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Slimgrin shrieked as he was hoisted into the air by his scrawny ankle, then switched to gibbering loudly as he was shaken forcibly for 30 seconds, reverting back to a shriek as he was flung behind some rubble. Guffrat snorted his displeasure at the lack of ammo to drop out of any hidden depths of the runt's pockets, hefted his tank-hammer and continued down the ruined street. He was pleased with his hammer, he'd scavenged some kind of extending piston, and managed to get some extra-bangy rokkits from Mek GeerSniff which he'd stuck together with some pointy-wire and a load of squig-glue. All he had to do was make sure he got a chance to use it before Skragshiv got off one of his rokkits.
Using a launcher seemed a bit pansy to Guffrat, much better getting up close and bashing stuff, especially big stuff, big humie tanks, big humie tanks which made 'uge 'splosions. Guffrat was almost jumping up and down as he moved, so excited at the thought of flames and smoke and spinning bits of metal.
The grinding noise which had made him come down the alley suddenly restarted nearby, and then the wall to his left flew apart, showering him with dust and small bits of rubble as a blue behemoth smashed it's way through.
"Beakies! Waaaagghh!" he screamed, swinging his hammer hard at the metal hide just feet away from him. There was a brief moment of pure joy as the rokkits exploded, then everything
went dark..

The high-pitched arguments of grots woke him up, something not quite right as he struggled to focus on the annoying little gits below him. Guffrat simultaneously realised three things, two-and-a-half more than he usually carried in his head at once. His mouth hurt, his arm hurt, his legs felt cramped and he seemed to have woken up already standing. He had a nagging feeling his counting was wrong too. Looking at his arm he stared in bemusement at the large chainsaw that had replaced it, and slowly a grin started to appear. Before it became a laugh it started to sag a little as Guffrat slowly realised where he must be. Confirmation was waiting below his waist, in the form of a small tank-tread that had replaced his legs. Using his tongue to worry the holes where several teef had been extracted he looked around for Bad Dok Grimsnik...


So I guess I joined up to keep motivated and it seems the best way to do that is to start up a plog and try to keep it current. I'll try to keep focused and not veer off into too many other projects. I've not really played about with orks apart from about 5 I had from the original Ork Raider set back in RT days, never really felt the green love, but something about the latest bikes got me interested (kinda ironic as I'm not sure I'll be utilising any for this force)
I model and paint (in that order and normally slowly), love the background but haven't really played since RT, but do have an OCD which requires me to make game legal units. Recently picked up the codex and a couple of things jumped at me.

Mad Dok Grotsnik allows cyborks everywhere

Looted wagons "may even be anti-gravity skiffs that the Orks have not had a proper chance to crash into the ground yet." behold visions of dark eldar raiders with boomguns fitted

So I'm looking at a visionary mek, Boss Mek Upzag who has some innate orkystanding of rudimentary gravimetrics, creating deff-koptas out of looted skimmers and the like. He was long ago affiliated with the Blood Axes, where he became aware of the mechanicus adeptus, which seemed to affect his 'vestigachuns into mekaniakal knowledge. Over time he has accrued a large following, captivated by his talk of Gorka-Mekka. At some point in the past he fell in with Bad Dok Grimsnik and together they work on the creation of cyborks, the ultimate expression of Gorka-Mekka, the great green mek.
Which equates to cybork bodies for all units, looted vehicles throughout and some mash-up deff-koptas, thinking about cyboars in place of bikers.



Deff Dread from looted marine dread. Legs from an old Imperial Army sentinel (as is the gun, but that's just a place holder for now) Thought mounting the legs at the shoulder joints made it a bit more squat and orky. Think the eldar power fist came from an old metal war-walker but not sure, the chainsaw's from a sprue of weapons from the original epic games I think, Space Marine or Adeptus Titanicus iirc. Not yet decided which gun piece to use on top mount, thinking about the old vulcan bolter from the epic warhounds as a big shoota, or maybe something a bit more kustom. Probably have it removable so it can be swapped out.



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And the first few boyz, sluggas & choppas and cybork bodies. Went with a few simple arm/leg swaps to start with, want a variety of full cybork bodies to basic bioniks - mainly so that some actually get made, rather than sit on the desk in bits as i try to scratch build a steam powered tracked blender-shoota with squig leather covers, fluffy dice and nitrous injection in place of legs for every grot in the place. tempting idea I know but that would take me so long that there really wouldn't be any point in starting this plog They all need cleaning up a bit still, a bit of gs and some details like wires.





Walker unit came from dreadnought fist and greave, orky shoulder pad and part of a necron gun. Will do another of these with extended legs. And behind him the others rocking a sentinel chainsaw. Should be one in every army



replaced the eyes w sm scout eyepiece and a random bit of plastic, foot from a tau drone and hand from an old-skool space-hulk termie. The other boy has an aircraft landing gear and a claw from out of my bits box, sure I should know where the claw comes from, possibly Inquisitor scale tech-priest?



Fifth boy and a Nob. Boy's body came from an old genestealer hybrid from the Genestealer Space-hulk supplement, think I may use some more, see how it looks once I've tried to gs it. Leg from bits of sprue, arm from chainsword, plasticard and sentinel 'joint-cap' ( my term). Think its an AOBR Nob w a metal plated head and an arm from the same weapon source as the deff-dread's chainsaw arm.

Few more boys waiting on tidy-ups and gs.


One v old plastic orc, which I made back in the day and have given him a chainsaw arm, an old ork 'bolter' and then left him as he was for no other reason than pure whimsy and nostalgia. I don't mind having a real mix of models in there as I'd imagine Upzag & Grimsnik attract a wide variety of freaks, plus I can always claim it to be a product of the Dok's eksperimentz. The other guy had part of his back replaced with a power pack, a burna mask and iron jaw for a head, and a drill-bit for an arm.



These two are still tac'd atm as they need some gs work before assembling, hopefully I'll find some gubbins to cover up my gs skills.The big guys got the legs of an epic warhound with the feet chopped off and a toe-piece from kroot armour. Part of a power klaw made up his choppa hand and he's had a chunk of head replaced w part of a scope - that's gonna need some gs. Also needs some thing around the back waist, connections or power supply or something. His little friend is powered by an epic rhino(old-skool again - even if I haven't improved my skills too much over the years, I have at least improved my bitz box ) with exhausts from a chaos biker. Old-skool plastic orc arm and a sm power fist, and space for a bit of gs to fill.


The old cybork uni-cycle and 2 grots.

Awesome stuff mate!

Thanks Munch!

Couple of tankbustas still in da surjary




Old epic landraider as a track unit with mega-nob arm as rokkit launcher, head comes from Damien 1427 w orc lower jaw. A few chimera links and a bit of plasticard for the other track unit. need to fill the card w gubbins yet. Made the plasti-card inserts smaller than the tracks to give the impression of wheels behind, but forgot any detailing behind. Also found it was too fiddly putting the whole thing together at once, instead of in stages, heh. Normally would of done, but was really wanting to put it together and hurried it Old squat bike headlight for his head-piece.


The bad dok himself is 'aving a bit of surjary done too.
Body from Inq scale alien bounty hunter (Kasshrak the stalker or something), legs from bits box (i-kore range), arms from AOBR warboss and Damien's alter-ego(Simeon?), skaven backpack and some yet to be found gubbins.



Not sure whether to give him some sort of loincloth/apron, also playing with the idea of a small bionik arm for 'is tools. Removed the bag from under the backpack's tanks as it didn't sit right with it there, lovely fit once it had gone, but need to fill the waist area a bit more now, exhausts maybe. Still playing w the klaw a bit as well, thinking of a three-way closer or maybe drill/saw.

Upzag's still dreaming of air-support.
Looted speeder with sentinel cockpit. One engines gone, to be replaced with either a jury-rigged jet which extends out into the original cockpit area, or a propeller with a disarmed hellstrike missile strapped to the side to make up the difference. Other one's based on some old mech kit, already had a sm jump-pack welded to it, that'll probably get chained down. I'm thinking there'll be a few jump-packs and tau drones strapped and welded to various flyers, possibly even one deff-kopta as just a frame with 3 or 4 tau drones lashed to it

First lot of boys are undercoated and had a slap of orkhide put on 'em, haven't painted ork flesh before, was actually thinking of something fairly light, maybe using some red/flesh washes, but I'll just see what happens with these guys first. Quite happy to have a variety of skin tones across the mob.
And this guy's not done yet, but just took a couple of snaps whilst he was at the front of my desk, apologies for the clutter.


Still needs some tidying with the metal areas, the different metals tend to merge a bit, and a load of detailing. Much happier with the rusty metal irl, almost done, but it looks pretty scabby in the pic.

Cool dread! Clever use of sholder pads for a covering.

Very nice stuff =] Hope you keep going, I love experimental Ork surgery lol

You have some insanely cool conversions here, hope to see more from you soon!!

Thanks for the support guys, seems some grot's got loose and ate through my phone line so no updates for a few days I'm afraid (at work atm). Hopefully i'll be back up and running next week sometime (weekend with no phone or internetz- oh noes!)

I want to see that air suport finished

“'Ere, Snagtoof, 'member dem 'umies on giddy-ups we wos fightin on dat red planet?”
“Wot, da ones we stomped?”
“Yeah.”
“Nah, don't member dem. Hurr-hurr.”
After a few minutes rolling about in laughter, Snagtoof regained the power of speech. “Wot about dem?”
“Who?”
“Dem 'umies.”
“Where?”
“On da red planet. With giddy-ups.”
“Oh yeah, dem. Well dey had these bang spears right, and dey was dead-bangy, and I was finking I could make a kinda 'ammer like one.”
“Ya wanna make an 'ammer like a spear wot goes bang?”
“ A boom-spear, Yeeehhh!”
“Waah-hey! Where'd ya get dis speshul bru anyways, it's right weirdy.”
“Came from da Dok's speshul spores, got a servo-grot ta get it for me. Said 'e could 'ave as many squig legs as 'e could scoff in five minnits if he got me some.”
“How many did 'e manage?”
“Hurr. None. 'E was a tin-job, metal body, can't eat nuffink, just dok's juice. Spent dem minnits running in circles with a squig leg 'anging out 'is mouth, trying ta fink ov wot to do. Den I grabbed it back. Hurr-hurr”


Two boom-spear armed lunatiks.




One of the track units came from the earlier tank-busta with the rokkits strapped to his back, he's getting a mono-wheel instead now, just didn't like the angles he fitted on. One model was supposed to have a bionik arm to represent Guffrat from the first post (he swapped the arm out after persuading the Dok a chainsaw wasn't that good against tanks) but I forgot. Just like I forgot to give one a bottle of Speshul Bru - oh well, still got space on the base well, not much actually Haven't decided yet whether to add fins to the rokkits, maybe one broken one, maybe none. Was thinking about having some chain/rope around the rokkit, but decided I prefered the cleaner lines. which I guess means I'll skip the fins.

Servo-grots ahoy!
The guy with the bino's for a head is going to get blue eyes as opposed to the red/orange of the rest as I think it just looks a bit lost and mournful. Some bodies from old epic scale dreads and robots, that's piping that looks like breasts, hope that'll show when it's painted.

Track unit fom hueycobra/snotling pump wagon and some old metal tank body. The legs on the walker unit were easier than I thought, but I went for cabling rather than pistons to preserve sanity. The guy missing the top of his head is going to get...something.. there, possibly a metal lid, possibly an exposed brain, possibly some pipewok, possibly just a hat.



More imperial epic bits, gnoblar heads, gun from a smoke launcher.


Not forgetting a couple of oilers, an orderly and an eksperimunt...


Realised afterwards the guy with the hood should have had the goblin robed legs, make him a bit more 'mekanikum'. And the plasma-cutters facing a weird angle.

One of the Dok's eksperimunts, we'll see were it goes - possibly just to the squig-pens.


Upzag's had a few set-backs with his gravimetric proceedings and has briefly reverted back to good ol' rotor power. The Dok likes to cultivate a small patch for some of his speshul fungus, which he cultivates along with certain squigs.

I love the Mechanicus grots! The eksperimunt is rad. Keep it up!

Lol I saw a lego arm in there...

Thanks guys.
@Jolly yep, although it's been cut and filed Heads are just about right for a servo-grots body too I reckon
So, still WIP but I thought I'd post a pic of the grots so far, mainly cos I still really like the guy in front.
Had an issue with the green wash, on the two tracked grots the wash dried bright green in the recesses, used thinned thraka green only really affected him and one spot on another Something basic I missed, did I let it get too heavy there?
The boyz themselves have only had a second layer of skin and some tin-bitz layed down so far, and I'm looking at what to re-paint on the deff-dread after examining some photos. Also still debating what gubbins to add aroud the doks waist, mainly thinking wiring and a small exhaust, still not sure about an apron either. Not sure about the base colour yet either, wanted a nice simple black/grey/bone drybrush, but think there might be some issues with the predominance of metallic parts which will be in contact with the ground, may blur boundaries a bit. So maybe a few washes over the top, but I'll wait till I've got a selection painted before looking at that.

Not as much done today as hoped, mainly sat around playing with bits and plotting. Didn't come up with anything much unfortunately, but here's what I got

First flyboy is in the air(he feels a bit naked right now though )




Still needs a bit of cleaning and something to fill the back of the guns, probably cabling. I know they're only shootas not big shootas, but that looked too off balance and mainly I just like these guns (got used as bionic weapons on a few mutants of mine I believe). Not really sure how to base him, standard flying base, metal rod, or pinned to bit of scenery. Any ideas? Was thinking of a squadron composed of just bionikoptas but not sure I could get a good variety, will probably try another one as the other part of the rotor is sitting there, possibly with a horizontal ork and see what else comes to mind.

Skorcha concept


Will square of the back a bit with plasticard to provide a better seat for the turret. Used two sets of tracks together and bodged it slightly(forgot to test fit one part of the plasticard support) but that should get covered with a plasticard edge. Happy with the way it sits when looked at on the level but think maybe it looks slightly unbalanced from higher angles.

Thinking of using this guy as a runtherd


Been thinking a bit about Upzag too. Was thinking about having him on a bike - mainly in an attempt to convince myself I needed the FW warboss, which is definitely out of the question for a while yet. Now I'm thinking that I'll give him a big set of tracks, maybe the old imperial rapier ones, and use as a bike. I'm liking the idea of a tracked attack squig and think these old squat bikes will be cool for oilers -grots for scale
Just gotta figure out how to sit some grots on there now, think I'll go see if any of those grot revolutions have any Think one bike and a trike for oilers, another grot on the back of the trike with some sort of tekkie-gubbins mounted on the pole. Ammo runt on the other bike, maybe swap the back-rest/exhaust for some crates.
...and that's about it for now

Just a quickie before I start today, still working on the Dok, here's my current options:

Best in my opinion is lower-left, with the talos arm, but this uses the same syringe part as his gun plus I've just decided that works better with a pain-boy concept I've got. Least favourite atm is upper-right with the claw, could have that on other side of body, not sure. So what do y'all think?
Now I'll go see if I can do some actual brush work so you're not just looking at grey/green/metal in these pics

edit: also, out of interest what's the preferred treatment of various projects, different threads or adding to old ? I'd kinda like this one not to get de-railed as much as I do, but wondered whether multiple threads was considered forum-whoring in some way?

Ol' gruntknacker is the first completed model, he's been with the dok for some time gradually getting parts removed, not much left now.
Wasn't a fantastic job but was happy with it till I saw the photos The metalwork looks rougher than I thought, there's still a mould line on his eye-pieces and there's what appears to be a fingerprint on the strut - 'sigh' But he's still the first completed figure so he's OK with me Still not quite sure how he managed that as I'm actually working on the boyz and grots (and that dread), but suddenly there he was.

Some wip shots of the dread, need to start thinking about the base now really
Re-done most of the rear and various other metal bits, still need to look at the cabling, do the jaw-plate,verdigris the fuel canisters and tidy up a few areas. Oh, and decide what weapons going on top
Oh, yeah, and decide what to do with the eldar power-fist. I'm thinking I might just put a few colour washes over it, either that or very chipped paint-work, but then I'd have to decide on an eldar colour scheme

I do have to ask, what is that Skorcha based on?
I need something like that to make my Kaddylacks for my Ork/Genestealer cult ;D

lol, that was thunderbird 4, came as a kit with the firefly rescue vehicle(which may turn up later) from TB2's rescue pod It's pretty old now, can't recall the make, been meaning to turn it into an Inquisition personal transport for many a year, but Orkses got there first

edit: the kit was by IMAI apparently Thunderbirds:Rescue Set, just found one on sci-fi.co.uk, but @ silly money.

Awesome! Love the servo-grotz!

Thanks Munch. Let's face it, grots are always gonna be more lovable than ugly great tankbusta's like these two:
Another rhino base, this time with a metal stormboy and a titan missile launcher, other guy's arm came from aircraft kit rocket pod and a piece from a Jotun? arm sprue.

Was toying with some ogres earlier, mainly thinking about the plague ogryn I had started, and whilst trying to fit various bits into the cavity picked up a burnaboyz fuelpack and instantly thought of looted servitors A bit of thinking and I thought of big gunz, and so my (very rough) concept:

Still not sure on these, alternate between 'yay' and 'nuh' a bit at the moment, just going to leave them at the edge of the desk for a while and come back later to see if I like them I reckon. Any comments? (there's been no cutting yet -apart from the las-cannon and that was found as is - which is why the tracked servitor still has legs and I was just using las-cannons in place of zap-guns)

Not much progress on painting side, and still a bit stalled with some of the 'koptas, something just not coming together so I'm just fiddling with those for now, maybe start on a couple of the others. I really want to crack on with the boyz and the grots have reached that nasty almost-done stage, which I find is a huge sticking point for me However I have just undercoated the bionikopta and he's grinning at me in a 'I want paint' kinda way.

I think the vague shape of Upzag might be forming, thinking of these 3 torsos now.
An old zoat, an old ogryn and Qouvandias from Inq. The parts were all pretty random just for me to see what some limbs looked like in the mix I'm a bit gutted as I can't seem to find my Krash Thrax model pieces, even checked back in my folks garage, but all I've got left is a head, which has been floating around various projects for some years now. Anyway, I'm tending towards the zoat, with a bit of work there obviously, but I think I see some potential there. Unfortunately that potential has the potential to be ruined by my gs skills, so I may have to put some practice in

edit: shots in am and pm now
Ok, just a quick couple of shots of boyz in progress, just to show I have touched some brushes
So not a lot of paint on them yet, I'm hoping I might be able to update tonight with some more progress. Did learn I need more practice at outside shots, and not to carry fragile minis around in windy conditions


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Not as much as I hoped, ended up fiddling with other stuff, but here's the boyz as of now

Few more straps and boots to do, highlights, and more washes on the metals, then details. Oh, and decide colours for the helmets and the strider-units legs.

Was thinking about black orcs as 'ard boyz, but think I'm going to use those as nobs instead. Toying with either just your standard up-armoured cyborks or completely bionik-boyz. Bionik-boyz would be based on stuff like these babies I found in one of my boxes

I'm liking your work. Very much random bitz and everything put into the mix, and the pieces you've already fully painted look awesome, especially with the rust and all that. There's also 1 ork that just really gets me- the one with the clawy arm and the backwards legs. He's just been screaming velociraptor at me whenever I look at him. Anyway, continue the great stuff, I can't wait for more bionik inventions

Thanks Lord Kaesar, and I know what you mean with the velociraptor, the arm was going to someone else originally but when I put it with him it was just a perfect fit It's all about the random bitz as far as mekaniks goes, most of my hobby time is spent rooting through boxes and trying to remember where certain bits are likely to be.

Not much of an update, but figured I'd bump as the last update got auto-appended Looking at options for the skorcha
Was originally thinking of the tank being internal, maybe with a cylindrical hatch at the back as in the last two shots. But the other options appeal too, mainly the top left with the fuel can inserted into the back with a lip all around, if that makes sense. Quite like the side tank, but was thinking of having a grot rigger poking out a hatch there. What does anyone think?

I think I'm going to go with the zoat torso for Upzag, so does fairy power spray work on enamels?

Cool body on that thing. I like the barrel half in, on the back or the side doesn't matter to me, but if you put it on the side you could still do the back hatch, too.

I'm looking forward to the bionik bodied boyz. The one model looks like a rogue trader era SM, but where is that scifi scarecrow from?

Hmm, that's an idea GG, think I actually have a better candidate for that position anyway now I think of it - although have to wait till I'm back home to check that. Yeah you got an RT era exo-armour, and the tin-man is from an old GW limited ed, forget what it was billed as but the gnome builder that came with him can be found hiding amongst the mutants in my heretical ramblings thread. Now I just need to come up with at least 8 other suitable boyz

Edit - found it : LE14 - Tinman and Oxy O'Cetylene

Threw down some varnish on the dread.(first image auto-adjusted)
Still needs differing guns for the top placement, and probably a replacement for the one in some of the shots - realised I still hadn't built it as I was setting up for pics, so quickly hacked up a bolter Have left the power fist (turns out it was from an old reaver titan, not eldar) basic for now as I couldn't decide on a colour scheme, and I'm having second thoghts about the jaw plate now. Bunged a touch of weathering powder on the base as it was merging with the legs too much, may have to re-do some of the rubble too to bring the dread out a bit more, but I'll call it done for now.

Just received some of the maximini 'post-apocalypse' bits (ordered a few days before my wallet poked me in the eye to let me know 'no more bits for a few months'). Very nice stuff, little bit of flash but expected that on detail like these, looks like they'll go together well, but more importantly they also come apart rather well The designs make it very easy to chop single legs off pairs, seperate upper/lower arms and you can see pretty clearly how to make similar items with plasticard etc. I'll try to keep a few bits whole for the bionik-boyz, but have already started chopping at them

Two more boyz and the start of a painboy
Gutslumpa there is just trying to decide if he really wants to go back to the dok as he's worried about what else will get 'fixed'. Scraped at his head a little to try and emphasise the one eye wide look, hard to see in rl, let alone in these pics. Other guy has leg part from the above mentioned parts. Painboy will be on a track-unit, unsure as to his left arm as yet.

Purely for gaks and giggles some army shots, first pip then wip (including the 2 finished minis) - apologies for the flash on the last
Just noticed the grot bikers have absconded from the group shot, every time I turn around a grot goes walk-about I swear

Would like some advice on these 2 guys
The biker came just because there happened to be a wheel laying on a sentinel sprue and I realised there was a good fit there, at first was thinking it might make a good start for a buggy, maybe combined with one of the old metal sentinel bodies. I have the old style and the very old egg-style ones sitting around and I keep playing with them as buggy bases for my swamp rats. Just to keep it propped on my desk I picked up a bit of undercarriage and it was a bike I think. Little big to be a standard cybork I think, but maybe a bit small for a bike? Feel it would get a bit cramped once it was loaded up, which while not necessarily a bad thing on orky stuff, would ruin the lines of this as is. Maybe a mek or nob, or another painboy? Or could be a bike I suppose, dakka on either arm, slugga and chainsaw under-slung. That might work, but I was thinking of having cy-boars replace bikes, and maybe have some nob bikers. I'll probably still use one as buggy base anyway, but anyone want to throw their thoughts into the mix?
As for the other guy some GS advice if anyone could please. He was going to be hovering on a drone type thing, but then I decided on a hovercraft I've put a couple of strips down for a rough guide to the skirt curve and now need to lay the sections. My plan was to roll out a strip the width of my cushion segments (I'm thinking 8-10 in total) the length of half the total needed - I plan to do it in 2 stages so as not to squash my work, maybe even 3 if it starts to lok dodgy. Leave the rolled strip for 10-15 minutes then cut into lengths, one piece per segment. Lay the segments down adjacent to each other, setting the curve as I want, tiny gap betwen each segment. Then start to merge the segments together, creating the 'seam' between each. Does this sound about right, my main use for gs before this project was filling, although I 'played' a little, and badly, with milliput many moons ago.
Any comments or advice appreciated, thanks for looking.

Servo-grots with added varnish (second shot of each auto-adjusted - still working on my pics)


6/10 grots done plus 2 tekkies. 4 incomplete = 1 lost a leg and its base, 1 lost an arm, 2 just not finished. I quickly finished and varnished these guys to stop further breakage/loss, as these guys are tiny they tend to get buried under the junk on my desk whenever they're not being worked on. I do intend to go back and add highlights to skin and probably another red wash over the cloth.

C&C welcome as always Thanks for looking

After some advice for this guy too:


I'm wanting a 'suspended in gunk' look, and I'm a bit unsure on how to go about it. I have some old monomer (used for making optical lenses) laying about that I know I can tint with inks, and that would be the best solution I think, although previous experience warns me that could give me air bubbles/vortices - it looked okay in the 'magic mushrooms' I was making at the time, but not sure it would improve this . I also have no idea if the monomer would react with the paints at all, but I'm fairly confident that it won't.
The other option is a heavy wash on the inside of the perspex, not sure this would really give the look I'm after.
So, any advice, any other options I'm not thinking off?
The grot has been glued to the perspex but not the base, although I may be able to detach him - I know I shouldn't have glued him without a solution in place, but...I did.