Subtle has now left the building ..

I love this log. I had to filter it in my greedy need to take in all the converting goodness and it was worth all the hours of my life I put into reading it

The conversions are awesome, Monkeytroll, and I love seeing all the OOP stuff being put to good use. All the vehicles and koptas are great and your use of all those tiny gubbins really makes them something to behold.

One disturbing thing I noticed was that, when filtered, you started making more and more random comments. "Okay, I told myself, he must be replying to other people's posts." So I removed the filter only to discover... You might actually be slightly mad.

What's on the list of potential extra whotsits? I need to know in case a certain Aussie doesn't get a picture up pronto as I'll then need to give you extra distractions from your vehicles (but not the Trukks)

CK - Cheers. I still have chestnut, brown, magenta, and I seem to recall finding some dark green and blue recently. My favourites were the red, yellow and light blue, they were so vivid.


dstein - They stop thinking we're strange when they notice the candy though.

To be fair, they stop thinking about pretty much everything once they spot the candy. 'Candy' is about all they're thinking at that point.



PDH - Thanks man, but you do know you'll have to don't you?


lone dirty dog - I'd appreciate that. I have a few yellows, but they're all a bit anemic compared to the old GW one.


neil - I chuckled


JR - Thank you, that makes me feel all warm and tingly inside

Wait, you can't see those posts from the grots in my head either?

I'm generally posting just after a modelling session, so my heads still really intent on making tenous connections and going off at weird tangents, so my typing tends to follow the same 'logic'.

Not that I'm not like that all the time, just a bit less so.


Arakasi - Well, since you NEED to know, and it seems to be a valid reason...

Banner strung between two poles above the entrance.
Extended platform over the front.
Telescope gubbins.
Watchtower platform.
'Bridge' extensions.
Klub Waaagh!
Various dakka.
Spotlight.
Alternative roof.
Walkway to 'kopta pad (and therefore.... )

That sort of thing....


And so we have the finished basic article:




Just noticed I haven't riveted the patch on the door, or finished filling the pipe above the door. Or finished the hinges on the side hatch, or finished the worky gubbins on the side. Always that little bit to do

There's 5 mounting points on the roof for dakka, platforms and other fun stuff. The two entrance-way pipes will stay hollow to allow additional fun there too. There's also a little pipe in the ground near the door for squig or banner type fun. The socket on the vital wotsit re-jigging plant takes a plastic tube quite nicely for some more potential fun, pipe-ways running to other terrain, a socket for a bridge section, connecting to a silo, broken waste pipe etc.




Now some may have spotted there's no glyphs in evidence. I plan to add them in with various of the 'added extras'. As another example of the strange ways my modelling mind takes me, I figured that a beaten, patched outpost like this didn't automatically mean orks. It could be in necromunda or something similar. Therefore if I didn't put any uniquely orky identifiers on it it could double up.

Yes, that's right. I, the non-gamer, decided I'd build a bit of terrain that could be used in 2 games I don't play

Anyway, I had fun with that build, and there'll be more fun in the future.

No idea where I'll be puting it like, though


And now some fun shots of 9 nobs and a painboy using it as a firebase:



That's 10 bulky figures all sitting on there happily, if a tad cosily. You can probably zoom in a bit if you think you can detect any progress in their paint since their last appearance


And as they were looking on the meks decided to get in on the action and whip up a quick base:




Enjoy the pwetties

Laters.

God damn you Arakasi! I'm painting!

And Monkeytroll, how is it valid?


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some sweet terrain

lol, I was so caught up forgot to say:

Lookin' Good

Dam fine work Its great the way you take a handful of stuff and just create and it works love the tower I have to ask where is the razor wire you are using from

I found the name on the ink jar Daler Rowney looks like this : you get them in most art shops (I know this is not yellow but it was the first one I could get to the bat caves a real gak hole ) they take a little getting use to but with a little work I have found them to work well

Where do you get your textured plastic card from as you live in the UK and I find it a real pain the arse to find over here

Matt - Err, coz he had bits of paperand everything to show me when he asked

And thanks!


Rogue - Thank you.


ldd - Cheers! The wire is Aber 1:35 barbed wire.
Thanks for the info, I've got some of those inks, but not yellow, I'll keep my eye out.
Embossed plasticard used to come from my local games shop, as they stocked railway stuff too. Now it's shut I tend to use Antenociti's Workshop, Bits And Kits, and sometimes modelsforsale.com - but not easy to search on their site.



Fixed those little bits on the outpost, and sprayed it black. Then noticed I'd forgotten to add hinges to the main doors I'll save you the pic of a big black block.

Whilst fiddling around I came across a nearly used up RTB01 sprue



More nostalgia

I remember the day my mate and I first got these, we'd clubbed together to buy a box mail order, and the day they arrived at Chris's he came round mine before school and we never got there. Spent the morning putting 'em together in crazy ways, just like we'd seen in WD a few weeks before

So, what else to do but clip those last few bits off



....and stick the sprue to a bit of tread-plate


And stick a few things to that.



GutSlab didn't know what it was, but he knew da meks would want it. He also knew it was 'eavy. Ripped both his arms out of their sockets when he tried to drag it. Shoddy workmanship.

The 'styrene ball has been PVA'd, then sanded then PVA'd again, it won't be smooth, but I want a beaten copper look to it so that's fine. Strip from thin cardboard and helped stay in place by dress-making pins, which make nice rivets too.




That's right, going for some old-skool techniques here, check the bendy straw

It'll be a boiler-powered land-runner buggy type thing obviously. Heh.


Poor Sunday night update, but hey, I got the outpost built and primed in less than a week. Need some recovery time after that

Night all.

Bendy straw and lego wheels if my eyes don't decieve me, which they somtimes do..

everythings looking good.

I suppose that's a good enough reason...

Looking good. Make sure to coat the straw in thinned down pva, or the paint will flake right off!

Nice outpost - very detailed and orky! Looks like it was built by drunken hillbillies from the remains of a scrapyard.

I have exactly the same old paints as you! except I took the labels off so I could take them to art class without embarrassment (sad of me I know)

Thanks for the info will give the modelsforsale.com a look and see what I can find, I remember that box set as well I bought one and the warhammer elves dwarfs goblins box set at the same time and stuck them all together to make really bad miniatures LOL.

The buggy is a nice start real old skool bit like scrap yard challenge what else you going to stick to it and where is a picture of the tower

Gud outpost! Keep it up!

hahha, I love the way your mind works, your orky base looks great!! painting time surely????

That is some great terrain!

mullet - Your eyes are working just fine at the moment
However, if they do cause issues sometimes, I've got a lovely pair of Zeiss-Nikon augments here which the dok says youcan have at a very reasonable rate


Matt - I thought so...


CK - Thanks. It'll be getting several coats of pva, to help strengthen it as I forgot to fill it with plaster or some such. Not that I know where the paster id if I had remebered it anyway...


weety - Cheers. Just out of shot is a group of grots in rickety rocking chairs whittling some sticks.

Heh, I used to take some of my minis to art. Even had a few in my exam show, don't think they went down well with the examiner though


ldd - No problem. There'll be some more gubbinz stuck to it I reckon. Possibly even a whodjamaflip or two. And almost certainly a widget.

Which tower


genom - Thanks guy, I'll certainly try


TR - Cheers bud

It got sprayed black. Isn't that painting


I-bounty-hunt -the-elderly - Thank you sir!



So no update as yet, I've spent the last 40 minutes or so since I got home looking at dakka. So no pics.
Got a further two packages today, figured one was the vallejo orc paint set, but couldn't recall what the other might be, didn't look like one of the few presents I'm still waiting for.
Forgot I'd ordered some of The Master 's brush cleaner and preserver, recommended by several people. Then when I opened the paints, I found it was actually a vallejo wash set I'd also forgotten ordering.
See, it's a dangerous business shopping on the interwebs.

Guess I'll forgo cooking and eat a lot at other peoples over christmas in order to balance my bank err, balance.

And I still need to try and grab one more pressie tonight, Gork alone knows what I'll find coming through the post over the next week

Anyways, that's more than enough talk of my shopping, I'll go see if I can do some chopping.

Sewing pins - hadn't thought of that yet. and Styrofoam would be a great medium to work with. nor had I thought of just coating it in PVA.

Does that work well to prevent the styrofoam from 'melting' when in contact with other chemicals, model glue/spraypaint?

Nice tower monkey!

Are you going to use that for games of planet strike or just normal senery?

HAZZER

CK - Thanks. It'll be getting several coats of pva, to help strengthen it as I forgot to fill it with plaster or some such. Not that I know where the paster id if I had remebered it anyway...

It's definitely worth the extra time. I ditched some of my old necromunda stuff I made because the paint was flaking off a lot - a shame after you've invested alot of time in a model!

Zeke - They're great for terrain work, helps hold foamboard together etc. You can get some interesting decorative heads too if you look in the right places. (Embroidery shops, I'd guess, I've not come across any useful ones myself, but I've seen various examples used elsewhere)

As long as the PVA has completely sealed the 'styrene it should be good, a couple of thin coats with a drop of washing liquid in to help break surface tension should get good coverage. I'd always test glues on a spare treated piece first though, I tend to stick with more PVA or UHU.


HAZZ - Thanks! Neither really, just built for the fun of it, haven't played since RT days


CK - Yeah, I remember covering our early tables in flakes of paint off of all the industrial pipework we'd added to our terrain back then


Received a small supply package from graven today, has a few fun bits in that might get used fairly soon(TM).

So much good stuff , the Tower is exceptional mate , really stand out , great work monkey, love the plasticard work , i still haven't bought any doh!

The steam cart is inventive the straw a real nice touch

and the nostalgia

quote monkey "

More nostalgia

I remember the day my mate and I first got these, we'd clubbed together to buy a box mail order, and the day they arrived at Chris's he came round mine before school and we never got there. Spent the morning putting 'em together in crazy ways, just like we'd seen in WD a few weeks before "

could that be this one .. issue 94 ?

Merry Gorkmas to one and all. Hope da Big Red Mek bought you lots of wonerful gubbins.


neil - Cheers mate. And yes, that's the one, back when GW loved to mix'n'match a bit more than they do now

at neil...lol... those SM are truly hilarious but cool looking at the same time^^


at monkey... i now have to say some things about your last two weeks worth of hobby work...

wow... you have been in a rush of creativity! and no mistake! that outpost is totally sweet! very much in the spirit of your cyborks. the new tanks you have made and the whole range of goodiness...i feel as if i have secretly already quited with the hobby compared to your output^^ i have to really get into gear again...your work is totally inspiring in some weird ways^^

by the way... the CD spiral case i have too in my scratchbuild "box" (more a tomb^^) and now i think this is a wonderful idea to use it as such a terrain piece... by the way, the tower looks already unpainted very suitable as a orky outpost... some way makes me think of a snow camo sentry tower^^

also... i wish you a happy chrimbo... the gods only knows what could be gifted to you as i think you could find good use in next to everything^^

cheers, vik

You fouled your good Dwarf bitz with crappy Elf bitz? Did the glue stick together? I don't think glue will hold Dwarf bitz to Elf bits, that's unpossible.

smells like chaos a bit if you put it that way^^

Thanks vik. It may appear to be two weeks worth of work, but don't forget I was offline for a month as well

Inspiring in a weird way? Music to my ears vik

Yep, several CD cases lying around waiting for some form of terrain to claim them, 'kopta launch pads might be ideal, and reminds me of some discussions about kopta launch/take-off further back in this blog.

And I like that you like it unpainted, that's a good attitude to take when viewing this thread

Hope you all ate, drank and made merry over the last few days


Bit more progress on the Jalopy:



Dakka platform is complete (bar wiring of course), although the big shoota option is not built yet. Went through several different takes on the platform, ranging from a high crow's nest with a boy inside, to a plain column with a gun-drone cybork similar to the hover-buggy. This version started out as a seat on one side and a gun on the other, on a small platform supported by a spindly tripod. It then started getting a bit more hi-tek to contrast with the steam(?) boiler (who knows, maybe it's actually a mini nuclear reactor) look, and ended up like this. Decided the hi-tek look needed a console on a foldable arm to finish it off.

Driver will have a set up similar to a ship's wheel/arcade driving game. Haven't decided yet on whether there'll be a foot pedal attached, or a big ol' throttle lever beside him. He'll probably be getting a hook type arm, and some sort of bionik leg, the choice on that depends on whether I go with the pedal or the lever option.

Heads came in my supply drop from graven and I figured they could pass as hill-billy militia types with a slight air of sea-dog in an orky kind of way. Sort of.

And some detail shots.





Still have the steering console, some wiring, a few more drive-gubbins, some cabling, a bit of side/rear detailing and front details to do. And a rigger or two. Possibly holding some wires.


'My Gork. It's full of squigs'

I love that touchpad control thing, it looks so.... Imperial.
well done!

And I like that you like it unpainted, that's a good attitude to take when viewing this thread

lol simply priceless!

and i really like that console arm...looks very suitable... will the cybork be "completed with a below the waistline body part?

Viktor von Domm wrote: will the cybork be "completed with a below the waistline body part?

We dont need to know about that!!!!!!

lol... i was more refering to legs or possibly given monkey´s inventive mind some tires.... and we all do know orks are looking like ken from barbie...

lol

Thanks guys, glad you like the Compork 500 netbook, comes pre-installed with a full suite of ballistics programs and a handy wall-mount.

No transport options for the gunner, maybe a stray wire or two hanging from his waist connector. I was toying with the idea of having a set of legs tied down somewhere on the buggy floor, and possibly an arm too, but I think I have a better use for that idea, not sure I want to start using it yet.

I just had a crazy idea... an idea that only someone with your expertise in the area of converting orks could pull off. I had this idea of a grot, being controlled like a puppet, or a remote control toy, with a mek or runtherd in controll. what do you think?

Nice, love the madness of it and all the nice little details!

prototype_X wrote:I just had a crazy idea... an idea that only someone with your expertise in the area of converting orks could pull off. I had this idea of a grot, being controlled like a puppet, or a remote control toy, with a mek or runtherd in controll. what do you think?

God, proto, I'll take that as a challenge (even though it's adressed to monkey, lol)

I'll make something like that, in a while, and prove that monkey isn't the only great ork converter around here

Quality use of random heads! Really like the ork tablet, too.

Love it! just love it!

Tiny, tiny buttons. Once again your skill at accurately gluing tiny bits of plastic together amazes me - Are you in fact in possession of a shrinking machine aka "inner space" and "the incredible voyage" which allows you to shrink down to orky size and build such tiny things? Or maybe you are an evil wizard! I will rustle up a mob with flaming torches and come check

proto - Remote-grot and 'Master of Puppets' grot are both interesting ideas. I'll keep them in mind, but very much doubt I'm the only one capable of such things Go check out CK's burnas and lootas for ideas in a similar vein


CK - Thanks! Madness and detail - such a beautiful pairing


Matt - I think that's been proved many times over on Dakka alone


graven - Cheers bud! They came at just the right time, fitted far better than any of the ones I'd trialed. The only trouble with issuing netbooks to da boyz is they spend too much time surfing da waaagh wide web, downloading grot(s)


HAZZER - Thanks man!


weety - Damn you woman! First you sniffed out my Edward Tweezer-hands trickery, then you discovered my shrinking ray and realised I'm an evil wizard. Curses! I'll deal with you and your angry mob elsewhere. I may even use my deLorean to nip back a few hours and do it then



So quite a bit done over the holiday. Quite a bit of video gaming, board gaming and eating that is Then the first few days at work were long and hectic, and there's been a bit of a breeze blowing recently, which has pretty much put any acurate chopping or colouring out of play. Slopped a few basic colours onto the bastion-thingy, even managed to start on a few details.

And put together the first of the 'value-added' extras - a small platform.



All those random squiggly bits are just the first stage of weathering, there's plenty more dry-brushing and washing to go on there. The platform needs rivets and probably an interior brace for the front armour, then some details underneath - some hooks or something I think.
Thinking about adding some pegs to one of the supports to act as steps up. I like the idea of a chain or ladder at the back, but it would interfere with model placement



Some potential gangers check out a ramshackle building they've come across in the wastelands.


"Pass me another elf, sergeant."

Dood, that kicks sooo much ass! Excellent! I love the razor wire and chains

Might as well put this in one of the threads where all the riveters hang out-

Red Iron Games (my business) is going to be producing Rivet Strips: thin bits of resin (or possibly plastic in the future) with rivets pre-cast, for use as riveted joints or thin plates (or thick plates, if you ask).

Might make making Orky terrain a little easier, no?

That's coming along beautifully mt... really lookin' sharp!

Like the patched-together look. Oh, and madness + attention to detail = genius

That is looking fantastic - even at this stage of painting -the colour has really brought it to life! Rivets are always a good thing.

at monkey... did you actually use small screw to make the plates hold on to the platform? now that is cool^^ love all those rough parts!

This is where I aim for my scratch built terrain, fantastic!

I must be in the wrong blog .. Humans !! The tower is superb mate , nice one.

Da paintin' on it really works but da boyz on it look kinda funny I know why dey've got all dere limbs and no wheels dats wots wrong. Fer a minute I fort dey were humies...

Apocalyptic perfection…….. the whole thing screams shambles thrown together don't feth with me Mad max renegade madness love it

dstein - Thanks man. Terrain praise from you means it must be going all right


Anvildude - Sounds interesting, varied rivets are always handy. Good luck with the business.


Gits - Thanks a lot man!


CK - Agreed. On both counts


TR - Cheers mate. I like to get most of the basic colours down early to give me a feel for where to take it. Doesn't always work


vik - Not this time I have some tiny screws for just such an opportunity, but when with the dress-pins this time. Which was almost an issue because I forgot to clip the pins that went in perpendicular and close to other pins. Just about avoided having sharp spikes poking through the floor


SelvaggioSaky - Thanks. Look forward to seeing what you come up with.


neil - Don't think of them as humans. Think of them as field rations.
When suppies are low the boyz go and hide just round the corner and wait. Sooner or later a bunch of humies will turn up to explore..... and there's lunch.


Llama - Ya gotta let 'em nose around a bit. Free-range humies are much tastier


ldd - Excellent - that a fair summary



Well, another slow Sunday update I'm afraid. Did manage to spend several hours yesterday scouring a couple of sites for plastic tubing, domes and the like. Got a little carried away at first and when I went to check my basket found there was almost 200 squids worth of assorted plastic in it.

I decided I might not need all of that.

But after spending a while longer emptying a bunch of stuff from the basket I'm still looking forward to a supply drop later in the week.

In the actual workroom, not a lot going on, lots of little bitty things. Of interest, there's the colour scheme for the slorks - think I have something figured out now so I'll give it a try on the guy with the big sword. Also think I've figured out how to get the swappable parts for Upzag's track/bike unit. And started playing with a couple of ideas that are potentially un-related to cyborks.


Added some peg-steps to the platform, along with a hanging chain. Tried a few hooks underneath, but wasn't really feeling them, so it's just the chain for now, I'll have another look when it's finished.




If it appears some areas are almost fully weathered, whilst others are still missing a base coat.... that's because that's true. Don't ask, I can't tell. I don't know myself. Found a light grey wash in the vallejo wash set, which sems to be quite useful for dulling down tread-plate and the like.

And that's about it for now.


They're not gonna catch us. We're on a mission from Gork.

Absolutely Fantastic man! The paint job, the colors, are just ACE!
(making me look over at my unpainted terrain and make a dissaproving grunt )

Outstanding job! The only flaw is that it won't see play...

Just amazing love the colours looks like resources from every possible source has been used, I was thinking how about a tire hanging from the chain after all will give the humans something to do before for lunch (them being it )

How about a ladder they always look good in this kind of terrain Zinge does a few that look good and would work well with this ……. sorry bad plug there although i am sure you would make your own

As for filling the shopping cart I did that the other day thanks to dsteingass yes you mate, had an order of about $500 nocked it down to $100 took about an hour to reduce.

Some amazing terrain, I'd love to game on that...

Looking good, very orky.

OOh wow eee!Love it!


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monkey... simply a sweet job... all these ramshakle plates... that looks totally 80´s and i mean that in all the respectful and admirational way i could muster! and it isn´t even finished!!!

dstein - Thanks man! Although it's nearing that dreaded 'almost there' state at which so many pieces stumble I've started thinking about the next couple of 'expansion packs' to add to it, in the hope that my subconcious might be fooled into believing it's still being built


Arakasi - A flaw shared by every other bit I produce Except those GMS guys that have made it into battle And thanks!


ldd - Yeah, decided I needed a bit more variety to the plates on this. A few camo schemes ripped from old projekts, some good old checks and maybe a logo or two. Not sure why the idea of checks never came under consideration for any of the vehicles considering how synonymous with ork kulture they are.

Hmm... tyres, there's an idea. I might just go somewhere with that

Yeah Zinge does some nice stuff, but I don't want a ladder on that piece as it interferes with the top too much, the pegs are good enough for your average cybork. (whatever that is )


CK - Thanks bud! But it is just one incomplete building at present


TR - Cheers!


HAZ - Thanks. Twice


vik - Danke. Taken in the way it was meant



Tiny bit of paint added to the outpost, and a few bits of plastic fiddled with. Not a lot to show, but here goes anyway...




Start of the bits for Upzag's transport.


In 'pedestrian' mode:



The flat space on top will house various mek-tool arms and the like, holding off starting on those till my supply drops get here.


In bike mode:




That's a pretty rough jet exhaust there, but it'll be along those lines, I'd like to get at least one mek-arm in there too.

There's two more plates, one which sits inside the box, for any extra gubbins I want to add. And starting work on this again has opened up some avenues I was contemplating before. I used to love toys that came apart and could be re-combined in different ways. Swappable load-outs on figures are always fun. There's possibilities to be explored at some point with the 'plug-and-play' driver types I've used, and also with some of the larger drive units.



If Upzag's torso is removable this could become a heavy weapons platform (or big gun ) with the addition of, well, a big gun.
Probably not with a jet engine though.




Add some wheels to the turret, add a turret to the track section, potential there for a grot tank I feel.


And not an ork but...



Thought a little group of 'bots would be cool. The first one needs a few arms, not started for the same reasons as the mek-arms for Upzag


I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Battle wagons on fire off the shores of Armageddon. I watched snazz-guns glitter in the darkness at Cadian Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like grots in the stew.

[quote=monkeytroll


Some potential gangers check out a ramshackle building they've come across in the wastelands.


"Pass me another elf, sergeant."

Dis stinks like 'oomies boss!

dsteingass wrote:Dis stinks like 'oomies boss!

Exactly!

monkey... that new built...i think what you now have found made you loose something lese...sanity...but well... that was always not overly treasured i assume^^ very multitasking"thingy" indeed" that grothaed tho looked a bit...out of space^^


vik

Your use of bits is very, very clever - that searchlight front in particular; inspiring as ever matey. Also, you could so sell your buildings on t'internet.

Nice stuff monkey!

amazing work....... love it

How did I lose track of this? Great work, mate!
Your mek's setup is so similar to the archivist I'm currently working on, that's scary. What tracks did you use?

You take the strange and weird mix it with this and that and create pure genius with just a dash of humour love it

shaso - the 'original owners'? That would have been Bob and Mavis Cuttleworth, back in early M.34 Not sure how much of a threat they'd be to a bunch of armed gangers.


dstein/shaso - I refer you to the field rations


vik - You know, I almost made a comment about my sanity when I posted that As always at this stage, these are just rough 'sketches' showing possibilities, it won't be those grots in the final design.

Probably not anyway


graven - Cheers bud! Are you sure there's a market for half-finished items?


HAZ - Thanks bud!


mbks56 - Thanks a lot! And welcome to Dakka.


Baiyuan - If we all kept close watch on all the threads we like we'd never get anything done Glad you found it again though.
Those tracks are from the old rapier gun, I've not made a direct comparison to any bits, but I reckon the size is pretty much the same as yours. 'Course, mine aren't hand-crafted


ldd- Cheers! But there's no pure genius to be found here I'm afraid.

Tainted genius, I'll give you


So still slow progress around these parts. Sent Tortured Robot an old-skool chaos champ and in return he very generously sent a whole bunch of ork and black orc sprues. Thanks chap! Plus I've had a drop of plastic tubing, connectors, valves and such like. Last night was spent looking at the various bits, tonight was mainly spent looking at the bits in combination with other bits

Started work on a heavy mek arm for Upzag.



And that is about it for now.

Heading to the London Model Engineering Exhibition next weekend. I forsee more shinies in the near future

Nice, I'm looking forward to see our track units side to side (on my screen), once we've both finished.

What are the girder bits? I loves me some girders!

Some cool bits there. Making me curious

Baiyuan - Thanks. You do realise he was originally started in July 2010, with the tracks making their first appearance in May last year? It may be a while yet


dstein - Don't you know that if you put two larger web trusses together they'll produce a little web truss?




It's a 3.2mm Plastruct truss, part no. 90651. (His brother is still in the packaging - I haven't memorised the Plastruct catalogue )


CK - I think you might like where that's going.

Or at least where I want it to go


So especially for dstein a quick shot of a few of the bits in my supply drop



I went with a few of various items in various sizes, I've already found a few pieces I'll be ordering in larger quantities. Also lots of rods and tubing, including triangular and hex rods, half- and quarter-rounds etc etc. A variety of angles and reducers for tubing, a few more trusses and some railings.

So, I'm angling for a movable arm on the back of Upzag's tracks. The hinge worked fine, needs covering and tidying later. But it really needs a piston to work it, right CK?

I'd originally planned to use my smallest hollow tubing, with some 1.6mm rod as the moving part. Angles and size of the arm ment I couldn't get that to work, the tube was too wide to get clearance for movement really. I have some little gold-plated jewelery tubes that are a tight fit for .75mm rod, but they are a tight fit, wouldn't get much movement of the piston, and wasn't sure how to hinge that to the arm. So I went for the easy option.
I decided to drill out the 1.6mm rod and use the .75 for the piston



Now to figure a good way to hinge those to the arm. I'm thinking I'll glue axle stubs either side of each piece and use supports with holes drilled glued to the arm. Only way I can see it working at that scale.

And when I say working...well...let's just say that the last thing I did just now was decide the axle for the arm base wasn't deep enough to provide adequate support. Figured I'd magnetise it for added stability.

Ended up supergluing 2 tiny magnets together and breaking the hinge on the arm

monkeytroll wrote:

I was just wondering the top left of this picture what are the round grey circles with what looks like rivets going around the edge and where are they from if you don't mind sharing
As for the arm damage that is a real shame to get it working in that scale and then it breaking must be a real kicker, mind you at least you have done it know and not further down the line when it is in use and you can at least alter it to make it stronger and safer to use.

Those are manways - access/inspection hatches for pipes, those came from EMA, as did the majority of my latest plastic supply drop.

I'd add a link, but I can't seem to access the site at the moment.

As for the arm, I didn't have the piston working in place, and still havent. Have now magnetised it, but when fixing the hinge managed to glue all the hinge components together All prised apart and awaiting second attempt later at the moment


And in a shock move I have some paint for you.

Not just any old paint either, but a finished swap for graven, for which he has been waiting patiently like a patient thing since summer

Tek-Masta 'Stumpy' Gutwerkz:



Pics with a white background are available over on the GMS thread http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/305404.page

Not happy with some of the chipping and I'll definitely re-do the goggles as the bright blue takes up far too much of the lens surface atm.

Sorry for the long wait graven, I'll get it shipped out this week.

Thanks for the info that will come in handy in deed

As for the grot tech he is looking swell and the eyes look good from here but if you aunt happy then you must do what you must do after all you are the artist ……..

If you do fix the link I would be grateful or even the name of the retailer would help

Love that grot techy; hasn't he been in your gallery for a while? I seem to remember him from somewheren though I couldn't find him straight away. Bits are looking cool!

ldd - No problem. Be warned, lots of interesting gubbins on the site, but can be a bit confusing in places if you don't know what the bits are, lots of missing images. And cheers! It's for a trade, so I want it to be as good as it can.

CK - Thanks! He was last in a while ago, been waiting for weathering and sealing for several months Now he's done.

And now I'm contemplating drilling two more pistons out, one to replace the one I've lost whilst fixing and bulking up the hinge, the other for the second arm piece.

Cheer will keep an eye for the info from you then

Take care drilling and don't lose any more ….

Pistons completed, not quite so smooth on the drilling this time but I got there. One attached, one waiting for me to find the other set of drill bits, the one on my desk is missing the bits I want for that job.



Base is magnetised, wrist is magnetised. Still needs a stopper for the wrist and some claws.

The claws will be static.

that last pic looks as if you did a pogostick?^^

that mechanical arm is just terrific!

Absolutely amazing! Great paintjob! And the arm is just brilliant!

Nice piston work, will have to keep an eye out for inspiration!

Absolutely cracking mate. Or should that be absolutely cracked

vik - Thanks. Pogo-stick, piston. What's the difference?


dstein - Thank you man!


CK - Cheers, hope I can provide something interesting


graven - I'm beginning to think the second


So continued with the arm.



Was planning to use 2mm strip for the piston hinges, but couldn't find my complete drill bit set, so after trying the smallest bit I had available - far too small - I went with my standard bit. Not sure which size is in there, but I use it for drilling barrels and pinning with paperclips. Drilled 6 holes although I only need four hinges - it's best to have those spares handy if you bodge one, rather than have to prepare a replacement from scratch.



Built a stopper for the 'wrist' piston, that's going to be fun to paint. Got done after the build as I was originally thinking to bring the arm all the way down, but the piston length decreed otherwise. Also got a grabber in place, not the prettiest, but it'll do.




Got the main piston in place, not as much movement as I'd have liked, but it's in place.
So the arm is good to go right?

This being my blog, obviously not

That lack of movement bugged me a bit, how to extend that? Oh wait, the clue is in the question. Let's extend the piston housing, allowing more movement. Hurrah!

So I drill another piece of rod out and attempt to glue it cleanly in place, in line with the extending piece. Not the greatest success story in the world of miniature modelling, but a bit of thought beforehand would probably have already spotted that. The join was a little bumpy, so I poked my drill inside to smooth it out for the piston.

And when I turn the drill, the aditional bit pops off, revealing the solvent has weakened the thin wall left by my previous drilling, and tears in the process.





Actually, with the piston in place that's not really visible, so back to the small movement. I'll add a stop to the hinge to prevent over-extension and job is then a good 'un.

Looking good!

Very, very cool.

I still can't quite figure out what the manipulator thing on the end is set up for.

that arm actually looks really good, very realistic

Looking good, know your pain when messing around with those fiddly bits!

Amazing such small detail and workings just great however also bloody frustrating at times for you I can only imagine ……..

Arakasi - Thanks man!


Gits - Thank you sir!


Anvil- It's just a basic four-claw grabber, nothing fancy, and certainly no moving parts


Rogue - Cheers, let's just hope I don't do any more damage before the whole mini gets finished


CK - Glad you approve. I never thought 'no pain, no gain' applied to model-making. Well, apart from all those nasty scalpel cuts. And those puncture wounds from chaos spiky bits. And the bits of plastic flying into the eye. And the gluing of skin to something that skin shouldn't be glued to.
Hmm, hadn't really thought that one out fully.


ldd - Makes it all the more satisfying when it actually works

That's what I keep telling myself....


Drilled a tiny length of the 1.6mm rod, filed away at the inside of my smallest hollow tube till I could get the rod inside, then stuck it to the end of the piston. Gives me a bit more movement in the arm and adds a bit of needed clunkiness to the piston - things were starting to look a little too engineered there




Need to see if I can get metallic coloured rods at this size for future use, I reckon I'm going to struggle with those pistons, not sure if the fit is loose enough to not scrape paint. Just realised I haven't added a stopper to prevent over-extension, so I'll pop that on, then start considering arms for the other side - two smaller ones I feel. Maybe with a tiny working buzz-saw on the end

Are the top part the shoulders of a dread?

Looking forward to see this piece of ork mechanic finished!

I believe it's the middle and part of the front plate of a dread, Possibly a AOBR dread

Yes, what I meant, there is always a good use for them eheheh

Wow! Man cool as hell!!
Did i miss it mentioned? What are the metal tank tread bitz at the bottom?

I was thinking of making a servitor, the only job he is programmed to do is to repaint hazard stripes all over the underhive

That would be a perfect bit for his motive power.

CK - Glad you approve. I never thought 'no pain, no gain' applied to model-making. Well, apart from all those nasty scalpel cuts. And those puncture wounds from chaos spiky bits. And the bits of plastic flying into the eye. And the gluing of skin to something that skin shouldn't be glued to.
Hmm, hadn't really thought that one out fully.

+1

Loving that arm, makes me want to up my game as well. And I thought I was done building the squeaky waaagh!!!

Have to admire your attention to detail. Look forward to more!

Really amazing stuff here. I can't believe how long it's been since I checked this thread! I just waded through quite a few pages to get here. Too much to comment on, all of it genuinely brilliant, will try to keep up a bit better.

Selvaggio - Indeed, the top shoulder piece of a dread Just don't hold your breath


mullet - As above


dstein - Thanks bud! The tracks are from the original rapier weapon system, they're a very nice size for a variety of things Not sure how easy they'l be to find though.


CK - Cheers! Hah. You may think you're finished with the squeaky waaagh, but the squeaky waaagh has not finished with you


TR - Thank you.


Skalk - Thanks man. The advantage of missing a few pages is it seems as though I make much faster progress Watching a small arm grow over the course of a week probably isn't quite as exciting as it seems to me


And continuing the theme of overdue work....



Cyber grot-hound for Da Konverta's of Waaagh Dakka, for those who've forgotten
Not quite finished, but back in the firing line. Details in the face and wiring, a few washes, some verdigris in the legs and probably a re-do on the scales.And a tidy up. And add the gubbinz to his side, and a couple of details on the base.

Actually, if you look back to whenever he last appeared I probably said much the same thing. But I have been working on him honest.



Heading to the London Model Engineering Exhibition tomorrow, and as I somehow appear to have got through January with money in the bank I suspect I'll be bringing stuff back with me

CK - Cheers! Hah. You may think you're finished with the squeaky waaagh, but the squeaky waaagh has not finished with you

Guess you're right - found a box of grots in my stahs that's almost full.

Cyberhond is looking good, now finish him! *cracks out th' whip he stole from Gitsplitta*

Haha - cyber hound looks great, I missed it first time around. Can I see warhound titan parts in there?

Your combination of parts seems ridicules at times but some how always works you really are the mad hatter of this hobby ……………..


Have a good time at the London Model Engineering Exhibition I looked that up on line looks a good day out I would liked to gone but the bloody replacement suit is being delivered (yes the first one was damaged ) so thats buggered that ….

That arm is looking very nice! Hmmmm..........

Looking good monkey! keep it up!

CK - They get everywhere I'm hoping to get painting time over the weekend, and that'll be my focus


TR - Thanks. Not suprising, he was last seen some time ago You can inded sir, the torso did originally belong to an old warhound, poor thing had to be put down, it was devoted to a squat force that had fought with it many times, and when they vanished one day it became too distraught to fight.
Will they not think of the titans?


ldd - Nope, must have me confused with someone else...I don't do hats.

Not convincingly anyway.


shaso - You know you want some articulated arms on your ARV's


HAZ - Cheers bud, I'll certainly try


So, LMEE was alright, not as big as it used to be. I went with my old man, we used to go every year, but haven't been for about 5 years or so. There was some nice stuff to look at (although nearly all of it was 'factory fresh', I prefer a bit of weathering ). The display areas for flying models and r/c trucks seemed a lot smaller, and were in the main hall, sure they used to be in another room. No water-based display, and we missed the tank demo whenever it was on, although that was a pretty small area too.

Apparently the various competitions had been cancelled this year due to a lack of entrants, so a few less models to look at.
Trade stands didn't seem as good either, only a few model vendors and nothing that caught my eye. Had fun rooting around in various tubs of various bits of hardware and supplies, but didn't bag much. I was after a drill stand for my hobby-tool, a new pair of flush clippers and a Chopper. Didnt see any. Well a few poor quality clippers, but I passed on all those.

Came away with a few clamps and forceps, a small selection of tubing/trusses/stairs from EMA, a book on model-making with styrene, and a small selection of interesting bits from various places - springs, hand-wheels, maritime ventilation tubes and the like.
And prime amonsgt those bits were these:



Brass portholes with glazing. Yummy


A few shots of random items seen:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/monkeytroll/6732857661/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/monkeytroll/6732841069/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/monkeytroll/6733000467/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/monkeytroll/6733006417/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/monkeytroll/6732940531/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/monkeytroll/6732935251/

Unfortunately they're hosted on flickr as I didn't want to upload the 50 odd non-wargaming related pics to dakka So I'm fairly sure you're only seeing links, sorry.

edit: that's not right at all Try again...

And again....

And a third time, should have links at least now....


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Or I could upload a few to Dakka and post those. If you want more click on one of the links above to get to my flickr page - I'm monkeytroll on there too.

THIS IS NOT MY WORK:



All from the London Model Engineering Exhibition, this is not my work

That's pretty cool stuff MT.

Yeah there was some cool stuff to see. That yellow steam turbine(?) was pointed out by my dad as being great for 40k, it's not much more than 50-60m high. Those boats were part of a very impressive display that ranged from viking longships to aircraft carriers, and those name tags weren't printed in a large font

Apologies to anyone who goes through the flickr pics, there's a few shots of seemingly random details that I wanted for reference, may not be the most impressive aspect of the subject And Flickr seems to think it ha a better idea than me of which way up my photos should go...

the yellow stam turbine is soooooo awsome!

Ni9ce stuff you have got there!

I meant the mad hatter more as the approach rather than head wear maybe Doc from BTTF more then due to creative flare, shame about the event not being as good although maybe due to the economics at the moment has had an effect hobbies are the first to take the strain.


Although some of the pics look good and the Brass portholes with glazing look tops (could have done with those for my Grot Mega Tank) that was a good fined, have you plans for these or just an impulse buy ?

CommissarKhaine wrote:

CK - Glad you approve. I never thought 'no pain, no gain' applied to model-making. Well, apart from all those nasty scalpel cuts. And those puncture wounds from chaos spiky bits. And the bits of plastic flying into the eye. And the gluing of skin to something that skin shouldn't be glued to.
Hmm, hadn't really thought that one out fully.

+1

Loving that arm, makes me want to up my game as well. And I thought I was done building the squeaky waaagh!!!

The Waaagh is never truly 'done' is it?

Great stuff in this tread.

You got some great swag there Monkey, good modeling - I can't wait to see what comes from those new bits you came away with!

That was cool stuff, and i am now feverishly working on a way to make an AVLB for my army to drive over rivers and wide terenches they may have placed in front of them in some mega-battles!

Awesome stuff Monkey! THose brass protholes are awesome!

for my airship (long story...some might actually still be able to remember it) i also bought me some brass rings... as portholes......nice find...and hopefully we see them soon in some product of yours...

i looked through the whole flickr gallery... some nice and emotional pics later on...those crystal iceshards were pretty good...also the livid sky...wasn´t there some guy that wrote something about the end of days ?...

and the exhibition... that would have surley been an event that would have suited me quite good too... some of the stuff you shoed would/ are right up my alley... i hope you had fun while shuffling through the halls there...


thanks for sharing!

Interesting bits... The egg-kopta is looking great - and inspiring

Rogue - Yeah, that was particularly neat I thought Definitely going to be looking at that for some pipe-work reference


HAZ - It's nice stuff, let's hope I do something 'nice' with it


ldd - I know, but I didn't have a snappy comeback for that I have a couple of ideas which might need those portholes, but plenty more were formed when I saw them


TaWaaagh - Thanks! And too true!


Zeke - I was hoping for a couple of cool kits to rip apart, but a few bits will do for now


shaso - Cheers, and I should have realised it was the bridge-layer not the ARV you were thinking of


dstein - Cheers bud! Let's see how long it takes for them to make an appearance


vik - vaquely remember you getting something for portholes - were they brass washers? It was a while back Thanks for looking through the pics, and yes, you'd have found plenty of inspiration there.


CK - What I thought


So, today's session was interrupted by going for 'a cup of tea' with relatives at my folks. Four hours, several cups of tea and a variety of home-made cheese-scones and cakes later... All good, but took a chunk out of the planned hobby-time.

Didn't quite get the grot-hound done.



Wires need doing, think I'll re-do the gums in a brighter colour, and I still want to re-touch all the scales. Plus I want to re-do the lens on his back-gubbinz - once I put it in place I realised I'd done it pretty much upside down.


Briefly picked up the jalopy.



Added detail to the workings and some more wiring. Working on the arms of the driver at the moment.


And started playing with some of the new bits.



Not entirely sure what it is just yet - probably a buggy I reckon. Possibly flip the turret, and it'll either be a bigger track unit or possibly a large wheel at the back. I haven't checked yet how chimera tracks fit in the cannon slot. It's the front 'wheels' I like about it, those were what I mainly wanted hemispheres for, you can expect a few of those to pop up at various points.

Well, that was another slow Sunday update brought to you by a bunch of gibbering grots...

I like the idea of the spheres and would make them the front wheel actually, with burnas

Yellow and black paint rollers!

OH, that little grot hound is AWESOME!

CK - What I thought

Great minds think alike? Or fools seldom differ?

I love the grot hound, and that new buggy is lookign great - I love the way you can turn random bits into a mad mek's contraption!

Hmm...Sound interesting!

Nice pics from that event , really like the nautilus, and congrats on the pet too.

Selvaggio - The spheres are the front wheels - Upzag's meks seem to have a penchant for reversed trikes


dstein - One yellow, one black - ingenious


Gits - Soon as he's done I'll add him to the konverta's thread - hopefully the waaagh will rise back into public awareness

There's always a few orks ramblin' about behind the main lines


CK - Great fools maybe? I'm feeling a lot of contraptions boiling up at the moment - hard to stop bit matching and actually do something


HAZ - Let's hope it is interesting then


neil - Cheers bud, hope you're keeping well.



So, mental week this week, highlights included a 16hr day and so not a lot of actual work has taken place in the workshop. Lots of ideas, little real work. But I have a couple of concepts to air for now.


Built up a track using the Zinge industry set for the latest buggy.



After about 5 minutes I decided I didn't like it.



So I tried a wheel instead - not bad. Also tried a larger version of the spherical wheel - not bad, forgot to take a pic though.
I think I'm going to go with the wheel - probably that one, maybe another. Glued the wheel assemblies together and added plates to attach them to the hull. Haven't attached them yet as I'm toying with adding the turret extension piece, and possibly a tiny 'cockpit' at the front - just big enough to get a grot's head poking out. Also drilled out the tie-down loops - not sure if they'll still be there later, but figured I should drill them now in case there's gubbinz in the way once some real progress takes place.

And I need to find something to attach that track to now too....


Messing around with another pretty basic buggy idea.



That landspeeder exhaust system is supposed to be the main drive for this one - the scattered pieces make it hard to tell it's blu-tac'd to the hull. Simple reversed and lowered Russ hull at this stage - not all that original, but da meks will have seen so many of these over the years that a few are bound to appear. Not sure on a turret thing, a firing platform thing, or a swinging gun chair thing. I reckon I'll have a flick through IA8, look at the gun-trukks and such before deciding what this actually is





Still debating this one, the best use for the hull is as a looted wagon I reckon, and size wise it's either a transport for grots (which is still possible) or a boom-gun. I almost thought about adding tracks, but the reason I want this is to add some more hover vehicles. Do something with the cockpit, beef up the gun, sort out some engines and add a bunch of wiring - think that should do the job, along with a few glyphs and patches obviously?




Don't know where that's going just yet, but I'll be doing something with the concept - I've tried a few like it so far, but the tau legs have worked best.




The rolls were initially grabbed as potntial mono-wheel v-hickles, but they suddenly decided they wanted to be something else. What can I say, they made googly eyes at me and I succumbed to their will.


Gickr seems to be recovering from a server crash so I couldn't upload the full sequence, but I got two short versions - just for fun :





Right, back to the bit-matching...

these small gif vids are really good looking....and if you can keep the manouverability of this arm even after painting it...

i am not so fond of the tau walker...he looks odd...even for your twisted senses^^...

Man those are cool. I mean working grapple arms... holy smokes man.

vik - Cheers! There is an issue with some of the metal getting scraped on the pistons and extending 'wrist' - I'll either disassemble and try to widen the holes slightly or try a silver marker pen - probably a mix of both.
It's definitely the oddness that I like about that one
I've been trying various arms-as-legs variations, even built a few utilising wheels or one leg, but wasn't happy with a true walker until I tried those legs. They may end up on a nob, but I've not found a suitable torso yet. The actual body will determine if he gets dakka over the shoulder or under the waist - or maybe around the side.


Gits - Thanks man! You can blame CK's influence for the pistons




I think that's pretty much the way it's going to go, bit of good old-fashioned prop power
Still haven't quite got a cockpit sorted, switching between a rounded and a more angular design. The top will get covered in tread-plate, then get the dakka mount.
Grot driving, ork shooting - they really should learn to do it the other way round

Lovely work as usual monkeytroll! The walker reminds me of Doom, and that piston work is amazing...You've really taken it to the next level!

very nice buggies and tracks there. very stylised and awesome

Tau boy looks awesome but is there an argument for a mecanical hip mechanism behind his shoulders? this would push the legs slightly further back and I think I would go for over the shoulder shoota holder... the whacky prop powered caser buggy is looking good, I have the image of an almost fighta jet cockpit for the grot between the caster legs and the ork hard wired into some spinning gun mount....
Keep up the good work


"but where's your rokkit riding storm grots?" feel free to tell me I'm stating that in the wrong thread...

The Turret Buggy reminds me of the Mysteron construction vehicles in Captain Scarlet! Which is an excellent thing indeed.

CK - Thank you, and yes, now you mention it, it is a bit Doomish isn't it? I'm just worried that I'm going to want to articulate everything now. That and make it swappable Couple of years per mini, should have an army done by 21st edition By which time cyborks will have been squatted


bigfish - Cheers! I think I've managed to mix stylised and more 'realistik' into the boyz somewhat, let's see if I can pull it off with some vehicles. Obviously we won't know for sure until paintings completed, so feel free to learn a language or two while we wait...


mullet - Yep, there is an argument for that
In this case though that would be closer to some exo-skeleton type affairs that I have kicking around - attaching to those nice back plates some of the boyz wear. The body that's being test-fitted there has actually had the back removed and replaced with half a large plastic tube, which forms a bio-mekanikal shoulder/hip joint. I'm considering bulking up that body a bit to run it as a nob - doesn't have to be huge as my boyz are a real mish-mash from across the galaxy and possibly beyond, all shapes and sizes of orkishness accepted
I was looking for this guy to have the bionik legs fitted to his shoulder, but as I said, there should be some with hip joints mounted behind the shoulder later on

And yep, wrong thread I think that was meant for CK


Llamahead - So it does. Missed that too, and that was my original plan for these castor wheels - four, one at each corner on short horizontal supports. And agreed, anything that reminds you of Anderson is all good in my book An SPV would make a cool looted wagon



Mp3 player's HD failed, so spent a few hours searching the interwebz for info and a replacement, chopped a big chunk out of planned hobby time. Then spent a few hours chopping up zombies in inventive ways in Dead Rising2, and kicking street trash about and dressing hostessess in Yakuza4. Oops, there goes more planned hobby time. You guessed it, another crap Sunday update

Glued together the buggy and created an underside and rear wheel guard, but the only thing to see is the addition of propellers (still no 'cockpit') so pics are pretty pointless.

Did roll up some plasticard and clamped it into one of those tape rolls overnight.



That's so the plasticard would fit against the rolls when glued into place.



Ohh, look at that. They're just the right height to connect a bridge to the outpost There's a magnet in the centre of the roof for attacment shenannigans.

That's if they're stacked anyway.



Top one could be an extension for the outpost? Not convinced by that tbh, I'll maybe chack again when there's some more detail/colour in place.



Bottom layer has a magnet just off-centre in the roof. That's because I forgot about it till it was glued to the CD, and I had to work through the spindle hole Thinking of a hatch to go on there, and a connector for a pipeline that comes from the 'plant-room' on the outpost. Want to be able to add the second level in a similar manner to the 'water-tank' shot above - on stilts.
This time I'm thinking the support struts will be on the exterior wall rather than on the roof - gives a few more options.


meh, that's about it...

That buggy needs an ork driving it with Antenna and a bubble compartment like a Jetson car.

A bubble canopy for the cockpit has been played with It'll depend on what shape the driver's compartment ends up - but if not here, then elsewhere. I got a couple of larger hemispheres for just that purpose


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Actually, that's an idea. The canopy CAN go over the turet hatch, and the dakka could be at the front, or on an arm. Hmm...

Leman turret thing looks promising.

Like the BIG buggy made from the leman chassis and giant tires.

Is that an Ork lookout tower?

well since apparently he won't be developing grot storm boys riding rokkits with legs I think you should do it... or maybe I should stop playing skyrim and get my modeling fix myself...

monkeytroll wrote:I'm just worried that I'm going to want to articulate everything now. That and make it swappable Couple of years per mini, should have an army done by 21st edition By which time cyborks will have been squatted

Welcome to my world

lol... i used a similar methode last night to get my second fendor for my walker legs shaped up over the night... good idea to make that piece by yourself and not look endlessly for a matching diameter tube...!

LOVE IT! Monkey!

^

Weird stuff going on in here...want more!

Been following along pretty closely but haven't posted in a while. Really enjoying the building and am feeling pretty inspired by it, but the rest is just... weird. Not bad by any sense, your modeling skills are ace! I just don't get it?

But it doesn't matter. It's still cool.

The building is looking good monkey! Like it keep it up!

That outpost is looking better and better - still can't get over your awesome weathering. Keep up the inspiring work!

An SPV Battlewagon would be cool. As would the piece of Terrain it would appear out of. Cloud Base might have to happen for my Space Hulk...............Cheers for the inspiration1

shaso - Cheers, it's switched about a bit from the original concept, but I think I'm there now, just need to order some bits. Or build them.
I'm still not totally sure on the big buggy, it may become a gun wagon. Or probably both
It's errr...it's an 'outpost', we'll leave it up to the viewer to decide exactly what that comprises


mullet - my grot stormboyz ride grot-koptas, so looks like it's time for a Skyrim break. I'm still amazed I haven't started it yet. Although I'm well aware that everything will fall to the wayside once I do


Arakasi - Wait. I need to figure painting time in too? Oh Maaaaan!


vik - It would have been a good idea to make it myself, but it was just cladding for the other tube. Our label printers at work use the same diameter tube so I've got no worries about finding another, I just wanted plastic on the walls for ease of adding stuff


dstein / Rogue Wolves - Cheers! Forgot the hazard stripes on this one, I'll try and remember on the next


Baiyuan - I'l see what I can do. Although I don't forsee anything that weird in the next week or so.


Skalk - lol As long as it's still cool that's what counts I'll admit the recent updates have been a little more haphazard than usual though Anything in particular you're not getting? Maybe nobody else is getting it either and it only makes sense in my head Or maybe it doen't make sense to me either.


HAZ - Thanks bud!


Scarp - Appreciate it man. I'll try and get some more weathering in for you


Llama - Cloud Base Space Hulk? SIG Chief! I'll keep my eye out for that



OK, everything going a bit slowly atm, and I predict the same for the next week or so. Actually, probably slow for most of Feb.

Bits and bobs done on a variety of things, no real progress to show on most.
Went for a pretty basic build for the latest outpost bit, nothing too fancy.



There's two posts either side and a magnet under the roof for adding gubbinz later - the two posts also keep the second one aligned when placed on top. Tissue paper for the cloths in the doorway. Couple of tank wheels for added something-or-other by the side.
Even added a touch of colour to it.



Walls got a dark flesh drybrush followed by kommando khaki.
Corrugated sheet got a chainmail overbrush followed by a mix of washes. The smaller plate got a blue wash over a chainmail/silver mix. Yellow was two thin coats of Iyanden darksun followed by a khaki drybrush. Sponged then freehand charadon granite, chainmail on top.
Green treadplate was knarloc with a gretchin drybrush, heavy sponging and touch up with dark flesh, chainmail then green wash, followed by lighter green, blue and sepia washes.
Mix of bronze and gold for the trim, hawk turquoise, vile green and vallejo virdigris for the err, verdigris. Most of the rivets have been touched up with silver/chainmial waiting for some dirty ol' washes.

Need to highlight the chips, weather the two posts and finish up the entrance-way, then touch-up the base.

I remember to post colours when I'm painting buildings, but not when I'm painting boyz

Anyhow, that'll do for now...

Ooooh... I like! Really nice combination of materials MT... excellent final effect. I need to start screwing around with plasticard... looks like fun.

nice! looks as if you could make a whole village by this methode... really this could be a cool thing... i have seen ork villages that look more like mexican stone houses... but this looks more like fantasy huts gone 40k...really good idea to add tissuepaper...!!!

WOW Monkey!

Brilliant work!

Nice stuff man! Keep it up!Its looking really good!

More of Monkey's brilliant orky villages, Just one things, it could uses more "slapped on" plates and maybe some ork-glyphs just to give that ork-homey feel!

for some reason monkey cut short on all those orky glyphs...dunno why...

Only da Monkey knows!

Oh wow man! I really dig the storage tank!!

Living in an old water tower or silo so Ork love it …..

Gits - Thanks a bunch bud! Yeah, grab some plastcard and start chopping - It's Grrrrrrrreat!


vik - Cheers! Funny that, when I read that I recalled a previous set of terrain I built for orks/feral muties/whatever - they were round huts made with matchsticks, probably about the same size. Think I saw one kicking around somewhere, I'll have to dig it out and compare


Zeke - Thanks a lot!


HAZ - Cheers!


shaso - Plates are scarce on that one, but there's more to come yet.
Glyphs weren't originally going to appear on the actual buildings, just on the 'added extras', in my mind justifying it as terrain for inquisimunda too.


vik/shaso - or those that read it a few posts back


dstein - Thanks man! I think I need to go back through your blog now I'm working on these


ldd - I've always thought a converted water tower would be pretty cool



Ok, Sunday update time. A tad late I understand but it was too late to be bothered with photos and uploading and typing and all that last night

So most of the jalopy done now.




The driver's still in da surjary, there'll be a throttle control lever thingummy beside him. Decided that it does need exhausts, so need to add those, and some detailing required for the Compork netbook - mainly wiring Out of shot (because I wanted to tease, and not at all because I forgot them) there's some armour plates that slot into the sides, and I'm working on a similar piece for the front.

Oh, and a number plate.


Stripped the old green hover vehicle and started work on the kannon.




Seem to be thinking about terrain a fair bit at the moment - it makes a nice change I feel, although there's a very definite limit to the amount I can build - and indeed the size of some ideas



Did have some H-beam just the right size for slotting those together, however I've chopped it up and used it in various places it seems. Ordered some more and some more plasticard - I wasn't stocked up for creating terrain Also working on a piece that slots between them with support beams to alow models on both rooftops.


Fancied one with a bit more space up top.




A walkway might be handy too.




And a building with a walkway on top.




Of course, you don't always want to be climbing ladders to get up high do you?




All very much WIP, buildings should all be based on cd's, not sure about the walkways yet (there's more waiting for supports). All need much more ramshackle plating rivets and assorted gubbinz yet, not to mention a few more doors are needed. There's a few more that haven't had any roofing or structures added yet.

And the obligatory group shots




And with the other bits so far



Yep, definitely didn't have time to put all that up last night

Loving where these are going! Was missing my regular monkeytroll fix! It's like a very geeky Valentine's gift...

whoa...that man has been busy! nice terrain pieces for sure!

all that emossed plastic! wow...

by the way dear sir...there is high praise and big talk of inviting you for your expert work into the folds of the league...

we all would feel very privileged to have you among us...also you would add an orky flavor to the league...

oh and on a side note...there is a new project going on inside the league...making your own likeness in plastic as a sort of avatar of riveteers...

really we would feel happy by having you with us...


cheers, vik

You call this a little bit of terrain?
You're doing a city over there and loving It a lot!

WOWWWWW you have been cutting slicing, that is some terrain their cant believe how much you have done, That tower with the doors and ladder is frigging cool …..

I think you should be in the league already, your work is riveting get it ok bad pun but your stuff always entertaining

Been as busy as a suigg on fungus blasta sauce!

looking good monkeytroll, eventually you'll have a whole table to mess around with

I'm bursting with envy! I want silos with walkways and I must have them now. Maybe I could commission you to make one? I should probably make my own, but I'm so cheap I will have to use recycled junk and cocktail sticks. They are so skillfully executed and yet orkish in style. Rusty...

graven - Thanks bud! That wasn't quite the way I'd intended to present it, but if the cap fits...


vik - Danke! And if the League needs some advice from GorkaMekka, so be it


Selvaggio - Well, you know...it's a start And thank you.


ldd - Glad you're enjoying the show


shaso - Ahh, so it was the squigs that got into the supply. I've been blaming the grots.


bigfish - Hey, look...that was a whole table. A small one, but still...


weety - You must have them NOW? And then you consider commisioning ME to do it? Something wrong with your sense of time girl
The feel of rust on my fingers is.....





Added some stability by adding another layer, and some purdy girders to drape chains and stuff off of.

Point well taken monkey. I'd better get my cocktail sticks and loo-roll tubes out and make my own, It won't be as good though. If only I had one I made earlier and some sticky-back-plastic.

It is fantastic terrain though, and it would make an excellent home for your cyborks. They can have picknicks on the gantry - maybe you should make them some little chairs so they can chillax while 'digestin da humie meat"

"da pink skins is hard to digest cos dey has buttons and zips an stuff... weez cant take der rags off cos dey lokk funny naked an den weez donwana eatem"

And still it grows what about a sguigg station

I'm like ther scrach building monkey! I'm thinking of doing a trukk to a battwagon conversion soon anyway!

I want to see you do a 8 by 4

How about some of these …. use large bean tins or the food of your choice tins

weety - Not that I wouldn't love to make some for you, but you know, if time's an issue... The servo-grots may well get some little relaxation areas, I keep thinking there should be more places where the crafty wee buggers have skived off for a jug or two of squig-juice.

Yeah, seeing humies naked would probably make green-skins turn, err,..greener? I could understand that, although seeing certain humies naked makes me hungry


ldd - well, not so much gros, as accumulates extra bits Cyber squigs will no doubt get a corral or similar at some point.


HAZ - Cheers, look forward to the truck-wagon


bigfish - I want to see an 8 by 4 space in my place Unless, we're talking inches or cm here, I can do that for you Believe me, if I had space for a gaming table, all you'd ever see on my blog would be terrain and crazy table ideas

ldd - Well, some of these buildings would once have been those But yes, large tins are good for ribbed detail Although bean tins will fit inside my label rolls



Chuffed to discover today that a comic/gaming store actually opened in my town. Somewhat surprised to discover it actually opened last year, considering it's not a huge town and as both a comic and gaming fan I would have thought I'd notice something like that. Apparently there's a painting workshop on Sunday, I plan to go and have a poke about on Saturday and see what's what. At the very least I have a new source of paint (and hopefully other supplies) in town.


Chopped an old snotling up, covered him in Iyanden and gave him a green wash, then stuck him in the looted wagon, gave the cockpit area a variety of washes.




Then sealed him in place.



Just realised I forgot to give him some bioniks in place of the arm I chopped off..Oh well, bit late now. Also started on a rokkit launcher for the side, needs a couple of wires, and I suppose I could stick some actual rokkits in place too.

That reminds me of the "Urban Assault Vehicle" from the Bill Murray / Harold Ramus movie "Stripes".

Man, I haven't seen that for years! Hmm, surely I've got it on dvd somewhere?

All I can remember right now is Murray chasing his girlfriend around the kitchen with a whisk

WOW! Fantastic walkways man! I love how you used the girders!!

Thanks Dave. I seem to have seriously underestimated how many girders I'm going to use Every time I pick a piece up I think it could do with a girder or two.

Latest piece no exception.




Now most sensible peeps would have cut the 'pillars' in two and glued them either side of the walkway piece. So I cut two holes and put the whole pillar through.
The walkway is the same height as the silo-type buildings and walkways obviously. That means there could be a higher level walkway at the same level as the highest building so far. And then a walkway or perhaps some crow's nests at the top.

And quite like the idea of a lower piece, at right angles, suspended by chains. Need to do a bit of figuring on how I can make that practical for placing models on

And this piece, coupled with the fact that I picked up an empty pallet wrap roll on my way out of ork today has convinced me I have actually gone insane.
I'm going to have to re-arrange the whole boat in order to actually put these somewhere.

Ah, more places to call Orkish in your collection! and yeah, dem squigs'll get inta everrting if ya don' stay on da grotz to keep 'em in da pens!

monkeytroll wrote:Every time I pick a piece up I think it could do with a girder or two.

Me too, that's why I jumped on the box-o-train bridges, The plastruct girders can get expensive.

monkeytroll wrote:

And this piece, coupled with the fact that I picked up an empty pallet wrap roll on my way out of ork today has convinced me I have actually gone insane.

I think you may have something on the brain, as well.

im loving all of this terrain, and vehicles you've been building recently. i might not be typing anything, but i am gasping over it

pallet wrap inners! Good call monkey, I will make up some bull excuse and get some from work. They are quite long so you can cut em into multiple sections.

I don't have room for this either - your madness is infectious!

I say rearange the boat - put some stuff you don't really need in a vacuum storage bag, tie it to a buoy and throw it overboard! All the storage space you'll ever need...

if you want big stable and strurdy cardboard tubes...look into your friendly carpet store... the endless carpet stuff is rolled over thick cardboard rolls... i can highly recommend themmm...built already a castle with big towers from them... mind you you need a big saw to make a dent in them...about 1cm in material thickness...

monkeytroll wrote:
And this piece, coupled with the fact that I picked up an empty pallet wrap roll on my way out of ork today has convinced me I have actually gone insane.
I'm going to have to re-arrange the whole boat in order to actually put these somewhere.

I have a garage full of these things, I keep picking them up as soon as one is used at work ……. thick white plastic tubes have to be good for something

Poster shipping tubes are also good finds.

Till roll tubes - I get through a lota till roles at work -but they are small - for chimneys and columns they can't be beat

shaso - Well, around these parts you need to keep a keen eye (preferably a nice shiny Scheiss-Nikork augmented eye) on both grots and squigs - the cyberising mostly sends them a bit 'strange'.


dstein - Hell yeah, that was a great pick-up. Those bridge girders are fantastic.


Anvil - Damn, Freudian slip if ever I saw one It even took me a few attempts to figure out what I'd done


Rogue - That'll explain those strange noises I've been hearing. I was blaming the cyber-pike.


weety - Might need a saw to chop it up, depending on type - the ones we use are a good cm thick. The smaller buildings were done using sellotape rolls though, they should be easy to source from work
lol My mates and I have often discussed getting a floating lock-up type boat to keep my gak in. Next year once the bank stops ripping great chunks out of my pay-packet I'll start saving for real boats - a 40' narrow-bpat and a small run-around type thing Once I've blown several pay-packets on lots of shiny things I really don't need and a bunch of plastic things to chop up, obviously


vik - Good call, nice and sturdy, similar to the pallet wrap, but probably a bit longer than 50cm. You use the castle with the playmobil?


ldd - Plastic? Sounds intriguing, if we switch to those it would save me coating it in plasticard.... Wait, what am I thinking? I really don't need, nor can I truly keep (which, lets face it, is a better reason than 'do not need' when it comes to toy soldier related things) any more big tubes.


dstein - Yeah, good size for silo-related shenanigans those


weety - More excellent cheap materials Keep 'em coming folks, let's hear of your cheap treasure troves of modelling goodness. Those till rolls are also a good size for wheels.

And...I've replied after getting home for work so I can't even contrive something to show you in way of an update. Just chat this time.
That's it.
No pics.


Might as well go home now.






No...honestly, I'm not teasing, there is nothing to show.

yep monkey... it was built for playmobil scale... maybe one day i revisit that piece and make it work as terrain for 40k...actually that sounds like a cool plan^^


oh and i forgott to mention... my wife when she empties a roll of thread...i get these... and they are always very interesting... for some reasons you either get them in hard plastic or in cardboard... a win win situation^^

The sticks that kiddie/freebie balloons come on are usually good quality plastruct. 2 foot of O, H or X cross-section for free can't be beat.

my kids sadly hold on to these like glue...i can get all their legos...but when it comes to these silly ballonsticks it is armageddon...

monkeytroll wrote:Rogue - That'll explain those strange noises I've been hearing. I was blaming the cyber-pike.

HEY its not strange noises.. it comes natural with the half blindness.

Ohh, never thought of those, although I've nabbed a few flags for similar purpose. Makes a note to mug small children with balloons...


Finished off the walkway.



And a cheeky up-skirt shot showing the girders and the lucky 2 pence to help stabilise it



There'll be chains and cables draped off the girders at the end.

Even started laying some colour down.




And did a quick and dirty re-base for a couple of old bits I made many moons ago out of 35mm film cases (you youngsters ask your parents ) and aerosol lids.

The rust master at work... No seriously that is a quality rust you've got there

I wouldn't go as far as to say that it was a rust-gasm, but it is definitely rust-tastic

I've been stalking this blog for ages, and now I finally rear my head to give it an Orky Seal of Approval.

How did you do the rust?

Use link's its bull gak about attracting the girls but the lids have a cool ridge shape around the edge and the top looks like a manhole cover

Great work love the top yellowed plate section that is looking cool

Excellent work all-round.

weety - Glad you enjoyed the rust, my apologies for not being able to supply a rust-gasm, guess I copped out somewhere around the verdigris strokes hey?
Although, in my defence, I haven't really started on the rusting yet


Swordwind - Thank you for de-cloaking and applying seal And how nice to save your 666th post for me too


Arakasi - Ok, weathering stages so far:
Black undercoat, applied by hand, little bit patchy (the patchy bit's not really necessary). Yellow was thinned VMC light yellow, followed by a thin mix of light and flouro yellow, with a drybrush of light yellow on top. Hasn't covered the black 100%. Green was a couple of thin coats of VMC intermediate green.
Dark flesh then applied using a sponge in a dry-brushing type style, but with a bit more paint on the sponge than I'd use for drybrushing.
Then vallejo pale grey wash applied in patches - should have thinned it more for the green though.
Sponge/drybrush with a dark chainmail mix, then some random thin sepia and devlan patches, then a light mithril drybrush.
Few placed spots of sepia and devlan, concentrating on edges and rivets.

Next will probably be some thinned macharius orange washes and some more of the pale grey wash - I can see this one becoming very popular. Then a touch of powders onc the rest has been done.


ldd - What? Are you suggesting advertisers lie to us? Surely not!
And thanks! Funny how yellow has become my 'go to' colour for weathering, whereas I'd steer well clear of it before.
Amazing what a bit of grime can cover up


Gits - Cheers fella! Is the derby this weekend? If so good luck.

If not, good luck for when it is


Right off to try and infiltrate this new comic/gaming store. That shouldn't be too tricky, but I'm worried about the extraction - not sure I'll be able to get out without getting caught by shiny things glinting at me from shelves.

Oh great, and as I type that there's a crack of thunder and the heavens open up...

I may put the mission back....

Yep, should leave for it in roughly 45 min. Still have a few things to sort out for the track, but both boys' cars are working OK, so as long as they have a good time & the track works... it's all gravy. Then I can finally get back to painting.

Orkyt terrain looking good now! Yeah, gotta get me some of those electrical grot and squig fences

that new piece...and already paint on it...what has hapend to monkey? was he abducted by green aliens from outer space?...er...obviously orks of course...that yellow wasted away platform is simply wonderful...

Gits - Well, hope you all have/had fun. Think you'll beat 1.2?


shaso - Thanks man. Yeah I have to use a real mixture of barriers, if it's just electrics the servo-grots start hot-wiring themselves for an energy boost and then I have to contend with a bunch of hyper-active little buggers.


vik - I'm finding terrain to be using different areas/skill sets/somethings than the usual - just as switching between vehicles and troops is often a nice change of pace. That piece just seemed to cry out for a lick of paint - I shouldn't worry, no doubt some other piece will get all the attention before I finish that one



So had a quick nose around the new comic/gaming store. I succesfully passed my leadership tests and did not leave with bulging bags full of plastic crack

I did however fail my saving throw vs Warren Ellis and left with a stack of comics. So I forsee a pleasant evening of reading ahead, with hobby stuff looking to be a little scarce

what comics do you read by the way? anything non islander might know off?^^

mt: Not this year, car was slooow. Didn't help that he broke it twice within the last 12 hrs playing with it rather than saving it until the race was over.

vik - These days it's whatever takes my fancy when I have some spare cash in my pocket - or when I look around a comic shop I picked up several Warren Ellis books - Freakangels volume 3 &4 (Kids with strange powers from some sort of experiment cause the collapse of civilisation, and as adults are trying to piece some kind of community together in flooded Whitechapel), Frankenstein's Womb (Mary Shelley meets inspiration), Captain Swing and the Electrical Pirates of Cinderey Island (Spring-heeled jack as a sky-pirate in 1830's London), plus some Hellboy (big red dude I'm sure you know ).
I'll try and take some pics of models in the comics bookcase for you, bit of comic-porn for you


Gits - He was just running it in Ah well, hope it was still a fun day.


Finished the walkway, bar sealing.






Added another layer to the bridge piece, and trying out the look of the lower level.



Obviously to keep the lower level stable there need to be several more chains, with one set going lower. Or I might try sculpting chains for a more stable build....Lindsay40K did a great tut on sculpting chains around wire, so I may give that a go...

Nice!

Do you use the electrical/barbed wire/spikemoat/steel cage barriers?

Nice. I really like what you did there with the chains. I'm thinking of doing something similar on my BW.

Excellent work on the walkway... love the chains. Nice touch.

The chains are giving your platform the right mood, very nice!

Dam fine job Sir colour and rust is spot on, the structure itself is looking great and the chains just give it that neglected abused look just friggin awesome …….


Stash of comics sounds interesting as well, some unheard of may have to look those up

hey monkey... looking forward to those comic cameo shots^^

and the finished piece...if it weren´t for all the rust and grime i would call it yummy^^ no i tell a lie... it IS yummy^^

and the still unfinished walkway...confusing in the best way^^

Man all the cool terrain is screaming for a game of necromunda

Thank good for filter thread it made catching up with all that work alot easier. I honestly don't know where you get all your ideas from monkey, must be a little crazy inside your head.

PDH wrote:Man all the cool terrain is screaming for a game of necromunda

Fully agree!

You don't drop in for a few days, and the next thing you know, there's paint, awesome Necromunda buildings... And girders, let's not forget the girders!

Great work as always, love the style of your building, they'd fit nicely into the old Necromunda book!

Terrains looking great

cool terrain mate , also the camera work is very ridley scott

shaso - Thanks! Indeed I do. Well, we get those installed in a basic configuration, then we get another set and let the meks loose on that set.


TaWaaagh - Cheers! It's all about chains, cables and broken girders for adding a bit of 'life' to something


Gits - Thanks man, as above - final details add a lot to pieces like this.


Selvaggio - Glad we're all digging the chains here


ldd - Well, thank you kind sir. Freakangels and Hellboy are the only series there - Captain Swift was a mini-series - I picked up the tpb. Freakangels is excellent stuff - but then again it is Warren Ellis


vik - bugger, forgot them this time - don't worry, I'll get some mini's up with da comix soon.
Confusing terrain is fun I think Probably suits inquisimunda better these days, not sure how current rules run. Back in the day we were all for multi-level boards, or boards that were swamps with walkways etc.


PDH - I know *sigh*


Bbm - Welcome back. It is


TR - It'll keep crying out for a while longer


CK - Thanks man! Does paint on buildings count? Cool It doesn't seem the same to me. Except for it never quite getting finished bit..that's still the same.


Llamahead - Cheers guy!



Added a door and started on plating to the building that has a walkway roof.



The door-post pipe will allow some bits to be added, as will the pipe on the wall.


So been tinkering a bit with the 'bridge'. Think I might forgoe the chain-suspended lower level. It's a cool idea, and I do want to do it, just not sure about whether I want it here. I'd want the lower level extending past the sides of the other layers, so it could connect up with other pieces. But that would limit the other levels to being used lengthways only as connectors, I'd rather be able to use it in a variety of ways. (I know, I know...I won't actually be using it at all...but if we go too far down that road we end up asking why I'm building an army at all ).

I'll leave it off for now, but I'l look at it again later, as it would look cool on a multi-level piece I think.



Couple of nasty glue blobs there - good job it's a rusty old piece of orky scavenging hey? Those top pieces have magnets in them for adding a further walkway/crow's nest - I'll probably add another connector rod piece to stabilise anything other than a walkway.


That outlet pipe back on the roof-walk building - that just happens to be the same height as the pipe back on the first outpost piece.



That's a sure-fire chance at some interesting walkway shenanigans

Right off to blast a few raiders out in the desert - just started in on New Vegas


Edited for neil sneaking in and passing compliments whilst my back was turned

Cheers mate, good to see you. Shame about the green plastic cutting mat flooring hmm? I'll have to paint a big sheet of tread-plate up for photo-taking

and yet again a good modler lost to a game^^

very good development there...specially like the eagle eye view...

that one lonley pipe...made me think of a swing...dunno why... probably roks even don´t know what that would be for^^

and even tho your terrain is so cool looking... i just realized i will never be able to unsee your curtains...if you act quick you might get away with calling them an heirloom of your late auntie...

very cool, but this could lead to some complicated play unless you made some table rules. Alas all part of the fun i guess. very cool and very well painted and modeled

vik - Think of it as research - post-apocalyptic wasteground and all that - plenty to look at and be inspired by.

Plus...there's rivets

I've been expecting curtain comments since whenever I first caught one in a pic - surprised it's taken this long They're the curtains that came with the place - think how many sheets of plasticard replacing curtains for various windows and doors represents I did get rid of the chairs that were done in the same material though


bigfish - I haven't played since the days when every model in an army would have different equipment, but yeah - it's definitely being built with the meter turned to the 'cool' side of 'practical'

They're the curtains that came with the place

.... hands up everybody who thinks that this is the lamest excuse yet to be uttered on this godforsaken world^^

so i gather it is not your own house but you rent that place?

and dave already showed that most sacred place...rivet town^^

Good layers of grot n squig pens!

Nice, I was first thinking the long pipe protected the Orky string-n-can comms set so it wouldn't get cut so easily.

Great job love the fact they all fit together, multi module sections good call, love the pipe that fits across the 2 sections was that luck or intended ?

I really wish I had the time to build like this but don't ……. just have to admire yours I guess then

Will have a look at those comics Freakangels soundings fascinating, theres a comic store near us will have a look in there

Any way cant wait to see a splash of paint on the new sections, and no more of those curtains

That's a pretty big pipe Monkey ;-)

oh...i think i gonna sit this one out then^^

neil101 wrote:That's a pretty big pipe Monkey ;-)

You might want to rephrase that one

vik - No excuse, just stating the facts No, the place is mine - houseboats around here tend to come semi-finished, there were some wicker chairs covered in the same material, but I gave those to the folks for their summer-house, my work-desk was made from the bed in the master bedroom. I'll replace the curtains at some point, but for now I can think of a multitude of better ways to spend my hard-earned

See, you've been shown Rivet Town, it's legitimate research material


shaso - Priceless idea - I'll try and incorporate that somewhere, sometime


ldd - Cheers! The pipe was intended, I did suggest the idea back when I was building the first outpost piece. I just like to have meaningless things that can be used in a variety of meaningless ways, or turned into other meaningless things Did anyone else have those Battlestar Galactica vehicles (original series) that came apart? The Viper nose was used on the Scarab land vehicle. And to be fair I think it was just those two toys that had interchangeable parts, don't recall the Cylon raider coming apart - but I still had a lot of fun trying to build strange vehicles.


neil -


vik - sit down, make yourself at home, help yourself to those fried squig-eyes


ldd - What? He was just warning me about the large pipe monkey that was swinging around on the pipes above my head. I appreciate the warning, those pipe monkeys can get nasty after a few hours of swinging


Not sure that I've done anything model-wise in the last week, bit of New Vegas, plenty of work. End of year stock-take - which is a real doozy with our current systems. After 21 hours at work I had about three hours in a hotel room watching The Professionals and Quantum Leap before heading back for another 8-9 hours.
Yep, I'm wide awake and full of energy right now. Raring to go. Well up for it.

Not at all feeling like some bugger's sandpapered my eyeballs and battered me with a rubber cosh, oh no.

I suspect there won't be any progress tonight either, as even if I don't crash in the next hour, I don't think sharp cutting objects and various adhesives would be good to play with right now

However I will endeavour to get something done for a Sunday update. Or maybe just sleep some.

I'm wide awake and full of energy right now. Raring to go. Well up for it.

... splendid!....*sits down and awaits the upcoming update that willarrive in some twenty minutes...*

*looks to watch again afer 3 hours...er...reads text anew...*

The dreaded stock take... it always sucks doesn't it. I've really gotta get out of retail. Work in a morgue maybe.

Looking forward to your return.

weetyskemian44 wrote:The dreaded stock take... it always sucks doesn't it. I've really gotta get out of retail. Work in a morgue maybe.

Looking forward to your return.

Still involves stock take

But the customers are quieter!

weetyskemian44 wrote:But the customers are quieter!

Give you that , but remember dead people fart ….. a lot

i think the major issue with stock take is that you gotta have stock that is easy to count... whats with art galleries? one picture, two pictures...

yep sounds right - If they tried to do a stock take in my work they would have problems - our low staffing levels have lead to the stock stacking up to the point where all available space is piled two meters high with boxes. One has to walk sideways like a crab to get to the stairs on some days. Its actually quite shocking and makes me fear for the breakdown of western civilization. I imagine monkey works in a much more organized environment...

vik - Hope that seat was comfy...


weety - Yep, thankfully this should be the last time we have to do the entire stock in one hit though...thank Gork. Yeah, dead people are easy to count.


ldd - But bodies are large, easily spotted, and not so easy to lose.


weety - Very much so


ldd - Quiet farts by the time they're in a morgue though


vik - How easy or how many of them you've got This part involved 24000 products, each typically having between 5 and several thousand pieces


weety - No end of financial year stock-take? In retail? Blimey I wouldn't say MUCH more organised, I'm the stock manager after all



Quick pic to keep you going. Started in on the paint chipping for the hoverbuggies hull.



I'll try and get some more done after eating.

Unless I go shooting things in the wasteland



edited for some atrocious spelling

" Unless I go shooting things in the wasteland "

You must live near me ;-)

the chipping looks cool monkey , love the 3d effect , tried that myself on the ogryn but i never really pulled it off.

Looking good monkey! I don't remember seeing this one unpainted - Maybe its from a while back

Its really nice monkey, very cool

Yes like the paint chipping nice work

chipping loos very good... tho i have seen tuts on that i still would love to see a more in depth (haha...for the 3D aspect of the matter here^^) look into how you do the chipping... is it "just" two colors or is there more to it? the tough part for me would be to know where to put the highlights... well that is always the toughy for me as i for now avoid this matter like vampires avoid holy water...

cheers, vik

Like the chipping, did You use sponge or something else?

neil - lol, Even over your way that's a bit frowned on Hey it looked good on your ogryn, just keep at it - it's slow, but I don't find it tedious at all, rather relaxing strangely.


weety - Cheers! A few months old, just before Christmas I think was the last time I showed it, it had the camo scheme on by then


bigfish - Thanks man!


ldd - Thanks again!


vik - Cheers - it's a lot simpler than it looks. Once the base colours have been finished and highlighted, etc. I apply whatever I want the primer to be with a sponge, then add a bit more with a brush where I think it's required. In this case (as often) I used Chardonon Granite. Then Bleached Bone highlights along the lower edge and wherever else the light would catch it. I generally paint as though the light is above and to the left as seen from the mini's point of view, so highlights tend to be to the bottom and the mini's right.
The trick is using a good fine brush. For this I used a Series 7 00, it doesn't look as fine as some of my others, but works better, as it has a good tip and holds more paint in the bristles, the 0000's I normally use for this need to be recharged after every stroke most of the time.

I'll try and remember to take some step-by-step pics next time I do some.


Selvaggio - I use a sponge, then a fine brush for extra detail where I want it.


Avoided the wasteland and put together the start of another building piece. With added comic-porn especially for vik



And together with an earlier piece.




Also did some more to the looted wagon.



That's almost like two Sunday updates for the price of one!

"five fists of science" sounds like a laugh. The grav tank looks proper ramshackle now

hmmm... tasty comic--onrop^^ which brings me to the question...why do you buy tradepaperbacks and not the original issues? are these handlettered? just asking as in germany these edition often get typelettering in the speachbubbles... which i think is a horrible way of lettering a comic... i only found out the difference after reading for the first time a marvel comic back in the days... used then before to read only german books and it was a revelation.... also if one has a tough stomach i recommend reading a german version of mickey mouse.... it is rather a horror comic book for the text... really go and see it for yourself if you ever have the oportunity... it is thus that i won´t give comics these days so easily to my kids... i want to give them the real thing... but that means they have to read them in english... or if you want a totally wasted time... read any older x-men book in german first and then thre original english version... it is (just a hazzy guess) about a third of text shorter... *grrrrr*

the description of your weathering/chipping methode sounds good... i really have to make a battered tank for one to try this out^^

about your recent terrain updates: what i really like about thee are the halfround shaped habs... that is a very clever idea and gives a most unique look!!!

and tho ther famous flashkiller was on his way when ou took the pics of your looted wagon...i can say it is developing quite fast... mind if i ask if the grey mass underneath is just a means to support it for the pic or an inteded addition???

cheers, vik

Ok, as usual great stuff blah blah blah...
You got The Sandman over there and just want to shake hands with You (I've got a few of the other comics You own, but Sandman is top)

weety - Ahh yes. Mark Twain and Nikolai Tesla with a 'titan' against the black magic of Edison, Marconi and J P Morgan
The kill-kannon for the grav tank is getting more ramshackle too - the 'boiler' type thing has fallen off several times and is probably more glue than poly and plastic now


vik - Glad you like They re-letter the tpb's in Germany? That's a crime I have individual comics as well, there's a trunk full of them back at my folks But I stopped buying them years ago, the tpb's are easier and far more convenient to store and read. Plus I don't have to worry about missing an issue, can pick them up when I have spare cash, get stories I missed at the time, etc. Can't keep up with everything out there, so I can pick and choose stuff that sounds interesting.

Yep, about time you got some more tanks on the go

Yeah, I'll be playing more with the half-rounds.

That is just a bit of terrain for pic support Not got round to drilling out a mounting hole yet.


Selvaggio - Cheers Definitely one of the best, if not the best



Another day, another new piece started.

An interesting design!

very nice terrain!

My biggest beef with Warhammer games is, due to the movement restrictions and things of that nature, the game doesn't take advantage of having massive city terrain with criss-crossing walkways etc. It takes nearly a full game just to get across the table, much less up 4 levels, across 2 catwalks, etc.

so start the multi level fun in your deployment zone and have several bridges that span the table? Warmill's raised highway sections should be good for that sort of thing once they are released....

Hmmm I'm getting images of a mahoosive industrial area with two big built up areas with maybe some sort of production line in the middle and multilevel walkways and raised roads cris crossing the gap above..... I might have to build this.

shaso - For some reason it makes me think of a Frank Llyod Wright beach house

Goresaw - Yeah, I kinda figured it might not work so well in a real game, but as I don't game that's not a huge issue for me Back in RT days we mainly played with warbands and probably messed about with the movement rules as we preferred 'interesting' terrain.


mullet - The sort of thing we used to do was make the actual tabletop an acid swamp or such-like, so all the minis had to stay on walkways, rooftops etc. As Goresaw said, don't think you could work that without a lot of rules-fiddling - or maybe just really big walkways


I'll head to the desk shortly and see if I can concentrate on not starting more terrain

monkeytroll wrote:shaso - For some reason it makes me think of a Frank Llyod Wright beach house

Yeah, I just wasn't gonna say it! But in this case maybe Orky-loyd-Wright?

monkeytroll wrote:
mullet - The sort of thing we used to do was make the actual tabletop an acid swamp or such-like, so all the minis had to stay on walkways, rooftops etc. As Goresaw said, don't think you could work that without a lot of rules-fiddling - or maybe just really big walkways

or just, there is no table top, there's a two mile drop into that gaping chasum and if you fall your lost, even with jump packs you'd never get back up... apart from flying models whom it wouldn't effect at all Damm them *shakes fit*

I like the derlice feel to it, like the metal peeling off the building!

Yeah, well back then you'd have a squad of squats on power-boards for that

Oh, good, it's not just me then shaso - I'm not sure if it's a design I've actually seen, or if it just has that feel for it.

Orky Lord Rite - Arkitekt of GorkaMekka.





edited for forgetting the English language

that new piece is especially charming for my because i seem to recall you never used the bend curogated iron look...( i might be wrong...but i think not...^^) more of that...

what i don´t like that much with tpb´s is that you have bite sized chunks of stories... personally i like the endless taste of a story...but that´s just me^^

There's a few pieces with corrugated iron on, but you may not have seen them since it was added.

Well, you just buy all the tpb's vik

Well, you just buy all the tpb's vik

well...that is a good tactical move...^^

i menat the bent currugated iron... for me that look with the half bent corner is new...and i like it^^

Whoa!
1. how did you bend that pipe?
2. What is the corrugated plastic?
3. can you please give me a close-up of that control box next to the door?

Hey monks , plenty of book porn there for us , many thanks ;-) , and the new corrugated terrain piece is lovely and clean , although i bet by now its a dilapidated junk house ( in a good way of course ) very retro .

I'm sorry to say that I don't like the use of comics as a background MT, I just find them to distracting.

The beach house is great though. I especial like the way you have bent the corners of corrugated sheet out.

Not dead, not banned, not arrested, just lack of internet and being mental busy. Still no interwebby thing, and still busy as, but off work and on a wi-fi dongle, so let's get some hobby stuff done...


vik - Thanks, I have used it and not shown it I think, it's just a natural way for corrugated iron sheets to act.


dstein - That's one of the EMA connecting bends, no need for ardous bending Although there is a need for filling punch holes.

The corrugated sheet is available from EMA/Evergreen too, and Atenociti's Workshop as well I think.

I'll take a close up when the whole piece is finished, but it's just a couple of squares and circles stuck to a thicker rectangle, with a qurter-round on top and somw wires stuck below.


neil - Knew you'd enjoy And I've been building another bookcase, so maybe more of the big books in the future.

It's getting there, but not there yet, even after all this time


Bangbang - Not great as a general background I know, but nice as a bit of book-porn for those that enjoy, not frequently used, and not for major pics. And cheers, glad you like it.



Certainly not two months worth of work to show, mainly just a few days worth, c'est la vie.


First point of interest - supply drop, courtesy of Zinge...



Excellent quality as always. A big ol' engine, some hatches, fans and vents, plus a few pistols and power cables.
Still on a terrain tip, so sure some of those are going to be useful.


Touch of colour to a couple of buildings.




Most of the solid colours down, weathering and details started on the beach-hut, sporadic weathering started early on some of the other.
The corrugated iron on the beach-hut started with a heavy silver drybrush over black. Drops of blue and black wash were then dropped on and a wet brush used to 'blend' the washes all over. Once dry a few random splotches of sepia and flesh wash were added.

Then red, purple and green washes were dropped on and blended with a high water ratio. A wash from macharius orange was used for the rust, then some devlan and flesh patches were added.
The rivets have been hit up with silver, I need to devlan and sepia around those again, maybe turn a few to brass with some verdigris, then check for anywhere that wants runs/drips, and some weathering powders after sealing.


More fun with household junk




Cookie packets and some interesting shaped packaging from something. No idea what now, even though I only grabbed that the other week. All looked useful, so into the cave they went. The cookie packs got a few heavy coats of pva on the inside to help strengthen them up.




Then they got stuck to bases (thick plasticard in this case) and got more bits stuck to them. A bit like Blue Peter, only with more litter.
And finished off with a nice layer of pva to seal it all and provide a nice key for some colour - that shiny plastic doesn't like paint much.




Oh look, they got coloured in a bit too, fancy that. Did I mention those lovely Zinge hatches open and close? I didn't think of using the hatch till late so there's no point to it on this piece, but nice to know hey?


Decided a couple of cheap ruined silo-buildings would be nice and easy...






And they were. Hmm, I reckon that's three bits of terrain I've completed this year. I'd better keep with the 'T' theme and get some lovin' directed at trukks some time soon. 2 months left?


And a few new pieces that are taking shape...




A bronzey thing set in a concrete thing...never know when it could be useful...





A walkway through the buiding...got some keen old orkitects designing this stuff, oh yes.





An elevated building. Whilst cannabalising a set of drawers to make a bookcase I thought the sliders might make cool girders for something heavy-duty. A few days later picked them up, and yes, there is a cool use for them.


And a bonus pic of the camp so far (4'x2')





There's been a few splashes of colour hitting vehicles and boys, but nothing worth showing yet. I seem to be better motivated to put colour on terrain, so whilst I've got a colour on the go, I'll see if any of the boyz fancy a splash.


Right, 2 months worth of dakka to catch up on....

Bugger, that's going to take a while. I may be a bit sporadic over the next week or so whilst I'm on the dongle, but I will catch up with all your blogs at some point

You are just so freaking creative mt... it's almost sickening.

Outstandingly cool. Amazing what you can do with junk and a dongle.

Awesome work here as always! I'm sure I'll loot some of these ideas eventually...

AMAZING ! love the use of house hold waste, and a great excuse to eat cookies

The most brilliant part here though has to go to the draw runners they look great really great infact.

I was trying to work out how the hell did you make them then read the post and was like what a clever idea and work perfectly.

The walkthrough is great love that one as well, but the most thing about the scenery has to be the roundness to it all, which is so different to the normal right angled scenery you normally see.

Great stuff and glad you are back missed your crazy creations round here get it round here are never mind

that cookie package...yep that is goint to be highly valuable stuff!!!

and all your recent work! top notch!

but for the real thing: welcome back old man! you were greatly missed...! what kept you?

cheers, vik