erm right i kinda fell into doing this as i have been watching this other guys project blog and he has been making some awesome stuff for orks. like flying saucers and orkzillers and this crazy flying ork machine thingy. so i was inspired by him to do this. his link is below and if you like what you see here subb his blog, seriously its really awesome.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/356788.page

anyway onto my stuff the stuff i am working on at the moment is below






ok so honestly, i knocked this up one night woke up thinking "what the hell is this" i reckon i was thinking deff dread, but its sort of just been idle since then. im not sure what to do with it ,if indeed anything at all and yea, kinda just need some feed back. but anyway next.



ok this above is my version of a grot tank or warbuggie. its a bit cheeky to be a warbuggie as its so small but i think i could get away with it. i am working on anotherone as well but its going kinda slow as well. anyway below is another pic



ok now below is some kustom kans i have already done. this is just erm, you know to erm, .... o w/e i dont need a reson to post them



COMMENTS WOULD BE GREAT, SUBB IF YOU WANT, AND I WILL BE MAKING SOME SQUIGOTHS SOON SO DONT GO AWAY.
or keep your eyes peeled w/w you want. and btw i do really recomend the blog posted at the top. it is farly new but it already has cool stuff on it.


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i only just looked and i know what im doing for the squiggoths. triceratops!

Wondering why you used Lego parts from discontinued sets, but hey, your choice.

Other than that, I really like the vehicles, very orky and mekky. Maybe you could add a bit more dakka, as I can see it's got lots of melee weps but lacking a bit with the ranged side of it.

More dakka! Darz nedder enuff dakka!

Otherwise, can't wait to see it painted.

you could seriously benefit from plastic-card -more than anyone i've seen- really! It's cheap, easy to work with and from the look of things you could have used 2sheets [roughly $4] to do all your meks. The finished product looks great btw, but i think they need square and hexagonal bolts & screws.

Swordwind wrote:Wondering why you used Lego parts from discontinued sets, but hey, your choice.

Other than that, I really like the vehicles, very orky and mekky. Maybe you could add a bit more dakka, as I can see it's got lots of melee weps but lacking a bit with the ranged side of it.

The reason why i use the lego parts from old sets is because no one misses them when i use them . that and i am not made of money, so i cant go out and buy new toys all the time, so i ryclycle old ones.

tantan628 wrote:More dakka! Darz nedder enuff dakka!

Otherwise, can't wait to see it painted.

honestly i have no idea on where i should daka it up. and with what. at the mo its a dread with 3 comat arms, a skorcha and a kustom force field. i dont know what else to give it. :O surgestions

smurfmaster wrote:you could seriously benefit from plastic-card -more than anyone i've seen- really! It's cheap, easy to work with and from the look of things you could have used 2sheets [roughly $4] to do all your meks. The finished product looks great btw, but i think they need square and hexagonal bolts & screws.

yea, i am aware of plasticard but i have never come across any tbh. but if its that cheap i will defonatly look into it. and yea i agree on the bolts front. i can never be bothered to add them though.


Ok now away from responce posts.

since yesterday.... liturally. i decided i was going to make a "big squiggoth" this was much due to a moment of inspiration from another prject blog. but anyway, i was thinking at the time triceratops with howda's. went to the shops this morning.... turns out they are around £7.50 each for decent sized ones. so i began to slowly walk out of the shop looking quite disappointed indeed.
then just as i was leaving i saw a sale sign. wondered over, it was a sale on toy elephants woo. so i bought my self 2 toy elephants instead. got home and began working. pictures below. im setting it up with a kannon and i have decided to only do one at a time. anyway its a work in progress, and any comments would be great.


the elephant with ork rider

the elephant after some plasic surgery

the elephant after more work, and the addition of a metal jaw

added nostrills

added howda and blingage

shot of just the howda. with its kannon and gun cockpit

comments much appreciated. SUBBSCRIBE!

Very cool scratch built walkers! Where did the legs on that Stompa come from? THe squigoth looks very cool so far too.

bigfish wrote:

Swordwind wrote:Wondering why you used Lego parts from discontinued sets, but hey, your choice.

Other than that, I really like the vehicles, very orky and mekky. Maybe you could add a bit more dakka, as I can see it's got lots of melee weps but lacking a bit with the ranged side of it.

The reason why i use the lego parts from old sets is because no one misses them when i use them . that and i am not made of money, so i cant go out and buy new toys all the time, so i ryclycle old ones.

I was more hinting at the fact that some people will buy those for quite a pretty penny so you can afford more grimdark goodness.

Anyways really good start to the stompa so far. Like how the elephant head magically turned into a T-Rex head.

I'm new to dakka -but would like to add as much technical knowledge as i can possibly bring to the table-
so, if your local gaming store doesn't have what you need you can try these guys:

http://www.anticsonline.co.uk/2141_1.html

http://www.scalehardware.com/miniature-rivets-c-10


hope this was helpful :]

The Good Green wrote:Very cool scratch built walkers! Where did the legs on that Stompa come from? THe squigoth looks very cool so far too.

bionicle its a older lego range very good indeed, and i have loads and loads and loads. bionicle is great for orks because they looky tecky and science fictiony. great investment.

Swordwind wrote:

bigfish wrote:

Swordwind wrote:Wondering why you used Lego parts from discontinued sets, but hey, your choice.

Other than that, I really like the vehicles, very orky and mekky. Maybe you could add a bit more dakka, as I can see it's got lots of melee weps but lacking a bit with the ranged side of it.

The reason why i use the lego parts from old sets is because no one misses them when i use them . that and i am not made of money, so i cant go out and buy new toys all the time, so i ryclycle old ones.

I was more hinting at the fact that some people will buy those for quite a pretty penny so you can afford more grimdark goodness.

Anyways really good start to the stompa so far. Like how the elephant head magically turned into a T-Rex head.

:O i did'nt know they are worth anything :O...... oh well tbh, i would rather use them to create original kans and dreads rather then buy GW models. just that way inclined i guess. and the elephant head, honestly i did'nt even plan it, t just sort of occoured . i like it thoygh. im just going to continue on working on the body and trying to mke it all more spikey.

smurfmaster wrote:I'm new to dakka -but would like to add as much technical knowledge as i can possibly bring to the table-
so, if your local gaming store doesn't have what you need you can try these guys:

http://www.anticsonline.co.uk/2141_1.html

http://www.scalehardware.com/miniature-rivets-c-10


hope this was helpful :]

very consider yourself friended.

thanks for all the comments the feed back is really motivating.

first of all, im going on a crappy holiday for a week so there will be a gap in progress on here for a while. that said i did some work on the squiggoth today and i think its looking pretty good. pics below.







yea and thats what i did today. ok so recent news, ive been looking at the apoc formation for the "squiggoth battle herd" and yea it looks pretty epic. for those that dont know its basically 3+ squiggoths of any type plus 100 points, and then you can declear a squiggoth charge, which meams they run 2d6 and then gain 1+ attack for that turn. oh and they can make assult moves after this run, so i guess its more like a fleet move, but anyway basically this means that when used and they assult a unit, they have 2+ attacks to there normal 2 attacks. thus making them quite mean on the charge. so basically im going to finnish the two models i have now, do another and then look into doing a gargantuan. but yea just an idea.

COMMENTS GREATLY APPRECIATED, and if you sub leave a comment just saying subbed or something. thanks

But what if I'm already subbed???

Have you checked out this thread for inspiration? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/319413.page

I am wondering what is the stuff your using as plasticard?

Looks like broken plexiglass. I've used bitz of it myself, on occasion. The chunks are very...Orky, in a way. Though perhaps better suited to wood or stone than metal, in texture and shape.

I found a guy on dakka that does amazing plastic-card work thought you might like see it: {for inspiration, or whatever}

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/109849-.html?m=2

I love that Squiggoth! Great greenstuff work.

Arakasi wrote:But what if I'm already subbed???

Have you checked out this thread for inspiration? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/319413.page

just had a look and i have seen the finnished product in the gallary before but the project blog is cool. that said if i was making a gargantuan i would'nt want to make it in the same way as someone else, i would defo want mine to be original in everyway. but it is a cool thread, like the tusks on it a lot, and the howda. thanks for the sub as well.

mullet_steve wrote:I am wondering what is the stuff your using as plasticard?

Anvildude was right it is plexiglass smashed up in to orky pieces. im using it because its what i have hanging around and i like the edges you can get on it, they look all smashed and broken. which is great as i do deathskulls.

smurfmaster wrote:I found a guy on dakka that does amazing plastic-card work thought you might like see it: {for inspiration, or whatever}

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/109849-.html?m=2

i checked it out and yea... im going to get me some plasticard. i really like the chiped affect on the edges of the armor plates. very cool texture.

hungryp wrote:I love that Squiggoth! Great greenstuff work.

thank you very much, im going to build it up more and add more layers and stuff on the face.

now if you have actually read the text on the previous post you would know im on a crappy holiday in cornwool... woo.
so obviously i cant do anymodeling or painting as all my stuff is at home. so i have been sketching quite a lot, mostly tyranid stuff but i did this sketch of my squiggoth this morning. considering i was'nt working from the actual model i think it looks ok.



thanks for all the coments much appreciated

bigfish wrote:that said if i was making a gargantuan i would'nt want to make it in the same way as someone else, i would defo want mine to be original in everyway. but it is a cool thread, like the tusks on it a lot, and the howda.

Hey - I understand - I practically breathe that philosophy for my Orks (though, no Squiggoths currently planned...) - just thought I'd share it in case you hadn't seen it because I find all of these threads great for picking up new techniques or ideas - sometimes not even related ideas, but sparked off other's work

Looking forward to seeing your progress once you get back.

Ah bionicle, I miss those. They are from the Toa Nuva series way back in 2004, I collected them when I was 8 or 9. Nice recycling of the pieces, very green especially for orks. Consider me subscribed.

Looking very impressive. Have you considered creating a bionic leg for the Squiggoth? Just a thought.

i was thinking about doing it on the next one, and maybe some bionic eye bits or something. i have got three to do so anything is on the cards

lol Squigaphant. That is brilliant.

subscribed

thanks for the comments and subs. just thought id post this link, its to a battle report someone else did, but its 16,000 points each sideand its very very cool. orks vs imperium. very cool.
link below:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/325762.page

IM BACK
and back to making stuff, over the holidays i was thinking... "i want 3 squiggoths to make a herd, but they all have a 10 model transport cap, so why dont i built stuff to go in them as well "
then that lead to me thinking, what could i make that is big and strong enough to control a Big Sqiuggoth.... Nobs, and not just any, the most no nosense Nobs around, Goffs.
so basically im going to have my herd or at least one of my squiggoths as a goff freebooter squiggoth. i think this should work ok within the rest of my army as i already have a free booter deffcopter unit. so yea it will be nice to have bad moons, goffs and deathskull elements. but anyway to the pictures.


ok this is the first one i made, its a Nob with waargh banner and bigchopper.... i figred the waargh banner was pointy enough to be used as a big chopper as well another pic below

in this pic you can probs see he is missing a leg.. that is intended and i am thinking about making him a peg leg


ok this is another Nob with big chopper/club. the club is made from 2 marine pads back to back and then with loadsa pointy stuff shlapped on for good measure. i also decided that being in a deathskulls warband, the best place to keep your wepon is on you at all times... liturally. this lead to the axe arm.


NEXT

ok this is my fav one so far.

its made using mostly marine terminator parts. i think it looks pretty sweet. more pics below.


with this one i figred i could have him either as a power claw or a big chopper depending on situation, but for something i knocked up in about 30mins i think there all looking ok.
the plan is to have a unit of 5 with 4 big choppers, eavy armor, a painboy and a waargh banner, adding up to a total of 170 points.
should be awesomenes its self.

oh and i also added some bolts to the squiggoths howda by rolling green stull and then cutting it with a scalpel. pics below.





OKS LAST BIT.
if you have read all of this thank you very much, infact thanks if you just looked at the pictures.
comments much appreciated as ever, and subscribers thanks for taking an intrest. untill next post

Looking good man. Looking reeeaaaalll good.

ok so i kinda coukd'nt sleep at all last night. so i revised for about 2 hours and then started doing some modelling untill the early morn. so this is just a baby update from what i did last night.

so i was traulling through what few orks i have left, and i came across the fellow below, he will be a nice addition to my Nobs unit me thinks and i will be keeping with tradition and giving him a big choppa .

NEXT!

another thing i did last night was look at my grot tank... i looked at the rules, i looked at it, i looked at my army, and came to the conclusion it was a waste of potentail. so i got to building away and it became a kan.
this is the first of my new kan unit called the MACKANIC MONSTAZ. so far i have 2 sorta made, pics below.



This is the first one i did, working fromt he grot tank shown earlyer. i think its looking nice but i will probs be adding bolts and stuff. im giving the entire unit kustom mega blastas as it has recently come to my attention they are, well quite good really. and i have the points, time, and pieces to make them so why not ay. anyway second kan shown below.



Ok now my deffdread "stompy" has been idle for a while now so i decided its time to do some work on him. so last night i added bolts. did it in the same way as on the squiggoth as well, pics below.





and well that was my yesterday night and sunday morning. im thinkings its about time to paint "stompy" and my 1st squiggoth.
almost forgot did some work on the second squiggoth as well, cut off its face ect. pics of that will be up later. below is just the elephant model with orky rider.


ok thats it for now, comments would be great, i will usually reply individually and yea
WAAAAAAAAAARGH



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MrJakkadakka wrote:Looking good man. Looking reeeaaaalll good.

thanks , i would have quoted you in the post above but i had written it before i saw your message :p oh well.


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seems quiet on the blog.... too quiet.
anyway did some work on one of my deffcopters i already had. i was basecoating the sguiggoth and the deffdread and while they were drying decided to touch up the copter a bit.
before and after shots below.
BEFORE

As you can see looking a bit tired and messy.
AFTER


i thought, "he is a mek freebooter in a deathskulls warband.. if he needed some bits he would get them from a loota.. and they probally were 'found' somewhere else" so this is why goth plates on the front.

looking much better, although the new kopter is making the evilsunz one i have look a lil run down... anyway ill look into that later.

oh and i here are some pics from the squiggoth i was working on earlyer. got rid of the trunk and ears.



oks so since i repainted the kopter i looked at another model i have im not so happy with.

its glaring at me from the shelf begging to be redone or touched up in someway. so yeah that will be soon. i was thinking about giving it more daka as well, like something to represent the "deth arsonal" in imperial armor book 8 (120" range, str 9, ap 3, heavy 3d6) anyway.
more stuff later... (it seems i am working too fast for coments, or people are looking and not commenting, either way its more about the modeling and making then the reinforcment from comments... still appreciated though )

Those looted flyers are awesome! -love the nuts & bolts on the squiggoth too, really pulls the whole thing together.

I would love to see plexi glass or plasticard teeth bolted onto the front of that stompa , you could trace the shape of the painted pieces to cut out then roughly cut the mouth out to be replaced by some led lights and more barrels and rokkits for added dakka then reapply the teeth as lumpy chunks and the eyes and eyebrows aswell,,, made of win

smurfmaster wrote:Those looted flyers are awesome! -love the nuts & bolts on the squiggoth too, really pulls the whole thing together.

thanks you very much, they are really quite easy to make. and yea i think i will be adding bolts to more of my creations fro now on.

mullet_steve wrote:I would love to see plexi glass or plasticard teeth bolted onto the front of that stompa , you could trace the shape of the painted pieces to cut out then roughly cut the mouth out to be replaced by some led lights and more barrels and rokkits for added dakka then reapply the teeth as lumpy chunks and the eyes and eyebrows aswell,,, made of win

lol, sounds really cool, but the first thing i thought was "stompa pumpkin" as its hollow and full of lights. i would soooo do that but im running out of gun barrels and i seriously dought i could muster enough to fill the mouth up enough. im thinking about changing the design anyway to make it more deathskully so change the face into a skull to go with my other dreads. good idea though .

ya squig needs more spikey bits on em around da legs.
but its still pritty epic mate.

Falkenhyn wrote:ya squig needs more spikey bits on em around da legs.
but its still pritty epic mate.

but i base coated it yesterday :O.
dam, i see what your saying though, ive got 2 more to do so ill do it on the next one. thanks for the comment

riiiight so recently building and painting wise things have been a little slow. so far i have put some colour down on the deff dread i was doing, and base coated the squiggoth quite patchyly so i will be touching that up at some stage, oh and i have been building the Nobz squad, thing is i need a painboy and i dont have the bits to make one and i dont have any moneys at the mo, so that is kinda on hold for a bit. just the painboy is on hold, not all of them. oh and i have been looking at the second driver for the 2nd sqiuggoth. so yes anyway onto pics


just with the first layer of boltgun metal dry brush.

some detaily stuff dunno what to do with the design on it now though. but surgestions would be great. oh and you can see the buzzsaw that goes on the front of the dread (its in the middle of the image on the left just behind the dread).


driver 1

driver 2

ok now there is both of the head for the driver.. but at the same time im wondering if i should have him as the driver at all, because then that means the one i had before that was going to be the driver has to be in the nob squad. anyway any help or advice would be great. im going to do a lot of painting as i have got a 4 day weekend from thursday afternoon through till monday night. so thats cool i will get the squiggoth ready for pics by that time and maybe start working on the second squiggoth propperly with green stuff and yea. (i had to stop as i ran out of glue.. and then my super glue got all messed up as the broh fell off... so i poured the super glue into the almost empty plastic glue bottle... turns out then dont react well.)

ANYWAY.............. COMMENTS ALWAYS WELCOME AND APPRECIATED

Lookin good

One word to describe your conversions: Epic.

bigfish wrote:

just with the first layer of boltgun metal dry brush.

some detaily stuff dunno what to do with the design on it now though. but surgestions would be great. oh and you can see the buzzsaw that goes on the front of the dread (its in the middle of the image on the left just behind the dread).

Holy ! I didn't realize how big this thing was 'till it was painted! You should do loads of dried-blood on the buzz-saw and spattered all over the legs- thats my only suggestion.

Matt.Kingsley wrote:Lookin good

thank you very much

Space Marine wrote:One word to describe your conversions: Epic.

thank you for your comment

smurfmaster wrote: Holy ! I didn't realize how big this thing was 'till it was painted! You should do loads of dried-blood on the buzz-saw and spattered all over the legs- thats my only suggestion.

lol i know. . i had'nt posted any pictures for perspective. lol anyway i took some and they are below. thought i would throw on a pic of the squiggoth as well. its preetty big too.
oh and i will be doing the blood splatered. i was going to do mud under it as well.


next to your average marine

from a higher angle

"shoot it!, shoot it!!! marine!" had to be done


next to your average marine...

cant keep a squiggoth next to a tasty looking marine for too long...

Evrery thing looks good, but the squiggoths are amazing! Best sguiggoth models using toys I have seen! Keep it up.

DAWARBOSS wrote:Evrery thing looks good, but the squiggoths are amazing! Best sguiggoth models using toys I have seen! Keep it up.

thank you very much. i was looking at them the other day and thnking "i cant beleive i was going to make them out of triceritops".

BUT ANYWAY. today is friday the 29th of april... why is this significant? because it means that i get a 4 day weekend from school because of a wedding that i am not even going to watch. woo. ( not a fan of the royal family just to clarify )

so this morning i did some work on the deff dread i have been working on ("stompy" to his victims). pics are below. im thinking he is allmost done. just need to add a few more details to him and i will be happy to call him finnished.

















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Two things-

1.) If you mix crushed instant-coffee with your brown paint, you get a nice clumpy mud effect.

2.) Tone down blood-red by mixing in brown paint or ink {or both} to make a less 'cartoonie' arterial-spray.

smurfmaster wrote:Two things-

1.) If you mix crushed instant-coffee with your brown paint, you get a nice clumpy mud effect.

2.) Tone down blood-red by mixing in brown paint or ink {or both} to make a less 'cartoonie' arterial-spray.

thanks for the input, and i agree on the blood front it does'nt look sticky and slimey enoughto be blood. I have'nt forggoten about the plasticard btw. im just waiting for moneys for buy all the hobby stuff i need at once.
so far i need: super glue, plastic glue, green stuff, dark angels green,and plasticard. :/ if only i had more disposable income oh well. ill do the blood within the next dew days, and i will have to see if i have any coffee. thanks

I would also add: think about which way the saw blade is turning. The blood spray would be more on one side than the other... I think.

One more thing about the spray. Try using a tooth brush or an old stiff pain brush, get some paint on it (watered down a bit) and run your thumb across it away from the model. It should give you a nice spray effect. Though I would recommend using a test model or a bit of paper or something before doing it to that cool stompa. It looks like a walking lab, as boxy as it is.

smurfmaster wrote:Two things-
1.) If you mix crushed instant-coffee with your brown paint, you get a nice clumpy mud effect.
2.) Tone down blood-red by mixing in brown paint or ink {or both} to make a less 'cartoonie' arterial-spray.

so i tryed them both out and they worked okishly. i think the blood looks alot better darker. and the areas that have ended up this dark dryed brown colour look cool too. and the mud effect has worked quite well also. i did'nt want it to be too clumpy just in case but it worked quite well. only problem now is that my dread smells of coffee.. i dont eve like coffee. but oh well i guess. pics below

The Good Green wrote:I would also add: think about which way the saw blade is turning. The blood spray would be more on one side than the other... I think.

One more thing about the spray. Try using a tooth brush or an old stiff pain brush, get some paint on it (watered down a bit) and run your thumb across it away from the model. It should give you a nice spray effect. Though I would recommend using a test model or a bit of paper or something before doing it to that cool stompa. It looks like a walking lab, as boxy as it is.

i would have done this just now if i had seen the comment sooner . did'nt think about the small details in terms of reality and how it would actually work... how annoying. but anyway next time i do some painting on him i will increase the amount of blood on the side with the heavy flamer. and have it sort off heading diagonally up and right and then maybe reduce the amount on the other side.

anyway tomorrow i am tinking i might pop down to my local GW and have a game or 3 and test this bad boy out should be cool.

comments always appreciated and taken on board. and subbers thanks for sticking with the project.

bigfish wrote:
ok so honestly, i knocked this up one night woke up thinking "what the hell is this"

I think we've all been there once or twice, buddy

HadoukenAvenger wrote:

bigfish wrote:
ok so honestly, i knocked this up one night woke up thinking "what the hell is this"

I think we've all been there once or twice, buddy

lol i know . i mean unless your a none convertion type of person or you have never played as orks.

OK. so today i went down to my local games workshop to play a few games and talk some rule and other crap with some fellow 40kers. turns out i spent most of my time painting and talking. did get a game though toward the middle of the day against space wolves but i lost i the end.
(i know this does'nt make a difference on here but, he only had 3 units left and one of them was a imoblised vindicator with no big gun and a dread standing next to it, the other was a lone space wolf character, it was a hQ but i dont know which one. and the last was a imobilisd landraider. and all of the units i had left had power claws and couldreach all three of them :/ annnoying)

but yes i did a lot of painting including quite a lot on the squiggoth and a lot of touching up my other models i had with me. the only downside to me going there today was when i opened my case when i got back a lot of stuff needed fixing. kinda annoying but oh well.

DA SGUIGGOTH






ok so its not finished but its getting there. i kinda decided that i was'nt going to go with GOFF SQUIGGOTH i talked about before. This is mainly because when i was doing the nobz i kinda ended up making them out of loads of space marine bits, so i just thought they would work better as looter nobs then goff nobs.

DA BATTLE WAGON



just redid some of the pannels on this model, as i have had it for ages and it jus needed some work done on it.

coments are much appreciated and any constructive critism would be great as well.
thanks for reading and looking at pictures.

I normally never start a sentence w/the word 'dude' but...
DUDE! -that squiggoth looks amazing! The detail of the 'mek-jaw didn't really show until painted.

Like I said before, cool squiggoths. But now that it's been painted up it looks awesome. Great conversion! Keep it up.

smurfmaster wrote:I normally never start a sentence w/the word 'dude' but...
DUDE! -that squiggoth looks amazing! The detail of the 'mek-jaw didn't really show until painted.

DAWARBOSS wrote:Like I said before, cool squiggoths. But now that it's been painted up it looks awesome. Great conversion! Keep it up.

thanks guys. im thinking i am going to work on it a little bit more paint wise at some stage and maybe add more blue warpaint and add mud to its feets. not sure about weather to add blood on it. might be too much.

but MOVING ON. today this morning i did some more work on the nobs squad i am putting together. finnished the driver and the final nob. the thing with the driver though is i have kinda decided i want him to be on the squiggoth model but detachable so i can have him in the Nobz squad as a power claw Nob if needs be. so basically to do this i have been trying to cut a hole in the squiggother howda that he can fit in and out off. this so far has been quite hard and i will probally have pics of it next time. but at the mo i just have some pics of the Nobs. btw this was before i did any green stuff work on most of them.

ANY CONSTRUCTIVE CRITISM ABOUT THE NOBZ WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED..... just saying.








and well yes. all i need now is a painboy and that will be that.

SUBS AND COMMENTS APPRECIATED!

HELLO. now recently i have been working on a goff squiggoth, a goff Nobz squad and i was planning on a goff warboss and painboy. this plan kinda changed when i decided to not do that and just have them as normal death skulls within my army. honestly i think this was a good idea. and since this revalation i have decided another big mek would be a much better adition to my force, as it fits in with my MEGA MEK themeyness i have going on in the army.
Now onto pics.






This is the new big mek i have been working on to go into the squad of deathskull nobs. i decided to give him a kustom force field and burna combo. why you ask, because it has recently come to my attention that they are kick ass. the KKF gives him and all units within 6" a 5+ cover save and any vehicle obscured target giving them a 4+ save. this combined with the burna gives him a power wepon in close combat and a flame template wepon for lightly armoured targets. thus making him a great little choice. i have'nt finnished the KFF yet so i did'nt put it on, but it should be quite cool (its actually next to him in pieces if you look carefully ).

But yes, since i put him on, i thought it would be quite unfair to not put my other big meks on... so here they are.





The MEGA MEK him self, with and without his mega armour.


And here is my pretty standard big mek with kff. just changed the head really on this model.

just to think aloud for a second. i am going to repaint both of them at some point, as they were both some of the first models i painted they are both a bit ... lets say messy. so yes they will be repainted and possibly redone.

ANYWAY, and comments on any of the models shown on this blog would be great and helpful

its awesome

tough n' orky wrote: its awesome

thank you (liking the name as well)

ok so today i did some work on the KUSTOM FORCE FIELD MEK!!!!!!

i also painted some bits on the NOBZ!!!!!!! and did some green stuff work on the SQUIGGOTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

...... so yea, the pictures are shown below, and if you have an opinion, then post a comment,. that oppinions no good to me if its in your head and not on here..... unless your wrong of course!!!!!



DA BIG MEK WITH K.F.F







DA SQUIGGIPHANT........ 2



DA NOBZ AND THE BIG MEK (very obviously NOT finished painting the NOBZ up yet)



thank you for reading and looking at images. daka daka

Awwe. You should have left the tusks on the Squggiphant, and put razor-wire or a Deffrolla between them, like in Return of the King.

dont worry.... its on the cards

right so today i have been painting up the Nobz and the Big mek. i think i have got them to a stage that i am happy with. Since i started using 50/50 blood red and brown ink to do the blood everythin has seemed to become slightly better. im not a pro painter, and this is obvious. but i think this squad is looking pretty good. (oh and i painted the rims of the bases blue for extra orky good luck)

THE NOBZ






(the tatoo says "daka 4 lfe" but the camera quality is too bad to see)



DA NEWEST BIG MEK








any comments or constructive critism would be great.
thanks

Fething love it! inspired. so very orktastic, use w.e you have at hand.

stonned_astartes wrote:Fething love it! inspired. so very orktastic, use w.e you have at hand.

thanks for the kind words

" "OI GROT BOY, if yur thinkin of joining mi boyz you betta no somthin. IM DA BOSS! and wat i sayz goz! U GOT IT"
gutmelta turned slowly, and stared at mega mek across from him. without sayin a word he charged, mega mek had no time to react before gutmelta had sliced his bionic arm right off. mega mek retaliated with shots from his kustom mega blasta but gutmeltaz force field stoped the shots from hitting home. The meks charged both screaming "WAARGH" as loud as they could, they collided into each over with enough force to crush a grot. the battle went on, the mega mek firing off shots from his mega blasta with no luck, as gutmeltas force field and sheild consistantly deflected shots, finally mega mek was overwelmed by gutmelta as his other arm was cut clean off. The mega mek was badly wounded and knew the he was finnished.
gutmelta stood over his adversary and said "whos da boss now"
mega mek gutmelta was born"



back to reality then. the basis of that is i was looking at both of my meks and kinda came to the conclusion that gutmelta would be much better in the position of mega mek then the previous boss.
but yes anyway. ives recently decided to redo some stuff within the army as a lot f it is looking quite tired and old. its almost everything that i am going to redo apart from: the nobz i just made, the new mega mek gutmelta, the squiggiphant, the battle wagon, the krabby kanz and both the deff dreads.

so i am starting with redoing my truck, my looted wagon and my other big mek with kff.

BiG MeK

with this model it just felt like there were too many colour on it at once and did'nt look that deathskully
the truck

looted wagon


ANYCOMMENTS OR OPPINIONS WOULD BE GREAT.
especially concerning the paint schemes of the models being redone

just a progress update[u]

so i may have got slightly distracted from painting tanks by my stompa. its been sitting on my shelf for too long. so i was reading the KUSTOM STOMPA section in the imperial armour book (8) yesterday night.
and well i was looking at what else i could add to my stompa. before i knew it i had started fanatically adding gunz and laserz and rokitz and all manner of killy things.
so now my old humble 600 point standard stompa has become a 890 point stompa.

anyway im giving it:
gaze of mork
a titain close combat arm
dethkannon with co ax super gatler
a shoulder mounted super skorcha
5 big shooters
deff arsenal
belly mounted gigashoota and a repair crew.

(if you dont know what any of these are/mean ... just ask )
i have'nt put up pics yet just because the model paint wise is a right mess. so when i base coat it there may be pics

Would the repair crew mean some bonus to self reparation? Because with that amount of weaponry and cost, you could be benefited in getting some extra armour or something to protect your investment. Cool though, you're going to need to be supplying some pictures some

Liking what you've done with Gutmelta, nice an' orky

Looted wagons look good too, when they've been re-painted I hope they'll be getting a load of graffitti on, that's a good look.

Love your conversions.
You should perhaps paint the looted wagon in its original scheme to look like its just been looted, perhaps a rival, no one likes there own vehicles getting turned against them.

Space Marine wrote:Love your conversions.
You should perhaps paint the looted wagon in its original scheme to look like its just been looted, perhaps a rival, no one likes there own vehicles getting turned against them.

honestly though its a guard tank and i dont know anyone who plays guard. and im not sure i could paint it decent enough as a human tank... but it is a good idea. so ill look into it.

Lord Kaesar II wrote:Would the repair crew mean some bonus to self reparation? Because with that amount of weaponry and cost, you could be benefited in getting some extra armour or something to protect your investment. Cool though, you're going to need to be supplying some pictures some

"repair crew: during the shooting phase the repair crew may attemp to fix one thing per turn. declare what you want the crew to fix and then roll on the repair crew chart.
wepon destroyed:3+
primary wep destroyed:5+
drive damage:5+ structure point:6"

it sounds not great but it is. as i only have the close combat arm and the dethcannon as primary wepons anything apart from them is regained on a 3+. it makes it extremly hard to slow/stop it destroying unit after unit after unit.
oh and its also going to be witin 12" of my "big one" in my dread mob squad. which means he will be able to benifit from the "big ones" force feild. giving the stompa a 4+ cover save

monkeytroll wrote:Liking what you've done with Gutmelta, nice an' orky

Looted wagons look good too, when they've been re-painted I hope they'll be getting a load of graffitti on, that's a good look.

thata the plan .although im not sure what to do under the graffiti though. as the image in my head is having the graffiti over like a pattern or flames or something like that.

ok so now pictures of the stompa.
i need to think of a name fot it but at the mo i am quite liking "MORKS MONSTA" has a nice ring to it. so after adding some bits i shlaped some paint on it. if anyone has any modeling surgestions i am not opposed to repinting bits. pics below.


ABOVE: deff arsenal, the way its described is as if the boss has given the mek an abondance of loot and gunz and the mek will just hammer weld and attach as many as he can. i think it looks coolz

super skorcha with grot gunner.


some more daka. "there can never be too much daka"


a full body shot.

da giga shoota, firering 6d6 shots each turn at strenth 6 at a range of 48 inches.

COMMENTS GREATLY APPRECIATED, AND IF YOU VEIW IT AND LIKE IT LEAVE A COMMENT, IN FACT LEAVE A COMMENT IF YOU DONT LIKE IT, AS LONG AS YOU GIVE A SURGESTION TO MAKE YOU LIKE IT MORE.

and finaly "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH"

Awesome work! Your stompa has a little to much silver, needs more rust and more black, tin bitz will help, and highlight it with mirthil silver.

Dat's, a lotta Dakka.

I love Stompa. I love Stompa with Belly Gun.

The only tiny thing that I don't like about this and some of your other conversions/scratchbuilds is the Lego pieces. I love the Belly Gun, but I instantly recoginzed it as Lego Technic connectors. I think the Lego pieces look to uniform, and not Ork-ish.

Just my humble opinion; I do love your work.

DAWARBOSS wrote:Awesome work! Your stompa has a little to much silver, needs more rust and more black, tin bitz will help, and highlight it with mirthil silver.

honestly i only shlaped on the silver because when i took pics of what i had changed i did'nt want them to be in black. but yes, when i do get round to painting it properly i was intending on having some of the plates as stolen from other ork clans and yea some rustly plates as well. i need a good way of painting rust though....btw thank you for your comment
DOES ANYONE KNOW A GOOD WAY TO PAINT RUST...

Anvildude wrote:Dat's, a lotta Dakka.

indeed, all the better to blast with

Grass4hopper wrote:I love Stompa. I love Stompa with Belly Gun.

The only tiny thing that I don't like about this and some of your other conversions/scratchbuilds is the Lego pieces. I love the Belly Gun, but I instantly recoginzed it as Lego Technic connectors. I think the Lego pieces look to uniform, and not Ork-ish.
Just my humble opinion; I do love your work.

RIGHT!!!!
thank you greatly for your comment. it is exsactly the sort of constructive critism i was hoping for. so after i read thecomment i went away and did some work on the gigashoota. i compleatly got what was being said, and so i tryed to make the giga shooter more unique and less recongnisable as lego. so i messed around with the barrels and choped some of them up. i also got rid of most of the lego bits on the rest of the mode as welll. i did this to try and make the giga shooter look compleatly different to any of the other gunz on the stompa. oh and i replaced the lego bits from the deff arsenal bitz with GW gunz and blasta's (not its not a new packet you can buy, although that would be exelent) just to make it look more "deadlya" PICS BELOW. tell me what ya think

GIGA SHOOTA



DEFF ARSENAL

(i added a assault cannon from a terminater as well but you cant see it because another gun us in the way.... how very orky)

THANK YOU FOR READING

(oh and as i final, point does anyone have a ork painboy they are willing to trade with me for something. i dont care if its old or new or kustom or standard. i dont know what i could swap with ya for it, but if you need a ork thing i could probs knock something up. oh and i do Nids as well, so i could swap you a Nid thing for it. but yes leave a comment or p.m me if your interested)


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small update, i just played the stompa and gutmelta (added together = 1000 points) against 1000 points of nids
(nids: tyranofex, winged hive tyrant, zoanphropes in myeticspoor and a trygon prime)
very fun and interesting to play. the NIds did a lot better then i thought but could'nt destroy it before turn 6 and then the roll for next turn wad failed. the gigashooter rolled 28 for number of shots on turn 3 but only hit with 5 of them. just an example of ork shooting. still very fun (and eye opening)

so i messed around witht the giga shooter a lot more and now the barrels dont look like lego bits (at least in my oppinion) . but i basically choped em and added some metal plates to them to make them all individual and different. i then started work on some painting of the stompy stompa. i added a brown wash to some of the plates to try and get them to look more like dark copper or rust. i think it is working ok. still a lot to do though.





if there is any techniques that you think could help witht the painting i would love to know. its still early days painting wise though.

Wow, that looks a lot better. Keep up the great work!

It looked great before, but it looks even better. The work you did on the Giga Shoota was a good improvement, I no longer think 'Lego' when I look at it.

Not a criticism (cause it's Ork-some already) just a suggestion, but what if you added crossbones to the skull painted around the Giga Shoota?

EDIT: or crossed shootas or cross choppas.

I like it how it is. The ork skull looks great. I have to say also your painting has been improving alot. I also love how unique your orks look. Awesome stiff.

UPDATE

DAWARBOSS wrote:Wow, that looks a lot better. Keep up the great work!

i will try

Grass4hopper wrote: Not a criticism (cause it's Ork-some already) just a suggestion, but what if you added crossbones to the skull painted around the Giga Shoota?

EDIT: or crossed shootas or cross choppas.

hmmmmmmm, im really not sure because the skull is quite large on its own without shooters or bones painted on it. altough that said i do quite like the idea of bones or crossed choppers. really not sure though.

schank23 wrote:I like it how it is. The ork skull looks great. I have to say also your painting has been improving alot. I also love how unique your orks look. Awesome stiff.

that has actually made my day " I have to say also your painting has been improving alot"

if anyone has any more painting techniques they think would help i am happy to hear them.

Anyway did some stompa painting today just some of the smaller details like the bolts and the battle damage and paint chips, i am also not sure weather i should add graffiti and if so what and where. kinda just mulling over options at the moment. anyway pics below







comments appreciated, thanks for looking

That giga-shoota is wicked looking...

I like the looks of the extra gun ports, but the blue panels look flat, as though they aren't metal underneath their new blue. You might be able to fix that and get them a spot more churned by orks flavour to them if you drybrush some metal, at least significantly on the corners.

My 5 balboa, Kaesar II

CT GAMER wrote:That giga-shoota is wicked looking...

thank you, make a stompa for your dread army and give it one!

Lord Kaesar II wrote:I like the looks of the extra gun ports, but the blue panels look flat, as though they aren't metal underneath their new blue. You might be able to fix that and get them a spot more churned by orks flavour to them if you drybrush some metal, at least significantly on the corners.
My 5 balboa, Kaesar II

i will try that out on the plates next time i am doing some painting. thanks

RIIIGHT THEN
today i wanted to play a propper apoc game and i wanted to do it on the spur of the moment. (this is important because whenever i want to do these games, by the time im actually playing one my interest fades and it becomes a chore.)

so i put out all my orks and my other army THE TYRANIDS.
addmitingly my nids have being getting a lot less attention at the mo then my orks as i am kinda getting swept up into the waaaargh im creating. but i digress. im putting the first halve of BR in another forum and a link will be posted here in due course but here are some pics i took. (btw, sorry but i cant afford a nice gaming table and my dining table was in use. so i used uninhabitable enviroment of my bedroom floor) well yea this was just like a mini "heres what i did today then guys" so yea. pics below and this was just to see how different things worked and played. oh and i am only on turn 2.





(the nids had a lot in reserve.. genestealers, zoeys and loads more)


objective one

objective two

objective 3


and well theres other pics but ill put them up when i do the proper BR. thanks for looking

right so im doing this really long apoc game, and as orks die paint them, its a nice way to make neither thing get too boring. so i have been redoing boys in a new way. pics below


before and after
my camera is kinda rubbish at picking up the detail but i have been doing them, goblin green, thrakka green and then a highlight of goblin again. im also repainting the some deff dreads but pics of those will be up in a bit.
anyway comments always appriciated.
thanks

Wow, nice blog those squigs "coth elepants coth" are pretty dam cool!
I was thinking of making one myself too lol!All I am going to use is a dinosauar toy modle of some kind because Im not buying a forge world one there nice but really expancive!
Also check out my blog!

i loled at the plug for your blog then. but ok. and thanks

and i just took the deff dread pics. not finnished but better.

Nice coversion work!
Thanks for taking a look at my blog!

You were asking about how to rust up the stompa. I have some suggestions here:
Some careful orange/brown washes. You can also use sponge/blister foam to get a good effect. Finally a lot of people use weathering powders but ground up chalk pastels does the job too.

how would you ue the chalk? and with the sponge technique would you dab on the orange and brown wash's or is the sponde technique for paint? (these might be sillly questions but i seriously am not wel informed on painting) thanks btw


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riiight if you have read all of this blog or been here since the begining you would know i was building a new mob of kanz a while ago.... well i kinda was looking at them and they are'nt that cool. so i decided to smash em and use the pieces to make a mega dread. hopefully anyway.

just to help people remember heres one.

and heres two. im going to put proper picz up at some point, but so far i have only done the body and one leg. so i will update when i have done both legs and the body
should be cool.
anyways i think i am becoming addicted to building dreadz and kanz tbh though it could be worst a worst addiction.
thanks for reading

Now Dat's finkin' Orky!

I remember, I helped a friend out with one of his first Ork Konversions, of a Black Reach dred. First thing we did was build it, put it on the floor, and stomp it flat. Then we picked up the pieces and rebuilt it, Ork style. Thing looked great!

Anvildude wrote:Now Dat's finkin' Orky!

I remember, I helped a friend out with one of his first Ork Konversions, of a Black Reach dred. First thing we did was build it, put it on the floor, and stomp it flat. Then we picked up the pieces and rebuilt it, Ork style. Thing looked great!

lol. that is so on point its ridiculus!

seriously i woke up this morning and went down stairs and my dad had got me assult on black reach from the bootfair for 25 along with loadsa over stuff. lol.
how strange is that. pics below, everything is in quite good condition and i also got a mother load of marines as well now. so thats cool.



and here is a pic of the mega dread so far

im planning on adding loads of armour plates on top of the leg and some hydrolic bits and wires dont know how im going to do the arms yet but hay cross that bridge later. oh and i decided to stop the apoc game i was doing, it had taken 3 days to do 3 turns and i was just tired of it. and now i have a load of orks to paint so i have no time for fun and games... yea riight.
thanks for reading.
(oh and i also got a mother load of marines now as well. awesome, might start them up a project blog)

For the washes I'd use a smallish brush and concentrate it around cracks, studs etc. For the sponging the paint doesn't really need to be overly thinned and you can concentrate it on edges etc. The chalk you want ground into dust and then use a cheap soft haired brush to put it on. The chalk needs fixed so its doesn't come off again I used W&N spray fixative for chalks and charcoal cos I have it, but I think hairspray works too.

Lucky you got all of that for 25 quid!The AOBR dread would make an really good deffer dred if your wandering..Or if you collect space marines keep that dred!Its the only kit with a multi melta( or atl east keep the weapon!).

Wazzdig Dagga wrote:For the washes I'd use a smallish brush and concentrate it around cracks, studs etc. For the sponging the paint doesn't really need to be overly thinned and you can concentrate it on edges etc. The chalk you want ground into dust and then use a cheap soft haired brush to put it on. The chalk needs fixed so its doesn't come off again I used W&N spray fixative for chalks and charcoal cos I have it, but I think hairspray works too.

thank you. i will defo use the orangefor the cracks and studs and i willt try the chalk thing as well. thanks

HAZZER wrote:Lucky you got all of that for 25 quid!The AOBR dread would make an really good deffer dred if your wandering..Or if you collect space marines keep that dred!Its the only kit with a multi melta( or atl east keep the weapon!).

i think i am going to keep the dread and add it to my space marine army (got loadsa stuff for marines its just not painted and i dont like them that much.. im more of a bad guy then a goody)

I absolutely love that mega dread head. Great work as always.

I know you said you haven't thought about building the arms to much yet, but do you know what kind of weapons the arms will have?

The stompa looks the best and I've got hight hopes for the squiggoth, buuuut, I'm trying to find a nice way to say that the kans/buggies rub me the wrong way.
There's something to be said for the GW kits and someone elsewhere has said (something to the effect of): it's not enough to make ork vehicles out of garbage, you have to make them out of 28mm scale garbage. I think that's the beef I have with your kans...

Grass4hopper wrote:I absolutely love that mega dread head. Great work as always.

I know you said you haven't thought about building the arms to much yet, but do you know what kind of weapons the arms will have?

thank you , and honestly i am not sure at all. i was thinking about just going basic and having a huge krushy claw and on the other side a killkannon. but its still questionable as some of the options sound so cool. for example 2 killkannons and then have it like a dread with 2 auto cannons, or havnig it with 2 krushy claws and then it rolls +2 on the damage result table so you almost always get a wepon destroyed result at least. still up for dicussion.

lessthan1337 wrote:The stompa looks the best and I've got hight hopes for the squiggoth, buuuut, I'm trying to find a nice way to say that the kans/buggies rub me the wrong way.
There's something to be said for the GW kits and someone elsewhere has said (something to the effect of): it's not enough to make ork vehicles out of garbage, you have to make them out of 28mm scale garbage. I think that's the beef I have with your kans...

hmmm i can deal with that tbh. i make ork things out of the things i have lying around. and its mainly because i do not have the funds to make ork stuff out of gw kits most of the time. but hmmmm i have been thinking about it before now and i have kinda decided that dreads and kanz will be made from w/e but other stuff, not so much.
and i really like making kanz and dreadz out of w/e because then they are unique to me and my orks. if i was using gw kits i just feel like i would end up using arm bits for arm bits and leg bits for leg bits and so on. i do like that quote though, and it will be taken on board next time im making stuff.
thanks.

UPDATE!

so today i spent quite a lot of time painting my truck boyz to try and get them nearish completion. at the moment i think i will need to spend about an hour more on them at some point just to finnish them off (basing does'nt count of course).
and then it will be back to the stompa for some final touches and the adition of rust and more battle damage. but untill then, my truck boyz.



so what do'se yous think. i am actually really happy with how have turned out so far and will be painting the rest of my boyz skin in the same way. . with the truck though i need some oppinions as to if it is too much or too little or just general surgestions, the truck is'nt finnished as well btw it needs the raven guard bits cleaning up a little bit.

thanks for reading and comments would be great

The rhino is looking good. One thing I might do is add some battle damage to the Raven Guard areas that are left. I wouldn't do any on the blue as it has just been freshly looted and painted but one the areas that where not painted by the orks the battle damage would give that extra amount of detail that makes the model stand out all the more. But solid start so far.

That rihno is looking really really good!!!

Oy BOSS, whut's dem Bawkses on da back uv da Wagon?

Gah! Yuz snivlinz 'oof! Datz mez Shroom Grog. Nowz ifs mez seez yuz messin wits its. Mez gonna bust yuz 'ead. Gots its?!

My ork isn't as good as Anvildudes

schank23 wrote:The rhino is looking good. One thing I might do is add some battle damage to the Raven Guard areas that are left. I wouldn't do any on the blue as it has just been freshly looted and painted but one the areas that where not painted by the orks the battle damage would give that extra amount of detail that makes the model stand out all the more. But solid start so far.

oks i will do that, but do you think i should repaint the areas blue that have battle damage, (the blue bits that are damaged) or not?

HAZZER wrote:That rihno is looking really really good!!!

thank you

Anvildude wrote:Oy BOSS, whut's dem Bawkses on da back uv da Wagon?

schank23 wrote:Gah! Yuz snivlinz 'oof! Datz mez Shroom Grog. Nowz ifs mez seez yuz messin wits its. Mez gonna bust yuz 'ead. Gots its?!

My ork isn't as good as Anvildudes

lol (raven guard sucessor chapter, "the black guard" secound founding just so yous know)

Nice stuff man
consider me subscribed
also I have been building stuff as wel but never Big stuff always scared it would look to detailless how do you fix that problem?

DamienOfTheWRAAAGH wrote:Nice stuff man
consider me subscribed
also I have been building stuff as wel but never Big stuff always scared it would look to detailless how do you fix that problem?

get some smaller bits .
and of course paint in the detail, like damage and all that sorta stuffs. i am still learning though. but the main thing i think is that if your building metal things to alwasy add bolts. make it look a lot better and realistic (to an extent)

Took some full army shots today just to show everything together and show what i have left to paint and finish. ( so many ork boyz to do and redo)






not gonna be painting anything today got to get a solid amount of revision done (and some catching up on black ops)

thanks for reading/ looking

What I would do is leave the blue areas alone. The areas the orks haven't modified I would add some chipping in the paint and some minor battle damage. Marines take pretty good care of the gear so no huge areas of battle damage unless the ork themselves did it after they looted the rhino or recent battle. But in short. Black add some chipping. Blue leave as is.

Love that group shot of your army. It looks very impressive so far.

schank23 wrote:What I would do is leave the blue areas alone. The areas the orks haven't modified I would add some chipping in the paint and some minor battle damage. Marines take pretty good care of the gear so no huge areas of battle damage unless the ork themselves did it after they looted the rhino or recent battle. But in short. Black add some chipping. Blue leave as is.

Love that group shot of your army. It looks very impressive so far.

thank you very much, and i will be using that advice next time i come to paint the boyz and truck.

ok so a mini update, im currently reworking my old mega mek into a "counts as" kaptain badrukk. it should be epic, and i am also considering making my black reach Nobs into flash gitz. pics up later

i think i have come to a stage where i am becoming a ork big mek. never satisfied by making and painting da boyz, but gets a kick out of cobblying together random meks out of anything i can find that is even remotly orky.
but i digress, i have done some small additions to the mega dread and also nearly finnished my new "counts as" kaptain badrukk conversion. oh and im also trying to see if i can mess around with the ork warboss from assult on black reach to make him a lil bit more dakary.... not because im giving him any special wepons or anything, i jus want him to look "dead ard"
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so with "badrukk" (i need to think of a name for my one) i was going for the idea that after being humiliated by the most recent mega mek he would go away and imidiatly start thinking of a plan to get the "mega mek" back. so thats where the idea of the walker type thing came from, it is also as a side note made from bitz of his old mega armour (he would'nt be needing it anymore anyway). i also needed something i could use as "da ripper" badrukks gun. so i made the wepon on the front out of various stolen goods and some old bits (he is still a deathskull after all) from my bitz box. The banner on the walker is surpost to represent the bossbole badrukk has and BTW i know badrukk does'nt have a power claw but it just looked kick ass on there. OH annnnd i have'nt put a force field on him either, mainly because if he has those walker legs does'nt that make him a cybork.. and dont cyborks get a 5+ invun.... like a certain other character that he is based on. so yea if anyone asks i will just explain that.


BADRUKK IN CONSTRUCTION


MEGA DRED
i managed to find some extra bits to use on him and did a little bit of work on the legs.

and finally

i was really wanting something that just made him look a bit diffrent.

there is still a lot of work to be done filling in gaps and adding green stuff ect ect. i need to get another pack of green stuff befor i can start though. liturally have run compeatly out... (thats the only reason why i hav'nt been working on the squiggiphant at all, soooooo annoying)

ANY COMMENTS OR CONSTRUCTIVE CRITISM WOULD BE GREAT AND THANKS FOR LOOKING

(3 POSTS IN A ROW WITHOUT COMMENT!!!!!)

so i have mainly been working on painting my space marine tacticle squad and dread today but ork wise, ive finished making the flash gits, made some ammo grots for my BADRUKK and i finnished painting the truck and boyz that go in it (went over the blue with blue and did some battle damage on the black bits) pics below


BADRUKK AND HIS AMMO GROTS


FLASH GITS

the basic idea with the flash gits is that they were nobz that my kaptain bent to his will by the gifts of kustom snazzgunz and loadsa teeth.

STILL NEED A NAME FOR THE KAPTAIN!

any comments or creative critism would be great.
thanks

I will do it, I will comment (the ring to mordor... wait whot?)
the flash gitz look good sow far, but I would give them some oher stuff not just bigger gunz the look a little plain except for the gunz OFC like them a lot.

hehehe dont squigs have 2 legs

DamienOfTheWRAAAGH wrote:I will do it, I will comment (the ring to mordor... wait whot?)
the flash gitz look good sow far, but I would give them some oher stuff not just bigger gunz the look a little plain except for the gunz OFC like them a lot.

im not entirely sure what else to give them though, i really dont want to give them hats, i just really dont like the pirate hats i have seen on them. but i could give them long coats and heavyer armour i guess. thanks for the comment

xXH0LYCRUSAD3Xx wrote:hehehe dont squigs have 2 legs

not if there "squiggoths"

bigfish wrote:

DamienOfTheWRAAAGH wrote:I will do it, I will comment (the ring to mordor... wait whot?)
the flash gitz look good sow far, but I would give them some oher stuff not just bigger gunz the look a little plain except for the gunz OFC like them a lot.

im not entirely sure what else to give them though, i really dont want to give them hats, i just really dont like the pirate hats i have seen on them. but i could give them long coats and heavyer armour i guess. thanks for the comment

well Yea I'd say give em some shoulderpads, coats are a cool idea aswel also reworking there pose almost always looks cooler buuuuut that takes a lot of time... and if they are pirates WHY DO I NOT SEE HOOKHANDS!! hahaha, also axes dont really go with pirates in my opinion thats more a vicking thing.... (which gives me an idea)
But it's your build do stuff you like.

lol

UPDATE!
just did some painting on the looted tank this morning. its not finished but its better then it being just undercoated

DamienOfTheWRAAAGH wrote:
well Yea I'd say give em some shoulderpads, coats are a cool idea aswel also reworking there pose almost always looks cooler buuuuut that takes a lot of time... and if they are pirates WHY DO I NOT SEE HOOKHANDS!! hahaha, also axes dont really go with pirates in my opinion thats more a vicking thing.... (which gives me an idea)
But it's your build do stuff you like.

i am thinking chopper hands, long coats and shoulder pads
and maybe making the axe's more sword like.

COMMENTS GREATLY APPRECIATED!

Badrukk looks very cool with those bionic legs.

The Flash gits' gunz look awesome, too. As far as anything to add to make the look more flashy... long coats are good, if you can manage the GS (I haven't had the gutz yet). Trophy heads and pelts and other items from other armies work great too. I think the most important and easiest thing to do, though, would be to paint them bright, piratey colors (which I assume is in the pipe line already).

Also, I have to second the comment about the axes... unless this is a blood axe clan. (I've forgotten )

The Good Green wrote:Badrukk looks very cool with those bionic legs.

The Flash gits' gunz look awesome, too. As far as anything to add to make the look more flashy... long coats are good, if you can manage the GS (I haven't had the gutz yet). Trophy heads and pelts and other items from other armies work great too. I think the most important and easiest thing to do, though, would be to paint them bright, piratey colors (which I assume is in the pipe line already).

Also, I have to second the comment about the axes... unless this is a blood axe clan. (I've forgotten )

no its not blood axe's its deathskulls (the ones that steal stuff and paint things blue). and tbh i had'nt thought about how i was going to paint them yet.
And trophy's thats a great idea. i have a shed load of corpse's from marines and nids that i could add. had'nt thought abou that. thanks

I suppose nobody's ever heard of Boarding Axes, very useful as piratey weapons.

Anvildude wrote:I suppose nobody's ever heard of Boarding Axes, very useful as piratey weapons.

i just googled them. and hmmmmm that would be cools. altough i dunno how i would make them look less choppa like and more boarding axe like.

i am really leaning towards chopper hands and hooks

FINISHED REPAINTING THE LOOTED WAGON...... almost.
i am thinking the only things i need to add now would be weathering like mud. And then maybe touch up some other bits just a lil.
IF ANYONE HAS ANYTHING THEY THINK WOULD MAKE THE LOOTED WAGON LOOK COOLER POST IT!!!!!!...... no presure

OK so first i thought i would try and add blue flames.... then i relised this was quite hard and i dont have the pataince or skill to pull it off.


so i returned to my graffiti and skullz theme i have going on and did that instead.










comments and improvements concerning the looted wagon would be great. im not sure really what else to do with it at the moment, but it just does'nt feel finished as such :/
anyway thanks for reading/ looking

"kill em, loot em and then kill em some more!"

I think the silver bits just look too clean. More scarring, battle damage, weathering on them. Things like rust, mud, dirt, paint chips, etc. Maybe some skorching around the end of the barrel of the gun, and the back of the Rokkits? Rust streaks dripping down from the edges of doors and armour plates (under the rivets, mostly), and a little spray of mud up the backside of the tank?

All shall kneel before Badrukk's Crotch-Cannon!!! Your ammo grots look awesome. I think you're looted tank could use some brown and black washes all around to give it more of a dirty and used appearance. I really dig the freehand skull by the back treads.

Anvildude wrote:I think the silver bits just look too clean. More scarring, battle damage, weathering on them. Things like rust, mud, dirt, paint chips, etc. Maybe some skorching around the end of the barrel of the gun, and the back of the Rokkits? Rust streaks dripping down from the edges of doors and armour plates (under the rivets, mostly), and a little spray of mud up the backside of the tank?

yea i can see what your saying, its the same sort off things i am having to do on the stompa. and i was thinking i was going to add the dirt and mud last because then it will be ontop off the other layers and look more realistic. i will be adding the rust for sure but i am not sure about how to do more chips, because the tank is mostly boltgun and i do my chips boltgun so
oh and lastly do you think i should add more physical battle damage at this stage or just paint it on/in?

Moltar wrote:All shall kneel before Badrukk's Crotch-Cannon!!! Your ammo grots look awesome. I think you're looted tank could use some brown and black washes all around to give it more of a dirty and used appearance. I really dig the freehand skull by the back treads.

"All shall kneel before Badrukk's Crotch-Cannon!!!" LOL
i have brown ink but i dont have a black so i will use the brown and see where that gets me but the thing is i used brown ink on a boltgun layer on the stompa and it just ends up coming out like it was painted tin bitz from the off. i will probs paint it into receases and then go over it boltgun so the inbetween bits look dirty. but hmmm

Paint if you wish. I'm generally more of a modeller than a painter, so I'd probably just hack some bits out, stick bullet holes into it in odd places, stuff like that. I think it'd give you more inspiration for how to paint the damage if you had a physical base to it.

alright then. i will add some more battle damage today (now) and see where that takes me

Any paint can be turned into a wash or glaze with enough water. Don't let paint companies fool you. For a wash you'd want like 5-6 parts water to your paint (maybe more for dark colors like black) and for a glaze you'd want something closer to 10 to 1 water to paint. I use some old GW inks (with water mixed in), but mostly just to get rid of them. Think how GW does that verdigris turquoise on their rusty gold. That just watered down Hawk Turquoise or Scaly Green.

Glazes take a lot more time to achieve a proper look (a lot more) because they can require a whole load more coats, but you can garnish a lot of control with them and get some really good looking layers built up with them.

Just some ideas to save you some money and give you another painting technique to attempt. I do tend to ramble meaninglessly, so feel free to ignore me at anytime...

Moltar wrote:Any paint can be turned into a wash or glaze with enough water. Don't let paint companies fool you. For a wash you'd want like 5-6 parts water to your paint (maybe more for dark colors like black) and for a glaze you'd want something closer to 10 to 1 water to paint. I use some old GW inks (with water mixed in), but mostly just to get rid of them. Think how GW does that verdigris turquoise on their rusty gold. That just watered down Hawk Turquoise or Scaly Green.

Glazes take a lot more time to achieve a proper look (a lot more) because they can require a whole load more coats, but you can garnish a lot of control with them and get some really good looking layers built up with them.

Just some ideas to save you some money and give you another painting technique to attempt. I do tend to ramble meaninglessly, so feel free to ignore me at anytime...

... Moltar, i have seen your painting blog. if your giving me advice on how to do painting techniques i would be a fool not to take it. next time i am painting i will mix up a batch of black wash then. i have the pots and the black so i might as well. BUT when you say 5-6 parts are you meaning 50-60% water to paint ratio? because i have never understodd that when ever anyone talks about mixing or blending or w/e.
thanks for the knowledge you bring

Parts is a bit different to Percentage. While Percentage is like:

Water water water water water water paint paint paint paint,

Parts is more like:

water water water water water water paint.

Yes, anvildude is right. And I usually just mix enough for one go on my palette. Like just one drop of paint and five or six drops of water.

bigfish wrote:
i am thinking chopper hands, long coats and shoulder pads
and maybe making the axe's more sword like.

COMMENTS GREATLY APPRECIATED!

Sounds Great

"kill em, loot em and then kill em some more!"

Yes ....just yes

Anvildude wrote:Parts is a bit different to Percentage. While Percentage is like:

Water water water water water water paint paint paint paint,

Parts is more like:

water water water water water water paint.

Moltar wrote:Yes, anvildude is right. And I usually just mix enough for one go on my palette. Like just one drop of paint and five or six drops of water.

ok, thanks for clearing that up for me both of you

DamienOfTheWRAAAGH wrote:

bigfish wrote:
i am thinking chopper hands, long coats and shoulder pads
and maybe making the axe's more sword like.

COMMENTS GREATLY APPRECIATED!

Sounds Great

"kill em, loot em and then kill em some more!"

Yes ....just yes

it was on my tank and i thought it was relevant
every army needs a moto


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mini update.
just got a copy of how to paint citadel tanks and it has some very useful and good lookin techniques i will be using.
(a great one on how to do rust)

Love the ammo grots and the looted leaman russ!

HAZZER wrote:Love the ammo grots and the looted leaman russ!

thanks

These are horrendous. Stop.

Rebel105 wrote:These are horrendous. Stop.

.... e·lab·o·rate
what are you refering too and why.


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ANYWAY... update on the tank and the big mek with kff

did a black wash (watered down chaos black, 6 water to 1 paint) on to the tank quite lightly into the metal and i am thinking it looks ok, still not finnished but closer. also did some of the base colours on the big mek. PICS BELOW



















CONSTRUCTIVE critism would be great thanks for looking

i think that all your metal looks too clean but i like everything else

also that guy is a moron id like to see HIM paint this good

Rebel105 wrote:These are horrendous. Stop.

Bah! Hater. I like Bigfish's style of painting. And he has gotten better since he as started this thread. There is negative criticism and constructive criticism. I believe Dakkadakka promote the constructive not the negative.
So as the old saying goes "If you don't have anything nice to say. Then get the hell out." Well thats how my mom always said it.


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Oh and Bigfish if you want to do a trade later. Ork for ork let me know. Once I get caught up I'm game if you are.

prototype_X wrote:i think that all your metal looks too clean but i like everything else

cool's i was going to do some more black wash's on it because the wash i did befor was kinda more glaze like. i reckon 2 more thin layers and then adding the mud and i will see what i am thinking. The black wash has actually been awesome so far so im defo going to be using that on my tanks ans tompa from now on.

schank23 wrote:
Oh and Bigfish if you want to do a trade later. Ork for ork let me know. Once I get caught up I'm game if you are.

duuude that sounds so cool but i dunno what i would make, what would you wanna swap for what.

prototype_X wrote:
also that guy is a moron id like to see HIM paint this good

schank23 wrote:
Bah! Hater. I like Bigfish's style of painting. And he has gotten better since he as started this thread. There is negative criticism and constructive criticism. I believe Dakkadakka promote the constructive not the negative.
So as the old saying goes "If you don't have anything nice to say. Then get the hell out." Well thats how my mom always said it.

thanks guys

I think your painting has improved and that is by far the best use of scrap I have ever seen. You have everything in there!

I'll echo the metal comment - more washes of Badab Black/Devlan Mud really. A lot more. Just paint them on and let them dry as to get a dark metal it takes some layers.

Loving the freehand though.

And haters? Here? Naaaah. Proper Orky spirit dis lot iz.

Wow thatz on gde tak vat masng yde mak da yer gde da mek!!!
tranillation:
Wow, thats a really good tank you would make a good mek!!!

We can do boy for boy. Thats the most common. Or nobz and even specialized units (stormboyz, kommandoz, ect...) What ever you feel like doing.

DarkStarSabre wrote:I think your painting has improved and that is by far the best use of scrap I have ever seen. You have everything in there!

I'll echo the metal comment - more washes of Badab Black/Devlan Mud really. A lot more. Just paint them on and let them dry as to get a dark metal it takes some layers.

Loving the freehand though.

And haters? Here? Naaaah. Proper Orky spirit dis lot iz.

thanks for the kind words, and yea im sorta starting to get the whole wash thing now with metal, and i will invest in some devlan mud wash.

HAZZER wrote:Wow thatz on gde tak vat masng yde mak da yer gde da mek!!!
tranillation:
Wow, thats a really good tank you would make a good mek!!!

lol thanks you hazzer

schank23 wrote:We can do boy for boy. Thats the most common. Or nobz and even specialized units (stormboyz, kommandoz, ect...) What ever you feel like doing.

riiight im kinda a meky maker so i might be able to make you a mek boy or a big mek depending on what bitz i can find and salvage from what i have.
and i dont really mind tbh. a painboy would be cool or a flash git. but i would want it in your clan colours if thats ok.
oh and would you want yours painted or just made up?


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schank i looked and
"i have the technology"
to make you a awesome deathskull bigmek with burna, eavy armour and cybork body. i could also make a grot oiler to go with it as well.

A Pain Boy sounds fun. Never done one of them before. And yes I'll paint in my colors if you paint in yours. As for the pain boy I'm thinking like a Dr. Oct type back harness. And a oderly. I'm gonna have to go to the hobbie shop tomorrow morning and get supplies first. Running low on mats. So dont tell the wife. She will look me in the celler again. Smells like feet in there. You have been added to the list bigfish. Might take me a bit to get it done but you will have it.

schank23 wrote:A Pain Boy sounds fun. Never done one of them before. And yes I'll paint in my colors if you paint in yours. As for the pain boy I'm thinking like a Dr. Oct type back harness. And a oderly. I'm gonna have to go to the hobbie shop tomorrow morning and get supplies first. Running low on mats. So dont tell the wife. She will look me in the celler again. Smells like feet in there. You have been added to the list bigfish. Might take me a bit to get it done but you will have it.

ok painted it shall be, and a Dr. Oct back harness sound kick ass. i've already set up the basis of the big mek just need to sort him out a base and put him together. (i had the pieces already lined up for it for a while but he did'nt fit into any of my units so you shall have him)
and dont worry abouts time, no rush
thanks for offering the trade. anyway i will have yours made within the week but painting will be later.

schank23 wrote:
Oh and Bigfish if you want to do a trade later. Ork for ork let me know. Once I get caught up I'm game if you are.

im almost done making yours.... (i am really fast at building) i need to do some touch ups with green stuff but apart from that he is pretty much set up. i made a grot oiler/ammo grot. i'll explain on the picz.

BIGMEK








GROT BOT (ammo runt or grot oiler you can pick)










ok so the big mek first, it is a termi body with burnaboy arms a loota head and the legs from my old mega mek. i then added some extra armour in the form of the marine shoulder pads, and then gave him his set of meks tools.
next was the shoota, it is a bolter from the spacemarine bike set and a bolter from a OFP marine parts spure i had.

The grot bot thing is.. (inhales) a space marine bike wheel, a grot body from the lootas set, the grot head from the stompa kit, the klaw is made from scrap and a deff dread claw and the burna/skoorcha on the other side is made from a standard burna boy's burna, the eyes/ googly things are made from the deff dread kit and lastly the spike on the bike wheel is from the stompa kit.

the fluff is basically the mek built the grot bot after all his other grot helpers kept getting blasted to pieces or eaten or stepped on or the various other way a gretchin can die in a happy ork warband. so he took inspiration from the killa kanz and made his oiler a suit to help protect him from harms way. the suit also incorperates a klaw and a burna so the bot can help with battlefield repairs (and bloody combats) and a small wheel and suspension so he can carry his masters ammo and gubbinz.

tells me whats you thinks (i am going to clean it up quite a lot and drill the barrels just so you know)
hope you like it

bigfish wrote:

DamienOfTheWRAAAGH wrote:

bigfish wrote:
i am thinking chopper hands, long coats and shoulder pads
and maybe making the axe's more sword like.

COMMENTS GREATLY APPRECIATED!

Sounds Great

"kill em, loot em and then kill em some more!"

Yes ....just yes

it was on my tank and i thought it was relevant
every army needs a moto

Nice Like it alot:d

and man that Grotbot and mek are awesome like em alot aswel

Keep it up dude

Ow and Haters gonna Hate

UPDATE!
today peeps i did some more painting on the looted wagon and on the big mek with KFF.
took everyones advice on washes and did another 2 black washes all around and the 2 watered down bestril brown washes into the recesses and places that dirt would get stuck.
then using a technique i picked up from smurfmaster i weathered the tracks to look like they had just rolled through a WHOLE LOTA MUD.
i would be very happy to call this a finished model now but i just don'nt want to put it down. so next time painting some touch ups here and there and some more washes into the rivets ect. not really worth pictures for what i do next but hmm,. oh and i got some more colours on the mek. still quite a way to go with him but the model is a joy to paint, which is quite strange me saying that, but ANYWAY
ONTO PICTURES!

looted wagon















big mek







comments are always appreciated, constructive critism would be great, subscribers thanks for keeping on board and everyone else that just reads over thread and does'nt comment to you guys

thanks for reading, skiming and looking at pictures

DamienOfTheWRAAAGH wrote:
Nice Like it alot:d

and man that Grotbot and mek are awesome like em alot aswel

Keep it up dude

Ow and Haters gonna Hate

i loled at the "haters going to hate image" its quite cool indeed

I like what you've done weathering-wise on the wagon. You can almost see the Deffgun shots going in the side and blasting out the magazine, then the Lootas falling on it, cleanin' it out, and fixin' it up.

Right - now it needs some rust streaks down the sides

Likin the mek and the grot. Very nice. Got my restock of supplies today so once I get caught up I'll start on yours.

And you might want to have your orks take that tank to the car wash. That mud is really gonna clog uo the road wheels.

Loving these vehicles man, keep it up !

that mud looks real!

Anvildude wrote:I like what you've done weathering-wise on the wagon. You can almost see the Deffgun shots going in the side and blasting out the magazine, then the Lootas falling on it, cleanin' it out, and fixin' it up.

thanks, when you said that i kinda just realised that lootas are equiped with str 7 wepons that can only imobilise armour 13, makes perfect sense now, since they want the tanks to still work after the battle.
thanks for the comment.

Arakasi wrote:Right - now it needs some rust streaks down the sides

siiiigh, lol. There is always more to do.
but ok , next time and it will be on the bolts dripping down.

schank23 wrote:Likin the mek and the grot. Very nice. Got my restock of supplies today so once I get caught up I'll start on yours.

And you might want to have your orks take that tank to the car wash. That mud is really gonna clog uo the road wheels.

no rush, i did yours quick just because i had the bits. dont worry im not in a rush to get it (altough it sounds awesome)
and lol
"only pansee's wsh dar wagonz"

Rayvon wrote:Loving these vehicles man, keep it up !

thanks

prototype_X wrote:that mud looks real!

thanks you , it is (jus incase you wanna know) ground up coffee into a powder, mixed with bestral brown and applyed liberally.
its really good. i am going to do it on all the trucks wagons and walkers at least a lil. (and another great plus is it makes your army smell like coffee )

mmmm coffee

update

i have done a lil bit of work on my black reach warboss and based the truck mob. still need to weather the looted truck though. oh and i am going to go and restock up on supplys soon so that willl lead to a lot more getting done.
anyway onto the warboss.





so the main things are, i made the shoota tri linked and i rplaced the lower claw on the power claw with a tyranid horn to make it more killy.
its only blue tacked now but it will be glued by tomorrow.

thanks for looking

Awesome plog man, orks represent.

loving the mud tracks, looking to do something similiar, care to share?

bigfish wrote:

prototype_X wrote:that mud looks real!

thanks you , it is (jus incase you wanna know) ground up coffee into a powder, mixed with bestral brown and applyed liberally.
its really good. i am going to do it on all the trucks wagons and walkers at least a lil. (and another great plus is it makes your army smell like coffee )

"prototype_X@ that mud looks real!


bigfish@ thanks you , it is (jus incase you wanna know) ground up coffee into a powder, mixed with bestral brown and applyed liberally.
its really good. i am going to do it on all the trucks wagons and walkers at least a lil. (and another great plus is it makes your army smell like coffee )"

prototype said it


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flash git update













comments and constructive critism would be great thanks

Dere gunz ar lookin' great!
an' da 'hol lot looks good!

Hee man
The gitz look a lot better, a little change just makes it look so much better.
and I see a orky hookhand, NICE

Matt.Kingsley wrote:Dere gunz ar lookin' great!
an' da 'hol lot looks good!

thanks

DamienOfTheWRAAAGH wrote:Hee man
The gitz look a lot better, a little change just makes it look so much better.
and I see a orky hookhand, NICE

the hook hands was a good idea. and thanks

the plan at the moment is to have them all with individual themes on each model, i.e. having a flashgit who kills a lot of tyranids and then having on that kills a lot of marines ect ect.

so then the squad will have a tyranid killa, a marine killa, a eldar killa, and then im not sure about the other 2. im considering guard but dont have parts for different one. might go and see if i can buy one chaos marine or one tau to use off ebay or something.

That Idea I'm gonna have to steal I'm sorry
its just to good
*edit
also dont forget orks fight amongst them selfs there is also tau but being a tau killer isn't really something to be proud off

which one the themed flash gits or the choppa hands?
(>.> and its not stealing its lootin )


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"being a tau killa is'nt something to be proud of" LOL
i was thinking the same thing about eldar tbh lol


hang on your right, i could have a serial ork killa as one of them

hahha wel the themed flashgitz
and your right I'll loot that idea then
and your right about the eldar and tao they'll probably get bulleyd alot

indeed....

Anyway, ive been looking around all over the inter web looking for decent flash gits and found this, i am thinking im going to go with the same sort of stripy clothes theme but im not going to make a song.
http://www.the-waaagh.com/forums/?showtopic=39083

Wow, you hae done loads in about 3 days!

UPDATE

so making long coats is'nt as hard as i thought, but trying to get it all smooth is. i am thinking i will let this one dry paint him individually and then see what it looks like, then go from there.
but at the moment. its looking ok. just trying to make each one look like a grizzled mass murdering veteren of many wars is quite weird really. im dont usually put this much time into making my boys look like characters or inviduals.
anyway i so far have these guys.
going from left to right they are:

ork killa - marine killa - guard killa - eldar killa - nid killa



im thinking they need proper names, like the "kreg the krazed killa" or something like that. i dunno just to give them more character. it talks about in the codex how some of them are like legends or celebs, so i want mine to have names that related to their historys and legends. anywsy
surgestions on this front would be good.
anyway pics

eldar killing flashgit







marine killa flashgit

HAZZER wrote:Wow, you hae done loads in about 3 days!

well tbh i have only had this project blog for 46 days so far and im on 6 pages. so yea. fast worker i guess. i wanna see how fast i can get 10,000 views as like a goal.

COMMENTS WOULD BE GREAT THANKS FOR LOOKING

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH.

small update

ive been looking at what i have and how it all fits together and decided i am going to go with some sub clan elementts instead of just deathskulls.

This is what units are for which clan so far:

deathskulls

looted wagon

battle wagon

truck and 12 boyz with nob

3 deffkopters (the looted ones)

3 kanz

3 deff dreads

2 squiggoths

2 bigmeks

20 boyz (in battle wagon)

4 nobz

15 lootas

stompa

Evil sunz

warboss with claw

19 boyz

3 deffkopters

and a battle wagon

freebooters

flash gits squad

and thats as far i have got with dividing the clans up. i want to get everything on this list painted befor i buy or make anything new. but the things that i want to add are
The evil sunz battle wagon, a mega dread for the death skullz, a battle fortress for the death skullz and a skull hamma for the evil sunz.
but thats going to be after all the other stuff on the lists is painted up and made.

Oh and on the flash gits front i am thinking purple, not excessivly but in the mix.

(strange doing a update with no pictures)

thanks for looking

You really do alot man
I can't seem to make a lot of progress on my crap
anyway I'm honored that you took the ork killa idea
I can't really tell from the pictures but I bet it looks like UltraOrk
Keep it up no I need to go paint

DamienOfTheWRAAAGH wrote:You really do alot man
I can't seem to make a lot of progress on my crap
anyway I'm honored that you took the ork killa idea
I can't really tell from the pictures but I bet it looks like UltraOrk
Keep it up no I need to go paint

dude it was a good idea.
ill get a pic up of him when he is more done

ok great can't wait

DAMN U INTERNET KEEPING ME AT MY COMPUTER
i'm going now

so its been awhile since i have posted on here mainly because of revision and going out and stuff like that, but i sat down today and had a good paint for a bit on the stompa.









comments wanted thanks

The stompa is still awesome man looking good

Is that a kan rocketing into the air I see in the background?

DamienOfTheWRAAAGH wrote:The stompa is still awesome man looking good

duuude you need to get one, its an awesome kit to mess around with

Moltar wrote:Is that a kan rocketing into the air I see in the background?

whaaat? which picture?

Well a few of them but also the last pic. The yellow thing.

no no no, thats a out of production lizard men "slan" mage preist being carryed on a howda by temple guard.
..... thought everyone had one on their desks


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....Oh i forgot to add im painting lootaz and they will be up in a while with their big mek

on the back of the stompa theres a door with a gliff on it mabey you could paint da gliff blue or something, break up the silver.

thats the plan

im not sure if i should add any graffiti or not or any design on it like checks or dags or something to yea break up the silver

Maybe put some Orky skrawl on the feet and bits next to openings as graffitti? Fings like "Grubgutz woz 'ere" and "Waaagh!!"

Yea big
I do want one buuuuut le money it is scarse
it's like 95 dollars or something, you gotta love the euro though it's gonna cost me only 80 buck or something XD yea!!!!

DamienOfTheWRAAAGH wrote:Yea big
I do want one buuuuut le money it is scarse
it's like 95 dollars or something, you gotta love the euro though it's gonna cost me only 80 buck or something XD yea!!!!

if you got it from england it would be 67 euro's?... i thinks (my maths is'nt great)

bigfish wrote:

DamienOfTheWRAAAGH wrote:Yea big
I do want one buuuuut le money it is scarse
it's like 95 dollars or something, you gotta love the euro though it's gonna cost me only 80 buck or something XD yea!!!!

if you got it from england it would be 67 euro's?... i thinks (my maths is'nt great)

nope just looked it up on GM it's 95 euros -_-" don't expect it soon
also I believe the pound is more expensive than the euro but not sure

alrights then :/

not really a update
but I just found my stompa and my battle wagon on google images, and they are not even hard to find
That has made my day. although it does highlight the fact i really need to repaint my battle wagon at some point and actually finish my stompa. but meh in due time

ok's so i have decided that im redoing my battle wagon


it was originally because i was not liking the paint job but now i look at it it is'nt that great on the board either. so i am taking it apart and remaking it (d/w only the tracks and the side pannels where from the original oop landraider kit the rest was scrap)

but anyway , i am thinking about giving it a deff rolla, grot riggers, armour plates, ard case and thats as far as i have got so far. wepons wise i dont know what to give it.

ANYBODY KNOW A GOOD WAY TO KIT OUT A BATTLE WAGON?
the only requirement is it has to have a deff rola a ard case and it needs to transport 20 boyz.

thanks

Stompa looks a hole lot better!(And sweet too)!
Army list sounds good!If you need tatica help or something post a help thing onto the tatica bit on Dakka.

YEAY update!!
Big cant wait to see what you do with it, but tactic whise I can't help ya I don't play (yet)

First off, I absolutely know there'll be people telling you not to go with the 'ard Case. I won't be one of them. I love 'Ard Case, and honestly, unless you're making a BurnaWagon or filling it with Shootaboyz or Lootaz as a mobile Bunker, you're not gonna be doing much shooting out of it, and those free pivots you get mean you can always turn it so a side or the back will be towards what you want to assault. Only thing is, you can't assault out of a non-open topped vehicle... But anyways.

I'm trying out a bit of an odd version of a BW myself, a sort of CC tooled up wagon, with Ard Case, Deffrolla, WRekkin ball, Plank and Grabbin Klaw. YOu could try something similar, but even if you don't... Put on some extra Armour, maybe make some magnetized Grots or plates or something for those additional bits of wargear. If you're going 'ard Case, get a boarding plank. No Stikkbomb chukkas, since you won't be assaulting out of it. Grabbin klaw might be useful, keep other Vehicles there if you want to pile out your Nobz, Meganobz or SC to assault something, as it effectively immobilizes it for that turn you need to get out to assault. Stick on some Big Shootas or Rokkits, and maybe a Kannon, or just a place for a turret.

Thats some serious conversion work there, bigfish. You got some skills.

HAZZER wrote:Stompa looks a hole lot better!(And sweet too)!
Army list sounds good!If you need tatica help or something post a help thing onto the tatica bit on Dakka.

i decided not to post and just too look, seems like everyone has a different amazing tactic which makes the tactical comment before it look silly. but i read through and it seems a lot of people write lists to have battle wagons slot into different specific roles, and unless you have the rest of the list they have wrote the battle wagon just is'nt as effective.
thanks though. btw saw your thread on it and tbh get what you like and make it how you want, whats the point of having a amzing super competive army list if you dont like the units in it.
go with what you like untill you get to a stage where you have enough models to pick and choose from the stuff you have to make a competitive list.... (that way you have a shed load more models as well )

DamienOfTheWRAAAGH wrote:YEAY update!!
Big cant wait to see what you do with it, but tactic whise I can't help ya I don't play (yet)

it will defo be big mate. And the way things are going on your thread i think you will be soon lol

Anvildude wrote:First off, I absolutely know there'll be people telling you not to go with the 'ard Case. I won't be one of them. I love 'Ard Case, and honestly, unless you're making a BurnaWagon or filling it with Shootaboyz or Lootaz as a mobile Bunker, you're not gonna be doing much shooting out of it, and those free pivots you get mean you can always turn it so a side or the back will be towards what you want to assault. Only thing is, you can't assault out of a non-open topped vehicle... But anyways.

I'm trying out a bit of an odd version of a BW myself, a sort of CC tooled up wagon, with Ard Case, Deffrolla, WRekkin ball, Plank and Grabbin Klaw. YOu could try something similar, but even if you don't... Put on some extra Armour, maybe make some magnetized Grots or plates or something for those additional bits of wargear. If you're going 'ard Case, get a boarding plank. No Stikkbomb chukkas, since you won't be assaulting out of it. Grabbin klaw might be useful, keep other Vehicles there if you want to pile out your Nobz, Meganobz or SC to assault something, as it effectively immobilizes it for that turn you need to get out to assault. Stick on some Big Shootas or Rokkits, and maybe a Kannon, or just a place for a turret.

Right, its carrying a mob of "19 shooter boyz with bospole and 1 rokits, with a big mek with KFF ,burna , heavy armour, and cybork body" so if i had a boarding plank it would be useless because none of them can actually pen the armour at the mo (although this could be changed?) and considering im getting d6 auto hits on w/e im tank shocking anyway (do you get the extra d6 if you tank shock a tank?) do they really need the plank for the extra 3 that will probs hit on 6's because the tank has moved 12". im just not sure if it is worth it, i can see if you tool it up to be a CC wagon how effective it can be but i mainly play against NIDs so the boarding plank and grabbin claw would again not work :/. wrecking ball though i will look into but again you cant use it if it has gone 12" :/
wat i was thinking tactically was to have it drive up into the enemys lines and unload the shootaboy and mek. at this point the wagon will still be close enough to get the 4+ save from the kff and the boys will be able to shoot off their shooters into what ever target i was aiming for. Then next turn if the wagon is still alive it will roll around crushing tanks and infanytary and cause a mess of the battle line whilst the mek and his boys combat it up.
but then at the same time i am thinking modeling wise how i could do a grabbin claw and wreaking ball?
i think i will get the base for the tank done and set it up like this:
deff rolla
grot riggers
armour plates
ard case
and then see what i am thinking. i am quite liking what you said about having a big gun on it like a kannon and i have the parts, but i was saving them for a battle fortress i am planning but i guess if i made them detachable it would'nt be a problem.
anyway thanks, you've given me some stuff to thinks about.

Oh and whats your oppinion on kilkannons?

40kFSU wrote:Thats some serious conversion work there, bigfish. You got some skills.

thanks man

Well, the deal with '12 inches, can't use' on Wrekkin balls is kinda moot on Battlewagons, 'cause they can't actually go faster than 12" a turn. Remember, rPJ means they go 13, but act as though they're goin' 12. That Str. 9 hit against anything within 2" that's not in combat could be useful. Though don't make the mistake I did and model your Wrekkin' ball so small it can't hit things on the other side of the Wagon.


Personally, I love Killkannons. Now, that might just be because I've never played a Boomwagon before, but I love having a Large Blast at AP3, partially because I play MEq a lot. And Ordinance is real nice when dealing with anything AV12 or lower. The only thing is, because it's Ordinance, I can't fire all my other guns when I'm using it, so I usually end up either moving 6" and firing it, or staying still and shooting off all 4 of my Rokkits, with whatever Heavy gun I also might have. It is nice to be able to have that large blast even when moving, though.

However, I just found out (might have even been this thread) that you cannot take Killkannons in Dedicated Transport wagons, so you'll want to watch out for that.

In short, they're large, obnoxious and shooty, and might scatter on to your own units. But in my eyes, More Explosions is a good thing. Doesnt' matter what's doing the exploding.

Anvildude wrote:Well, the deal with '12 inches, can't use' on Wrekkin balls is kinda moot on Battlewagons, 'cause they can't actually go faster than 12" a turn. Remember, rPJ means they go 13, but act as though they're goin' 12. That Str. 9 hit against anything within 2" that's not in combat could be useful. Though don't make the mistake I did and model your Wrekkin' ball so small it can't hit things on the other side of the Wagon.


Personally, I love Killkannons. Now, that might just be because I've never played a Boomwagon before, but I love having a Large Blast at AP3, partially because I play MEq a lot. And Ordinance is real nice when dealing with anything AV12 or lower. The only thing is, because it's Ordinance, I can't fire all my other guns when I'm using it, so I usually end up either moving 6" and firing it, or staying still and shooting off all 4 of my Rokkits, with whatever Heavy gun I also might have. It is nice to be able to have that large blast even when moving, though.

However, I just found out (might have even been this thread) that you cannot take Killkannons in Dedicated Transport wagons, so you'll want to watch out for that.

In short, they're large, obnoxious and shooty, and might scatter on to your own units. But in my eyes, More Explosions is a good thing. Doesnt' matter what's doing the exploding.

hmmmm, wrecking ball then . i think i would only take one if i could move it so it could get within 2" of all of my battle wagon, like having it in the middle and then have it be able to turn to get any side. but i am quite liking the sound of that tbh .
but the transport cap could be a problem with the killkannon :/.
i think i will leave the killkannon then, as i have a looted tank with boomgun anyway so i have marine killing power.
thanks for the advice.

@-bigfish I was going to kind of do that!Get all of the moldles I like (and need for a good army)Then pic a army on a game by game bacies.

UPDATE

BATTLE WAGON PRODUCTION SO FAR



The main things with the battle wagon are 1) i have filped it round so the front looks larger and more menecing and 2) ive added about twice as much plateing as i usually would.
but i think it is coming along quite well. tbh though i think i would have had it done by now but unfortunatly there are other things that need my attention other than plastic ( )

but heres what i am kinda working from/ inspired by. i found them in a white dwarf and they just looked too cool.




oh and i took he kannon off the squiggoth. i needed a base for a super kannon i am planning and it was just perfect, and well the squiggoths open toped anyway so meh.
picsbelow:






thanks for reading and comments are always nice to read.
if you subscribe i want to know
thanks



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Matt.Kingsley wrote:Thank you plastic-fu master!

its not from this thread but i liked it.

"plastic-fu" perfect way to decribe what you need to scratch build ork stuff

I'm glad you like it
'Bigfish, Dakka's official Plastic-Fu master'

bigfish. sig that

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HAZZER wrote:@-bigfish I was going to kind of do that!Get all of the moldles I like (and need for a good army)Then pic a army on a game by game bacies.

i missed your response from before dude sorry.
And it is the most "fun" way of doing it.
For example i hardly ever will use my 890 point stompa in a game and when i build my 670 point batle fortress its probs not going to see the battle field anywhere near as often as a battle wagon, but i enjoyed making and having the stompa and i will enjoy making and having the battle fortress so it does'nt matter.
oh and i read your sig, you know there are downloadable spell checkers for what you type on here and the rest of the internet (its how i get round dyslexia )
happy waring or waaaarghing depending on what your using

I have to agree. You are very creative in the use of your bitz. That kannon you made looks like a oil drum, crows nest from the stompa model and and bunch of shoulder pads. Very well done.

schank23 wrote:I have to agree. You are very creative in the use of your bitz. That kannon you made looks like a oil drum, crows nest from the stompa model and and bunch of shoulder pads. Very well done.

your not surposed to be able to tell exsactly what its made from lol

bigfish wrote:

schank23 wrote:I have to agree. You are very creative in the use of your bitz. That kannon you made looks like a oil drum, crows nest from the stompa model and and bunch of shoulder pads. Very well done.

your not surposed to be able to tell exsactly what its made from lol

My Plastic-fu is stong to. lol

lol indeed

hey Big
You cut yo Sh*t up??
no joking I'm looking forward to the end result I bet it's gonna be great.
BTW check this guy out he's insane, we're no guardsmen but damn get a load of that ship:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/310208.page
(also I don't know this man and I'm not sharing for personal gain just wanted to share it's great)

DamienOfTheWRAAAGH wrote:hey Big
You cut yo Sh*t up??
no joking I'm looking forward to the end result I bet it's gonna be great.
BTW check this guy out he's insane, we're no guardsmen but damn get a load of that ship:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/310208.page
(also I don't know this man and I'm not sharing for personal gain just wanted to share it's great)

dude i checked it out.... i need to get me some plasticard...
he is imense, he has so much stuff i want.
thanks for the link

UPDATE

i found somewhere to get plasticard but it will be a while untll i cn actually get some, but still, if i can do what i want with it it sould save me £120 compared to me buying gw stuff. but anyway more updates on that milarki later

so i came back to my warboss and made some additions to his armour and general scaryness. i think he is pretty much ready to be basecoated and painted up which is really nice, cant wait to test out my speed freaks scheme on him.



so if you could'nt tell, i added a tyranid carni plate on his right shoulder and a bit of extra armour on his face.

thanks for reading.

This is all great stuff! Glad you're working on some more orks, your various vehicles were starting to outnumber them!

Perkustin wrote:This is all great stuff! Glad your working on some more orks, your various vehicles were starting to outnumber them!

thanks

outnumber them ay.... thats not a bad idea.

"i now decree there will be 2 dreads for every normal boy in the warband!" (if only i had the funds to actually do it)

QUESTION FOR DAKA USERS

im seeing a lot of these "paladin knight" titans around???

anyone know where i can find rules for these.

(i would quite like to know where to find the other datasheets for imperial titans as well)

thanks

imperial armour, internet or apocalypse reload

Yea he's a boss
the problem with scratchbuilding is that it's so hard to get enough details to match the GW stuff, it takes longer but it is cheaper indeed.
also boss is lookin good

DamienOfTheWRAAAGH wrote:Yea he's a boss
the problem with scratchbuilding is that it's so hard to get enough details to match the GW stuff, it takes longer but it is cheaper indeed.
also boss is lookin good

i know, its the most annoying part of scratchbuilding and honestly i dont think i spend enough time on it. i have been trying to take longer when making things and paying more attention to detail but it is just sooo long, it is making the stuff i find fun and when you have to spend that extra time on it it just becomes a bit too long for me. but oh well, it will be worth it in the end.

and thanks on the boss front. im really not sure if he is finished though but hohum.
next thing to be finnished will be the mega deff dread and then hopefully the time i have put into making it will show in the detail on it.

BIGFISH OUT


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OH i almost forgot
i found some of the titan datasheets and looting a warhound would be epic, if you read the apoc rules it says you can use allies and apoc encorages you to use your whole collection, therefor there is really nothing saying i could'nt use a warhound as a allie, or infact any other titan..... therefor a deathskullz looted titan is defo a project for the future
OH YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

WRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH
ZOMFG F-ing looted Warhound!!! So much win and so looted that idea my friend
Also yes the going of the extra mile is such a pain sometimes.
Thats why I try to use Gw parts but that is expencive

Damien OUT!

DamienOfTheWRAAAGH wrote:WRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH
ZOMFG F-ing looted Warhound!!! So much win and so looted that idea my friend
Also yes the going of the extra mile is such a pain sometimes.
Thats why I try to use Gw parts but that is expencive

Damien OUT!

.....you can have the looted warhound.

i want a looted Reaver.... MUHAHAHAHAHA

>.> indeed on GW prices

and finally, you cant steal my "bigfish out" thing

BIGFISH OUT!!!!!

Canz I Lootez Its?

You could try checking out some of the scratchbuilt titan threads, then loot that

Btw reaver is not really that awesome IMHO sorry
Warhound has the bending forward position like Tha Boys do

DamienOfTheWRAAAGH wrote:Canz I Lootez Its?

yes

monkeytroll wrote:You could try checking out some of the scratchbuilt titan threads, then loot that

well i did just get some plasticard......

DamienOfTheWRAAAGH wrote:Btw reaver is not really that awesome IMHO sorry
Warhound has the bending forward position like Tha Boys do

and yea.... it is the cooler looking titan tbh. the reaver is just standing there like "hmmm what should i destroy first" whereas the warhound is more like "gunna get ya, gunna get ya, gunna get ya.... oh your dead"

Dude if you build a looted Knight Paladin Titan you will be my hero.

big you are so right

HAY EVERONE GUESS WHAT I JUST FOUND!!!!

THE DATA SHEETS FOR PALADIN TITANS AND LOADS OF OTHER STUFF!

O YEEEEEEER :p

I like your cobbled together conversions. I'm going to subscribe so I can loot your ideas!

Share! PM me please
Info is always handy

Hindenburg wrote:I like your cobbled together conversions. I'm going to subscribe so I can loot your ideas!

Lol. loot away, you do deathskullz anyway so you dont have to ask (although i do appreciate the heads up).

DamienOfTheWRAAAGH wrote:Share! PM me please
Info is always handy

DamienOfTheWRAAAGH@ i will send you a link to all the good ones

This is cooooooollllllllllllllllllllll

purty awesome

Runna wrote:This is cooooooollllllllllllllllllllll

thanks mate

but im confused as to what, the looted titan idea or the other stuffs?

tough n' orky wrote:purty awesome

thanks, pretty much the saem query as above.



UPDATE ON THE BATTLEWAGON WITH IMAGES WILL BE SOON!!!!!!

Good! I cant wait to see that battle wagon!

sweet yur making and ork squig!(I want to make one too!)
And an battle wagon WOW!

Matt.Kingsley wrote:Good! I cant wait to see that battle wagon!

not long now until it is picture worthy

HAZZER wrote:sweet yur making and ork squig!(I want to make one too!)
And an battle wagon WOW!

i was making the squiggoth ages ago (only reason its not made is because i have still not resupplyed my hobbie stocks).

and yea the battle wagon should be a "wow" model (hopefully).



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UPDATE ON THE BATTLE WAGON

so work has been slow as i have been revising for A levels and all of that milarki, but after a solid 4 hours of revision today i felt i deserved a treat of sorts.

Thus BATTLE WAGON PROGRESS (crowd cheers "wooo" "yay" ect)









so i have been looking at ways of scratch building a deffrolla for a while and this is close the final creation. i found that one of the main problems when making it was that the structure was'nt strong enough when hollow. so this lead to me basing the armour plates around some old wheels i had lying around to keep the rolla round and sturdy. this on the down side has lead to it being quite heavy though which is annoying as i am going to have to use a lot of surport structure on the plates holding it in place.
at the moment it is detachable and i am not going to attach it untill its painted, mainly so i can paint the bits behind it with out having to take it apart anyway.

i also did some work on a engine for this a while ago, this is PART of the engine which i plan to mount on top (as the back has to be a door for boyz to get in/ out of)



andthe last thing was that i changed the deffdreads crush mace arm for a tyranid talon. it just felt a lil messy as a conversion.



its only bluetacked for now but i will glue it after i get somemore glue.
i have liturally run dry on: super glue, plastic glue and green stuff and on top of that i need to buy the blues for the slightly different deathskulls scheme and the reds for the speed freaks theme i am doing on the black reach ork boyz and kopters. but then again tommorow is my last exam (psychology) and then shortly after its my birthday so that should replace the funds i spend on the supplys.
anyway ho hum.

This was quite a long update but if you read all or even some of the text thanks, COMMENTS WOULD BE GREAT, ESPECIALLY CONSTRUCTIVE CRITISM.

thanks

Pretty much I was talking about the Elephant turned Squiggoth. But the Looted Wagons are all awesome in retrospect.

UPDATE of sorts

the update is above but it joined the posts so it did'nt come up as a ne post which is reall quite annoying. but yea this updateis the update from before.

Runna@ Pretty much I was talking about the Elephant turned Squiggoth. But the Looted Wagons are all awesome in retrospect.

thanks .

Lol!

Lootaz appear, things vanish

Have finished my first 6 lootas and i based and finished off the big mek with KFF.











i think its a improvement compared to when i first painted them almost a year ago.....



anyway comments are always appreciated.

constructive critism is also must appreciated.

and thanks for looking.

I would honestly keep the base on the front bearing in mind there's a huge gaping hole in the front! In my opinion I think it looks better too!
And yes defiantly an improvement...The reason why my plog hasn’t been updated is because I don't have any internet connection at moment so I can't upload pictures easily. (I’m Thinking of goffs next!).

I do have to wonder why you ended up with such, well, generic bases. Those original ones were Orky Awesome!

HAZZER wrote:I would honestly keep the base on the front bearing in mind there's a huge gaping hole in the front! In my opinion I think it looks better too!
And yes defiantly an improvement...The reason why my plog hasn’t been updated is because I don't have any internet connection at moment so I can't upload pictures easily. (I’m Thinking of goffs next!).

Anvildude wrote:I do have to wonder why you ended up with such, well, generic bases. Those original ones were Orky Awesome!

Really? i thought the one on the big mek looked so messy and ridiculus. i am agreeing with HAZZER though that hole is a bit of an eye sore, i think i might do something on the big mek then but i dont want it to be too static.
The old one was so he had a lil bit more cover as all he used to do was sit at the back with the lootas and give them some cover, but i hardly use him like that anymore so he is useually in other units that are running down field dakaing stuff.

AND i only did 5 of the ones i kustom made with the shield bases, none of the others (just because i usually put them at the front of the Mob anyway ).

but hmmm

OH and HAZZER, i will be watching for when you get your internet back online dude

I like the newer bases. Makes the models stand out more.

UPDATE

i have stared doing the other kustom lootas.
These are just up close pics before i paint them.





with these ones i was thinking about doing them highly tatooed and blued up as thet are the only kustom ones without shields.

THIS ONE IS MY BESTEST ONE


i just like the red button, which will defo be staying when i repaint.

40kFSU wrote:I like the newer bases. Makes the models stand out more.

thanks

Nice update. And lots of new pretty ork stuff to look at. Some thing I havnt done is a while. Those lootaz are very nice.

Good stuff Big
I can't wait for the next update

UPDATE ON THE BATTLE WAGON!

Thanks guys btw

Riiiight so i resupplyed and started back on the battle wagon. Pics below











Its getting to a stage now where i am thinking "dam this is getting big"

i have also been working on the 2 big shooters on it. the main thing when making these was working out how to make them pivot and detach with what i have. i have used a simple solution and i think it works ok enough.
the big shotter is on a round base which is slotted into a hole in the panel it sits in, this then allows it to pivot and be detachable. i was thinking about using magnets but tbh they are a pain in the ass imo.







i am planning on having it mounted on the front. But anyway.

Commments and Constructive Critism would be great

Thanks for looking

BATTLE WAGON

More work on the battle wagon











I am toying with the idea of having a back door that opens so orkses can get out and you can see inside. but i cant think of a good way of getting the door to open/ close?
This is what i have at the moment.



And then maybe with a face on it so it looks like its opening and closeing its mouth. but hmmm.

The turret is working well and i think i am going to mirror it on the other side and then use it as 2 big shooters and in bigger games as 4 bigshooters. oh and i am thinking about adding a kannon somewhere on it (detachable).

Anyway thanks for looking