Brian Nelson

Brian Nelson is a model sculptor who worked for Games Workshop in the 90's and 2000's. He is most famous for completely defining the brutal, snarling modern style of Ork and Grot models in Warhammer 40,000, and the Orc and Goblin models in Warhammer Fantasy.

Nelson was tasked with creating all of the Ork sculpts for Gorkamorka back in the 90's, and from there he just kind of snowballed into sculpting all of the ork models during the orks' model line revamp (and thus stylistic change) of 3rd Edition.

List of models Brian sculpted

• Every Ork and Grot from Gorkamorka.
• Orc Boar Boys from Fantasy.
• Several metal Adeptus Ministorum models, including Uriah Jacobus.
• Three metal Chaos Sorcerers for 3rd Edition 40K.
• All of the Orc Big 'Uns.
• THE Ork Boyz kit from 1997, which lasted until 2022!

External Links

• Check out this ancient article on Brian, originally published in White Dwarf 216 (December 1997), and now in PDF form from gorkamorka.co.uk.