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Hey, Dakka! Here's what i've made with plastic clay:

- Mekboy. This was actually the first attempt to test if it works at all cause it's written that i should bake the plastic-clayed stuff in the oven at 130 C; but atm my oven ain't working so i've used a microwave with a minimum of 140 C - that still worked. Also, the holding part was made of clay in the first place but as i found out - it's quite fragile when the parts are too thin. So, i used metal instead.
The wrench is made by my gf cause she was curious and the wrench turned out to look great!



- Lil' lobba. Having no experience at using plastic clay, the process took like 2 evenings to make the first lobba (it also took 2 for the 2-d one)! I used metal wire as a carcass for the rod that connects wheels. I wanted to make it look as if it has a crack that's been pulled back together. But i don't think that it went too well - hope that the paintjob will fix it! The gun has a loading end at the back that uses a lock to be opened and closed manually. Though, it's just aestetics and ain't movable. The gun turned out to be a bit too small =(





- Mono-tracked lobba. I wanted to create a big gun on tracks. Tracks apeared to be a pain to create so i've decided to make it a mono-track instead! Will make the barrel rotatable later - don't have the right tools atm. I've used nail polish to make a solid fuze out of a woolen string.




- Sliding lobba. The idea is that the angle of firing is changed by sliding the barrel back and forth on the mechanism. The metal bit is a handle that fixates the sliding part. It's all immovable due to super-glue. And it requires to be made in metal not to break, so it will do as it is, i guess.




- Lobba Kegorn. My favorite one! I've actually managed to make a working mechanism that utilises the principle of it's irl counterpart - Mortar Kegorn - that used a fixed ammount of possible angles of firing.




One grot pulls out the fixator, another grot adjusts the angle and the first one pushes the fixator back. Mek shouts at the nearest grot cauze dat's how stuff's done in ork society.




- Lobba that was hit by a couple autocannon rounds. It's also rotatable and utilizes a mechanism with which something like an anchor connects to the chain. Basically, an immovable metal rod that goes through a horseshoe-shaped metal part weld up to the barrel. Hard to see on the picture but it's quite simplistic.




- The whole battery, mek and happy grot guners - they wouldn't need to be any closer to the frontline than they'd wanted!

Pretty damn cool, they'll look great painted up.

The one with the working mechanism is really impressive. I wouldn't even have imagined trying something like that.

Wow impressive sculpting skills. I think some more details (or in Ork speak, trash) needs to be added to make them look more okish

shauni55 wrote:
Wow impressive sculpting skills. I think some more details (or in Ork speak, trashgubbinz & bitz) needs to be added to make them look more okish

FtFY.

Pretty nice. I like how you've made them each their own individual thing- there gonna be enough Grotz to man them all?

Thanks for the feedbacks! Yep, i'd probably use a few orky bits on some of them. I'm actually waiting till i get my hands on some plasticart - which is easier to work with. Especially with tiny pieces. Plasticart is way more robust than plastic clay and doesn't run into the problem of deformation. Plastic clay feels almost like plastiline or plasticine - the one we played with in the childhood - but a bit more hard.

I actually don't have grot gunners - they're the same grots but don't wield weaponry and are modelled to be wearing other stuff. But i have a 10-strong squad of regular grots! Since regular grots are nearly useless on the tabletop, unless you really don't need infantry and just want to save as much points as possible, i think they'll gladly change the role from cannon fodder to cannon crew!

I agree. Add some blitz. Well done though. Do you bake it like "sculpy" afterwards to make it harden?

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 toasteroven wrote:
The one with the working mechanism is really impressive. I wouldn't even have imagined trying something like that.

It was first finished without the mechanism but the barrel is too heavy to stay in place after rotating cause i've used a too thin metal wire as an axis - so, i had to figure out a way to allow the barrel get fixated on different angles. Came up with this stuff. First thought that the half-circle form would work but it didn't and i've spent like an hour or two making this tiny bit and trying it out time after time. Though, in the end it fit quite well.


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 doktor_g wrote:
I agree. Add some blitz. Well done though. Do you bake it like "sculpy" afterwards to make it harden?

Yep, it's like sculpy or fimo plastic clay...don't remember the one i've bought - probably sculpy, it had an elephant drawn on the box. I've just checked them directly at the store and chosen the hardest one. The harder your clay - the better it is as a material for smaller details and such minis have a ton of small details. It still deforms but not at the same rate as softer clay.

Very neat! Seeing stuff like this always gets my imagination running. Thanks for sharing dude.

Nicely done, but strewth! Watch out if you're heating that stuff more that the recommended temperature. The gasses and plasticisers given off are not what you want coating a regularly-used piece of cooking equipment, I gather.

Thanks for warning! I hope that this 10 degrees difference is not that bad. My microwave just can't go below 140 C. Besides, minis ain't huge. And something tells me that simply breathing while being stuck in the traffic jam every damn day is way more harmful for my lungs