somebodies been having fun with a cable maker.

I swear I can see that thing squigling. *shudders*

RW - Cheers man!


Gits _ Thank you sir!


Ramos - That just means it's been a while, not that I've been busy The ammo holds it's shape fine, there's a bit of wire in the centre of the resin to enable you to shape it.
I was a bit too heavy with the bends and split the resin - you can see the gs repair blotch - there's a limit to how much bend you can give it before the resin splits, but it's good stuff.


Awesome - Thanks, the wheels are just straight off some WW2 jeep, no need for skill


Yggs - Glad you approve, cheers!


ldd - Thank you. That's a fantasy orc torso balanced on a skaven's robes on top of an ork boot. With plentiful gubbins almost hiding the dodgy waist area
First one's nice and bright, let's see what happens next time...


Dr H - Thanks doc


graven - I thank you, and appear here today to grant your wish...


vik - Thanks for the compliments. I knew not everyone would like the bright wrigglies, then again, I have a feeling most people wouldn't enjoy looking into chaos As I've said, I had a blast with that guy, so there will be more in the future, some will be dark and gloomy, some will be bright, some will be icky....


neil - I said when I got it that someday I'd go crazy with it


KC - Just the response I wanted Cheers!


Ok, all good here, we had some fun with the rising water involving pallets, then makeshift gangways, then long walkways in order to get to dry ground from the pontoon, but no harm done.



Eventually the walkway was built through the gateway as the water was higher and the security gate had to be wedged open. Water rose for two days after this, then started receding, back to normal today. That sloping gangway is usually horizontal.

So a run on chaosy stuff at the moment, a brief change of pace. And as to those beauty shots of the tentiball:



Better pics and some other stuff over on my chaos blog if you're so inclined...

Love the tentacle ball mate... just spectacular! (also the shot of your gangway is pretty neat too)

vik - Thanks for the compliments. I knew not everyone would like the bright wrigglies, then again, I have a feeling most people wouldn't enjoy looking into chaos As I've said, I had a blast with that guy, so there will be more in the future, some will be dark and gloomy, some will be bright, some will be icky....

understood


and that water rising.... that would completley put me out of my wits....oh my...

You got to love that tentacle, also Vik he is in a boat

I love that runway picture, It just looks so underhive!


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And the tentaball looks perfectly disgusting!

You know I definitely imagined your boat to have more gunz than that.....

 lone dirty dog wrote:
You got to love that tentacle, also Vik he is in a boat

well? what´s your point again then? i am not of nautical interests

 Viktor von Domm wrote:

 lone dirty dog wrote:
You got to love that tentacle, also Vik he is in a boat

well? what´s your point again then? i am not of nautical interests

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Well it is a bit of an occupational hazard, also at least he is in the right place if the water rises LOL

so monkey is a regular noah then

In a word YES

But does he have two of every miniature on his ark is the question.

i bet ...no... as no mini ever looked the same ...he is one of the rather not repetitive guys^^

Lol - Noah's GrimdArk...

I agree, the shot you took of the makeshift walkway is very Necromunda. Just need to replace the water with toxic goo and put a huge dome over the top of the general area.

Thanks guys, appreciate it all

Unfortunately I'm drunk in charge of a keyboard right now, and am gradually losing my ability to post sanely so I'll reply at a later date - hopefully the weekend

Water level is right down now, but has frozen over - I won't even attempt to figure out how to get pics off my new phome and into photobucket and then to here as that would probably end badly with utterly different pics posted So you'll just have to believe me

Drunkeness of frozen monkey bridge troll. Quality.

Sounds almost zen-like when you put it lik that you weird grinning reindeer you

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
But does he have two of every miniature on his ark is the question.

ha ha ha ... A drunken noah collecting two of every mini available , priceless.. oop unicorns is his speciality

Ok some replies..(and that's all for this post..sorry folks )

Gits - Thanks a lot, I have a few issues with the way I failed to control the washes properly in a few places but I'm really happy with the finished piece - you can definitely expect to see more of these in the future


vik - knew you would I'm on a boat -water level goes up, so do I...what's the issue - although explaining that to the council when they were trying to kick us all out a few years back was hard work -
"You live on a flood plain"
"Yes, but we're in boats"
"No, you live on a flood plain"
"Yes, we get that. We also float."
"But you live on a flood plain"
"We're in boats...we float...if the water level rises so do we."
"Look, You live on a flood plain"
"Sigh. Yes. But we loat, we're on boats, if it floods all that happens to us is our view gets better....."
"You live in a flood plain"
Etc. etc. et-bloody-cetera....


ldd - Than you, you do don't you...so cute and squirmy
See...you get it


prototype - Cheers, to be fair, so does the inside of my place


Llama - Ahh, but mine is five berths behind me there....had to stand there so the barrels didn't obstruct the view


vik - No..... more naughty interests


ldd - exactomundo


vik - Someone been talking about my age again.....


ldd - ahah, found the kulprit


weety - Nope.


6 or 7 of some...


vik - To be honest I just have 5 stock minis, it's all conversion work


graven - Hmm, there's potential in that idea.......


Skalk - No huge dome, but trust me - that stuff is far closer to toxic goo than water.....


neil - No unicorns here.



I've cut all the horns off and sold them to Traditional Chinese Recasters.


Normal (hah) service should resume shortly... just received my Dreadball KS set, and there's some green-skins in there

I need to visit your boat.

'ware the cyber-pike and the robo-ducks..

Round 2:

That looks well sketchy. Mind your step Mr Monkey.

It's all good as long as I don't put the wrong shoes on when carrying laundry....

Is that the typical british christmas-weather? haha

I love the tentacleball btw, it's so cute! Oh and someone should definetely try to breed something like that for seafood

Nah...not typical...particularly mild at the moment...normally worried more about it being frozen over than flooded...


Edit:

Last year:

Is that your boat with the fancy prow??

I always imagine monkeys boat to be large and square looking - kinda like a floating bungalow.

Drink carefully then monkey that walk way looks dangerous when sober

Now where is the tentacle

Gits - Afraid not..that's taken from my decking...mine isn't really a boat, it's a houseboat..similar to those behind but without the rooftop terrace.

Once my loan's paid off next year it's time to start thinking about real boats.
Mooring fees include adding boats to the three free sides of mine, so that's just a no-brainer.
Narrow boat would be great, a 40 footer probably, plus a small run-around/mini cruiser type thing....eventually.


weety - Close....but you can take out the large part


ldd - lucky I don't drink then....err apart from that little lapse the other week

Tentacles are just under the surface...you have to look real close.....



Since we seem to be on a bit of a flood/boat tip at the moment....




Honest, that's a field that is.




Coming back the other way....
Can't see mine, but basically the same as those.




That shouldn't be under water..water should be a foot or more under that




View across from my deck...I was standing on that quay last night....oh wait, you can't see the quay, it's under water...




And back to model related stuf....


Just to let you know now, there's no progress to show on anything, but plentiful supply drops in the last few weeks, some of which should be of interest.
That does hopefully meaning progress is coming soon...

OK, hold tight, here we go...scream if you want to go fasta...




General stock, grabbed some 'tile' sheets for a bit of variety, and some foam for more terrain work.




15mm apc from Antenociti's...wheels, bits and hull will obviously be going to different projects




Couple of AE Bounty guys from cipher designs...really like the first mate on the right, may end up as a Dredd figure




Some more gorgeous sculpts from McVey Studios...jetbike is lovely. May get some minor conversion, not sure yet, I do love the sculpts coming out of here. A metal geezer, and a couple of arms that the meks are squabbling over already




Always good to have some containers lying around...




...especially if they're full of stuff
AT-43 bit grabbed in the Wayland sale, been meaning to see what could be done with some of this stuff for a while. Got most of the actual piece apart without damaging too much, not managed to seperate the legs out yet though...still, got some funky bits there, interesting ideas are afoot...




Plastic Cryx set...looking forward to working with this stuff in plastic, and some Mantic Orx, which seem to be disguised as a VHS cassette




The orx marauders...not the best sculpts on the planet by a long shot, but in the sale I think this was like £3 for the 10 guys...I can work with that




The Cryx set:
Warcaster - bits for the chaos guys. Slayer warjack, 2 deathrippers and a defiler - lovely bits for the meks and chaos warpsmiths to fight over. And all emminently choppable....




Biker from Puppetwar...fair bit of clean-up required on this - pretty bad mould lines in obvious places. Will it go to Mega-City or to the mek-shop? 50/50 at the moment, time will tell...





Flyer from Puppetwar...much cleaner mould, nice detailing, nice little touches like the panel lines continuing on the pegs to hold wings in place.
Look at all those dakka options too...and magnets come supplied for easy swapping.
Nice job on this kit. Bits will be going to the meks, to Mega-City and possibly to the warpsmiths too...


And my Dreadball set arrived too. Let's do the whole unboxing thing hey...




Ahh, shiny new box...mmmmmm.
Shiny rule book, a ticket for a participation event and a signed print of the cover.




Rule book is nice quality, looks well laid out (although I've not read any yet, so might not be...), and lots of photos and pics.




Play board. Various other versions were available (mdf, acrylic etc) but I was more intereted in the minis than the game so didn't bother. May still try and get a game or two in over xmas though, that and zombiecide, should get some opportunities...




Stuff innit?





Roster sheets, card tokens, acrylic tokens and 40 odd hex bases for the minis. All looks nice.





One bag containg the MVP's - special characters from a variety of teams, plus a coach and a trophy.
Nice quality of detail, a bit of flash clean-up needed, but to be expected. A few of the poses look a little 'meh'. but as it's unlikely they'll be keeping the poses in several cases....




And the obligatory scale shot, ganger takes on one of the nameless.





One bag containing the Forge Fathers team. Dwarves. 10 guys to a team, 3 different poses. A few will become squats obviously, others not so sure of yet, not looking for a squat force atm, so...





One bag containing the Veer-myn team. Gas-masked rat-dudes. Some will be heading to the forces of chaos certainly, there's a few bits that may end up in the mek-shops.




One bag containing the Marauders team and the Corporation team. Orcs and humies, these are the guys in the basic box.




Corporation. Couple of right arm choices. Obviously multiple choices for these guys, Imp and chaos.




Marauders. Grots and orcs...think it's patently obvious where most of these bits will re-appear




Ref-bot and a couple of balls.


Not looked at the rules at all yet, though have seen a few good things mentioned around Dakka - downloadable rules have been available for a while.


Still to come for me:

Two more teams - robots and the nameless, those should be lots of fun to chop up.
Two packs of keepers - one set for the 4 teams above, one set for the robots, nameless and 2 others.
Pack of various cheerleaders.
Pack of various coaches.
Four large special characters, alien, nameless, robot and human/orc.



OK, that's it for now...who knows..there may even be new work to show next time...

Sweet beauty!

Ah, well... there's your only issue then. Set some time aside next summer at go build that deck!!

weetyskemian44 wrote:I always imagine monkeys boat to be large and square looking - kinda like a floating bungalow.

me too...

and glad that suply drop update came... i was worried that this thread would dwell on as a nautical thread from now one

too much goodness to comment on individually... but looks very promising... and lots of stuff seems to be an ideal match for your armies...well if you ever referr to the models of yours as seperate armies...

That's a drop and half can't believe the different manufactures there it like a review page, yet some how they all end up being used in the same way.
Just keep your head above the water

Clearly, someone snuck themselves onto Santa's good list. Great toys mate! I sat and built a couple of Mantic Marauders with #1 yesterday, they're pretty nice and do the job.

Looking good.

Those puppetswar bits look epic.

I've got a mantic ork team myself I'll keep an eye on this to see how you modify them

Lp

Merry Christmas monkey , lovely presents there , the nameless is rather nice. and finally we see your neighbourhood in all its watery glory .

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
That looks well sketchy. Mind your step Mr Monkey.

It's ok so long as he falls only 3". If it is 6" or more he needs to take a test. 12" or more it's instant death.

@ monkey- of that entire massive haul, impressive as it is, I like the container the best. I need to get a couple of those.

Hi
Loving your work so far cat wait to see more love the dead ball stuff looks liek you have some work to get done lol!!! possabily fisrt time back on dakka for months!!! Btw blog has had update….
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/810/357188.page

Some overdue replies......

weety - Cheers, let's hope we get to see some action on some of those goodies....


Gits - This summer's project is probably replacing the decking itself, few bits starting to warp and loosen - sign to re-do the lot methinls....


vik - Can't help having water on the mind when you live on it How about if I get some old-skool pirate freebooterz on the go?


ldd - Variety is the spice of life after all dawg


graven - At the cost of getting on my bank manager's bad list Still, there's loads more KS goodies coming this year, all of which have been paid for so guilt-free goodness when they get here At the price I got them can't have any complaints at all...


lego - Gonna have fun when I get round to messing with them...

I suspect you'll get to yours well before I get to mine


neil - Cheers mate...yeah, liking the nameless, can't wait to get the rest of that team...


Skalk - You're not taking the toxicity of the water into account there though

Yeah, that was one of the things that always attracted me to the AT-43 stuff, lots of containers in the kits...


HAZ - Cheers dude, back from a break myself - no doubt there'll be more on your blog by now, I'll check it out....



Ok, bit of a break there.....christmas, work and personal life all got a bit complex.....little done - which seems to have been a common theme in this thread recently...ah well

So what's been going down...


Due to the ass-about-face I managed my pledges there was a bit of a delay with my Dredd KS goodies, however a mail to matt at Mongoose got things sorted and last week got a heavy ol' package with a bunch of goodies in:





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OK...continuing..

Won't go into detail on the Dredd stuff here...think that's worth starting a new thread for now...I'll let you know when it goes up...


Also grabbed a bag of trim from Grandt Line on dstein's advice....




Cool bits and pieces, useful for more than just terrain at a quick glance...


Was involved in the DCM Secret Santa organised by graven, which was a load of fun...my Santa turned out to be Arakasi, and I got some lovely stuff in my package....





Lots of cool goodies as can be seen...fun to be had in all sorts of places...
Before it had arrived I'd set myself a challenge of building a mini using just the bits from my Santa package. And so that became my first project for the year....let's hope I can actually complete it this year hey

Looking through the bitsfor a while gave me a few ideas, some of which I felt neded some extra bits to do them justice. After a bit of mulling I had a couple of concepts I liked though....



First up was a cyboar...not progressed far on this one yet, in the short hobby times I've had I was working out which bits were needed....
Pretty sure I have the rider sorted, but want to wait till I have the boar body sorted to make sure he still fits....
The plan is to have the dakka attached to the armour plates, and rather than going for some robotic limbs/wheels/tracks I'm going for an anti-grav unit to replace the rear legs....

So far the body's from a lion, head from boar and eye from part of an elven standard....the grav-unit will be based on a beakie jump pack and part of a termie so far....

Obviously I'm allowing myself to use GS too






Next up was a shoota boy for the cyborks.
Body from a boarboy, left arm from an old metal stromboy, right arm from boarboy and two FW bolters, with the cable coming from a servo-skull.
Legs from a black orc, head came from a termie arm and a boarboy....job's a good 'un. Just need to decide on base (plenty of basing goodies in the selection) and ready for some colourin'.





And whilst getting back to grips with some modelling today figured I could do this little geezer too...more for the chaos dudes, but I'll throw him up here as there's nothing else to go in the spiky direction just yet.
Gobbo body with the head cut out, arms from Mantic elves and flaming torch from a horses tail...quick and easy

That's about the size of it for now....finger-claws crossed there'll be some more soon....

Great to have you back mate, and that little santanic familiar is neat!

YAYYYYYYYYY !!!!!!!!!!! The chaos has returned and once again you have not let us down with your combination of pure genius and sheer insanity

Now how will this develop the idea of a tigers body with a hog head the ork is great love the mix of bits just crazy but what is the head made up of

Why is the last guy on wires

Either way hooked again

Ooo, that's lots o' bits to play with.
I like the Ork and the good ideas.

graven - good to be back, and hopefully get some stuff done Really want to try and finish these three before jumping off to other guys as they're the secret santa challenge I set myself


ldd - Cheers! If you paid more attention to reading rather than deciding which orkmoticons to use you may have noticed the head was a termie's shoulder and a boarboys's jaw

He's on wires to make it easier to paint without putting my grubby fingers all over him


Dr H - Thanks doc!


Ok, little progress, but let's show it anyway, try to keep this rollin'

No more colouring done, but the shoota boy has ben undercoated - no pic as a pure black ork ain't much to look at....


So the cyboar:




Lost the rear end so the hover gubbinz could be attached...
Termie torso, which fits reasonably well, jets from the jump pack and part of a killa kan underneath, shoulder joint I think. Once it's all been gs'd to blend in I'll see if I want to gs some turbine blades inside the hollow.

Bionik ear comes from some bit of decoration for the elves...





Boarboy torso and legs fit reasonably well on the lion, and there's a bit of braided mane that will connect nicely to the boys torso as the control link.
Arm comes from a black orc with part of a kan's ccw as the choppa part, will probably be getting bionik slugga arm on other side, head will be boarboy head with my favourite GS bionik eye in place...

Short and sweet, that's it....

LOL Yes sorry about that went back and read that i know I am easily distracted bbbbbb

Love that bit...

Can't believe I haven't commented sooner... Awesome work as always - and not one, but three Secret Santa models - but I'm even more impressed/enamored due to the familiarity I have of the bits

I may have to loot some of these ideas (sometime in the far far distant future) - at least the ones I still have duplicates of...

looking good!

He looks very... speedy! Gotta be a red one, that one.

Bring back Boarboyz thats what I say!

WB Monkey!
Nice bitz-haul man, and i love the Ork konversion too, especially the fancy shoota!
Grandt line bitz for More than terrain? -do explain?

welcome back monkey!...why have i got the feeling i say this so often in this thread???

the boar is looking weird as usual...which is to say...cool^^

and the haul... how do you manage to stay on top of the knowing about all your stuff...that has to be an epic collection...verging on the millions of millions of bitz flying around all in your home...

ldd - I know the feeli.....oh look - shiny


Gits - Cheers!


Arakasi - Well, only just started to be fair Getting three out just shows what a good selection of bits you provided....as I said I can see loads more, but really want some other bits to do those ideas justice......



HAZ - Thanks man!


graven - Red Boar, it gives you jet-packs


Llamahead - They never went away in my world


dstein - Cheers Dave, nice to be back, still need to check out what you're doing in your own little middle-earth. And thanks.

Well, in that pack I see weapon barrels, gun-sights, engine vents, wings, bioniks of various description, ,access panels, exhausts, armour plates, shields, wheels.....


vik - Yeah, been a few absences recently, have to admit. But thanks for the wb

Cheers, appreciate it

Well, if I forget something it's a nice suprise when I come across it again....tbh it's keeping track of where I've put each bit that's the issue....


So, what's on the menu tonight?

Few more bits came in from the Dredd KS, thought these ones could pop their heads up...



Couple of sprues of zombies, which will be heading zombiecide way rather than to MC-1 I feel.




Metal zombie bits, always useful, and a zombie judge...nice.




A few East-Meg judges....Booo.




And a sentenoid...the meks are converging as I type...



As to the cyboar...



Started GS work on his mane..




And started in on his dakka...ammo hopper from a beakie, part of a drill from a kan, and part of an exhaust from a trukk...


And that's it for now....back later...

He needs blue and white checks now... Also LOL'd at east-meg boo! Ah, childhood joys. Dark judge chronicles is one of this year's world book day books, I see...

Dead dreads look pretty cool, how good are the castings on them by the way Boar needs wings no seriously he is developing well the jet pack idea is hilariously cool, but what else would we expect from you and that demented mind of yours

The Dakka is nifty looking as well like the fact you kept the barrel short, most of the time they stick out to far IMHO, the only thing I would suggest (although I am sure you will any way ) add some fur texture to his legs as they look a little to lion esque at the moment.

Can't wait to seee the cyboar finished monkey!!!!

You are going to give it hooves, right?

^Knowing MT, they're more likely to be hoovers. Or possibly, hovers.

graven - Hmmm, might just happen, we'll see Dirty sov-judges I had missed that, interesting....


ldd - Decent casts on the ones I've checked out, not been through all of them yet though... Minimal flash, no horrendous mould lines.

Well I don't mind large dakka, but as I'm limiting bits to those in the Santa box..... Yep fur texture to come...


Haz - Hopefully not as long as most of my builds in this case.....


Anvil - Yeeees, just don't know exactly what yet. Was originally considering wheels, but thinking hooves may be better, but might be of a slightly bionik nature...I suspect they'll be one of the last bits to get some work.


graven - Hadn't actually considered that....but am now, cheers




And just a couple of quick snaps...



Left dakka has had handle from the ammo hopper added, piston from the dread pk, and part of a melta bomb for rear detail...




Right dakka formed from beaky shoulder pad, part of the elven chariot yoke, trukk exhaust, gubbinz from the other en of a melta-bomb and skull from trukk decoration...




Coming atcha....

I like the idea of it's front legs running madly to keep up with the jets pushing it forward.

I'm interested to see how the jet assembly will be integrated into the body.
I kinda like the idea of it looking like it was installed long enough ago that it boar's body has started to grow over the edges.
Or that the skin was stretched over the edges and pinned down... very horrorshow that though.

It's cool if you have other plans for that though.

The (Mad) Scientist would approve of your jet powered boar

A face only its mother could love or at least his mechanic, by the way I think it needs an oil change

Maybe add a few cables from the back jump pack to the stomach section, make it look like it runs of bio fuel.

Like how you used the marine shoulder pad for the gun section

That is looking like one sweet cyboar!!!!

Dr H - Yeah, there's various ideas for crashing, stumbling cyboars floating around the workshop....

Stretched skin riveted in place is the current idea, but we'll see what happens when I start work on the join...it may end up as something different...


ldd - How could any decent mek resist...bionik bits and big teeth...lubbly jubbly...

Haven't decided on where cables will be running yet...it's quite a busy piece as is...


Haz - Cheers matey!


So rider has his personal dakka done now..



Decided against a GS eye and used the sensor bit from the termie instead..
His slugga arm came from the boar boy arm, the remains of the melta bomb used on the boar, a censer from the DA banner and mag from a bolter...
Needs some gs to fill out his back and straps, and should b good to go then...


And on his 'trusty' steed..




Need to decide what I'm doing with the hooves, work on the join between bioniks and flesh, and add a bit of fur texture....

Laters.....

Looks fantastic mt!

AMAZING add the bionic hooves and a couple of cables going from the pack to the gut love the boar rider cant believe the amount of parts you used on his arm

DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA!!!!!!!

Gits - Cheers buddy!


ldd - Sorry dude, don't think the cables will make it, although I'll be looking at them again once there's some colour on the wee timorous beastie...
Four bits to make a bionik slugga arm That's taking it easy man....


Haz - Never enough is there? Unless you're name-checking this site, in which case you've got one too many



So, time to add the jets...tank bomb looked to be a good bet for one side, and maybe the hip joint left from the kan side for the other...but that looked a bit too awkward when I tried it. Then tried using the torsos from the mantic elves as connectors, but a bit too weedy. Bck of the beakies torso was a bit too chunky...



But the circular part from the mantic sprues was just right



Finished with lower exhausts from a beaky backpack.





A bit of sanding, add the rivets for the skin and ready for some undercoat...


And as to the slugga boy on foot...



Nothing spectacular, but work has commenced with the crayons....

Sleep tight, don't let the bed squigs bite...

For the random sprue piece usage. Looking good.

Base that boy! And that Cyboar is ROKKIN!

Those Cyboars are so great! I miss the days where Orks had calvary.

Monkeytroll, demonstrating the art of making something out of nothing.

ha ha ha ha bed squigs!!! Looking good!

Tune in next week, when Monkey builds a Thunderhawk Gunship out of a dog turd, empty water bottle, and a cigarette butt!

 dsteingass wrote:
Tune in next week, when Monkey builds a Thunderhawk Gunship out of a dog turd, empty water bottle, and a cigarette butt!

I am half way there all I need is the empty water bottle and a cigarette butt ………….. no found the cigarette butt

 lone dirty dog wrote:

 dsteingass wrote:
Tune in next week, when Monkey builds a Thunderhawk Gunship out of a dog turd, empty water bottle, and a cigarette butt!

I am half way there all I need is the empty water bottle and a cigarette butt ………….. no found the cigarette butt

I ate my dog turd.

HAZZER is the Ralph Wiggum of dakka

How many crayons are up his nose?

Dr H - Cheers. Never forget, sprues are a modeller's friend


Deunstephe - Well, let's see about getting him painted before basing hey Glad you like the cyboar.


Goresaw - Thank you! Bikes, cavalry, a small platfrom comprised of grots - what's the difference to an orc in a hurry?


graven - Well, hardly nothing...'twas a goodly supply of finery from he who has gone to brighter shorez.....


Haz - You'll not be laughing when you wake to find they've munched your leg off my boy....


dstein - Oh please.....

Obviously it would be a looted thunderhawk, durr


ldd - Well if you're missing the water bottle you should still be able to go for a storm raven....come on, build something


Haz -


graven - I think you have it there...


dstein - I thought that was the new technique being used for miniatures these days?


OK, so a splish and a splash of paint managed to find their way onto the minis somehow....











All horrible wip shots so far, I'm hoping they might push me into getting more progress done today rather than finding something new to buil...ohh shiny....

No, early colours work well IMHO like the boar scheme so far hope you keep it dark, but grudge dreg at the bottom is my favourite by far but thats the look more than anything

I love the little bits of brass mixed in with the metal... really works to add interest.

Looking good so far. Skin of both the orks and boar look good so far and the selection of metals is good.

and yeah, sprue is amazingly useful. I have a huge pile of sprue (not just from GW) and use pieces from large lengths for structural purposes to small slivers for detailing.

I think my favourite bit may be the sm shoulder pad. I normally think those studded pads look guff, but I am proven wrong it seems!

ldd - Cheers. As usual I expect a mix of dark and light by the time its done No telling what will occur on the way....


Gits - Yeah, never a fan of just one metallic look, the meks have a wide variety at their disposal after all...


Dr H - Well, thank you, but early days yet, lots to do, and lots of oppotunities to get it wrong.... I think most of my pip shots look terrible, right up to the end..

Yep, sprue is great stuff, and a variety of different sources is always good, get a nice selection of cross=-sections that way....


graven - I'm a big fan of the studded pads myself, but always have issues painting them on beakies..



So, where did we get to....






Details and weathering to go...






Highlights, details and weathering to go...







Lot still to do. Including fix that broken hoof...
Playing with interference colours again. Mixed interference blue with metallic blue...finish doesn't show well in pics..
Was originally going to mix with metallic red for an iridescent look, but decided blue fit in with the Red Boar look






And just about done...

Need to do more to the green flames, add some darker 'highlights', but that's about it. And threw in an attempt at osl type stuff....not great by any means, but the first time it's not looked like I've just been a clumsy fether with the brush, so I'm happy

Avoided building any new stuff....but have several plans now after playing with bits....

A ha, I somehow failed to notice the change to hooves 2 updates ago... Good job.

and coming along nicely.

Hey Monkey, I'm not sure if I've posted here before, but your thread is so full of win. Love your wonderful creations, really unique and fun

What are "interference" colors??

Very cool. I like the way he turned out.

Dr H - So did the boar, he was most distressed to find hed lost his claws...

Thanks!


Ruglud - Well thanks for stopping by, glad you enjoyed your visit. Feel free to make yourself at home, help yourself to tea and biccies (just make sure it is biscuit based confectionery you pick up and not dries slivers of grot brain...they don't dunk so good)


Gits - Interference mediums are used to get interesting colour shifts depending on the angle of viewing, think iridescent effects like oil on water. Using them mixed or in glazes over other colours gives some interesting effects. I used a blue interference mixed with a metallic blue, which has taken a lot of the colour shift out, leaving faint purply hints at certain angles. If I'd mixed in a complementary colour like metallic red then thered be a more dramatic shift between blue and red as the angle changed, which I'll probably use on some vehicle with curved surfaces at some point, curved surfaces allowing for more changes in the angle of viewing/light hitting. I could mix it with a non-metallic red, and then there'd be a shift between flat red and metallic blue....
Thin glazes over other colours is something I want to experiment with too, have seen some interesting stuff done on flat painting using them. They are a bit thicker than most modelling paints, so best used on larger surfaces.


Ice - Cheers buddy, think I've lost track of your thread, I'll have to remedy that shortly...



Ok, just home from work so no update yet, but did get a supply drop today, firts part of my DreamForge KS. Only a few troopers for me in this wave, I went for the Mortis Leviathan which will be later in the year, along with the awesome APC...




One box of twenty troopers, and two lots of accessories.



One of the cool features of these is the wargamesfactory sprues, which stack neatly....




Shadokesh handler (alien forces to be released later...) and Ada, forgotten her rank....





Stromtrooper sprues....2 each of the larger and one of the smaller in a box, fair few options there...





Accessories sprue...heck of a lot of options there, plus bits to make three 'mules' - gear carrying 'bots which I'll admit were the main attraction for me

Thanks for the explanation mt... didn't know that. Pretty neat stuff!

Yeah, I've never really seen it used at this scale before, but hey, I'm all for experimenting




Not great pics, but that was a test using red interference mixed with non-metallic green....you can just make out the green hue in places, but because it was non-metallic it loses the sheen as the colour changes....

Pretty cool. Where do you find said paint?

First time I've seen the DreamForge sprues. Their stuff looks pretty damn good.

Gits - Should be a few types available at any decent art store.



Those are the ones I have, but there are a variety out there...


Squidbot - Yeah, it does...have to say it was the leviathan and apc that hooked me, but there's a ton of uses for this stuff too

Interference paint is fascinating. I like wargames factory sprues stackability; have they fixed the moulding issue where you get lines right down the middle of the faces?

I should be able to find the Liquitex paint without issue. Thanks again!

Bare heads look ok, either facing front or rear...helmeted heads are side-on on the sprue, so not great, although mould lines lok minimal on most of the pieces. Only de-sprued a couple of mule bits so far, I'll report more once I have more bits in my hands...


And just because...




Had some ideas about turning this small A-10 fuselage into a bike of sorts, but then happenened across off-cuts from the necron flyers....

Think it might be the beginnings of a deff-kopta now...possibly with rotary cannon under front or missile racks under wings or above and behind pilot...although that last takes away from the klingon vibe I was getting....

It looks like a Mek boy found a crashed X-Wing, hit it with a Cylon raider, then jumped on it.

In case I am unclear; that's a good thing.

I was looking at them the other day in the paint shop trying to work out what the hell they were for now what I read makes sense although I think the shop assistant thought I was going to nick them

Dragonforge drop Mine should be on route to me tomorrow they look great I have a load of stuff in mine or I hope there is mind you a £57 custom charge their better be

The medium seems to work well, although I imagine you loose some of the effect from the camera pic

monkeytroll wrote:I think most of my pip shots look terrible, right up to the end..

But they are so good for seeing the progression - especially compared to GW basecoat, wash, highlight, ?, golden daemon...

Seems your Meks are picking up their pace - I wholeheartedly approve

well... i am atm trying to read through my ever growing backlist...

so here i am... astonished... the boar is comming along so cool... i had my doubts in the beginning... but the recent works on this one...and specially the running stance you´ve created for the legs... and the use of the termy back...that made a really cool looking thingummy^^...

there is this red and yellow fella...he has that wrist mounted patchett looking gun... did you use a DA bit for the barrel/muzzle? that is a totally col idea... i need to imidiatly see through my bitz box for such items...!!!


on a side note... there are some features on the stormtroopers that look good... but in a warhammer related context their guns are way too weedy looking... just my two cents...

Squidbot - Well I was seeing more of a mini klingon bird of prey, but it's all good


ldd - I managed to avoid the customs charge again - did for the zombiecide kS too I have a mortis levathan in wave 2 and an apc in wave 3...just figured I'd get a few troops to see what could be done with them....

Yeah, the effect works best on curved surfaces in the hand, static pics of flat surfaces show very little...


Arakasi - True...but in my case there's normally progression through the early stages then..............a long time later.........almost done......done

They're starting to remeber how to use their tools


vik - Glad he's coming together for you vik - fret not, I am well aware of the confusion and scratched heads my initial ideas cause (an the finished article in many caes too).

Yep, part of a censer from a DA banner....

Well yes, not many manufacturers have weapons suitable for GW's over-sized cannons...however the grots may find a use for them, and of course they don't have to be used as weapons, they can be detail on various bits. Plus who knows...they could always be used as something other then GW....


So, what's been happening in the mekshops? Not a great deal...it's that wonderful time of year known as stock take...2:00am finish thursday, 5:00am finish Friday . Bleary eyed mek's have pushed a few bits of plastic together, but no huge strides forward....


So whilst graven was showing some options for his exorcist Gits made a comment about the track and roof arrangement making an interesting palanquin type vehicle. (If you've not been folowing inmygravenimage or Gitsplitta go and do so.....)
Well, that got the mek's interest.....



Still working on the track units at the moment, so no detail on top of the driver's position..probably a grot or two 'controlling' the vehicle...

Engines and gubbins are being applied to the inner surfaces of the tracks, and small walkways for the grot riggers will be installed on both sides...there's an opening door to allow the boyz to put their heads in and shout at the littl'uns...


Whilst starting work on that they also dug out an old body and started to see what kind of wartrall they might make from it...



The trukk driver mini fits into the cut-out cockpit quite well, and the gunner will stand on a rotationg platform where the turret should have been....designed so that rokkits/shootas/skorcha can all be interchaged once all get built...probably start with just rokits...

Squiggly bye for now.....

There's some interesting shapes going on there. I especially like the second one and I am looking forward to what might materialize on top of the first.

and quite interested in seeing how and what you build engines out of.

Very cool stuff there!

I forsee those Dreamforge Panzershrecks being bolted onto other shooty bitz for more Dakka This halftrack is exciting!

Oh those kind of storm troopers .. :-)

Great work on everything as usual mate . i particularly like the greenstuff vortex pulling in the nightgoblin.. ;-)

Dr H - Interesting shapes is always good The top will basically be decking for transporting the boyz...with maybe a touch of this and that

As for engines..look below....


Gits - Cheers buddy!


dstein - Could be.... Not yet..but I'm hoping it will be....


neil - Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper....said to a grot...

Cheers matey...good to see you dropping in...


ok...so the engines are almost there....



Got to get the meks back to work now.....

Ooo, nice engine bits. You've seen why I've developed an interest in engine modelling...

Now that's cool lookin'.

Thats a hell of engine you got their like the half track so far where is the wheel from see the tracks are Ramshackle.

Nice hinge mechanism loving the engine, very neat use of that landspeeder seat back. Also the russ-hulled half track is sweet as.

now that is some sweet looking high tech gearing up!!!

Dr H - Thanks. Indeed I have...looking forward to seeing what comes after the upholstery


Gits - Cheers bud


ldd - Thanks man. Those are from a model kit...possibly a revell buffalo I think...


graven - Thank you...although not the sturdiest..... Close...I believe that was actually from the stormtalon...but hey, who's counting


vik - Danke! There'll be wires and cables no doubt, to ensure it's not too hi-tek



Quick update...not a lot but hey..




Think that's the main 'internals' done, possibly a vent at the front of each, plus wiring to be placed once it's together - hanging from roof...




Yep...door fell off whilst doing other work...been found and saved for regluing later...realised I'd used tube that really needs plastiweld rather than cement, so will re-do. Engine on right side needs a few more gubbinz, and the rear smokestack on that side will get re-done too, ptting bits together for that now....


Not much, but it's progress....time to try and sleep off papa nurgle's blessings now....

 monkeytroll wrote:
Dr H - Thanks. Indeed I have...looking forward to seeing what comes after the upholstery

He He. At least my troops will have something nice to sit on.

Think that's the main 'internals' done, possibly a vent at the front of each, plus wiring to be placed once it's together - hanging from roof...

Definitely needs some air intakes of some kind and, of course, large "Orky" exhausts...
Maybe even a little greenskin caught up in said cabling hanging from the roof.
Looking good so far.

time to try and sleep off papa nurgle's blessings now....

I've recently got over a blessing from Nurgle by passing it on to someone else. Try that if sleep doesn't work.

Papa Nurgle has been busy I think he doubled up here, upholstery LOL what will you be using the skin of man or just some random 40k beasties? I cant imagine marine armour being that comfortable and Eldar are to pointy.

Hope Nurgle moves on soon mate

That is so cool that I'm actually inspired to stop what I'm doing and make one just becasue it's cool.

^ That's the spirit... AND you've brought Skalk back from the dead.

Necro-tankery.

Dr H - Yeah, my guys tend not to go in for the sitting so much

There's a reasonable possibility of grots in cabling - haven't decided how much grot action I'll have going on for this piece...tends to slow my already glacial progress once I start in on converting littl'uns


ldd - Upholstery reference was in regards to Dr H's freshly installed 'white leather' furnishings on his chaosified falcon The boyz aren't big on sitting - stay still for too long and you're likely to get grabbed by a dok.....


Skalk - Welcome back dude....and don't let me stop you


graven - Night of the un-living tread-head......



OK, small amounts of what could be termed progress in an alternate dimension....

First up, looted rhino enjinns...



Getting some rough colours down on the interior as I reckon it's going to be slightly tricky getting the crayons in there once it's together.


And the current state of the exterior...




The cockpit is undecided at the moment...although I am swaying toward the small one shown...albeit with a bit more body and plenty of cabling added. Main alternative at the moment is a senty cockpit...but to be perfectly honest I don't realy want to deal with the orkifying and painting of said item right now....
Thinking the side gubbinz on the left-hand side will be able to hold some variation of dakka for certain load-outs. Probably have a bit of tread-plate over hanging that part too....and just realised I forgot to add magnets to the top for adding a boom-gun if I should feel like it at a later date...think I can still remedy that...
Probably add a few random bits of railing, mainly to provide optional mounting points for dakka...
And maybe a small, lower platform at the rear....


And the half-trakk....




Still early days...front section hasn't been finalised yet, although I'm liking the piece I've got there right now. Need to get the driver sorted out so I can get the cockpit area in place in case I need to bring the front wheels back a bit...

Seen with two turntables in place, these will be for shhotas and rokkits, with plans afoot for a skorcha version, and possibly some kind of anti-airkraft dakka.....
Turns out the standard round bases fit slightly loosely into the Russ turret hole, providing a useful base for turret options...




Ok, that's all for now....heading back to the mekshops now.....

Ooh! I actually can't decide which one i like more. The half-track is totally perfect though amigo. Big digs.

I think the first needs a little panache, something bold to match the scope of the loot!

something akin to the crown you had back up here:

 monkeytroll wrote:
Squidbot - Well I was seeing more of a mini klingon bird of prey, but it's all good

Love the halftrack, it would be cool to see those wheels moved back and some menacing wheel wells built around them...more spikey bits!

Loving that half-track! Have you considered adding a second set of wheels in the front?

graven - Cheers amigo. I'm excited about both builds, probably because I've not really touched any vehicles for a long time...


Zeke - Panache? Da boyz are more familiar with pan ache - slapstick cooking implements around the head

Alas, the meks went straight back to work last night and are using the little grot bit...

They also put the wheels in place on the half-trakk, in the position already seen...


CK - Thanks, and good to see you back buddy. Hope everything's good with you and we'll see some of your work soon....

I didn't think of that...might have worked well on this build, but as with Zeke's comments, the meks didn't actually wait for any feedback before getting the rivet-guns out.


So, half-trakk done apart from the dakka options I believe....









And back to the mekshops.....

Very nice, just one thing - what's going on the big circle of tread plate?

Bloody hell the Meks have been busy looking good nice and ram-shackled, the round section is the weapon platform as it can be altered for different set ups I believe

CK - Thanks, and good to see you back buddy. Hope everything's good with you and we'll see some of your work soon....

Everything's... good enough . Between some rough patches, the birth of my daughter, and getting sidetracked, I believe it's time to resurrect the squeaky waagh!. Hey,I even painted a bit here and there

I didn't think of that...might have worked well on this build, but as with Zeke's comments, the meks didn't actually wait for any feedback before getting the rivet-guns out.

The sign of the true mekboy . Love how it looks, and you could still add a second set of wheels if you wanted to... Not a necessity though, I like the look as-is, especially from the front. Is the plasticard bit on the front for a license plate?It looks like a nice place to add some random insulting text

Looking good bit big for regular/ Wartrak through maybe as a looted wagon? Not that it matters.

Half-track is looking great.
and I like the job on the looted enjinns.

Just a thought that came to me, while you're discussing the driver and his cockpit, have you thought of trying him off centre?

Got to see all Your new stuff before I could leave a message here.
Everything good, a lot, the Half Trak looks awesome as it is, but I would add a couple of bits on the front wheel mudguards.

Keep up the great work Mate!

graven - Cheers matey...that be for the dakka that be...


ldd - Sudden bursts of enthusiasm do happen around here now and again Well done, that makes it seem like you actually read something rather than just look at the pwetties


CK - Nice to know things are mostly good, hope your daughter's doing well and excited to hear the squeaky waagh may raise it's voice once more

Good spot, that is indeed a license glyph-plate..I'll wait till it's coloured in a bit (oh look, icicles on Satan's nose....) before deciding what's suitable....


Llama - Thanks man. No such thing as a 'regular' vehicle in Upzag's gang Pretty sure it's not the largest buggy I'm working on.....


Dr H - Cheers, I did indeed consider off-centre cabs, I'm a definite fan of asymmetrical orky stuff, but for soe reason switched it back to centre-line as I applied glue


Selvaggio - Nice to see you again. Luckily for you I've been a bit slack recently, so not too much to catch up on Moar spiky bitz? I was thinking about spiking up the mud-guards, but then decided I quite liked the plain look....Spikes and barbed wire can always be added later though



So, rokkit launcher 'sorted'....








...And that unholy mess is the undrside of the catamarhino's rooftop treadplates.....

I think I'll leave you with that.....

Oh gawd he's playing with electricity! On a boat! Run!

Da Bionik Boy!

thse two pics remind me of frilly womens underwear....


way too good looking to be worn just underneath...







brilliant stuff!!!

I like the bionik arm.

Ahh, real cables, always useful. Could probably use a few more...

I do read the odd thing now and then but the shiny pretty pictures catch my eye to easily

Vik what does mrs Vik wear

HA! you´ll never know

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
HA! you´ll never know

Is that a challenge LOL

That's a lovely bionik arm you got there, that's some nice detailing!

CK - Nice to know things are mostly good, hope your daughter's doing well and excited to hear the squeaky waagh may raise it's voice once more

Pics soon-ish I hope, a bit busy and all

Good spot, that is indeed a license glyph-plate..I'll wait till it's coloured in a bit (oh look, icicles on Satan's nose....) before deciding what's suitable....

I was already amazed by the amount of paint in your posts... What happened?

 lone dirty dog wrote:

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
HA! you´ll never know

Is that a challenge LOL

nope... that is a threat...


she is mine

graven - Don't worry the grots knows what's they be doin..bbbzzzzztt


Deunstephe - Well, hardly 'Da'...as all the boyz iz bionikally-challenged


vik - Been looking at cogs too long if that reminds you of underwear mate But cheers!



Dr H - Cheers. I needed something relatively quick and simple to get the rokkiteer to cybork status, head and arm are nice for that sort of thing.


ldd - Fair enough. I can understand the attracti...oh look, shinies..


vik/ldd - oh dear


CK - Soonish is good enough I think the presence of paint is more a reflection of how much time you've been away, rather than any significant improvements on my behalf You'll also notice the actual finished quotient has risen much.....



And speaking of the 'P' word....




Think I might go for a red 'un....

You would never know that was once a Russ. Clearly, it has been dipped in go-fasta awesomesauce.

Looking good. That one must go really fast... Liking the weathering.

Don't blame me its Viks fault

Have to say the paint job on that is the bomb totally agree with inmygravenimage you can hardly tell it was once a russ but now completely bloody red awesomeness

It all fits together really well I still don't know how you do it but great job

@ Vik threats now hey lets let the lady decide ……… Ok you won

she did

at monkey... i anint sorry... for nuffin`

oh and that´s all meant as a huge compliment anyway... so..no takin back

The new track is so well done...really like the shape and feel of it.

I like the 'P' in here as well; no worries . Some lovely work, and I really like the weathering on the red. Now get on with that license plate!

You didn't stop me. I'm buried in the Underhive right now. Though it's no less tempting to build one of those and run it as a Guilder Caravan vehicle.

Rivets! Rivets everywhere? Why don't you fly the LoER banner?

Madness on that paint job. 100% up to your consistent high standard. Your work is always impressive.

graven - Thanks amigo Let's see if the go-fasta sauce helps with the colouring in....


Dr H - Cheers doc....like any ork vehicle goes slow Just charadon granite and runefang steel so far...there'll be more....


ldd - Thanks dawg You just have to let your inner mek out...it's easy then


vik - I know Danke....


PDH - Well thank you kind sir


CK - Cheers! Can I get on with colouring the rest of it before going on to the license glyph?


Skalk - Oh, some 'munda vehicles? Get on it

Last I checked the league banner flies proudly (if a little rustily) in my sig

And thank you!



Ok, tiny bit of work on the looted wagon....





Bit of protection for the grot driver to help prevent him being bashed on the bonce too many times by over-enthusiastic boyz....base for one dakka-point....still wondering about options such as boarding planks, have a couple of ideas, but not sold on any of them yet... also thinking about whether to have a small platform at the rear, midway down - or perhaps an attachment point for parts of the old sprue trukk/land train for those old-timers who may vaguely recollect that from way back in the blog....

Does the job

I quite like the platform stuck on the front, good strut job.

I really love the way that's turning out mt. The wires hanging all over the place is just great!

Loving the fact that the driver is protected from his own allies!
Just brilliant.

Great job mate loving the alternative exhausts heads nice touch, also think some kind of supports to hold up the grots protective armour would be a cool idea

The hanging cabling looks great and chaotic

Dr H - And that's what counts... Cheers!


Gits - Glad you approve, especially as it was your comment that set this off. Wires are like dakka....


Selvaggio - Well the temptation of a little green head poking up just in front can be a bit much sometimes...


ldd - Cheers bud! There are brackets holding the corrugated iron in place...just not very visible in those pics...



Windy as a windy thing in a wind tunnel here so that's my excuse for ignoring the P

Meks have done a bit more to the looted wagon:




Dakka-point 1 completed and struts in place for dakka-point 2.....rear platform added - possibly get some chains added to that for extra support




Magnet on the bottom of platform for hooking up to the old sprue land-train modules.....


Obviously with that build getting close the meks turned their bionik eyes to other tasks....




Started in on some more air-support...




They can't tell what it's going to be yet, but they like the fit so much they'll be doing something with it....

Love the way those are looking mt.

Nice.

That flyer looks good. What is the green thing you're using as the body?

Fantastic work Monkey! The engine work is brilliant, and the half-dakka is phenomenal!

That's very interesting with the chimera sections. Quality goods mate!

Looking good!

Is that a British WWI tank under the chimera top? I'd add a robotic torso on the turning plate and grabba claws in stead of sponsons

Sorry missed the supports can see them now ……….. well just

Love the flyer I also would love to know what the green thing is or at least was

Like the chimera top on the tank what scale is 1/72 or 1/48 scale

Don't know where you mean to add the chains for support little baffled by that to be honest

How many sections are there to be in the land train then

Gits - Cheers my friend!


Dr H - Thanks. Good question It's been lying around in bits for a good while now....I believe it was a modern German apc/missile launcher?


dstein - Cheers Dave!

Time you got some vehicles going


graven - Gracias amigo!


CK - Thank you!

It is indeed the venerable Mk I. Hmm interesting...there's possibilities there....


ldd - That's alright mate, you can barely see them in those pics.

Well, see above for best guess at present

1/76, the 1/48 scale Mk I makes a reasonable stand-in for a land raider.....

Chains have been nixed, but they would have been from roof (or struts on roof) down at angle to back of lower platform....

They're from a while back when I was making stuff out of sprue, think there's three sections with wheels or tracks, plus a couple of others that haven't got that far yet....


Build on looted wagon is complete, crayons have been sighted in the art-grot's grubby little fingers...






If a squig eats a grot in an empty forest, does he make a sound?

Love the different colors on the floor plates. Really well executed!

A suitable cacaphony of colours. Like it . I used to have a 1/48 scale MkI to turn into a land raider someday. Then GW came out with a land raider

Wow. When your Mek loots a vehicle, he means it. Fantastic work as always, and I'm still baffled at how you get your paint to look so old and beaten and your rust to look so perfect. My jealously is boundless/ And yes, I have tried to replicate it many, many times.

Amazing work.

Gits - Cheers! The boyz aren't too bothered about re-painting whatever bits they've salvaged in most cases Although that does mean there's an exponential increase in the time taken for colouring on my part


CK - Thanks bud. I sincerely hope it got looted if not used as a land raider then


Skalk - Well, it all depends on how much of the original vehicle is intact when it gets back to the mekshop Someday I'll try and put up more details of what I'm doing with the paint...it tends to get forgotten as I keep trying different things each time, and the long pauses between colouring sessions don't help


Ok, long time no dakka...

Went to Salute with my old man a few weeks back, had fun spent far to much money and managed to completely miss seing the painting comp...
Lots of goodies procured which will slowly work their way onto dakka...a nice haul from zinge and a few bits from anvil, which were the expected outlets to receive my cash...some dystopian legion tankettes and hover bikes, couple of hovercraft, various useful terrain bits, a few interesting models for salvage and looting, and a few pieces of laser-cut terrain from Sarissa....fair bit of this stuff from various companies there, seems to be the big thing at the moment.

My old man was really interested in the terrain (he was only looking for a few vikings for a dio himself) and expressed an interest in building some, so I bought a small settlement pod for him to play with and this is what he did with it:



Screwed and glued small hinges to the doors so they'd open. He just gave it some rough washes to give it a bit of colour. I'll probably base it at some point.

I've only had a quick play with the stuff myself, but the kits seem nice and easy to work with.



A set of low steps, which handily is pretty close to the level of my terrain based on the label rolls. Took just a couple of minutes to punch the pieces out and assemble them...although obviously they haven't been sanded. The structure is stable as is, just pushed together. And you get the bonus of some interesting shapes left over after you've removed the cut-outs


The catamarhino has had a bit more colour placed on it and the trailer...but stupidly was left too close to a bookcase and has been battered in the course of duty....repairs are needed on the two dakka mounting points at present.....





But mainly I've been working on some flyers...




Wings are so last year.....





Turbo-fans are magnetised, at some point I may look into some magnetised wings just for fun....

Working on the various dakka options a the moment....


And sticking with the variable lift designs another little concept...



Bit big for a 'kopta.....bit small for a fighta....


And also :



Dose beakies never put 'nuff intakes on dere flyerz...




Dey never fort ov stikkin' a trench on front either....




Ahhh...not air-mobile trench warfare then....


And as a meager bonus a few shots from Salute (I also forgot to take pics for about 98% of the day )



Couple of displays using flats.




A 15mm game called Hammer's Slammers, based on the books by David Drake if I recall correctly. Nice board, and I have some ideas for some of those hovercraft....

That's all for the moment...now I need to go catch up on what you lot have been doing.....

Good to see you back.

The old man done good, like the habitation block thing.

and I'm liking the flyers. The third one is particularly interesting.

Keep it up.

the second propeller looks a bit weedy... but with orks...yopu gotta have faith

and welcome back mister!

Loving the big VTOL wings! And I tried to resist but... The old man has taught you well!

You're making an X-Wing, aren't you?

interesting train of thought anvil....!

The rhino conversion and trailer looks great so far and the weathered platform really jump out, nice use of colour

See you get the talent from father, wish my old man was still with me to do stuff like this, hell I might have made it to Salute myself then.

I have to ask where are the turbo fans from ?

The trench front Fighter reminds me of the fighter from Battlestar Galactica :

Dr H - Cheers buddy!! As the blog is titled Cyborks & Flyboyz I decided I really should get some more boyz in the air....


vik - originally it was going to be jets, but I figured props were more fitting for this one....


Graven - Yeah, been meaning to use them for a while...came from an Avngers Iron Man Assault Craft (!), various wing parts will be seen in other vehicles soonish...


Anvildude - I do have an x-wing on the cards, although this isn't it....but that has made me realise that the cockpit is a good fit for one, should have spotted that sooner.....



Edit:

vik - snuck in there, interesting but wrong in this instance


ldd - Thanks mate.

See above for your answer

And yep....

Viper fighta to go with the Cylon Raider fighta

Anvildude wrote:You're making an X-Wing, aren't you?

lone dirty dog wrote:The trench front Fighter reminds me of the fighter from Battlestar Galactica

Ha ha, and I was thinking of Wipeout craft...

 Dr H wrote:

Anvildude wrote:You're making an X-Wing, aren't you?

lone dirty dog wrote:The trench front Fighter reminds me of the fighter from Battlestar Galactica

Ha ha, and I was thinking of Wipeout craft...

Yes that to

Doh...ninja-ing my edits now

I thought we'd established it's not Ninja-ing, it's SneakyGit-ing

 monkeytroll wrote:
Doh...ninja-ing my edits now

You need to be quicker me thinks

oh.... well I am fine with that too

Your dad is seriously talented... I can see where you get it. Lovely work on the flyers. Going to be great fun watching you build them out. I'm glad zinge doesn't make it to Adepticon in the U.S., I'd be very broke after visiting their booth.

Interesting flyers on the move Monkey

Gork (or Mork) approved

graven - Must have missed that


ldd - Possibly


vik - Good


Gits - I'll pass on the compliments.
Going to be fun building them
Yeah, only thing I knew I was going to grab for sure was the bike tank....then just looked at the list of bits and kept adding stuff to the pile Looking forward to some of the stuff he's got coming soon too, not least the led kits.


Selvaggio - Cheers buddy!



Not much of an update, but spent a couple of hours in the wee hours checking out some of the laser-cut terrain bits....



Food booth from WarMill....looks suitable for Mega-City One....




Packing container from WarMill




Portable Utility Pod from WarMill....minus the base supports and steps atm. The roof piece I used turns out to be the base, there's no detail etched on the roof piece, but it has holes to allow another couple of struts to go in, which explains the slightly awkward look of the top of the vertical front struts....




Basics of the Explorer pod from sarissa...needs glue to hold this one in place....




A few gantries from Sarissa, along with the basic shape of a silo.....


Easy, enjoyable builds with plenty of scope for customisation....

the only downside with laser cut stuff is the details tend to be too thick...like that door angles...hmmmm


and I want to see how you will fit that all to your general orkyness^^

I think for gaming purpose these are a great idea, but as my good man Vik mentioned some of it does look oversized and flat at times.

However once it has been monkeyed I am sure all that will become unnoticeable

The holes in the decking are a bit big too, high risk of a leg falling through followed by a painful nut-impact But the interior stuff looks great!

Some amazing looking terrain - and flyers Keep it up!

the flatness is one other thing... and the connecting thingies that poke through look ...well...you know?... but it all depends on once it is finished, right?^^

The Warmill stuff looks great, but I agree w/ Vik, a bit too clunky. But if you were to use those cutouts as templates for .040 or .060 plasticard... hmm. HMMMMM.

I wonder what could happen?

Nice flyers btw

So finally managed to escape from the galley where Neil has been holding Scarp and myself......

Got caught up in that silly game known as RL and lost any hobby urges for a while there, but hopefully back for good now. (Iknow, I know, I've said that before )


Agree with all the comments about the terrain, all more suited to gaming than modelling, but should provide a good basis for a variety of things, and no doubt they will get used as templates too. The walkways wth the holes in will likey get some sort of mesh over the top to prevent the whole 'massive hole in the floor' thing they have going....

And a few pics of minor works that have been carried out during my time in the warp, just as a warm-up like....




Added the basic body shape and the twin tail booms, still working on designs for the tail iself, and figuring out the engine gubbins....




Cockpit for the looted necron flyer, thinking this one will have a painted canopy as there'll be too much work involved in getting a 'real' cockpit in there when it's in situ....and that will likely stall the project once again...want to try and get some stuff finished for a change




Moved the tilt-rotor flyer on from the concept stage. This was also going to get a panted canopy, but I've decided to leave it open now. Also realised after construction that I'd missed a trick at the wing/body junctions and should have had a disc at that point to cover where the turning plastic will scrape away paint...it's a bit more fiddly to add that now I've noticed it, and don't really want to pull the wing structures apart as I don't think I'll get them back in place with a good strong join.




Changed the tail design, and started to add some gubbins to the engines. I've as decided to add further support at the exhaust end to raise the craft higher off the ground in it's landed configuration...also means the jets could be used for VTOL without clogging in the ground




A few boys wwith some colour on...not much and not applied in the smoothest possible way, but nevertheless it's a touch of colour One oldish boy, one driver (for the ping-pong bat trukk if anyone can remember that far back) and one hastily put together boy to get back into things.




If you cast your minds way back when you may recall the hill-billy style buggy, it finally made it into the spray shop...
So far it's had a heavy skrag brown drybrush, followed by a runefang drybrush, followed by a liberal sepia wash that I let pool in certain areas. Should provide a nice base for further weathering. And there's a quick copper coat on a few areas - in caseyou didn't notice...




And also started on a pat-wagon for Dredd, so far had a black spray and some rough highlights applied, once there's another colour in place it'l make another appearance.


Not a huge amount to show for the time lost in the warp, but hopefully it'll count as proof of life.

Even though I wasn't interested in building anything my magpie genetics have meant there's been a few supply drops during the off-time, and several KS packages have turned up at various points, so who knows what things could be appearing later......

Thank you for flying Air Dakka, please exit the flyer now and make your way toward your destination, which you should find approximately 800 metres below you......

Glad you escaped Neil's clutches! I've missed your Cyborks and they look great!

very steampunky comeback...

your flyers will be a very nice thing to watch while developing....a vertibird always gets the deserved amount of attention....!!!

What an update!! Crazy and wonderful stuff in the offing there! Love that trukk. Steam power baby!

THANKFULLY THE MADNESS HAS RETURNED slow start but good to see the old stuff still being worked on HAH like I can talk.

Some strange but cool looking flyers love the twin tail craft, great to see some Orks with colour mine seem a little plain in comparison.

That dread truck is a nice piece where is that from ?

Welcome back! Now if only that Arakasi fella would get back to updating too...

Great to see you that Mega City truck would make a great Inquisition transport as well or a 40k popemobile.

Nice flier! I also love the golf cart of Waaagh!

Happy to see you back

I'm actually jumping up and down shouting "Monkeytroll, Monkeytroll! Monkeytroll!!" right now.

Well no actually I'm not, but only because its half six in the morning and the other half is asleep. In spirit I am!

How the feth did you escape that galley , I thought you were happy down there with all scarp's jumpers and mattresses ;-)

So glad to see your stuff again , I think the twin tailed bird is also superb. Though I can't deny its cool to see the dread stuff making an appearance, there has been plenty of interesting kickstarters around so that's enticing to know some might make an appearance

All in all a great return to form for mad doc grimsnick ,
Long live the monkey troll system..

Btw what is this RL you speak of ?

 neil101 wrote:
How the feth did you escape that galley , I thought you were happy down there with all scarp's jumpers and mattresses ;-)

So glad to see your stuff again , I think the twin tailed bird is also superb. Though I can't deny its cool to see the dread stuff making an appearance, there has been plenty of interesting kickstarters around so that's enticing to know some might make an appearance

All in all a great return to form for mad doc grimsnick ,
Long live the monkey troll system..

Btw what is this RL you speak of ?

RL is something you need to stay away from Neil its bad very bad …….

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I'm actually jumping up and down shouting "Monkeytroll, Monkeytroll! Monkeytroll!!" right now.

Well no actually I'm not, but only because its half six in the morning and the other half is asleep. In spirit I am!

Its lunch time here so I can get away with it. Whoot he's back

The tilt-rotor flyer does it for me....something about the shape.

I hope you pressed save on RL and get back to it after a good dose of Dakka

Nice to see some more madness around here. Welcome back.

Wow, thanks guys, good to be back


Moltar - He kept me there with promises of lots of shinies to cut and chop........Thanks man!


vik - Not quite as elegant as the viktorian stuff, but then da boyz ain't renowned for their elegance I'm just hoping to get some decent progress on them before getting caught up in the other dozen flyerz zooming in my head. Err......


Gits - Thanks buddy.But to be fair that's not a huge amount of work for 6 months


LDD - Old stuff always gets worked on.....just gets slower as more shiny things get built...er, start to get built....

The pat-wagon is from Mongoose Games, part of my KS stuff - still have a hover version to come....


Arakasi - Thank you! Well, I see you have a little 'side project' in the wings, general hobbying is going to take a hit while you look into that


Llama - Great to be back mate. As with most of my KS choices, the pat-waon was chosen as potential loot material And I'm sure the eagle could be Aquilafied for Imp use too, Inq chimera just sitting there waiting to be had.... It was touch and go when I got it, but I'm liking the idea of vehicles for MC-1, so ha to ave at least one Justice dept vehicle - at the moment the hover version is earmarked for da boyz, but that may well change once I get it in my grubby little graspers.


dstein - Cheers amigo! If Billy-Bob-Jo and Billy-Jo-Bob manage to get it started it beats the heck out of a golf cart


Sageheart - Thank you and happy to be back. Good to see you too, feels like you were awol for a while just before I was


weety - Always happy to have young ladies jumping up and down shouting my name It's Saturday, why are you up at half six?


neil - We were content for a while mate, but after a bit the jumpers stopped smelling of the girls that had worn them, and to be frank, that was all that was covering the smell of the mattresses, those are in a terrible state...

Oh there are all sorts of goodies squirreled away, for a variety of purposes - some (brace yourself!) may even just be painted up as is At some point I'll sort out the JD stuff into groups to start work on, but for now it'll be a few random bits, and probably more citizens and the like.

RL is kinda like an all-encompassing virtual reality that sounds really good but lets you down in so many ways but is still really difficult to stop playing


dog - You played it too huh?


PDH - They're probably used to you jumping up and down yelling random stuff at your work though But thank you

Glad you approve - it wasn't feeling quite right to me until I tried dropping the nose.

Nah, think I'll start a new character


Dr H - Oh I'm sure there's been plenty of madness whilst I've been in the warp And thanks.



I'm all warm and tingly inside now after that welcome back

Or possibly i'm being targetted by a bowel disruptor on a low setting.....



So, what can I show you today...?

First, the tilt-rotor..

Added landing supports to the engines and now pondering:



Have the body tilted back with a landing strut where the tail ends now like above...



Or with the nose dropped like above....

Possibly with struts at either fore or rear or both...

Was originally planning a turret type thing on top of the body, but I think I'm going to go with dual gun pods either side, just in front and below the wings. Maybe another set under the body or on top

Thoughts on the two variations for the 'at rest' gratefully heard, I'm still umming and ahhing about it, but I'll think about cracking on with the dakka in the meantime....


Picked up a few paints today and couldn't help myself, so here's another koncept from the mekshop:



Was originally thinking a more open rotor at the rear, but then noticed that the lift engines from a Dropzone Commander ship fitted in there quite nicely, think that'll be the one. The rotors will be larger, possibly multi-bladed.


And another koncept for a buggy based on a hovercraft from Aintsy castings - mentioned hese a while back, part of the Hammer's Slammers game seen at salute:



Maybe more of a dakka-on-a-stick in place of the platform. Want a few of these to tie in with the hovercraft junka that sit half-finished out the back of the mek-shop Also looking at 'bikes' using a diferent design of air-cushion vehicle, but that's just a body on top of the vehicle atm


And lastly some minor changes to one of Antenociti's vehicles which will become a ground car for some Mega-City citizen :




Sleep tight y'all, don't let the bed-squigs bite....

RL is kinda like an all-encompassing virtual reality that sounds really good but lets you down in so many ways but is still really difficult to stop playing

spoken like a true battle poet!

i am a bit unsure about the landing gear... looks rather big and heavy...hmmm.... but i have faith

and i have to say...your amalgam of tau tech and orky gubbinz... it has a very late 30´s WWII alternate theme vibe to it... that really is a very aesthetic approach!!!

Liking the hovercraft (is it full of tentacles/eels?).
Car looks cool.

Not-Tau-any-more flyer is also good.

The tilt rotor; As Vik says the supports look a bit heavy and not terribly aerodynamic (not a problem for Orks I know).

How about little fold out legs (from the jets), like those on the Mars attacks UFOs?

I would also say, tail down. With a little foot/skid.

OH but my it's good to see the monkey back out of his tree!

Oooh, looking forward to the Pat-wagon!

I would go with dual gun pods either side the top turret may be a little heavy even for Orks, like the fan on the Tau ship nice fit handy that

I have to say the Ork overcaft is a nice idea and rather fitting for the Green Skins, nice start and interested to see it orked up some more

I also have been considering purchasing the Antenociti's car for a while and was just looking at it the other day, although I am surprised to see it in such a normal state in your thread

I have played the RL game it is rather depressing full of glitches keeps crashing and very repetitive, I cant even change my dam character

Yes RL sucks, so many repetitive tasks, and the loading time! I have to lie in bed all night waiting for the next day to load. Its no wonder I'm up at 5:30 really. Or maybe I have a sleep disorder?

Nice work, I'm also getting a WW2 1930s mad scientist feel from the tau/ork thing. I love the ground car - I thought about getting one of those but all the smooth surfaces scared me off.

Tau ship reminds me of the Aircraft in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. I prefer the nose up on the tilt rotor which also looks like one of the Nazi wunderwaffe craft well worth a look at for demented inspiration. I'd personally add the Dakka to the platform on the Hovercraft making it a Trukk sort of thing.

Hovercraft is fantastic!!

Your small flyer reminds me of Slave 1, in fact its so close its almost tempting to give it a go

vik - Big and heavy it is I think they're just big old iron rings, sturdy enough to not get melted by the rockets during 'emergency' take-offs

Cool, that works for me! Just need to figure out the cockpit properly.....


Dr H - Eventually (when else with me ) I'd like a whole force that's mounted on acv's or the like....can play with the sharks then

Cheers.

They are heavy, and not very aerodynamic either

I wanted something heavy-duty to withstand the rocket exhausts, plus I felt it was coming together a little too neatly so far, looked too much like a production model, needed some 'clunk' added Idea added to databanks for future reference though.....

Think I'm leaning towards tail down too.


graven -


Squidbot - Not too many details on the wagon so who knows, it might be a contender for an actual finished piece.....


ldd - No dakka is ever too 'eavy for da boyz

Someday there'll be more......and yes, more wires....

Grabbed a few pieces form Antenociti's for use in the big meg, just as civvy background really, at some point in the dim future I may get round to doing some taken from the page, but these'll do for now.



weety - Oh don't get me started on the loading times!

Mad scientist all the way (With due respect to Dr H of course ).
Oh, but think about the shiny blends you could do across those curves


Llama - Pulp action orks ftw! It'll either be a small paltform with a dakka-man ready for shootin' stuff, or some kind of auto-gun...haven't decided which this'll get yet.


dstein - Thanks man. Always on the lookout for hovercraft types to loot.


Giraffe - Do it Do it Do it Do it Do it



Ok, your Sunday update:


Testing to check my plan for the bubble-nose trukk works:




Seems to be ok...and the fact I used tiny dabs of blu-tac to hold the struts in place means I can safely paint most of the underside of the struts and just glue centre and edges - that's nice as I was a little concerned at how I was going to hide the white plasticard from the other side of the bubble.


Pat-wagon:



Black pretty much done, first coat of red and yellow, Brother Bob popping by for scale

Unsure how I'm going to tackle the windows yet...blue gem effect?


Buggy:

Hillbilly orks getting a bit more attention:



Thinking a couple of differing metal bits, the details and then on to rusting...maybe a few oil spills first.


Random bits:

Rosie says "If your rivet gun goes kablooie, hammering with a feth-off big wrench is a good second best...."




And caught a traitor guard sniffing around:





So long and thanks for all the squigs.....


[edited for stoopid spelling]

Wow, bubble nose looks cool. Nice reinforcement strips.

Wagon: is all that's needed there.

Buggy is nice and grimy.

Rosie is very cool.

and that last chap looks very shifty, best keep your eyes on him, he's up to no good.

Nice job on the tube truck the window looks the bomb, paint work on the ping pongee buggy is really coming together well.

Judge truck has a fitting scheme and I would go blue for the windows or maybe a green.

Rosie did you get the bots and display piece, I did just for the bots to be honest

Did you convert the chest plate to chaos then ? It works quite well but have you considered altering the helmet a bit.

That tube trukk is boss! Dredd truck looks like you're off to a solid start and rosie looks quite promising. Interested to see what becomes of that sneaky traitor too. Lots of exciting things happening.

That truck is awesome. For the Paddy Wagon I'd be tempted to go with blacked out windows so leaving them black with a glazey effect.

Dr H - Thank you. Wasn't sure they were going to work as well as they hopefully will

Justice Dept is rollin'

Not grimy enough yet

Yep, didn't even want to convert this one

And yes, he is very shifty.


dog - Glad the nose bubble seems to work, I think that'll be a focal point on the finished piece.

Basing the scheme on the one on the Mongoose website as I have no colour references for any version of the pat-wagon. Blue...for now

I got two of the display sets in case I wanted to make a small squad out of the 'bots With the bonus of having another Maelee for conversion purposes, along with the version from the original KS

Yep...and nope


Moltar - Thanks dude! Hopefully some of the exciting things will actually make it to a finished state


Llama - I considered gloss black with a slight blue gem effect, but the main body is too black for that to stand out I feel. I'll try blue first and see how that goes. Not sure how a gloss finish will look on the side windows as there is a slight texture to the sides of the piece - as though it's been built up in tiny layers.


So first up a little bit of colour for you lucky people (not a lot, but don't knock any chance to see colour on this thread )


Pat-Wagon:




Added edge highlights to the red and yellow, put down some metal ready for a wash. Had to retouch some of the black on the body where excessive handling had rubbed some off Put a layer of Caledor sky on the glass. Will get minimal weathering except around the damaged fender.

Did notice when painting that I'd missed various clean-up tasks before diving in with the colour - missed a few air-bubbles, and on the back fender the lights are pretty messy -


And a few washes over the traitor:



Ouch - missed those mould lines too

Couple of ogryn washes, runefang drybrush, ogryn wash for the armour. Green then grey washes, with touches of flesh and sepia for the uniform. uUmber shade for the puttees, boots and gas mask. Yellow glaze on the eyepieces and gas fittings. Umber wash, runefang drybrush, blue wash on the gun. Baal on the hoses.


Few weeks back I saw an interesting looking kit at a local model show, but I'd already picked up a few bits by that point, so left it. Then went looking for it on the net this week and found one on e-bay:





Look at all those girders and the like

And it's worth mentioning the actual vehicle it represents - The Bagger 293, the largest vehicle on the planet :

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What a beast


And I'm sure most who follow this thread are aware of it, but Skalk is running a junk pile terrain contest http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/563097.page

Go check it out, loads of interest, small piece, lots of fun to be had


I'm in, and will be making a couple of pieces, just to keep people guessing as to which is my entry (also handily providing me with options if my choice doesn't work out )


My starting pile of scrap:



Bits of broken cameras, mice, pens, wire, plasticard off-cuts and various other items....




Decided to use a minidisc as the base to fit in along some of my other bits, but found it was a mil or two larger than the 60mm base, so filed it down a bit first.




One piece gets a wall from matchsticks, and a pen gets sacrified to make up some oil drums. Now to figure out the ridges, could use some strips of thin plasticard, but I have another, more 'scrappy' idea to try first

What is this from??

That's from the Judge Dredd miniatures game from Mongoose Games, got it on Kickstarter, don't think they've released it yet.

Yanno...

I can see the 3d printer lines throughout the entire vehicle. They went to production without even a simple acetone 'bath' to smooth out all the pieces.

Ugh. Just...ugh.

I wondered if that was something to do with 3D printing, wasn't sure as I didn't know they got a smoothing bath after printing....

Good call on the excavator, lots of nice bits in there.
Good work on the rest there.
Look forward to what becomes of your junk...

The excavator looks awesome had a quick look at one for the minefield project read the price but then looked at its size yeesh that's a lot of model!

Dr H - Yeah, it was bugging me that I didn't pick it up at the show, so indulged in a bit of retail therapy

Thanks! Me too


Llama - Yeah, that's a big ol' box it comes in, the finished kit is apparently a tad over a metre long!


So, it seems I haven't quite got my mojo back yet, spent large parts of the evening just staring into space, not even thinking about the models....but still got a little done. Apologies for the large amount of pics and explanations, but I'll need to refer back to these to give Skalk a full list of components




Onwards with the oil drums.....
First idea was to use some wire under strips of paper (cut from an ork flyer instruction booklet), was planning to smooth the paper over the wire and glue wire-side to the drum to give it a ridged look. Unfortunately I didn't think it through fully and used superglue for attaching the wire - this meant the paper was then too stiff to properly 'wrap' around the wire. So I glued the paper side to the drum and gave it a coat of pva.




For the second attempt I stripped some PC connector wire, was planning to wrap it 2 or 3 times around the barrel to get the ridged look. It needed to be long enough to go round the requisite number of times as it was proving difficult to keep single lengths taut enough.
It wasn't long enough....

that truck reminds me due to the scheme a hell lot of B.A Barrackus truck...worthy for an A-team any day^^

the new big excavation digger is awesome....eager to see what you will do with that...

the comps entry looks very promising...

but the bubble nose tank is something that actually made me sigh...cockpit looks so good!!! i almost hear tiefighter sounds in the background...

OOPSIE...hit submit by accident.......


So...wire failed....decided to use the insulated wire from an old led, and use double strips....worked reasonably well, but not really straight enough Covered in pva after to help the appearance of ridges rather than external wrapping.

And for the third I just used different widths of paper strips. I didn't have enough left of the led wire to do another...oh well

Three different designs of oil drums so far. Any more will probably use different styles again.

And realised I should have scored some circles into the lids too, but hopefully they'll be covered in enough junk to not notice...




Cut up a plastic spoon for a support girder.




Cut up some plug covers to make up storage containers. Also visible is an attempt at using garden wire to make the oil drum ridges - that just wouldn't get snug enough against the pen to work.




Cut up some card packaging to make brackets (should have used that instead of paper for the drums really...), using the little tiny balls from a water filter as rivets, glued into guide holes. Theer's a shelf there made from half a 20mm square base.




The box I brush clippings, off-cuts and loose basing materials into. The detritus at the bottom is what I'll use for basing.




Cut up a used cotton bud for the pipe, put a small piece of mesh and a couple of bits of round sprue down, then glued on some of the ground cover around the wooden wall. This area will get some basic colouring done before it gets hidden behind junk.

The mini-disc had the central hole covered by some plasticard off-cuts and a bit of mesh, and the other two oil-drums got glued down.




And a quick lick of paint - you can clearly see how shoddy that ridge-work on the drum is - have to apply plenty of rust to distract attention from the sloppy build

Thanks for stopping by, please put a paw print on the visitor's wall on the way out....



Edit for vik due to my clumsy sausage fingers hitting submit part-way through a post

That's a whole other project bubbling away

A lot of things I reckon....mate at work asked if I was going to turn it into a big feth-off toxic waste carrier, and I had to say it was going to be turned into lots of things

We'll see, there's going to be some tough competition in this one

High praise indeed from vik...thanks

Looking promising.
Ruglud made some oil drums with sandwich ties for the ridges. Maybe give that a go.

All amazing really very resourceful I like the shelf idea hope to see a plant pot in there

Dr H - Cheers! Yeah, that would give the look I was going for with the paper/wire combo. I did consider using those ties, but there was only one badly twisted one in my box, so.....


dog - Thanks! Well, what sort of mek would I be if I couldn't make use of the available resources for a variety of uses hey Unlikely, most meks aren't overly bothered by keeping plants near their junk piles, err..stock inventory. Except for the few weirdos messing with cyber-flora.



So....



Getting a feel for how some of the junk fits into place.

The makeshift bench is a piece of waste from a laser cut kit - get some useful shapes out of those. Sitting on top at the moment is part of a lensfinder from an old camera, and a small motor, possibly from the same source. Below that we have a piece of plug cover, a usb port cover and a block of plastic, which again I think comes from a camera...not absolutely sure on that one, can just remember the struggle I had removing the rods that went through it...

Against the wall there's a couple of good old cotton bud pipes, with a gear from an old scalextric car sitting atop the drum - a wheel from the same source i mainly hidden behind the girder. And there's a couple of boxes from plug covers beside the tyre.




Added some bits of card, wire, cut up brush protectors, sprue and part of a press stud to the view-finder to make it a bit more interesting. Also glued parts of it so that the spring was stretched out.

The USB cover got a hinge from a bit of insulated wire, a catch from tiny scraps of plasticard and a handle from some staples, hopefully turning it into a tool box of some kind.




Broken watches provided screws and cogs for the shelf, and an old pen proved to be a good source of plastic tubing for some cans. And sitting on the drum is a crude pulley formed from more discarded pieces from a laser cut kit. Turned out a little big for my planned use, I'll see if I can knock up something a little smaller before it gets used.




Bit of a keyring, more cut-up brush protectors and pen refills, random bits off a circuit board (from a kind of hand-held computer thingy), bits of match and a chain from an old tea-strainer get added before the first layer of basing materials get dropped all over the place.





Bit of colour and test placements. Added various bits of wire to the plastic block to add interest, another pen part, cotton bud pipe, insulation from a wire and a metal rod - that I think originally held a watch strap in place - added to the storage bin.

Damn you're good at making junk piles. I'm sure I've got a broken watch somewhere. Going to see whats inside.

mmmm..Lovely junk piles! The little metal brackets really spice it up and add scale! it's good to see what the competition is up to before I begin myself

its work like this(plus the whole no time thing) that stopped me entering this competition, looking fantastic and the use of bits is inspiring

weety - I have the advantage that the interior of my boat looks like a junk pile, it's just having good reference materials Watches, calculators, any old appliances - I've been kicking myself because I had to replace my boiler just before my re-emergence on dakka, and I was so out of touch with my inner mek that I just junked the old one without carving it up


dstein - Cheers dude! I does like me a good bracket now an' then I had four pieces planned, and before I started I knew which was my planned entry - with two coming together and bits being piled for the others I'm no longer sure Plus there's still the possibility of finding 'that' piece of junk - found some stuff at work today that has me thinking in another direction


Radu Lykan - Ooh, new face - welcome
Hey don't be discouraged by other's work, there's always someone out there whose skill makes you feel humble - on Dakk alone there's a whole bunch of peeps who I look up to and whose work I don't come close to. It's sharing in their work and seeing what they do that helps us all grow as modellers (and maybe painters if you're into all that colouring-in stuff )
There's several categories to enter, the scale of the piece is easily accomplished in a couple of weeks - look through this blog and you'll see how slowly I work - but above all it'll get you a finished piece of terrain.
Go on jump in


No update today (see Radu, that's my kinda pace - can't even stick a bit of junk to another bit of junk in two days ), but a shout out to Rich from Green Stuff Industries for being an all-round good guy
I have the tentacle makers from Masque Miniatures, as some of you will be aware , but had been thinking about getting the GSI version for extra mix'n'match fun, and because their design nicely negates the need for something solid to use as a rest/support. I had ordered a set, left it a few weeks before tracking it as I knew customs like to grab my US packages and sit 'em on a shelf for a while
When I did track it I found it had been delivered a couple of weeks previously, but had not made it to my desk I contacted Rich to see if he could get any form of POD from USPS, as their site didn't seem to like us Europeans using it He had little succes and was tryingt o see if Paypal had any thing about 'delivered' packages that go missing. I didn't hold out any hope of that and told him I'd re-order and asked if I could get a signed delivery. He came back to me and said he had a set with cosmetic damage to the outside only, which he didn't want to send out to customers, but would get it to me for cost of postage

Mentioned because it arrived today, and I mailed him to let him know I had them and would put in a good word about his service

Away for business tomorrow night - wonder what bits I can scavenge from the hotel