Oh is that the time? Hadn't realised it was so late
Although I was never really into orks back in the day I definitely enjoyed the character they had. Stuff like Paul Bonner's art, he had the smiling, pipe-smoking meks planning their next contraption down just right. That's the kind of feel I'd really like to create with my cyborks, so hearing that they do evoke some of the old-skool character makes my day (I'm hoping my blackberry wine translation gizmo had it's homebrew expansion fitted )
Paul bonner is my 2nd art hero , Sir Blanche being the first of course, i loved the way he drew hands and feet , his art had so much character. i always remember then firmir he drew . but i know the smiling ork with a pipe pic our talking about thouh, where the hop splat gun!
All looking really good, monkeytroll. I'm not sure which is greater, your modelling skill or your creativity.
Just wondering, would you mind giving a quick run-down of how you did the tracks for the GMS ork? I can see in the WIP pic it's plasticard, but anything you could tell me about the thickness to use or how you put it together would be great - I've been wanting to do tracks like that for my cyberdaemon plagebearers for a while but haven't managed to make anything which looks that good.
CodGod - can't tell you anything about thickness, I just have several different sheets lying around and use whichever feels best. My LGS doesn't mark them, or indeed sort them The tracks are really easy to make though, I was surprised at how well it went together considering I just started doing it, didn't plan it at all Next time I make some I'll try to put a step-by-step up, but in the meantime:
Cut a strip of plasticard the width I want and a bit longer than I think I'll need,a slighter shorter strip same width and cut 2 lengths of tube I used for the main wheels.
Bend the strip around the tubes at about quarter the length down the strip from either end, so the ends of the strip overlap each other.
Glue the two tubes in place.
Trim the ends of the strip and glue together, using a small strip briging the join for strength, end to end is not a strong join Hack at two bits of plasticard till they're a snug fit inside the 'track' - this stage would probably be best done earlier and glued into place along with the tubes, but I realised that as I sdid it Cut slices off a smaller diameter tube for the running wheels.
Cut thin slices from the shorter strip and glue these onto the 'track' strip to represent the 'tread'.
Presto...
A bit hasty so may not be fully clear, but I will try to put pics up next one I make
As I'm here may as well show the changes made to the speedster design I was originally thinking of putting into Da Worky Races
monkeytroll wrote:Few more boys waiting on tidy-ups and gs.
One v old plastic orc, which I made back in the day and have given him a chainsaw arm, an old ork 'bolter' and then left him as he was for no other reason than pure whimsy and nostalgia. I don't mind having a real mix of models in there as I'd imagine Upzag & Grimsnik attract a wide variety of freaks, plus I can always claim it to be a product of the Dok's eksperimentz. The other guy had part of his back replaced with a power pack, a burna mask and iron jaw for a head, and a drill-bit for an arm.
These two are still tac'd atm as they need some gs work before assembling, hopefully I'll find some gubbins to cover up my gs skills.The big guys got the legs of an epic warhound with the feet chopped off and a toe-piece from kroot armour. Part of a power klaw made up his choppa hand and he's had a chunk of head replaced w part of a scope - that's gonna need some gs. Also needs some thing around the back waist, connections or power supply or something. His little friend is powered by an epic rhino(old-skool again - even if I haven't improved my skills too much over the years, I have at least improved my bitz box ) with exhausts from a chaos biker. Old-skool plastic orc arm and a sm power fist, and space for a bit of gs to fill.
Ahh, didn't mention that, that is a warbuggy Driver will be sat at front with a gunner on a slightly higher seat at the rear.
There's the concept using the chimera front a few pages back but that's it for buggies so far I'm afraid, the others are still locked inside a small box somewhere in the left corner of my brain.
Lol , that tiny drednought is funny! can i ask where do you get the tiny cables from, i have seen silver in other threads but you have agold one on the burna masked iron jaw one?
weety - well it did spark an idea for a diorama, but that ain't gonna happen anytime soon
Ifalna - Thank you. Well I think the orks needed it more than the teeny imperium
Hadouken - See, you say that just after an update, plus I've started another blog and updated that since I last mentioned the matter
TR - Thanks man.
Arakasi - Thanks, I'd been thinking a splash of colour was needed to liven the thread up a bit. Now we'll return to monochrome service for a while Well, you know when you've seen one suspension spring you've seen them all Once I'd switched out the back wheels for the single I felt it had a more rugged feel to it rather than just speedy, so it was a natural really. My meks prefered a simplified two axle system though. And you'll be pleased to hear it's starting to lose some of those clean lines
neil - cheers! The cabling's guitar strings, I have brass and steel, came in the same pack.
The cloud of smoke dispersed, Revealing Upzag's latest contraption hovering a few metres off the ground, albeit at rather an odd angle.
'Told ya those gravimetrix was fine,' he stated to Grudsnip, one of his loyal assistant meks. Looking up at the craft he raised his thumb at Eddy ZagZag, his latest test pilot.
'Hit it Zaggy'
At this, those orks who had been reappearing dived back into cover. Various missiles strapped around the the ramshackle framework Upzag had been calling 'Air Squig' burst into life, and ZagZag screamed in delight as he accelerated at a phenomenal rate....for about 100 metres.
Blithely ignoring the bits of wreckage bouncing around him Upzag turned to the cowering servo-grots behind him.
'Are ya sure ya removed ALL the warheads lads?'
'That's it grab 'is leg and pull...hmm..where's da rest of 'im den? Try under dere, no dat bit..dere we go. Revivin' juice Grudsnip. Right. Zaggy? Zaggy.Hello, dat was good dat was, you went dead fast. Well, maybe not a complete success, but it was good. Hmm? Your legs? Well, Grudsnip's got one..well, part of one..well, a foot. Nah don't worry, soon 'ave ya up in da air again. Yeah, for def'nite, I've got dis idea see....yeah, youse be lighter without dem big boots of yours, an' lighter means fasta dunnit?'
Skin and base need finishing, almost done.
CK - thanks, I know my concept 'sketches' can be a bit 'huh?' at times, even to me That's wht so many of them stay at that stage for a while (that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it)
weety - cheers, this one actually seemed to move fairly quickly once it fell into place.
Suspencegrind - Thank you kindly sir.
GG - there's a touch of mudskipper there, I'll grant you that
Hadouken - (whistles patiently...)
And..shock, horror - another splash of colour, mainly to show how the gunner will look
CK - thanks, I know my concept 'sketches' can be a bit 'huh?' at times, even to me That's wht so many of them stay at that stage for a while (that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it)
It's the evolution of a mini from concept to reality that's part of the fun for me; glad I'm not alone
I like the colours on the buggy, and the gunner is looking good - maybe add some servitor-like 'upgrades'.
Oh indeed, I can while away days just playing with different bits to get the look that 'works', most enjoyable If I really force myself to build something the chances are that I'll have 'issues' with it afterwards - not that I don't now, but I can normally put those down to lazyness One of the things I find great about Dakka is the fact that I can look at the evolution, not just of my models, but other peoples as well, and getting ideas from seeing how others work. We all have our own methods and learning to incorporate other techniques can only improve us.
As for the gunner, not sure what's going on with his other arm yet. The driver was supposed to get a mass of 'mekka-dendrits' connecting with the buggy, but it got a bit messy and I think he'll only end up with 2 now. Was thinking maybe 2 or 3 for the gunner, with 1 or 2 connected to weapon/pedestal and one waving around. That would leave both driver and gunner basically the same configuration and still unsure if I like or dislike that fact.
Your stuff is so immaginative, that roadster has come on in leaps and bounds , it looks perfect now. But it is bugging me silly, because it reminds me of a car , probably a renault, but i cant find it anywhere on google. The front end mostly. The front wheel supension is a nice attention to detail as well. And Upzags latest contraption is decidedly dangerously good! Upzag even knicked the lamp off the post! when will we see that emerge i wonder, and as what.
monkeytroll: I agree; I probably spend more time rummaging through my bitz box then painting/modelling . I also find Dakka is a great community, very constructive and there's always a nice exchange of ideas going on, it always makes me want to up my game!
neil101: it's theDelage grand Prix you're thinking about:
monkeytroll wrote:Oh indeed, I can while away days just playing with different bits to get the look that 'works', most enjoyable If I really force myself to build something the chances are that I'll have 'issues' with it afterwards - not that I don't now, but I can normally put those down to lazyness One of the things I find great about Dakka is the fact that I can look at the evolution, not just of my models, but other peoples as well, and getting ideas from seeing how others work. We all have our own methods and learning to incorporate other techniques can only improve us.
CommissarKhaine wrote:I agree; I probably spend more time rummaging through my bitz box then painting/modelling . I also find Dakka is a great community, very constructive and there's always a nice exchange of ideas going on, it always makes me want to up my game!
Probably not surprising how much I agree with the above sentiments Just another reason why I appreciate both your (and other Dakkites') efforts - even if I don't comment enough sometimes, or jump to conclusions when I do. Particularly putting up incomplete ideas. The end results are nice - but the journey, that is where it's at!
I actually grabbed that photo without realising what had been done to it, I just spotted a thumbnail that looked like a 2CV in orky colours Was even more impressed when I realised Orks had actually built it
My folks used to own one, it was pretty fun, felt like it would tip over on most corners, plus we had it at about the same time as 'For Your Eyes Only', so we had a Bond car, for probably the only time in my life
I'm convinced there's some kind of RC buggy kit that has a similar front end, including the mount for the spots, but I can't find it anywhere so maybe I'm just tripping.
Thanks guys, there may be a brief interval before any more updates though.
The marina froze over at the weekend, and as our water pipes run through the lake, they got frozen too. Before leaving for work this morning I turned a tap on so that if it did thaw it would keep running and hopefully I'd have water when I got home.
Could hear running water when I got back, so all seemed good, but as I got to my door I realised it didn't sound as though it was coming from just the bathroom pipe. Turns out I'd obviously turned the tap full on instead of just a tad, and when it thawed the volume of water was too much for the sink Bathroom, part of the hallway, and more importantly my workroom are all soaked. And the workroom floor was home to a lot of stuff atm, including a couple of IA books that hadn't made it back to the shelf yet :(
Just spending a few minutes preparing myself to clear out the rooms, rip up carpets etc, etc.
Ahh, the joys of living on the water
Ah well, best make a start I suppose.
Hope no-one else is getting fethed up by the weather (helped with a bit of carelessness ), no doubt I'll be updating later to bemoan whatever else has been ruined - think the WD collection and the bookcases are high enough to have not been badly affected.
Bummer dude. Lifes got a little habit of sticking a leg out as you run past. still at least you didn't sink it! I hope your best bits were highest up.
I spent the day tempting fate by driving my tiny Renault clio through the moors in thick snow, just for fun and to see if I would make it, silly really. But fate didnt bite.
Stopped work due to frustration, if I don't take a moment to calm down I'm just going to shout 'feth it' and start throwing stuff out the window. Without opening it first.
Doesn't look like I've lost anything major, all the completely ruined stuff seems to be old Military Modeller mags and the like, nothing that'll make me lose sleep. Siege of Vraks 2 & 3 got a bit of damage but I can accept that. Just glad the boat slopes, if the water had gone into the lounge I would have been crying at the books that would have been ruined there.
Frustrated due to the lack of anywhere else to put all the crap from the workroom floor - a fair bit was there as there was nowhere else to put it (pack-rats really shouldn't live in cramped condition ), and pretty much everything was in carboard boxes - they all seemed to fail their armour saves against water. I did manage to pile a gak load of stuff precariously in the cupboard, and then the electrics tripped out (probably due to having all lights and heaters on). And of course the fuse box is at the back of the afore-mentioned cupboard. Cue trying to move unstable boxes of sprues, models etc in the dark, and finding somewhere to put them in the dark. Crap now strewn all over the place? Check
Guess I won't be heading to work tomorrow, have to see if I can source a de-humidifier from somewhere, may cut the drying time down to a week or so, going to have to keep heating going 24/7 just to stop ice forming everywhere inside.
On the plus side I did remember there was an extension socket under a collapsed damp box, and turned it off before frying myself Oh and found a pair of trousers I have absolutely no recollection of.
Bloody hell i thought i had it bad with man flu, but i doth my hat to your tale of woes, but if it freezes over night you could ice skate indoors , that would be nearly as cool as actually living on a boat! Seriously immpressed mate, hope rosey and jim are okay though , really like them 2 michevious imps And we may forgive the mighty monkeytroll a lack of updates due to the savage forces of nature , so long as he posts a pic of da boat, and we will not be immpressed lest its been orkified
Nightmare mate. I really really wish I could send you my dehumidifier, but it's a bit of a stretch from Glasgow. If you want the model # to get one pm me; it's good and pretty cheap.
Potential fatalaties (some may survive, but not sure in what state) :
Codex Daemonhunters, Tyranids (the 2 previous editions), Space Wolves (old), Space Marines (current)
Barlowe's Guide to Fantasy
Modern Origami
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume 1
Preacher:Ancient History
Promethea Book 5
2 sketch pads (only 1 with a few bits in)
Various notepads, none seemed to hold vital info
Could have been a lot worse.
Place is a REAL mess now, I'm a bit cramped at my lounge table typing this due to all the crap I've had to dump in here. And there's a load I haven't been able to move yet, nowhere to go. Getting the carpet up in the workroom turned into a logistical nightmare. No room to move stuff too, nowhere to move the bookcases too, nowhere for the table to go (not that it could anyway, I put it together in there, it won't come out unless it's broken). So using a bit of orky know-how I shoved a bunch of hollow tubes (clingfilm rolls and the like) and some short posts under the part I had been able to get up - no underlay, just glued to the floor in that room for some reason. This seemed to work somewhat so I employed some more Orky ingenuity and....sliced the carpet down the middle - well, a bit off centre actually but you know. Peeled it apart and shoved some tubes, posts and assorted spacers down, and left a fan heater in the doorway. That should dry most of it out, and let me try to organise things a bit before tackling the parts that don't get fully dried.
End of Vent the Second. Which was not as bad as I thought it might be Although that has skimmed over a lot of the issues
So while attempting to rescue various bit from their sodden, collapsing boxes I came across some of my old minis, and thought I'd throw them up for a laugh.
The elf archer is one of my very first, I believe the actual first was a dwarf archer, same line, same pose, same colour except black or brown for the hair. The piper at the back is the type of thing I had to paint when I did a very brief stint working for the company that produced them. One broken pscho-hobbit which I'd tried to 40k up and an old bilbo from GW, couple of 15mm future cops,one larger future cop, one bloke who thinks he's JC Denton, one unknown alien (he used to have some kind of space-scooter) and the rest were mainly used for role-playing.
Makes my minis look modern! Right back to the prehistory of oldschool. I can imagine well the logistics of getting a wet carpet up in a furnished room with no where to put anything! Best wishes
those minis are pretty cool mate like the monkey with stick and red coat in the background!
good luck with the clean up mate and congrats on that orkification!
Heh, I can still vaguely remember the shop I started buying minis in, a place of mystery and excitement to me. It was in Colchester on a hill, after crossing a bridge I think, and if it was Colchester that would probably put me at about 8, which would make the archer about 2 years older than you
edit : Can add the previous IG codex to the list of potential fatalaties, and I forgot to mention about half-a-dozen paperbacks of no particular importance. Except I hate the loss of any book tbh.
qoute " that would probably put me at about 8, which would make the archer about 2 years older than you " lol and he looks better than i do too! i think i could use a fresh coat of paint and dehumidifing! or is the fumigating?
I also recieved my first mini aged 8 , me and a few kids , knicked a handfull from a lovely old model shop. , we then went on to steal Smelly rubbers ( erasers ) in the shape of the fall guy's truck ( 80's tv show) from morrisons , at which point we got knicked and duley spent the following 6 hours in a black miriah and a grungy prison , with inky fingers! my first and nearly last foray into the exciting world of underage shoplifting!
and i goy quite the wallop from my mum when she found out! ouch !
although with gw's prices i feel like there robbing me! now
well swings in roundabouts as they say!
monkey with a stick...monkey with a stick? You are not, my dear sir, refering to the mighty kobold mage 'nobloodywaycanirememberhisname' with that comment are you? I actually found several kobolds, must have been popular in our D&D games. Quite a few 15mm figs - fantasy and sci-fi, a few more that came from the cyber-punk range the dude in shades came from - including a biker which I keep meaning to do something with, several 25mm sci-fi infantry, a few pieces from board games, a half-painted rice crispies character , a few Judge Dredd-The Boardgame figs and other assortments. That was an interesting box to salvage
The redcoat reminds me that 'that dream job' may not be so after all. Painting figures in batches to a set particular pattern was horrendous.
Underage shoplifting? What age does it become legal now
Never shoplifted figures (lol, just noticed I've reverted to calling them figs rather than minis as I reminisce), but at one stage my primary source was a bookstore that had a huge box of figs that back then mainly came in bags. Bags would get broken, and if I happened to present some loose figures I'd 'found' floating around at the bottom of the box, the storekeeper would generally let me take those along with my purchases
Just out of interest, what exactly did Colt Sever's van smell of? (don't shoot me if I've spelt that wrong) I can well imagine wanting a fallguy truck rubber, but a smelly one? I'm trying, but I can't recall any stranger smelly rubber than that, all I can remember now were the foody ones that really made you want to eat the rubber
lol , come to think of it i think i mixed up smelly foody rubbers and cool Colt severs truck rubber , prob had both it was along time ago and a vid link for all the youger dakkites , to see what you missed out on
so the red painted mini reminds you of your uninspiring pro painter days , i think he could do with a wash though underage shoplifting sounds like a new olympic stength sport , and the winner is....thrud the barbarian ! edging out conan and hercules to silver and bronze. ( although technically it means i dont have a criminal record yoink!
Figs , that could get confusing on ebay! i like minis , but i also like figs, which is better ..there is only one way to find out...
Monkey with a stick / monkey on a stick.. mokeytroll with a stick. that is never gonna get kob...old
Just realised Monkey was the original DaemonHunter - 'Hah, Demons!' That'd be a cool retinue to make sometime
So managed to move one rickety open-sided bookcase piled high with books and stuff, pull up carpet and replace bookcase without anything falling off. Well, except for the lamp that fell on my head right at the end. One side of the room drying out, just need to figure out what to do on the other side. Trying not to cut the carpet up anymore as I'd like to salvage it, but not sure I'll be able to. Need to go and get some tiles to replace the hall/galley carpet, but that's fine as I've been meaning to do that for a while now.
Thought I'd have a closer look at those old minis, I was right that archer is 2 years older than you weety Was surprised to see the swordsman and the halfling berserker were also GW, swordsman from '84 can't quite make out the date on the halfling, possibly '84 again.
And i thought you were reffering to my young self , when talking about , the Archer mini. Guess i am older than i thought
If monkey was a deamon hunter , he was , a radical one , travelling with mutants an all. ( talking about you pigsy )
You should probably use this oppertunity to redecorate your boat.You could call in those helpfull tv chaps that do revamps, they love a heartfelt story of triumph over adversity, and that boat would be a great tv hook!
Didn't think to use my old SW miniatures - great use of the AT-ST head. And breathing new life into your Legos - love the look of your army and the individuality of each model.
Heh, radical Inquisitor Tripp E. Tarker, and his oddball retinue, a Jokaero, a Tau and a ratling with a hormone problem
weety - hadn't thought of that, but I can borrow a de-humidifier anyway, just want to let the heaters do most of the work first, if I try running heater and de-humidifier I'd just trip the electrics again
neil - no way would I let some bunch of TV peeps loose in my place. Ain't gonna happen But it will spur me on to tile the galley floor which I've been thinking about for, ohh, a while now. Even got the tiles today, and hopefully I'll prep the floor before hitting the sack.
c0un7 - I thank you kind sir!
moonshine - well, I'm now quite hopeful a few of those might be ok, well, readable anyway. Even if they do all go it's a small fraction of my library (I learnt to love books at an early age and really hate parting with them), if the water had got into the lounge area it would have ruined a lot of books, some of which would be exremely hard/expensive to replace. The paperbacks were all ones which were actually piled on the floor in the first stage of an effort to actually part with them, in a vain attempt to create space for others, so I can kind of look at that as almost a blessing. But thanks for the sympathy man.
Zeke - Thanks. Have been looking for a use for that walker head for a long time, kept rejecting various walkers (Imp & chaos) until I started messing with the greenskins, and then it found a perfect home
i hope they're ok i'm a huge fan of books aswell thats why i own 5 ip and got through horus rising in one day btw fear the alien is epic if you like fiction the story from a kommandos point of veiw, i would reccommend if you like orks
books BOOKS thats heretical talk right there i say burn em all and lets return to a simpler and less enlightened age of ludites unlees they are the choose your own adventure ones where YOU are the HERO...
Your standing in a damp and sodden boat, Rare books and strange figs lay scattered around the floor. The dry heat of an old electrical fire is creating a mildly foist and hummid stench...
In your left hands is grasped small green figure , and a tiny paintbrush lays on a small table to your right. Do you... sit at the table trying to forget the mess around you, and attempt to paint the figure. Turn to page 32
Or do you throw the model down, stomp out into the winter air and look for the nearest pub. Turn to page 47
page 32 As you bend to sit down , your long limbs betray you , banging your elbow and knees on several corners. lose 1d6 stamina points The ork falls to the paper and old carpet strewn floor, where you accidently stand on it , whilst trying to pick it back up. turn to page 84
page 47 You throw the tiny figure down, and briskly stride on to the marina .They fresh winters air calms your mood and you feel relaxed and tranquil. Regain 2d6 Stamina points and turn to page 101
Pretty close actually, but I didn't stand on it, didn't need to as the carpet wasn't there to protect him Stage-diving from a high desk + hard surface + toy soldier = toy soldier pieces
Feeling fairly lousy last couple of days, heaters on full, de-humidifiers, then having to go out into snowy weather, all conspired to play havoc with throat and nose. My sinuses are fethed, and since last night I've gone partially deaf in one ear, so really didn't get much done yesterday. Did a little bit of painting to take a break from sorting the mess out, but really wanted to model rather than paint. Maybe later I'll see what I can build just utilising some of the parts on the desk, might be a giggle.
Waiting for the pva glue to dry on the floor so I can start putting tiles down - vinyl, self-adhesive tiles to tell the truth - I'm not doing any grouting After coating the floor in pva it was tempting to go get the sand and flock
Started going through the Tyranid codex last night too, looking to get my long-abused 'nids into some sort of order - boo. Marines lost their traits, guard lost thier doctrines and now I find the bugs lost their mutations, bah! Really don't know why I can't convince myself it's fine to make outdated armies as I don't play, oh well.
Waiting for the pva glue to dry on the floor so I can start putting tiles down - vinyl, self-adhesive tiles to tell the truth - I'm not doing any grouting After coating the floor in pva it was tempting to go get the sand and flock
and static grass!
I guess we do what we need to , to keep it alive , and interesting ,maybe your subconciously holding out for a great game.
I'm not sure the galley/hall floor is a great place for a game 'Look out for the hot oil splash template, too late you've got a melted marine now.'
So did actually manage to finish the bionikopta, apart from sealing. As the sun is shining decided to take some outdoors shots, so pics aren't the best. Have to get a lightbox sometime.
That's better a touch of modelling stuff rather than just talk of a wet boat
Most of the galley got tiled last night, and bookcases moved back in. As I was cutting tiles I couldn't help but wonder what use I could find for the offcuts - sure there's some sort of terrain piece I could use 'em on
As always, your finished models leave me wondering why I feel I always take issue with them in the early stages. Just ignore me in the future - and keep up the great work!
No - that should be the other way around - Keep up the great work! *Now* ignore me in the future
Thanks guys, I'm particularly proud of the way I placed the support strut so it was hidden from most angles, then took pics that showed it I may go back and put a bit more litter on the base, and it needs to get matted down, which I should have done before attaching the clear plastic, but hey-ho.
CK - thanks. I suspest there may be some element of psychosis created when you lose three limbs, get weapons put in their place then stuck to a dodgy rotor blade Shrines and ruins were the sort of thing I was thinking.
neil - cheers, if I'd got the angles right it might have looked a better movie If I'd finished it the day before I planned to take shots on the frozen marina, but it's mainly slush now.
weety - Ahh, if only it were MY lake, that'd be fantastic lol, I have the 2 seperate films on dvd, but still not got round to watching them, do plan to have one with one gun-leg though Thanks, as usual it's a mix of 'that worked' and 'that's a bit sloppy'. I'm pleased with the shoulder, but some sections of the arm are a bit messy. Just realised I was going to try a thin flesh wash on this guy too, forgot that, may do that later.
Arakasi - Thank you. I never fell you're 'taking issue', I appreciate the feedback you provide, along with everyone else's. Most ideas don't really come to life till the paint has hit them, especially with conversions, maybe even more so with orky conversions, and unless you have a little window into the modeller's mind it can be hard to see how it's going to work. Indeed, this is often a problem for the modeller themself I'm still unsure of how well it 'represents' a deff-kopta, mainly due to size, and i expect I will be until there's a few more bionikoptas aloft - some of the bulkier ideas haven't worked out yet. However I feel the larger size of some of the other 'kopta models will balance it out.
Hang on is this a trick, should I ignore the second instruction to ignore you?
moonshine - thanks, the idea of extra ammo was to represent them being big shootas, as fitting big shootas looked a tad awkward
GG - thanks dude. Yeah, ruins a possibility.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Having chipped up most of the paint-work with boltgun and mithril I then tried something different on the nose. It worked, so I re-did all the rest
Like the yellow and the two light greens, dark green turned out a bit meh, the blues are pretty dodgy, and I'm not convinced on the red.
and yes, it's a bit dusty in those shots.
The flame shaped plates were something Arakasi suggested for da Turbo 'Triffik, I liked the idea, but felt it didn't fit with my image of the TT, but they break up the side of this very nicely.
So had a bit of a mess around with the bits on my desk.
Cyber-Squig
Needs the tracks to keep up with Upzag's tracks Missing exhausts and details, as I couldn't find any tubes on my desk.
Concept for a servo-grot driven bike.
Obviously loads of bits still missing, and my choice of grots was a bit limited, so they'll be changed (and the rokkits are from the above buggy - could only find one rokkit on the desk)
oiler/ammo runt
I have another squat bike and a trike, these will become an ammo runt and the three oilers for Upzag. One bike will be the runt, the other and the trike will be oilers, get some sort of fixin' gubbins on the trike.
For the chipping I first painted on scratches and dots with a lighter colour - orange on the red, sunburst yellow on the nose, turquoise on the blue and bleached bone everywhere else. Then just carefully overpainted with chardonon granite, trying to keep the lighter colour only showing at the base/catching the light source. Kind of the reverse to my old method of using a dark colour then silver in the middle, that works okay but is a bit more stylised than this. Kepp meaning to try sponging granite followed by light sponging of silver, think that might be quite interesting. I found this didn't work well on the dark blue, even though I darkened the granite a bit, maybe I shouldn't have. Think the trick is to find the right highlight colour, possibly switch the granite in some situations. First tried it using a black micro-pen, worked reasonably well, but again I feel it's a bit more stylised.
Weathering: looking good to me!
Flame plate: I've made a noticeable impression at last!
Cyber-squig: Cute. Were you going for that?
Servo-grot bike: Rokkits and engine look a bit too big for the frame, even for Orks - suggest bulking out the frame/using bigger wheels? Realise this is just concept stage at the moment...
Oiler/Ammo runt: Reserving (no) comment until more progress
i agree the chipping is 1st class , thanks for the explanation. the deatils are just great.
like the little squig on tracks , hes so tiny! and thats a very nice squat bike there!
hope the clean up is going well mate.
Sage - no worries buddy, yours still needs those highlights - with all the hassle I didn't want to work on anyone else's stuff for fear of ruining it. I'd like to get it out over the weekend, if I fail in that I may keep it till new year just so it doesn't get mightily fethed by Santa's special mail sorters.
CK - Thanks! Yeah, still some washing to do, need a little more grime on there. As it's my first 'real' attempt at this method, not sure what else it's going to get, I was thinking maybe a touch of boltgun on a few corners, maybe in the middle of some of the larger scratches.
Arakasi - Glad you didn't resist too hard I'm going to make an effort to keep to this style of weathering for the cyborks rather than using sponge, which could be an issue as I've just realised I used sponges on the speeder/senty 'kopta.
Damn, is that really the first time I've actually made use of your comments? Well, it wasn't the whole thing, but my original idea had a bit of 'cute' thrown in. Well, you know, cute as in little orky death-terror nom-nom cute. Wasn't deliberate but I'll happily take it Rokkits definitely - when I can access more of my bits I'll be looking for a slightly smal- actually, no I won't. Just realised that was a complete brain-fart - it's a bike, bikes have dakka not swoosh-boom. Sigh. I'm fairly happy with the engine for now, the support structure will be different (probably) and there may be a bit added here and there to the frame. I was thinking of it being more of a grot built go-cart or similar that they'd decided to strap a big ol' rokkit to so they could join in the big-boyz fun.
Fair enough, not a lot to see there at present I'll grant you Although a fair bit of filing was involved to get that body to fit.
Yggs - Cheers, but let's be honest, there's not been many mini's in the last few pages, more me whinging about being damp The squig gets another vote for cute - honestly I was only thinking there was a tiny bit of cute in there. Yeah, I'm pretty happy with the chips overall - just need to figure out how to do it on the darker colours.
neil - Thanks guy. He's not as small as I wanted, the tracks and the join turned out slighly bigger, and slight makes a difference at this scale. If another one gets tracks I'll scratch-build them. The clean-up is at 'full-speed standing still' at the moment. Not a lot I can do for now untill things have dried out, which at this time of year is going to be a SLOW process. Had a leak in the bathroom a couple of years ago, that took a couple of weeks to dry in May/June time, and wasn't as wet.
insaneume - thanks, glad you got some good procrastination time back
Scarper - cheers, and loot away. Slowly, slowly she dries, think she's been taking note of my painting pace.
c0un7 - it's pretty simple, you just need to watch for hand-cramp if you're idiotic enough to try and do a reasonable sized area in one sitting That might just be me trying too hard to keep the brush steady all that time though (there's a good reason to try speeding up).
if you mail it past this weekend let me know since I'll be going home so should give you a new addie! unless i gave you my Brooklyn addie haha.
I am just putting the snow on your model's base, and then maybe will look it over for any other highlights or such it may need
and as always your work here is great, and I must ask, since i seem to be the one who always asks...do you have any group shots of your painted progress and/or unpainted progress. its always nice to see the army as a whole so a sense of how far you've gotten since page 1 is easy to see
I've got your White Plains address I know it took about 2 weeks for Porkuslime to get his when I sent it, so if I get it out over the weekend....damn, that still won't hit you till the new year, oh that's pants. Guess I'm going to have to work on improving my speed before adding more trades o my list.
Umm, there was a group shot a while back, it's probably not that different tbh- oh good gorka, just realised that's on page one See that's why no more group shots, I don't want peeps to realise how far I have(not) got since page 1
See the only units that are finished are the dread, the bionikopta and the jet-bike kopta (and that's still not based). Not even a full unit of grots finished, sheesh. Umm, well maybe if I throw the orderly and the oilers in there there'll be 10, no herder though. But seeing as how modelling is a bit constrained at the moment, I should really get on with some painting - probably about time to actually finish that first lot of boyz.
Tell you what, I'll take your request under consideration
No work done over the weekend, and probably not a lot getting done this week. We're re-laying parts of the warehouse at work and that means I get to come in for some weird long-a$$ night-shift thing for this week. Yay And dakka seems to be a bit dead during these hours, not good enough people, I need input. More input Stephanie. Guess if I do get any stuff done I could put pics on a memory stick and upload from work, that'll kill a little time. (I'm not doing much, more of a supervisory role, and the contractors know what they're doing so....)
Sage - guess that means I may need a new addy from you.
Nice, throw the film back at me with a quote that could relate to my last post Top marks for Ben's second name too, until I saw it I probably wouldn't have remembered the Ben part (it has been a long time)
I'll tell you my Brooklyn addie instead, just let me know when you are ready to send it. yours is ready to go, will send it at end of week when i get home and finals are done!
So as I was fairly happy with the weathering on the buggy I decided to try it on one of the cyboar-boyz. Messy as buggery due to being up for 24h now (was on night-shift Thursday, doing day on Saturday, still not sure when I'm working next week - nothing like messing the old body-clock about ) so it'll get re-done when there's a chance I'll paint straight. Then I realised I'd already started sponging the actual boar, and I'm wondering if I'm going to have to re-do one or the other, or if I can get away with differing techniques on 2 parts of the same model.
SO, ignoring the fact that I'm going to have to re-do the red armour anyway (I realised it was a bit sloppy but not as bad as the pics show ), what do you reckon? Re-do the boar with the highlight/granite, re-do the boy with sponging, leave the 2 different styles, or some mix of the above?
And can I get away with both methods on various parts of the force, for example the 'speeder based 'kopta has been fairly heavily sponged, be a pain to re-do that, opposite applies to the piranha-buggy. I don't see this as too big a problem, but that might just be my bias towards not wanting to re-do models that took long enough to get some of that painty-type stuff on them
Also - Sage's 'Ardboy finally finished, again. With a slight colour change as I wasn't real happy with the blue, although as I was reworking it, that was a bit of a moot point...
If I'm doing a couple of nights next week should get it out then, but if it's all days I probably won't get a chance to get to the post office till at least christmas eve
I say redo the red, leave the different styles. It doesn't really strike me as a horrible mismatch. I'd add a bit more detail to the tail part though, seems your lack of sleep has caused you to miss some details
I really like the paint job on the boars armour and its rider. I like it a lot. The colours you've used complement each other really well (that is the armour colours with the boar hair).
You paint this well and then redo it ....its not fair..! so not only are you bored at work your boar 'd at home too lol sorry i love this boar rider mek boar thingy . its very cyborky and oldschool . How did you get that lovely silver for the orks helmet.. it looks great and very metal.. if that makes sense
CK - thanks, that's what I was thinking, but wasn't sure if I was just being biased towards laziness One of the things I'm finding with this project is that I'm trying lots of different techniques that I've picked up over the years but haven't actually practised much/at all.
This is the first 'serious' painting (yeah I know, don't expect to see me and serious in the same sentence very often) I've done in a fair few years, it's all been a little bit of 'main colour on here, a highlight over there' on a variety of minis, none of them getting done.
Coming onto dakka really spurred me to get into it properly again, and it's really interesting to find myself trying out all these things I've read about/seen/played about with previously. At the same time I get worried that it won't all gel due to me constantly changing techniques.
As to the missing details, I really wish I could blame that on the lack of sleep, however the sponging was done a couple of weeks ago whilst doing the same to the 'kopta. I have no idea why I decided I should start on the weathering before finishing the main painting, especially using a sponge
PDH - cheers, I really appreciate that coming from you. Bright colours are something I haven't really played with since the original chaos marines, I tend to keep dark or earthy palletes, or fall back onto good ol' red/black (a little of which has been working it's way onto these guys) so felt it would be cool to push myself that way, and I'm really enjoying it.
Saintspirit - Good ol' Herbork West? He's a favourite of mine too, thanks man. Go for it, grab some orks and just run wild I still find myself wondering at why I ignored orks all these years when my primary love is converting, especially outlandish conversions, but hey, I've found them now and I'm making up for lost time - in a slow, sloth-like manner
weety - why thank you kind lady Like I alluded to above, although there's been little practice in the last few years, I still seem to have absorbed stuff and find I've improved. And obviously there's all the great help and advice to be found on these forums.
neil - well you know, I'm only re-doing the bits I did badly I just think that chips and their respective highlights look a little better when they're actually in contact with each other And you seem to be on a bit of a bad pun kick today. Keep it up. Umm, that lovely silver is a coat of boltgun, followed by a coat of liquitex iridescent silver, from an old stash of paints I re-discovered whilst moving gak out of the workroom/wetroom.
Rose - Sounds like a line from some hideous reality vet TV programme - 'Sponge the boar and earn your team mates some food'
In the grim darkness of the future there is only boar. You can all blame neil's influence for that.
Dang, wall-o-text. Now I'm going to feel onbliged to try and paint something else in a sleep-deprived state (found out I'm doing nights next week so want to try and re-re-adjust my body clock ) just to break up the wordy stuff. I'd much rather be konstruktin' stuff, but still not really viable with various bits boxes in various rooms/nooks/crannies/secret locations/areas of serious scientific interest.
It's a bit hard to tell from the picture, but from what I can tell I believe that the cyboar-boy turned out great! I don't see any problem mixing two techniques. But, if I were you, since you are the one with the privileged of seeing it IRL, I would go with my gut feelings.
The boar is coming out nicely! Love how its looking.
The model you made for me looks doppeeeee! send it after christmas, no rush, that way it also doesn't hit any of the christmas mail insanity!
Yours is ready to be mailed!
CK - thanks, that's what I was thinking, but wasn't sure if I was just being biased towards laziness One of the things I'm finding with this project is that I'm trying lots of different techniques that I've picked up over the years but haven't actually practised much/at all.
This is the first 'serious' painting (yeah I know, don't expect to see me and serious in the same sentence very often) I've done in a fair few years, it's all been a little bit of 'main colour on here, a highlight over there' on a variety of minis, none of them getting done.
Coming onto dakka really spurred me to get into it properly again, and it's really interesting to find myself trying out all these things I've read about/seen/played about with previously. At the same time I get worried that it won't all gel due to me constantly changing techniques.
Thats what you get with new projects: the chance to push your limits. As for dakka: I feel the same! The encouragement and feedback make you up your game where I'd otherwise tend to say 'Meh, good enough"..., I want to do better now, which really makes me improve.
As to the missing details, I really wish I could blame that on the lack of sleep, however the sponging was done a couple of weeks ago whilst doing the same to the 'kopta. I have no idea why I decided I should start on the weathering before finishing the main painting, especially using a sponge
No worries, happens to us all at times. lack of patience, a small oversight,... Is it doable to fix it, or will that involve messing up the spongework?
c0un7 - Thanks, I just like to get feedback from you guys to make sure I'm not just being lazy like I said to CK.
Yggs - merci, mon ami
Hadouken - long time buddy! Ah well, I never did feel like copying what the 'cool kids' were doing You caught those thieving grots yet?
Sage - Cheers. No problem, PM me your addy and I'll get it out next week sometime, probably Friday.
Hadouken - You don't know Monkey What heresy is this ? I thought it was well known in Oz (However not sure why I thought that, so maybe not ). You need to go immerse yourself in some real culture, you'll love it.
CK - Absolutley. As to the details, should be no issue, and even if it was I think one layer of spongework is easy to repair.
And as you've all been good boys and girls this year a little christmas bonus -
Squig-hound Bit of tidying still, and taken using flash, so a bit more vivid than rl.
Down boy , cyber squig hound..sickem! interesting stuff this squig hound , suits your boys very much indeed, looks like a bugger to paint , all those armour bits , and is it feeding on the left overs from Grimsniks experiments? what a fiend , if Basheds boys new what was instore for them , they would turn back, i am sure of it!
Hahaha, I still have no idea what you're on about, dude. A google search for 'Monkey'reveals a bazillion links to some flash game. Oh yeah, I did catch those grots. They gotz a hidin' and were put ta wurk on wonna them experry-mentall killy masheens.
Nice squig hound, too! Looks monsterous! You should call him Boris!
Monkey was a weird hong=kong series back in the 80s I think. It was a hodge podge of buddism, chinese magic and demons set in medieval times. With slapstick and the english dubbing definatly played for laughs - really silly voices.
Monkey magic , Monkey magic ,... Monkey magic... monkey magic oooh , Very good , Wise Monk say , Monkey troll should change name of blog to Monkey's Magic Cyborks. To appease the Mighty Comedy gods.
Lord Kaesar - Glad you like As to what it is exactly, is that 1- what is a squig-hound? or 2 - what's it made from?
1 - Squig-hounds are used by the runt-herds to keep da grotz in line (And I'm currently re-thinking runtherds) 2 - Old Slaan cold one warhound body and head from Inquisitor scale cyber-mastiff
neil - surprisingly easy actually, although it still took me ages, I was hoping the limited palette and small size would mean I actually finished a fast mini, but alas, it doesn't appear to be my lot in life. Galley's dry . Just the bathroom and workroom that aren't They'll be damp into the new year, it took about 3 weeks to dry the bathroom when I had a leak a few years back, and that was in June/July time (apologies if I've mentioned that before)
Hadouken - no, not a flash game. It was a Japanese series made in the late 70's based on a classic Chinese story (A Journey to the West) then dubbed into English. If that doesn't sound bizzare enough for you, well...
And if you've caught those grots there's a pressing matter of some certain missing updates I believe....
weety - Yeah, close enough. The original novel (15th-16th century) was about a monk sent to India to obtain some Buddhist sutras(based on real events). The monk was accompanied by a dragon who assumed the shape of a horse and three members of the heavenly host, who had been exiled and were atoning for past disgressions. Kung-fu, demons, enlightenment - a pretty heady mixture, and then to have a Japanese version made, then dubbed to English, well it was just asking to become a cult hit Added bonuses include the male monk Tripitakka being played by a female and Guan Yin, the female bodhisattva, being played by a male. I'll leave lecturer mode now before I start searching for references Still need to finish getting the DVD's at some point.
Hadouken - YES! That!
CK - Cheers!
weety - 'Demons!'
neil - The nature of Monkeytroll was irrepressible.
Squig-hound is a distinct possibility As for the cy-boar centaur, I've tried a couple of combos, not found anything I like yet though.
Managed to find a few interesting bits on the table, so:
Bit of a cop-out on the old grot, he got a bionik eye and a basic peg-leg. Oh, and cut his blunderbuss down (and bent by the look of the pic). I've got a couple of these old guys and there's not a lot to do with them without major re-sculpting, and I like them so they'll all get similar stuff. Old gollum from the old LOTR range, late 80's, he gets to keep his fish, but gains a gun arm (which I'll have to re-adjust, made the schoolboy error of lining it up with his head and forgetting his pose ), a pointy nose & chin and extended ears. Mainly an excuse to use up a tiny bit of GS left over.
Another old grot with a basic bionik leg, although I've just thought of something else I could do with him. He's an old hanger on from the greestealer section of my old cult, but I might be lazy and just re-paint a few bits. Other guy still needs a claw attached to his arm-piece, and a small counter-balance at the other end maybe.
Another tekkie, wielding a wrench.
Seen the Nob's torso/arm before but it's now found a proper home. Just before I started cutting up some legs for him, I tried a set of biker legs, which gave him a nice gorilla-like stance with that klaw. Just need to tidy up around the back, hang some gubbins off the belt. The gorrilla pose accounts for why this pic looks like he's a head on legs. Honest, it's just the pic.
Another mek for lootas/burnas. Surprise, he's rocking a KMB. Now that I've tied all the KMB's together with the nozzle/barrel I'm wishing I hadn't, and had used those to denote snazzguns for the mekanikus orkus that'll be free-booterz. Having typed that I realise it works better this way anyway - well kinda. Oh well. But I'll try to make the next one with something different.
'Ard boy, I'm thinking he'll get an ammo hopper added and the 3-barreled gun will be a big shoota. The legs were first and were going to hold another mek, but then I spotted the gun-piece and was going to make a mini killa-kan. Trying the gun on top though made me decide to stop there and not add any arms, just some wiring to the head and some exhaust type stuff round the back.
That 'ard boy looks like he will get a-'head' in life... He would go the party but hes got no-'body' to go with.... (sound of wind howling, tumbleweed)
but seriously they are just the sweetest little greenskins ever to replace an arm with a giant drill.
- 1st for its simple bionik (plus, good use of a BfSP Gobbo!);
- 2nd for its brutal look, the arm is especially worthy of note;
- 3rd for the insane concept, that reminds of the first ones in that blog : pure Orkish madness!
You need to get a squig, remove all the appendges (tail, legs) so it's just a portal-esque ball of ferocious death and claws. Then you attach it to a completely robotic squig-hound body.
Fantastic! Definitely my favourite so far, he's awesome!
Your sculpting is really good too - I thought the bionic eye on the mek was particularly ace, and the nose repairs on the smaller guys. Always look forward to your updates
Apologies for the absence, my phone lines been out for a couple of weeks. Which meant that without wasting time trawling through the forums I could get a lot more done in my hobby time
Or not. I discovered that although there was certainly less procrastinating on Dakka - well, none to be honest - the motivation provided by all you lovely dakkites out there (and you 'orrible lot at the back) there was less modelling too
Now I'll apologise for the shortness here, but I've already spent ages typing up replies and arranging pics only for my browser to crash, so I'll stick this up now and reply later.
Changed my mind
moonshine - he's got the exhaust but not the wires, has also gained a little paint, but there's no pics in this lot, forgot.
Ink - Thanks.
Sage - Well it's recently dawned on me (just as I started this sentence actually) that all I've been doing for the last 30 years is building my bits box up for when I started working on orks (much snappier than the previous paragraph I wrote here ) And yes, I PM'd you between takes.
graven - Cheers! Been hoarding those for some CSM projects that still haven't made it to the desk, so those pesky meks looted them, what can you do? On a side note the boat's pretty musch dry so I'll start moving stuff back into the workroom in the next couple of weeks then I can re-start yours and an00bis' trades.
weety - Oooohh dear At least you had the courtesy to provide your own ghost town though And don't go saying things like that, there's a couple of little ones who've gone all blushing and bashful now, the dok's can't get any sense out of them.
Yggs - So that's where he's from. I guess WD gave a free sample away when it was released, I wondered where I'd got him from. Nothing a nob likes more than a brutal arm Oh, the madness is always there, it just varies in it's depth
Hadouken - well, probably not a traditional squig, but something like that, yeah
neil - Cheers mate!
HA - Have to say I'm not really following you on this one I'm afraid
moonshine/Arakasi/HA - lol, dalorks you say? Well I was trying to find uses for a couple of dalek heads, but I was avoiding the bodies. In light of your comments I will dig them out and check for scale (I seem to recall sizing them up for some Inquisitor scale tech-priests, but can't remember how they scaled).
Scarper - Thanks! I've been fiddling with bionik eyes using the bits of GS left over from working on Dik dastardork's coat.
And now I'd like to show you some pwetty pictures. But I'll just have to use these ones instead.( 'ware the dodgy lighting)
The mek's skin was the result of an interesting technique I stumbled across : 1-Do a reasonable job in a short amount of time when tired. 2-Take pics. 3-look at pics, realise the quick time was due to reverting to dry-brushing and it looks horrible in macro photos. 4-Multiple green washes. 5-Re-paint the majority.
Done at the same time using a similar technique Swapped the green washes for red and swapped stage 5 for more red washes
A sneak peak at Dik, still very much WIP.
Servo-grots checking out a dodgy tanning parlour (hoping it'll cover their blushes)
More 'ardboyz rolling out of the surjikal workshop. Well, pogo-ing out in one case.
Absolutely no idea where I'm going with this, but those servo-grots do so like the idea of flying like the bionikoptas. And it's a hard concept to resist I find
Ok, it'll be an age till my next update as I've got to catch up on a whole load of blogs now
Hey again Monkeytroll! I was just thinking about how it had been an age since you've been online - was hoping you hadn't gone AWOL Glad you've got it all sorted now though. Or have you?! I hate browser crashes, they're so frustrating when you've typed out a bunch of replies, so major kudos for having the patience to do it again!
Love dik dastardork's hat and jacket - he's immediately recognisable even as an ork, so that's some quality sculpting there The pogo bionics on your ard-boy is also a particular highlight. Great to see you back!
(Return of the Mek) it is
(Return of the Mek) come on
(Return of the Mek) oh my God
(You know that I'll be back) here I am
(Return of the Mek) once again
(Return of the Mek) pump up the world
(Return of the Mek) watch my flow
(You know that I'll be back) here I go
goody lots of good stuff matey
i dont know where to start..well as a man wiser than me said , start at the begining.. The skin looks very reasonable ;-) i didnt realise that you didnt dry brush , is it all wet blending then normally ? the mek's arm looks interesting , like some 1950's ray gun !
The grotty night goblin's robe is immpressive , very subtle blending
going there , looks like a renagade admek .
Dik what can i say , mutley would be proud , what a cool looking trench , look forward to seeing it finished off , but i already love his hat !
did yu sculpt the righjt eye of that grot , or is it on the model , regardless these beauties are full of the regular mischief we have come to expect from your crazy bench!
I love this guy , the first pic reminds me of the old rogue trader robot the one with mantis like eyes and backwards knees ;-) , i think this guy is my favourite , great back engine too .
this one looks great , i like the way you use watch cogs for the am joints , there is lots of metal on this guy , what are the parts from, he looks like a bad ass easy riding Mo Fo.
Its grimdark Zebedee! man i swear your creations are getting even more bizzare
and Finally more Kopter grots , he is like a mini something or other , very cute i want one !
Scarper - Well now, it just happened again, just as I went to my gallery to link the last pic. That did not make me happy. Last time the second attempt replies and comments were all a lot shorter, this time they were fairly short first time, so hopefully this time I'll remember what the replies were Glad Dik's recognisable, doing that boosted my GS confidence a lot, not sure whether to build a second Dik klone next or another character. Another Dik would be smoothing out what has already been tried, but I think variety will win out
Yggs - Thanks man, I just had to build the grot-kopta, whatever it turns out to be Just realised it's supposed to have one of the wheelguards from a biker on the front, wonder where that went?
weety - Thanks! Group shot soon. -ish. I still only have two single model units actually completed, and I'd prefer a few more finished ones first I'll check out the state of things next weekend, I should have enough servo-grots finished by then to make a unit (well, iffy on the runt-herd).
neil - Hmm, you got a rather long and rambling answer in my first attempt (that may or may not be a surprise). Think the gist of it was cheers mate
Yggs - Nah, I really should get back to neil
neil - A bit of Mork Morrision to welcome me back, nice This bit I can't recall, I rambled on about dry-brushing enamels 'back in the day', a bit like a drunk uncle in the corner of the room muttering to himself unintelligibly. mumblemumblemumblemumblemumblemumblever them open with a screwdrivermumblemumblemumblemumblemustayed wet for agesmumblemumblemumblemumblemumblemumblemumvery very shiny
No wet blending here though, I'm still working on layering. The mek's arm comes from an eldar warp spider exarch, with Upzag's (or more likely, one of his disciples) trademark KMB gubbinz from the thingummy pylons from the terrain pack wotsit (I may even come back and edit this if I recall the correct terms).
The tekkie's robe was a horrible heavilyover-rushed mess, that was rescued by a lot of red washes. And maybe some sepia. Yay for washes! Washes FTW!
The eye was another leftover part from the trench-coat, really easy. Form the main shape, roll a tiny ball and flatten it against the front. Insert the tip of a needle-nose glue bottle (or similar fine, hollow tube - mine is from Revell contacta glue) and give it a tiny wiggle to help define the lens. Easy. No real sculpting involved.
For the mono-rider, the wheel came from some wheeled version of a Guard heavy weapon, possibly Steel Legion? Forks are from a tech-marine's plasma-cutter servo-arm, torso from a Cryx thrall, buzz-saw from a pit-slave, arm from a necromunda bounty hunter (I think, comes with shotgun) and slugga is an old-skool ork bolter.
Boing! Time to die! said Zebedee.
CK - Thanks! And thanks! and thanks
Sage - cheers guy!
weety - Yes! You must!
and now some pictures...
Your common, or garden cybork. With a TV for a head.
I plan to paint (eventually) the disc hanging on his chest to look like it's rows of sparkling lights.
A trial for the Orkus Mekanikus (Flash Gitz), which for some reason I started painting before finishing building.
Runt-herd, instilling some discipline. Want to add some gadgets and gee-gaws hanging off him, maybe even a book! I want to play up the loremaster side of some of the runt-herds, not fully decided on how just yet.
YAY dalorks, they will look epic when they're done, just like the rest of you're stuff, the TV head ork looks great aswell, one can only wonder what he's watching.
btw if you play a game of 40k please put a batrep up, it would be nice to see what they do on the tabletop
moonshine - I think there may be a lot of work to get those particular dalorks to work As to a batrep, that's pretty unlikely as I haven't played since RT days
MajorTom - Why thank you sir! I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with the stormraven.
CK - Thanks. I'm not sure of the show yet, but I can promise it won't be a 'reality' TV show
weety - Hmm, that's an idea. Tricky to get right I'd imagine Ideas for the scren at the moment are - just a big lens, a screen with an image of an eye on it, a cardiograph type affair,and now a staticy smiley.
Hadouken - It's on the list now
neil - A retro cookie for you, Dr Theolopolis was the basis there
weety - OK Buck.
Now off to the posties to get Sage's guy and weety's cars off to them. I do have some doors and a bonnet for the truck, but can't place them at the moment, no idea where they got thrown when I flooded, I'll send them on if I come across them, also I threw a few lego wheels of approx the right size in the mix.
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4The GreaterGood - That would indeed be awesome, just don't think I could pull off a worthy representation of Fonzy at that size
Zeke - Well, looks like I might have to do something with the dalorks then The models are from Media Collectibles, got a resin Emperor Dalek head and a white metal normal head, and a Hoverbout - some kind of hovering disc transport thigy that I don't really recall from the show.
The mechanicus guy looks fantastic! Have you decided on another arm for him yet? And I think the screen should have an imperial guardsman or something on it - he's trying to blend in!
In terms of the post thing, my internet connection is really dodgy, so I've learnt to hit CTRL-A and CTRL-C before I post - lost way too many wordy posts that way!
Scarper - Thanks. Nothing in the pipeline yet for him, although it won't be a flesh arm as I've already started on the face, absolutely no idea why I started painting him mid-build The guardsman is a cool idea, I'll keep it in mind if I get round to Kommandos. I always seem to forget to save my text, probably because I find the connection always drops whilst I'm flicking between gallery and reply, and so I need to paste the text elsewhere as the clipboard is having pic info put in it. And I'm too lazy to bother half the time ( like just now, the first time I tried writing this )
Big Mekk Dattrukk - Cool, if you do find yourself in a cranially-challenged state due to catastrophic cephalic combustion please feel free to drop by the workshop. Upzag & Grimsnik will be only too happy to help you find the right Gummidge for you.
weety - but I did forget to put in a mug order, so I'll PM you.
And now the star attraction, a finished mini. Now don't get too excited, you've seen it before, but now it has a shrubbery, err, sorry, wrong meeting, it now has a base.
Again, I'm pleased with how the chipping came out, slightly different technique this time, sponged on the bleached bone, then hand painted the granite. Went for a more reddy look to the building, wanted a break from the usual grey, but hadn't considered it was having a red mini plonked on top - not such a great combo. I may still go back and add some little details like graffiti and a bit of litter by the 'shelter'.
Nothing to do with cyborks, but I received my late christmas present to myself the other day, and I may as well show it here as It'll be an age till I start work on it, and Gork knows how long till I feel I can attempt to do a paint-job that will do it justice
A cowgirl on a dinosaur, how could I resist? Beautiful model, lovely detail, from Studio McVey.
Plus I got another of their pieces for possible use in an inquisitorial/rogue trader retinue (with guys for scale reference)
Omg those Mkvey models are sublime....so sexy in a cast resin type of way. Thank you for that cookie i alway wanted to bite marios head off ;-)
your hover guy as great attention to detail , i like the bits on the floor of the building mate , nice touch. I will have to learn how to do this weathing metal rusty melarky thingymibob technique. Every time i see it i think mmm ..
Good grief their are some brilliantly crazed conversions here. Really liking the speedster Ork Dragsta made from the Tau bitz reminds me of the old mekboy speedstas.
neil - the details on the base are a couple of bits from the GW basing kit, no big effort on my part
Llamahead - Thank you kindly If any of the pieces remind you of some of the old-skool stuff then I'm a happy camper
c0un7 - Good to know I'm keeping the standards up
CK - Thanks. I gave the building a very light dusting of grey when I realised, but just for a change it looks worse in rl than in the pics. I briefly contemplated swapping this kopta for the landspeeda one, but then realised that it was even closer in tone to the building, so I left it. I don't think it's totally ruined it, but I should really have thought about it a bit more first. And the resin lovelies come from Studio McVey, limited edition resins so a bit pricey, but I couldn't resist.
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CK - Thanks. I gave the building a very light dusting of grey when I realised, but just for a change it looks worse in rl than in the pics. I briefly contemplated swapping this kopta for the landspeeda one, but then realised that it was even closer in tone to the building, so I left it. I don't think it's totally ruined it, but I should really have thought about it a bit more first. And the resin lovelies come from Studio McVey, limited edition resins so a bit pricey, but I couldn't resist.
neil - nope, it had tubs of resin pieces like the water bottle and shell casings, some different sized slate and a small etched brass sprue. They did a 40k and a WFB version, no idea if it's still being produced.
moonshine - obviously one of the episodes I've missed
CK - no problem
Been a bit windy this last week so not as much painting as I wanted to do. Also seem to have lost the box I was looking for with some doors and bonnets for weety. Which just so happened to be the box most of my ork sprues got clipped into. Frustrated? Oh no
So a quick glane at the 'ard boy with big shoota.
Was originally going to get a drum magazine, but tried that one and liked the look of it.
Put some base colours on the dread-trike.
And started on another buggy.
Haven't yet decided between a valk rocket pod or a home-grown multi-launcher.
Mmm Monkey is funky and thats no lie!
Ard boy with big shoota is painted nicel was that a transmetropolitan look with those glasses ? that turqoise is an unusual colour choice , reminds me of old hospitals!
The dread trike is great , it should have drivers named rhubarb and custard.
And wow thats a really good custom build buggy , love the details on the dash.
so is there anychance of getting a shot of all your cyborks together yet?
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Been a bit windy this last week so not as much painting as I wanted to do. Also seem to have lost the box I was looking for with some doors and bonnets for weety. Which just so happened to be the box most of my ork sprues got clipped into. Frustrated? Oh no
So a quick glane at the 'ard boy with big shoota.
Monkeytroll, you just quenched my thirst with Awesome-Sauce! That guy totally rules.
CK - no hard-wiring here, he's committed to a straight course now Well, I say no hard-wiring, his leg may be, but the steering's done the old-skool way in this buggy. Or was anyway. I'm thinking he may have a socket on his hip that plugs into the buggy, and he has his bionik leg in a little box next to him.
neil - Spider Jerusalork! Just imagine a grot on the loose with a bowel disrupter Although I obviously kept thinking Spider, Lord Kaesar has it right with having 3D spex "so's I can sees stuff in 3D innit".
LK - You have the right of it sirrah. It's an affection I think a lot of the boyz will have. Although at least one will get little black glasses as the head reminds me of Ozzy.
Moltar - Thanks, glad to be of service in these dry times
Scarper - Cheers, felt I needed a few more 'almost fixed' items about.
GMS nob for an00bis :
Needs a bionik eye to match the boss-icon and some glyph plates down the pole and some wires and gubbins on the back. The weapons are magnetised, as is the torso, but shh, that last bit's a secret
I must admit i will steal the rino doors as the grills but if you need some other grills i recomend the mesh(?) that covers the speakears worrks right its just a little bit harder ti cut ....
wyrd boy - that's actually the engine cover (?) from the old leman russ kit, before it was all one piece. Good pair of clippers needed for speaker mesh, bit sturdier than aluminium mesh.
CK - switched the single klaw with a buzz-saw part from one of the kan arms, space-puppy chain-swords for the double-klaws. I've opened one up further than the other, still need to sort a hinge-gubbins at the ends of the swords.
One more boy finished
That's 4 boyz totally* finished, 5 if you count the tankbusta as a rokkit launcher boy Half-way to a legal unit There's at least a dozen STILL awaiting their final detailing.
* looking at the pics I reckon the skin could do with another round of highlighting and some colour on the lip and nose.
In other news :
Sharks with friggin' laser guns on their friggin' heads.
fricking sharks with their fricking lasguns!
The Ork looks cool but that tankbuster reminds me of the cattle gun from no country for old men ...ughh shudder.
Thanks for the betters pics, that's definitely getting looted if I can get hold of the right bitz - and a mini that needs a PK. The shark is.. brilliant. Nice find
Moltar - well, if you skip back to page 1 or 2 you'll see them in a state not much different to their current progress, maybe a touch of red missing
neil - That's only a slugga he's got there, my post wasn't that clear (as per), but I hadn't made that connection. I wish I had, might have used it elsewhere if I had A few Coen inspired Orks would be no bad thing
CK - no probs. Thanks.
graven/wyrd boy - it surely is one I'd been thinking of doing something Space Shark related with it, but then weety went and mentioned those frikkin' sharks and suddenly everything became clear. Tab clear.
Have now found the box with orky bits in. Yay! It was in a box I hadn't checked because I KNEW what was in it A nice bonus because I suddenly realised that said known item suddenly transformed into a battlewagon in my head I've started clipping and a bit of gluing already, but I'll withold pictures until there's something a bit more substantial than the footprint to show
neil - well I reckon I'll have to do something similar now, just the one though I was thinking more a selection of their films, a dude ork with a bowling ball would be pretty cool
Llamahead - Kodoss & Kang from the Simpsons? Which one reminds you of them? Or Krang from TMNT? (In which case I don't know who kodoss is )
Ramos - Guess you found the answer then
So, busy looking for bits for the battle wagon, but brightened the dread trike up a bit. Then battered it a bit.
Plenty of work to go still.
And finished a few more servo-grots (not sure you'll see much different from the last time you saw them though)
They may get a bit more detailing later, but they're done for now, bar sealing.
Hehehe, those grots are kind of cute, in a "could easily blow your head off" sort of way. I'm liking the bike a lot - are those dreadnought parts masquerading as wheelguards? Or some kind of tau gubbins? I'm always so impressed with how many parts from different kits you can manage to squeeze into a model...
Well the grots are as scarper says still so very cute! nice shiny shoulderpad btw i cant really make out the guy on the left that well... would qiute like to see some more of that one , looks different. and the trike is just too cool for words.
CK - Thanks! I said I knew what I was doing with the grot-copter, at the moment it looks no different to the last shot (except it has glue instead of blu-tac) Should be up later I expect - been working today and I can rarely be bothered to do anything but stay in after a 6-day week. On the trike I used bleached bone for the initial sponge weathering on the red and yellow this time, should have stuck with orange on the red I think. And didn't do a great job with the placement either. It looks better in rl (all my recent shots have been taken at night under electric lighting (daylight bulbs though) and been auto-adjusted) but not great, I'll just mark it down as another learning experience as I don't want to re-do the red now.
Scarper - Cheers, yeah the front of the trike is from a ven dread. Hey, that's what bits are for isn't it?
neil - Thanking you, I'll try for some better shots tomorrow A bit of a cheat on the shiny shoulder-pad, most of that mini is the original paint-job from back in the 80's, nice shiny enamels
Well after checking how many pennies I still had in the bank mid-month I decided I could afford a few more pieces (I swear I thought this orky business was going to involve little layout on my behalf when I first started it - no financial willpower whatsoever I'm afraid). Got a few bits I was after (grot heads and rokkit bits), had a quick browse on maxmini and discovered ALL their kromlech range was out of stock :( So blew a wodge on forgeworlsd instead (yep, that's keeping it cheap ) Nob bikers being the main expense, hoping to get lots of interesting bits there And still waiting for the bits I ordered from Ramshackle Games at the end of Jan - still processing the order 2 weeks later.
That's it, alll done, no pics till later, move along now.
Well, yeah that about sums up my general attitude towards money, but I still get a twinge when I spend chunks of cash on adding more models to a huge pile of unfinished/untouched stuff
And anyway, you're just trying to encourage me to blow wads on some ceramics aren't you
Well, against my better judgement I decided on a couple of group shots for those of you who keep bringing them up
All the finished guys -
So, 2 'koptas and a dredd, no other complete units yet. Although there is still spider-grot waiting to have his legs put back on after his nasty fall during sealing, which would make 10 grots and a squig-hound, still lacking a runtherd though. Five boyz, though technically one of those is a tankbusta. Three tekkies, all looking for meks to follow, a painboy and his orderly, plus an attack squig looking for...well food .
And then the finished guys with the semi-painted guys
15 slugga-boyz and a nob. Another four servo-grots joined the rabble, so now they're missing two runtherds Four tankbustas, two with boom-spears (tank-hamma). Three burna-boyz, with 2 meks tagging along to see what they can salvage. Solitary 'ard-boy and Orkus Mekanikus (Flash-git). A riderless trike, a cyboar with rider and one gone rogue. Bad Dok Grimsnik and his 'shroom patch. One buggy and another 2 'koptas.
Plus about 5 guys who are just black with first layer of green on, and about 15-16 models in various states of construction, a few more if you count some of the stuff that's purely blu-tac'd at the moment.
Now I'd best get on and finish some of those guys off, or make some more, possibly go worship at the twin altars of toaster and kettle first though.
Thanks for the group shot , i can better get a sense of style and where you are going with these crazy creations now, i think i must have missed the dread conversion first time round. your basing is nicely ruined. and i can tell now that the only unifying colour is green , maybe a little red, this reminds me of the time when Space orks were not all aligned to one of the main clans , well at least not visually anyhow.
you can really tell that each ork is an individual that has a strory behind it. it really really is quite a shame you dont game , because these guys would look great on some top class scenery againts some random enemy.
Looking good, especially with all the half-finished ones in there as well.
CK - Thanks! I said I knew what I was doing with the grot-copter, at the moment it looks no different to the last shot (except it has glue instead of blu-tac) Should be up later I expect - been working today and I can rarely be bothered to do anything but stay in after a 6-day week. On the trike I used bleached bone for the initial sponge weathering on the red and yellow this time, should have stuck with orange on the red I think. And didn't do a great job with the placement either. It looks better in rl (all my recent shots have been taken at night under electric lighting (daylight bulbs though) and been auto-adjusted) but not great, I'll just mark it down as another learning experience as I don't want to re-do the red now.
6-day week? Yeah, I can imagine you need some rest then... I agree that the bleached bone is a bit harsh on the bike, but it looks great on the yellow!
Thanks guys! Shame there's not a few more in the finished section, but there we go. It's also telling that many of the pip ones are not far progressed from shots in the first couple of pages of this blog. Of course, now I've shown you more paint than you've seen on an entire page of this thread in just one post I'll have to compensate by concentrating on the modelling
So then, did someone mention grot-koptas?
I have a place for them now Stormboyz My first thought on stormboyz was mounting them all as torsos on tau drones, then I decided that was a bit too uniform for my liking. Aftre a period of no stormboyz, came the idea of jet-propelled pogo-sticks, which I was still considering until I realised the grotkopta fit the bill. I can get a bit more variety out of the stealth-suits than the drones, think the nob may be based on the earlier concept for the disc based bionikopta, swap out the ork for the grot console nose from the stormboy kit. First guy still needs something to represent a choppa, both need stikk-bomms.
Looking great! The Tau stealth suits have so many uses, GW must be wondering why they're selling when the rest of the Tau remain dead weight . For stick bombs, loot the BW ones or maybe toss on some IG grenade packs? Any IG player should have plenty left over.
Ork is looking great as well. Considering the green on the PK, I assume you're going for a verdigris effect?
Nice grot copters , they dual blade sycamore custom one is my fave, where does that top bolt come from? and are the blades plasticard? and good choice for the edge highlighting on the nob , i like the turquise you have started to use. i think its fast becoming my favorite colour..just need some lizard men or aztec warriors now so i can use it
Grot copters are, once again, adorable. I'm a big fan of the sycamore chopper too - is that the tip of one of the old IG tank wheel spacers on top of it? The group shot looks ace
Arakasi - Yeah, this time cute was definitely on the agenda
Gits - Thanks man, the shark seems popular with several peeps, so keep an eye out for more on their way (Obviously they'll be taking their time coming)
CK - Thanks. The suit was just about to become an 'ard boy when I twisted it again and... IG grenades, stikk-bombs from the stoemboyz, maybe even a stick of dynamite or two, I fully expect a mixture there. As to the PK colours, no actually, that will be the base for a pale greeny-blue. Or at least, that's the plan at present. I decided to switch from the yellow that piece was going to be as I'd used yellow for highlighting the rest of the PK, and wanted a diferent contrast in there, felt a pale blue or green might work in it's place. The pic in my head looks good, we'll see how the RL version turns out.
neil - the blades are spares from some of my fleet of small r/c copters (Always a chance you'll see one with a grot on someday) Vile green is the paint.
Scarper - Cheers mate. Close, but I believe it's a hubcap from a beakie's bike
Got my FW goodies today - Yay! Ordered on Sat, received on Tue, think that's a record for any FW/GW stuff I've ordered. So probably no work tonight as I plan what to do with the lovely looking nob biker bits, and peruse IA8. I want to have a look at the mek junker as I think the BW thingy I've started may well become one of those.
Llama - Dik and Muttley are soley booked for appearances in da waaagh-ky races, well they may have occasional guest spots in this blog, but they won't be joining Grimsnik and Upzag. I'm still not sure which guy reminds you of Kang though.
PDH - Thank you, always glad to bring a smile into someone's day
weety - Careful, you'll get them blushing again There's legs from an imperial robot and a dread in there, forget where the tin-body came from, some random gubbinz.
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CK - Thanks. The suit was just about to become an 'ard boy when I twisted it again and... IG grenades, stikk-bombs from the stoemboyz, maybe even a stick of dynamite or two, I fully expect a mixture there. As to the PK colours, no actually, that will be the base for a pale greeny-blue. Or at least, that's the plan at present. I decided to switch from the yellow that piece was going to be as I'd used yellow for highlighting the rest of the PK, and wanted a diferent contrast in there, felt a pale blue or green might work in it's place. The pic in my head looks good, we'll see how the RL version turns out.
Interesting; curious to see what you'll come up with
NecronBender - Thanks, as CK said, those are very useful kits
Well CK, not sure about it myself now, didn't turn out as pale as I envisaged it (my fault there, should have started a bit lighter I think), was originally going to keep the klaw in fairly good nick, but maybe I'll chip it up a bit, see how it looks then.
As mentioned in the GMS thread, this was really just an excuse to put something in my new lightbox - £11 off e-bay, not bad but the background sheets it came with are pants. Need to print up some of the ones I have in my pics folder sometime - once I get some more ink for my printer and find all the cables Also mentioned there, I'm thinking the overall figure might be too red orientated - feelings?
So, finally received my ramshackle goodies today, quality is a bit so-so, but cheap so... Also some of the parts are a bit bigger than I was expecting, got some legs which turned out to be about right for a defiler (I'm guessing) and a mono-wheel which will become part of a buggy, was holding off on some bike ideas while I waited for these track bits, but Don't think they'll work for bikes.
Also got a delivery of my favoured EMA PlasticWeld glue, which my 'lgs' (or closest thing we have to one) has been out of since befor Christmas, so that makes me happy.
So, been mainly tinkering with ideas for the BW/Junka thingummy, but a few little things to throw out there, just so it looks like I'm still doing stuff
Got a choppa for this guy now, just need a stikk-bomb launcher of some kind on the other side now.
And the other one got a lick of paint, thinking they might all end up similar black and grey, with differing colour details for each. But early days yet, may well change that.
Another slugga boy, this one hovering around, used part of a 54mm Robocop arm for his, err, arm. Plus a possible Big Mek - figure I may have several different Big Meks available, maybe a warboss, and almost certainly a Wazzdakka, mainly as I just realised a great piece for a dakka cannon
A couple of tekky ideas, one of which will be for Inmygravenimage courtesy of the GMS.
And found this the other day, was an old skiff type thing(originally a snotling pump wagon) for the snotling part of my greensteela cult back in the day, used to have a couple of floats underneath, and had been re-painted at least once.
Oh yeah, and not sure what these guys think they might be
And I certainly have not been looking for shark pieces on the internet, not me Have a vague plan that they might become counts as grots later - there could be an excuse for that
Love the "Mars Pattern" orks! All hail the Orknissia!
I wouldn't worry about that first ork... he still looks great even if he isn't exactly what you wanted. And if you keep him he'll serve as a reference point for your later work.
Looking ace! It's great to see more painted stuff from you I don't think you've got anything to worry about with the painting - it's really good! I really like the boss pole - not like one I've seen before. The teeth look really good, and how on earth did you do the eye?
The paint chipping is really well done. Have you considered rusting it up a bit though? Purely personal preference, of course, but everything seems orkier if it's too rusty to possibly work!
The shark torpedo thing is amazing - where did you get that end piece?! As always, really fun conversions, must look fantastic together.
Gits - Thanks, don't plan on keeping him though, he's a GMS nob for an00bis Which is why I worry a bit more about the paint scheme
Scarper - Cheers! The eye is just two slices of plastic tubing with a blob of GS in the middle, nothing incredible I'm pleased with the chipping, been practising variations on that on the last few orkses to see paint, not sure on how rusty it'll get on this one, was thinking he might be a bit cleaner than some of the others, but he's a long way from finished yet. That robo-shark head is from a stormboy rokkit pack, there's loads of cool goodies on those sprues.
Lookign great monkeytroll. The black and red pops nicely on the koptagrot. As for the nob: I'd consider changing the colour of his iron gob so the eye is drawn more towards the face. some lightly coloured camo maybe? As for the green: put on some Tau or Eldar markings and claim it's a looted bit
Big update ! i was gonna post last night but i was on the ps3 , and typing on that thing is a chore, i would still be writing now, flipside is it has a spell checker , so at least my grammar would be correct
Well the Nob for annobis is really nice , i see what you mean about the red, it would be a shame to paint over any of that nice orange edge highlighting though. The only place i would consider changing ( and the colour would have to be blue imho) is the raider sponsons or roof , and the forearm of the bionic left side .
The black grey red for the grot copters is quite agressive and dramatic. i cant help thinking if they were painted blue and white like the clouds no one would see them when they attacked
loving the roborkcop hover guy , " Your move creep "
Big mek looks nice as well , but you need to add a decapitated unicorn for his base Btw whats a wazzdakka
Tekkie guys are cute well the right hand one , the left hand guy is just scary. and again my lack of orky language is upseting me , "ingraveimage gms"
the skiff / raft is promising , i can see plenty of minigrots on that thing , and i dont know why iam suprised to hear that you had a greensteela cult " groan "
Fricking sharks , are giving me a grimdark kookie idea
CK - Cheers! I'm quite liking the look of the grot-kopta, think if I do a blue or green version it might be a bit 'AutoMan'ish, but hey (that's probably a fairly obscure reference, but maybe not considering the target audience ). As to the iron gob, I can see what you're saying but the red jaw is one of the few touchstones I want to keep throught the force - obviously this one could be different as it's going to a new home but .... Hmm, the tau/eldar angle may e of use, maybe I'll use a similar colour on some of the weapon options.
weety - They're nice, simple and fun. There will be more That's actually a piece of straw around a random piece of plastic, not sure what I was aiming for with it, guessing I just wanted something other than spiky bitz to make it look more spacey
Arakasi - Thanks, I keep changing my mind now, guess I'll paint up some of the weapon options and see how I feel then
neil - Big in size, but cunningly hiding very little actual content Maybe I did get something from all those English essays I had to do in school Have you not tried connecting your keyboard to the PS, much easier than using the onscreen keyboard. And Dakka is supposed to have a spellchecker - I only get it when posting at work though, not sure how to get it up. I think my real issue with the colour scheme is it's not how I originally envisaged it, that had more yellows along with the red and blue. The sponsons are magnetised for the weapon options, so generally won't be seen (but only generally if all comes together as I wish ) These grots aren't as sneaky as some, they like to be seen in their meknificent flying machines. Wazzdakka is a bike lovin' mek-type for HQ, rides a big feth-off bike with a BIG gun. Can't imagine what I find attractive about that idea. GMS = Great Marine Swap (http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/305404.page) Y'all should check it out y'hear. inmygravenimage is the guy whose getting one of those tekkies in exchange for one of his Mental Leeshun dudes.
TBH it was actually a real mish-mash genestealer cult with a few greensteela components - old enough that I entered it in the GD back when you took entries to your local GW and armies were a valid entry(got a lot of remarks from the staff at the Cambridge one but wasn't GD quality by a long shot, and had too much variation in the colour scheme too - I felt that colours would get changed up a lot due to all the genetic messing around that was going on - orks, ogryns, humans, maybe even an eldar.
CK - Cheers! I'm quite liking the look of the grot-kopta, think if I do a blue or green version it might be a bit 'AutoMan'ish, but hey (that's probably a fairly obscure reference, but maybe not considering the target audience )
tadaa!
As to the iron gob, I can see what you're saying but the red jaw is one of the few touchstones I want to keep throught the force - obviously this one could be different as it's going to a new home
Then change the other reds . IMO, if you just changed the red on the banner, it would fix most of the problem. As always though: your mini, your call!
Oh man, even cheesier than I remember, no wonder it didn't last long I'd forgotten the sparkles in the suit too. Nice to see Manimal up there though
Hate to say it CK, but the red gob on the boss-pole stays for the same reason I'm really not just trying to shoot down your comments, honestly. I'll wait till I have some weapons painted up (must avoid red on the flamer) then see if I still think it needs changing. I think if anything does change, it'll be round the track unit area, I 'm fine with the torso when it's seperate, it's just when the 2 parts come together. We'll see...
So, not a lot done recently, long hours and long weeks at work. The nob for an00bis looks Ok with different colours on the weapons so I'll crack on with that later. Finally sorted out the plan for the junka/battlewagon.
Cockpit to go on the centre section of the upside down tank hull. Front turret/sponson is for wrecking ball/grabbing claw - some kind of electro-magnet probably, there'll be a little tow-chain crane up the back. The high turret will be for SAG/big zappa, possibly some BW options too. The mount in front of that is for a pintle-mounted weapon, also one on top of the cockpit, third maybe at the prow. Drive fans need to be higher, contemplating switching to a double stack of fans, maybe some steering fans/props/jets on outriggers by the nose. Also needs a lot of filling, some areas of scientifik servo-grot interest, and more wires.
Nice piece of work! I really like the cobbled together look. I don' t know if it needs a cockpit in the centre though, the off centre cabin looks pretty nice as is. Also, it needs a plank with sharks/squigs swimming nearby :p
CK - Glad you approve That cobbled together look was a real pain, another joyous partially backward build that I seem to be partial to lately. I blame long hours for everything (including any poor grammar and convoluted sentences) I kept fiddling with little pieces of the deck only to realise that I needed to get 3 more pieces under the bit I've just been making damn sure isn't moving Still a few more pieces to add, but it spent ages as just the air-cushion whilst I tried to figure out how the rest would work, so I'm happy it's moved on.
The cockpit won't be on the centre-line, that tank hull is off-set to the right of the craft. It should be a fairly simple, open layout, I'm thinking 2, maybe 3, servo-grots manically pulling levers. Riggers in various spots, and some sort of 'work-bech' for the mek. Maybe some more overhanging deck pieces, possibly some armour plates hanging below them to help protect the cushion.
Hmm, how about a giant pair of buzz-saws in a pincer formation for a deff-rolla Almost went for a ram, but couldn't see a good way to make it removable, and claws/wrecking balls are far more mekky anyway
I did say those sharks may be appearing as grots
samwellfrm - Thank you, can't help but class involuntary exclamations as high praise And feel free to call it what you want - for me it's hovvawagon until it gets a real name.
edit: neil - snuck in whilst I apparently took 20 minutes composing 2 paragraphs (see above excuse ) Cheers man. I'm not sure they'll be hunting them at this time, but maybe later there'll be a switch of team members
monkeytroll wrote:CK - Glad you approve That cobbled together look was a real pain, another joyous partially backward build that I seem to be partial to lately. I blame long hours for everything (including any poor grammar and convoluted sentences) I kept fiddling with little pieces of the deck only to realise that I needed to get 3 more pieces under the bit I've just been making damn sure isn't moving Still a few more pieces to add, but it spent ages as just the air-cushion whilst I tried to figure out how the rest would work, so I'm happy it's moved on.
The cockpit won't be on the centre-line, that tank hull is off-set to the right of the craft. It should be a fairly simple, open layout, I'm thinking 2, maybe 3, servo-grots manically pulling levers. Riggers in various spots, and some sort of 'work-bech' for the mek. Maybe some more overhanging deck pieces, possibly some armour plates hanging below them to help protect the cushion.
Sounds promising. I know the whole grammar bit; with akid and work, I'm glad I can be a tpeace for 10 minutes strolling through dakka.... I love what you did with the aircushion, I think the time you've invested in this will have it looking great!
So went to spend a bit of time filling gaps on the hovvawagon, but played with some grots instead
Guy in the hatch still needs a mek arm resting on the edge of the hatch. One of the wires coming out the power hatch will be getting 'fixed' by another grot, as in he'll be making the connection himself (think I might have to go e-bay trawling for some more old snotlings). Just to give a nice choice to the guy reaching out for the hammer (like a monkey getting his hand caught in a jar of peanuts) there'll be a few more tools laying around. Big shoota & gunna are just placeholders.
He's waiting on a bionik arm so that he can grasp one of the wires, still undecided as to whether he's hanging on a chain or a handhold (of which I plan to have several scattered about).
'Crane' at the front will be getting a different structure, one at the back will be getting a better mount than a blob of blu-tac The grotzooka thingy is just a place-holder for the SAG, although my current plan does incorporate the grotzooka. Want to extend the front left decking a bit too at the moment, although that keeps varying The back was going to get fuel drums added, possibly another, more obvious rocket exhaust. But I keep coming back to an idea revolving around there being a little platform out the back, with a couple of grots just chilling back there. Maybe an open door showing some sort of grot bar in that area under there. Was planning a grot with a secret stash of fungus brew, but that could get put on the 'viewing platform'. It's just the idea of the servo-grots having their own little den, kicking back and taking turns to scurry around 'outside' to keep up the pretence they're working really hard.
There'll be a second level to the back part, just mesh floor about the height of the rear part of the gun turret, with the fan unit being higher, this can allow for some more grot goodness inbetween the 'floors'.
Thanks guys. Not much done recently, certainly nothing worth showing. Been feeling a bit lacklustre on the modelling front recently, thought I'd try a few other projects other than orks but none of them really caught me either so a few days playing video games, head over friends for the weekend and hopefully be feeling good to go after
In the meantime the results of my snotling trawl :
With a bit of bionikization they should be causing havoc all over the place Also got some cool old-skool ork bitz including a very cool bad dok, with coat and a hand hanging out his pocket
Good Grief Monkeytroll! I lose track of this thread for a month or so, and all sorts of awesome explodes! The last time I looked at this thread, you were still messing around with that "Grot-sludge in a bottle" thing, what ever happened to that? Love the Hoverwagon! And did I miss it or are you still working on TV head? Sorry if you have already mentioned these topics, I am at work and only have time to zip through and look at the pics! Love what you got going here! Keep it up!
I'll actually subscribe this time and tune in more often!
Santo - Thank you sir. Your work on the skave has been part of the motivation behind using GS a bit more.
RSJake - I think you lost track of time too, the sludge affiar was back in Aug/Sep I believe Although TV head was early this year I think Grot-in-a-bottle is still lying around somewhere, awaiting a use as part of something. Hmm, maybe a dok-wagon to go with the mek-hovva?
TV head has had a first coat of green if I recall correctly. And thank you
And in a desperate bid to keep the audiences attention with no real progress to show he resorts to the lure of nostalgia Another few oldies turned up that I'd forgotten about:
A couple more grots, a metal deffkopta and Ghazghull circa '92.
(they won't look like that next time you see them )
Whatever happened to Makari....with his save he really should still be knocking about. DAMN YOU GAMES WORKSHOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Damn you Brian Nelson for not sculpting him a new!!!!!!
Cool pile of stuff you have their Monkeytroll...I hope you cut them up and do cool things with them....but leave poor Makari alone....the poor bugger has already been done over by games workshop....DAMN THEM!!!! Though in hindsight you do cool stuff to models so maybe he is in safe hands after all.
Cut up the shiny metal precious things ! +1 , Yep video games are a good cure for that dont know what to do with myself feeling .are you a pc or console man although your sig leads me to think pc
PDH - I believe he got sat on by Ghaz. That never bodes well for a little 'un.
neil - a bit of both. Been getting back into Oblivion and finally started Dead Space on the PS, and getting back into Eve on the PC. Although they've re-done the character generator and I had to re-make my avatars - I prefer the old ones.
oblivion and Eve , your brave , i guess this is all we will see of you now , better make the most of it and get all my witty oneliners in this sentance. .........................are feth , ,the gods are surely laughing at my incompetance as for dead space .. is it the 1st or second? i finished up the 1st and i am putting off getting the new one untill i finish new vegas and my killzone 3 bday present , havent even started it yet bloody modeling , bah!
Had to play oblivion on the ps or I wouldn't get anywhere, I have Morrowind on the PC and the mods folder is WAY larger than the original game, I've been playing on and off for years and hardly touched the main quest To be fair not got very far in Oblivion either, I like them as I can just wander off and do my own thing. Same for Eve, been playing for about 4-5 years now, but not very active past year or so. Won't be getting back into it in the same way, used to get home from work, log in before getting my shoes off and logging out to go to bed And a quick look before work too. Wasn't addicted in the slightest, oh no As to Dead Space, it's the first one, can't afford new games, just pick up used ones
And I was actually messing about with models today rather than gaming. No greenskins, but may post some progress elsewhere later.
weetyskemian44 - I thought I was living in the past with my Sega Mega Drive!
monkeytroll - Man that really sucks. For something that was incredibly lucky being sat on by an Ork Warlord, who gives Ogryns a size complex, is incredibly unlucky. I hope they retcon that and bring him back to life for the next codex. In fact I am going to start a petition and then send it to GW....if everyone wants him back.... GW will listen, give him must have rules, bung him in the Ghaz box and then charge an extra £10 for it all. WOW that would make them £30.50....ouch.
Hey spend more than a few hours in the company of Ghaz and chances are something bad is going to happen to you.
Ahh, the good old Master System. Memories of sleep-overs spent playing Alex Kidd in Wonder Land, Mickey's Magical Adventure (possibly wasn't Magical, memories a little hazy) and of course that amphetamine junky of a hedgehog.
Of course, they weren't as good as the times we used to have when we'd kick back after a nasty raid by plugging the old Okari 2600 into the navigation system for a quick blast of Pong, used to drive the navigator crazy.
Aha classic pong , ! good job monkey , dont suppose you have the light gun atachment do you? and is that the amiga cd 32 i see , so thats where it went !
Automatically Appended Next Post: btw the grot on the left is cheating ;-)
neil - I'm afraid the big mek's took the light gun away to put in the Kustom Mega Blaster AMiga CD, well now, that might not get painted up as a screen after all maybe that could be the sound system, the single lever that's out of shot being all the controls that are needed - Stop, Go, No Go Faster. well technically they're both cheating, one isn't holding his controller and neither actually has their controller connected
graven - A bit of silliness here and there never hurt anyone*. Helps to keep the creative juices flowing to be silly occasionally, honest, read it in a journal or summat.
sphynx - Glad to add a little laughter to your journey
Alex the kid was such a little ****. I could never get past that last castle. Sonic on the other hand was shear genius and I could even get all the chaos emeralds.
Got an emulator on a memory stick with like thousands of games, but they are all utter pants, mostly. And I prefer to use computers for a higher purpose these days (watching people fall down).
I love your grots playing pong they are a laugh riot. And of course you can't just have one shark with a frikkin lazer you have to have a whole shoal.
You are a genius at sticking tiny things together to make other tiny things - I mean how the hell did you make the joysticks? Have you got calipers for fingers? Are you Edward tweezer-hands?
you know i think you should paint the hover wagon a nice shade of orange, brown and cream 70s style to match that retro feel , with go faster stripes to match. alex kidd was awesome but nothing beats the feel of jumping a grave stone with a lance in one hand , before turning into a big pile pile of bones ;-)
That HovvaWagon sure is an interesting project, looks great! Love the richness of details, my favorite being the grots playing Pong (that's just brilliant!)!
schank - Monkeytroll : Making evil geniuses plans a reality since 1971
weety - Yeah, I've got several emulators of different systems, but it can be a slog fiding the gems that are still playable, and those I mainly play on PSP. I'd rather have the actual old sytems for the whole nostalgia thing, but know I haven't got anywhere to keep them, have an old Jaguar and a couple of Lynxes sitting in my folk's garage as is, although I'd probably still pick up a Vectrex if I stumbled on one at theright price And I'd still love to have an original arcade Space Harrier.
Still debating on having a sharktopus to lead the SWFLOTFHs.
Damn, you found my secret out, now'll I'll have to despatch the grot-kopta's to keep you quiet. Actually the real issue with the joystick was getting the mekka-dendrits to hold it reasonably well. That was a right royal pain, and the reason the mono-wheeled guy isn't actually holding his. He'll be getting a bionik arm instead now.
neil - don't forget the running around in your heart-covered boxers. I have actually been contemplating a maroon/cream scheme, reminiscent of classic NES stylings But it's a bit too ramshackle to hold down to something like that I think, so idea stored for later use
weety - that's just because grave-hopping is a local pastime down your neck of the woods
Arakasi - That's what I think he's referring to
c0un7 - Thanks, I think adding little touches of servo-grot mischief is going to keep me occupied for a while
CK- Old-skool gaming all the way, be it table-top, pen and paper or video based
Hehe "servo-grot mischief" sounds wonderful, I will follow this project with great interest!
And that's one thing that I love about Orc's, there is so many crazy ideas you can pull off without having to worry about it being out of character or the like. And that's also what I admire about your project, its a seemingly endless flow of pure creativity and dedication and that it's more to it than what immediately meets the eye.
Now I wouldn't trade my space puppies for anything but when seeing work like yours I often start thinking "hmmm, maybe a small 1000p force then..." knowing that I would never have the time or energy to take the work to the lever I would wish to. Not in the near future anyway.
My god I never get board looking at your work. Just went threw all 19 pages. U had to have been a Big Mek in a past life. But it was very inspiring so I might have an idea or 2 from it. And just to let you know that rokkit boy you traded me. Which I love took out a land raider the other day. Made a Big Badda Boom!
c0un7 - Hah, that is how I first thought of these guys But having found the green goodness I've become addicted, as you say the possibilities are endless...
schank - Thanks man, that pleases me no end Having gone through the whole blog in one go means that you're now horribly aware of just how slow my progress is, might have to send some grot-kopta's your way too now Glad to inspire, you may well see an axe-drill pop up here someday And good to hear one of my guys actually got to see some action, and did something too.
And so a measly selection of picss that I'll somehow try and tease into looking like an update..
Out of the two tekkies vying for the chance to go spread the word of GorkaMekka to their brothers in Da Mental Leejun the wheeled contender sadly lost his place due to his basic inability to wear a looted beaky-mek's shoulder pad. However just as he was being returnrd to da surjary for re-fitting the dok's produced another contender, plus whispered murmurings of another...
The walker-tekky has tied his pad around his shoulder and sports a knock-off tech-marine pack, his missing arm will probably be organic, possibly holding an orky auspex. Not sure about the arm on the cherry-pikka grot, they'll probably both be bionik. Actually the pad will probably get 2-3 mekka-dendrits waving from it, and some kind of measuring device or clamp on the other, want to avoid metal bits for that as I think it'll tip with any weight on that side Have an idea for a hovering/flying type tekky that might try and get a secondment too, we'll see...
Finally got around to making up a stikk-bomm launcher for a grotkopta, added a fuel tank for the rokkits too.
Realised earlier that I still need to gs the back of the pilot's heads, no doubt stick a bit of wiring in too.
Ahh, ain't he sweet, with a teeny cute little flamer, hardly even a tabac-stick lighter.
Of course, he uses that lighter in conjunction with this
Rokkit launcer for the jeep-type buggy. Decided the driver will be holding the gear-stick up in his other arm.
Hmm, don't think I can drag it out any longer. Nope that's about it.
Great stuff Monkey , Its not that you were not a Big mek in a former life , its that you patently are a big mek in this life.
The walker guy has the best face , love the fact he is pointing to his mate , saying ha i have two arms and you have one! who inccidntly looks like he is pinting a miniature or has just spotted a carpet monster long lost bit ! fuel tank is a nice touch matey , i think the hole in his head is their for a reason , who would fly one of those things with a full noggin!
stick launcher is a touch of genious that we expect from you mate, and the details on the rockit launcher is amazing, that grot looks well chuffed with himself for getting this job .
Great work as per usual , but your details are getting even more insane :-0
Thanks guys, and as an extra bonus, something that not a cybork, but is bio-mechanical, so ...
If you've read more than a couple of my posts you've possibly noticed there's a distinct lack of speed in the way models move forward around these parts. I was idly toying with some parts that have been blu-tac'd together for ages waiting for me to either make them or put back to one side for other projects they were earmarked for.
So I stuck them together.
And then I thought about seeing if I could paint it in an hour. I know that seems fairly simple to some, but it seems impossibly short to me, even with a low detail figure I also wanted to play with inks and washes, so figured I'd limit myself to those plus white. Gave it a white undercoat and a light devlan wash as preparation. Looked at it for a while thinking of possible colour shemes, then decided against the chosen scheme as washes dry faster than inks and I needed all the advantage I could get and dropped inks from the palette Put a random hours worth of music to play and moved to the desk.
Doesn't really deserve 5 shots I know, but I got 5 decent pics so figured I use 'em all
Needs highlights and more washes, and no way could I try to do it on anything with any detail, but it was a fun little exercise. Next time I'll try 2 hours
I think it looks really good. And I'm not sure if you can build a model without some sort of mechanical alteration. I think if we knew the real you we would find out that your a mad scientist that use his hobby as a brain storming tool before he does the real experiment. I wouldn't be surprised if your had real sharks with laser beam mounted on their head. I'm thing you have your own cyber-squirrel army to.
schank23 wrote: I think if we knew the real you we would find out that your a mad scientist that use his hobby as a brain storming tool before he does the real experiment. I wouldn't be surprised if your had real sharks with laser beam mounted on their head. I'm thing you have your own cyber-squirrel army to.
Now that is something to behold. simple and beautiful to boot , the wing transition to backpack is sublime in both colour and build. Man i hate it when you say that you could spend more time painting , think of all the hours lost building
really nice build matey , reminds me of something but i havent the foggiest what? quite scary too . is this your darkside Monkeytroll
schank - Thanks man. I have a few guard who would deny that You really do need to keep your eye out for those grotkopta's now, they'll probably reach you before the cyber-pike. Yeah, well, squirrels were the closest thing to grots I could find locally. They make a real fuss wilst I'm shaving them and spraying them green.
neil - Can't really take much credit for the build, it's just a chaos pack, an alien head and a daemonette's claw. So that transition has nothing to do with me I think 1-2 hours every couple of weeks is fine. It's just a break from the real meat of the hobby I won't get addicted or anything.
It's fine. I can handle it. It's just a cold.
Darkside? Lightside? It's just shades of greyscale round here
CK - Thanks. I think if I tried to do it all this way I'd start trying to do more with it and it'd take just as long I'd need to add inks back in anyway, can't get a good green with just thraka It's fun trying to figure out the highlighting, you can shade with extra washes, but if you want to highlight and stay with just white and washes you have to figure what stage to add highlights to get covered with washes.
Hmm, that made no sense whatsoever did it? This guy got 2 washes before a very light drybrush followed by another wash. I'll probably re-do the white before another 1-2 washes on most areas.
RSJake - Actually, wasn't it San Francisco? I seem to recall a scene with the golden gate bridge, but it was an awful long time ago
Perkustin - It's a fiend-a-me-bob, late 2nd Edition D&D monster.
honest.
Hmm, it actually has no real purpose, I suppose it could be a slaneeshi version of a screamer or a fury, but I think it may end up as a pet of a slaaneshi sorceror now. Hmm, maybe I'll re-think those chaos sorceror thingies I'm doing,maybe there should be one for each major power. I was going to avoid that route, but maybe not...
'Sigh' - Do pay attention in class Perky. That bright spark weety has already discerned the nature of my tweezer fingers, and as the fell(through a hole in the roof of creation)-beast there clearly has large pointy claws it would have a hard job fiddling with little pieces of plastic. Therefore it is most self-evident that it is not my good self being portrayed thusly. Nor even my bad self.
Yep, you guessed it, another meandering ramble of replies, meaning that I have no real update for you maybe next time...
well I like that flying thing - it has paint on it! Sow how did you learn to paint so good monkey (slowly I guess). I reckon it is great and you should paint some of these sorcerers you speak of
lol, I guess it was New York after all then. How could I forget Caine and Shaft were in it as well?
And there you go neil, another good reason to put some paint on occasionally, it keeps weety happy. Funnily enough I think my painting improved a lot whilst I wasn't regularly painting. Although I painted a lot as a teen, it was all enamels and drybrushing really, a bit of ink and washing here and there maybe. Apart from a few small spots hobby work was very intermittent for many years. If you imagine how haphazardly I progress and streeeetch that out, and sloooow it down you can probably guess I didn't get much done throughout However I was still reading up on painting in mags and occasionally on-line and storing it all away somewhere., and since joining Dakka I've found that the 'regular' bouts of painting seem to be consolidating stuff I've never tried before.
What I really need to work in is curbing the massive ADD that kicks in just as I get to the final details of a model, tht happens so often it's not even funny anymore as I often have to re-touch models that have gotten themselves chipped in the years they've sat around in half-completed stages. Only to not finish them again
The sorcerors will be appearing on my chaos blog, as should this beastie really, it'll go there when I finish him off, which I'll aim to do tomorrow
xenon - snuck in there whilst I was distracted heh? Thanks dude, the sharks are grinnin'
neil101 wrote:Q the winged serpent , i command thee come back to thy monkeytroll
OMG! I know it's an old movie, but could it have really been that awful? I remeber it being so much cooler! Anyway, it did look a bit like the Biomechanical daemon flying whats-it Monkeytroll made!
Yeah, I remembered it as a dodgy B-movie, but not that dodgy. I think it may have got confused with some other movies in my head though, I thought I remembered Q as being an actual winged serpent rather than a dodgy flying lizard Certainly remember those overhead shots of people about to get plucked off buildings though
If IIRC, there are boobs shown in one or more scenes...That's probably why I thought it was a much better movie than it was! And I guess at the time that was High-Tech Special Effects, so.....
RSJ - lol, fair enough. Progress? I believe I've heard that word before, not very often in conjunction with this thread though Well, maybe a little something...
Yggs - thanks man, one more special appearance just for you
tough'n'orky - Thank you. All you need is a pile of bits and some time to play with them Orks are great for chopping up and putting back together again, it's in their DNA
So gave it another drybrush and another wash over each of the areas, then stuck some small slate pieces to a base and painted that with washes too, bit of grass and presto...
Probably put some more pics up later in my Heretical Ramblings thread, and possibly some more stuff up here later.
Or maybe, not just noticed the time, possibly spent a bit longer on Eve than I thought
I see the skin looks a bit lighter and did you highlight his head as it looks more like the Alien head now. the basing looks cool , i like the idea of just slate and grass , pure and simple.
Don't know how I've not been keeping up with this thread. So many nice updates! Those Pong playing grots are classic and I love the little guy with the mini flamer.
Really like that flying alien thingy, great colour scheme!
neil - well simple model, simple paint, figured might as well go three for three
jackanory - well, if you miss a few that just makes it more likely you'll see some progress as you catch up Thanks, and thanks!
lindsay40k - Thank you, glad it caught your eye. Welcome aboard, hope you find something you like.
And so on to something actually belonging to the cyborks, seeing as this is a blog for them and all that Started laying some colour on the jeep-style buggy, and started weathering parts of it.
Little Wurtburna figured he needed some kind of safety net to help keep him in the jeep, and after playing about with some handholds and a bungee cord he decided he'd be traditional and stick some wire mesh around his rokkit enclosure.
The weathering is really nice on that buggy , but i think it could do with some rust ;-) , only kidding some nice , muddy wheels wouldnt go amis though . maybe even a mud guard for the back wheels , although , thats probably out of the question since you started painting already , now lets see .. is this sci fi book porn , i see before me , this has to be a terran trade authority book or some other 70's sci fi art book .
schank - Thanks man. Working a lot on this style of weathering with these guys, I'm really happy with how it comes out on pale colours like yellow and green, still need to work on getting the right colours for darker tones though, red is okayish, blues are still poor. I find it really enjoyable to paint though, so all good Yep, driver is waving a gear stick and a steering wheel around, gunner is the little flamer grot a few posts above, Burnwurt (I got his name wrong previously )
RSJ - Cheers! If only I could claim that worn padding as a stroke of genius, unforunately it's merely where I'd stuck some blu-tac, so that when I sprayed there'd still be some clean plastic to stick the driver to However it does look like worn padding and I think I'll be trying that in future - when no doubt it won't look good at all
neil - There will be rust.
Rust is normally the last thing I apply. Normally Won't be much mud though as they're urban based, maybe just a smattering of gak. Decided against mud-guards when I was building, mek's don't care if the little gunner gets a bit of dirt sprayed on him Actually, still trying to decide if the engine block is going to be gleaming and spotless as a contrast to the chipped bodywork, or a solid, rusted up block. I like the idea of an ork deciding to keep the runnin's clean, something picked up from observing the 'umie meks, and the contrast should look interesting, possibly keep a pretty clean paint job on the intake too. The big pile of rusted engine is appealing because, well, because it's a big pile of rusted engine Yep, TTA Great Space Battles, I dug it out after discussing Space-Wrecks, and though it would make a suitable base
CK - Thank you sir.
Planning on giving it hub-caps from the classic old O&G shields, hopefully I've got 4 of the design I want, if not I may put a ifferent design on each wheel, or split them front and back-pairs.
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Bathroom, part of the hallway, and more importantly my workroom are all soaked. And the workroom floor was home to a lot of stuff 
), no doubt I'll be updating later to bemoan whatever else has been ruined - think the 
and that boat would be a great tv hook! 
But it will spur me on to tile the galley floor which I've been thinking about for, ohh, a while now. Even got the tiles today, and hopefully I'll prep the floor before hitting the sack.
books BOOKS thats heretical talk right there i say burn em all and lets return to a simpler and less enlightened age of ludites 
unlees they are the choose your own adventure ones where YOU are the HERO...
The ork falls to the paper and old carpet strewn floor, where you accidently stand on it , whilst trying to pick it back up. turn to page 84
) just to break up the wordy stuff. I'd much rather be konstruktin' stuff, but still not really viable with various bits boxes in various rooms/nooks/crannies/secret locations/areas of serious scientific interest.
. Just the bathroom and workroom that aren't 
A retro cookie for you, Dr Theolopolis was the basis there 
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, this has to be a terran trade authority book