Yo Dawg, I Heard You Like Mecha

Genghis mk 1 Proto

This is one of my all-time favourite 40k pictures of which I admittedly have a lot. No idea who it's by (kinda giving me a Kev Walker feeling but I can't be sure yet) and it isn't around a lot, but look at it!

(Bonus points the wrecked old-style Rhino.)

I'm a fan because it looks proper killy, obviously, but also because it doesn't look like any ork dreadnought GW has ever actually produced. It's not even can-shaped! Legs are about the only thing!

There's been a tendency lately, it feels, for all GW artwork to only be representative of the existing models, giving the impressions sometimes that that's all there is in the universe. You know? And I'm not a fan of that.

Recognisable is good, fine, but show some imagination! Have John Blanche back to draw the most buckwild shit! Draw a thing and let people figure out what it's meant to be!