Very happy that this thread won't die
Can't wait for the screamingbell

Heh let me know if you need any bits, I have a couple screaming bell bits kicking around that I'd be happy to give you (or trade for which is always lovely but not necessarily required )

Hey guys long time between updates but I do have something for you all.

The return of the Doomwheely Kopta! (third and final build)

Changes made:
- over all length reduced
- Ork rotors removed and replaced with wheels
- Enhanced both the strength tha desgin of the rotor arms
- Bulked out the main body
- Removed and reshaped much of the main arch over the pilot
- Added a mass missile system to the under carridge
- New base with a stronger arm
- New engine at the rear.


Pics...





The missile pod moves up and down

I still have a bit more trimming to do and then repainting (it'sgoing to be red) but I wanted to show you the new design which is also the final desgin for this unit and it can now be happily
laid to rest within the ranks of the Skave army.

CnC welcome as always.

Very Nice! What did you finally decide to count that as?

Excellent stuff! Love the wheel-within-wheel rotors you've gone for, has a more ratty feel than the rotors.

The silhouette looks like a demented Micky Mouse head

It's just neat looking Def Kopta the weapon layout is simply so I can use it for either a missile kopta or one with a Blasta.

More stuff Soon.


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monkeytroll wrote:Excellent stuff! Love the wheel-within-wheel rotors you've gone for, has a more ratty feel than the rotors.

As completely impossible as it would be to have that work (as a heli rotor) it does feel ratty doesn't it.


Mini update - Colour test on Clan rat.




I deliberately melted the gun barrel, wanted it to look very unsafe and well melted.

Amazing! Your models are just superb!

Nice stuff
like the missilepod

Very cool! Im glad that you went green, rather than the traditional red

There's a traditional colour for 40k rat-kin

NakedBatBoy wrote:Amazing! Your models are just superb!

Cheers matey, I'm in the proccess of casting a bunch of guns for the Clan Rats at the moment I should have the unit assembled by the end of the week where I will paint them up
ready for the next build which will be the Trukk transport a mini version of the airship.

DamienOfTheWRAAAGH wrote:Nice stuff
like the missilepod

I was very pleased with how it came together and the pod is, officially my favorite part of the model.

joshoftheforest wrote:Very cool! Im glad that you went green, rather than the traditional red

I'll still be using red on some units like the Stormvermin, mostly for easy identification on the table top but for the down trodden common rat green it is.

monkeytroll wrote:There's a traditional colour for 40k rat-kin

Fussia I beleive is the traditional colour........... joking but a lot of people that have done Skaven in 40k or WHFB often paint them Red or Grey so green seemed a nice change.

More updates soon (probably just painting ones no new builds until the clan rats are done, I forcing myself).

Ok so been a week or so and I've been concetrating on my IG a couple of other projects mostly the trukk and pimp my 40k GB comps.

but I did manage to finish 5 more Claners.





Over the next few weeks I will be aquiring some new parts and kits to continue this project so the plan is to have; soon more clanrats (which completes the original
army list of 2 troop, 1 heavy, 1 HQ, 1 Elite and 1 Fast Attack 1500 points) then onto Nobs on Warpstone bikes well more like trikes, Screaming bell and another troop and if
money and time allows I will be making a counts as Ghazkul (think thats spelt right).

Fantastic! They look incredible! I haven't been working on the Nezumi recently... but now that I have a job and a new life plan there should be updates soon!

I like the flying doomwheel, thats ingenious.

Just checking in to see what progress has been made.

All looking good here, carry on.


Oh, and bring on those warpstone trikes, oh yeah, that's what we want to see

I was thinking something like this... only with a big chunk of Warstone on the back instead of those steam pipes.



it's ramshackled enough I think.

Two rat Ogres (Nobs) and a Warplock Engineer (Pain Boy) so three bikes in total.


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Also just took a slight better pic of the dread rat with my new light box setup so it can be seen a bit clearer (now that its back fomr the local GW store display cabinet crawl).

And an extra wheel Or does that flare out more at the back than I think?

But, yeah that works for me. Clockwork, pipes, warpstone, ratties, all present and correct.


Two wheels at back or front?

monkeytroll wrote:And an extra wheel Or does that flare out more at the back than I think?

But, yeah that works for me. Clockwork, pipes, warpstone, ratties, all present and correct.


Two wheels at back or front?

At the back I think, the front wheel is hidden under all the gack at the front which makes almost look like it's only got one wheel which I like.

Ok so long time no posty, doesn't mean no worky.

I have a bike well the basis of one, I ended up going with a chopper style bike simply due to the sheer size
of the Rat Ogres. Mounting them on a short wheel base bike just made them look way to big and out of proportion.

Where to from here?

Well the base of the bike is done and I am about to make a mold of it, the idea is to make three bikes from the base
then add the details like handlebars and exhausts etc. As an after effect so each bike will be similar but
still very different to each other with one in particular having the smaller rider of the Engineer (Mad Doc) which will need
additional modding to make him fit right.

I have modded the first ogre's torso and will wait to do his legs once the bike is done.

I will upload some pics later tonight hopefully after making the two part mold for the bike itself (which still needs some filling so it's useable
in a mold).

Each bike is as wide as two SM bikes and nearly the length of a Rhino.

more to come.

I like the drawing of the bike, have you seen/considered parts from the finecast doom-flayer?

Yay!! Welcome back. Those bikes sound amazing. I'm looking forward to seeing them!

Doom flayer was the first place I looked unfortunately it's too big though I may use some of it's smaller parts on the final bikes.

As I said above I had to drop my original idea for the bike and go with a more chopper look the plain base of the bike is not that overwhelming but with the addition of the
"extras" it should come into it's own.

pics soon having trouble witht he mold :(

Ok hi guys yeah it's been ages, having some finance issues and family problems, nothing nasty and all sorted out so I can finally get back to my hobbies.
You know like drinking till a dwarf looks good, that sort of thing.

Jokes aside I have bad news for anyone hoping to see the rat orge bike any time soon. IT's TOO DAMN COSTLY! ... sorry for the caps
but it's sunk me nearly 150 in kits and I'm still having issues with the casting, so whats gonna happen here is I will make one a sinlge fella to be used
as a Warboss on a bike, then I might... MIGHT get an ork bike kit and make Mad Ratx on choppers (Mad Max pun intended).

What I have done is ordered soem new bits for the little ratty lads.

Here's a sneak at the gun from Max mini.



Nice yeah?

Anyhow I have enough of these guys coming to kit out my boyz unit which brings the 2000 point goal to a close, everything form here in will be a "Hey I flet like blowing some cash on this crazy idea" sort of thing... Kinda like my airship.

What happens when I hit the 2000 point mark, well I will be converting this thread into a general modling and converting thread (save space on the forums for guys that need it hehe).

Might call it "Santo's World" or "Don't click this thread"

In other Skavey news I have a battle coming up with a buddies Space Wolves so here's hoping I don't end up puppy chow, I'll let you know the results after the game.

This is BRILLIANT! I had a dream about doing something very much like this although I never got around to it. Seeing how well you have done it, I'm not sure i could do it justice!

Keep up the great work and thanks for filling the next 3 hours of my night trying my best to pick my jaw up off the floor!

Your most very welcome.

More rats!

These guys will be used instead of my original gun design rats as Clanrats (Shoota Boys)
Enjoy more pics to come.

thre first three so far.


Boyz test 01:


Nob test:



I'm thinking of running a tube from the gun to a warpstone orb on their belts and I'm pretty sure I'll add some extar armor scraps here and there to make them more Scifi-ish.
I haven't really done much highlighting on the nob yet as a few things came up I want to add/fix before I finalise the mini like that.

This is amazing. I have thought about doing Skaven, but I dislike Fantasy...perfect chance to get into it would be converting them to 40k. This is pretty inspirational, wish I had the creativity to do it myself. No idea where I would even start.

crazyjhl wrote:This is amazing. I have thought about doing Skaven, but I dislike Fantasy...perfect chance to get into it would be converting them to 40k. This is pretty inspirational, wish I had the creativity to do it myself. No idea where I would even start.

My list started as a dare from a mate who manages the Perth GW store then I benched the project for about 3 years, then he said you really should do it and convinced me to try and make a couple of things using some of the new plastics available to both Chaos and Ork which resulted in the first incarnation of the "Doom Wheelie Copter" and the Dread Rat.

A good place to start (unlike myself) is to nail down the list you would like to "play as" first, some good ones are:

Orks - Oddball units fit the Skaven feel quite well and some of the less functional aspects of the Orks like exploding weapons etc. add that unstable technology feel that goes hand in hand
with Skaven armies.

Dark Eldar - I've not personally investigated this army but on pretence they seem a good fit, especially from a weaponary POV.

Imperial Guard - The most common "play as list" guard have a unit for every situation although I find the structuring (platoons) to not really gel you can certainly get variety in your army with this
one.

Space Marines - People do it I've seen a couple done using this list but it feels wrong and looks wrong and in my eyes is generally wrong.

Chaos Deamons - I've not seen a list built this way but I'm sure you could, the only thing that woudl stop me, it's not so 40k and some of the units seem overly powerful for the rats.

Tyranids - Not my choice by far, however from a purely rules point of view they do work, my problem is identifying with the mini's on the board play as army's tend to at least reflect
the army which is why the majority of the units I have made have Ork based gear so they can be more recognisable on the table.

The second step again unlike myself would be to start with your basic troops get a look you enjoy and that fits your theme, that way you can scale the awesome up from there where in my case I made specialist units first then had to scale back which is a harder task.

Thirdly and very importantly AVOID the new clanrat boxes you have near zero choice in how these kits go together and they are undersized compared to other multipart plastics available to the Skaven player, your best bet is Plague Monks and Stormvermin and Gutterruners although I have personally not used runners (I wanted the robes and the armor).

Fourthly use simple conversions for weapons if you get too complicated two things happen, they become a pain to replicate and two they become to far gone from the base gun and makes it harder for players to figure out what guns are what etc. (optionally here you can buy and use 3rd party weapons which is what I have done for my clanrats).

Sweet!