Back in my old stompa log. i was building the stompa mob. however i finally finished the last and final... and certainly not the least... the boss stompa! they have yet to be painted so this will be my painting log... gotta pick up some paints next saturday... got my primer today tho... anyone got some suggestions on adding anything to them before i start painting? or just any thoughts in general let me know! ON TO THE PICTURES!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!!!!! ohh. and if anyone wants me to take other shots of them tell me. jsut tell me what part of the stompa(s) to pic and ill do it with and without flash (as it sometimes brings out diff stuff)

Sideways pics+sinus congestion=mild nausea. No wrecking ball? I've only just got a little of paint on my one Stompa. Are the light Gaze of Mork?

ah, i have all zee arms magnetized if you couldnt tell. have a wreckin ball. a lifta droppa and a deff rolla (rolla is still in the making.... ill never use it... its just to say i ihave it) and hell no. gaze of gork > hes the meaner one... and i dunno if anyone has played with a stompa mob yet... but holy ****.... i played my cousin today. 5k points (very low point game actually) but he brought three pylons... he thought he was going to be fine since my stompas were behind buildings... till i used stompede and crushed the buildings in my way and nearly got to his pylons... oh... and the awsomely rolled (over 200 shots) from one of my super gatlers.... i think im in love with these bad boyz

Haha dakka in the background.
Anyway, what is there to say exept that I love the stompa models I do love how the belly kannons turned out.
Wait are you the one with Ipod sticking in one of his stompas.

haha... HAD it sticking out of one... now they all got speakers ill post a link to a you tube video of them playing when i get around to uploading it on their

Why did you use different colours on the lights?

Seems kind of weird. But still, absolutely brill.

Could we see these other arms of yours, preferably mounted on the stompas?

theres green and red for the lights. green for the normal stompas and red for the boss stompa... figured i should make him more unique/coolier...

i will also upload a youtube video of all three playing the speakers and i will link it for you all

anyone want different pictures of areas of the stompas? or anything at? maybe suggestions to add to them?

And heres the picks of the wreckin ball on and off the stompa.... im not satisified with the lifta droppa as the size comparison is dislikable... so i will make a new one later...

wow
coooooooooooooooooool

yeah awesome

Congratulations on your Stompa beat down! Those look great, are the heads magnetized as well?

I must have some stompas of my own problem is I don't play apocalypse.

that is vary kick-ass stompin' crap!

haha thank you all for the comments... i will post pictures tonight on my painting progress of the first, red stompa Gennadius, the heads arent magnatize but can move around... the wires from the LED go thro the bottom of head and top part of stompa (so the battery holder lies inside the stompa itself... ummm if ur curious, ill post the you tube video today and ill show you the inside and wot not... and goffnob... un always up for grabbin themz off yer hand haha jk

Lol, I would do something like that...if it was not the time of the credit crunch...

well heres the VERY FIRST layer of paint on the first stompa... gimme some comments or questions enjoy!

some more progress on the stompa... drybrushed the whole thing bolt gun metal and started on some other colors... i wont be finished till sunday (gotta pick up more paints on saturday) thoughts?

ME WANTZ YOUTUBE VIDZ OF DEM SPEAKAZ!!!!!
Those are sweet. Any why not different lights shoot DEYZ ORKS! I dont play apoc either but dammit someday Im going to build me one of them

haha, as soon as i saw ur comment KingCracker... i went and filmed the video and uploaded it... so here it is as i promised http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8C31AshRzc sorry for the horrible quality but enjoy!

Hi, i have a OT question buttlerthepug ,

does your stompa's manual come with pieces number?
also any tips to keeping the main body together?

uhhh, the book just had really good pictures... but no part numbers so it was pretty fail... not to mention i was the first person to pick one up in my games workshop, and i built for the 11 hours i was there (open to close, and no worries not all 11 hours was on one stompa ) and the first one i cracked open had no instruction book. so it was harder to do till i realized i could just crack open another box and take those instructions... but if your having problems just go to ur gw site and check the step by step stompa guilde... its extremely helpful

I guess you're done building, but I don't much like the wrecking ball, it looks like it's wrapped in duct tape. If you still could, I would suggest putting more plating on it to make it look real solid.

As if one Stompa wasn't enough....


Lookin' good so far. I agree with jabbakahut, I'm not really a fan of the wrecking ball, but everything else looks good so far!

The belly guns are quite nice. Those are conversions, right?

Looks really good, I suddenly have the idea of buying €200 of orky stuf so that my army can be used in apocalypse.

Sweet work. Three stompas... crazy...and awesome.

Keep it up.

jabbakahut- yeah that wreckin ball was more of a proto type. it was primed cause i was trying non gw primers. and yeah i dont much like it either... im making another tonight with more spiky bitz and plating... ill post it later

hordini- yeh the belly gunz were scratch built onto them.

ty for all the comments. any suggestions for addition to the last two unprimed stompas? and ive decided the third stompa will be grey

Missed some spots on the right arm.

wow... dunno how i missed that, got it now tho thanks

hey, ill post some more pics tonight, got alot of the boss stompa done. any more comments ?

You wait and wait for a Stompa painting log and then three come at once (although all from the same person ).

How'd you do the red all over?
I'd like to do an Evil Sunz Stompa but I don't fancy having to paint Mechrite all over it by hand followed by coats of Blood Red.

ahh, i dont like blood red at all... way to bright for me... so i bought a uhhhhh air brush and sprayed a coat of mechrite red (i love the look of mechrite red) all over with some spots a lil darker and some a lil brighter... i just really like the war driven dull look... just a personal taste...

ok well heres an update... barely started on meh boss stompa :l herez you go tho... any suggestions?!?!

And is there any other pics of the stompa you would like... i posted two TCCW arms cause one of the stompaz will indeed be a klaw stompa at times (so i the two arms kinda match)

Looks good, but better pics would allow for better critique.

any suggestions on how to take better pictures?

Have you read the article on photo-taking? That is probably a pretty good place to start. I'm an amateur photographer, so it all just sort of makes sense to me (15 years of photo experience). Really you just need a tripod and learn to use the macro function on your camera (the book that came with the camera generally has some tips for this as well).

Looking at your photo's I see you have what is called flash fall off, try not to use the flash while shooting minitures, make up for the flash with bright light nearby (natural is preferable for color reasons, but a couple lamps works fine).

I did an article here

http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Photographing_your_models

About photographing your models. Read that and if you have any other questions please just ask me - its my day job

Very epic. That's all I can say about this.

Also, I found this while I was watching your video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kswaTkk3Rhk&feature=related

damnation... i see that video title and almost crapped myself. however im at school and almost every site is blocked (surprised this isnt yet since its all im ever on) so i cant watch it.. cant wait to see it at home!

And ty for the photo tips! will deffinitally try them then repost the pics!

Syhrus wrote:Very epic. That's all I can say about this.

Also, I found this while I was watching your video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kswaTkk3Rhk&feature=related

well then... thanks to you (haha actually a thank you) and your link i am (most likely) buying two more stompas... both who's backs will have hinges so i can open and close the backs... ones will have a walking mechanism (thanks to ur link) and the other will have a small container which i will fill with hot water, add dry ice then close to make a massive amount of smoke come out of the pipe they will have my normal LED lights (not sure what color of them tho) sound good to anyone? any comments thoughts or questions?

the dry ice idea is mad!

Loving the LED effect, in fact it has just inspired me to tear apart my freshly made stompa and re-build it lit up. have you thought about lighting up the grot slits and other interior gubbinz? also did you see the stompa vid on youtube with speakers? that could be something to try? (in fact when i pull apart my stompa I might try ALL of these now, thanks for the inspiration)

Jeebus Rice dude! Thats one pretty intense undertaking.

Not much in the way of painting to comment on, but these guys are going to look pretty imposing on the TT.

Keep it up!
BLARGAG!!!

Now be warned that if you use dry ice the smoke being composed of CO2 is heavier than the air, so it's not going to rise out of a smoke stack.

Sirius42 wrote:Loving the LED effect, in fact it has just inspired me to tear apart my freshly made stompa and re-build it lit up. have you thought about lighting up the grot slits and other interior gubbinz? also did you see the stompa vid on youtube with speakers? that could be something to try? (in fact when i pull apart my stompa I might try ALL of these now, thanks for the inspiration)

haha... the two videos on you tube of stompas with music are mine haha unless theres others.... but ya with the dry ice, it will have pipes inside that leed to the stompa pipes... that way it has no were else to go... or does anyone else have a better idea for making smoke?

Sirius42 wrote:Loving the LED effect, in fact it has just inspired me to tear apart my freshly made stompa and re-build it lit up. have you thought about lighting up the grot slits and other interior gubbinz? also did you see the stompa vid on youtube with speakers? that could be something to try? (in fact when i pull apart my stompa I might try ALL of these now, thanks for the inspiration)

Those are the stompas whith speakers!

ya what goffnob said lol... thats also why there is links to it on this thread and wot not

Where are the rules for a Stompa Mob? Just curious.

Also, wow, you must have sunk some nice cash into this mob, but it is clear that you are investing plenty of time into this project too - this is the way it should be with any big investment.

I love the lights you have installed in the Stompas' heads.

Keep up the good work!

The last months white dwarf and the gw web site

if i had the money and the time, i would do just this. but i dont. i suppose i'll just have to make one, really killy stompa to satisfy myself.

haha ty for the comments does anyone have any way of making real smoke? besides the dry ice (which ill just end up doing prolly... it would seem easyiest based on what ive looked up) except for the one i saw that would be pretty easy but involves matches :l so my local GW wouldnt like that

Talk to a train store guy for real smoke.

sonofruss wrote:Talk to a train store guy for real smoke.

That's what I was thinking, they've also got some liquids you can mix together which have the same affect. And dry ice is rather limited, you have to constantly add room temp water.

hmmmm thatd be bomb... happen to have any links to sights? as i dont know of any train stores even near this area :l

that looks great . its great when a father and a son work together on a project .

Buttlerthepug wrote:hmmmm thatd be bomb... happen to have any links to sights? as i dont know of any train stores even near this area :l

I haven't used any of these, but there is this and this.

hmmm jabbakahut, thanks for link... this is all really confusion as there is very little info i can find anywhere about train smoke units and what fluids to actually use... :l and i really like the idea more then dry ice... the more i think about it the more flaws i see in it... as i have no were to store the ice so it wont last long :l

ok well after talkin to some friends for about and hour or two... heres whats going down for the stompa with smoke... imma be getting this little smoke generator http://www.dcctrain.com/shop/item.asp?itemid=1888&catid= then im going to wire that to a 8 AA battery holder i believe it was... then it will be inside one of the pipes for the stompa! itll be pretty awsome and i cant wait! any thoughts?

sonofruss wrote:The last months white dwarf and the gw web site

Hey,

I went to the GW site and looked at the Datasheets - lots of good ones, including the awesome Eye in the Sky Stompa! But I didn't find the Datasheet for the Stompa Mob. Can anyone help?

Buttlerthepug wrote:... for the stompa with smoke... imma be getting this little smoke generator http://www.dcctrain.com/shop/item.asp?itemid=1888&catid= then im going to wire that to a 8 AA battery holder i believe it was... then it will be inside one of the pipes for the stompa! itll be pretty awsome and i cant wait! any thoughts?

How does that work? I presume it converts the direct current from the batteries into that solution which converts the energy by burning the liquid?

jabbakahut wrote:

Buttlerthepug wrote:... for the stompa with smoke... imma be getting this little smoke generator http://www.dcctrain.com/shop/item.asp?itemid=1888&catid= then im going to wire that to a 8 AA battery holder i believe it was... then it will be inside one of the pipes for the stompa! itll be pretty awsome and i cant wait! any thoughts?

How does that work? I presume it converts the direct current from the batteries into that solution which converts the energy by burning the liquid?

Sounds awesome. Just make sure it is disconnected when you are not playing - you know, for safety. It'd be a shame for that lovely $100 Stompa to burn when not attended.

A much easier solution - get some Dry Ice and drop it inside the Stompa. That sucker will smoke like no tomorrow and it will not be a fire hazard. Keep a bit of dry ice in your freezer for special occassions and you will be good to go.

the dry ice was my original plan but having a cup of hot water in there with LED lights just wont go well... and with the smoke system, it will overall be much easier + it will actually go thru the top where as th ice would stay low... and the smoke unit is insulated so it wont catch on fire... ill also add a switch between battery and unit so i just turn off the power just like i do with my LED

Solorg wrote:

jabbakahut wrote:

Buttlerthepug wrote:... for the stompa with smoke... imma be getting this little smoke generator http://www.dcctrain.com/shop/item.asp?itemid=1888&catid= then im going to wire that to a 8 AA battery holder i believe it was... then it will be inside one of the pipes for the stompa! itll be pretty awsome and i cant wait! any thoughts?

How does that work? I presume it converts the direct current from the batteries into that solution which converts the energy by burning the liquid?

Sounds awesome. Just make sure it is disconnected when you are not playing - you know, for safety. It'd be a shame for that lovely $100 Stompa to burn when not attended.

A much easier solution - get some Dry Ice and drop it inside the Stompa. That sucker will smoke like no tomorrow and it will not be a fire hazard. Keep a bit of dry ice in your freezer for special occassions and you will be good to go.

not possible. dry ice must be kept at -27 degrees or it will just go off. storing it would be impossible with out an industrial freezer and even then transport would be hard.

Ah, too bad re: the Dry Ice. I thought it was brilliant, but yah, Chicken, if you are right about the temp, that's the end of that idea!

Butterthepug, yes, if this sucker is already electric (and it looks like you already know something about electricity) then your plan is the best! But my prior advice of installing a killswitch so this sucker is always OFF until you command otherwise is probably still a great idea to prevent, you know, burning down the gameroom.

That Stompa has a HUGE space inside his belly. Looks like this would be a great place to store batteries or what have you. Nice!

well solorg... the switch i put on it will ALWAYS be off until i use it... and this specific smoke unit is insulated so when the element heats the oil into smoke... my stompa dont melt! i was talking to people for hours last nite trying to figure this out... i was so lost but now i feel kinda smart... never thought id least usefull stuff off warhammer... AWSOME!

Buttlerthepug wrote:well solorg... the switch i put on it will ALWAYS be off until i use it... and this specific smoke unit is insulated so when the element heats the oil into smoke... my stompa dont melt! i was talking to people for hours last nite trying to figure this out... i was so lost but now i feel kinda smart... never thought id least usefull stuff off warhammer... AWSOME!

Nice to hear, ButterPig. Careful planning makes for the best models. Can't wait to see it when finished!

pshhhhh butterpig?!?!?! buttler the PUG!!!! haha anyways, i mite post some progress on my stompa painting tonight... and will deffinitally update my final decisions on the newstompas!

well i am very very sad to say i did not win the bids on Ebay... how ever i won the the side hull peices... so what im going to do now... i plan on keeping the side hull pieces and very soon just picking up a stompa from local GW and then i will make a supa stompa by adding the sides... (it will actualy be a really really fun conversion, and pretty huge compared to normal stompaz) or possibly a gargant... (my local GW actually did the return of the beast event and made rules for the Ghazghull Stompa, which they then let me take home and put on a data sheet to make it look authentic, im good at that stuff) so i mite make one of those... ill post the rules for it if you all want... its obserd... then ill make it have the smoke as discussed before and i i will make it walk too! so altho im quite sad, i cant wait! any ideas for this up comming project?

Butler the Pug - got it! Oops!

Butler, you are really on a roll with these Stompas. You have inspired me to begin work on my Stompas as well. I plan to get one of the kits, but I have also collected pieces over the past 2 years which I will use to make an additional 2 Stompas. Perhaps the Kit will give me an extra set of arms. I will have to check the sprues on the GW site.

I still have to find the datasheets for the Stompa Mob. And now what's this about a Supa Stompa? Is there a Datasheet for that out there, too? If anyone can direct me to these (on the net) please PM me or let me know here where on the GW site I can find it. Appreciated!

Keep up the good work, Butler! Some great work you have here.

Solorg

Wow... 3 is better than 1 These look incredible, and the LEDs are awesome!

Thanks for sharing

RiTides Nids wrote:Wow... 3 is better than 1 These look incredible, and the LEDs are awesome!

Thanks for sharing

3 is better than one if they are all done well. In this case, yes, definitely!

haha indeed 3 is better then one... and solorg... im at school and cant open it... but on bell of lost souls i think theres rules for it... but ill post rules for the ghazghull stompa my store made... well i put it on the data sheet but ya... also im changing this log to also showing progress on my ork army... all 13k points of it :l

Buttlerthepug wrote:haha indeed 3 is better then one... and solorg... im at school and cant open it... but on bell of lost souls i think theres rules for it... but ill post rules for the ghazghull stompa my store made... well i put it on the data sheet but ya... also im changing this log to also showing progress on my ork army... all 13k points of it :l

That is a huge and awesome Ork Army. Please shoot me a PM when you post up the Ghaz Stompa Datasheet (with a link to the location) if you please.

Yah, my Ork Army is big also - but maybe more like 5K. Looks like you have me beaten hands-down! Mine will increase by 2K once I finish my Squiggoth and first 2 Stompas. Squiggoth is almost done, Stompas, well, let's just say they're underway for now.

Ok well as i promised.... THE BEASTLY AWSOME GHAZGHULL THRAKA "RAMPAGE" STOMPA!!!! as i said before it was for the return of the beast event at my local gw and they said it needed to be on an actual data sheet and gave me the rules to do it! if you like how i made it into a data sheet and want one of your own made. send me a pm with rules and everything and ill make one for you! (pictures are good too. waiting for my gw to send me a pic of the ghazgull stompa they made) LET ME KNOW WHAT U THINK!!!!

ok well as i said before, im going to make this pretty much a log that includes progress on painting my 13,000+ point ork army... and possibly mite get into my like 6,000+ chaos marines and orcs and goblin armies too but not for a long time... anyhow here are the pictures of what i want to get done for the month of april... besides my stompaz (which i need to get crackin on again) i want to finish my 15 Deff Koptaz and 40 Ork Nobz (they are my favorite models in the game to play)

DUDE I HATE MY HORRIBLE CAMERA!!! THOSE PICS SUCKED!!! HARD!!!

What is your camera?

ehhh i just found a new one... it works alot better... ill take new pics tonight

lol your stompas freik me

Butler,

Thanks for the PDF. I've added it to my collection!

Re: your army in progress (or should I say, the latest units within it) can't wait to see the progress. You made short work of those Stompas. These will come out GREAT! Keep up the good work!

@assasin of night - why do they freik you lol? good or bad? and yeah solorg... im going to paint those before i actually start on the nobz and koptas... had a lot of school work past week so not much time to paint em... going to get crackin rite now actually! ill post pics laterz

ok well heres a quik update on my progrees of the boss stompa enjoy!

I dig, but I think you could really benefit from dirtying it all up a bit with some washes and chalk.

indeed, i havnt started the metal parts on the body with washes yet... also i just realized i accidently had flash on so that arm is way bright... its actually a darker meter and looks pretty beast.. still gotta add alot of rust tho... and actually you just remminded me i gotta do the pipes as those really show... thanks !

I think the Ghazkull stompa is a bit overpowered.

but goffnob... its 2500 and only has 5 structure points with no shields? it can do alot but it cant take alot... its alot of points so it evens out... it dies fairly quick cause no one likes it... ehhh it is kinda OP tho... took out 4 shadowswords with the super gatler... didnt get to fire anything else but that was luck... i dunno i just made it look real... people at gw made it

How tall is the Stompa from the bottom of the skirt to the top of the head and how big is diameter at the bottom? I have an idea.

Before there was anything like small MP3 players for $20, I used to dream about putting tiny speakers in my Rhinos and Land Raiders playing Wagner and stuff and making pew-pew noises when they fired, but I couldn't ever figure out an elegant solution for it. The closest I came was an FM transmitter, but they weren't cheap back then..Now MP3 players are so cheap, you can easily hook up a speaker and amp module to a cheap one in a tank and forget about it, leaving a pigtail for data and power. They give all sorts of neat toys that make sound and light with Happy Meals someone could use.

With a body like a Stompa, you could fit all sorts of things inside there, but the dimensions would be handy to know.

I've got one of those ipod docks with speakers, I was thinking about putting it into some terrain.

well i have speakers in all 3 of mine as well as LED lights... however i payed 5 each for them not 20 o_o and the measurments are like 8 from bottom of body to head and 7 in bottom diameter... remmember that it gets small towards top and smaller barely towards fron and back...

Buttlerthepug wrote:well i have speakers in all 3 of mine as well as LED lights... however i payed 5 each for them not 20 o_o and the measurments are like 8 from bottom of body to head and 7 in bottom diameter... remmember that it gets small towards top and smaller barely towards fron and back...

No, I mean, MP3 players costing less than $20.

Thanks for the measurements, I think Mr. Potatohead will be making a contribution to my Ork army in the future.

ah, wont you still need speakers tho? wont be able to hear the mp3 players... i dunno tho... i just have my ipod plug in the back and start playing away

ok well here is a small update of my red stompa... can someone give me some idea on where i can add more like yellow? (or another color but preferebly not) and like i can do any of the checks, flames, arrows, etc. thoughts and comments?

I think you should off colour some of the panels of the body, gives a more cobbled together feel.

I agree with jabba. Enough yellow and red not enough brass, bronze and silver.
or whatever the hell is used in the year 40,000

Yeah just paint some random panels on the stompa yellow.

From the images the arms just look a tad bit too red, especially that chainsaw arm. Perhaps make some of the mechanical bits just a standard metal color (boltgun?). I get the same impression with the gun arm. It looks as if the Orks just slopped some red paint over everything all willy nilly, which from a fluff perspective probably makes sense. But it just looks too red to me. Even the teeth on the chainsaw look like they were painted red (doesn't look like blood either!)

Paint a single armour panel somewhere as if it was salvaged from your favourite opponents tanks. And I agree with the "more metal"-statements. Maybe make some rusty iron plates. They will go in another red/orange tone so add some variety while keeping the go-fasta-red-feeling.

hmmm ok will do. i definitally agree with thee weapons being too red. and ill try and paint some random plates different color...

ok sooo i didnt have time to paint tonight but was thinking... for the weapons just add alot more color like preferebly a boltgun metal with a wash of badab black to make it a really dark metal then just add rust everywhere. and for the pannels im thinking of making some of the plates a more metal look to them. i was also thinking of drawling a big evil sun symbol with the belly gun comming out of mouth... do those sound like good ideaz? also i need more ideas... its still kinda dull and boring!

For the Evil Sun symbol-If you cut new plating to make it, and paint the plates entirely -or- if you just want to paint it on, the lines can't be too good, you want a spray painted look to it.

so make it like the flames i already have on it? also i think i mite spray my third stompa today and start work on it... will post pics tonight! do you have any other ideas i can use on the red stompa jabba?

I can picture it in my head.... 2 happy red stompas running through the lush green flower field.... holding hands....

oh so happy a la la la la~

rofl... i more like a space marine company minding thier business when an "earthquake" erupts and all they hear is a giant WAAAAGH while getting shot up by 3 super gatlers. and some 18" blast radius shots.... > to then realize theyre a big giant robot with a giant saw about to crumble whats left.... so much for the emperor being with them...

ok well i didnt have time to paint anything last nite but im definatly going to tonight.... anymore suggestions before i do?