I just finished reading all 80 pages (rereading 30 or so since I lost my place a year ago) of this wonderful blog. I love your work and your unique style. Your vehicles are so truly orky and skillfully made. What a like more than anything is what a great job you do representing ork lore and fluff. If I wasn't so impressed, I might be annoyed that so many of the good ideas that I have had, I find out you had around a year earlier than I thought of them, and you have already completed them beautifully

-I love that your ork army is smaller clan based armies just like I'm doing. Speaking of which, I'm very impressed with your Snakebite Warboss on the boar.
-I love that you created giant true scale warbosses, I'm doing that too (tho not as well as you). I like your huge bosses with the flails, and really like your Pirate Ork Boss
-I also like your squiggoth. I have some work posted on that in my own project blog.
-I'm really impressed with your Morkanaught, I didn't think anything too impressive could come from the pieces you started with. Your end product is superior to the ones you can buy from GW

In conclusion, you are an amazing ork mekboy greater than orkimedes, I hope you wont feel like I'm copying you horribly if you ever check out my blog, and I'm looking forward to getting back to reading your other blog now that I've caught up on this one.

Thanks all, something is coming this way soon, promise!

@ Syro_ , truly honoured by your comments. Can't believe you read through this nonsense. Thank you.

What you make is so interesting, reading through it is easy. You make incredible models and dioramas, with so much character. I'm glad to hear you'll be posting something new here soon. I'm looking forward to it.

Well life is fun isn't it!

Anyway, sorry for long delay in activity here, but it must happen so here you go, hope this tickles your taste buds and wets your appetite. At least I hope it makes up for lack of posts recently.

So new dio/ models to be silly with.

The Storm Crow Boyz is 'ere!

Started work on the Storm Crow ship....













More very soon I hope.

Looking cool so far. I like how you used pieces of a drop pod for wings and part of the hull. I'm really looking forward to seeing how you use those deffkopta blade turbofans.

Thanks.

So where was I, oh yeah turbofans...


And some shots of the beasty....









Some of the WIP shots...





Thanks for stopping by, currently working on guns, needs some Dakka! Thoughts always appreciated.

The Storm Crow is looking cool. Even though there are standard parts in it, I'm having trouble visualizing the size. When you have time could you take a shot with that ork you use for scale?

That is really amazing Cam. You're getting creative brilliance all over my computer screen!

Should be cool when you have it done. Good use of a drop pod!

Nice work Cam! Sometimes I feel the urge to unleash my inner Ork and really kitbash something- let all the crazy out- like you've done here!

Nice!

Properly orky! Way cooler than the 'essence of ork' GW flyers

Cam Special. Is and will be.

Still reading this thread, but wanted to skip to the end and say you're my hero! Now back to reading...

@Magnussen there is always cool stuff to look at on Cams threads.

It would look way cool as a quad roater, and should ass some v8 engines ro the props so they sont just magically spin

Thanks everyone, wonderful to get so many comments...

Hope you will settle for some more WIP pics....









Thank you all for looking and commenting, back soon I hope.

Very cool Cam. Very cool.

Looking very cool. And thanks, those gunners make it easy to tell the scale now.

Loving the thunderhawk-esque feel of it

Nice work, Cam'. Like the fans.

Thanks everyone, started to add some weathering, also crew starting to arrive.








More soon I hope, thanks for looking.

Oh man that looks pretty cool. Paint job brings it together.

Yeah, lovin' the rusted look!

That beast looks great. The paint job really does bring it all together. I'm digging the gunners jacket too.

Great paint work Cam, that flyer screams ork technology. Using the gunners outside the vehicle is very cool, just what orks would do in der kunnin plans.

the deffkopta gunners is a brilliant idea! i am nicking that idea for sure! the look reminds me of the clone fighter guniships from star wars...

And a touch of those helicopter things from that terrible Avatar movie.

Cam, please, get a less cluttered background. Have mercy on an old man's eyes.

I love the use of the biker minis as wing gunners. Beautiful stuff.

But do at least put up a sheet of paper behind the mini for these photos. Get a piece of poster board, white or light gray and keep it just for background.

I like how your backrground is as big a mess as my workspace - and your model is coming together in a most awesome way, of course, but that's to be expected

Love the paint job, keep up the good work!

Hahaa that is friggin awesome! So much going on but all in the right way and clever too! Im digging the use of a drop pod and the kopta parts as gunners is great

How does it look next to the Chinork (if you still have that...)

Thanks for the wonderful comments. Will answer them in a bit.

For now quick pics of the Stormcrow Boyz....



Thanks for looking, back soon promise.

 Camkierhi wrote:
Thanks for the wonderful comments. Will answer them in a bit.

Am I one of them... *scrolls up* ...Nope, I somehow failed to comment.

Great job. Another Cam' special.

Been away from my orksess for a bit now. I am into insane large projects of other natures at mo, however I have a truly insane desire to make a Mega Gargant, so can anyone tell me the rough dimensions.

Current thinking is 18" square base and abour 24" tall.

Oh man, this is going to be epic!

I found this ork walker size comparison chart made by "Krooza", which suggests a Mega Gargant being 21" tall and it looks like around 26" at its widest part of the base.

Okay, my mind went a bit askew when I seen this and went down a deep internet rampage and now I think I understand what scale modelling actually means, but we'll see

So I found a lovely old picture and based my findings off that


So it was very hard to find an exact size anywhere for an ork mega gargant but luckily it's easy enough to find scale diagrams for imperial titans because some people like to do those things


So from this we can see the imperator titan is 60m high but from the above image the mega gargant comes up to the head of the titan, around 35-40 metres. Since 40k is in 28mm scale we're at a real life ratio of 1:58. Lets say it's 40 metres, to allow for maximum awesomeness, we divide the 4000cm by 58 which leaves us with 68.9655172414.... lets say 69. 69cm in inches is 27 inches! Wow, who said maths can't be fun!

I'd say you're pretty dead on with the 18W + 24H, they're nearly as wide as they are tall.

EDIT: Or you could just be Syro who can google better than me slipped in while I was typing this

That’s one hell of a conversion. Great job.

somehow i would have went with grots for that idea... full grown orcs...hmmm... but your take on such a theme is always a revelation in itself...so sitting here and waiting and watching with wide open eyes^^

And... following with interest, as always

subscribe

Orks were the first 40K army I played. Looking forward to seeing more of this.

boundless08- "which leaves us with 68.9655172414.... lets say 69"

That made me laugh.

Thanks folks,

Small update for you, started a little bit today....


Got a few things on at mo so progress might be a bit slow, might take me a month!

I like that you are about to make a warlord sized ork beast. Spend the time on it needed. Rushing never looks good.

A month???

... slacker.

ooh, looks like it's going to be an orkish T28 super-heavy...

Ooh, more orkishness for me to loot . Following with interest!

this will be huge... also...i see wheels and tracks...colour me puzzled^^

@Viktor, perhaps Squiggoth rollerskates?

Now there is an idea...please cam...don't

DISKORK SQUIGGOTH.

It's great seeing your mega gargant starting Cam, I didn't think you'd have any time for it with how much your been cranking out for the LoER contest. I love how diminutive that little guardsman looks standing on that track assembly.

I recognize those HP Printer rollers anywhere

I somehow missed that you were making a Mega Gargant.

You do realize, at some point you're going to have to physically visit (or be visited by) Blackadder, just so you can compare your Gargant to his two Titans.

Of course, his Imperator is shaping up to be a meter tall, so...

I love the storm crow ship, epic work Cam!

Interesting start.

Thanks folks...

So started couple hours ago with this...


And ended up with this...



One of the engines, not sure if it is big enough.

We won't know until you get a shot of the engine on the chassis.

Now that is fething cool. That what ever it goes in is gonna be a lot of engine and is gonna scream in the battle field.

If it's a "One of" then it should be fine.

Such amazing deatail

Thanks folks.

Well, this is more like it.....

Just dropping in to say great news for Dakka, Teek has returned. His work is some of the most inspirational work I have ever seen.
Check it out...
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/210/208277.page

An I4 gargant sized. Not a bad choice of engine there..

I thought that was some sort of steampunk sewing machine a first glance - certainly looks big enough !!

Good job on the engines. Both look great.

That's some nice engines.. Lovely work!

Thanks folks.

Just a little progress.



And scale shot..


Thanks for looking.

Looking very orky

That is a sweet ass looking gargant foot! So many rivets!!!

I can clearly spot some rivets here...

Roller Skates!

I have an image in my head of a gargant on a throne now, like the old greasus goldtooth model, being pulled by kans/dreads

That is a wonderful bit of crazyness right there!

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
I can clearly spot some rivets here...

Got in there before me.
Good job, Cam'.

I would like to say ribbets are nice.

Thank you all.

Bit of work on some of the side paneling...




It is starting to look like something, no idea what yet but hey.

Thank you for looking.

Looking like something huge an orky to me. Needs more rivets.

Looks like the side of a megagargant to me... Out of curiosity: will you be able to fit a tank inside of the belly cannon?

I’m just glad you’ve embraced your inner bead-dazzler, even if they are just ordinary black beads .

The project is coming along nicely Cam. Always a treat to watch your Ork builds, it was something I really missed on my Hiatus. I hope to be back more now as things settle down a bit.

if there is one thing that makes ork great is rivets. Excellent work cam.

Indeed. Great work!

Loved the stormcrow, excited for the mega-gargant I'm watching again

Apologies folks visiting hell at mo.

 Camkierhi wrote:
Apologies folks visiting hell at mo.

Hope everything’s alright. let me know what I can do brother.

If nothing else, since your in the neighborhood, stop over and I’ll make pancakes .

the shortness of that message really is powefull enough to send shivers done my spine...hope you will still come out on top of it!

best wishes!

Hang in there, Man. Lots of us here on the innerwebz pulling for you!

Thank you so much everyone.

Trying....

Love this figure- it's almost like he's doing the Men In Black Neuralizer (the flashy thing), except that whilst they watch the flashy thing, he orkishly shoots them instead. Nice figure!

Very solid work Cam. I like it.

Yeah, good job.


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 Camkierhi wrote:
Thank you so much everyone.

Trying....

Nice. Really like the gnarly looking base.

I like it Cam, funny I had the same thought that Meer had, lol.

Thank you guys for the comments.

Little something been started a while ago and been pottering away at occasionally.





Going to make the interior a puzzle, lots of smaller rooms, if I want I could lay them out as a space hulk, or they make up the guts of this beasty, plus a couple shots of a flavor of things to come...






Well this was just a proof of life really, will be steadily working on this but really need to get some other projects done before whole heartedly banging this out.

I saved those walls and floors pictures in my "orkspiration" folder.

Great googly-moogly- you've taken "Great Gargant" from being used as a noun to being used as a curse! As in "Great Gargant- that's huge!"

Well said Meer_Cat

It's great seeing some more shots of the gargant, Cam

Holy cow.

Good to see progress mate

Intrigued by the possibilities for the interior.

Impressive Cam.

Good progress.
Good potential for all that space.

Thank you all,

Bit of a distraction to get me into an orky mood.








Working on his base next.

Thanks for looking.

I'm getting a very 90's punk/samurai/ork mashup vibe from him.

That's a beautiful painting job Cam. Excellent work!

Thanks guys...

So finished his base......











Thanks for looking, as always C&C welcome.

Very well done- 'go fasta' indeed!

Wow... that's completely crazy... I love it!

Smashing work on the Ork and his "base"...

...Cam' looks at what the rest of the world uses for bases and says "You call that a base? ... "

Cool basing indeed sir

Not sure quite what this is the base for yet!






Thanks for looking.

Well, it looks interesting, fun and modular, so whatever it is, it has my attention.

Lookin,g good, as always

With those gantries/walkways, and the large opening to the front right, this could be the secfet planet-based ship-killing mega-gun that has been keeping the Imperial Fleet from reinforcing Dagon VI! The Orks of Navarone!

Seriously, you could build a massive cannon to fit that space- or even a rokkit on a launch rail, with white-coated Ork scientists standing all around looking puzzled whilst the grot explains everything!

It's clearly the inside of a Gargant.

Thanks folks...

Well a here's a little gun for you....





Targeting system with ork for scale...


And roughly in situ...


Well C&C as always welcome, and thank you for looking.






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https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/763287.page

Love the gun build.

That gun is suitably epic Cam.

Something, something, physics... meh. It looks cool. Do continue.

It's mounted on rails...everything will be fine

Beautiful.

This is utterly inspired lunacy. Subbed.

Certainly a gun worthy of a Gargant. Good job.

Still loving the steampunk sewing machine

That ork sail-buggy should be made 'official lore' immediately.
no kidding dude, that is EXACTLY how a genuine fascination with going faster fasta would end - clinging onto the fuel tank of a very powerful jet engine with some rudimentary aerodynamics for 'steering'

also the mega gargant is mental!!
Although not entirely unexpected...

Now that's what I call a proppa gun! Excellent work as always!

I'm loving seeing all the recent progress on the gargant. This great piece is making me tempted to try to make one too, even though I told myself I wouldn't make anything bigger than stompas because of storage reasons. Sweet new gun added to it, too.

Thanks folks, much appreciated.

Little progress...

Side tracked...






Thanks for looking.

Ammo cart, maybe? Make yourself a 'loading up' diorama for storage and transport, with a little bay for the gargant to sit in?

I love the front of that thing! LOL!

Say the phrase “side tracked” and expected some sort of tracked vehicle, but that truck you build looks pretty good. The suspension/undercarriage in particular looks barebones but believable. Kind of hard to get a sense of scale for it though, where are the wheels from?

It's amazing what you whip up in a brief day of being sidetracked. I like the look of it, and am thinking along the lines of Anvildude, it looks like a little utility truck of some sort to me.

The Mega Gargant looks like it will be enormous and propa Orky. I'd love to make one of my own. Some day.

I was confused by your second photo of the "side tracked" WIP for a bit. That front angle part seemed to have disappeared in photos # 3 & 4, and then there was a cab covering that beautiful engine... but oh wait, the entire cab is on a hinge! WHAT.
Not sure if intentional, but the "side tracked" vehicle reminds me of Mater from the Cars movies...

'Sidetracks' into another brilliant project.. Kudos to you good sir!

Nice little truckette. Good job.

Thanks folks, got a bit distracted all over the place, but will come back to the truck.

One of the distractions is a competition being run by inmygravenimage..
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/763977.page

So here is me mucking about with competition entry...





And started painting...





Fair bit of clean up to do and still got a few details to add modelling wise as well as paint, but getting there.

C&C encouraged, thanks for looking.

Wow, your stuff always amazes me. I finally got my own paintbrushes out, and am dismayed by my outcome. Following blogs like yours inspires me to keep at it though!

oh....that cloak thing is really nice....and the head...

Amazing! Your constructions and painting are impressive.

That looks great Cam, he would be a great counts as Snikrot. I love the paint job on the face, so detailed

Thank you so much everyone.

@ Coh Magnussen, thank you so much for commenting, you have no idea how much it means to me that I inspire people. I may not be the best, but if I get you modelling I am truly happy.
@ Vik, Ta boss, really trying lately.
@ myszopek, thank you so much bud, means a lot.
@ Syro, thanks bud, and agree the idea was a kommando.

well got this done I think, might revisit, but happy enough I guess.....















Thank you so much for looking, all comments welcome, these are in the gallery so you can zoom in a bit.

That is fantastic! Reads as batork right away, with no question. Love it man, good job.

Love that Cam... GREAT diorama!

I'd be damned... how...if i cut you, you'll bleed paint right? In that short of time no mere mortal can make this....

Very nice Cam! Great little diorama you busted out there.

One minute you've barely started laying basecoats, the next your model - nay, diorama- is finished.. I'm envious of your time and speed of painting Cam, lovely work!

Good job, good concept, good execution.

Jesus, that's incredible! Way to raise the bar, Cam!!! Bravo

Thank you all, really appreciate the comments. I did read them earlier but don't like to put up a post without something to report.

So .......Orktober.......... yeah right, well I better do my bit.





More follows shortly.

Thanks for looking.

Keeping it modular for Mork

Very nice!

Great work. I like the painted paths (you know me and my "signs and markings")

Thanks all.

Lots going on but no pics. However a question.

Does anyone know what size they are using for the buggy bases etc.?

I am going to base up a bunch of mine and sell them hopefully.

all 5 buggies and the wartrike boss are on 150mm ovals, bikes are on 75mm ovals, all 25mm infantry aside from grots are going to 32mm...think that's about it.

Thanks Zobo,

Toward the back end...

Few interior panels...

And made these for the LoER comp, but they turned into Orky so ....


Thanks for looking.

Nice work Cam! Exactly how big is this monostrosity gonna be?

Thanks CK, um think of a 2 foot cube....with arms. For my metric friends thats 600mm cube.

So did a little more work on this today, just got a urge.....

Little more paint on the big belly gun.





Please note the ork boy for scale.

And a few gubbins....




And a little more of the ground floor and walls...


Well day off tomorrow got a road trip with my daughter to see an open day at a Uni she is looking at.

Thanks for looking all, all comments much appreciated.

Beautiful work!

That stuff is looking awesome Cam! I especially like that gattling belly cannon. This gargant is going to look intense on the battle field

That's a lot of detail to cram in a 2 foot cube.. Loving it!

Wowzers! This is amazing.

Wow that's insane work! I love the graffiti on the belly gun, so much flavour!

Great job. Looking good an' Orky.

All the graffiti is amazing, this thing is gonna be big!

Looks like a HUGE Gargant is in the works!!!

So cool so wanna to see MORE!

Thank you all so much, really appreciate the comments and all those looking in.

So little bit more done today...




One of these rooms is going to be a lower armory. Better get some guns to put in it.



Shells at the back are for the Gut Busta... ork for scale...


In situ...




And just about there with the shifter...


Thank you very much for looking, and as always C&C welcome.

PS If any one is interested in buying this thing once complete, and would like some say in the build, please contact me.

So just how many Orky weapons are you able to get your hands on? Because I'm kinda envisioning an armory that's just... messily bursting with stuff and gubbinz and choppy and shooty fings.

Also, I really appreciate the thick walls on the belly-gun barrels. But are those like, shell tips sticking out of it? It might just be odd paint, but I hope you're keeping it more 'realistic' in that sense- too many scratchbuilt Gargants use, like, cardboard tubes for gun barrels.

That's incredible work Cam. Love it!

you know what my facial expression is whenever i am visiting one of your blogs ?
not just but with wide eyes and raised eyebrows...wondering if what i see is something man could come up with and actually build....and after a short doubletake i realize it is again your blog...

All brilliant stuff as usual bud!

Love the 'little' shifter, that's great fun.

 CommissarKhaine wrote:
That's a lot of detail to cram in a 2 foot cube.. Loving it!

I take it back, you're managing it quite well! That beast is going to be lovely!

Beautiful, very creative, suitably orky - not much else to say other than well done and keep it coming!

Like others I particularly like the Graffiti, it's very well done and fits great. I particularly like that bad moon on the side of the gut-busta.

Awesome stuff

Love the shifter and the weapons boxes

Thanks folks, really love having comments, means a lot.

@ Anvldude, Barrels are kinda empty, no shells sticking out, they are not currently that deep before the internals kick in, but I think you are seeing the bad paintjob currently on the inside, not helped by a flash picture. Oh and this is your fault.......









Thanks for looking.

Heheheheehahahahaahahaha!!

Lol, most people (say, me for example) might spend ages on making some crates for objective markers, and Cam just hides these inside his gargant . Loving this Cam, this is turning out to be an extremely inspirational build.

I hope the new MekBoy workshop gubbins arrive in time for your build, because I think they'd enhance it majestically.

Excellent work on the crates

Thanks guys.

Well you see I plan on it being able to come to bits to some degree so you can play games, say a weird spacehulk scenario "in" it, kinda thing. Yes you would end up with it laid out across a table, but would be like playing through the beast. As well as a slightly large apoc model. I actually intend either giving it away or selling it if anyone would buy it. Shipping might be a bit of a problem though.

So not much done today so far, but settling down to a session now. Here is where I am at right now.





And this is the next room on top of the other. 3rd level up.



Going to add walls etc, and then this can be removed, along with the 2nd level grid to allow access to the 1st level armoury. This one might be an armoury too, not sure yet.

Thanks for looking, much appreciated.

I just keep looking at all the details you've managed to add... Great work!

Damn, you're doing what I couldn't with 'Big Berfa' All those details and the paint-job, totally awesome - it's what I wanted to do but failed (Berfa's still sitting neglected on a shelf, maybe I need to send her to you )

Looking amazing Cam! I really like your idea of it coming apart to play missions inside. Beautiful detailed paint job too.

I love the weapon & ammo crates Cam. Brilliant use of a bunch of old choppas. Project is looking stunningly beautiful. So much creativity on display. Wow!

Thank you all.

Few licks of paint and "room" done.







Thank you for looking.

Beautiful work all over

Woot!

Great work, Cam'.

Thanks guys.

Just a little work done this evening...




Thanks for looking.

That's such a fantastically grimy engine. It was scratchbuilt, right?

Yup...

I still say that it's a steampunk sewing machine

Ahh...propa enjinzz for da big stompa....

 Ruglud wrote:
I still say that it's a steampunk sewing machine

Steampunk sewing machines are smaller

Great work Cam, will it go in the already finished rooms or somewehere else?

stunning build , subscribed

That is a great engine, I actually thought you pulled it out of a piece of machinery at first

By Gork and Mork! A Mega-Gargant! Dude, that's quite ambitious build, but you're pulling it off quite nicely.

Love it.

 Camkierhi wrote:
Thanks as always guy's.

@ Waaazag. I hear you on the size. Might look at it again later. See what you think of arm swaps below.

@ Shas Thank you.

@ Dr H. Thank you and sorry, about the way I post things sometimes, just like for people to see the process some times.

First is a shot of a LED mounted in the bottom of the cab.....(blooming impoossible to get a decent shot of.....



Then there is the last combat arm.....



And some of it is interchangable.....



The new arm is a hydrolic spikey thing. I think of the dredd grabbing with the claw then spearing it and the hydrolics tearing the spike into it's victims.

Thoughts?

Also Got the shooty bit to decide on, what do people think I should go with. Originally thought Rokkit rack on roof when I make it. But now I am not sure, maybe a skorcher between its legs!! Or just mounted low on his left. Your thoughts would be helpful here.

As to over all size, he currently stands 8cm ( 3" ) Tall to the top of the body. Exhausts and arms extend everything everywhere.

Thanks for looking in and c&C very much appreciated.

lovely stuff Cam

Thank you all very much.

@ Walord_ky Thank you, been a while since then.

@ Everyone else thanks guys really appreciate the comments.

Gear box and engine management systems.....cheating, it's all in a box.....



Not sure about this, was meant to be out the back, as on the mega gargant there is a "3rd" wheel arrangement out the back, was going to make this the main drive and have this engine and gearbox as the guts of it. Trouble I have is I originally planned to have it in line but that is coming out a bit big....


So probably plan B, going to mount it like this and have a couple pully wheels and a belt between....


Got to add a couple hubs and drive shafts coming out of the gearbox. And then set up some rear tracks.

The drive for the side tracks will be in the "hidden" in the housings above the track sections with appropriate exhausts out the back.

I have started work on the front main gun deck, just the beams and supports at the moment, this will be on the 6th level, still trying to work out if I do much for the 5th level yet, maybe another room.

Thank you all for looking and comments are wonderful and gratefully received.

I think the top mount is a cool idea, especially with the belt idea.

Oh yeah, that'll be awesome. Could then put a little tangle/rat's nest of beams under the rest of the engine as a 'support' for it. Maybe make a little grot nest or something in there, too.

Yep, that'll work

It is going to be massive.

Cheers,

CB

That'll work . And loving the third wheel idea, seems totally orky!

*scrabbles around on floor desperately hunting for dropped jaw*

And you're GIVING that away?

Greater love hath no man...

Thank you all so much folks.

@ Skinflint Games, yup all I would ask is a bit of help with the postage depending on where we are talking about.

Bit more done, but doesn't look like much...

Added in the panels on the walls where there are not rooms and some upper braces ..

And in place..


Thanks for looking...

I need this to fight Blackadder's Imperator.

Thanks Briancj

Yours if you want it.

Another "room" done...


And some of the crew...


Thanks for looking.

Still awesome!

that last pic reminds me of gremlins

the gargant is literally too big for a words like awesome...it needs something with much more...dunno...my language skills are failing here...

Thanks guys.

So got a little more done this evening....







And trying a bit of sculpting again....


Thank you for looking,

Awww yeah. that's cool.

that grot looks amazing....

one minor thought...the engine is using a belt...i think such a massive vehicle would rather use something like tanktracks? as what on earth could be as sturdy for a belt as any leather or rubber? so i have to admit i have no knowledge whatsoever when it comes to motor/ engines...

Here I spend lots of time cutting up grotz to make unique ones, and you just sculpt them out of gs... On a more uplifting thought ( ) : that engine looks awesome! I 'd try to add some more depth to the purple-ish oil spills on top, or maybe just some gloss varnish, but other than that, it's truly jaw-droppingly amazing!

 CommissarKhaine wrote:
Here I spend lots of time cutting up grotz to make unique ones, and you just sculpt them out of gs...

This... so much this! (except I mostly spend time staring at grots wishing I could cut them up to make unique ones and then just say "screw it" and grab the fantasy grot box instead)

The gargant is coming along extremely nicely!
It looks heavy!!

I really like the grot dude! You captured some of the charm of the old ral partha models from way back when, i think the cad process removes a chunk of artistic expression potential from a model and it's good to get a reminder of these things every so often; bravo sir!

Great work Camkierhi.

Cheers,

CB

Nice sculpt

Thanks folks.

@ Vik, I am kinda with you on the belt thing, still thinking it over, but I find it a bit of a laugh to have it rubber band driven.
@ CK, Agreed on the oil, so added some glossy purple and green nail polish...

Glossy oil...


Rear track sections



Painted and fitted...




And kinda in situ..




And update on the sculpt, bottled it when it came to the hands this time...



Bit of scale creep I am afraid, I am happy enough to go wth an older grot, longer life from living in the gargant,


Thank you for looking and all C&C most welcome.

i think the scale creep is fully ok, as grots are a bitoff scale anyway...it´s their appeal in my opinion...they´re regular igors...

also...been thinking quite a bit about the belt...and chains, tracks wouldn´t work...too much pull on the individual segments...so your riveted () belt is the better idea!!

I thought this was a shot of the on-board movie theatre. All it needs is popcorn and 3D glasses!

Wow Cam, that grot sculpt turned out great! That's very small to be working, I think it was surprisingly little scale creep, the stuff I sculpt ends up more over-sized than that

You must be doing something right on the oil and engine, 'cause for a second I thought that first close-up was a REAL engine.

That is a monster engine. What if you put rivets on the belt? (kidding, mostly) This thing is awesome.

Oilspill is much improved . And damn, that thing is huge... Loving it!

All looking suitably orky, and suitably large

Thanks all,

Going to have a little rest for day or two, got some new shiny so going to get that out my system. In the mean time......





Thank you for looking and as always I really appreciate the comments.

So cheating a bit here, I have based up some of my old build buggy's, I am hoping to sell them on Etsy, before I do does anyone have any thoughts about the configuration. I am not up on the latest, would these fall into any of the new designs.





Thats on a 170 mm base.

And these are on 150mm bases...









Looking at £15 each plus £5 postage, any thoughts would be most welcome.

 Camkierhi wrote:

"Tell me about the rabbits squigs George"


Buggies look great, and worth the price. Can't tell you how they fit in the new world though.

Good luck with the sales, I agree with MT they look great and worth the price. I was hoping you could explain how you made the crowbar/prybar your sculpted grot has.

They are awesome Cam. Well worth the price.

Wow some great progress on that gargant since I last seen it.

Buggies look great too. The top one looks like a Rukkatruk Squig Buggy, add some squigs in the back and a squig cannon and you're golden

Well thank you all,

@ Syro, just a bit of square rod stock, heated with a lighter, and bent, then the end flattened with pliers and a snip in the middle to form the claw.

I will get organised here in a minute. For now, throw this little repair grot bot together for the exterior of the gargant. Going to have him somewhere away to make repairs.





Not quite finished but close. He is meant to be a bit slap dash, after all they would not really spend much effort on a grot suit to go out and repair the hull.

Thanks for looking folks.

I think the word Vik has been searching for as a new level of awesomeness is “Camkierhi”. I think you’ve just been “Googled” and your name will now also become a verb meaning

Camkierhi: 1. to make artwork at such awesome levels of skill and with such creativity and speed that it surpasses any other humanly pronounceable word.
2. To be the basis for all thinks both Orky and Grotty.
3. To be a great friend and supporter of others here on DakkaDakka

Couldn't have put it any way better!

What on earth is the grot suit based on? It had a stron R2D2 vibe to it....

I love the idea of a killa-kan grot-mech for a gargant! Brilliant!

Viktor von Domm
What on earth is the grot suit based on? It had a stron R2D2 vibe to it....

Strangely to me, it really reminds me of those really early ork deff dreads: 1st edition space ork dreadnought


And thanks Cam, your method for making the prybar is actually very similar to how I made mine, you're just looks a lot better
You're newest build is looking great as usual.

^indeed...but surely those have a slight resemblance too to artoo?

That's a lovely classic dread you got there Cam, will make a very nice grot-suit

Good job on the grot sculpt.
Nice repair bot too.

Thanks folks.

Merry Christmas everyone. Hope you have a wonderful new year.

OK Got this from my son...


Here is the Christmas haul...


And had to get straight in at that boss, such a beautiful model....










So got me in the mood for a bit more orky action, coming soon.

Thanks for looking and hope you are having a great season of good will.

Just wow!

Great work on the Ork.

When you work on the gargant next you should make one of the chimneys with Santa Ork going down the stack .

Snikrot looks great Cam, very nice paint job. Have a happy new years.

Thanks folks.

Talking of the big guy.....couple small dozer blades ........






Thanks for looking.

´e murdered a broccoli...

LOL,

Bit of paint on dozer blades.



Thanks for looking.

I thought blue was for luck, doesn’t look like the blue parts were lucky, looks like that’s where it got shot before.

Dozers are awesome, waiting when we cam see it on a big boy!

awesome work by your son Cam. Great Christmas present!

Love those dozer blades too.

Really epic blog here Camkierhi, so many wonderful things, I know I've checked out your work many times over the last few years.

Very impressed with how the Grot Sculpt came out. The Dozer Blades are looking very good. Keep up the awesome work

Nice sneaky Ork.

Good job on the dozers too.

Well Firstly thank you all for the kind words, hoping desperately to have not lost my audience.

RL kicking my butt, but that's not for here.

ORKS!!





Spent some time trying to get my juices flowing, part of which was to carve out a little desk space for a painting zone.


And in the tradition of Cam, here is a helpful tip I think I might have shared before,....

Ages ago I watched a youtube and the guy said the most brilliant words I have heard in years....STIR your paint, don't shake it. I have a lot of the GW paints and mix paints into small jars etc, and I remember the words of wisdom very well. I no longer suffer the eternal issue of paint clogging up the lid, wasting paint that sticks to the lid, can't unscrew pot lid cus of paint, these are all behind me. But to help this along I did a little bodging..

Took a electric coffee stirrer, modified it a bit and hey presto, I get perfect paint every time.


Because it was a little too powerful, I replaced one battery with a copper wire and this has slowed it down perfectly.



Thank you so much for looking, I hope to resume normal service shortly.

Yes...cam is secretly mc gyver....wouldn't have thought that it could work with reduced ampere...hmmm...

Hoping here RL issues are not too grave...best wishes!

Here's to a speedy and happy resolution to all RL issues.

Meanwhile: an electric coffee stirrer? Is that really a thing? I like your re-purposing of it much better. Paint is like a martini, better stirred than shaken. ( Bond, James Bond was an ignoramus. )

And good start on the boyz.

we had one of these...years ago...no one was into milky foam...so it went into the bin....now i feel a bit stoopid about it...

Thanks guys, yeah they are a thing, never had one for "coffee", however bought a bunch when I saw them in the Pound shop.

Really nice to get a brush in hand tonight, bit of progress....




Got to add, one of the nicest pleasures was painting with a nice new brush....


Fantastic.

oh and here is a quick shot of the stirrer as bought...


Once again thank you for looking in and as always C&C welcome.

Cool tip - and saves on agitator beads too! I think I will be using this in the future, although probably sans electric coffee stirrer, modified or not. Does it make a real difference to manual stirring?

Oh, Orks (Orcs?) are coming along nicely too. Face in particular.

It's hard to imagine you loosing your audience Cam. I had totally forgotten about your little electric paint stirrer, i think I do remember you sharing far back in your blog, but I'm glad you shared it again. And your tinkering with it is genius, I don't understand electricity well enough to think of stuff like that.

I think the stirrer needs to be made into something.


Love the ork. Obviously a Bad Moon. Good choice!

 Gitsplitta wrote:
I think the stirrer needs to be made into something.


Love the ork. Obviously a Bad Moon. Good choice!

True Ork fashion, not only did they loot one battery out of the coffee stirrer, but they looted the stirrer as well .

Fun fact my auto correct changed Ork into PRO , they knew I was in Cam’s thread.

The only way to loose this audience is for you to change directions while our jaws are on the floor .

Well, Gits, Cam built a windmill, a working windmill. I suppose the stirrer -- Still dumb-founded that such a thing exists. How lazy can a person be? -- could have any number of uses. I suspect he'll astound us with something.

He always does

I've always stirred my paints. But I just use old paintbrush handles (previously lengths of sprue).
Shaking would do nothing to some of my paints; some can be turned upside-down for quite a while without "leaking" through an open top.

Great work on the Ork, Cam'.

Great work on the Orc Cam, love the checks.

 Red Harvest wrote:
I suppose the stirrer -- Still dumb-founded that such a thing exists. How lazy can a person be?

Their more to get nice frothy milk than stirring *says the owner of one*

Hi folks, thanks for the wonderful comments.

@ Arakasi, much quicker and thorough I think.

OK not much of an update, only got to sit down today for the first time since last visit, so I am afraid only got this guy finished up.



Thank you for looking, and all C&C welcome.

That Ork is looking Badf-Ass!

Dat ork is a Lamenter! Raaaaar!

dunno what others might think but that´s golden demon material...

It’s definitely top tier, I’ve never sat in on a golden demon award or seen any except the pics online, but I’d vote for it.

 Camkierhi wrote:

Spoiler:

This is beautifully done 'Cam; full-on display cabinet material right here.

i was already impressed by your sons snikrot!

Thanks folks, really appreciate it.

So started the next one, looking pretty ugly right now, very very WIP.


Hopefully gives a glimpse into my terrible style.

Thanks for looking.

Love the WiP. It shows the foundation for that lovely, rich skintone.

Lovely work on the Ork. Top shelf job.

He looks fantastic Cam. That's top work right there.

He looks awesome Cam! That face is wonderfully done.

Camkierhi,

I am always surprised when you show on of your WIP and then when finished it looks so different and complete. It is almost as if you strip off some of the paint between shots, but I know it is the opposite as you build up the colours.

Cheers,

CB

Wow been awhile. Thanks for the comments folks.

So had a birthday, and boy was I lucky...


So naturally cleared my bench immediately...



Loving painting something so special, better bring my A game.

Thanks for looking in.

Happy birthday Cam! I'm glad you got something special

That's pretty awesome sauce.

Bring your A game

There’s no A in Orks, Orcs, goblins, grots or Orruks .

Looking good so far even with the bad spelling .

Happy Birthday Cam! I can't wait to see him finished, have fun!

Wow, really cool ork flesh effect you have there on the Ironskullz. The tones and depth add a lot of realism. Good stuff.

Thank you for the words folks really appreciate it.

So think this is close, but open to critique...








Thank you for looking.

That's a lot of spooge.

That's gross, which is perfect. Reminds me of Rigel from Farscape for some reason.

That's really well done and a hilarious model to start with. I like the attention to the shine around the mouth and face showing wetness.

is that your interpretation or was it meant to be build that way? if the former...my hat is yet again off to you sir! what storytelling and inventiveness!!! also the most fearsome amount of snot i´ve seen yet

That is the best looking rocklobber or doom diver I have EVER seen. Amazing.

It's a thing of zoggin' beauty!

That's really gross. Love it!

Great work! That thing oozes wit, charm, and some sort of disgusting goo, love it!! Perfectly and suitably slimy.

Love the squigspitter , so cool, the green spit is just the right type of nasty to me.

Nice job.

Happy Birthday dude.

Thank you all so much, really appreciate the support.

Been working on a few other bits, but squeezed this guy in between a little, still working on cleaning him up.







Thank you for looking in.

Awesome, I'd been wondering when this guy was going to show back up! That's one of my all-time favorite paint jobs on an Ork face, excellent work.

Nice looking Orc there Cam , we need more yellow armored orcs about.

Great work on the Mama Squig and the Ork with axes looks cool as well.

Thanks folks.

Poor buggers back on the shelf again while I itch a couple scratches.....

First scratch....BFG Ork vessels......Think this would be Battleship scale. Very WIP. Thinking of casting this up and then adding variations.



Thank you for looking in.

Not nearly enough dakka, and I say that in all seriousness as a BFG player/enthusiast.

That's super cool, you should definitely cast it!