Hello there campers.

Here begins a new Plog for my new Orks. Now leaving only eldar and nids out of my monstrous collection.

I wanted to tone down the skin colour from the snot/goblin green run-o-the-mill tide so tested out a cammo green/bleach bone mix.

I'm a member of the now redundant 800 Naval Air Squadron, AKA Naval Strike Wing and I'm keen for my squadrons heraldry to live on in my orks. So they will be pusser's grey with plenty of black and white chequers [like grey goffs I suppose]. And as an aircraft engineer, I'll be stuffing in plenty of defkoptas for my fluff

Here's a reference image... don't mind the three fat matlots in the way XD


I'm quite pleased with it. Glad to hear the good opinions of the Dakka community... so what do you think of my Nob? [XD oh the connotations]

Looking good so far. Good skills on the highlighting.

That is a really good Green! I would definately go for it! as for your Naval Strike Wing heritage, how about converting those defkoptas into something that looks like a miniature jet? I think that would be cool!

Great green on your orks, cool name aswell

cheers guys, cammo green it is then.

Jake 1+ mate. Love the idea. I reckon it will be a doddle to take the rotors off and fasion stubby wings. They're are 'jetbikes' so it's a good representation. Sterling stuff mate


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Another first today.

My first ever rust effect. It was nail biting but it came out alright. Still need to work on my technique a little but a resounding success

I based the metal in Tin Bitz, stippled with boltgun metal then washed the recesses with watered down blazing orange and finished with delvian mud wash lightly into the recesses.

also you can see the pusser's grey uniforms

I agree that's a great green. Definitely brighter and different than the usual, but it looks great!

Wow that ork looks great. The green skin is quite nice. I think you are going to need at least one fighta-Bomba and lots of looted flying stuff, keep up the good work!

nearly finished my first Nob, done a bit more weathering. Considering I've never even tried it before, I'm getting right into it not sure how to approach his massive chin XD metallic/checkers/splash of colour? what d'yall think?

Think these are better pics too, think I need to sort out a light box.

It would be sweet to see it a bright orky color, like orange or red or yellow, maybe with a checkered stripe along the bottom. and some nice weathering.

Looking great otherwise. Love the skin and the axe is great

wow these orks look good good good, orks aren't pussers though they are supposed to be bad azzez hehe... I would really like to know how you painted this guy from the ground up! THe checks and weathering and skin are very very nice... well done!

BANG DONE! Big Frank...

I like it. That is one fine paintjob. Cant wait to see an entire army of orks that look that good. Keep it up!

Wow, cool mini, with lots of really nice detail work, well done!

Very nice. I like my ork skin darker but yours is very well done. Your weathering looks really great also. Your are gonna have a great looking Mob when it is all done.

Green is Best!

The red base throws me off a little, mainly 'cause I've never seen a red base before, but the overall mini looks great. Loving the weathering and checker patterns.

BF's new BFF wiv a Big Choppa, knocked up from 2 choppas from the AoBR Nobz



and a kombi-scorcha Nob (so glad that making a squad of complete individuals is beneficial in game terms)
This was made with 2 sluggas and the back-slung burna from one of the old gorka morka mekboyz

Yeah, liking what I see here. That's a nice tone for the skin, nice work on the checks and the rust. Looking forward to when you start on some air support.

nice work mate,i bet those checks were a right pain in the arse to get right.

you'd be surprised how easy they are.
This is my first ever shot at checkers, rust and whethering.
In fact, when I do the next one, I'll pop in a step by step and you'll see how easy it is

I reposed the kombi-scorcha because it's ridiculously off balance and prepped my next nob to receive a power klaw off a meganob which is currently in the post with a job lot of bits that I got for a steal and the last dude lost his top-knot... 'cause after much gorping at it, I decided it looked gay XD

I just heard of this game thing called Robogear, it's apparently like Warhammer 40k for young kids...anyway, they have these little jet things with huge engines that would look perfect for your Deff Squadrun! It is pictured below. You could chop off the roll bars and have an Ork popping his head up wearing goggles or something! I think it would look awesome! Anyway, just thought you'd like to see it. When I do get around to building up my Ork mob, I'm thinking of going this route!

Hey, any updates? We need pics dude!

"WE'Z GOT TO GET SUM FUR DA FLY BOYZ!...... rekon day cud be made orkyer... a lil' dakka 'ere, sum kablam there an I fink we'z cud work wiv dat!"

props for finding them mate. Gonna check out the dimentions first but I might have to have one regardless [if it looks too small I'll just stick a grot in it ]

not much to update atm. assembled my first 3 deffkoptas and bodged together my warboss with 5 nobz in total so far.
I have just done the skin on my next 2 so here they are... I'm moving house on tuesday so I've been a bit preoccupied as you can imagine.

I think that Robogear game is what my flyers were made from.

hmm, I think I prefer the first one but thanks all the same.

Here's a unit shot of what I'm working on.

The next 2 Nobz have a TL-shoota and a power klaw.
This unit is just for use in a 650pt league... I think for bigger games they will need a painboy and a truck at least.

They're all AoBR models that I got cheap [needed some tlc.. and in places repair] I repositioned the head of the warboss a little and it gave the mini much more of a dynamic pose. win. and gave him an iron gob.

Nice skin tone, bit hard to see what's going on with the undercoated ones but I look forward to seeing them painted up.
All good so far.

Still lovin what your doin here. That light skin tone is growing on me.

Quick update... god damn I'm slow!

I picked up the green paint today..... it felt gooooood.



probably should finish those two Nobz but they aren't featuring in my 1500, so they're last in line now.... a very... very... long line [well, not very long but really slow moving line... actually... really long and really slow moving. Oish!]

*Edit* I've also been re considering my colour scheme. Since I have a balanced mix of AT/AI shooting/combat vehicles/infantry I have decided to make my clan Da Blood Axes, Zognuts Irongob's Divishun, Da Deff Skwadron!

I'm gonna use the grey as a base for urban cammo similar to this one;

Note that this is not my ork, its a prize winner from www.the-waaagh.com

Looking good planning on lootin' an 'Arrier as a Fighta-Bommer? Skin looks great to me.

nice stuff man, got to love the fluff going on.
You carry on good sir

Llamahead wrote:planning on lootin' an 'Arrier as a Fighta-Bommer?

Indeed I am.... but the airfix models are a touch under scale for 40k :(

This guy just gave me epic inspiration http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=300375 the thought box has re-engaged after a long time at idle

Airfix 1;72 is but somebody does it in 1;48 or 1;35 which will work perfectly for it...

aye, found 1:48 might have to wait to get it though. Just bought a battlewagon, upgrade sprue, painboy & 2 boxes of lootas..... so all my spending money gone.

Cammo pants done.... in hindsight, I probably should have tried it out on a model other than my warboss first but it came out alright so no drama!




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Quick update, Irongob is finished.

The original Irongob on my test-nob was well executed but It definitely needed an injection of colour.

I took inspiration from the 'Eavy Metal team's Ghazkul Thrakka.... or copied it to the detail XD I like, Hope you do to.

"I got wot on mi face?"

I like the warpaint on the warboss but it needs to be a little more vibrant. Cant see it very well on his face other than that he looks great!

Really really nice stuff on here. Liking the colour scheme and the concept. tbh i would have wanted to make the battle wagon based on the eldar falcon model. that way it would have been a flying battle fortress and would have fitted in with the flying theme you talked about before.
anyway cant wait to see more

sum1thtdiesalot wrote:I like the warpaint on the warboss but it needs to be a little more vibrant. Cant see it very well on his face other than that he looks great!

You'll have to trust me that it stands out plenty.... its blazing orange at its lightest. I think it comes down to my shoddy phot skills [or complete lack of XD].

Thanks for kind words, I'll finish this guy tonight [weather he likes it or not!]

Wow, very nice painting. I like the weapon mods, too. Might I suggest swapping the bad moon banner for a bloodied axe, though?

Man these are some sweet looking Orks. The only thing stopping me from getting my boyz off the ground is the skin. I just cant get it to work. I may go with a red skin color, give them that Red-Hulk look. Again, your boyz look amazing!

The Good Green wrote: Might I suggest swapping the bad moon banner for a bloodied axe, though?

You might....

but I prefer to look at them as trophies rather than any kind of personal Iconography. Especially when one of my regular opponents plays bad moons [I have a bad habit of handing it to him ]. Besides, it looks okay and I'm not too good at sculpting so it's just easier for me to leave it.... lazy git!

I'm here, bellyaching that I dont pick up my paintbrushes and then....

It dawned on me that I've been playing around with plastic for a while....

....look see what I done ;D

[WIP 2 looted boomwagons & Deffrollawagon]


*EDIT* images have been updated [left boomwagon was the "top" one before editing]

Here's my whole 'support' section.

Got 2 boxes of lootas... GW have failed to impress me with a box of 4 lootas and a mek [just what long-range fire support needs... a short-mid range char?]

my koptas [da green baronz] have just had the cybork Nob buzzsaw arm transplanted.



I have summed up my irritation of only getting 4 lootas per box in the medium of conversion... nothing ground breaking, I just stuck all the special weapons I had knocking around together. They blend in with the rest quite well so that's enough for me.

look see

Love your loota onversions.

Your looted tanks are looking fantastic, as well as your painting! Would be interested to know how you paint your grey?

I've updated some of those pics for your perusal.

I reduced the profile of my other wagon, I think it looks better like that and finished bodging those lootas.

My grey isn't rokkit science.

1] Astronomican grey base coat
2] Codex grey dry brush
3] Badab black wash
4] thinned Codex grey highlight
5] further Codex grey highlight when dry

simple

Lovin it. Like Art35 said those lootaz are sick. Love your paint style also. Very nice.

cheer guys, glad you likey...


Quikk update. Been painting a bit today, gonna do more after my dinner but thought I'd leave this here for now.




Blood Axe glyph on the loin cloth doesn't stand out much :/

Warboss is coming along nicely.

I can see the warpaint much more clearly now. I must say that the warboss is coming along quite nicely. Keep up the good work

nice I am subscribed

I done more

The painting on your boss is great but I absolutely love the lootas you made. The gun on the left looks massive, any chance of a close up?

Coming along very nicely!

You Dun Guud!

I second the close ups on lootaz

Warboss is looking very nice.

Right, now I'm sobre I've taken a few better pics.... nearly there now, just some cables n' bitz. l

i lobve the skin tone

Dude I'm in love with your painting style. That is pure awesome.

Da Boss is a win for sure!!!

Excellent Boss! One you can be proud of.

Thanks for all the kind words.

Got him good and finished! Gonna repaint and base my finished Nob to fit the colour scheme I developed and then make a start on my Big Mek .

so I present to you;

Zognutz Irongob - Kommanda ov Da Deff Skwodrun - Blood Axe mercenaries

Awesome. Could only be awesome-er if you used a less busy backdrop for your pics!

given my test Nob the updates...

and just for you, I used a light background with my warboss.... I've just noticed that his boss, er, pole(s) are out of focus.

Those look great. Great scheme you chose.

Your scheme is super man nice stuff

Ork pilots is such a great theme. Have you read the Deff Skwadron comics?
And lovely painting!

I LOVE the skintone you've achieved for these guys! Some of my favourite orks i've seen.

Sweet work Davidian... that warboss is really well done.

Much better - now I can appreciate it even more! Good work!

Very good models, I love the red on them and the check pattern.

cheers dudes

smashed out my painboy today... got the day off work, woohoo!

***Edit, right I'm sobre now so this pics have been updated

Dok Bonez - "I'll fix youz rite up... if Iz can 'ave wuts left ova'!"

Nice. Like that hypo-hand on the pain boy

Here's a group shot so far [shamefull bump XD] and I have updated those crappy pics I took when I was drunk

Everything looks great but the painboy in particular is fantastic

Excellently converted painboy Time for operations!

Painboys looks great
can you tell me what bitz you used I like to make one myself

sure.

Body and head are a AoBR Nob,
Peg leg is a sprue frame cut and filed to shape [peg leg colar is green stuff],
Ded cutty nife is the tip of the battlewaggon grabba klaw
'Irty srynge is a Battlewagon weapon mount, a piston from the battlewagon grabba klaw and an actual needle,
The dentists mirror was a spare armour plate cut and filed to shape then drilled in the centre,
Face mask and apron are greenstuff... I fink dat's it!

Thanks a bunch
also *'Urty*

No probs, and yes, my mistake.

Though sometimes it is hard to remember whether it's;

[a] 'Irty - dirty syringe

or;

[b] 'Urty - hurty syringe...... sod it, why not both

here's the WIP on my next offering to the Nobz skwod.

Can't wait to get them finished [I'm doing a tank next >:] WAAAAGH!]

WRAAAAGH TANK!!!

I've started painting the whole squad, production line style to save a bit of time [not skimping on the effort though ]

Here's the rest of Zognutz's squad;



And I've just ordered all the platicard I'll need to build my first Fighta >:]

its really gud but whats your scheme?

Man I have to say it again. I love your skin tone.

tough n' orky wrote:its really gud but whats your scheme?

what do you mean?

the colour scheme is clear to see on the other orks I've painted. Blood Axes with a tonne of airsuport is what I'm going for.

Got awesome templates for scratch building a fighta and fighta-bomba... can't wait!

Say whut template for fighta bomba? can you give us a link please

no link sry :( I made them from stiff card

Looking great man, hope to see more soon
How big is the army? how big are you planing to make it ?

OK to bad sucks for me ow well more unique models

my paints havent left the cupboard this week because I've made a start on something thats exciting me quite alot.....

....you'll understand why when you see these paper mock ups;



it's a bit ramshackle... but hey! we're orks and I've learnt a few things my doing a card dry run before I make the real thing with plasticard! 'citing!

Ooooh, nice

Very nice indeed, whered you get th template from?

OOoooOOOO! And it has a sharpie bomb. Damn 'umies wont get those stains out of their uniforms and armor.

Very nice work so far. Big fan.

Very nice, looking forward to the plasticard version.

tah!

Started on the fighta properly now.

What you can see is the fuselage and both wings.
Once they are constructed and skinned, I'm going to start panelling it with 10/1000" plasticard.

The above picture is made from 10/1000" plasticard, it's quite pliable and bends without snapping... to get the shape right.

I've now skinned it with 30/1000" plasticard for rigidity and added the canopy, fin and intake grill.

I'm dead pleased how this is panning out... just centre fuselage, tailplane and engine block to do

im liking the design and everything but i would have loved to see a ork pilot in the cockpit.
Also cant really tell scale.

looks sweeeeet though

so would I but it's taking enough time and effort with just the canopy XD

Just thought I'd leave today's offering,

I've built the right hand centre fuselage out and fitted the right hand main plane.

aslo fitted the nose mounted twinlinked big shoota, slapped on some panels and started to rivet the nose.

the orc is there for scale... hope you likey

Great Blog. I really like the fighta bomma.

Detail work is looking great! May I have a close up?

Arakasi wrote:Detail work is looking great! May I have a close up?

cheers dud, sure thing... it doesnt help that the whole thing is brilliant white, finding it hard to get decent phots.

The rivets are a bit rough, gonna wait till they're all 100% dry then touch them all up with a scalpel and some wet'n'dry paper

Thanks! Very nice work up close too!

Yeah that detail looks flipping awsome, great armour plates

A fighta from scratch, this is an interesting project.

Excellent work! I have acquired a handful of bits and some plasticard to scratchbuild a thunderbolt, but I have yet to find the courage to start cutting things up.

Any helful hints for us amaturs? I haven't been able to find a tutorial on it, though I checked in the articles. Is that even the right place to look?

Keep up the great work!

Cheers,
Rawson

That is looking fantastic, excellent job. And I shouldn't worry too much about the rivets being a little rough around the edges, this is orky engineering we're looking at here.


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Rawson wrote:Any helful hints for us amaturs?

Always make yourself a card/paper mock up first. try to make the mock up of equal gauge material.
it may take time but it wil save you heart ache in the long run.

Measure twice, cut once!
Double check your measurements and angles and get the right cut first time.

No guts no glory! go for it!

monkeytroll wrote:this is orky engineering we're looking at here.

YES!... I need to write that on my fridge XD so I dont forget. I'm so used to working with +/- 0.25mm limits at work that I get really anal about shizzle like thizzle

Thank for that.

I find cut once, patch excessively also works for Orks

Wow that fighta bomba is coming along great. Excellent work .

fantastic looking orcs.

subscribed!

Pure awesomeness
the disign is kinda like the fordgeworld ones am I right?
Looking forward to paint already

Davidian wrote:

Rawson wrote:Any helful hints for us amaturs?

Always make yourself a card/paper mock up first. try to make the mock up of equal gauge material.
it may take time but it wil save you heart ache in the long run.

Measure twice, cut once!
Double check your measurements and angles and get the right cut first time.

No guts no glory! go for it!

Thanks for that!

I had heard the mock up think before and was hoping to avoid it, but it seems to be the wisest thing.

How did you do the interior structural supports? Did you build a frame of sorts?

-Rawson

Rawson wrote:

How did you do the interior structural supports? Did you build a frame of sorts?

-Rawson

If you go back to the first picture I posted, it was first made of scored, folded 10/1000" or 0.25mm plasticard.

It had little structural integrity but at that stage I could push and shove it into shape.

Then the 0.75mm plasticard skin gve it it's rigidity, no internal frame what so ever and it's very sturdy.

Here's how I'm progressing;



The wing has been fitted with a leading edge and been panelled. The other wing and wing support are built but I wont fit them until I've built the trailing and leading edge root extension (LERX)



and the nose cone has been completely riveted

Frikkin Awesome!

The Fighter looks awesome, are you planing on making a whole fleet of them? How do you do your rivets?

Bangbangboom wrote:The Fighter looks awesome, are you planing on making a whole fleet of them? How do you do your rivets?

I really want to... but I'll probably retire first XD

Had a few people wondering how I do my rivets but it's nothing spesh. just use 0.75mm plasticard rod chop tiny bits off and glue. I do rub them down with a fine grade wet'n'dry paper after they're dry to get an even height and round the edges a little.

Anywho, I've built the LH centre fueslage and fixed the LH mainplane

Now just the tailplane and engine

BOOSH, tail plane on.. just the engine block... it's gonna be fidgety

Looking good

Cheers dude. Got the engine block built with a thrust nozzle and some cooling veins.

Thats the aircraft structurally finished. Just detail and riveting to go. Woop woop

bigfish wrote:Looking good

Why does everyone loot my line?!

anyway...

LOOKIN' GOOD!

That is absolutely stunning!

How much plasticard have you used for all of this?

Great stuff! Keep up the great work! You have a paint scheme in mind already?

-Rawson

Good stuff so far, keep it up!

thorgir wrote:That is absolutely stunning!

How much plasticard have you used for all of this?

I got my self 3 x A4 10/1000" and 3 x A4 x 30/1000" [thats 0.25 and 0.75mm respectively] btu I've only used half of that in the construction but I'll probably use most of what's left putting big ol' spikes and armour plates on it.

Rawson wrote: Great stuff! Keep up the great work! You have a paint scheme in mind already?

Yes and no.... I want to transfer the camo from my orks pants but still keep it in a true-to-life military style.

this is one reference image i've found that I'm thinking of;



The good ol' F-18E Super hornet... we should have bought these of the yanks rather than waste so much money and feth up are carrier fleet by investing in the F-35 JSF.... but less politics, more WAAAAGH!


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right, today I'v set about turning the orkiness up to 11 on this thing... so Tusks and spikey bits of unnecessary armour

and that's the turret for my first, Grot-zooka Tank.

Fo apocolypse I want a full squad of grot tanks to role in formation with each of my looted wagons, which;

1) looks cool as &,
2) gives rolling cover for my boomguns whilst the grot tanks have a natural 5++ WOOHOO!

All looking very nice around here. I really like the engine block, good job.

Question: 1) boom guns are ordanace arn't they?, so they are'nt going to be able to move up with the grot tanks and the grot tanks range is'nt that far (cant remember the inches)
Question 2) or are you going to have the grottanks stay infront of the boom gun tanks as a screen for the boom guns?


just wondering. oh and regardless it would look cool though

bigfish wrote:Question: 1) boom guns are ordanace arn't they?, so they are'nt going to be able to move up with the grot tanks and the grot tanks range is'nt that far (cant remember the inches)
Question 2) or are you going to have the grottanks stay infront of the boom gun tanks as a screen for the boom guns?

Answers

1) it's only Ordinance Barrage that is "move-or-shoot" so they can roll up behind
2)bingo.... though the grotzooka only has half the range of a boomgun, so not too close to be ineffective themselves

Regards.

Subscribed!

thanks for clearing that up

The paintjob is fan-effin'-tastic!
And the Fighta looks very promising so far. Keep it up!

cheers guys,

I've had a riveting evening... [yes I'm ashamed of that pun]

and those damned grots have been building something in the back of the workshop... i really should put some salt down or something!

The fighta bomba is lookin pretty sweet. I feel bad for ya though. That's a ton of rivets. Grot tanks sound Promising

Don't feel bad for me, I really enjoy riveting... its's the panelling that grips my sh*t!

Speaking of which, I've panelled up the other main plane... yay, more riveting

AWESOME!!!
I likes da plane it be awesome
and it seems you do enjoy your riveting making punns AND everything o.O

Davidian wrote:

The good ol' F-18E Super hornet... we should have bought these of the yanks rather than waste so much money and feth up are carrier fleet by investing in the F-35 JSF.... but less politics, more WAAAAGH!

a might bit off the topic here but I think that pic is of a pair of Russian Su-27's, not F-16's.
I play Air Combat a little too much, but all of that is besides the point!



Absolutely stellar work. You easily put my plasticarding skills to shame. I have a pair of Fighta-Bommas that might just start taking a few pages from your book (or armor plates from your plane, as the orky saying goes )
Im certainly looking forward to seeing the paint scheme turn out!! Should look gorgeous with either of those camos!

I do have to ask tho... How precise are you with your cutting? I seem to fall to the addage, "Measure once, cut twice, patch till it fits'. Your stuff, though, seems to be absolutely exact!

Cant wait to see the final work with the paint!

Ramos Asura wrote:

a might bit off the topic here but I think that pic is of a pair of Russian Su-27's, not F-16's. I said F-18E anyway hehe.
I play Air Combat a little too much, but all of that is besides the point!

Ah yes, you're right! They have a strikingly similar profile but the F18 hasn't got the extended ventral fin and wing-tip weapons pylons. I think I'm gonna go with the one on the right as it's close to my ork's camo print but only on the top surface of the a/c. The belly is gonna be either plane and dark or plane and light [or every other colour under the sun XD].

with regards to getting accurate cuts. slightly over measure. offer up the new panel, then you can trim to fit. Then once it's fit, you can trim it and smooth the edges until it looks like it was born to be there.

More pics to follow later, I've got the day off today so I'm working on the back end and underbelly. I want to have it ready to paint by tomorrow ;D

Ooooops! Guess thats what I get for reading numbers too quickly! Read one, typed another, then thought of a whole different one!

Im absolutely stunned by the speed at which you're working- Thenks for sharin a bit of insight into your method, as well!

It doesn't feel that quick... I've been doing this for about 3 weeks now :O

I've done all the panelling and detailing now, nearly 100%. Using it for the first time tomorrow. Going to Warhammer World, Nottingham for a game of apocalypse with a bunch of other Navy lads from over the country massive joy.

I also calved a flying stand out of pure diamond with nothing but the power of telekinesis and it was so beautiful that it could make even the most hardened hard man break down into tears. However, after crying all the fluid out of my body, I decided to to replace it with this GW flying base.

Just the gargantuan task of riveting the last 75% of it as required!

Looks great. Though I'm not a big fan of the classic Bomba, that is exceptional work.

On the stand that is looking Sh*t hot indeed. NICE

Good choice on the stand, those diamond ones get a bit passe after a time

And I'd say you were working fairly quickly too. Then again myself and several of the guys I follow may not be the spediest examples out there

I agree, your postively rushing this Davidian. Don't see why you can't do two more?

Yeah, who fields just one flyer anyway?

Bangbangboom wrote: Don't see why you can't do two more?

You're bad influences XD... I've got the kit to do it too... STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT!

I've got to get started on my grot tank big gunz, kommados and stuff... I need to pick my paintbrush back up too.

So much to do, so little time :( working on the fighta tonight and tomorrow so new pics tomorrow [hopefully undercoated and ready to paint]

Nice work on the Fighta, really looks the part!


Ha, edited because I just saw where in the world you are, and it's a very small world, as I grew up near P'boro (Stamford) and was only back there for a visit in Feb.

Davidian wrote:

Bangbangboom wrote: Don't see why you can't do two more?

You're bad influences XD... I've got the kit to do it too... STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT!

DO IT DO IT DO IT.

submit to the power of peer pressure

Bangbangboom wrote:

Davidian wrote:

Bangbangboom wrote: Don't see why you can't do two more?

You're bad influences XD... I've got the kit to do it too... STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT!

DO IT DO IT DO IT.

submit to the power of peer pressure

no... submit to the power of the ork WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!

FINISHED... at long last. My eyeballs feel like they're bleeding after all that riveting. Nothing like staring at things really close to your face for hours on end to destroy your eye sight XD

Looking forward to painting it now . Anyway... I've got it undercoated but my camera battery ran out so you'll have to do with these pictures of my complete Ork Fighta

Oh wow that is one great looking ork fighta. Your making me want to try my hand at doing a fighta or two. Just needs some paint and it will off the ground so to speek.

Fantastic work. Absolutely fantastic job on that fighta. Love the horns you put on it. I hear ya about the riveting thing man. But it came out awesome in the end

Looks awesome! Can't wait to see it painted.

wait no longer (given it's been ages since i've even looked at this)

I've chucked the undercoats on (and by the looks of it I used a catapult), that's;

Tin Bitz on all metallic finish parts
Adeptus grey (or what ever that new one's called) on the belly/underside
Shadow grey over the majority (this is the section that will be finished in camo pattern)
Red Gore on the nose cone and fin because my old jet - No18 - was painted up with a red tail plane and can be seen here



I miss them :( anyway, less reminiscing, more painting!

I've painted the left under wing codex grey and applied a liberal black wash. The plan is to build it back up to codex grey with black marks streaking from the rivets so the whole thing looks oil smeared then touch the extremities with fortress grey. The camo will be identical to my orls pants just bigger print... got tones of stuff to sort at work so this is gonna be quite slow progress.... but stay tuned and look at this here what I did then there



still dont know what I'm doing to the spikey bits on the trailing edges... I'll make it up as i go

Thats the best way to do it. Just fly by the seat of your pants and hope you get there in one piece

...or three, so long as sommat dies on the way

the oil leaks are going as planned. It helps knowing what an oil leak on a jet looks like.... albeit it's usually bright orange!

Orange, you say?

Brilliant job! Have you thought about some red for the spiky bits on the back ends? I hear it's a fast'un. Or maybe a very bright color, to draw attention to how fast it's goin.

yeah, OM38 nice and gloopy and orange

...yeah I thought of that but I'm gonna wait till it's mostly done with the red nose and fin before deciding. More red might be a touch too much but I am thinking some nice bright colours. Like my warboss's boss pole.

I've updated that last pic too... didn't do too much 'cause I was watching telly a the time

Quick update, got the left underside done. Still gonna do some weathering and paint chips but that can wait until all the skin is painted.

Anyone got good tips or know good examples of painted canopies?... I fancy doing something new rather than blue gem.

I only have one question.

Wheres...






Hehe, looking great, will be following this thread.

yeeea boi! I love those comics puerile humor. What made me start orks

Well with all my attention on my fighta and work I've not been keeping checks on those damned grots who have been arsing around in the back of the mek shop.

I need to put some salt down or something.

Pretty awesome work!

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:I only have one question.

Wheres...






Hehe, looking great, will be following this thread.

Gonna hafta do a tad off topic here and ask where you got that comic from?!

Here a quick explanation.

Lexicanum - Deff Skwadron

They come up on ebay occasionally, and a comic that makes me lament on why GW/Black Library don't commission more. Seriously, its awesome.

Oh and subscribed Davidian, looking forward to moar.

was there any need to quote the whole comic? XD

Well I've painted a bit more of my jet but I'l save pics of that until I've done the whole underside.

Here's some kommandos I've knocked together this morning from my bitz box including my Snikrot counts as, Skowt Kap'n Gutrippa.

Gutrippa's beret looks a bit toss on this photo... might redo it. I had it perfect then accidentally squished it whilst GSing his sleaves :(

**Edit** I redid his beret, all better now

The kammandos looks straight!Love em!

Yeah, the berets look ace.

Nice job. Like that you gave them sleeves

Truly inspirational work sir... ermmm, "Boss"

More!

Man that Bomba is coming along great.

Those komandoz are on point also. Awesome stuff as always.

thanks guys, I gave em sleeves because I wanted them to look more military than the boyz. I'm gonna give them cammo all over rather than just the pants like all the other boyz and all metal and fabric areas black [I've been reading Honour Guard - which has spured me to make my scouts ]
with the appropriated weathering ofc

Cool! Look forward to seeing the rest (there are more right?) and, eventually painted. Still to do mine, so may need to loot some ideas

Im inspired by your work Davidian! The effort and skill in the Fighta Bomba is something I hope to achieve. Ill be using these pics of yours as blueprints

Keep up the great work.

Thanks for the comments guys

well I've managed to resist converting more kommandos today and actually get on with painting my fighta [rather than do some actual work... powerpoint does my tits in ].

That's all the grey panels finished. Think I may do the nose and fin next. It looks fun, I like red blends and I can start getting some iconography on it.

Wow this is so awesome!!!
The Fighta looks great, now I just need to go build one my self.

Hehe, go, do it!

Roit... no update just want your opinions on something. I'm gonna be using my Kommandos as part of my regular force but for the odd game of Apocalypse I'll be dropping the G-Bomb... oh yes, an Ambushing Blood Axe Warboss to add a boss pole and power klaw to Snik's squad.

I'm using the Ghaz model whether I use his rules is yet to be seen. I'm gonna paint the whole of his mega armour in cammo but I want advice on the head to use. I've got 2 options.

First [looks evil] is;


The other option is [the more tempting of the two] this one I painted earlier only the idea is to model a beret on it;


So which do you guys prefer?

As a stand-alone I prefer the first one, but if he's going to get dropped in with the kommandos then I'd say go for the beret, needs something to tie him in with the others.

I agree with Monkeytroll, the 1st one is cooler as a stand alone but if you plan to run him with the kommandos the go for the beret.

I can't even make out the first one Is it some kind of mask? Second one looks nice and I agree a beret would tie him in nicely.

1st head with the camo all over him would look cool in my oppinion. The beret on the mega armour dont know if/ how well that would work on him even if it is a good link to the komados unit.
but w/e, your modeling has not hasn't been lower then awesome so far so i am sure you will do something cool with it anyway.

Thats the Black ork banner thingy, right? (for the first one)

Ive always liked that concept, A Boss all covered with metal. Used that for my own Mega Warboss + a few other bitz. I just didnt put on the Iron Gob, but it looks killer!

Davidian wrote:

sorry as i am not to knowledgeable on these things, is that a skyhawk?

right well thanks for your input and I've decided on head number2 with a beret and [drum roll] a cigar! How could I not?

@prototype_X - Its a Harrier II derived from the US AV-8B

Fighta got a bit more paint on it yesterday, I like doing red

You could model a beret on the helmet
Tied in place with rope


Very orky!

Ramos Asura wrote:Thats the Black ork banner thingy, right? (for the first one)

Right! I see it now - agree with your choice of second head

Awesome work man! Definitely subscribed! Keep it up! And that Fighta is slick...I'd proudly hang it from my ceiling like I did my old model WWII planes.

thanks fellas.

I got a bit carried away and started doing some damage... it's not really battle damage as such... more like FOD [foreign object damage], flying into things

I wasn't gonna do any of it until the whole skin was painted but I couldn't help it... it was looking too clean

tah shank. promise I'll get this done soon so you can see something new XD

Instead of doing some work, I hurled some paint on the topside too.
It's rough just to get the pattern. I'll update this pic as I neaten it up.


I took it from the cammo print of a Russian Su-27 after thinking that it's the most pointless cammo ever. On the ground it's a massive blue mess that sticks out like a sore thumb and in the air it doesn't matter because airborne warfare rarely relies on normal visuals anymore. Its all FLIR and MAW these days.

Ya but orks dont care about FLIR and MAW. And most of all the Blood Axes. If the orks think the como will work then damnit the camo will work. Kinda like the red paint job makes it go faster. Maybe the ork think the blue camo on aircraft make it harder to hit. Say a 5+ invulnerable save.

that was silly of me

Awesome work. Keep it up!

That is a good looking scratch build. I would be careful. Forgeworld may send some thugs to your house to silence this new project.

NO! Not the thought police :O

XD

Here's one wing ready for the damage and weathering process... no more today, my eyes hurt [I'm getting too old for hangovers].

That looks fantastic.

Tah, Schank.

I've not done alot more but I've been chipping away at bits when I've had half an hour hear and there... just to let you know I'm still breathing;



zooooooooooooom

That Fighta looks better and better every time I see it. Love the Missiles! How goes the grot tank side project?

Thats gonna make one hell of a center pice for your army.

Certainly looking very nice at the moment. Glad to hear you're still breathing, I've found the modelling gets a bit haphazard when there's a lack of oxygen.

Thanks guys

I've had a chance to get the paints out today but I didn't touch my Fighta....gah!

I've noticed a few flaws in some minis since photographing them and they've been bugging me. So I've touched up my warboss, most noticeable is the plwer klaw blades and I've done a job over on the base, which I think used to look lazy and unfinished tbh.

Ahoy me hearties!

I return after much working and an Emperor's Children relapse!

I've been working on my fighta today. Finally got the cammo skin done. All that's left to be done is;

Finish painting the nose cone (inc TL-BS),
Paint the engine and intakes,
Add weathering and paint scuffs/dammage,
Do a snazzy base,
Dags... don't know how I'm gonna paint them yet...
Scream WAAAGH! at the top of my voice!

'Ere lukk wot I dun...

Glad to see work continue on the Deff Squadron Fighta is looking awesome and I can't wait to see this bad boy finished up!

WOW

This is amazing sir.

I have already followed

Davidian wrote:The rivets are a bit rough, gonna wait till they're all 100% dry then touch them all up with a scalpel and some wet'n'dry paper

A few pages back you mentioned wet and dry paper. I used it as a kid in tech class (or DT or whatever the kids call it these days if they're even allowed to do it) but haven't handled it since. It never crossed my mind to use it for anything as I never really learnt how best to use it, in terms of what sort of thing it's good for.

Do you use it wet or dry, for a start?

Is it a neat way to avoid damaging the model much and take the sharp edges off things like rivets, making things look a tad more, uh, "real", if you will?

You've got some great skills and I'd like my conversions to improve but I've felt increasingly that a good knowledge of where different tools fit into the process is the key factor in getting better. You've touched on something I'd not even considered so I hope you don't mind me picking your brain a bit.

I only use it dry. I use it on plasticard after cutting it and after joins have dried because the fine grade abrasive leave little or no marks compared to files or sandpaper [which can chew through plasticard fast as fooook!] and leaves seamless joins *Note - always leave joins at lest 2-3 days to ensure all plasticard/poly glue is dry on the inside otherwise it can get messy when you scratch the surface. Also when I used it on all those rivets, it was less likely to rip them off because it is less abrasive. I supose I just started using it because it was around the house but now I actaully buy it for smoothing and shaping plasticard. Hope that helps a bit

It's been a long and arduouse build [my first major scratch] but.... drumrole...
I feel like I'm almost there now!

All that's left it to apply damage as per what's on the fin [and one of the bombs] to the entire fighta, base it and.... them dags... I still ain't sure how to paint them! Any sugestions?

Here's a few diferent shots... I've just moved house so I'm still trying to find a sweet-spot for photos

Love your work. can't wait to see more.

I don't think the teeth would look bad in red, like you were considering. Granted, you'd have to make some serious errors in judgment and application, at this point, to make this thing look anything less than awesome.

haha, I'm happy I'm not gonna cluster-feth it up XD

I've done some red and some checkered. I've been having fun applying some detail now. The right hand side dags are finished, the tail dags are two thirds done and the left hand side dags are just one third done.

Got it based aswell but that, I will traditionally save until last




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Tonights update! 98% there!

Just need to scratch up the underside and paint the base

wow this is nothing short of fething amazing!

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!

Get dem fly-boyz up an' at 'em!




And a shot with Da Boss in command... oddly enough, this is the sum off my completed models! Slow and purposeful I think

Very nice

The finished piece looks fantastic, good choice with the red and the checks, adds some visual interest spots.

Might be slow going (not from where I'm sitting ) but a great outcome. Top banana.

Awesome! If that's the sum of your completed models, you will soon be overtaking me

Davidian wrote:
And a shot with Da Boss in command... oddly enough, this is the sum off my completed models! Slow and purposeful I think

You gotta do what inspires you, mate! First thing I painted for my Vostroyan army was a Bainblade!

Awesome! I love how it looks much better than the 'official' forge world bomma, keep up the good work!

Really good fighta and boss. I Like the blue and the weathering on the fighta.

Cheers fellas,

Got back to painting some actual Orks the last few days [God knows I've got enough to do!] just touching up the 2 Nobz I've already done as well as working on three more to accompany my warboss and big mek.

Got to working on the rest of my nobz skwod, 3 down and 2 nearly finished. Just some highlighting, detailing and basing. Should have this unit finished tomorrow.



and from the back.

And the finished Nobz Skwod WAAAGH

very nice, i really like the way the dead ork on the pole is a lot paler. nice touch

Looking at your stuff makes me want to start Orks!

hey ,

Love your stuff man that bommer is far better that the FW bommber btw how did you make the rivets? I love your ork nobs too very well painted I really like them! Hey how about you check out my blog too? (Link is in signutre). Can't wait for update,

Subcribed

HAZZER

Thanks guys,

Yeah the rivets were individually cut and glued from polystyrene rod that had been roughed up (filter beads are the bomb but look really clean... perfect for imperial builds).

Well, new year, new build.

Next is going to be a unit of drabber pattern MANz.

Here is the very rough prototype frame after an evening choppin' an' gluin'



next, rods and tubes for hydrolic rams, .25mm plasticard plate details then the inevitable task of riveting

Looks, great, I love the proportion.

Mega armor conversions always crack me up because the hands look like those toy Hulk Hands (until you add the necessary gubbinz and pipes)

HULK SMASH

Davidian wrote:Thanks guys,

Yeah the rivets were individually cut and glued from polystyrene rod that had been roughed up (filter beads are the bomb but look really clean... perfect for imperial builds).

Well, new year, new build.

Next is going to be a unit of drabber pattern MANz.

Here is the very rough prototype frame after an evening choppin' an' gluin'



next, rods and tubes for hydrolic rams, .25mm plasticard plate details then the inevitable task of riveting

Excellent pose! I look forward to more progress!

Davidian wrote:then the inevitable task of riveting

Succumb to the call of the rivets, Davidan. They are the sirens of the grimdark, luring modelers into their sweet embrace

Nice build, nice pose

Looking forward to the pistons.

Nice stuff, your Checks are great!


And Checks make an ork army!

Looking forwad to it!

Pretty clean plasticard work. I like it.

Cheers fellas,

Allas my last scalpel blade just brok so this is only as far as I've got.

There is a power plant on his back now... WANT NEW BLADES!

bah, bored now :(

Looking good! Btw are you going to be reapint the skin or leaving it?

Wow mate, those are some really beautiful conversions and paintjobs in this blog! I really like that plane!

I think it look a bit rough tbh but thanks. I am only using scrap from my bitz box. I'm saving the decent bitz for when I've finished cutting my teef on this first one.

To answer, I will be repainting it totally. It will just be too much a pain in the arse to mask off the face when I undercoat it. I'm not going to be too precious with this one as I'm using it to learn from mistakes and all that.

Messed around with it a bit more but I cant really get much further until my new scalpel blades and styrene rods arrive... hopefully tomorrow!

I'm itching to get riveting XD it's addictive

I like the back gubbinz. We do need some hydraulics though! Hydraulics are almost as important as rivets in the 41st millenuim!

Second that! Can't wait for the riviets to be put on though!

Awesome fighta bomma and that mega armoued nob looks fantastic!

Can't wait to see him fully built and painted!

Nice use of the Deffkopta engine

Cheers guys.

Good spot Arakasi, I expect no more from a man with your deffkopta konvertin' experience

One down. Lessons learnt. 5 more to go

Top notch work there!

And the lessons learnt were...?

Amazing the difference rivets make huh?

Your making very good process! The big shoota is very good keep it up man!

OUTSTANDING!
Subscribed to this WAAAAAAAAGH!

Cheers fellas.

I'm really having to try hard to find time for this XD however I have found time to put berets on all of my kommandos now, they're being left to dry before doing all of there shirt sleeves as per the ones earlier in the thread (that makes 15 including a snik konversion with sluggas, stabbas and a couple throwing stick bombs).

well here's how the prototype looks undercoated.



Some of the glue joins look real messy but that's because I ran out of the good glue and ended up having to use the revell brush applicator stuff that is very thick and gak for detailed gluing... lesson 1 learned and a new needle point, thin plastic glue has arrived

And here are the other 5 growing from mere spores... awe ^-^

Doesn't the thought of so many power claw attacks make you giddy?


Forecast? 100% chance of rain of claw attacks. The storm is coming.

in short... yes >:]

I've not been that focused on my orks this weekend.

All I've done is based a load of boys in the same fashion as my warboss and nobz.

Built 2 new trukks that arrived on friday - just with big shoota and rein-forced ram.

And finished off modelling my looted wagonz with bitz ready to paint.

Paints have gained another layer of dust :(

here some pooh photos (I'll update these in a day or two)

Wow, can't wait to see these tanks painted.

Looted wagons looking sweet, looking forward to seeing those mega-nobs progress.

Me too ....

Got a bit done on the torso.
Spent the evening cracking on with the iron gobs. Legs tomorrow!

That's gooood man, wanna see those finished!

Whoa, this REALLY makes me want to convert some of my AOBR nobs now.... Simply amazing...

Oh FFS I want to see them finished too but I went and did something silly...

Even though I've got a bunch of kommandos to finish modelling too, I went and did this...



Since I'm gonna have 8 Manz, they need transport. Feth foot slogging them. What this? they can't go in a warkopta? never mind, they can have the battlewagon and my warboss and nobz can have a shiney new warkopta!

Paper mock... I'm going to reduce the tail pylon length to make the whole thing look a little stubbier. I'm gonna build it using a similar process as my fighta... so hoping it will turn out well...

For any A/C engineers amongst us, yes I am aware that this helo will suffer from serious torque reaction issues ;P may try and wangle in a tail rotor some how.

Is "TFU" a reference to Spaced by any chance?

haha, yes XD

I always loved the name "War-bastard".

Not watched spaced for years.... this calls for a dvd-a-thon

Mock up looks good, stubby tail sounds cool - how about contra-rotating dual rotors?

And gorkdammit, now I'm going to have to dig out my Spaced dvds too

Give it a giant Orky pusher prop in the tail.

The mega nobs heads are lookng good! Liking the mock up of the kopta too! Btw do you have any tips for converting grots becuse I need it for mt trykk to battlewagon conversion which is on my blog!

Got some feet on these fellas now. Definitely the most fidgety bits out of the way. Should be plane sailing from now on

Like this they look so funny, a bunch of Tweetys, very Hungry Tweetys eheh!

your meganobs are very cool! I like the conversions!

thanks guys.

This weekends whole effort has amassed to just this:



Wish I could have found a bit more time for it but I have exams to revise for :(

Great work, always wanted to see a Deff Squarun ork army.

knee pads are important!

Indeed, we don't want them to get a nasty graze if they fall over

My exams are over for now so I've been able to steal away some time to get the leg structures [hydraulics a pair of struts and stuff] done and fit the power plants [from the deffkopta] and I've glued a few pivot points on the legs now they're structurally done....

....next; arms!

Very cool!

RSJake wrote:I just heard of this game thing called Robogear, it's apparently like Warhammer 40k for young kids...anyway, they have these little jet things with huge engines that would look perfect for your Deff Squadrun! It is pictured below. You could chop off the roll bars and have an Ork popping his head up wearing goggles or something! I think it would look awesome! Anyway, just thought you'd like to see it. When I do get around to building up my Ork mob, I'm thinking of going this route!

Hey, any updates? We need pics dude!

Ive done a few conversion from robogear, there a treat for ork conversions, Ive made a few Deffkoptas out of them and made Tri-pod killa kanz out of them Il put the pictures up in June (when i get a better camera).

Any way great pics and I like the skin tone for your orks so keep going with them .

Wow. Those look great! You plastic-card-fu is very impressive.

Very Nice Mega Nobz

Those are some awesome MANZ conversion. Your orks are coming along great. Again love your skin tone.

tah very much guys,

got the arms attached and should armour built. These are not part of the drabber pattern template and the shoulders on my prototype were an after thought. I wasn't happy with them but I did have a few ideas as to how I could do them so I took the opportunity to make them each a little more individual by doing them all different.



putting the fist-armour atm.

Also, whilst I've been waiting for things to dry, I#ve made a start on my Warkopta;



I've decided against scratching a Valk as the chinork's look has been growing on me. The deffkopta makes perfect sense for the kokpit.... it's almost identical to the FW model afterall.

I've raised the blades profile [to stop any unwarey passengers getting decapitated] extended the blades out to @50mm and extended the skids to makle them appear a little more load bearing.

And that is one structurally complete MAN, ready for panels, detail and rivets... 3 more to go

Kopta is looking ace! So it's going to be a chinook type thing?

And this chap is looking sweeeeet!

Awesome.

loving your mega armored nobs!

Love your conversions and love blood axes! Great stuff!

cheers guys,

instead of getting all 4 to the same stage I decided to go straight ahead and finish one... glad to know that I could get any one of them done in a few hours...

Very impressive!

Nice riveting!!

Holy
those MANZ are great!

They're coming out beautiful mate!

Thankyou very much all.

Got a new supply of 80/1000 plasticard, so I've knocked the chassis and engine housing up for my chinork. I used the trukk bitz to get an equal angles on the wings and started wanging on spare gubinz.. that's all for tonight. Off to watch a film

I think I may have to hunt you down and harvest your brain.

First Monkeytroll. Now Davidian.

Muuhahahahhahahhahahahhahahahha!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oi, yooz leave dem finky bitz alone... Iz youzin' dem!

I love that warcopta... But it needs more Dakka... You can never have enough Dakka....

Really nicely done!!!

Awesome, loving the underslug guns. so cool, also the mega nobs look ace. can't wait to see them painted

Man, that's one cool flying thingy!
The under slung guns look great.
Do you need an extra set of kopta blades?
I thing I have about three lying around if you want!

Cool idea with the Trukk bitz and loving the rear undercarriage work

I love your stuff, a true Plastic card master, i will be copying some of your work and adding it to my blog, Of course i will give you credit hahaha

nice work m8

waz

Very nice! I cant wait to see some paint on those MANZ. They will look so much better than the gw ones,

AH there they are *blows dust off*...

I've been utterly snowed under at work over the last month that it almost feels like I'm starting afresh with these fellas! But work is now continuing and,hopefully, at a pace.

Knocked up the Twin linked shootas last night using a trimmed stock slugga from the Nob models, some co-axially fitted lengths of tubing and a few ammo hoppers.

Next I think will be the Klaws then all that will be left is the paneling and rivets.

So worry not Mr Jarvis, your MANZ are back in production ;P

The MANZ are looking incredible!

Great work throughout. Would it be possible to get a tutorial on how you do your Ork skin? It's wonderful and I would love to replicate it.

Got me sum powa klaws fur da boyz... Dems iz well smashy now





All that's left for these guys now is... plates, rivets and paint.

I am Planning on putting together a tutorial once they're finished... and when I find the time

Say, what are you using to make the small rivets?

It's just fine plasticard rod cut into tiny discs!

Holy crap! I would not have thought you would be able to get consistent rivets out of rod that small.
What's the size on that?

all paneled up ready to rivet

Ahh...good to see you back and on form

haha, yeah... all work and no play makes zognutz an angry ork

quick one before bed...

finished another, just two left.

Good one and nasty enuff Me say!

That's some amazing plasticard work in here...Love it!

these are now finished, primed and up for sale in the trade forum

 Davidian wrote:
Thankyou very much all.

Got a new supply of 80/1000 plasticard, so I've knocked the chassis and engine housing up for my chinork. I used the trukk bitz to get an equal angles on the wings and started wanging on spare gubinz.. that's all for tonight. Off to watch a film

this i love mate

Job done. Though all credit for painting goes to Clive and he's done a belting job.