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Well I've been a long time lurker and decided today to create this. Maybe it will get me to get off my lazy but and finish painting it.

As it stands now I have:
One card-board kilkrusha
Three Battle-wagons
Three trukks
Three dreads (looted beakie ones i sometime turn the red one into a big mek in mega armour)
One wip looted rhino
One looted WWII panzer
Three warbikers
One Wazzdakka Gutsmek
Four terminator armour mega nobs
and a partridge in a pear tree

Can we get some shots of the cardboard killkrusha and looted bits? The look cool from this far away, but I want to see some details.

ta da

I have started on a fighta bomma. i don't no the normal sizes so im just "winging" it.

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Well did more work on the bomma

Some stuff looks really nice, but the cereal box coversions won't cut it, both in terms of look, accepting paint, durability... the whole works.

You are obviously capable, why not use plasticard or at least foam board? You can order some from towerhobbies.com, and trust me, you will be much happier with the results, and with the longevity.

Either way, that's an impressive size army, and apart from the cardboard stuff, I think it looks good!

i use some but i didn't have any on hand i will plate it up with some later

i use some but i didn't have any on hand i will plate it up with some later

The panzer looks impressive

I like the panzer myself and have to argue with Major Tom on Cardstock conversions while you have to use 2 or maybe 3 brush acrylic undercoats it excepts paint fine. Theirs a bizarre snobbery about using plasticard not card and while plasticard is more durable and accepts paint better card folds and is cheaper. I use cereal card regularly in basing and scenery and it has advantages it won't snap for a start. However having said that both models look rather toylike and it doesn't hurt to avoid that with 40k painting is an exceptional method to do just that.

These are just going to represent stuff in my army i've only started playing about a year ago

Sorry no updaates i've been working on these

Ive never been a fan of the cardboard modeling, unless its a template. It never really looks quite like you want it to in the end thats IMO though. Great job on everything, just the plasticard usually makes for a better look in the end.

I think using cardstock is fine. It may take a few more layers of paint, but if you're willing to do the leg work to make it look the way you want then it works all the same.

The kanz look good. The flash is washing them out, though. I think the fighta-bomba is coming along nicely and that Battle Wagon looks right proppa! Now get some paint on it.

At the risk of sounding like a parrot, the cardboard moddeling really, really, really doesn't strike someone as craftsmanship where you look like you have real potental. With a quick replacement of that cardboard for plastic card, your models would look spectacular! Even though the look amazing already.

The plasticard would look cleaner from the get go. But I think you can get very close to the same quality with card, too.

Also I think card is great for practicing and making patterns. A more substantial material will (almost?) always come off more professional. That being said, they're just stand-ins until the plastic/metal models arrive, right pandaman?

So I say, keep up the good work!

Sorry no updates between commisions, soccer, and modern warfare 2 i haven't gotten much work done but I found this.

No comments Well anyway I started working on a Krawla

It will be named Da Little Red Wagon

You should totally paint "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" back on the side of the krawla when you paint it.

What emblem should I put on the side.

I'm not sure on an emblem but since this is such a big vehicle you should put plenty of grafiti on it like : humies stink, and some such.

those wheels dont look like they could carry the vehicle maybe try some stracks like the panzers?
@pandaman thats kroozas size chart V5

Really the only problem Im having with these conversions, is the cardboard. It looks terribly unfinished. I agree with the above you some foam or plasticard instead. ITll look so much better. I can see what your going for, but your loosing it with the rough cardboard.

The rest of the army is looking pretty good though, keep it up.

Should I use blue foam.

Nice painting!

I would layer it up with some plasticard or some foam card and with paint I think they will look pretty sweet!
Keep up the good work

never use blue foam in converting it will be ruined when primed(melted)
use plasticard
i dont know what you're experience with it is but use a ruler and sharp knife to score the shape you want and then snap it out-it gives good clean cuts(score about halfway through or you might het some thin bits ripped of the other parts.
1mm-2mm-use for basic structure and the body etc
anything under that would be for deatail.

hope this helps

Sorry about lack of updates i got a chaos army commision and have been busy with that in the mean time some fluff!


Before his ascension to supreme ruler of the Goliath system, warboss Bolt Mek Gitkruncha was not given much respect from the other orks in his Deffskull tribe. For some unknown reason Gitkruncha was reasonably nice (as nice as a lumbering 8 foot monster could be). He didn’t have the same knack for thievery that most Deffskulls have from an early age. Occasionally he would steal a shoota or a couple of teef from an unsuspecting ork but after realizing what he had done he would return the stolen item to its owner muttering apologizes. The confronted ork would usually be too shocked to give Gitkruncha a hearty whack like one they would give a quick fingered grot. Gitkruncha was never known to fight unless he was provoked by the other orks in his tribe. They would taunt him or poke him until he would swing around and crush one with the business end of his choppa. Despite his orkish attitude towards his peers Gitkruncha had an affinity for the smaller greenskins known as grots. He was known to carry them around on his shoulders as they shouted insults to the orks who had abused them all their lives. It got to the point where the elders in Gitkruncha’s tribe banished him to the ash wastes to the east of the village and his grots, not wanting to leave their protective owner followed.
To Be Continued…


I'll probably have some pictures up later tonight of progress.

Thanks for the comments guys really constructive, any way more fluff for the readers.


The walk through the ash wastes was a long and arduous journey with few streams for water and even less in the way of food. After a week of walking the first grot fainted. The next day three more followed. The following week there wasn’t a conscious grot within miles, But Gitkruncha forged on with the grots hanging over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes. He walked like that for two hours before he came to an abandoned settlement of some sort. smashing through the rockrete gate like nothing was there he set off in search of water. Upon coming to what happened to be a restaurant (though he had no idea at the time) he laid all the grots on the floor mouths agape. He then used a hose used for spraying carbonated water and shot sharp blasts of water into each of the grots mouths. They immediately came to blubbering furiously, half drowned but alive. The next day after raiding the cabinets and back rooms for food the grots and Gitkruncha set off to explore the strange settlement. It was there they discovered they discovered a quick way to rise to power and where Gitkruncha discovered his mekish talents.