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Hi guys! so, i've been working on this army for a while now, but i still have a long way to go. here's what i've got so far;







-skrall

Nice really liking the Gargant and I'm utterly jealous of the Kilbursta! Really good looking looted armour as well.

Fantastic, i also really like the warboss. Is he an existing model or a conversion?

Thanks for the comments guys!

@perku; its the head from the fantasy iron claw warboss, the claw from the plastic ork kit and the body of badrukk

Ok, i'm working on a project currently, a home brew scratch built high detail 'scrap tank' which i plan to sell, but mainly as use for grot tanks. in the meantime, here's some detailish photo's of the army.




more coming soon, i'm just putting all my effort into this tank kit. i'm hoping to put it on sale in early/mid august.

I hereby declare this thread good un' proppa. Nice!
Where is the head on that neat converted Badrukk from?

Nice. All the peices look really cool. Keep up the good work!

thanks for the comments guys, the head is from the fantasy iron claw warboss.

So, i've been working for two days straight on the scrap tank making it castable. it's an interesting process, forced me to up my game. in the meantime, here is an early kitbash wip for update supa-cannon





its coming along nicely i think, but still needs a fair bit of work, its a little too rough and ready at the moment.

-skrall

Liking the Supa Kannon although that first Russ needs either a hatch or internal gubbins!

@liama; in the model on my desk it has an ork climbing out, it's just easier to put up the older photo since it isn't finished being painted yet.

Time for the first update in a few days. Here is the supa-kannon in basecoat red, and my flashgitz;







And now for something special. I'm going to start work on my own mini's range, and this is a preview of the first model. its about 60% complete, needs work, but its my scrap tank design. I'm hoping to put this on sale in the next week or two.



more photo's of this after the first resin casts and paint ups, i'm hoping a few people here might be interested in buying them. The more interest their is, the more accessories i can release. i'm going to release a dozerblade at the same time as the initial launch, but if people like it then i'll be doing a rounder turret design as well as 5 other types of weapons.

-skrall

Now that is a supa kannon! Orks tend to bring out the best of conversionists

thanks kenshin!

Further update time; i have begun to finally rebuild and reshape my stompa. it's currently drying so it's being held together in a masking take brace and a pot of paint.... but it worked fine on the otherside so here's hoping'



-skrall

thanks for the comments guys! glad you like the kannon!

ok update time, i've finished the first zzap track, as well as put together the under-body for the grot-mega tank.






C&C?

-skrall

update; to be read in the voice of Dalek Caan

Something is coming!



-skrall

Ok, so alot of you have heard me talk about the 'scrap tank' for about a week or two now. well, i can now release the finalised design. This is what it looks like, this is the original model as all molds are now completed, cured, and will from tomorrow be undergoing the first trial run of castings. Once i get the casting process down, and find a better quality of resin i can sell these off. Anyone interested in owning one of these (with future accesories/turret and weapon options in the planning proccess) it will cost in the region of £10






thoughts?

-skrall

So here are some highlights of the match i had tonight... 1500pts per side, an annihilation match

Deployment;



With turn one being to my side i lost no time in thinning out the genestealers... though due to my low BS i had alot of issues despite the sheer volume of firepower;

The tyranids on the other hand began to move... with only a light amount of shooting on their side the hivemind scored little against the Ork horde...



Turn two; already the genestealers had taken two of the grot tanks, but the ork boys were not afraid. piling out they charged into the genestealers, loosing three of their own but inflicting the same injuries back! Victory was short lived in this corner, with the entire tyranid infantry horde sweeping in and buring them in a sea of carapace.

On the other side however things were not so grim. the combined efforts of the tanks had scored a few wounds on the synapse units, but gargoyles moved in to the shooting boys, and so began a bloody and vicious combat.

It's worth mentioned that at this stage a group of ravenors deep striked... only for the hive mind to fire them off the table. a cruel twist of fate;



Turn three; things were now putting the gitzkrieg on the backfoot. with the bigmek, thus far scoring serious hurting against the hivemind (his cannon had not only fired but on both occasions wound or killed a warrior) recieving the infantry who had taken out the ladz in the previous round now faced with the same sea of carpace he knew his time was up for gork and mork had seen fit to end his reign.

The tyranids, now putting down serious hurt, obliterated the tanks that stood in thier way, thus far clocking up three got tanks a squad of boyz and their trukk on the left flank, and putting the other boyz squad into serious trouble on the right as showing off its teeth. One again with a might boom the ork lines opened fired.. only to miss with the vast majority of their weapons. The carnifex took his wound, another unit of tyranids felt the sting of the guns but still they would not be stemmed.



Turn 4; with this being the final turn (3hrs in and alot of shooting and dice throwing... thus reaching the end of the clubs time its open) things look grim. 3 kill points per side, units either stranded or too far from combat to be effective, and with the grot tanks playing merry havoc with the carnifex (6+ to hit... only for a 5+ inv save to stop any damage done) it came down to two things; who could kill the most?

The ork lines opened fire killing the last of one warrior unit leaving only one synapse creature standing. In combat, the tanks, built by the cursed mek, shrugged off even the hardiest of rending claws, suffering two stunned results.

In the end the 4th kill point went the the tyranids, who after 3 turns of combat, finally killed the ork nob who had stood his ground against gargoyles, lost his armour save.

Match total;
Gitzkrieg; 3 kill points
Tyranids; 4 kill points.

Footnote; i miss 4th edition... when points of units left mattered. i had 900pts worth of tanks still left. shame, but an amazingly fun match!

-skrall

Great vehicles! I really dig that Warboss, he's got an awesome retro feel without the cheese.

Thanks dude! glad you like him! i now see what you mean, he does have that sense of 'stylish without too much generic' about him

-skrall

So; i've been refitting my workshop for a few days to try and expand some of the space i have. since most of my tools live in the shed, i've got enough room to spread some of these guys out now.

So; with 3 days to go here is how my 750pt army stands.... as you can see, 21 models left to paint.



and some shots of my VCs, desk and 'refrence library'





-skrall

with one day left its almost done...




-skrall

It is done! the last squad is done, and painted ready for tomorrow;



The flocks still drying, and thats all thats left.

on a side note however, i've become involved in an apocalypse battle in early december. As such, i am going to restart one of my old projects to join into this log.

Da Mekz Dream;Stompaz and a Gargant....

So currently planned;
- Rebuilding one of my stompas so it becomes a gigashoota maniac.
- Building a Klaw Stompa
- depending on the time scale maybe a third stompa
- The Gargant.

-skrall

Update time;


Eh... no photo's yet, they are still coming into my gaming clubs facebook group so it'll be a short while before i can offer some of them. However, i've worked out the third part of the project, its fairly simple, so it's easy to remember.

bikes. Lots and lotz o' Bikez!

Here is wat i gotz in me 'ead.

HQ;

Wazdakka Gutzmek; 180pts
Warboss Zhadsnark Da Rippa; 150ps

elite;
3 Biker Nobz, warbiker painboy, 4 cybork bodies, 3 power clawz 285pts

Troops;

3 warbikes, nob, powerclaw 110pts
3 warbikes, nob, powerclaw 110pts
3 warbikes, nob, powerclaw 110pts
3 warbikes, nob, powerclaw 110pts
3 warbikes, nob, powerclaw 110pts
3 warbikes, nob, powerclaw 110pts

Fast Attack;

3 warbikes, nob, big choppa 90pts
3 warbikes, nob, powerclaw 110pts

Total points; 1495.
Total models; 30.
Total powerclaw attacks on the charge; 50.

What do we think? true speed freek army, with 3 'death star' units, and a crap tonne of fast attacking heavy hitters.

-skrall

Its phototime! First set is from the final, during the through the fire and in flames scenario... damned rough map. First up, mine and alexheaps blood angels,



Deployment!


yeah, we were fighting daemons so we reduced his deep striking zone into his zone, which as you can image would cause them HUGE issues. the daemons player was properly cacking himself, because the tau would get shot to feth and he couldn't drop into combat without deep striking to death (the lava counted as death to any and all who though of using it.)



midway point, i tried to block the daemons why using my trukks as a giant blockade.

no pictures of the end of the board, but we lost due to the changing of the game, we couldn't get our troops to the objective (bridge) in time because we lost 2 turns thanks to the time limit on the gaming hall itself. However, we prided our selves on our tactics, because the other team admitted in 5-6 turn game we would have absolutly smashed them.

total; 2 tabled. 2 wins. 1 loss.

-skrall


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busy day on my threads today... stil. Spray gun has arrived so....

Stage 1; Basics of the Killbursta.





-skrall

Update time; 3 tanks + fighter prepped for the update paintin techniques. hard to see, but alot of rust techniques in there as well as the usual evil sunz glyf.



C&C?

-skrall

wow.... 8 posts without a reply. man i love dakkadakka....


In order to justify this post... here's some pictures of my 3/30 bikers (wip), my classic ork squad, some kommandos and nazdreg (stripped heavy weapon inc)








Now thats justified, after careful planning i've abandoned the gargant because... well, i've fallen in love with deff arsenals... and in order to justify another stompa (ok... 2)... well you can work it out.

So, here's the stompas...

Speed freek Rok'n'Rolla (white dwarf goff rok'n'rolla with the following add ons)
Red paint Job.
545pts

Kustom stompa 1;
Gaze of Gork, Gigastoota,Deth Kannon with co-axial gigashoota, 2x shoulder kannon, bellygun, repair krew, power field, deff arsenal
1050pts

Kustom stompa' 2;

Gaze of gork, 2x titan close combat weapon, 2 shoulder zzap gunz, Belly gigashoota, red paint job, Supercharge, repair krew, power field, red paint job.
Total cost; 765 points.

Kustom stompa 3;
Gaze of Gork, 2x Gigastoota, 2x shoulder kannon, bellygun, repair krew, power field, deff arsenal
975pts

I think we can all agree.... that is one SERIOUSLY monster set of titans... 3335 points in those alone, but more than enough firepower for my portion of the forces.

Of course, i've still got 8 killakans, 9 big trakks, a skullhamma, a fighta, warbikes galore and a Killblasta tank to add to it. I'll be honest, the size of my waaagh is causing even me to get worried. Nah i lied. I LOVE IT.

-skrall

Skrall wrote:wow.... 8 posts without a reply. man i love dakkadakka....

You have obviously rendered everyone speechless... Everything is looking good, but it might be easier to comment if you took some close ups of individual pieces rather than so many group and further out shots. Unfortunately, the ones you have done this for (some of the tanks) - as you said - it's hard to make out the weathering - so we are just waiting for more progress really (Well, I am anyway!) Did you finished bikers start out like the red base coated one?

@arakasi; yeah they all started out based in a red coat, its good for doing tanks, but i've since been converted to painting them white first. And yeah... i don't like showing my infantry on a individual scale because most of them are rushed tabletop standard paint jobs, i only take pride in my bikes/tanks/walkers.

Ok i promised this a while back... so here it is.

Weathering Tutorial 1; Salt weathering.

Firstly, get your model painted to the quality of rust you like, mine seems a little washed out in this light but you'll see i go for a brown/orange rust, a mix of fresh and old rust.



Next up... salt the areas you want to look rusted.



Now paint your model your selected scheme.... in this case, badmoon yellow!



Next up, wash them in warm water and use either a stiff paint brush or old toothbrush to make sure you get shift of all that salt. once you do, it should look like this;




This technique can only be used by using an airbrush, or a spray can (i've done it in the past with red spray for my word bearers)

Any questions or feedback? If not, expect nazdreg to appear in the next few days as a finished model.

-skrall

That alt technique seems interesting. I tried a weathered paintjob on a terrain piece, and it didn't turn out so good. (I got the rest down, but when I tried to paint the "original" color, I couldnt get it to look right.)

I'll give the salt trick a go, and see what happens.

Good looking stuff, I do echo the request for more closeups! I also enjoyed seeing some old-school models in there. I love fielding my OOP army and explaining to players "no, those are not grots. they are Orks, haha."

pox, its worth a go, quite effective! and yeah, i'll be doing alot more in the next few days as and when i finish these guys!

ok after the last update i decided that i'm going to reboot my 750 combat force as badmoons.... classic badmoons.



C&C? quite happy with that yellow still.... and the second kan having much more subtle rusting.

-skrall

Its time to play through the keyhole... so can anyone tell me, who would ride a bike like this...?



-skrall

Wazdakka Gutsmek!

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