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Those flyers look amazing!

That space monkey flyer (where is that from again?) turned to an Ork flyer really reminds me of those 1950 cars, very raygun gothic!

I swear it's like looking at my own collection great conversion work mate as usual although I can't see that sub flying

Have a great Christmas mate and steady on the retail therapy

Merry trolly xmas. How's the weather treating you? Not floated away, I hope?

Good stuff here still loving the Antenociti's Workshop stuff. How do you find Shapeways theres a few bits and bobs I want to pick up from there.

Submarine plane is win. All planes should also be submarines in case of emergency sea landing! It also works because they are orks. Orks are supposed to improvise and adapt whatever's available.

Meh, looks the same as all your other stuff.

Err, long belated Christmas wishes to y'all

Gits - Thank you my man, but I'll take above average


Dr H - Cheers Doc. Yeah, it's pretty cool, now I just have to find something cooler to turn it into


Malika - Thanks, someday they may look even better when they're finished. And if they ever get a lick of paint......

The space monkey plane is from AT-43, a discontinued game, but if you look around you can find some good bargains on the stuff. A bonus was a lot of their pieces came with cargo containers for scenery in with whatever it was.


ldd - Except I at least start something with all my bits 'Course it'll fly, Old Mek Broken Legz says it will. It's just a case of when........


graven - still here, not much changes apart from the level of the outside world It all looks a bit lower down out there at the moment....


weety - Abso-bloody-lutely! Also handy to have subterranian mole capability in case of emergency terrain crash landing - alos known as 'landing' by da flyboyz


Skalk - What, half-built and unpainted Funny coz it's true.



Well, it's been a while...certainly wasn't the best christmas ever, what with my state of mind, and waking up christmas morning to a text saying a friend had died in the early hours....

OK, that's the obligatory wallowing in self-pity over for now...let's talk models....


First off (and very late I know), huge, huge thanks to all those who voted for me in Skalk's excellent Junk pile competition....you can remember that far back, right?

I was chuffed just to have actually finished a competition piece on time, big bonus to have placed in my category, and bonus-bonus to get the Daemon Prince vote...Cheers y'all

Not masses of progress to show here (shock, I know ), but a couple of pics to try and start the flow going again......


Few more details added to the necro-loot-flyer:




There's been miniscule amounts of colour managing to get close to some of the other pieces, but nothing worth showing yet.


Did start work on a couple of bike concepts that have been kicking around in my head for a while now. Been wanting a small section of the boyz to be mounted on hovercraft to go along with the hover-junka that got started a couple of years ago....(no, no progress there.... ), and the concept buggy from a page or so ago....



A couple of 15mm hovercraft seemed like ideal start points, one from Ainsty Castings as part of the Hammer's Slammers range, and the other from....I forget for now...I will get back to you on that as I want some more anyway.




I do have better dakka planned for that - I know the old-skool bike dakka fits quite nicely across that body, put I seem to have temporarily mis-placed my one. Once I've attached that I'll mess around to see if it requires exhausts/propulsion of some sort, possibly just some exhaust pipes out the back of the body, possibly along the sides...




Old-skool snake boy I got from Skalk seemed da ideal boy for da job. He'll get a better arm than that though...probably basics of the dakka are there, figure a multi-barreled cannon is as good as twin-linked Just a bit of choppin'n'gubbinz to get the fit right. Quite like the idea of the jets as propulsion, but again, that'll be the last piece to be finalised, once the rest is built (yeah, yeah...finalised and me...I know it's a hard concept )


Other things have been happening though....

My hobby stuff has always been an escape and therapy for me (duh, that's why it's a hobby, yeah?), and I've been trying hard to get back into it as I know there's some release in there for me that I need right now. So what do we all do when things just don't seem to be working out...switch it around a bit. And so the orkses are taking a bit of a back seat for now. They're not disappearing from my radar - there's far too many of them scattered across the boat for that to happen anyway I'm just not planning (and I use the term 'planning' in the loosest possible sense you understand) to build any more at the moment.

There's still a shed load of projektz in various states lying around, and I'll continue to noodle away at bits and pieces here and there (mainly the v-hickular stuff rather than da boyz) so don't worry, the greenies will not be ignored. But I feel I need a shift of focus to help me, and so I'm returning to my first love.....Chaos.

And will therefore go excavating in the dakka-depths to ressurect my lost and damned thread...possibly even this very day.

See you around........


edit: I forgot one thing....I don't usually get much hobby stuff at Christmas (maybe the odd novel now and then) as no-one ever believes me when I tell them I'll take whatever model from whatever army/range...it doesn't matter, I'll find a use for it. This time round my brother passed me a box with a "bit of a punt, this one, not sure if you're still into it.." Open it I did, and found a copy of Warhammer Online - a collectors box set no less. Now, to be hinest I've not even opened the disc box, not even sure if it's still running (?), but I was chuffed to bits with the two hard-backs that came with it - a background story comic, not bad, but even better a lovely 'Art Of...' tome, which was very cool indeed. And it also contained a mini...an orc warboss with gobbo sidekick no less, characters from the game....



Bonus all round

Sorry you've been dealing with sad news and a less than happy state of being. I suppose we all suffer through those from time to time. Still, you have friends here who would be more than willing to distract you from your mundane troubles for a while by oohing and aahing over your amazing work.

I love the lamp-head hover biker... but I think it'd be funnier if there was a typical elongated ork neck connecting the lamp to the body. Humor, Ar-Ar!!

Nice to have you back!

Good to see you about MT. Sorry to hear about the crappy christmas.

Additions to the necro-loot flyer look tidy. Good job.

Liking the hovercraft too.

MT's back! Sorry about news; it's always a bit of an elephant in the room, and "sorry" sounds rather hollow. Still, good to have you once more. A miracle that you haven't floated away, all things considered. Great when family totally nail it, isn't it? Looking forward to more madness, certainly looking to you for inspiration

Glad to see yo back and sorry to hear of your loss, I hope 2014 is brighter and better year for you

Like the hover borks another crazy idea that could only be pulled of by yourself and that insanity you call a mind.

Always really enjoyed your chaos stuff deifinitely looking forward to more

It was always my idea tgo build a Mek lead Cybork army...but I made excuses about time and such. Seeing this miniatures...the ideas, the originality...I'm going to do it. I'm going to field a Cybork Army.

Thanks man...you really inspired me. A.J.

P.S. I WILL knick an idea or 3 off of ya tho!!! lol.

Long-lost replies........Calling friom the nether-world

Gits - Thanks man - although the desire flitters and sputters I know its the modelling that helps me keep focus, and glad to have such a great group of supporters in Dakka.

Elongated arm-neck for a future lamp-'ead noted


Doc - Did look tidy - it's taken a couple of knock really. I'd say that's the problem with having so many half-finished projects cluttering up the place.....but they'll take even more space when they're done --they'll need display space then


graven - Well I popped in then headed straight over to the dark forges.....ohh...sorry, probably haven't been that inspiring this last year


ldd - Cheers - it did get better and brighter towards the end - typically as the world around us grows darker and colder


Llama - well, it probably wasn't enough...but there'll be more, never fear.


Gorlock - Thank you - inspiring someone else is the highest praise we can get as modellers All my ideas are there to loot....except those speshul ones behind the dresser....those are mine alone. And I'll have to check out your work....not being doing enough keepin' up with peeps this last year....


So, on a personal note, I am in a better place than I was, my therapies were a great help in getting me to get a handle on my issues, and how to cope going forward. Positive Thanks Jo and particularly Steph I'm not all better - I'm not a happy, shiny person...but I'm doing far, far better than I was, and hope to keep improving. Thanks also to all the support I got from you guys - the PM's I got from people offering words and support and their experiences....wow, it was...emotional. Cheers everyone


So, I hear you ask...I'm sure you didn't venture back from the Dark Forges of Chaos, and the allure of Slaaneshi, just for a quick "I'm getting better..."


Indeed not. Oue inestimable Scientist, Dr H has recently won the latest LOER terrain competition, and so has thus presented his challenge.....

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/643658.page Making the Extraordinary from the Ordinary.

I bid you go forth, peruse his words, contemplate his desires, spread the word of this errand, and sally forth to your respective foundries, caves, workshops, forges, lairs and design studios to bring forth some mighty entrees....err, entries...sorry, tad hungry there.


I come bearing this mission to this very thread as I believe it falls back to the meks to make this particular piece I have in mind, and therefore feel it should be built here, under the watchful gazes of the servo-grots, rather than the dark cherubim of the forges.


As a teaser....



The dreaded Mk IV Warmster Tank, this one fitted with the awe-inspiring Goliath Sonic Cannon.....Ladies and Gentlem I present the 'Roar of Blessed'....






Or....you know....that just might be some randomly assembled bits that I plan to use for something else entirely......guess we'll have to wait and see what the meks want to build....

"Warmster Tank"???

Is that short for War-Hamster Tank? You're thing there does kind of look like a watering bottle you'd use in a hamster cage...

Oops....I blame keyboard failure

So, you've probably seen the first part of this over on the LOER 14 thread already, but here goes anyway....



Paper wrapped around the tube to help hie the spiral seams that give away the fact it's a cardboard tube...normally I'd use thin plasticard, but I'm looking to source all parts from recycled goods for this one, so paper it is. In a similar vein I used pva soaked kitchen towel to texture the disc rather than treadplate textured plasticard. I gave it two layers, then tried to add texture by pressing against some aluminium mesh...not a great success, so you'll see plan B in a mo...



Cut an angle out of the brush holder and glued it to the dessert cup, along with the elbow bend, then filled the top with a screwtop lid off of some random container and part of a plastic eyehole used for putting, well, eyeholes in plastic sheeting. The white ring atop the elbow bend is a disc divider from a pack of blank discs....the kind of thing I made a landing pad out of previously.



A couple of circles cut out of card (blu-ray packaging in this case) provided a roof to put between the card tube and the dessert cup.






Plan B - rust it to gak and back. A heavy (overly heavy) coat of silver had gone on top of the tissue and did not look pretty (may have been a case of squeezing a dropper bottle too hard whilst above the actual surface to be painted, may not have been. Whose to know?), so that got covered in a haphazard mix of brown red and orange. That in turn got mainly coveed in some good old crackle paint. Once that had done it' magic there was a bit of sepia and flesh washing, and a little bit of yellow drybrushing....



In othe news...Salute.

Went, saw a lot of stuff (not everything) bought some stuff - managed to avoid spending to much this year, and wasn't weighted down with various bags for the trip home That in itself impressed me

I have a gallery with around 200 shots here....http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-30344-46616_Salute%202015.html, go look there for the main course, here's an appetiser...




Go on...that's whetted your appetite surely....


Troll Trader had a huge clearance table filled (with more underneath) with tubs of stuff to sift through, I literally could have spent hours rummaging, so just did a quick sortie...



Couple of interesting looking things from Deep Wars, couple of Dystopian robots and a CMON mini...just over a tenner, that'll do

Dropped in on Zinge...unfortunately didn't get to chat with Kit this time as he was standing on one leg reaching for the stars in an attempt to get his card reader working for another customer. Did get a couple of the £1 bit bags, some tyres...and the long-awaited buggy....



No doubt that'll make a re-appearance on this thread, think it's more likely to go to the meks than the techs...




Some Matian tripods and some drone thingummies....they'll have plenty of uses no doubt.




And the free figue this year was an archer sculpted by Alan Perry (Agincourt being this year's theme)


Also briefly met Legoburner, admired the sprues and models for Maelstrom's Edge, and grabbed the 2 novels.


That I think, will do for this update...thanks for stopping by, I'l try to make sure the biccies are a bit less stale next time......

Looks like wonderful fun! Thanks for ALL the pics!

I've always been intrigued by Deep Wars, but have never seen an actual game of it.

Great pics of Salute!

How much was the Zinge buggy?

Great haul monkey and can see your mind working over time for these bits

LMAO kit and his damn card reader never works LOL always take cash is my theory better that way and you have to love the £1 box awesome deals in that thing

You git you got the buggy I so want that thing and have done for ages

Looks like you had a great day MT, thanks for sharing the pics lots of interesting games going on.

Stingraaaaaaaaaaaaaay... Stingray...

that is all.

These ork conversions are awesome!

Also is the Battlestar game a real thing or just a convention thing?