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Thank you for the compliments guys!

And @ Selvaggio/mr merlin, I did attempt to show that by having most of the scratches on it being horizontal (relative to the sub, of course) though now that you mentioned it, I realize it was mostly unsuccessful because the scratches don't compliment/interact with each other. Going along with what you said, I think that a few more larger scratches on either side that span most of the length of the sub would further solidify that theme. I'll try to do that sometime soon if I don't get too distracted with other projects, thanks for the input!

@Bigfish

mullet_steve wrote:because its SUB-teranian

^^what he said
I thought of it for a campaign that I'm planning, and it's going to surprise both the ork and imperial players when it shows up(to the joy of the ork player) I just loved the ridiculousness of the idea and decided that it needed to happen.

Must be happen, I imagine the faces of the IG/SM whatever player on the opposite side ahahahah

A land sub. Only orks....

well orks, squats and really old impy guard,

I think i remember a subteranian tunnling drill thing for you troops to ride in many many years ago

Anyone confirm my mad ramblings?

Not totally sure, but definitely makes sense for squats at least, since they're dwarves in space. And dwarves loves it in the underground

Yeah, but the impys didn't make a land-SUBMARINE!

They just made weedy drills and diggers and such. Nuffin' tuff like a sub.

Clever, very clever. That and on the plus side, now your orks hace land subs they can attack the mole people as well

Haha YES

Unfortunately I'm going to be on a several week hiatus as far as updates go... I make cakes every once in a while on the side, and my girlfriend's friend asked me to do one for her bridal shower. It's not great pay since it's a favor for a friend but it should be good fun nonetheless, as long as it comes out proppa. I'm going to attempt to make her and her fiance out of modelling chocolate, which is something that I've never done before, so it should certainly be an interesting learning experience (and one that I can probably apply to this hobby) at the least.

I worked with that and is just great fun, have a sweet blast!

Post pics!

If you have any chocolate left over.....

Ch-ork-olate.

Haha whelp I have some pics of my chocolate progress...

Also, this time hasn't been a total bust as far as the hobby goes, I've been able to get the last two of a squadron of kanz all painted up in my spare time:






And the family portrait



EDIT I just realized I forgot to bloody up the last one!

I'm loving the paintjobs on your kans. Well done!

Lovin the kans! That chocolate guy is really turning out nice... Looks good enough to eat...

Nice dirty look on those Kans mate!
Like the Chocouniform as well.

Looking good

When fighting orks, on land... Expect a f******* submarine!

Hahaha, I could picture my Shas'O going
"Bummer, didn't really incorporate THAT into my incredibly complex tactics..."

Anyways, great work man, keep on it!
You are amazingly adept at sculpting even though you insist that you are useless?
Hell, I tried making TERRAIN from scratch and failed miserably...

Haha, hopefully the imperial player will be saying that too.

Thanks guys!

I really like those kans, very well done on the paint jobs, also the chocolate officer looks awesome keep up all the good work

Thanks Bigfish!

As for the chocolate, I'm very glad to say it's finally done.

Thanks for sticking through this little detour with me guys, so now it's time to get back to me orks. And I've got quite a lot on the menu...probably way more than I could do in the next year...so I'm seriously hoping that this be an eventful month at least.

Whelp, not nearly as eventful as I had hoped, but at least I've started to get the third buggy underway..
Bought a nice landspander cheap on ebay, and the orks promptly looted it.

If you guys do get a strange feeling you've seen this before, it's prolly because I've definitely stolen several ideas from pics I found on the internetz














What do you think so far?

Some various parts that will probably find their place somewhere on here



I also got a bit more sculpting done for the squig. Still need to do teeth, a bunch more other details including scales, muscle, toes, and everything in between.. then make his leg a bit bigger to better fit the body...THEN do the entire other half. But if all goes well and it actually comes out looking nice, I might cast him up and sell him on ebay. MAYBE even do a few variations to do a squad of sorts...maybe for squig riders as a bikers alternative or something.



Actually, does anybody here cast? I've started casting little things here and there, but I bought some resin from home depot that feels very different from the stuff you usually see in this hobby, does anyone know where to get resin like that, that's relatively cheap? And also stuff to use as mold material? I'm currently using amazing mold putty and instant mold, but those are only good for small things, if I were to cast this squig for instance I would need a lot more material than the little bottles of mold putty could provide. I've heard of people using silicone but where I've looked it seems pretty expensive. Does anyone know of some cheap alternatives, or really anything to point me in the right direction?


And of course there's plenty of models still in the painting queue



Thanks!

I like the idea of making the squig cast with multiple bits, and i guess you could add some guns and have them as buggies for snakebite clans. everything is looking good, and sorry but cant help on the casting matirials front

Yes, You just stole my idea for an other buggy, that landspeeder looks nice and orky my friend.

Thanks Selvaggio!

bigfish wrote:you could add some guns and have them as buggies for snakebite clans

Funny, that's actually the reason I started sculpting him to begin with haha... basically just adding some armor bits that the boyz tied/stapled/welded on to his sides/head and a grot with a rocket launcher on his back should do the trick...though I'm not totally sure I'm going to do that still, at least immediately.

Dammit thats where my insiration came from,,,, I have just started on my new deff dread I like to call him Mr stompy as he's got a veery similar pose to yours so far but I have done a little kitbashing/customising to mine... I'll try to remember to post pictures somewhere soon and put a link in here

( Space for link )

Awesomesauce wrote:

so there's your one and now here's the deff dread i put together a few days after seeing that image


I changed a few bits and pieces like the feet, I couldn't decide if I wanted the claws or the little shoes so I used both... and I added both those drum barrel looking things to one arm and then added three dread combat weapons to it and I have magnatised the lower arms so I can change the weapons around endlessly

Haha excellent! Looks damn good. And I like the paint job too!

Progress coming along quite slowly lately, but still progress nonetheless.

She's all ready to be primed and painted all purdy-like


The ork's bodies (and obviously their respective heads) aren't glued in yet so that I can more easily paint them








It was such a joy doing rivets on this thing. Quick and painless. This required by far the least rivets of any of my scratchbuilds to date


And the thing in the gunner's hand is going to have a big red button on top--so that no matter how many times he hits his head against the dash while being driven around, it'll still be relatively easy to remember how to shoot the launcha up top

Woh, whats up with the ork on the rights arms ?? those look crazy cool. and the rest of the model looks good as well. you are very good at just getting these things done and made quite fast, impressive

yeah those arms look like clear/badly mixed clear resin?

Are you copying parts?

Thanks Bigfish!

And yeah it is really crappy resin--it's supposed to be that color, it's very cheap. I did end up doing that with the driver arms simply because I ran out of any other arms I could use. And I've read a lot on it, and from what I've gathered GW is perfectly okay with the average hobbyist making a few copies here or there for their own personal models, just so long as they're not making money off it in any way...which I'm definitely not