In stead of making a number of threads on single builds, I want to keep my builds in one thread.
So I renamed this thread.

Basicly the focus will be on Grots, as I like those more, but some Orks will be in it.
Also getting a second stopma and battlewagon for less then 20$ will get more orks involved.

Here is my latest project slowly taking shape.
I started with the tracks, and found that they would fit bet with te rules of the FW rules for the Gunwagon.
The front hatch opens up, and the turret is under way. Now the side hatch is still to do.

Of course it's 'Ard cassed.... And probbably it gets a Grot rigger in the engine compartment.

Hello!

The Showcase forum is for finished models only...

But I certainly like the start you're off to here!

Sorry, thanks for the move....

Working on the turret and the gun now, and need to make the side hatch,,

Looking good so far.

What did you use for the treads?

Thank you, martian_jo.

The treads came from an old 1/35 M60 tank that I had lying around from before I started with 40K.
Now to get a decent setup to make my photo's. Half my photo's dont work as I've got a slight problem with the white of the plasticard.

The gunwagon is comming on slowly. But my photo skills are falling short with this plasticard.

But I made a lot of progres with a new Grot tank. This is number 14 in the collection. 4 to go still. At least....
Now off to paint it....

Grot tank 14 is almost done. Just waiting for the new turret to arrive.

The gunwagon is proceding nicely. It needs some exhausts and more detailing. Still not sure what i'ts all going to be..

The pics are also getting better, thank's to my girlfriends way better camera.

That grot tank is really cool! Keep going....

Looking good. I am always a fan of a grot army!

Got my extra turrets last weekend, but I've only now gotten around to them...

So the status thus far:
14 nearly completed Grot Tanks. Several more on the way.
The Gunwagon is comming allong nicely. Painting about to start.
The first two Killa kans are at a stand still. 2 more on the way.
Deff Dread under construction. (original kit)

Not begon yet:
2 Stompa's
2 battlewaggons
troops
Deffkoptas
2 dakkajets (1 conversion)
Any number of conversions and scratch builds. ( to many good idea's here )

Love grots. Love grot tanks!
I noticed that all your tanks have similar sized, relitively round turrets. Is this on purpose? I always pictures orks as building with whatever they had lying around, so square, oddly shaped and fixed guns on levers were always prevelant in my mind.

 Aeroroot wrote:
Love grots. Love grot tanks!
I noticed that all your tanks have similar sized, relitively round turrets. Is this on purpose? I always pictures orks as building with whatever they had lying around, so square, oddly shaped and fixed guns on levers were always prevelant in my mind.

Maybe my mind isn't Orky or Groty enough yet. Your point is somwhat valid. (thanks for the imput)
For me there has to be diferences between the tanks. The turret of the Gunwaggon is a little od shaped, but in the little tanks I have not done this yet...
Maybe on the next one that is gone get build????? For me it still has to look like a tank.... I'm playing with the idea of some walking tanks instead of tracked or wheeled. Also for the diversion between them... Damm, I love this army. It's so much more fun to convert and scratch-build, then build straight kit's....

The Grot Tanks I've build sofar so far have slight diferences in size and overal shape of the turrets. But the FW tanks are kits, I'll have to work some diferences in there as well...
My plan is for no two tanks to look the same. Even the battlewaggons are gone be different in a number of ways.. That's my idea for my army.
Also the battlewaggon kit looks way to good for an Ork construction in my eyes. They look like factory builds. Have to do something about that as well...

This does not bode well for the Deffkopta's. How am I going to make all of these look diferent enough to fit in????
Already orderd some Remora's to convert for this role... And I want to scratch build a few to.

My Killa kans are also slightly different so far. Mainly on the engines that are modified. Might need to put sone more work into these as well.... Oh well, I've got the next ones on the way, so no modifications on the ready ones will be nececary.

I have seen someone use half a yo-yo as a sort of hovercraft, piloted by a grot. can use as koptas or as bikes depending on if you put them on flying bases or not. I always wanted to do some of davincis work for grots (corkscrew helicopter, bicycle powered, balloons tied to back, etc). Also seen grots sitting on stormboy rockets like a rodeo.

Grot tank 15 is mostly done.
Yes it's a modified IG Sentinel.
The stance is modified as wel as the armored cap, the location of the engine, and the weapons.
Ad some orky bit's, and tada......
Number 14 is also in the pic's, as are the tracks for number 16. Witch I'll be working on a bit today.

The gunwaggon recieved some paint.
Now on with the next Grot tank. I also have an idea for a Killa kan/Grot tank/Deff dread scratch build.

But I could use some more idea's for my loota's..
Here's my list so far
Grot Loota posibles:

1 Clancking destroyers with heavy weapons. ( with grot controller ? )
2 Battletech protomechs
3 Alien like loader armor for grots. (scratch build ? )
4 Grot's with remote guns
5 ?

Love what you do! Those grot tanks are simply amazing. Keep up the good work!

 Albreck wrote:
Love what you do! Those grot tanks are simply amazing. Keep up the good work!

Thanks Albreck, I'll try.. Thanks to Blood and Skulls...

Grot tank 17 and 18 are done...
Just in time for a battle next week....

Here's number 18

And here's the Killa kan mob so far...
More comming....

Ha awesome! Im a jealous that’s a really groovy tank pool

Wow, great job on those! Love the treads

I'ts been a while sinds postting here.
Not much progress lately. but the mega Dread and the kill Bursta tank are getting allong nicely, and some idea's were hatched for a pair of new conversions.
A Sentinal armored cab is going to become either a death dread or an mega dread cockpit.
A killa kan body will become yet another Grot tank.. ( still get te get to the walking grot tanks...)

Killa kan 10 is paint ready.
Nine is a standard one, so no pics.

That Killa Kan 10 is really cool!

You just gotta walk us through the construction of that little gem.

Steelmage99 wrote:
That Killa Kan 10 is really cool!

You just gotta walk us through the construction of that little gem.

Thank you, and will do:

Build the body as regular, and forget the backplate witch mounts the engine.
Replace the bulges for the legs with some styrene tube, and make one for the hind legs.
Then extend the body to the rear and fit the tube for the hind legs.
Then lot's of bit's, legs and arms.

My plans are to build another one, I'll take some pics along the way...

Also I forgot KK number eight. Pics will follow soon as I now have a decent camera in reach again...

Here's Killa Kan 8.
A modified sentinal, with Kan legs.

Here's the back side.

Here's killa kan 11, another 4 legged mod...
You can see how I did them a bit..

How did you get all of dem bitz! I'm loving them tanks - may have to steal a few ideas, hehehe :p

Most of my bit's are left overs from kits I bought, and some from bit store's, and trades from bit boxes all round my warhammer club...
There's also a lot of 1/35 bit's all over my marine and Orks/Grot stuff....

Merging 2 households takes away some build time, as does my model flying hobby, but progres is being slowly made.

My first Mega Dread is nearly build. Almost completely out of the box. (one klaw finger got lost somewhere, so I replaced them all)
The Klanking Destroyer and the Deff Dread are also almost ready to paint, so it will be a tripple paint job.

And I probably need te build more Grot Tanks, as a club menber expressed interest in some of the FG ones.

But the to do list is growing:
1 Truck
3 battlewaggons (1 or 2 for conversions probably)
6 deathkopta's (+2 ramora's for coversion)
20 orks ( troops)
30 grots ( troops)
5 Loota's
1 Squigot
1 Kill blasta Tank
2 Stompa's
2 Dakka jets
5 Killa kans
4 Grot Tanks ( if the sale goes through)
2 Grot Megatanks (1 original, and 1 convertion)

Non Ork stuf for conversion:
2 Leman Russ
1 Dreadknight
1 Storm Raven
And ofcourse lot's and lot's off plasticard....

I subbed to this ages ago but never commented so let me just say some epic builds Loving the curved front grot tank that looks marvellous that idea stolen

However the Kill kans are brilliant, the four legged one is so cool and using the grill of the truk model fits perfectly on top of that the sentinel with the legs just looks so Orkish, which reminds me that I started exactly the same thing myself many moons ago but never got around to finishing it off.

As fo your to do list no envy here mate, I could not sleep at night trying to figure how to fit all in but good luck with it all and on the sale although I am sure you wont need it

Thanks, Lone dirty dog.

Hey were Orks. Stealing is our thing...
And If it looks good, it is good...

Like your Grot Mega tank.
Mine will be build on a M3 Lee 1/35 kit. With Machinator bogies and tracks. Leman Russ sponsons. And for the rest???
I've said it before, I just love the conversions posible with orks...
Played only once so far with the Grot tanks and got kicked of the table , but is was great fun....

Yes Orks stealing, bashing and looking dam ugly

M3 Lee Hey look forward to that one, I just used the KV1 kit that was lying around doing nothing, really had no idea what or wear I was going with it to be honest, mine was more a pirate ship on tracks

Thanks though been a while since I did that I am trying to revisit things so hopefully it will get it finished …….One day

Machinators tracks are nice I have some myself , look great as grot tank tracks

Never play so would have no idea, but looking at them I don't think they would last long LOL but better luck next time

With armor 10 they get glanced to death by st4 weapons. So Grot tanks ain't very durable.
But as ablative shielding they work fine. Oponents can't just ignore them so they got their fair shair of fire.
Killed some marines though.

 Sanka wrote:
With armor 10 they get glanced to death by st4 weapons. So Grot tanks ain't very durable.
But as ablative shielding they work fine. Oponents can't just ignore them so they got their fair shair of fire.
Killed some marines though.

As long as some of the Emperors SM died in the process then thats all that matters

Got some work done this morning on some Leman Russ track's. Will try to post a pic tonight.
Got a great deal with a bit's shop on the tracks and the mounts.
One I doubled up, with two sets of the original tracks, and the other one is gona get Machinator O-Crusher tracks.

 Sanka wrote:
Got some work done this morning on some Leman Russ track's. Will try to post a pic tonight.
Got a great deal with a bit's shop on the tracks and the mounts.
One I doubled up, with two sets of the original tracks, and the other one is gona get Machinator O-Crusher tracks.

Cool those are great looking tracks really help make a model look orky

Here's the prommised pic of the tracks and the new claw for the Mega Dread, and the kannon for the scratch build one, that will probebly follow.
And one of the Mega dread.

Cool so you building a mega dread from scratch then ?

I thought of that but never have the time maybe one day

Yep, I intent to build a costom Meka Dread/Mega Dread, with interchangable arms and weapons.
(actualy I'd like to build one of each , butt we'll see how it goes....)

Sometime's you just have to make a little time, Lone Dirty Dog.

Here's some progres on the second four legged Killa kan.
It's build up, and I'm detailing the body right now.

And here's Death Dread number 2, (the Kromlech Clanking Behemoth), with a few minor alterations.
Let's see if you spot them....
Now on to the painting...

I try to find time believe me

As to the 2 dreads good luck and look forward to seeing them

Two four legged killa kan's awesome, looking good so far detailing is coming on nicely

I to have a Behemoth great looking model, but you have managed to improve the overall look which in its self an achievement

Are they the Killa Kan arms on the Behemoth ?

 lone dirty dog wrote:

Are they the Killa Kan arms on the Behemoth ?

The left one is a Killa Kan arm with a Deff Dread ccw , and the rokkit launcha on the shoulder is the lower part of a KK arm. The left arm is the original klaw arm that came with the Behemoth, I like the look of this arm a lot. They could probably sell it as a individual part quite easy....
The shoulder pads are also from the DD. There's a lot of pinning in the model, the joints are a bit thin for my taste, so I shored them up with metal 1.5mm pins.

A bit of testing was needed to get the legs into a mobile looking stance. Most of my kans have this mod to. I like my army to have a dynamic look to it...

Didn't get much done this week, but here a pic of the progress made.
Also got a little painting done on the DD and Mega Dread. But that's a work in progress.

More than me mate I like the new tracked unit any chance of side shot

Luckely we have weekends, otherwise I would not get much building done...
Here's some more pics of the tracked Killa kan. (nr 12)
Made some progress on the back and the suspension. But ran out of close combat arms. Had to order some in.
To bad that's gona set my building pace back even further, but I can build on with the others, or try to scratch build an arm or two.

Cool thanks for the pics, weekends are being et up with decorating and gardening for me but soon I will get back to my models.

Scratch build the arms just look at one you have and break it down to parts, you have plastic rod and PC then your sorted

Got a little detailing done on the tracked Killa Kan.
Also reorganized my gallery here.

As for scratch building an close combat arm for the KK, no idea has gotten into me so far....
But it may still come...
Other idea's are plenty, so building does continu. New Grot tanks, and a Death Dread to shore up the ranks..

Killa kan 11 is slowly getting allong.
Paiting the death dreads end the Mega Dread is also slowly proceding.
Also got an idea for an new Killa kan and a a Grot tank.

just to let you know sanka...i am lurking and admiring your stuff so far...

also taking notes for future grots related stuff i want to do!!!

cheers, vik

This stuff is amazing!

Where do you get plastic card? I've looked all over and can't find it. I have to use popsicle sticks instead which are rubbish compared to what you've done here

 Dakkamite wrote:
This stuff is amazing!

Where do you get plastic card? I've looked all over and can't find it. I have to use popsicle sticks instead which are rubbish compared to what you've done here

Thanks Vik and Dakkamite..

Luckely I got some local suplyers that got big sheets for decent prices... 10 by 20". Tube and I-beams are easy to find here to.
You can try E-bay.. http://www.ebay.com/usr/slotcarclassics
I got my checker plate here, that one I could nod find localy.

Nice work again mate loving the legs on that killa kan awesome work also looks like you been shopping in China as well

Vik you following me again

well... he asked for it since he wanted to get drawn into the ranks of the league...we are not that fast... but i want to see where this leads...i just posted here later

Yep, china ships to me regulary.
Realy handy if you need a lot of identical bit's.

I hope to get some building done this evening. I'd like to get started on the new killa kan and Grot tank asap.

 Sanka wrote:
Yep, china ships to me regulary.
Realy handy if you need a lot of identical bit's.

I hope to get some building done this evening. I'd like to get started on the new killa kan and Grot tank asap.

Look forward to the updates then

Great stuff here! Keep it up!

 Deunstephe wrote:
Great stuff here! Keep it up!

Thank's Deunstephe.
You painted a mean dakkajet, realy nice.

Last weekend was a bust, modelingwise. Didn't get much done. Maybe next weekend.
Saw some great models this week, so many new idea's.. But as for my Loota's, I can't seem to dream up a decent conversion so far. Tanks and the bigger things relativly easy for me. But man size models are not my cup of tea, so far.

 Sanka wrote:

 Deunstephe wrote:
Great stuff here! Keep it up!

Thank's Deunstephe.
You painted a mean dakkajet, realy nice.

Last weekend was a bust, modelingwise. Didn't get much done. Maybe next weekend.
Saw some great models this week, so many new idea's.. But as for my Loota's, I can't seem to dream up a decent conversion so far. Tanks and the bigger things relativly easy for me. But man size models are not my cup of tea, so far.

What do you mean ? what is it you are struggling with in the figure area?

I'd like to build some grot's with dakkaguns. But I can't seem to get a decent sculpture done. And the GW grot's are not so flexible for conversion purpuses, in my eye's. I'd like to build some sort of Alien's power loader armor, but it's so damm small. I'm better at killa kan and Grot tank size stuff.. I'm looking into Dust tactics Light assault walkers to chop, but no local shop carries these, so it's hard to get a decent feel for the size...

Also I dont realy like the ork one's with those weapon rigs. They seem to uniform and unOrky to me. But here conversion seems more doable, get rid of the rigs, and scratch build some other autocannon like thingamagick. Or a multiple rockit launcha....

I just ordered some Dust tactics stuff myself, it isn't a light assault walker but it should still give some scale. You can get DT stuff pretty cheap off of eBay.

For my lootas I used the burna boy weapons, just cutting off the flamer tubes and hooking up some other weapons to them. Check out this thread for inspiration: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/409193.page

Nice Deunstephe. Thanks for the link. Inspiring.....

The Dakka guns are great from the loota kit, but the swaps and the Eldar guns look great to.. Switch the controler to a grot, and Tadaa... Thanks.

No probs, there's tons of great stuff around the site.

Also thank you for the compliment on my Dakkajet!

Currently I'm doing a little model, it's for the Grot army, care to hazzard a guess as to what it's gona be?

Grot in power armour or grot dread either way looks good so far

Yup, Grot nob in Mega Armor, indeed..
A set of bike gun's are gona be one arm. A power claw will be the other....

Nice. Always cool to see conversion armies and anything Ork related. Keep it running. Awesome.

The Grot nob armor suit is coming allong slowly. The twin linked shoota needs to be fitted and a power claw made.

I just linked here through the LoER forum, great stuff here and I'm glad you posted. You have excellent scratchbuild skills and your RPT (rivet per tank) count is impressive.

Subbed and looking forward to seeing more from you, thank you for sharing your work.

Dude! you've got some serious talent going on in here!

Thanks, Skalk Bloodaxe and dsteingass .

Hey there's a lot of great modelers here. Glad I can ad a litle.
And of course its' nice to see a lot of great stuf here for inspiration.

I hope to get the mega armor build done this weekend... More pics will follow...

Sleeping poorly has an advantage, I got some work done on the Grot WarBoss in Mega Armor.
I's about ready for paint.

That is excellent and totally represents the Ork culture of hammerin' and stuff.

What do you use for rivets?

 Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:
What do you use for rivets?

Some of the rivit's are hand made, the rest is Rhinestone Gem's found on E-bay. ( found that tip here )
I got three sizes, 1mm, 1.5mm and 2mm. That covers most of the needs, but sometimes I need some smaler ones, and those are hand made.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1650-1-5mm-Clear-Rhinestones-Round-Acrylic-Nail-Art-Craft-Gems-Diamond-NEW-/330862259682?pt=UK_Crafts_Beads_CA&hash=item4d08ed6de2

Fantastic mega armour!

 Deunstephe wrote:
Fantastic mega armour!

Thanks, Deunstephe.

Here are some better pics, with basecoat....

Nice one mate reminds me of a bigger version of the Kromlech Clankers

That is a solid build. Great job!

Got a couple of kit's last night from a few friends.
Yet another Death Dread and Dakka Jet...

So off to the building table....

 Sanka wrote:
Got a couple of kit's last night from a few friends.
Yet another Death Dread and Dakka Jet...

So off to the building table....

Dam you have some good friends all mine give me is gak

Got started on the third Dread.
This one get's the tusked face style. And as most of my walker a modified stance.
I streched the right leg a bit at the knee joint. Together with the rotated left one the stance will be alterd quite a bit.
It can use a bit more hieght in my book. I find the original stance realy low....

 lone dirty dog wrote:

 Sanka wrote:
Got a couple of kit's last night from a few friends.
Yet another Death Dread and Dakka Jet...

So off to the building table....

Dam you have some good friends all mine give me is gak

QFT, same here.

Nice work on the legs already. I really like how nothing you touch remains stock for very long.

 Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:

Nice work on the legs already. I really like how nothing you touch remains stock for very long.

Thank's Skalk Bloodaxe...
That's just my inner Grot comming out.....

Here are three and four together with one. Three is just a body with scratch build legs. Four is the new nearly origial one on the right....

A big change is being made. No more orks in the army...
The army will follow the ork codex, but with all Grot and concersion models.

The first dakka-jet is being converted to a Grot pilot, to follow this line ...
Most of the tanks do not need further convertion. Killa kans, Death dreads and Mega Dreads also need no real convertion either.

Anyone interested in sweeping up some orks???

You got a list mate might be interested pics help

If you're turning the bomber to a Grot pilot have you thought of 2 seats instead of 1 ?

I am thinking one flying crazy style and the other with his hands over his eyes, just an idea plus it would bulk out the cockpit as well.

Maybe something like this guy I made a while ago :

Nice bit of scuplting there, Lone Dirty Dog..

For the first one, that's gonna be a straight up Dakka Jet, I thought a lone grot will do.
I'd like to build a bomber with a Mosqito style cockpit (second crewman next to, but slightly offset to the rear), and there's always the stretched cockpit (F-14 like).
For the Bomber I also want to mate 2 fuselages together like a Twin mustang.

And then there's an idea to build a Dakka-jet with Corsair like wings. ( reversed gull type wings)

As for number one. there's something I'm working on today that I'd like get doen, that would be a nice mod. I hope...

WOW thats some list mate hope you have the funds to cover it but I like you're thinking some interesting ideas and concepts.

The Mosquito cockpit idea is interesting never really took notice before, now I see the offset seating that could work well.

The Twin Mustang look I have seen done with the Dakka jet some where, I will have a look in my pics if you want it might work for some inspiration.

Thanks I done it a while ago for an egg plane but never used it.

 lone dirty dog wrote:
WOW thats some list mate hope you have the funds to cover it.
The Twin Mustang look I have seen done with the Dakka jet some where, I will have a look in my pics if you want it might work for some inspiration.

Please look for the pic's. Would be nice to see how it got done before. I'd like to have at least two turrets on the bomber, and maybe even three. And as for the funds, no problemo. Got three complete kit's, and a spare fuse already from a bit shop... And a Storm raven and a Valkyrie for conversion purposes..
The Storm raven I'd like to build like a gunship, using the Forge World bomber rules. The Valkyrie probbebly looses the cargo bay, and become's a fighter like plane...
As a plane buff, I know a lot of WWII planes and old type jet planes. ( I love the RAF museum in London, and especialy the Cambera and the Baufighter ) And I'd like to incorperate some design elements of old planes into this army.

Well least the finance aint an issue then

Seems like you have the knowledge so I will be expecting high things from you on this I will have a look for the pics now and see if I can find them mate

The Storm Raven and Valk are these going to be Grot craft or for another project

 lone dirty dog wrote:
The Storm Raven and Valk are these going to be Grot craft or for another project

The Valkyrie was always intended for this army. The Storm Raven was sutch a deal I could not walk away from.... And as my marine army already has 2 I figured it would be of better use here to...

 Sanka wrote:

 lone dirty dog wrote:
The Storm Raven and Valk are these going to be Grot craft or for another project

The Valkyrie was always intended for this army. The Storm Raven was sutch a deal I could not walk away from.... And as my marine army already has 2 I figured it would be of better use here to...

That is good news then

Have not got much done the last few weeks.
But as I dicided that this army is going to be a Grot army on Ork rules I needed some stronger troops.
The Kromlech clanking destroyers gave me a good idea. So I went on to build my own Grot cunstructs that replace the orks.
Got a lot of models to make, even for one troop choice....

In the background is the base I intend to use for the terain modeling contest. Hopefully I get that finished in time......

You want to look towards the good old 80s movies for inspiration, they have loads of badly designed robots that would work nicely for grot inspired mechanics

The second from the right kind of has a Johnny 5 meets wall-e

i agree with the dirty dog

They really came out well, love the idea too, lets hope building a horde of them wont drive you too mad, or perhaps that will only advance your inner mek boy

Yep, a number of great looking bot's have pased on the silver screen...

The great bot's of the :

70's
Dewey en Huey
Maximilian

80's
Johnny 5
ED-209

90's
ABC Warrior

later :
Marvin
Wall-E

Hah, more imput please...

Well, this army keeps me busy for a while to come. Luckely my girlfiend/wife to be understands the need for a project, so it goes allong on a slow but steady pace, even though we are in the midle of a renovation... I hope we get it done by januarie as planned, so my building time will get a boost....

I will have a look through my film library and get back to you

Been busy with the move lately.
But here's some progres. Got another Idea into my head for the second Mega Dread.
The body of a Defiler with a killa kan body added..
Looks like a good start to me. Now for the legs. The cannon I made already will probebly be combined with a Defiler claw arm.
Then only some secondary weaponry, but that's easy.......

The GS you used to make a welding bead is really well done and a great idea. Adds more character and fluff possibility.

Looking forward to seeing paint!

Interesting idea, and looks really cool too!

Good use for that body section and combining it with the Kan front plate genius

thanks, you guy's.

The cheapest bit's in bitsshops are often the most interesting.
I got another idea cooking, in the same sort of style. Pic's will follow asap.

Having an active inner Mek helps with the idea's. Now just getting around to finising them all.....

The Mega Dread got legs and a big gun.
The arm and gun are magnatized for movement, transport and weapon flexebility.

Then there's a body for Death Dread number 4... Now on for the legs....

Interesting leg choice! But I like how it scales to the actual model, I have no idea how large mine is in comparison.

Having a spare defiler myself, I love the use you've made of it - will probably steal the idea. Although I'll probably wait for the new codex, hoping that a megadredd or similar will appear as a standard unit.

Stealing from me Clang.... Shame on you.. No better compliment possible, realy.. Thanks...

Got the first of my own mechanical trooper paint ready...

Dude that looks awesome Johhny 5 Mec style merry Christmas

Ugh, how I wish I could field a grot tank army during tourney play.

I am sure you could, just use them for tracked warbuggies of the various types.

Grot tanks make fine counts-as kanz. Now we just need GW to fix the kanz rules...

It's been a while sins I last posted, but the move took more time than anticipated....
And now I'm slowly getting my old desk ready to build again. I need some propper lighting for building and photo's.

Pics wil follow. Hopefully by next week the kan and tankz factory will be up and running again..

Nice armoured Grot-fist you got there! Loving the conversions of the tanks and dreads! 4 legged Behemoths are so cool, I might steal that idea if you don't mind for my own Grot army!

Looking forward to more pictures and keep up the good work! Subbed!

Nice army Low_K.

Where are you from? I'm from Uden NB.

And I also might steal some Idea's fromy you. those meganobs look petty good to me....

Ha, Got some building done at last. The move is mostly done, so now back to Grots and mechanized goodies... ( and some organizing stray moving boxes once in a while)

The second Mega dread is on the move again. The close combat arm was an easy thing, I got the Defiler arm from a club member, and the shoulder plate is now in progres. Both are magnatized seperatly for transportation and posible conversion in the future. The gun arm and gun are also magnatized...
DX took it's sweet time in shipping, but delevered als usual in the end....

Found some interesting background to orks, and found the mighty Russbot/Ruzzbot.
Figured that I could always field it as a Mega Dread, so the threads I had lying around got a destination.

And a trooper more.

The fourth Death Dread just became Mega Dread 3. The legs were to big to make it a DD.

So with the Ruzzbot that makes for four playable Mega Dreads. (When finished)
This is gonna be a big big army.....

Wow all looks great where to start so much going on here at the moment I think you have OCD "Ork Conversion Disorder"

 lone dirty dog wrote:
I think you have OCD "Ork Conversion Disorder"

That could be spot on ... I always have more projects going on then I can manage. But that's my way to keep the idea's comming....
Lately it's just one army, that's a first for me.
My Necrons, Nid's and Marine's are getting neglected.....

Dam you do all those as well LOL

Well maybe I will, Lone Dirty Dog.

But not yet...

For now, on with detailing the Ruzzbot.
Some spare panels, a door and go go juce... Presurized ofcourse. For more powwa...

The tank is looking nice and orky! What are you using for the rivets?

 RiTides wrote:
The tank is looking nice and orky! What are you using for the rivets?

Thanks. We aim to Orkify..

Look up : Rhinestones Round Acrylic on E-bay.
I use 1. 1.5 and 2 mm round and the square ones I can find in those sizes...

The Ruzzbot is progressing steadely. (read slowly )

The gun is looking nice. At least that's my idea.
The mount and shoulder are not started yet.
The streched Defiler arm is also getting allong. Now for the main cilinder on that, and a shoulder plate.

Got some work done on Mega Dread 2

Gat the gun shoulder almost done, and made sone magnatic moun ts for the exhoust on the back and the top mount for the secondary guns..

Now for the power plant, the rest is pretty much done on MD nr.2.

And nearly paint ready.

The Kan mob so far....

That band is truly a sight to behold!

Now thats some great looking Kans you have their love the scratch build at the front thats my favourite one for sure

Here;s the latest Kan. Number 16.
It has a weapon that's like a energy powerd Grotzooka.
There's some SM Dreadnought bit's in there also. Hope you like it....

With five of Killa kans finished wiht Grotzooka's, Rokkit launcha's and Big shoota's I figured I'd need to get them painted completely also.
So that I could at least play some painted units.
Here's the progres so far, still some way to go before I can base them...

I really love the conversions you made, especially the mega-dread built from the defiler. Hope to see more soon

 TheBarmyBrit wrote:
I really love the conversions you made, especially the mega-dread built from the defiler. Hope to see more soon

Thank you, and here's some more pics..

The Mega Dread is starting to look the buisnes... The top guns need te get painted, but as they are interchangable Ill keep that for later.
Now for some more detail on the base, and the painting....

Looking fantastic.

Can I ask where you get your treadplate plastic sheets? We have some for our Ork stuff but the moulding is poor, I'd love to find something with that scale and definition.

You can try E-bay.. http://www.ebay.com/usr/slotcarclassics
I got my checker plate here.

The Ruzzbot has gotten a head, and a gun arm on the way.
I'm still thinking on how to give it some more weapons so it can stand in as a Mega Dread.
The two Rhino hatches got a good chance to be used for this.
Also it could be used as a Battlewagon, if I leave the large top Rhino hatch detatchable. And do something with that, make it into a ramp or something.

Wow, it's been a while sinds I last posted here....
But now that I'm better again, got glasses, and went on our honymoon, I can get building again slowly..
The misses gat me a Gorkanaut in London. So I'll get that build first...
Hopefully updates by the weekend.....

Glad to see you back and fit, congrats on the honeymoon and on getting the Gorkanaut

It's been a while, but finaly got some building done.
The Gorkanaut is gonne be pretty out off the box up untill the arms.
A'm fiddling a bit with the legs to get a bit of a higher stance, and get some semblance of movement in the model. GW did most of the work, exept for a little cutting at the knee's..

Also my first one on one game is comming up on wensday.
1000 points.
My list so far. ( feel free to give coments )
Warboss in Mega Armor 100p
2 x 11 grots with runthurd 81p
Dakkajet with flybos 145p
Death dread + kmb 90p
3 Killa kans RL 165p
Mega dread 175p
3 Killa kans GZ 165p
4 Grot tanks 175p

Total 996p ( will ad a grot for 999p )

Just finishing the paint on the "Grot motivators".
Some Grots are just not properly motivated when heading into battle without their lost brethren.

Except for the dakkajet that means everything has been painted, for the upcomming battle..

Great to see you back again mate loving the new grots and seems motivation all round well besides me

Warboss in Mega Armor 100p
1 x 11 + 1 x 12 grots with runthurd 73p
Death dread 80p
pDeath dread 80p
3 Killa kans RL 150p
Mega dread 175p
3 Killa kans GZ 165p
4 Grot tanks 175p

My opponent had 2 Exorcists, two squads, and a mounted HQ.

The transport got creamed in turn 2. The Exhorcist fire I recieved so far took 1 hp from a Killa kan, and one Death dread ...
In turn three I had claimed two markers, killed the HQ, and lost only a single killa kan and a grot tank..
Turn four I lost another two grot tanks and a pair of killa kans... My opponent lost an entire 15 sister troop squad..
In turn five my grots got charged by the remaining sisters, and gor their asses handed to them...
The Exorcist claimed the Mega dread...

Turn six realy went against me.. My warbos and the second Death dread got overwatched to death... That hurted..... By a troop squad of sisters...

But the remaining grots held on under two rounds of Exorcist fire, and one turn of troops firing on them....
To win, my oponent had to get that last unit dead or running, becaus I had first blood.. His one unit could claim only one marker, and that would not be enough for him to win....

Sweet victory...

Next week the week Eldar are comming to rumble....

Getting on with the Gorkanaut a bit.
Did the rear of the space behind the head. Closed it up a bit.
Modded the legs a bit for a more dynamic stance... Also cut tha lugg..



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Would three mega armors fit?????

In my last few games I realy missed something that could take out planes..
So I gat going on my Loota's.. Here's the first one...

As I got so much positive reactions on my scratch build trooper, I made one a bit bigger as a Loota..

And here's Killa kan nr 17.
I had a body left over, and a huge pile of bits...
I like the general look, that's realy different from the GW ones...
One arm is magnatized for weapon swaps...

HA HA HA WALL-E SENIOR great job nice work glad to see you back at it and the new Killa Kan is awesome very imposing beast although I would have liked to seen a head popping out the hatch

Wall-E???
Just wait a few days until I can take more pics, and post them..

 Sanka wrote:
Wall-E???
Just wait a few days until I can take more pics, and post them..

WALL-E http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910970/

Yes I know Wall-e...

But I was working on one already. And got a big one who's gonna be either a Gork/Morkanout or a Stompa...

That is a big WALL-E nice start on the killa kan WALL-E

Thanks, Lone Dirty Dog..

Here's some more work in progress...

Also I got some Kanz and Dreads from a club member for a decent price, and are working to fit them inn a bit more..

Damn I am envious right now that is a hell of brute force you have there when you say good price do you mean a steal friends are great when they have no understanding of value

And on we go...
Here's Killa Kan 19. Still a work in progres.. Needs an engine to finish it off, and a grot in the hatch..

The army so far is pretty balanced, even if it's very light on troop choices..
Played a few team games with it, and faired pretty decent. Against an anty armor army we lost, but against a pair of Ork players we won easy.
The guy I played with had a pair of Knights... Heavy modded to the chaos gods..

In 40K in fourty minutes the Grotz also did pretty fair. Balance wins and losses... Not bad, and a lot of fun, just like the building....

Tonight I'd like to build a few cannons for my Death Dreads.
I started on number four. Got a set of Gorkanout legs, and a lot of other bits going...
Number three has got an arm with claw, for four I'm thinking of a buzz saw..

never seen those legs not covered up before, dam do they look imposing. there like thunder hammers

Yes they look pretty impressive and the body matches up nicely, number three kind of looks like a brother to Kromlech's

As usual looking great

Looking at those legs again you make pretty cool arms from them with a hammer head fist.

It looks really good and I love the wall-e build haha really funny. I believe this is a real fun build.
Keep up the good work.

Grtz
Remco

Insperation has struck.
The planned cannons have not been completed so far, but the Mega Dreads have a number five on the way..
So it's gona take three cannons!!!!

And there's also other plans for a dakka jet conversion.. Something A-10 like....

Haaa... I love it when a Dread comes together...

Death Dread number Five is getting somewhere.
It's a bit bigger then expected. Could almost be a Knight....
There's four magnets so far for the guns and arms...
It could also be as Russbot, but it;s way to large for that...

The can head looks good, I think.
Now for more detail, wepons and arms...

That so rocks mate love it I want one now I might have to totally steal this idea from you

The Kan works perfectly as a head why have I never realised that before tank as the body and those legs are spot on along with your PC work just brings it together perfectly

Thanks, Lone Dirty dog.

No better praise then to be copied....
Last night I spend making welds and riveting...
In the weekend I'll update again, then I should get someting done again...

Yes keep updating I need to steal more ideas .......... no wait I mean be inspired

Started working on the arms..
Defiler arms are hard to come by, and I've got three in the army already.
Time to get realy creative...
I only need a few... Two close combat arms, and three cannon arms...

The arms are gona be magnetized for easy modding, and ease of transport..

It's been a while, but the creative juices er flowing again...

As I missed an air force most, I gat going on a few planes.... And painting some general stuff...

The first two dakkajets are pretty standard, some modding on them but notting spectecular.
Althoug the grot pilot pics all were unsharp, herese some pics..

It's been a while sinds I last posted here, but we bought a project house!!!!
Thats getting cheaper as renting over here, but it takes a lot of work, thus time...
But my workspace is finaly getting allong...

I already played a few games again, this year, ang the factory has reopened...

Mega dread five has shown it's the size of a Knight, and might get a secong function as a Knight....
Thr Mork/Gorkanaut, witch was a Gift fro the misses has gotten it's location badge. Was bought there...

Ha I thought my posting was far and in between LOL

No I know what a new home can do to hobby time and funds

But you do eventually if lucky get a man cave

Glad to see your back and creating and back to the Ork nite ..... Although IMHO needs more dakka LOL

Here is some progres.

Mega Dread six is on the way.. A dunecrawler body with a few Defiler bits..
These guys preform pretty good in a battle.
And the right Stopma is also a good adition... Man are those things lasting fire magnets....
Need to build a lifta droppa.... Briljant thing... A 2500P IG Armored company needet thee turns to waist this sucker, providing my Mega Dreads the time to get into combat... Tanks deid hard, and the ramshacle kept the dreads alive....
Fun part was that three rockit armed Grot tanks kept drawing fire also.. The little buggers kept harrassing the big tanks, and theatend to get into their rears.... 120p well spend...
Next time I'll take some picks....

I used to play a Grotskrieg army, good times

Hi man, love the conversions, and sorry if this has been asked before, but how do you do your rivets??

 Sledgio wrote:
Hi man, love the conversions, and sorry if this has been asked before, but how do you do your rivets??

No problem...
Ebay, nail decoration. 1, 1.5 and 2 mm variants. Jems they call them, I think....

And thanks...

Mega!

 Spyro_Killer wrote:
I used to play a Grotskrieg army, good times

Never heard of Grotskrieg before... Not sure about the name.
Grot rebellion or liberation sounds better in my humble opinion. But that's personal..

By the way, got about 5000p worth these days.

Short summation:
Warboss in mega Armour
15 Grot tanks (2commanders)
30 Grots as troops.
2 Dakkajets
5 Deff Dreads
1 Gorkanout
1 Gun wagon
23 Killa kans
6 Lootas
6 Mega dreads
1 Stompa
1 Kill Bursta

To do:
2 Grot megatanks 1 FG 1 alternative
1 Stompa
2 Battlewagons
1 Dakkajet + 3 alternates
2 AA guns
troops
Mega Dreads, Deff Dreads, and kanz...
copters
And whatever else gets added....

Loving the Mega Dread!