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Holy crap dude! That clay work is awesome!!!

Ohohoh man! That's a bike that every Big Mek would turn pink in envy for! (or make them blue for the urge to loot it. :p )

And hell, you've been an inspiration for me to keep going with my own metal contraption (which is a Big Gargant, that I personally call the "Bigga Gargant". )!

Rain wrote:
This is amazing.

Hmm. My brother builds hot rods. I wonder...

That would be awesome. I really wanted to make an Ork trukk, I looked around for a good chassis before I was inspired to make the warbike.

Luck.
Luck never changes.

I was supposed to be off for the holidays starting last monday, but alas, I had to make an emergency trip to Puerto Rico. one of the rare times I can't complain about a location I had to travel to for my job! I am back now though, and aside from family stuff all my time will go to the bike.

The tank is finished being sculpted. I was going to add more but decided leaving open areas for my painter to get creative was a better idea, and I have plenty more spaces on the bike to sculpt on.

Here's the final Madboy and Evilsun





The guy I'm getting to help me paint the tank is a bad-ass named Kenny. I bought my other bike simply because he did the paintjob on it, his work covers the most modern techniques in airbrushing and he also does old-school brush pin-striping. I let him know The tank is ready, so I'm waiting on him. Because he's doing all the work pro-bono, It's strictly on his timetable.


On to the fairing! I had a lot of trouble with design on this step. what looked good on a small scale looked flat and cartoony and a full size bike. I quickly realized I needed to make several mock-ups to find what I liked. Here's the first one.



It was a good starting point, but didn't quite work. I looked at a lot of source photos, and was inspired by Black Orc fantasy shields. If I had a three panel skull it would be a lot more dynamic.

I cut the base pieces out first, taking into account the max size the skull could be.



Next I taped it down to the bike.



At this point I had to stop to do life stuff. I should have more time today or tomorrow. I have the whole shop to myself till the 6th, I will try to update every other day. Thanks for looking!

Great work on the tank Pox. Looking forward to your efforts with the front plate.

Excellent!

The tank looks fantastic, some nice sculpting there Looking forward to seeing what you do with the skull plate.

Incredible project - really looking forward to the final skull design. That'll really put it over the Orky top.

Right, lets just get to it then, shall we?

To start I make my rough templates for the skull



I then fire up the plasma cutter and cut them out of steel



Next I fit the pieces, adjusting the fit as needed, and clamp into place.



Lastly, I burn it into place with some rough stitches



This is only the frame of the skull, I have plenty of detail to add in plastic and clay.

Now that I have the final placement of the skull, I weld some elbow joints on to start fleshing out the base of the horns



After that, I flesh out the rest of the horns with insulation strips, pipe insulation, and gaff tape. I also drill new holes for the turn signal wires.



Switching gears, I make the right eye-hole bigger so his light will fit.



I check to make sure my little Baja light has clearance.



Once I have the final position, I make a bracket for the light.



Lastly, I weld the new plate into place, wait for it to cool, and screw on his new eye.



I should have plenty more updates this week. Still heaven't heard back on when we can paint the tank, and I cant start wiring until I have it back so I get to do more fun cosmetic stuff!

Thanks for looking

GorkaMekka is smiling down at you

Holy Friken Snit!

'E's a reel Big Mek at 'eart!

Watch out for these badboys when using that plasma cutter!
Looking really good. The light shining through the eyehole is beautiful

That looks awesome! Are you worried at all about the clay bits breaking up due to road vibration?

Your instinct to not have a flat face at the front of the bike was a very good instinct. Keep at it.

Um... wow. You are a master mekboy for sure.

 Gitsplitta wrote:
That looks awesome! Are you worried at all about the clay bits breaking up due to road vibration?

If he lays 'er down, the mek will have his teef for it.

*chuckle* Well played Nowlan.

Xendarc wrote: Watch out for these badboys when using that plasma cutter!
Looking really good. The light shining through the eyehole is beautiful

After seeing Fabious Bile for the first time, I had me grots modify a mega--nob suit to build with. it has four extra arms, and gives me a good save when the plasma cutter rolls a one.

Gitsplitta wrote:That looks awesome! Are you worried at all about the clay bits breaking up due to road vibration?

The clay I use is less brittle than bondo, so I'm not too worried about it. Only one way to find out though!

Nowlan wrote:

 Gitsplitta wrote:
That looks awesome! Are you worried at all about the clay bits breaking up due to road vibration?

If he lays 'er down, the mek will have his teef for it.

Man, if I ever lay this junka down, it's gonna leave a bits trail.

MORE UPDATES!

I start by tacking the plate for the lower Baja light.



I hammer the plat till its nice and level for the light.



Once its lined up with the other lights, I add some other plates.



Next I fix the front teeth.



Lookin' good so far!



Next I start on the gun sight. I cut some rings and sharpen a bit of rod.



I weld it all together and throw on some spikes.



Lastly, I weld that sucker in place.



Here's the gunner's view!



Lastly, I pulled off the jaw and skull. All they have left is clay and plastic work!

Looking suitably orksome

Such a great thread. Amazing. Keep up the great work.

Brilliant job! keep it up

Very appropriate. Coming along beautifully.

So much Mork & Gork Goodness!

Looks bloody awesome!

I didn`t understand the thread title at first - simply because I couldn`t fathom the madness This is incredibly cool, and that bike is already looking much better than how it started

Thanks for all the comments everyone! not a huge update today, I only had a few hours to work on it.

I started by making templates for the additional plastic needed on the skull.
I then traced the templates onto some 1/4" sheet styrene



Next I cut the pieces on a bandsaw set to "slow as molasses." Time consuming, but way less messy then using an angle grinder like last time.



lastly, I check them all to see if they fit. it looks like I'll need to grind some metal before I install.



I also still need to shape and age the plastic, then start drillin' bolt holes. For the horns my boss showed me the proppa way to coat them in fiberglass, so I'll do that the next time I have a good six hours or so freed up to work on it.

Holy hell dude this is such a fantastic project! Truly a unique thing you're working on there.

That dial in the "gunner's view" picture is no speedometer, it's the dakka-per-minnit-ometer.

This is really next level. Unbelievable how much you're putting in to this, it is incredible. This sort of thing is why Warhammer fans are so great.

Thanks everyone for the great responses.

UPDATE TIME!

I got a lot of small work done, nothing flashy.

I started on the fiberglass work on the horns.

First up I get everything taped upped and sealed.



Next, I cut a bunch of fiberglass strips.



After that I lay out all the supplies I'll need to mix the resin. I've never worked with fiberglass before, so I wanted things a bit more organized then usual.



Success! I get the first layer on both horns without setting myself on fire.



While that sets up, I start working on the rear of the bike.

First up I cut off the old bracket that held on the seat.



Next I take some 90% ducting and tack it together.



I make sure it fits before tacking it into place.



Lastly for today, I pulled off some frame pieces from a golf cart and cut them to size.



Next up, more fiberglass layers!