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 Dr H wrote:

 Camkierhi wrote:
Nerdy asked me to make this trukk a bit like Original Optimus Prime. How am I doing?

Add the upright exhausts to the rear of the cab and you are pretty much there.

Or you could put the ork fist glyphs where the headlights are as thats where the Optimus hands came out of

Congrats on the house sir

Congrats on the new House. Hopefully more space to fill up with stuff !

Really enjoying all your scratchbuilds, Camkierhi. My favorite so far has to be the Orky Skyshield Sorry if this has been asked and answered already, but what brand and viscosity of plastic glue do you prefer when doing a lot of work with sheet styrene?

Thanks everyone, still moving, but getting there.

If everything goes to plan I will be in modeling heaven in a couple weeks, tough going til then.

@ the_Armyman, I use different things all the time I am afraid. I use Revell Contacta, both the very liquid one in a needle bottle and the Poly cement one, like good old fashioned airfix glue of many years ago, and I also use a PVC pipe glue, such as a plumber would use on waste pipe, huge pot for couple quid job. I also mix all of these, putting for instance the Revell thin stuff on, as it melts the surface, and after a few minutes putting cement on and sticking it together. I also do a similar effort with superglue, if I need a quick bond, putting on the thin Revell and after a couple minutes of allowing it to melt the surface a bit, putting a drop of superglue on and clamp, then after about 2 minutes you have a permanent bond.

I am afraid I experiment a lot and I am probably not very safe about my experiments, DrH will probably scream at me if he heard me mixing my various chemicals up, especially when you think I sprinkle Bi-Carbinate of soda on my superglue to make it set quicker and to give me rusty joints, And then I heat it all up with a blowtorch, all in my living room. I mean I am probably giving off cyanide fumes from the superglue. My latest experiments have been using a soldering gun to heat and melt the plastics together!

Sorry can't be more helpful, but maybe that helps. At the end of the day if you have a bit more patience than me, revell contacta.

Oh and scuff up the surface with sandpaper, often these days styrene sheet has a "coating" on it that seems to affect the bond.

Good to see you around, and good luck with the move.

Will be waiting for the new workshop's aweosemness!

Between that awesome new trukk and the skorcha/wartrakk, I'd say this is a very awesome and inspiring collection of projects. Super awesome stuff, Cam.

Thank you all for your thoughts.

So, moved at last, been a very busy few weeks. Work and moving and life meaning little time for toys, sorry I have not been around as much, but I have popped in here and there.

Well finally got to do something today, just about related to subject. My new workshop. Well just about. Our new house is nice and big, by our standards, meaning a large kitchen diner, with enough room for the family. So the lounge became a store room for everything else, then my beloved turns around and says, well you might as well have the front half of the lounge for your modelling!....So with the rest of the house getting there I decided today was the day to start in at making the lounge my zone. Half (the smaller half) will eventually have a sofa and TV etc.but it is a big room (by British standards) 6m (18ft) x 4m (12ft) approx. I figure I can have a modelling station and a separate painting station, plenty of storage and even fit in a game table.

Well pics or it didn't happen...

Modelling station...



Painting station still needs sorting out..


Storage...


Bit of room for more plastic I recon, still got a lot of boxes to go through though...

Yes those are all full of models to be made and painted.

It's all a bit rough at the moment, but we are in no rush for this room to be tidy, so I can take time later to tidy it all up and give the room a lick of paint.

My better half is happy enough the kitchen dinner is just as big as the lounge, so there is room for it to be a family room.


Lastly fitted a holder to the side of my modelling desk to hold my soldering iron and glue gun...


Thank you all again for your support, normal service will resume soon ish...and I am looking forward to seriously motoring on with projects in this new space.

Good show Ol' chap. Be up and running in no time (boxes can be unpacked when you need something out of them... )

Like I said in the other thread, I like that station

That's a nice set up. It's gonna be amazing when it's fully set up.

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You are a lucky man! Be sure to let her know... frequently.

Cheers all.

Well got a little time, so spent it on Nerdy's truck.









Breaking it down..cab...




and in bits...



and trailer...




Can't decide what to do on back end tail gate, and do I do a canvas top?

Nerdy if you are out there, your thoughts bud. (oh and sorry it is soo late, hope to get it to you for Christmas time at latest, maybe fit it in this green year still!)

As always critique welcome.

Excellent work... and enough room to actually carry the guys! I highly approve.

Nice to see you back in action Cam.

Oh man, its been a while since I swung by (got unsubbed somehow). That truck is sick! It better be painted up Orktimus Prime colors or I will be sad, but shouldn't be a hard sell for Nerdy. As always your builds have tons of great character to them.

Extra points if you make a small 6-wheeled vehicle come out the back of the trailer.

Nice new digs mate. Hope the extra space doesn't get "Dear you need to clean up your toys because we have company coming over tonight" too often. which I found was the case when we moved a few years back.

Anyway in the words of Orkimus Prime "Keep on Truckin "

That trukk is awesome, Cam! I really like the way it came out. Something to be proud of.

Trukk looks good. I'm in a rusty mood, I can imagine how I'd paint it !
Nice conversion/scratchbuild Cam' !

Thanks guys, really appreciate it.

Got a bit of time today so felt like doing some painting....





Thanks for looking, thoughts as always appreciated.

Those are great Cam, love the spots.

Excellent Truck. Excellent squigs. I love the 2 tones together.

I like the underbellies on those squigs. They look great!

Pumpkin Orange Squigs? Er...Halloween is over, Cam : Truth be told, that looks better than the standard red, much as it pains me to say. They come across as saurian or reptilian rather than as cartoons. I like.

All 5 in one day?

Glad you like them. They are always fun. Yeah went a bit orange, contrast better with green!

So I have a couple days off and recharging the batteries. So production is through the roof at mo. Sat in new zone, with lots to do, and although I have a heap of RL things to do, making myself sit and have some fun.

So this mornings effort....


Started out I based up this old trial piece a couple weeks ago, so this morning I started painting...laid down some metallic and rust...




Then went to town and before you know it (or when the wife screams lunch!) here it is...






Next up some better shots of Sammy, showing me several areas I need to clean up...





With chums..



And just for those curious, my paint station....


Thanks for looking in, and thanks for your continued support of an old fart playing with toys..

Awesome.

I love that truck... appropriate for any board!

Your painting station is beautiful by-the-way.

That paint water bowl looks scarily tippy though. Maybe save some future frustration and make a base for it?

Well gents been busy.

Thank you for the comments, @ Red honestly not that bad, they are stainless steel food bowls for pets, find them better than a jam jar, easier to clean.

Soooo what I been upto, well lots really, think I better put something up.

Ork wise, well started a new project (having finished Nerdy's trukk, which will be posted as soon as I can manage) But first up meet Ronnie...



Ronnie will be my boy on demand. I was rifling through my bits and found him, someone else had lovingly put him together but poor Ronnie ended up in a bits bag. Something about the pose grabbed me. He will now be my scale shot boy. Above he is demonstrating my new photo background, having seen lots about and trying various myself, this is my latest effort. I little plinth and nice Green backdrop, we will see if it gets me more votes as I never get any at the moment.

We will see Ronnie later....

Next is my new project, which will take forever and will come and go, but something I have fancied for a while. Someone is bound to have done this already, so not claiming any originality here, but...well... you know how everyone and his mate did a Zone Mortalis board or a space hulk board a while ago, well thought I would do a ork version, you know scrap heap in space, lots of silly corridors, bunch of nosey bugger marines come wondering around or maybe a infestation of bugs, kinda steal a bit from everywhere thing, but orky backdrop, so I carved a few tiles and got to moulding...



Results so far....

And with the possibility of adding walls...(Ronnie about to surprise Mr.Orange)

And of course I can use some bits in standard games...(Ronnie looking good)


Been fairly productive this weekend got 2 more blogs to update, my Other activity blog and the LoER comp.

Well thanks for looking in, thought as always are appreciated.

Excellent. Love Ronnie too... just the right attitude for a scale shot model.

Nice work. I've been buying the cheap, dollar store packs of toy cars. They've all been smashed up and are sitting in a box for me to make a Junkyard Mortalis board. I even have plans for a crane and crusher, etc to fill out a normal board with. I'm sure you'll finish this project (and your's will look much better than mine) before I even start glueing mine.
One thing I've read about the Forgeworld stuff... the walls are tall enough that a Dreadnaught cannot see over them.

Like I said, keep up the good work!

Wow.. a lot of progress.