This is a first for a lot of things for me. Foremost, this is the first time I've ever put WIPs on the internets for all to see, so I'll try not to get offended when you guys comment about it . And please do comment on things that don't look quite right, or any suggestions really, I want these suckers to come out bad ass!

Basically, I just started building an ork army and as of last week started building my big mek's gifts to his battle bruddas. To me the models for buggies look pretty outdated and kinda lame, and while they served their purpose well when they were first released, it's time to move on....

This is my attempt to make three different [almost]unique warbuggies following the true spirit of the orks to loot the crap out of whatever they happen to get their grubby hands on

The first one is based off of a hummer template, and actually I stole a whole bunch of ideas (and embellished on a few) from dakkadakka's very own Artsoldier35 for this one.
The second one, inspired by Halo 3, will be a quad with one ork driving and one on the back with a rocket launcher
And the third will be a landspeeder conversion that's become somewhat famous 'round these parts

Anyway enough rabble, on to pics of mah first waghbuggy!

It's mostly cardstock, with a bunch of bitz from the trukk kit to help with detail. And the rokkit launcha is from the deff dread kit

Again, most of the ideas for this came from that dude that I mentioned up over there


I think varying thicknesses of plasticard (as the template recommended) would have probably yielded a better product
I also used the dabs of wood glue method for rivets, which turned out surprisingly nicely for a first time ever attempt

When it's fully painted there will be a bunch of blood splatter on the front to make it look like an unlucky marine tried to death or glory it and got splattered, leaving his meltagun jammed in the right headlight

I'm also considering putting the spikes from the trukk kit on the bumper and having an impaled marine stuck to it, though I think that may be going a bit overboard

I ended up tearing off the trukk "doors" and making some out of cardstock for this, they fit better and I can use the trukk doors on an actual trukk now

I also painted the roof. This is the first time I've ever done chipped paint, and while I haven't done any weathering yet (though all that I do with that is make it look dusty, as my models have desert-ish themed bases), but to me it doesn't look quite right. Do you guys have any tips on making chipped paint on ork vehicles look better?

Here's more pics of the roof if you guys can see what I mean... I dunno, I don't want to say it looks too plain... just, off.. In some way...




In an effort to make the bottom not boring I used a trukk chassis, though it's chopped up and the wheel axles are actually between the cardstock and chassis, rather than under the chassis like in the trukk kit

Also, having issues making plastic from a pen casing (axle extension) mend with the axle... The wheels are taking issue with staying attached and the only clear remedy to this is to bombard it with various glues and stack a bunch of minis around it to hold the wheel in place

Thanks everyone let me know!

Good stuff so far.Some of the best ideas are recycled ones. 'Da Humma is well done build. Art35 would be proud.

Thanks schank


I went fishing this weekend so I didn't get to do tooooo much BUT I started working on buggy numba 2.

Here's the rokkit launcha, stolen again from the deff dread kit.


This will be the thing with the chain that spins the rear axle/wheels (I dunno the correct terminology, but you should get the idea)



Here's the bike plus wheels on axles(toothpicks fit the trukk front wheel holes perfectly)


I really should pick up some fun tack so I can dry-fit everything better, but here's what would hold together on its own without any:



So I still need to make the "plastics" for the quad and orkify the hell out of it, but I've got a few ideas for that...

Buggy numba 1 still remains largely unpainted, so updates on that will still be a little while

Any comments or things that don't look quite right so far?

Both trukks are looking great, the first one though is definitely my favourite so far! Subscribed!

Mmmkay buggy #2 is fully built! Now as soon as it finally stops friggin raining I can get an undercoat on here and slap this bitch with some paint sauce

So here's the support for the plastics:


And here it is all finished up with the plastics on it:








I couldn't figure out for the life of me what to do with the left arm of the rokkit launcha guy, so I think I'm going to have him holding on to a chain or something with that arm (which is why it's angled somehwhat strangely behind him) It's still within a normal range of motion for an arm, and I already tried having it flailing wildly in the air(ork SOP), but that didn't look/fit quite right... Anybody have any better ideas for him?

Damn thats pretty fething cool. Great use of bits.

For the gunner. You could rotate the wrist out some and add a grip bar on the buggie for him to stablize himself with.

I think your scratched paint looks just fine. And good luck with your army, like your models!

looking good, nice use of bitz! You could have the left hand of the rokkit guy reaching for a new rokkit?

Thanks guys, great ideas! I'll see what I can do with them

I've been researching Mega armored nobz and I've decided that they're freaking awesome regardless of how effective they may or may not actually be on the battlefield. The models are awesome too, but I'm sorry but 17 bucks a pop is just a little too steep for me...

I saw someone scratchbuilding some on here, but stupidly I didn't subscribe and I forget who it was, do any of you guys know who scratchbuilt mega armored nobz?


Also, for da' humma, does anyone have tips for painting a shattered headlight to look right? The usual blue or yellow for headlights would look weird I think since it's shattered... any ideas?

Wow. I love the ATV styled buggy. The humma looks more suited to be a trukk with rokkit launcha than a rokkit buggy.. Of all the things to loot I think I'm gonna start on one of these right away....

For painting the shattered headlight, maybe do a yellowish white, with cracks painted on (black with faux highlights underneath)?

Great work so far, I look forward to more.

Like the Hummer, LOVE the quad! I agree with rotating the hand to hold onto an "Oh Crap!" bar!

Awesomesauce wrote:I've been researching Mega armored nobz and I've decided that they're freaking awesome regardless of how effective they may or may not actually be on the battlefield. The models are awesome too, but I'm sorry but 17 bucks a pop is just a little too steep for me...

I saw someone scratchbuilding some on here, but stupidly I didn't subscribe and I forget who it was, do any of you guys know who scratchbuilt mega armored nobz?


Also, for da' humma, does anyone have tips for painting a shattered headlight to look right? The usual blue or yellow for headlights would look weird I think since it's shattered... any ideas?

Bloaterpaste did one:



And I made some from tau stealth suits:


Hope this helps!

Love the monster trucks!!! Nice converting!

@Sentinel I will definitely give that a try, thanks for the advice

@RSJake Thanks! And that's probably what I'm going to end up doing, though I'm debating between the bar or it may be easier to have him holding on to a chain that's secured to the quad, just because it would be less invasive to his arm and I'm not all that great with greenstuff yet

@CommissarKhaine Love that Mega grot! I just bought some aobr nobs off ebay to chop up and I'll look into some crisis suits maybe? or something similar for the armor, it'll prolly end up looking like something right in between those two, thanks dude

@MrTau Thanks!

Got some ground covered with painting, but it's still not done yet... I'll post up pics when it's all finished. Unfortunately I won't be around this weekend so finishing this sucker is gonna have to wait till next week

I agree with RS Jake, like the hummer I am in LOVE with your quad buggy....

mega armour theres this
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/373071.page
and I love this one
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/359759.page

Thanks mullet steve!

I haven't made any progress worth writing about for the warbuggies, BUT I did make some Rokkz so that my boyz can make planetfal/blow crap up in apocalypse (if only I had an army for apocalypse)



They're made out of paper machet, glue, and sand. Only one of the single-engine rokkz is finished, the other two still don't have any detail paint complete yet

I've also made a pretty sweet discovery. Upon destroying a bic red pen for a gun barrel, I discovered that red ink makes an incredibly cool blood effect. The pics don't really do it justice, I really recommend you give it a try and see for yourself.




The ink is completely dry in those pics. It looks WAY better than my previous method for painting blood. I applied it with a toothpick, and this was my first couple attempts, so I didn't quite get the spatter look right, but I'm definitely going to use this from now on. Granted, it did take a solid day or two for the ink to dry completely, so don't touch the models for a couple days after doing it.

I like that effect, may have to experiment with it. Nice find!

Looking could so far, loving the 'ummer

Nice going man. Cool idea and it just works so well. I hope this turns into a long-term scratch-build log. udge nudge

Cheers: TTK

nice stuff on here, seriously like the blood effect.

subscribed

Those are some impressive wheels you've got. I really like the buggy. At first I was going to mention that the nob sits on the back and fires his gun, while a trusted boy drives him closer, but the I remembered you are making a buggy, not a bike. (Not that it matters terrible) It looks awesome.

That gore looks great too.

Thanks everyone!

And I think this prolly will turn into a long-term plog... I have WAY too many ideas in my head right now... In fact I'm thinking of putting the third buggy on hold for a bit once I FINALLY finish painting buggies 1 and 2, and getting some of the other stuff done. I'll prolly change my title to reflect that.

Sorry for the utter lack of updates, but my power has actually been out for a solid week, since last Saturday we got hit with a really bad snow storm and I've been a drifter until the power finally came back on yesterday.

BUT partly because of that very storm I did get a good bit of painting done on the quad, and here's a little sneak peak:

Har har harr
more pics when it's completely done.

Really good looking Orky stuff for Meganobz I used a simple head swap with the AoBR Terminators for some nifty looted Terminators. The advantage is their cheap and easy to get hold off as well!

So finally after a month long furlough I have SOME progress!

Buggy #2 is DONE and Buggy #1 is ~40% painted. I have all the parts for Buggy #3, but I haven't really fit anything together to see how it will turn out yet.

Anyway, here's #2
















Maybe I'll actually be able to get the second one done a little bit faster than the first one

*That* is a nice looking buggy you've got there

Thanks Arakasi!

The quad buggy looks fantastic, great work!

'DA HUMMA IZ DONE

'Bout time too, I been zoggin off too much lately





This is the last thing that poor battle brother Gallius saw before meeting the Emperor










The driver is certainly having a great time splattering everything in his path


I know that 'da humma is significantly larger than the quad and the actual buggy model, but in the military HMMWV stands for High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle, so I stand by my decision for calling it a buggy instead of a trukk. Though I might make a base for it with the dimensions of a regular buggy to use for gaming purposes... but I'll prolly be too lazy and have far greater ideas in my head at the moment...particularly in the trukk department

Very creative and nice conversions!

Loving all your work, that hummer looks awsome! consider that stolen haha
Also the blood effect is great, i was troubled as to how i would get it to look right when i eventually paint my boyz but this is pure win! Subscribed

You got some pretty cool ideas, love the fenders on the second buggy a lot and the blood effect looks awesome (even if I usually don't like splatter minis )

Subscribed and looking forward for some more of your minis!

I second the stealing of the hummer, both for my orks AND my guard >

Where is the template you mentioned?

Like the painted hummer!

Turned out great!

Thanks hindenburg! (and wib, sorry I forgot to respond before)

And also here's a family portrait so far:






They just look so happy together

There will be a third one, but I think I'm going to put that off and switch gears for a little while... I hear a lootin' party of ork pirates calling my name in the meantime...

Nice job, they look good together, all weathered and dirty.

Thanks everyone! I didn't realize I second page yet so I didn't see the other comments. Woo I got a second page! Haha and by all means loot it! I actually looted the idea for the humma too.


And the splatter effects were done with red pen ink, just be careful not to touch it for a day or two while it dries.

@Spartan Thanks I've just uploaded the template for it here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/316707-.html --though I claim no rights to it and I did not create it, nor do I have any idea who did create it. It's supposed to be done with varying thicknesses of plasticard, though I just used cardstock with wood glue to harden it and it worked just fine.

Thanks, and a question, you said it will be a warbuggy, why not use as a truck instead?

that's never got enough transport capability to be a trukk, then again neither has the truck... Errrm what was the quesation again, yeah why not a trukk?

Ohhh by the way when I win the lottery later this week I will need 20 of those quad buggie things for me orksies okay mate?

@ Spartan-kun It's mostly because I need warbuggies and don't really need trukks. I could really play it as both, but I have bigger better ideas for trukks that are (hopefully) very soon to come. I would say what mullet steve said, that it doesn't have the transport capacity, but it really is just about the same size as the model for the trukk... I just really liked the idea of building it and I think a hummer would still fit the description of a warbuggy in the codex, so I'm going with that.

@mullet_steve Hahaha well I spose there's a price for eeeverrrythinggggg

I know what you mean, I only need two trukks, whilst i need like six buggies.

Bigger better ideas for trukks?? Are you willing to give some details?

What a joy it is to see this thread! Very original! and brilliantly executed. The quad buggie is my favorite though the humvee is a close second.

Need the third one now!

Let there be WAAAGH!!!!

Haha thanks guys!

Spartan-Kun wrote:Bigger better ideas for trukks?? Are you willing to give some details?

Hehehe... Let's just say that some of the nobz in my army have a fanatical, and somewhat highly disciplined following of boyz (as disciplined as orks can get, at least) and due to their collective fanatical beliefs they can do things that otherwise wouldn't really be possible...

I have plans for the equivalent of 2 trukks and 1 battlewagon, along with their respective squads. I just hope that I'll be able to properly execute the builds so that they'll be cool and funny, rather than just kinda weird and dumb. I'm def going to start on them as soon as I finish the rokkz, which I'm just putting the last touches on.


EDIT I just reread it and realized that was incredibly vague haha, sorry I just don't want to give away detail of what it is until I have some pics of at least the first prototype

Just remember that whatever you do, we other meks will doubtlessly loot it!

Sentinel wrote:Just remember that whatever you do, we other meks will doubtlessly loot it!

Ah yes of course! Every idea is mutually looted from mek to mek

Da rokz have arrived











Certainly not my best work, but it gets the job done.

And now the fun begins...

Your ATV is my favorite! Well done Giving me ideas to build my own too hehe (I'm a thief...).

About the trukk... do you read The Discworld? Are we going to see a 'luggage' style trukk?

Haha actually that is very interesting, but it's not that, I only remembered what the discworld was after googling it.

It's kind of more like, I thought it would be funny to build something that's ordinarily physically impossible, except for the fact that they're orks. And so my way of justifying it is because sometimes if enough orks collectively believe that something will work, it will work. It says in the codex that a lot of ork contraptions don't normally work for anybody else because they haven't actually actually built them properly, but since the orks believe they work, they simply work.

So each of the nobz has a certain personality that goes along with the vehicles, and their squads provide enough collective psyche to make it work. And if it weren't for this psychic ability that orks don't even realize they have, they would just be a bunch of orks playing dress-up that may or may not have ever even made it to the battlefield

I like it. Approved.

Curious to see what you are building, make sure you post it soon

really nice, i love the hummer btw did you use battlewagon pieces?

These look great can't wait to see more

in the hummer I see only asorted trukk pieces no battlewagon as far as i can see..? do I get an internet cookie if I is right?

Thanks guys!

And you would get an internet cookie, but there are in fact two, count them, TWO battlewagon pieces on it. Haha the grill in the front and the piece on the tail gate that's got the hookie thingies on it are from the BW kit I'm pretty sure. But the rest are all assorted truck bitz and cardstock

And I'm making moderate progress on the two trukks, should have pics within a week

Aww no cookie for me, still it's payday so I bight buy myself dougnuts instead

Well I suppose it's time for an update...

I haven't gotten as far as I wanted, BUT I have made enough progress to make it worth an update I think. Orkz is made for fightin! And they've got so much willpower that they're damn well getting to that fight, and whatever transports they happen to have at their disposal will be bringing 'em there.

The whole idea came from a campaign that I'm planning. One of the targets for the imperial player is going to be an ork naval dock, and if they decide to attack a different location after receiving the intel, the orks from the dock will bring the fight to him! 'Da subz will pop up (to the surprise of both the ork and imperial players) at the next battle and they'll be immobile from that point on, after dumping out a squad of boyz or grots of variable size depending how well the ork player rolls. I figure in friendly games though if I need more trukks there shouldn't be any problems with some subs tearing around the board to drop off the boyz.

So without further adieu, 'DA SUBZ

Starting with the shells:






And just like a good elementary school student, I used paper machet to finish their shapes:






Still very much so WIP. They're also each going to have a twin linked big shoota turret on them, and are going to be covered in rivets and plates and all kinds of other stuff.

The two subs will each have their own theme. The older WWII style one will be dropping off a squad of pirates, and the nuclear sub will be soviet themed
Here's the bits going into the nob kaptin of "The Orkula" nuclear sub

As my first attempt to sculpt anything ever, I'm in the process of sculpting an RPK for him to wield along with his power klaw. Though it's not turning out very good at the moment...

I also get distracted very incredibly easily, and just started making a squig for no apparent reason lol









If you guys have any ideas or critiques (or advice on sculpting, I'm pretty bad at it at the moment) on any of the above, please by all means let me know, I want all this stuff to come out kick ass and it's still early enough in the process to add cool stuff!

cool Subz mate, I would put something like a giant octopus or a squid on the nose of the nuclear one, You are already sculpting, make It useful.
Why not a figurehead on the tip of the older one, maybe with a ork feel to It?

Thanks Selvaggio! I'm definitely going to make them a lot more orky. I'm still nowhere near done with either of them yet, but here's a bit more progress on the WWII one. There's still a whole bunch more crap to throw on, I'm trying to figure out a good spot to put a big ork "gob" symbol...I'm trying to incorporate in on the nose of the sub, but my current ideas are not totally looking right at the moment.

Anyway, here's my progress so far:






I also made a little snorkel for the grot gunner

This is pure win. I can't wait to see the gubbinification.

Thanks Sentinel!

I think I'm just aboot DONE with the building part... All that's left to do is glue on the last periscope aka peekin' tube on once it dries and.... *shudders* ....riveting...





I didn't glue on his snorkel because it will be infinitely easier to paint the little bugger separately


I carved battle damage all over it, but it's pretty hard to see. It'll hopefully look reallllllll nice when it's painted tho








Let me know what you think!

great stuff

Awesomesauce wrote:I've also made a pretty sweet discovery. Upon destroying a bic red pen for a gun barrel, I discovered that red ink makes an incredibly cool blood effect.

Mate, great idea, will def have to give that a try...do you think a hair-dryer on a mid/high heat but a low power might help dry it out? Also you've got a great weathering technique going on there, the rust and mud looks awesome!

R

i think the grot gunner should be blue, like he has come out of the hole too early and gotten frost bite or just really cold. but yea my oppinions aside, the facts
THESE ARE EPIC
not many ork subs around and these are by far in the better half already... keep it up and i am hope in the not so far future there might be a fleet of these bad boyz?

This is a great idea Cant wait to see them finished.

@DopShard Thanks dude! And I seriously loled at the name of the link in your sig

@Ghostflame Thanks! And to be honest I never tried that, but it seems like it's worth a shot. Like you said tho it's prolly a good idea to keep it on a low setting

@bigfish Haha thanks man, and I like that idea, I'll try and see if I can make it come out alright

@TaWaaagh Thanks!

very nice, great converting.... much better than anything i can do....

@DopShard Thanks dude! And I seriously loled at the name of the link in your sig

haha yeah man

Thanks tough n' orky!

Somewhat noteworthy progress time! I don't think I've been able to make progress this quickly since....ever..

I'm now finished with the "clean" layer-- just about everything is the right color and all that's left to do is get this sucker dirty as hell and all blown to sh*t
(except for the grot, I'm doing him last so I don't mess him up while muddying everything)
And I haven't done anything with the base yet, just sprayed it.



The squad going with this sub is going to be a bunch o pirates

Also, this is the first thing I've ever sculpted ever. It's an RPK for the nob of the nuclear lookin sub. That squad/sub is going to be soviet themed.

It's not too bad for the first thing ever sculpted....butttt it's not really too good either lol

Also,

Yargh.

We all WAAAGH in an Orky Submarine
An Orky Submarine
An Orky Submarine

This is wonderful stuff. I hope that they get dinged up proper. A minor modeling idea: Taking a Boy and a Deffcopta and recreating the 'boarding drop' scene from Red October would be hilarious.

Awesome!

@ Selvaggio thanks dude!

@Wulfe haha that would be awesome! I think I might make a larger battlewagon equivalent one after these two, and I might just do that... Maybe I'll make it like a magnetized (and therefore usable) diorama or something.
See, now you're putting ideas in my head, but that's not good I already have too much stuff that I want to do!

You have a brilliant imagination and great delivery on that imagination. Beautifully executed.

Awesomesauce wrote: See, now you're putting ideas in my head, but that's not good I already have too much stuff that I want to do!

Haha I know exactly how you feel! I can't tell if being on these forums is a good thing.... On the one hand, I'm getting so much awesome inspiration and support, and on the other, I'm getting so many ideas that I can't seem to get anything done! Haha!

Awesomesauce wrote:Thanks tough n' orky!

Somewhat noteworthy progress time! I don't think I've been able to make progress this quickly since....ever..

I'm now finished with the "clean" layer-- just about everything is the right color and all that's left to do is get this sucker dirty as hell and all blown to sh*t
(except for the grot, I'm doing him last so I don't mess him up while muddying everything)
And I haven't done anything with the base yet, just sprayed it.



The squad going with this sub is going to be a bunch o pirates

Also, this is the first thing I've ever sculpted ever. It's an RPK for the nob of the nuclear lookin sub. That squad/sub is going to be soviet themed.

It's not too bad for the first thing ever sculpted....butttt it's not really too good either lol

Also,

Yargh.

Yargh Indeed

Sentinel wrote:

Awesomesauce wrote: See, now you're putting ideas in my head, but that's not good I already have too much stuff that I want to do!

Haha I know exactly how you feel! I can't tell if being on these forums is a good thing.... On the one hand, I'm getting so much awesome inspiration and support, and on the other, I'm getting so many ideas that I can't seem to get anything done! Haha!

Same here and loving every moment of It!

@MudgeBlack thanks man!

SelvaggioSaky wrote:

Sentinel wrote:

Haha I know exactly how you feel! I can't tell if being on these forums is a good thing.... On the one hand, I'm getting so much awesome inspiration and support, and on the other, I'm getting so many ideas that I can't seem to get anything done! Haha!

Same here and loving every moment of It!

and totally agree with everything said here haha

Finished the first phase of weathering... only 3 more to go! Not worthy of a pic, but just to let you guys know. Man, I really need to find a quicker and easier way to weather.

Sub's looking mighty fine with a lick o'paint on. Looking forward to the weathering pics..

Your vehicles look so dirty I love em.

Yargh! +1 Nice work!

Thanks guys!

Man this thing was a huge pain in the ass to chip/weather! [almost makes me second guess my intentions of a stompa in the near future]
Well it's FINALLY done now, let me know what you think about the weathering, I don't know if I'm totally sold on it...





Here's the grot gunner!

And Bigfish I tried to make him blue-ish to show that he was having trouble breathing under all that water/ground, but it just wasn't coming out right! I had to stick with regular green











Let me know what you think!

Oh wow, your Orks are a serious inspiration thats for sure. Very nice man, very nice.

Awesome conversions, sir! I love them, especially the Hummer and the "Submarine"! Subscribed!

I love the model and answering your question about the weathering.. I would do It more in lines from the front to the back to give a sense of movement underground.

SelvaggioSaky wrote:I love the model and answering your question about the weathering.. I would do It more in lines from the front to the back to give a sense of movement underground.

Yeah, absolutely do it that way! I'd also do them as parallel lines!

Awesomeness.

why is the sub coming out of the ground? and why have i only just noticed this?

still it looks very nice all chipped and dirty like that

because its SUB-teranian

Thank you for the compliments guys!

And @ Selvaggio/mr merlin, I did attempt to show that by having most of the scratches on it being horizontal (relative to the sub, of course) though now that you mentioned it, I realize it was mostly unsuccessful because the scratches don't compliment/interact with each other. Going along with what you said, I think that a few more larger scratches on either side that span most of the length of the sub would further solidify that theme. I'll try to do that sometime soon if I don't get too distracted with other projects, thanks for the input!

@Bigfish

mullet_steve wrote:because its SUB-teranian

^^what he said
I thought of it for a campaign that I'm planning, and it's going to surprise both the ork and imperial players when it shows up(to the joy of the ork player) I just loved the ridiculousness of the idea and decided that it needed to happen.

Must be happen, I imagine the faces of the IG/SM whatever player on the opposite side ahahahah

A land sub. Only orks....

well orks, squats and really old impy guard,

I think i remember a subteranian tunnling drill thing for you troops to ride in many many years ago

Anyone confirm my mad ramblings?

Not totally sure, but definitely makes sense for squats at least, since they're dwarves in space. And dwarves loves it in the underground

Yeah, but the impys didn't make a land-SUBMARINE!

They just made weedy drills and diggers and such. Nuffin' tuff like a sub.

Clever, very clever. That and on the plus side, now your orks hace land subs they can attack the mole people as well

Haha YES

Unfortunately I'm going to be on a several week hiatus as far as updates go... I make cakes every once in a while on the side, and my girlfriend's friend asked me to do one for her bridal shower. It's not great pay since it's a favor for a friend but it should be good fun nonetheless, as long as it comes out proppa. I'm going to attempt to make her and her fiance out of modelling chocolate, which is something that I've never done before, so it should certainly be an interesting learning experience (and one that I can probably apply to this hobby) at the least.

I worked with that and is just great fun, have a sweet blast!

Post pics!

If you have any chocolate left over.....

Ch-ork-olate.

Haha whelp I have some pics of my chocolate progress...

Also, this time hasn't been a total bust as far as the hobby goes, I've been able to get the last two of a squadron of kanz all painted up in my spare time:






And the family portrait



EDIT I just realized I forgot to bloody up the last one!

I'm loving the paintjobs on your kans. Well done!

Lovin the kans! That chocolate guy is really turning out nice... Looks good enough to eat...

Nice dirty look on those Kans mate!
Like the Chocouniform as well.

Looking good

When fighting orks, on land... Expect a f******* submarine!

Hahaha, I could picture my Shas'O going
"Bummer, didn't really incorporate THAT into my incredibly complex tactics..."

Anyways, great work man, keep on it!
You are amazingly adept at sculpting even though you insist that you are useless?
Hell, I tried making TERRAIN from scratch and failed miserably...

Haha, hopefully the imperial player will be saying that too.

Thanks guys!

I really like those kans, very well done on the paint jobs, also the chocolate officer looks awesome keep up all the good work

Thanks Bigfish!

As for the chocolate, I'm very glad to say it's finally done.

Thanks for sticking through this little detour with me guys, so now it's time to get back to me orks. And I've got quite a lot on the menu...probably way more than I could do in the next year...so I'm seriously hoping that this be an eventful month at least.

Whelp, not nearly as eventful as I had hoped, but at least I've started to get the third buggy underway..
Bought a nice landspander cheap on ebay, and the orks promptly looted it.

If you guys do get a strange feeling you've seen this before, it's prolly because I've definitely stolen several ideas from pics I found on the internetz














What do you think so far?

Some various parts that will probably find their place somewhere on here



I also got a bit more sculpting done for the squig. Still need to do teeth, a bunch more other details including scales, muscle, toes, and everything in between.. then make his leg a bit bigger to better fit the body...THEN do the entire other half. But if all goes well and it actually comes out looking nice, I might cast him up and sell him on ebay. MAYBE even do a few variations to do a squad of sorts...maybe for squig riders as a bikers alternative or something.



Actually, does anybody here cast? I've started casting little things here and there, but I bought some resin from home depot that feels very different from the stuff you usually see in this hobby, does anyone know where to get resin like that, that's relatively cheap? And also stuff to use as mold material? I'm currently using amazing mold putty and instant mold, but those are only good for small things, if I were to cast this squig for instance I would need a lot more material than the little bottles of mold putty could provide. I've heard of people using silicone but where I've looked it seems pretty expensive. Does anyone know of some cheap alternatives, or really anything to point me in the right direction?


And of course there's plenty of models still in the painting queue



Thanks!

I like the idea of making the squig cast with multiple bits, and i guess you could add some guns and have them as buggies for snakebite clans. everything is looking good, and sorry but cant help on the casting matirials front

Yes, You just stole my idea for an other buggy, that landspeeder looks nice and orky my friend.

Thanks Selvaggio!

bigfish wrote:you could add some guns and have them as buggies for snakebite clans

Funny, that's actually the reason I started sculpting him to begin with haha... basically just adding some armor bits that the boyz tied/stapled/welded on to his sides/head and a grot with a rocket launcher on his back should do the trick...though I'm not totally sure I'm going to do that still, at least immediately.

Dammit thats where my insiration came from,,,, I have just started on my new deff dread I like to call him Mr stompy as he's got a veery similar pose to yours so far but I have done a little kitbashing/customising to mine... I'll try to remember to post pictures somewhere soon and put a link in here

( Space for link )

Awesomesauce wrote:

so there's your one and now here's the deff dread i put together a few days after seeing that image


I changed a few bits and pieces like the feet, I couldn't decide if I wanted the claws or the little shoes so I used both... and I added both those drum barrel looking things to one arm and then added three dread combat weapons to it and I have magnatised the lower arms so I can change the weapons around endlessly

Haha excellent! Looks damn good. And I like the paint job too!

Progress coming along quite slowly lately, but still progress nonetheless.

She's all ready to be primed and painted all purdy-like


The ork's bodies (and obviously their respective heads) aren't glued in yet so that I can more easily paint them








It was such a joy doing rivets on this thing. Quick and painless. This required by far the least rivets of any of my scratchbuilds to date


And the thing in the gunner's hand is going to have a big red button on top--so that no matter how many times he hits his head against the dash while being driven around, it'll still be relatively easy to remember how to shoot the launcha up top

Woh, whats up with the ork on the rights arms ?? those look crazy cool. and the rest of the model looks good as well. you are very good at just getting these things done and made quite fast, impressive

yeah those arms look like clear/badly mixed clear resin?

Are you copying parts?

Thanks Bigfish!

And yeah it is really crappy resin--it's supposed to be that color, it's very cheap. I did end up doing that with the driver arms simply because I ran out of any other arms I could use. And I've read a lot on it, and from what I've gathered GW is perfectly okay with the average hobbyist making a few copies here or there for their own personal models, just so long as they're not making money off it in any way...which I'm definitely not

Got some greenstuff work done on the nob that's gonna be me sub kaptin (the name of which is still pending)









And here's the rest him


Thanks!

Epilettes?

Damn! Knew I was forgetting something!

Good stuff mate, wanna see this build up and ready to WAAAAAAAAARGH!

possible name "pops"
and looking good so far

Liking the look of Kaptin Greenbeard so far

Ooooh, dat's a rite flash buggy der, dat 'iz. I wunderz if da Boss wantz wun.....

*looks for bucket of blue paint*

Thanks guys! Still gettin some painting done yet, but I should have another update soon-ish

Whelp. After such a long time I haven't gotten much done. I wanted to finish the buggy before posting again, but after a month of not doing that, I'm coming to terms with my utter lack of interest in the tedious process of chipping/weathering...And I'm hoping that posting this will get me to stop procrastinating, finish the damn thing, and move on to bigger things!

The buggy is in it's "clean" stage of paint-everything is the right color--I just need to add some washes to the boys, cover it in mud, and make it generally look all blown to hell









I've also started sculpting *another* thing (despite all the other things that I've started sculpting and not finished)... Let's see if anybody recognizes it so far?


Still MUCH much more detail needs to be done...primarily in the arms department. And also all the surface detail. And also everything else about it.

Not exactly sure where he'll fit into my army either... Probably something to do with the mek, or maybe as a stand in for a got herder or something. Any ideas? Maybe I'll cast him and make a whole squad of them too.

Nobody plays borderlands, eh? Oh well.

Anyway, as it turns out, putting up that last post did help! Got just enough fire under my butt to get it done. Finished the last warbuggy, which also means that my entry into the ork vehicle competition is complete! Woo!












And the family portrait:





Now on to ork pirates and soviets and mega dreadz and clap traps and squigs and all kinds of other fun things!

have fun...

Looking good

Thanks guys, I know I've been out of the game a wee bit, thanks for comin back!

I figured I should probably actually build a mek, since he's been building all these fun toys. Nothin particularly fancy, I actually had a much more bad ass picture in my head of him, but when it came to putting the pieces together he didn't exactly come out as I originally thought. Much more static than I had planned.

Well anyway, here's the mek behind the machines: Big Mek Hind Grinda (wittier name pending)

By Davy Johnz' Wagon, I'm really looking forward to seeing progress on the kaptin! WARRRRGH!

Oh- that is a very nice big mek. Very nice! Cooooooool even. I dig the Captain and his coat too.

Haha thanks good green and MrMerlin!



Well, I've had this dread staring me in the face for quite some time now, so I figured I'd finish him up before I moved on to the kaptin


Here he is all did up and spiffy


Gettin dirtier...


That's better!



I must admit, I think I went a little freaking nuts with the blood. His face is nearly completely covered lol. Since it is ink, I'm not actually sure if I'll be able to fix it though unfortunately. I did want it to look like he was this blood covered maniac hauling ass toward the nearest enemy, but I think there's a weeee bit too much blood on his face.


Here's a few more pics:




And the hind region... which gets grinded, if he's immobilized and the mek is around [which is never]



WAAAAAAGGHHHHH!





Now on to the kaptin, primed and ready!

To be honest I think the blood is genius. It looks great. The Ork deathheads (or whatever they call the ork face thingy) are all about intimidation.

Agreed, and I usually HATE blood effects on minis. But you pulled it off nicely

Thanks guys, I really appreciate it!

Wow Awesomesauce!
Nice ride You got there, plus a lot of other intresting paintjob, that's the way to go mate!

love the rides man

There's a lot of awesomesauce here Awesomesauce (go figure!). Absolutely love that first warbuggy you did... but great stuff all-round. The sub is really cool too... Keep up the good work!

Thanks you guys!

Kaptin is all done:









Next is the big mek, then maybe a few marine things, then on to more lootin!

Very Nice stuff, love the buggies! Sub'ed!

You got a lot pure orky awesomeness here from the rokkz to da subz and of course the buggies!

just one question about your big mek though: do I recognise a piece of a guitar straplock used for the KFF?

Thanks, and actually it's a piece from a Dell laptop power cord. It used to hold a rubbery strap that went around the converter box to keep the cord wound around it and organized when not in use. Now it's on my mek's back. I do see what you mean though it does look a lot like a guitar straplock--and really it pretty much did the same thing.

I have some pretty serious ADD--the mek is almost done, but I started on yet another project. I'm making a few objectives for a sort of "recover the geneseed" mission.


I looted the banner from something a made a few years ago, so that's not the best quality and I may redo it later, but I finished off this one:




If it's not obvious, this one was inspired by the opening movie to the first dawn of war game

And the rest still WIP:



Still very much green stuffing needed-this one will be really gory when it's done






And this isn't a dead marine, but whatever it is it certainly is dead. It will be the area that the boyz affectionately refer to as... "The drops"


Once I get a decent sized army I'll be making terrain for an orky town, and even orks gotta go somewhere. I'll be experimenting with that stuff used to make water effects for this, so I dunno how it'll come out, but I can't imagine it being too difficult to make something look crappy. Those black spots will be bubbles once I get the water effect stuff on it.

Love the bloodsmeared dred, and the captain also looks cool!
Keep it up man!

Thanks broo

Hind Grinda's all done:






Now it's time for some MEGANOBZ GRCHHYEEAAHHHH



Grah I want to do nob bikers, but they just have so many damn parts to paint, I think I'd get sick of em before finishing them. I still have yet to play a 6th edition game, what is this I hear about all individual regular nobz/nob bikers being characters, but meganobs NOT?

Got some more work done on the first of 5 meganobs




His name is Old Nubnutz and he doesn't like to talk about how he got the nickname... Anyway, now he wears mega armor since the accident.


Here's some back gubbinz:




Still plenty of crap to add to him before he's complete, not to mention tons of rivets


Very soon Brainz and Boss will be joining him in the ranks, and I've still got two more to think of a personality for and/or build before I name 'em.


Anybody got an answer to that 6th ed rule question in the previous post?

Haha liking old Nubnutz a lot, looking forward to seeing the mob done!

Also, if you wanna do biker bosses, just put two wheelz on a deffkopta and glue a PK on the rider (and chop of the Flying -fingz)
That's what I intend to do....

MrMerlin wrote:Also, if you wanna do biker bosses, just put two wheelz on a deffkopta and glue a PK on the rider (and chop of the Flying -fingz)
That's what I intend to do....

Hmmm... Interesting I'll definitely consider that if I do make a mob of bikers. Most of the internet seems to be saying that they're more powerful than meganobz, so naturally I chose the wrong unit to start building.

dat mega armored nob like the starting look of it.

Awesomesauce wrote:

MrMerlin wrote:Also, if you wanna do biker bosses, just put two wheelz on a deffkopta and glue a PK on the rider (and chop of the Flying -fingz)
That's what I intend to do....

Hmmm... Interesting I'll definitely consider that if I do make a mob of bikers. Most of the internet seems to be saying that they're more powerful than meganobz, so naturally I chose the wrong unit to start building.

Haha well same with me. First thing I built back in fifth was a mob of tankustas

Haha nice! At least it seems like they've gotten a nice little boost with 6th, you can actually field them now

Makin some progress on the nobs!

Their bodies are all done, aside from riveting, then all that's left is locating enough guns and power klaws for their arms

In order from left to right:

Da Boss - Teachin da boyz ta krump good an proppa

Brainz - Comes up with all the cunnin' ideas and plans for the boyz (and directly responsible for their demise every single time)

Old Nubnutz- He lost count after 2, but he's the oldest ork in the whole waaghhh! --and also, doesn't like to talk about why they all call him nubnutz

Deffkilla- Stompin da enemies dead

Steve - Nobody fks with Steve



Some of their names will make more sense once they're completely finished and painted


And the back of em


Now just a lot of pinning/green stuffing/ripping PKs and guns off random ebay models for the arms and then it's time for some paint!

Very creative! *applause*

I love it when people make up some background for their models and give them caracter! More of this please!

I like steve, steve the ork

Wow. Just wow.

Haha, great work here! Da' orks is lookin great!

Beyond awesome! Amazing work, keep it up!

Thanks for the kind words guys

Finally got around to sculpting the tops of their arms to reach their torsos. Just a quick update to motivate me to keep the momentum going!



Ol Nubby is starting to get a little cranky



Gotta rivet still. And finish building da boss' and steve's guns.. But besides that I think that's it, just paint

Boss is all done!

If he looks familiar at all it's probably because he was heavily *inspired* [stolen] from the internet.














Nubnutz is about half done with chipping:



The other 3 greenskins just got green skin...and that's it:


Brainz has all the best ideas. He decided it would be best for him to hold all of the stick bombz so that way "da uddur guyz" will always know where ta gets em. He has a combi-rocket or a TL shoota [if he forgot to wire the rocket proppa]



Deffkilla will be smashing a poor screaming guardsman if I can fit him onto his base. Though I'm debating changing his name to "Jawz" Since he's already got a big metal gob on top of the scratchbuilt one. What do you guyz think fits better with him and the squad, deffkilla or jawz?



This is Steve. Nobody Fs with Steve.

daethkilla, but jaws to his mates... which is noone, so its always deathkilla


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Oh and looking awesome btw

bigfish wrote:daethkilla, but jaws to his mates... which is noone, so its always deathkilla

Haha That's perfect I love it

Thanks dude!

And after a nice lengthy delay, I finally have a legal squad! (though not all 5 yet)

Here's da boss, brainz, and nubnutz all together




Nubnutz from the front:



Back:



Givin the ol' bronx salute



Brainz from the front:



And back with it's electrikey powery bitz:





He painted his armor red cuz he thinks it makes him go faster.... He's got all the cunnin' plans...hur.. hurrr...


And the other two are ever closer to being complete. Deffkilla's base is very loosely thrown in front of him to give an idea of what I'm planning for him. If the guardsman fits on the base with him, it'll look like he's doing a smash attack. But if the guardsman doesn't, it'll just look like he's running with his arms flailing....either way it's a win-win, I think.

They are looking epic so far, im especially liking the possible "hulk smash!" pose on dethkilla. Will be watching for updates

Thanks brudda

All 5 are done!





Steve and jawz jammin out




Just Steve:



Nobody fs with steve.


Though I'm still debating between having the guardsman or not. I've taken some shots of deffkilla with and without, tell me what you think. Does it make the base too busy? Is it so badass that it doesn't matter how busy the base is? Is it not really that cool looking? Let me know!





Top down of the guardsman going out with a boom



Obviously I will paint the guardsman much better if I do go with it.


The other thing is, smashing the guardsman is a static event, where the rest of the ladz are made to look like they're slowly but purposefully moving up the board, would the smashy base not look good in the context of the entire squad?




Thanks for looking!

with guards man, looks epic, especially his face and the way he is trying to get a grenade off as a last stand, very cool

Crew looking very cool together, nice.


Keep the guard, he's fine
Smashin' 'umies iz alwayz good 'nuff for buzy base

And he's still purposefully moving up the board. He just happens to be purposefully moving over a guardsman at the same time

Very nice Meganobz!

Thanks for the feedback guys!

Got jawz all did up





The poor bastard's last hope



[edit] damn! I didn't realize the grenade was covered by his pk when I took/posted the pic


And started on the next project:



Bought these suckers from someone who already started trying to scratchbuild some dakkajets out of these spitfires but lost interest, so I figured I'll give it a try and see what I can come up with. They even came with flier bases and everything. I'm prolly only gonna build one for now since I have so many other things that I want to build too. He had some guns on it but I've torn them off since this pic to make them look better

Magnetizing EVERYTHING


Had to make a slot for the base to fit on the plane. There's a thin slit of metal for the magnets to stick to, between the plane and the piece that I cut out that's shaped like the base.

magnetized the prop so that it doesn't break every time I transport it

Got some more work done on the dakkajet



Straws make some excellent exhaust pipes





Some battle damage




Since I took these pictures last night I riveted and primed it. More pics will come once it's painted

Hey, looking great!

Just curoius, what do you use to give your models such a muddy look? (I want to steal it....)

Daka jet is looking sweet

those meganobz are awesome

Thanks guys!

Should have some pics of the dakkajet soon.

And as for the muddy effect, I'll start out by saying that I pretty much exclusively use the cheap crappy paints from walmart.

After I paint everything their proppa colors, they look very cartoony and bad with these paints. So first I do the chipping with white, then brown, then metallic grey in patches around corners and stuff. I then drybrush anything that's metal with black so that it's not so damn shiny. Then I do spots of "burnt sienna" from the folkart paints (basically a brown/burgundy color.) all over the model in the form of using a sponge to make patches of mud. When it looks like there's enough random muddy spots on the model, I do a light drybrushing over the entire model with "Golden brown" from apple barrel paints--again, crappy walmart paints.. To me, that last drybrush step makes the whole model look a lot more realistic, in one step it not only mutes/blends the colors a little, adds some slight highlights, and adds more to the dirty look, all at once. And It gives their skin a more olive color rather than the lime green-ish that they start out as. After all the muddying I then hit it with a black wash, which helps to tone down areas that I went a little too crazy with the dry brushing, and it also adds shading to the skin and everything.

Thanks! And you are not alone in useing crappy paints from wal'mart

That flyer looks ace! Great scratchbuild, I love how you used the straws! I'll definetely be copying that!

@Sir William: Haha no prob, always happy to help, and glad to hear that I'm not the only one using them. The hobby is just so friggin expensive as it is!

@MrMerlin Thanks man!


As always, not making as much progress as I initially thought... I really thought I'd have been finished with this last week! Hoping an update will make me gtf done with it.

It's in its clean stage at the moment:





Just a few more details here and there, including bronzing the exhaust pipes, and of course chipping/weathering.

And here's the pilot:



Like a true ork, even when flying a plane all he wants to do is hit something with his choppa!

I'm debating putting blood splatter all over him and the prop, to make it look like he managed to swoop down and nail someone. Maybe some guts or a head stuck to the plane somewhere...though I'm afraid it might not come out right, what do you guys think?

Lookin' good! very orky!

 Awesomesauce wrote:
@Sir William: Haha no prob, always happy to help, and glad to hear that I'm not the only one using them. The hobby is just so friggin expensive as it is!

@MrMerlin Thanks man!


As always, not making as much progress as I initially thought... I really thought I'd have been finished with this last week! Hoping an update will make me gtf done with it.

It's in its clean stage at the moment:





Just a few more details here and there, including bronzing the exhaust pipes, and of course chipping/weathering.

And here's the pilot:



Like a true ork, even when flying a plane all he wants to do is hit something with his choppa!

I'm debating putting blood splatter all over him and the prop, to make it look like he managed to swoop down and nail someone. Maybe some guts or a head stuck to the plane somewhere...though I'm afraid it might not come out right, what do you guys think?

I did the same thing to the driver on a burna buggy I made, but hes holding stick bomb. I figure, hes probably gunna bash it into the skull of some Umie, so its good an close to his buddies when it goes off

Thanks sir william!

@KingCracker Haha there's nothin more orky than that I love the idea of the boys spazzing out in the middle of a more important fight. Sometimes in less competitive games I'll tank shock or ram my trukks into enemies before they drop of their boys, figuring the driver just had a better idea when he saw that shiny rhino. Sometimes it ends well...

Made the base





And got the chipping done, now just some weathering and finishing up the pilot!

looks good, I've got something simylar on standby for over a year. maybe your project gives me the inspiration I need

Thanks man! And DO IT the dakkajet was a lot of fun to build and is VERY useful in-game. It's cheaper than a squad of lootas, more survivable (till more AA starts showing up/people get less scared of only being able to snap fire at them), and hits just about as many times as lootas. The strength 6 still destroys infantry, and on a WAAGH most vehicles don't even stand a chance.

And on that note, here it is:




Like a good ork, even when flying a freakin airplane, he still wants to hit something with his choppa





WAAAAAAGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!





Top down:



The underbelly:



I'm not really sure what that is on the bomb... I just kinda went with what I was painting.

And here's Da Base






And here's the start of my next project, Looted Wagons!



I'm going to start making a very loose theme, applying some soviet army elements to da boyz. I say loose, because it'll really only be a couple of units. But one wagon is a BMP-1 and will be a transport, and the other, a T-55 which will be a boomwagon. I have plans for some kannon crew grots and a few other fun things too. Had I thought about this better, the meganobz prolly would have been included in there too. I may figure a way to retro-fit them with something too though

Got some work done on the Boomwagon:





That grot rigger is magnetized



My early attempt at turning the spotlights into the eye of a glyph:



Ditched the face. Got better plans



Oui! Shove it 'umie!






The wagon still needs more armor gubbins all over the turret, and I need to greenstuff the nob's finger still, but besides that, it's starting to look like how I want it.

The more I thought about it, the more I liked the idea of having most of my army flipping off my opponent, so I'm going to probably be doing this a lot more.
So far I've got one of the meganobs and one wagon doing it.... Maybe I'll just have everything soviet themed doing it.... That would mean grots, another wagon, that other sub(if I ever get to it), a burnawagon, and prolly a megadread.

Whelp it's all done now, Just time for some paint!









Zog off!




And here's the grot rigger just doin his job...which is to hit the engine with a wrench until it starts working again...

your orks are great!

I really like the half-wrecked look of that bommba, great job!

And that wagon also looks very cool.... the crewman adds lots of character!

Thanks guys!

Something's weird with the treads of the wagon. They're rubber, and after spraying them (presumably with primer that apparently isn't made for rubber) They're still tacky after 4 days. I'll give 'em a bit longer before I just go over them with something else in hopes of that drying. Anyway, while waiting for the primer to dry on the treads of the wagon... got distracted, made a weirdboy.


How to make a cheap weirdboy in 5 easy steps:

1) Take an AOBR nob.


(this is a different aobr nob than the one that I had used, I already chopped him up when I decided to take this picture)


2) Make him nakey



3) Give him gubbinz, including sacrificin' bitz, and a wishin' stick.







4) Give him muscles (I kinda accidentally made mine seriously jacked, but I'll just have to name him appropriately)



His back kinda sucks, I might fix it up, but I also might get lazy and not.



5) Weirdboy.




GREEAHHHH!

cool easy conversion, although I think the muscels will be a hard part if I want to make one myself (I'm not that good at sculping)

The way I look at it, if youre not good at something, dive in and keep working at it until it clicks

Nice work on the weirdboy. Tho I'd put some scars on him to make him look even wilder!

 Big Boss Grimbad wrote:
cool easy conversion, although I think the muscels will be a hard part if I want to make one myself (I'm not that good at sculping)

 KingCracker wrote:
The way I look at it, if youre not good at something, dive in and keep working at it until it clicks

That's exactly it. I actually never sculpted muscles before... I just kept working it until it looked right. In fact, the GS was right at the end of it's workable life when I realized how much better it looked to (go figure) ADD some green stuff to the areas that are raised--like his pecs, ab muscles, and shoulder blades. Before that point I just sculpted the outline of them and took bits of it away to give the impression of them being raised. It actually looked really bad all the way until the very end.

 MrMerlin wrote:
Nice work on the weirdboy. Tho I'd put some scars on him to make him look even wilder!

Good call! I didn't even think of that, but it definitely would look a lot better, I'll have to give it a try!

Got the weirdboy done

Sorry for the unbelievably crappy photos...my camera was commandeered for this week. I'll post better pics when i get back the camera.





I gave him some scratches on his chest and a bunch of flogging scars on his back...been splatterin too many uv da boss' mates 'eads

Now I just need a name....

Heres a pro tip for getting even half assed decent pics with poopy cams. Tap either a dakr shirt, or piece of paper, and drap it on a seat or couch cushion or on the top of the toilet leaning against the wall behind it, things like this. That way you have a gradual slope , this tricks the camera into thinking the backdrop goes on forever, and forces the camera to at least somewhat focus on the mini in question.


Use the same trick when you get good camera back, for better pics all around

I like the Weirdboy!

Unfortunately his back looks like an arse.

Actually, that has given me an idea for his name...Buttsnagg Arsemelta!

^_^

Bahaha definitely never realized it before but yeah his back totally does look like an ass, especially in those pics. Though I do think it's MUCH more noticeable in the pics rather than in real life. BUT anyway I gots me camera back today so that means good picture time!





This pic was initially taken to show off his floggings, but especially since it came out kinda blurry... now all I see is cheeks





Yellin' at da sky




Also...

Dis 'ere is Top 'At

One of da mad doks eksperiments, gone horribly right.


Boss Noteef was quite weedy in comparison to his mates. Only slightly larger than a regular boy, he was always the butt of the jokes and pranks from the usual mob he ran with. He also never grew tusks, which led to jokes about his orkhood, caused him to be very self conscious about his body. What he lacked in size though he certainly made up for with ferocity. He was very good making examples of those he held grudges against. He was absolutely obsessed with getting bigger so he could challenge da big boss, or even da warboss. And he wanted the biggest tusks in the whole warband. He didn't want to work for it, however. He just wanted the results, instant gratification. so he consulted his doc, who certainly gave him what he wanted. Well, mostly, at least.

It did have some repercussions, however... He is completely, utterly, insane.

After running down his old mob and destroying half of the encampment, Warboss dikpuncha and Hindgrinda came up with an incredibly cunnin' plan...


Most sounds that come out of his mouth are completely incoherent. And when there isn't an obvious enemy in his immediate vicinity, he'll happily destroy whatever else is in his path, unless chained down.


'speshlly if dey gots teef


Last Wednesday I found out that this weekend there's a mega battle at my flgs, which would allow apocalypse stuff. I bought this sucker off ebay last year and all he's been doing since was laying around. Since I had more useful things to build until now, I never found the time. So now I have 10 days to build and paint a stompa out of him, starting last wed. I've been so busy building him in the little spare time that I do have that I haven't been able to take many pictures during the building process...AND to make matters worse, the pictures that I DID take last week I took on my phone (since my camera was being commandeered) and I lost my phone over the weekend before I uploaded the pics!

Well without further adieu here is Top 'At, da mad stompa







Though I can't take full credit for him. I have no idea what crappy anime cartoon this guy came from, but I am SO happy that he did. And it also wasn't my idea to actually turn him into a stompa either, whoever I bought it from had already tried that. But just about everything else about him is original. I re-used the one gun located on his howda from the other guy, but that's about it.







As you can tell, I primed all of his accoutrements since it was beautiful outside today and I'm afraid I won't be able to later this week. He's going to be a big mek stompa , so I built the lifta-droppa, deff kannon, and big powery-bit on top for the power fields. Modified/repositioned the gun on top to be a giga-shoota, And built the howda so some boyz with big shootas can fire wildly from the top. The monicle-ish-thing attached to a lascannon is his gaze of mork. Still need to make 3 rokkits, give him knee pads and/or boots (maybe), and rivet the hell out of everything. Oh yeah and paint. Got A LOT to do if I want it done by saturday!

And if I do ever find my phone, you'll see what he used to look like, along with some pre-primer WIP photos.

Those scars look great, Awesomesauce! Especially the ones on his back, you did a really good job on them!

Now, boss noteef..... he looks nuts! Great bit of fluff there btw, can we have more?

Holy that guy is awesome.
Maybe just a little bit more armor on his front and belly and stuff though.

Awesome big ork stompa

Just wondering, what tank/scale/kit did you use for the wagons? I'm looking for a domed turret similar to that for use on a Chaos Legion Fellblade. Something which a trigger happy ork would love as much as the next one

AWSOME!

Kill 'em all!!!

Just some absolutely beautiful work, and by beautiful I mean gory, bloody humie crumpin works

Your models and conversions are mindblowing. May I steal your meganob conversions?

Weirdboy looks great in the latest pics

And I'm a fan of Top 'At already - mainly for his top hat, but by no means exclusively

Thanks everyone, seriously!

@MrMerlin Thanks man! I wouldn't have even thought of it if you didn't mention it.

@Grimbad I actually tried some ideas for armor cuz I agree, he is a little bit too naked to have an Armor value 13... But everything I tried so far just didn't look right. I even tried making basically SUPER mega armor, going along with the same look as my meganobz, but it still just didn't look right on him. Plus I've only got 2 days to finish him! So in my haste, for now, he stays nakey, I'll just say his super muscular muscles of doom are incredibly tough. AV13 tough....

@chaotic Its a brand called Skif and they're 1:35 scale models. The tank is a T-55 and the LAV is a BMP. The scale works perfectly with 40k. And modern tanks are larger than WWII era ones, so if you were to get, say, an M1 or T-80 it should be larger than my T-55. The only thing that I absolutely needed to change was the cannon of the tank. Way too weedy for 40k, especially orks. But that was pretty simple. So plan on replacing that, but besides that they're great.

@collectors Haha absolutely! Loot whatever you see fit.

Again, thanks guys!

Thats some serious stompage! Great conversuns. err big mek builds or what have you.

Thanks man!

After A LOT of work I did get him all done in time for the game yesterday. Done enough, at least. I unfortunately didn't have the time to paint up the 3 big shootas w/ crew on his howda, or the 3 grot missiles... but I recognized in the beginning that they were lowest on the priority list and that I probably wouldn't be able to anyway.

Ah and I also found out where he came from, he's apparently a desiccator from the "Spawn" comic universe. One of the guys at the mega battle was able to identify him.


So here's Top 'at, all did up and spiffy.





Close-up of the lifta-droppa, made mostly out of a grabbin claw and an old car charger from God knows what









He just can't stop laughing.... now that he's so wonderfully ginormous



Gaze of Mork (or was it Gork)



From atop the howda (where there will eventually be the big shoota boys from the battlewagon kit)




And here's a few pics from the Mega Battle:
It was chaos/daemons vs. everyone else, to celebrate the new codex.

By far, the best weapon ever is the lifta-droppa. D6 glancing hits on whatever vehicle it decides to throw, plus D6 glancing hits on whatever vehicles I'm lucky enough to drop it on. The deff kannon pie plate was scary enough to the enemy that any gun crew shaken results were thrown on it, but I literally destroyed a soul grinder and THREE rhinos in one turn by dropping him on them. Granted, they were very close together, so normally I wouldn't be able to do that, but I killed 4 vehicles in one turn! With one weapon!

Anyway, here they are. For some reason I only took 3 pics at the game, and they're particularly bad pictures too, so I apologize for that.

Here's Top 'at in action:



The poor soul grinders that were (to our immense amusement) repeatedly flung about the battlefield:



The rolling thunder of the Imperial Guard were an enormous asset to us for obliterating that entire side of the board.

damn, epic fight

Man, what a way to re-join the forums here! After what seems like almost a year of no posting, I'm glad to have caught up on this thread. That stompa is so epic that I think I have to purchase me one of those desiccator figures (a mere $25!) with your blessing, of course, sir Sauce of Awesome.

Continue with the epic!

Glad to see you back Sentinel! Thanks for the compliments Dude I actually just used your thread, particularly the pics of your lifta droppa as inspiration for my stompa I was wondering what happened to ya. Hells yeah you can loot away. It's a pretty awesome figure, it really doesn't get much better for a giant ork. And whatever parts you pull off him and don't use for a stompa can easily be used elsewhere in an ork army.

Happy to see threads live again. More work for the work got.

Freakin' boss!

Everyone likes liftadropas, they are just Ork. Plain and simple. And Top'at looks supreme on the table. Nice work

Thanks 'Sauce! College suddenly took over my free time (go figure) but I hope to get some good progress started over the next few weeks! In fact, I finally got around to slapping some paint on the burna wagon.

Glad you found my work inspirin'! It's official... we're mutual looters.

So I finally got my power back, a solid two weeks after the hurricane hit. I suppose I can't really complain though... while that certainly did suck, luckily there wasn't any damage to my house, and it's very unfortunate that a lot of people are still a lot worse off than in my area...


As for the hobby, I was still able to finish off my boomwagon during daylight hours







It says "Crump" in Russian on the side... Or at least that's what google translator tells me it says...







Here's a magnetized grot rigger for the [never] times that it gets immobilized




Thanks For looking! Haha






Ah and I'm now working on a CL4P-TP!





I'm thinking of using him as either the squig that zogwort turns an enemy IC into, or just a general purpose grot oiler or squig or something.

Now that I think about it though, I will definitely be casting him once he's done. And making different poses and stuff, so there may or may not be a clap trap detachment, along with their associated shenanigans, in my army in the ensuing days....

Ha that wagon looks great, dude. I'm also happy to hear you're fine and have your power back!

Great work, I love da' Russian words, it fits the attitude of the model.

keep it up

simply lovely looking squig right there and a nice tank. Glad to see you have power back.

Glad to hear you're ok and have your power back

Nice to see it didn't stop the hobby The Crunch/Crump looks cool, and Clap-trap seems to be shaping up nicely.

I do love that tank comander, very characterful

Thanks a lot guys! Clap trap nearly complete, I should have pics very soon.

 Awesomesauce wrote:
Thanks a lot guys! Clap trap nearly complete, I should have pics very soon.

MORE FASTER PAINT THE PICTURES RED!

 cormadepanda wrote:
MORE FASTER PAINT THE PICTURES RED!

Baha I seriously loled at that

I gots some more WIP Pics of da Claptrap





For this one, I'm going with the classic flailing arms running away approach. Though once I cast him and make a squad of 10-20, there will be everything I can think of... Including the punk one, a break dancing one, and probably a russian one for the hell of it. Plus any others that you guys might think of.





And here he is all primed up. Actually, at the time of this post, he's almost completely painted. I just took these pics a few hours ago before some errands and painting, with no chance to upload them.

So here he is, the robot of the hour:













And here's my proud mek, trying to get a family portrait with his two most beloved creations, but claptrap kept spazzing out...

That guy is great and a top hat as well EPIC ……..

don't forget about Da Mek himself, he's awesome to

That claptrap is epic!

Thanks a lot guys!

I Betchya can't guess what I'm makin next....



There's an apocalypse game in December that I've gotta have these suckers ready by

nice use of a starwars model! i finkts. Gussing squigs.

40k Jurassic Park

Haha you got it. Actually a full dino-wing would be pretty sweet. Who says dinosaurs are extinct, orks ride them into battle every day

Yeah I totally stole the dewback idea from the internetz, but it just works so perfectly [or so I hope it will]
And the other one is another spawn toy. They make for great conversions! There's plenty of others that I saw that would be excellent 'nid or daemon conversions [and a fraction of the price]


And also, for those of you that don't know who or what in the hell a claptrap is; THIS, in short, is claptrap:

All those cool dino conversions you could build I see those Raptors being used as rough riders with orks mounted how cool would that be

The dewback is just perfect for this kind of conversion look, shape and size, also the Claptrap is a cool scratch build and spot on to the image

dino wing? i am orkestered.

Hmmmm....could get very interesting... The millions of more ideas, compiling on top of those that I could already never possibly have enough time for, flying around in my head!

So here's some more WIP shots of the squigglys. I've got about a week and a half to finish them now... The seemingly long time frame is catching up with me!


I really liked what I've seen with pics of people literally just plopping a battlewagon chassis on their squiggoths.... but I don't have ALL of the necessary components laying around (ie. the sides) SO I made my own damn walls.



Also started making his metal gob



Then the mek called for some ARMAH!



MOAR ARMAH!



And BUTT ARMAH!




Prolly about 75% done with the build of squig #1. Still gotta make 'im some nice and sharp teef, get that iron gob done, greenstuff the massive crevasses on it's bod, Add a ton of detail to the incredibly plain howda sides, and prolly throw on some more armah on there too, for good measure. And of course, rivet. Then paint! Squig #2 on the other hand... Not lookin so hot. With everything I still gotta do for #1 I May only have one of them done by the apoc game....

Squiggoths make me smile

very nice dude.

Thanks guys

Last WIP pics before he gets some real paint on him

Got 'is gobb done!






Now primed and riveted:







It's got a big tongue...which was a pretty huge pain to build his teef around





I've decided to pretty much scrap the other one for now, given my time frame (I've only got till Saturday) Though only one of these guys alone will surely die very quickly into the battle.


Anyway, time for paint!

Nice work mate turned out well, mind you looking at it have you considered adding some kind of armour the to the ankle area to bulk them up a little ?

The big ork is totally epic! And claptrap is just sooo cute =)

Oh badass! I wont lie, youre inspiring the Ork in me to build one of those

It does look very good, but i feel like it is kinda empty.. Like it needs more armor around the neck area or something. As it is and well done! But i see room for more.

Thanks for the feedback guys I do appreciate it, and I do agree, his legs in particular are a bit weedy and unprotected.... But unfortunately given my time frame I wasn't able to do anything else... I just had barely enough time to finish painting him... That's not to say I won't revisit it later though.... But I've got a whole lot more crap to do for the time being!


Anyway, here he is all painted up:









Just finished a delicious nutritious meal of som a dem squishy humeys...

Cool, good blood colour as well

nice paint! do more stuff.

That looks great!

Thanks guys!

Now fer ta da big gunz

dat gun needs more cannons! nice work.

Squiggoth came out well - nice to see he's been fed too


panda - the barrel's not there yet - surely those are just parts of the recoil dampeners for the thing

This...is an Epic Waaagh.

 Awesomesauce wrote:
Thanks guys!

Now fer ta da big gunz

I have those SAME exact wheels sitting in my scrap pile lol Looking great

It's been a wee bit since I've been able to get on here, what with the holidays and all, so with that I have an update a lot of catching up to do!

@panda and monkeytroll: I was actually planning on it being a sort of rocket artillery cannon, which is basically just a straight tube to direct the rocket..So I wasn't really planning on elongating it. That is a good point though, it probably would look better, and I am now rethinking whether or not I want to.

Though then again I am also very lazy too.... So I still might not

@Brian thanks a lot man!

@kingcracka Haha seriously can't beat those dollar store monster trucks. And I totally got the idea to even go to the dollar store from your thread by the way


And now as for the update itself:

Being that it's kinda a rocket-ey artillery kannon-ey thingy I think it could easily be played as either a kannon or a lobba. Although so far I've never actually bothered trying out proxying lobbas in-game.

I'm building it in pieces so that I can try my hand at casting it, it'll be a hell of a lot easier than building 3 from the ground-up. So none of the pics have it fully together, but this first pic will give you an idea of what it'll look like when it's complete.



And here's all of it in pieces:



And here's some close-ups so that you can better see some of the detail





On the far left is a rocket for a grot crewman to hold, the middle plate is what the barrels all rest on, the other middle is a very rudimentary sight retical for them to aim with, and far right is the plate that will go at the very rear of the kannon, on the ground

I was considering doing something similar - rocket artillery inspired by the WW2 German Nebelwerfer. My thought was that with a properly designed mounting for the rockets, the same models could either could either point their rockets horizontally (to count as a kannon) or up (to count as a lobba).

But I should really hunt out a good source of rockets before I start cutting plasticard. Some grots with appropriate arms to hold/carry a rocket would also be good - GW's selection of grot artillery crew is rather lacking :(

very nice, that scratch work is well done.

Thanks broos! And yeah that's what I'm hopefully trying to pull off with this rocket artillery. This pretty much does look like a nebelwerfer, even though the grots manning it are going to be soviet themed....they looted it...

So unfortunately I've been incredibly busy lately.... I haven't even been able to update my blog! Between the cold weather and extreme busyness I haven't been able to even finish casting the damn kannon.

LUCKILY I have been finding time here and there to build my next project though....and its almost done now...

Introducing me own take on da warkopta:

Here's my first WIP pic:



And here's a more recent one:



So obviously the front rotor-holdey-thingy bit will be standing upright on the kopta, I just can't secure it until after I cast it.

All that's left are the rotors and some sculpting and then I think I'm good to cast!

I'm scratchbuilding this sucka in its entirety, so the plan is to cast it like 6-8 times and use them as trucks during friendly games for a themed apocalypse now "flight of the orkyries" army. And during apocalypse games they would be used as the actual warkoptas formation. Otherwise warkoptas seem kinda sucky for their points.

And since its all my own scratchbuild I might maybe even sell em....though my aspirations are usually much higher than the final product...



Also, what can you do with TWO HUNDRED 3x1mm magnets...?



I'll let you know when I figure it out, but I have a feeling it's going to have something to do with a lot more DAKKA

you can make a landa that comes apart?

Dat's a good'un Boss!

It looks great

 cormadepanda wrote:
you can make a landa that comes apart?

A Landa, as in the giant spaceship transport thing? That's WAYYY to big an undertaking for my ADD lol. Or do you mean the kopta? I'm just building the kopta in several pieces in order to cast it, that's all


@ AntomanElven Thanks! It'll certainly look MUCH better once it's completed and all together! (and even better when there's 6 of em!)

Gots meself annuva update....So close......yet so far






For the pilot, I'm going to use warbikers legs and arms, along with the orc pilot bodies and heads from kromlech, and they look great!


Just gotta greenstuff the details to the cockpit and landing gear, build the rotors and dakkagun, and rivet the crap out of it. Then it's off!

looks much like the forgeworld one, well done.

Almost done! These are all of its constituant parts:



Just gotta rivet, mold, cast, paint.



Got 2 weeks before an apocalypse battle for the formation to make it's maiden voyage.

Dear Mr Awesomesauce.
You are my Warboss.
WAAAAAGH!
Love, Squidbot.

well done so far, hope to see the casting done

Hey Gang,

Well I have bad news and good news.

The bad news is, the casting pretty much failed, at least for now while it's still cold outside and I don't have a respirator for dealing with resin. When it warms up again *AND* I get a respirator, I'll give it another go.

That being said, I do have the original kopta, but I didn't finish painting it yet so I won't bother posting it.



The casting failure had an unforeseen side effect though...



My self esteem completely plummeted, I was in a horrible depression... I completely stopped doing all of my projects, none of it was fun anymore...




Everything sucked. Nothing made sense anymore, HOW COULD IT HAVE FAILED?!


In the darkest hour of my depression.... When it truly seemed like all was lost....


I started getting angry.... REALLY ING ANGRY




Yes, he is flipping everyone off, and yes, there is a flaming fist, also flipping everyone off, launching from his arm.

His name is PUNCH and He'll be my librarian.

(Telling you guys their names should be real fun...)


Luckily there was no depression, I just got busy, so I haven't been able to work on much lately, which is why I haven't posted anything in a while... BUT in my spare time I lurked around and got hung up on angry marines. So I'm going to give this a go for a little while, and get back to me orksies later.



Anyway here's more of PUNCH









I'm actually pretty angry about the way the wash is sticking to all of the armor (not in a good way). It's never looked so crappy before. Though then again, I was painting orks before... I'll have to figure something out to make it look better. I probably shouldn't have painted the most important model first....

Here's some WIP of him










--actually, I've never tried to paint energy before... I don't think I pulled it off completely, does anyone have any suggestions for painting flames/psychic energy? Pics are more than welcome!



And here's his three most trustworthy serge's: GREEN HANDS, RAGEQUIT, and



green hands was taken directly from one of the great angry marines stories, and ragequit's model was heavily influenced by one in vyler's angry marines blog. In fact, most of my blog will be heavily influenced by his.

Whelp, there's a whole lot more where they came from, so hopefully I'll be able to pick up and do this regularly again

No you have turned from the green anger to the yellow anger!

Haha yup

Bleh for the slow start, but here's me two dreadz WIP:



Faces done (because I couldn't help myself but do them first) but everything else still needs a lot of work

I am loving the finger marine!

Nice dreads Mate!
Still, I cannot forgive You for leaving Gork and Mork...

all the anger, none of the fun

Did I ever mention I have hobby ADD? Probably regular ADD too, but that is still undiagnosed as of yet...

So immediately after my last post I completely lost interest in painting the angry marines....

The good news is that despite the several month hiatus in posting, I did get back to da boyz in green

But this time with a little different flavor....

I bring you the first of my Taullies:

Da Rippa

Original concept down at least...not sure where I'm going from here yet.... All I know is he needs robot pants.



Jump Jets means he should look agile...



Now that's a jump jet!



Got the pose down, SMS on top, ion accelerator, some sand...



Rivets! Robot pants!



Da rokkit done proppa



Well he's gotta get that 3++ from somewhere, right?





Let me know what you guys think! I know it's been a while, but comments are always appreciated!

I've also started the conversion work on a [looted] soviet BMP to be a hammerhead. the Hover-ey-bits and railgun will be magnetized so I could also use it as a looted wagon or even a trukk if I want. Hopefully this will be done in less than 3 months...