for a Portaloo company 15 years ago, I finished the networking job on day one and had four days to burn, I got bored very quickly and went on to the workshop floor and help build luxury portaloos for an olympics somewhere or another, I had so much fun, it was really interesting 😀
J
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There are few stories about portaloos that end in a sentence like that Id say Jason 😀
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Haha, every single thing you add here is better than the previous! I also made the Dokta Hoo connection in my mind, but I believe tht’s good enough as it is! Keep on, mate!
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Lovely paints!
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Thanks Achilles 🙂
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