monkeytroll wrote:...unforunately it's merely where I'd stuck some blu-tac, so that when I sprayed there'd still be some clean plastic to stick the driver to :...

Oh, well, nevermind then! HAHAHAHAHA! still, it looks great, and can't wait to see more!

I plan to go the oily route on my engines, rather than the rusty one - save the rust for the frame, plates and exhausts

Awesome looking stuff, I only just caught up with this blog and everything is looking zany and awesome as ever !

RSJ - It does look good, now you've pointed it out I'll be trying to replicate that deliberately on some other pieces And obviously it won't look so good then

Arakasi - Yeah, that's my general aim, I just had a flash on a great rusted hulk of an engine that shouldn't be able to work at all But I don't think it would have worked on this buggy, I'll save it for later

moonshine - Glad to hear I'm keeping it where you like it


So, busy-busy recently. Unfortunately not on my models Plus I've found myself in some strange head-space the last week or so and when I have had time to sit at my desk I've just been poking and prodding at various bits to no real avail. I know, I know, not much different from normal then So tried a little more of that painting thing this morning (see, told you I was in a weird head-space ).

Most of the jeep-buggy done now, just some interior details left really. Plus driver and gunner. And need to make up a couple of rokkits to lie in the back of the jeep.




Still not happy with the chipping effect on the blue and grey. Using grey for the highlight and dark flesh for the primer, certainly better than the light blue/granite I tried previously. I think maybe it's the actual patterning this time that's more of an issue than the colour, looks more like spray than chips to me, think the individual paint splats are too big considering it's on fairly small pieces. Still, it is an improvement so that's good.


Oh and these guys just wanted to put in an appearance...




Hopefully get some more stuff done after I've been looting. Err, shopping.

I like the cyber tuna!

I really like the seat on the buggy for some reason....

That is some nice chipping on the yellow and red paint and some lovely rust effects, with that touch of verdigris on the bumper.
Nice to see the sharks with a bit of paint they look so pleased with their enhancements.

That buggy is incredible.

That Jeep is awesomely done. The battle damage is top notch

Stunning paint chipping Monkey! the bumper and the yellow plate are insane, i really like the seat also. reminds me of a bauhaus chair :-) the verdigris is a nice touch and the rusty plates are eye candy. glad to see the frikin sharks are still ....sharking..lol

So what is this headspace you talk of...? i once had that ... many years ago... or was that head lice .. i forget.

graven - all caught in cyber-dolphin friendly nets too

Llamahead - If only I'd known that undercoating a piece of plastic and then pulling off some blu-tac would generate such interest I'm so glad RSJake pointed it out, it never even occured to me, and I'm already thinking of various places to use it

Mu - Thanks, I'm really pleased with the way this chipping works on the yellow particularly. The green and red are next, then all other colours gets a bit wishy-washy And yep, the sharks they are a smilin'.

samwellfm - Thank you man.

PDH - Thank you Peter.

neil - Cheers dude I'll keep my mind's eye out for a real rust-heap, just for you

And in a shocking move, a second update for today.....




OK you can get up now and look at the pwetties..

Finished off one of the meks



Well, I just noticed his bionik eye needs touching up, his real eye needs doing completely, and there's some washes to do on the base, but close enough


Laid some colour down on one of the 'ard boyz



Still a bit to go


And I'm sure there's peeps out there eagerly awaiting the return of....



....TV Head. Decided that putting some paint on him might help me figure out how I'm going to do the screen. Yep, still working on that Wondering about trying out some OSL when I do the lights in Dok Fioloplis on the chest there. Then realise what a horrible mess that would make. Then consider trying it again

Also started colouring in on the second grotkopta



A quick shout out to CK there

And you may recall me musing that I might use something like this as a nob for these guys:



Which does amuse me But whilst deciding on twin turbines or twin rotors for the third version, I thought that this would be a better nob:



Look good?

And finally, I finally came up with a use for an arm I'd been toying with for months...




Thanks for stopping by, have a pleasant journey and don't forget to leave your teef at the exit...

WOW incredible stuff. That ard boy is looking brilliant and so is the mek. where do you get all these incredible ideas from ?

Yes! I totally love the wings on the grotkopta.

Someone's been busy!

The painting on the Mek and 'Ard Boy seems a bit grainier than usual - I'm hoping it's just the lighting or camera work... TV head and the grot kopta are looking smooth though...

Deffkoptas don't have Nobz - unless these are Stormboyz? I can't even remember anymore Regardless - they are looking good.

Is that last Ork meant to be falling back from an exploding cybork shoota? Ouch! (From the original pic I thought it was a Klaw - but it looked too small )

Keep up the good work as always!

Will be interested to see where you go with the disc. That Stormboyz grot seems to being showing up quite regularly in threads I'm watching - I may have to remember to use him for something... I think when I was visualising the disc I thought it would be hollow. I'm now having thoughts of a central gear encasing the grotpit with two or three smaller gears between it and the outer ring...

Where are the wings from on the other one?

Where are those wings grot copter from? they are really nice, and would make a cool yeld spryer wing set too ;-) Like the the use of the pylon sprue bit for the Meks guns. And is Tv heads gun just painted with washes ? because its pretty nice work. and is that a forgeworld ork head on the robot legs?

splendid!

moonshine - I thank you sir. I have a special ideas bag I looted from an ancient deity in a prvious life. It comes in useful now and again.

samwellfm - Thanks! That's what I wanted to hear, not everything I think looks good seems to look good to others

Arakasi - Afraid I can't pin that on the lighting/photo's. The mek is definitely a lot grainier than most of my current stuff. He was one of the ones I seemed to paint really quickly a few months back, and then noticed that I'd reverted to drybrushing them. I didn't feel like re-doing the lot so kind of muddled through with washes and a bit of over-painting here and there, although I did leave most of the metal work. It has a slightly different texture in the flesh but still fits in with the others, but macro-photo's are always going to show up the difference. The 'ard boy was a trial with some new inks (running out of my favourite GW red and yellows), especially over the yellow - haven't decided on whether to re-do or try and salvage yet, think with a few washes and some chipping it might be okay. If it wasn't the yellow that caught your eye then it's just down to bad painting on my part

Yep, the grotkopta's are stormboyz, didn't think I could get away with them as deffkoptas as well as the bionikoptas

That was the plan, orky tek doesn't always work good you know, just ask Gutslumpa Glad you could see what I was aiming for, wasn't sure it came across well enough.

Well, not sure where that disc will eventually end up. It used to be a ride for my DE haemonculus, then was a concept bionikopta, then a nob for the grotkoptas, now it's back to just a spiky disc The 'real' disc kopta I have planned is more of a cockpit (I like grotpit btw ) in the centre with rotors coming out to meet the outer disc. The gear idea certainly sound interesting...

I believe the wings are from MicroArts, came with a steam powered backpack. They've been lying around for a few years now waiting for me to find a use for them, they were originally planned for a raptor but were a little too big for my liking if I remember rightly, but then again there could have been any number of reasons that that hasn't transpired yet

neil - see above The pylon bit is the defining feature of the kustom mega blasters built by one of Upzag's promising young meks, an idea that I mostly like, but occasionally wish I'd used it on something else and gone a bit wilder with the KMBs. Swings and roundabouts I guess TVHead's gun is just chainmail and various washes, yes, although I like the look of coloured weaponry I find that I tend to veer towards plain metallics when I paint myself, more out of habit I think. If I start to auto-pilot then dry-brushing and metals come to the fore I find
The head on old explody arm there is from the MaxMini ork pirate heads. There's some great heads in there, but I think this is the first one I've used so far. I wanted a head that was open, but not one of the standard yellin' ones.

weety - cheers!

You make Dr. Evil so proud!

Amazing stuff! To be honest, I wouldn't even know where to start with compliments so I'm just going to say "keep up the good work!"

Heff - Glad we here at Evil Empire Plc R&D Dept. are appreciated

jack - Thank you, I'll try

And so after some days in the sun with friends a veritable whirlwind of ideas came crashing through my work desk. Here's the first to get finished from the latest batch... (still need some tidying up)

Some boyz:




He got his feet replaced with stompy pads and had a slugga switched for a hand, but still he screams and raves and waves his hands in the air like he just don't care...




That may be due to GrimSnik practisin' a bit of brain surjary recently though...
There'll be a clear plasic viewing port placed over the hole once it's painted up (so somewhere around July 2012 then)




Even when you're a bionik killing machine with inbuilt multi-spectral targeting, metal jaws, a telescopic waist and a small tank for legs, there's something comforting about wielding a piece of rusty pipe.




Another 'ard boy joins the fray. May still swap out one of the legs for a different one, or maybe just add some wiring to these ones.




And a nob with shoulder mounted shoota/rokkit kombi. Was going to have a banna pole out of the pipe on the backpack, but it would have to bend around the rokkit so it'll be for the ignition wire now






So, thinking about using the baneblade sponson to raise up the fans, creating a small tier of flooring around it, possibly using the space for the bolters to house a tow crane. Probably mainly mesh flooring, some scaffolding holding it up, servo-grots scurrying about under it. Still not decided on whether to have another set of fans directly above these, or maybe a turbo-jet mounted between these two.



Also still thinking about extending decking out around the craft, possibly a small second floor, little more tham a watch tower really. Was actually supposed to rough out some ideas for these pics, but realised I didn't. What you can see is a rough blu-tac'd concept for the turret mounted SAG, a big shoota and the orkus mekanikus sybol on the nose

That's about it for now, thanks for having a poke around.

Me likey a lot! The ramshackle appearence of the floor works realy well!

cutty slicey cut. Thats the way to do it!. they look bonza, and I enjoy identifying the parts - Is that a titan gun and drill on one?, also I see some space crusade heavy weps kicking around... The spell checker says there is no such words as slicey cutty, stupid spell checker.

Your imagination knows no bounds!

Yay , Did you ever hear the one about a grreen skinned monkey...?

the hovva wagon is comming along, Turret mounted shokk attack gun is just WOW ! i knew what it was imeadiatley.
the ard boy with metal body is very nice , and the csm shoulder for a head is freaky ! , and will look cool with a 60s style cosmonaut paint job. , although he does look like warmachine from iron man ;-) and i notice your Sharks are on the frikkin front page !!!!!!!!!

Really awesome thing you got there

loving the aircraft caryer. its really cool. nice work.

Okay... an Ork variation on the LCAC. Will wonders never cease?

Commander Cain - Good to hear! Yeah, it got a tiny bit more ramshackle than I'd planned More 'decking' to add in over areas still.

weety - I think you'll find da boyz looted da 'slicey' and da 'cutty' from da spellum-a-checky-ma-jig. Needed for much important Mekky stuff dey woz.
Space crusade weapons..check. Titan drill and bit...our survey says 'uhuh'. Drill from the DE Talos, gun arm from a GOT drone from Antenociti's Workshop.

Arakasi - Unfortunately the laws of physics prevents some of that imagination becoming a reality. Or maybe that's 'fortunately'

neil - Thank you sir!
They got out of their pen again? How?
Everyone loves sharks. Everyone loves laser guns. Therefore....

moonshine - Thanks dude

bigfish - Thank you. Mind you, I don't think it's big enough for an aircraft carrier, maybe a few grotkopta's

Marcin - Let's hope not, else the universe becomes a very boring place.



And so, dear readers, what could I have gathered you here for at this late hour? For surely it cannot be another update already? Verily, it is so.


The dok's released another batch of kustomas.(Although the grots think he's been a bit premature)

Snake 'ead Jonez



Snakeboy here still hasn't had his gunarm fitted correctly, his jaw still needs adjusting too, he'll drop everything he bites at the moment.Boar boy torso's fit really well with the ork legs once the pelvis has been lost. Possibly a wire or too missing from his head too


Chew-Ya-Fat



He's so cool, he'll dual shoot you whilst sitting down. He shouldn't really have been released till he'd had a new optik put in place though.



Ahh, turns out he's on the floor due to some shoddy workmanship at da surjary. Hope he gets a discount on that optik now.


Spider-Ork, spider-ork...



...does very little a spider ought.
Except scuttle. Spider-Ork is super-orkily gifted at scuttling.Even before he's had his feet fitted. Just think about that for a minute.

That's dedication to scuttling right there.

Should probably get those exhausts looked at when he's in for his re-tread too.


Da Judj



He is da roolz! No-one's quite sure how he keeps that looted aquila on his shoulder, he hasn't tied or bolted it yet. He occasionally answers to the name of Jo. J-O, Jo. Maybe he'll get an ammo runt called Pip.


Thank you for coming, don't forget your guide on the way out.



edited for a rogue square bracket

Chew Ya Fat, Spider Ork, are we in for Doctor Orktopus or Iron Ork sometimes in the future? That Painboy of yours looks very busy indeed.

Seems I missed a few updates; these are awesome!
The hovercraft's ramshackle deck looks great, and spider-ork is brilliant!

Spider ork spider ork does whatever a spider ork does, can he swing from a web no he can't he's an ork. lookout here comes the spider ork

Love the work you put in.

Man, I love this thread so much. The creativity and dedication you posess really helps bring life to your little monsters. As to bigfish's previous notion, can we make this into an ork aircraft carrier?
http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/wishbook/ussflagg.jpg
I can see it now, all ork-ified. It would be amazing. It would also be about the size of most gaming tables making it even more awesome. Adepticon Army display base, anyone?

Moltar wrote:Man, I love this thread so much. The creativity and dedication you posess really helps bring life to your little monsters. As to bigfish's previous notion, can we make this into an ork aircraft carrier?
http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/wishbook/ussflagg.jpg
I can see it now, all ork-ified. It would be amazing. It would also be about the size of most gaming tables making it even more awesome. Adepticon Army display base, anyone?

I second this. It should even be a gaming table.

Marcin - Not at present, although there's a bit of doc Ock inherent in all big meks I feel

CK - Updates are like a number 23 bus around this thread, wait for ages then 3 at once. Thanks, Spider-ork will be better onced he gets some feet, even if they end up as simple sucker-pad types. Which they will now.

mullet_steve - Thank you. No he can't swing from a web (although webs were briefly considered), but boy you should see him scuttle. He does love to scuttle some.

Moltar - Thank you so much. But doesn't dedication involve actually finishing stuff As to the carrier, I think I'll leave that to the adepticon goers I like how it only comes with one figure too

samwellfm - I could make a fleet of them, float them out in the marina and have a water-themed apocalypse game.


not gonna happen


And so onto this evening's main feature.
Dukes and damsels, for your delectation and delight, a few more dazed denizens dredged from delirium (all desiring green-stuff delicacies)

Burnaboy:



Aftera small incident at a refueling station this guy requisitioned part of an aborted dalork.There'll be a stogie between his fingers and a bit more detailing on the chassis. I need a few more random metal plates and surjary scars amongst the few bits of flesh the cyborks show.



Chorlton:



This is just another sad example of what happens when a perfectly average hyper-violent fungoid life-form gains access to guns and knives and cybernetic mono-wheeled prosthetics. Do you know where YOUR orcs are?
Another nice mono-wheel from maxmini.


Nob:



Was originally 'da hunta', but I know have a better concewpt for 'da great green hunta', so he lost his moniker. Hard cheese old chap. It appears his cyber-monocle has slipped up somehow, have to get that looked at when he's in for gs-ing.


GitStompa:



Was pleased with how he came out, think it caught the thing I was looking for. Yeah, pretty vague I know, but just tried to describe it several times and couldn't so.... Hey, it's the wacky monsters that are the draw here, not the in-depth analysis
Not so pleased with the wiring to go from the helmet to a backpack that's not there yet. Or to be precise the order in which I thought I'd do the wiring. Namely, AFTER attaching a tiny yet awesome brass-etched gun-sight to the slugga.
Nope, you're right, you can't see one in the pics.
I can't see one anywhere on my floor desk or clothes either.

The wiring doesn't show because when I realised what I'd done and couldn't find the sight I just put it down and moved on. I mean he could be finished. Technically you wouldn't know about the wiring if I hadn't mentioned it, so it could be finished as far as you know. And then the wires would be like some bonus DLC that had been kept secret, rather than a patch to put in what you were already expecting.


Nob:



Orks with klown noses, Yay! Just couldn't get a pic that didn't look like a clown nose. It's supposed to be an eye-stalk coming out of one socket, it has a wire leading into the other.

His big choppa is going to get chopped a bit, possibly a shoulder-mounted rokkit, but that'll depend on what exactly happens to the choppa.



Thanks for looking.


edited for another rogue square bracket. Who keeps letting these things loose. They're a menace. A menace I tell you. I don't know what the planet's coming to. When I were a lad, all this was........

Cool stuff as always - though Chorlton looks like a boy with a Nob arm (could just be the photo angle...) and the first Nob (woz 'iz name?) looks like a Nob with a Boyz arm (pretty sure this isn't the photo angle ) Not that it's easy to find things that look out of place on your "kreations" Having said that , Burnaboy look slike he still needs the most work - his Burna especially looks too weedy!

There are some unfilled holes in GitStompa's slugga and helmet that look... unfinished. Like perhaps they were meant to have - I don't know - a sight and perhaps some wiring? That would look awesome!

It's always a treat to visit this blog! Must say that tv-head is one of my absolute favorites, he looks just great yet he seems to been made using quite few means!

Really like your latest lot of boyz as well, the guy with stompa legs whom seem to have walked away in the middle of an open head surgery being one of my fav's!

Qoute Monkey " Hey, it's the wacky monsters that are the draw here, not the in-depth analysis " Lol , Well i for one appreciate your in depth analysis as much as the next deaf blind mute. ( btw thats the reason my spelling and grammar are so bad ) Your very prolific at the moment Monkey , has Grimsnik or is it Upzag been feeding you red bull well in any case , its all great stuff comming out of the Mad docs Big mek camp Clown nose is a definate stay , in my opinion take it of his eye and make him the clan joker. and spider ork is great , so freaky....., that aircraft carrier , would probably only just squeze your imagination on board and would be a cool place for the frikking sharks to play too. excelennt work on all mate . your really pushing the hovva craft out.

Arakasi - Thanks. Yeah, well spotted, trust me to take pics with the large arm in the foreground and the small arm behind Chorlton's was something I didn't pick up on till after, just used an arm from the pile The nob's arm was done knowingly, I thought I'd get away with it after a few tries with nob arm's throwing grenades didn't work for me. If it weren't for you pesky kids I'd have got away with it. (he's lost his name to another idea, if he's a good boy he'll get a new one)
Yep, the burna still needs some work, the base unit looks a little bare still, and I'm thinking there may need to be another fuel tank on his back. I was trying to avoid that, and was happy with a smaller burna (well, I'ze gone and 'ad this 'ere leg replacement thingummy, and now I ain't got enuff teef fors a decent burna), but he's still missing something, so I guess I'll have a look at potential fuel tanks.

A sight and some wiring eh? Why I oughta....

But happy, happy, joy, joy....an extensive swish* about on the desk eventually turned up a lovely little brass-etched sight. And there was much rejoicing! In fact I was so pleased I almost went and glued it straight back into place. And then remembered the wiring. So wiring into the helmet first, then I put the sight back. Pics later, hopefully there may be some newbies too.

c0un7 - Thank you. If memory serves (and it should by no means be assumed that it does) TV-head was built during the time when I was confined to using bits that were actually on my desk (snd that's the real reason my desk is overflowing with bits - for emergencies). There's a lot of serious head trauma cases wandering around at the moment, maybe I shoulod concentrate on a GS session tonight, get some of those fixed up. Or maybe I'll see what else wants to be built, I have an unopened box of nobz to add to my bits, as nob bodies were coming into short supply in my pile.

neil - See, and there's me worried that peeps are just looking at pwetty pictures and scratching their heads, I'm glad you appreciate it. Oh wait..that's....
I think it's more a case of various bits I've been working on suddenly realised where they were destined to go. Klown nose is most definitely Eye and not Nose, will be staying as Eye, will not even consider the role of Nose, is Eye. Although an orky killa klown posse would be pretty cool, this is not part of one.


*swishing is the prime method for finding things on my work desk. You take a long thin object, say a knive,brush, bit of plasticard etc and then swirl it amongst the detritus, hoping to catch a glimpse of some small piece of plastic amogst the plastic.

Maybe an orky killa kan [klown] posse, if you catch my drift?

-Kaesar II

Lovely . I like how you drille dout the tusks on the black orc helmet. It's really these little details that malke all the difference!

Dude your like the MacGyver of orks. " Ok monkey what we have here is a beat up old ork torso and head, a toy bought for one dollar and some metal thing I found lying in the street. You have to assemble something worthy of the table top." -1 day later- "Let's see what you have made." ... .... " I'll give you 20 bucks for that" - giant explosion in the back ground and 80s rock begins to play-

Xmortis wrote:Dude your like the MacGyver of orks. " Ok monkey what we have here is a beat up old ork torso and head, a toy bought for one dollar and some metal thing I found lying in the street. You have to assemble something worthy of the table top." -1 day later- "Let's see what you have made." ... .... " I'll give you 20 bucks for that" - giant explosion in the back ground and 80s rock begins to play-

LOL... that was genius.

and the orks are looking epic as well. liking the gun on the nob with clown nose/ robotic eye. very dakary

LK II - A giant robotic Pennywise, lovely

I think klowns would make good Nobz/Kommandos in Adam Blork's Travellin' Cirkus an' Unfair.
You'd want a variety of squig-beasts, going up to squiggoth.
Ringmaster - Warboss
Fire-eaters - burna boyz
Street performers - lootaz
Uni-cyclists - bikers
Dodgems - buggies
Orky Kannonballz - stormboyz
Klownz - nobz (they must get a tiny battlewagon)
Mimes - kommandos
Freakshow - flashgitz


Sorry, I think you get the idea now, I'll stop


CK - Thank you. Those holes have now been filled with some wire type goodness However there are several more drilled helmets on my desk, and they won't all be getting wired up, I think it's a good look


Xmortis - Wow, thank you dude I kinda consider Orks to be the MacGyvers of the 40k universe, so that would make me the MacGyver of MacGyvers Now, if only I can harness the power of the mystical Fists of Norris I'll be able to rule the universe.


Using only a hairpin and half a stick of juicy fruit.


bigfish - It certainly made me chuckle And thank you, my meks have a franchise at Big Guns R Us, you can probably find some of their stuff there



So, some wiry goodness in that helmet did I say? And a sight too?Hmm, guess I'd better throw a couple of pics up, keep the mob from baying. I was sure those sharks would have sorted them out by now. May be an occasional bit of 'motion blur' on the pics, it's a bit choppy here


Gitstompa (Slight Return)



So that little thing is what I was making all that fuss about, eh? I know, I know, but something about the precision of that sight, and it's placement on an Ork slugga just tickles me greatly I like the pipes, but they seem to have taken away slightly from the b-movie alien/monster type feel I thought he had going for a while.


And the big story around the kamp-furnaces is that, against all odds, the 2 brave (read press-ganged) servo-grots up for secondment to their brothers in Da Mentul Leejun have finally staggered out of the workshops and surjaries...almost intact.


Spanna-Tek 'Bubbles' GrubSpin



Just a bit of tidying up and he's done.

Tek-Masta 'Stumpy' Gutwerkz



A bit of tidying up, and some filling required on the spanna-ax.

Now to see if graven has a preference as to which he'd like

This army is so FUN! Every single model is brimming with creativity. And all the different bits you use just makes them look fantastic!

Cain

Everything you've done is great, I love the 2 grots you just posted!!!

Is that an Epic Rhino that Spanna-Tek 'Bubbles' GrubSpin is using for legs?

Cute grotz - love the axe/spanner. Gitstompa's sight is... delicate. I see it already has a head shaped dent in it... Only suggestion I could make on Gitstompa is to try to remove the kinks in the wire? (or put something there to explain them...)

more , crazy creations . loving the grot gun conversion mate,.

Tek-Masta 'Stumpy' Gutwerkz looks like a grot-bot pope! just needs the Miter.

Gitstompa and Tek-Masta 'Stumpy' Gutwerkz are just awesome! You can really see Tek-Masta bossing around among all lesser tek-grots! Spanna-Tek 'Bubbles' GrubSpin looks great as well though with that pose and that right arm and weapon it kind of looks like he is about to vacuum Big Meks workshop floor (which seems like an ungreenskinish thing to do).

These latest conversions seem even more detailed and just plain cool. That grot 'walking' with the dreadnought fist as legs is killer.

So, shouldn't the grots get some sort of chibi-hawk too? I hear they're all the rage



With the addition of a tail, maybe with double upright fins, a possible grotkopta.

With some underslung shootas could even become a kan.



Except I think that's a better basis for a grot tank:



An interesting array of turrets has been looked at so far



Oops, forgot the replies


Commander Cain - Thanks man, it's amazing what a good bits collection does for your modelling


Grass4hopper - Thank you. It is indeed an epic rhino, a favourite mode of locomotion for the followers of GorkaMekka


Arakasi - Thanks, and indeed ax-spanna is far better than spanna-ax Yep, by the time the pic got taken the sight had been bent flat against the gun twice Had a bit of a go at sorting the kinks, wasn't great, but it's a tiny bit better now. I was thinking of painting them like some kind of malleable metal (copper or lead-ish), so that might work anyway.


neil - cheers mate.


Big Mek Dattrukk - Well, tech-marine, pope, what's the difference really?


c0un7 - I'm fairly sure that 'tidying' is not at the forefront of GrubSpin's mind


Wazzdig Dagga - Well, the two servo-grots were done as part of the GMS (http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/305404.page), which kind of spurs you into pushing yourself a bit more, so glad they look a bit more detailed.



So, what nefarious project has been keeping me quiet the last few days?

Apart from grot stormravens/tanks, that is?

Well, there's a selection of heads now awaiting final GS'ing, a bit of time went into slightly hollowing out part of a nob's side, and various bits of plastic have been held up against various other bits of plastic. All pretty standard stuff.


Oh, and what did become of the grot tank I hear none of you cry.
Well I like that design as a basis for a tank, so that will no doubt appear at some time, but that wasn't the real reason for building that bit.

Upzag's been trying out some new 'legs' as it were:



mostly held together by magic atm. Some of that magic wore off during the photo session, and both tracks now need re-gluing to the body. The bionik arm is just pinned in place for now, it needs a bit of adjusting to the right angle, the handle will get a wrench added to it. The chainsaw arm needs a bit of gs and some wiring.

The ork side eye needs to become a bit smaller, possibly elongate the ear a bit too. The torso is just balanced on the tracks, needs a bit of detailing around the waist. That particular KMB has been briefly looted from a passinf deffkopta for the photo-shoot. Upzag's personal blasta is slightly bigger than that.

The back area's still under consideration. The plan is for a small area with a few mek-arms waving from it, then the exhausty type gubbins, haven't quite pinned down the exact look, but getting closer.



Of course, Upzag does get an occasional yen for a bit of a speed run. The track unit's pretty nippy, but sometimes, you just need to upgrade:




The front track will be attached to a biker base, and probably get a magnet in the tip just for added stability. There's magnets in the tracks, which will mate with ones in the 40mm base and the biker base.Probably add a pin to each as well for added security.

Part of the reason the back is taking longer is I have exhausts for the general use tracks, and a jet engine for the bike configuration, and I'm trying to get a better looking join than just flat magnet attachments (and different in each mode).



And dakka has been generously 'provided' by some handy guard




One of the ammo drums will be replaced by an orky one, may do something with the barrel ends too.

Now, as you're here, you may as well take a seat there. The dok's got some interesting new tekneeks he's eager to try.
No?
You sure? Very cheap, only a few teef.

Ok, your loss, maybe next time....

Upzag!! cool. this is different mate, poor guardsman! thats planety of dakka right their , i think the barrels look a tad long from the side, like they only should reach the end of the front track , but from above left it looks great i have nevr seen that ork body before i dont think . looks really different. mate.

Man I leave for a bit and come back and there is all kinds of new cyborkiness going on. Loving the new stuff. And for TVhead you should think about doing Ork and Mindy on the screen. Or even M.O.S.H (M.A.S.H.) So many great conversions. It hurts my brain tank.

Lovely! Will he count as Wazdakka?

I'd suggest chopping off those imperial looking autocannon barrels (just the barrels) and replace with something Orkier/meatier - some thicker plasticard tube for a start... (plus your usual details)

neil - As I'm 'close' to getting a unit or so actually completed I figured I'd better make a start on the bossman. Although there's always the chance he may get downgraded to be another big mek later I keep thinking that Upzag should really be mounted on some kind of gravimetrik bike as that is what he likes to dabble in, something like the Carl Critchlow style jet bikes from the HellsReach section of the old RT rulebook, nice and fat and chunky. Or maybe something else entirely Whatever, figured this particular guy should start getting into shape.
As to the body, no, you probably haven't seen that particular ork body before That would be because it came from a zoat


schank - Well you know, we had a discussion as to whether we should all put our stuff on hold until you'd got your new mancave sorted, but then we went 'Nah'. Ork and mindy is a topic I keep thinking about, but not on TV-head's screen. I'm 99.99999% certain it won't be showing an image from a show, far more likely to be static/facial image/radar screen orientated. Hmm, M.O.S.H. might work for some kind of 'kopta goodness though...


CK - Well there's a fair bit of common DNA between this and my Wazdakka concepts, but this won't be it. My dakka-cannon is bigger than those puny 'umie big shoota's And I'm unsure about Wazdakka due to his lack of cybork goodness. From somewhere I'd got the idea he had a 5+ inv save for some other reason, and was content to just use that as my reasoning. Now I know I don't play, so it shouldn't matter, and I know it shouldn't make any real difference anyway if there was a bit of bionik stuff going on and it got ignored, but there's a little bit of me shaking his head and muttering about concepts But it's hard to resist a big bike with a big gun. Maybe I'll just tell myself I'm building him as a stand-alone, not part of the army, I have a few other ideas where I'm feeling that the cybork vibe might actually detract from the overall feel. We'll see...


Arakasi - I was thinking about shortening them just slightly and replacing the muzzle ends with some more orky bits. To be honest if I go for fatter barrels I'll probably use a different base for the gun itself. I had originally been considering using some kind of energy weapon instead of slug-throwers, mainly due to not been able to come up with a decent ammo delivery system. Fairly sure I've got some more of those auto-cannons lying around though, so I'll probably chop the barrel off one and see what occurs.

No updates yet as I haven't done anything but look at dakka (and some bridges ) since getting home from work. Maybe I'll go and do something in a minute.

Wazzdig Dagga wrote:These latest conversions seem even more detailed and just plain cool. That grot 'walking' with the dreadnought fist as legs is killer.

QFT

That goes for the models posted after that post too! I am deffinitly stealing the grot on Dreadfist!

Great work!

Was it suggested to put a smiley face (grinning Ork face?) on TV head's screen? If not - I'm suggesting it now (Think the robots in Fallout: New Vegas - if that means anything to you )

weety suggested a kind of static-covered smiley, which I like the idea of, but not sure I can pull it off. I'll have to look up the New Vegas robots, not got round to that yet, I've barely touched the main quest in Fallout 3, and my dvd drive refuses to eject at the moment. Which is fine as it has NeverWinter Nights in and I need to finish that off sometime Then maybe back to Fallout, or possibly go back to Morrowind, which is in pretty much the same state as fallout, lots of time put in, main quest basically ignored At least I got Oblivion on the PS so that I wouldn't add a gak-load of mods to that. Of course no doubt the new Elder Scrolls will be out before I get round to any of that and I'll go grab that instead

Umm, where was I? Oh, yes, smiley faces I was also thinking of looking up Will O the Wisp, trying to remember what Evil Edna's face was like, that's another idea. I'll go check up on Edna and the Vegas 'bots now...


cheers GG, loot away

You need a wee fat fairy then. Maybe a Nob in a tutu?

Someone in the past did a M.O.S.H. unit. Was a display board for his Mad Doc. Very well done I may add also. Hope I can find a pic. Last time I brought up something like this I never found a pic and ended doing a mock up for Gitz for a grot Unibike. Please great Dakka gods let me find the pick.

Found the link. http://www.garbo.org/40k/scenery/M-O-S-H.html

Was never a big fan of Mavis tbh, I was briefly caught in the temptation of a sarcastic squigapillar called Arfur though

And as a bonus it appears that the Vegas-bot and Edna bear a certain resemblence to each other, so I think I have my face, can't go wrong with two references for the price of one can you? I'm thinking I'll try and put it over a static-filled screen, so need to find a good technique for painting static, possibly stippling greys and black?

Nice find schank Love the dozer blade table, better than the ones I've come up with so far. The sentikopta's nice too, had plans for something like that. And now I'm wondering about what parts I need for a 'HotLipz' and a 'Radar'

Well, not a lot of hobby time recently, and what little I had I tried to spend doing, rather than dakka-ing Now that doesn't mean I've got lots done, in fact, very little. I have been using a small voodoo doll and a brace of lesser demons to try and loot some of weety's speed skill, but that misfired and now I have a hyper-active zombie demon shuffling at high veocity around the boat. Don't mix and match your majicks people


So just one guy fully built


Chorlton:



This guy deserves the Chorlton moniker more than the previous weilder obviously. Naturally the 'ard boyz need access to rokkits as well as a big shoota. The front should be better, I've been toying with this one for ages and not been able to devise a front I really liked, but just got a sudden urge to get him finished so just started on him. It'll do, but I may come back to this idea if a nice front comes to mind


And a few random daubings on some of the newer guys (Very wip - just making it look like I'm progressing)


Tonka-tink



I'm thinking a nice bright yellow for the tracks, just oozing nonchalance and subtlety


Nob & Nob



Sorry Arakasi, laziness and forgetfulness conspired to keep the smaller arm in place. Laziness ensured I kept it there, forgetfulness ensured I didn't bulk it up a bit with some metal plates bolted to the skin - I've only just recalled that was my plan as I linked the pic


Squigen in the head, sq..sq..squigen in the head




TV Head ?



Just a test to see how it looks, wasn't convinced when I first did it, it's grown on me since. Think my main concern was I've had a mental image of the lower buttons being a 'mouth' to the screen's 'eye' as it were, and so the it jarred at first. Still like the idea of static on the screen, but still not sure how to pull that off, maybe just a neutral colour for the screen itself, maybe some colour in the eyes...




Even managed to get Chorlton redded up a bit


And finally some paint has managed to drip onto Tek-Masta Gutwerkz



Wanting to chip up the armour and the legs, possibly hand-painting it as I've not pulled off sponging on small surfaces very well so far. Or I may just practice a bit more and try to get it down, I do like the effect I've got on bigger pieces.


Thanks for stopping by, watch out for the Gingerbread Ork on your way out, he's been a bit prickly lately...

I love em. - tv head is funny - I love his glowing buttons - they are all magnificent, and there are lots of them, and they are finished-ish. You should be proud!

I don't come in here and leave comments as often as I should. Because the stuff you do is great (and in some cases very funny). I'll definitely be using this thread for inspiration if I decide to build a pit slave gang, when my scavvies are done. The highlights since my last post are below.


The bionic leg and arm and I really like the black ork face mask with the wires.


I think I have a new favourite. The big lense head really make him cute in a good way. I also imagine that the track unit runs off two stroke..the engine at the back is really cool.
"Aw look at that sir...what is it, aw its so cute?"
"Oh boy its a Cybork. Get your weapons ready were under attack!"
"Awwww I wanted to play fetch with it".


Now I know TV head should be the cute one but I find him really creepy.

Great stuff

Peter

monkeytroll wrote:Sorry Arakasi, laziness and forgetfulness conspired to keep the smaller arm in place. Laziness ensured I kept it there, forgetfulness ensured I didn't bulk it up a bit with some metal plates bolted to the skin - I've only just recalled that was my plan as I linked the pic

I forgive you

I somehow imagined the face on TV Head to be more... Orky? You know, like the stylised Ork glyph faces? Now if the buttons at the bottom had been triangular teef shaped...

Arakasi wrote:

monkeytroll wrote:Sorry Arakasi, laziness and forgetfulness conspired to keep the smaller arm in place. Laziness ensured I kept it there, forgetfulness ensured I didn't bulk it up a bit with some metal plates bolted to the skin - I've only just recalled that was my plan as I linked the pic

I forgive you

I somehow imagined the face on TV Head to be more... Orky? You know, like the stylised Ork glyph faces? Now if the buttons at the bottom had been triangular teef shaped...

How about some old rabbit ear TV antennas? Paint the screen to look like the reception is all static-y and fuzzy. (I just realized I'm probabally showing my age with these comments.....) Very fun stuff. We'd make all sorts of krazy konvershuns when we were playing Gorkamorka.

Nice to see you back monkey but i cant blame you for wanting to work more than dak. latest work is very good, for some reason i am particularly liking the skin tones of all of them , maybe its just the darker shots?

Tv head is so freaky looking like a friendly sociapathic cartoon character from a over nice 50s tv show or something although i do see where you are thinking of doing a more toothy static option , maybe somethng like this ?



maybe you should consider paper static if you go down this route?

Chorlton is amazing. I really like the TV head in the style it is at the moment though - it is pretty creepy, and I feel like it really works! I like the bright yellow on Tonka-Tink too.

Ace work all round

Oh man! Tek-Masta Gutwerkz looks as good as ever. TV head should definitely be static... or just a nose. I raelly like those old bunny ears that neilput on him too... maybe a cadian vox would make short work of it.

PDH wrote:
"Awwww I wanted to play fetch with it".

^lol

weety - Thank you! Finished-ish is a pretty good description of the state most of my stuff ends as

PDH - Cheers! Likewise my comments on yours Yep, when Tonka-tink's engine is chuggin' away his telescopic chassis bounces up and down and his jaw flaps merrily away A regular at the low-rida meets around the camp. Never mistaken for a joyful robo-puppy more than once though

Arakasi - Thank you, I said 10 Hail Morks in penance. Yep, it'll be more orky, that was just a test to see if I liked eyes and mouth on the screen. Need to try some static tests too. Triangular buttons, hmm, next time. Well, maybe not 'next', but soon

Mr. Konrad - Staticy and fuzzy is what I'm aiming for eventually...I think Glad you enjoyed.

neil - Cheers! There's some new skin tones in there, but they're also badly lit, so could be either you like Cheers for the pic I still like both styles for TV-head, think I'll probably do a few mock-ups on some plasticard blanks and see what they look like...

Scarper - Thanks guy! TV-head will probably switch styles a few times before he finds his face...(low growl)'Where's my face?'

GG - Thank you! Just a nose? That's a route I hadn't considered, possibly some deep-rooted aversion to noses from the clown nose looking eyeball earlier The bunny ears are cool, but will depend on the final (well, possibly final) face-mate.


And so onto tonight's main attraction..well, main-ish, anyway


Bit more of that coloured water type stuff been splashed about a bit, not so liberally it's actually worth showing much, but even at this stage I like the look of

Da Judj



One of the top Roolz Nobz from Morka-City One, this guy joined up with Upzag & Grimsnik after a nasty incident involving some Squiggoth Rex blood, an inquisitive grot orderly and his neighbour. His arm was replaced with bioniks and the half-chewed remains of his head (and brain) were sealed into a helmet.



Nob (possibly trophy hunta)



Still need some tidying and GS, banna pole, and probably a rokkit, either mounted between the shoulders or under the shoota. Finally found a use for an ultrasmurf piece too



Shoota boy



He's taken an 'heroic dose' of da Dok's Speshul 'shrooms, and is now busily blasting flutterbys out of the sky. They're rainbow coloured and smell of 'urty. And only he can see them. Lot of GS work yet to do.


Thanks for stopping by, join us soon, same bat-channel, different bat-time....

So do you effectively double your boyz-per-box, doing all this chopping, adding and convertin? I've noticed you're only using one half of that one's body, so I'm guessing we'll see the other half one of these days, with a cybork'd upper body.

amazing as always. I still get tones of compliments on the rokkit buy you traded me. People ask me how I came up with it and I tell them that I wish it was my creation but I got it from a Mad Genius from Dakkadakka.

Right... first - you need to slice off the screen from TV Head and magnetise several plasticard replacements - that way you can change his face to match his (or your) mood!

Trophy hunta is compensating for something?

All looking good (as always). Like the bionics on Shoota boy - reminds me of what I'm doing with my Meganobz (now where did they get too?)

The Judge!! thats comedy that is - a pastiche or spoof. It may even be ironic and sartorial. I love it - even the gun and the boots are right for a judge but orky sized!

I posted your special package - it should be with you tomorrow or the day after

I just remebered what tv head reminds me of ..
http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110430225741/fallout/images/e/e2/Yesmanterminal.jpg well that and the tv witch from willow the wisp Evil Edna .


Your latest Creations are fun fun fun ..fifi

Da Judj is about the cleverest use of an ork bar tv head i have ever seen , like weety says a pastiche on so many levels , and just bloody good! he should have his own tv show .. on tv head guy.. and i have to say Arakasi ideas is genius i second using multiple heads idea ,

The nob has the best use of any ultramarines piece bar none, that is where those uptight boys in blue belong . although i do think you should go the whole hog and turn him into a orky calgar , with dual cyberised power fists with shooters underneath. More ridicule is what dakka needs, and your the mad genious to provide it.

Really like the off the shoulder asymetric summer bionic dress style you have going for the shoota boy , that is one fething huge shroom he has their. I guess he will be shooting flutterbys a while longer .

That orks with the black head looks superb and the half plasticard shoota boy looks veryh promisisng.

Anvildude - Doubles, triples, something like that But sadly, in this case you probably won't see the other part resurface. Used a boar boy as a basis (which reminds me, I need to check out those savage boar boys), and actually cuty off a lot less than half, and not sure it was a good clean cut either. That said, several of the heads I've cut up have both parts used on different guys, still want to try with a vertical slice though

schank - Why thank you sir. DakkaDakka - bringing mad geniuses together since, err, since whenever it started.

Arakasi - Oh, don't tempt me. I keep having to stop myself from magnetising various pointless little bits as is.

Iz youse kasting aspurju..., err, asparation.., dispersio..., I mean, is youse sayin' bad tings about my orkhood? I was thinking of having Da Trophy Huntas as a nob squad, give this one some smurf helmets on his banna pole etc, then maybe a 'nid hunter with a power klaw made from carnifex claws, a Tau hunter wearing bits of a battle-suit and so on. I have a couple of ideas for 'themed' squads of nobs, some of which I'll try to flesh out a little as I start them, one of which is secret till I have all the parts together for the squad and their ride.

Feel I should have done a bit more with his foot, but was thinking they just had a length of I-bar they just chopped up for his whole leg. I suspect there'll be some wiring added, so that may cover it.

weety - Thank you! I wanted to give him authentic citadel judge boots but he complained they were a bit tight It helps it's such an iconic image, even with just the basic colours laid down it jumps out as a judge. It was a fairly throw-away decision, based purely on the fact that the head (which I pulled of an old ogryn-stealer hybrid ) looked vaguely judge-like on an ork. Now I'm thinking that if I'd planned it I would have put together a helmet with chin. However, he should be getting a servo-grot who might bear a slight resemblence to a certain lisping robotic servant. Plus now I'm thinking a Roolz Nob on a Lawmasta is needed too.
And thank you again, look forward to it

neil - Oh dear, do try to keep up boy
Arakasi : Was it suggested to put a smiley face (grinning Ork face?) on TV head's screen? If not - I'm suggesting it now (Think the robots in Fallout: New Vegas - if that means anything to you )

monkeytroll : I was also thinking of looking up Will O the Wisp, trying to remember what Evil Edna's face was like, that's another idea. I'll go check up on Edna and the Vegas 'bots now...

monkeytroll : And as a bonus it appears that the Vegas-bot and Edna bear a certain resemblence to each other, so I think I have my face, can't go wrong with two references for the price of one can you? I'm thinking I'll try and put it over a static-filled screen, so need to find
a good technique for painting static, possibly stippling greys and black?



Yes.yes, multiple heads, I get the idea Won't be on TV-head though. Hmm, maybe a small set of rollers inside a hollow head, with a paper strip running around it with different pictures on it, and a small handle on the side of the head? Probably have to be a body actually, bit fiddly at head size.

Orks - putting ultra-smurfs in their place since time immemorial. I'm toying with adding some power gubbins to the sword, but I'll leave the Orkus Astartes to Arakasi

I'm hoping when he eventually finds himself caught under a brush he'll lose the 'summer dress' look

moonshine - Thank you, glad you like 'em.

Pmsl. You are some kind of freakish genius.

qoute "

monkeytroll : I was also thinking of looking up Will O the Wisp, trying to remember what Evil Edna's face was like, that's another idea. I'll go check up on Edna and the Vegas 'bots now...

monkeytroll : And as a bonus it appears that the Vegas-bot and Edna bear a certain resemblence to each other, so I think I have my face, can't go wrong with two references for the price of one can you? I'm thinking I'll try and put it over a static-filled screen, so need to find
a good technique for painting static, possibly stippling greys and black? "

oops how did i miss that

Your orks are just bat gak crazy Monkeytroll, I love them.

graven - Thank you! Incontinence pants should have been available at check-in.

neil - not paying attention in class ?

Bangbangboom - Cheers!


So tried to get some modelling done, but kept picking up a brush to do odd little bits, so not much of either done, but figured I'd throw up a few more pics anyway


Mono-ork:



Some of you may remember mono-ork, well he had a head and arm re-fit then finally trundled into the paint booth. First pic is auto adjusted, the wheel housing is actually purple. Skin needs a wash or two and a final highlight, purple just needs a tidy-up, everything else is pretty much base coat.


Nob #1



The first nob I made, way back around page 1, leather work and skin need a bit of sorting, that's about it. Unless I re-re-re-re-do the fist, it's been etal, then different metal, then red, then blue, then metal. Didn't really like any of them, but the metal's too plain, so I may go back tp red. Bad choice using that patterened shoulder pad there, his left ear is a tiny green triangle in a blue triangle surrounded by yellow triangles, it gets a bit lost


Pogo-boy:



Bad pic, auto-adjusted, but it shows that something's been going on


'Eavy D



Still some detailing and then the weathering .


There was a bit more done here and there, nothing progressed far enough to warrant showing yet. Also did a bit of chaos related stuff, hopefully that'll get updated fairly soon.


Model wise, various little bits put together, a few pieces coming together, again nothing worth looking at yet really, but here's a preview



He bravely looted the power sword from the original Ghaz, his armour from a Leman Russ, and is awaiting the installation of some tekky/whirry gubbinz. And his gun, obviously his gujn, don't forget his gun.

Thanks for stopping by, feel free to bring cake next time.

monkeytroll wrote:

MONO-ORK needs a spinny-arrow attached to his head, because he looks like MEAN MACHINE, and you're already boot-deep in Dredd.

--Brian

Pogo boy has got style! - and that freshly chopped and glued dude - his head reminds me of a tie-fighter pilot helm. Could be darth ork?

Brian - Mean Machine has been meaning to make an appearance for a while now, keep switching minds on his klaw, but think I've got the right one now. Obviously with this blog that doesn't necessarily mean he'll be appearing soon

weety - Hmm, I do see the resemblence, guess I'll have to look into that route now

Ok, just a Sunday night quickie for you :

Pics aren't great, all bad angles on the second guy

Itz all rite dolly, youze safe wiv me.



Picked up a lucky charm along the way.


Does my 'ead look big in dis?



The head is not as bad as that in RL, difference in materials and my inability to take a shot from a good angle make it look far worse. The legs need GS'ing still, filling the extension and adding some armour to bulk them up a bit. There'll also be power cables from the backpack to the fisty-stabby wotsit.

Said it would be quick

Every ork should have his own dolly. But I have to say pogo-boy and 'eavy D are awesome. But by watching this tread of monkeytorlls. If anyone ever has the urge to toss old bitz in the trash DON'T!!!! You never know what you might come up with or send them to monkeytroll so he can further his madness.

wow just read this last page and came up with an idea

do you remember the pixar lamp thing that jumped around?

could you make one of them???? please??????


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an cybork one of course

Looking great, i can tell theres a seroius mek behind this project.

schank - 'dollies for every ork' is a very popular cry amongst a number of Upzag's mob. No one should ever be contemplating throwing bits away. That's heresy that is. I'm calling the Ordus Modellus right now... But it's not just bitz you shouldn't throw away, vik and neil are doing a great job at using other bits:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/1560/342213.page#2930657

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/326515.page#2092393

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/318718.page#1971044

prototype - hmm, a little like
but without the rhino ?


It's a possibility

Haonn - Thank you. I'll let you in on a little secret...I'm not totally serious



OK, So today is my first birthday on Dakka. I'd originally planned to celebrate by getting decent pics of my finished guys up, you know, using the lightbox and backgrounds and all that jazz. So quite obviously I forgot all about that over the weekend. A quick glance over my shelves shows that there's a depressingly small number of models fitting into that category for a year's worth of work. Now it was perhaps feasible to get pics of such a small amount done tonight and put up (dis-regarding any fancy background ideas), but I'm really not feeling it right now.

Today started with it taking us nearly 3 hours to get into work, and that pretty much set the tone for the rest of the day

So a wall-o-text progress report instead. I'll get round to new pics someday, don't worry. (Don't hold your breath either, I got the lightbox a few months back and re-doing the finished guys was supposed to be my first job).

Not very pretty I'm afraid, and more of a progress note to myself than of real interest, but half of you have probably stopped reading by now as you've realised there's no piccies coming


So what's actually been finished

1 Deff Dread - cheating a bit, this had been started before joining Dakka, and still needs some options to swap with the big shoota




1 Painboy - Dok Herbork West




1 dok-grot - orderley




1 attack squig

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1 squig hound




3 tekkies -




1 mek




5 boyz with sluggas and choppas - including Hovva-boy, Ol' GruntKnacker and GutSlumpa, still my fave I think




8 assorted servo-grots - 9 if you include spider-grot, who still hasn't had his broken legs fixed



2 deffkoptas - Da Red Kount and the bionikopta




1 'shroom patch

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Err, and that's it, 25 models in a year, at that rate, with my current collection, I'd estimate the sun will become a WD whilst I'm putting finishing touches to the last few. And my calculator blew up when I tried to add in the effects of buying any more.

Of course there were other guys finished who weren't part of this lot. Like the 2 cyborks sent out on trade missions, the marine seconded to Death Watch, a handful of muties, a flying cyber-beast and , err well, yeah, that is about it now

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What has seen some brush love

GrimSnik - each time I type it, it's a 50/50 chance of getting 1 or 2 capitals in his name

15 boyz with sluggas and choppas - look at that. Fifteen. That's a big number that is. That's like more than 2 'ands worth of fingas I reckon. Some of them are even 'very nearly done' too.

2 cyboars - close, so close. Unless I decide to re-do the fur of course...

1 cyboar rider - just one? Yep, just one.

3 tankbustas - 2 with boom-spears. None really at the 'almost' stage yet

3 burna boys - pretty close, then I'll have to find the cabling I had for them

1 Orkus Mekanikus - actually, come to think of it, he has some paint, but is still awaiting an upper limb of some description

4 'ard boyz - 2 with sluggas/choppas, 1 with rokkits and 1 with big shoota. And over the last week, one with a broken wrist

1 mek

1 trike

1 burna boy

1 shoota boy

6 nobz

2 buggies

2 grot-koptas

2 deffkoptas


Bit better, that adds 45 with some paint on, only a couple are at early stages. And there's a few more in other projects that'll drop into this category.



What has been built and is waiting a bit of GS love/undercoating

5 nobz

1 burna boy

2 'ard boyz

1 mek

4 boyz with sluggas/choppas


That's 13 more guys almost able to smell the paint.


And then there's the things still being built (some seen, some not)

Upzag
1 bike
3 cyboars (no riders)
4 nobz
2 Orkus Mekanikus
1 shoota boy
1+ big mek(s)
1+ tankbusta(s)
2 servo-grots
1 skorcha
1 'ovva-wagon

and assorted other sundries like un-claimed heads and limbs


Not a vast amount by anyone's book, but I can safely say that without the support and interest shown by dakka it would have been a LOT less, and I would probably have long since moved on from cyborks to another project.

So thank you guys and gals, next year I'll try and get some decorations in. And cake. Lots of cake. In fact, forget the minis, I'll just go with pics of cakes.


Damn, I'm going to have to work hard to get some interesting pics up next update to make up for that text-a-rama.

* decided to throw some (old) pics up

happy birthday and hopefully another year of excellent work

Even though you may not have finished as much as you like you have inspired many of us to further experiment with our own conversion. I don't think my Brazen Klawz would be what they where today if it wasnt for your work. Their skin tone I got from the ork I traded you. And that was the model that got me thinking outside of the GW cookie cutter models. SO that one more thing you can be proud of. But as I have said before Im a huge fan of your work.

Happy birthday!! this year I painted 130 minis (ooo I'm a right be-atch for pointing that out) - however I did not slice them into tiny bits, mix them around and reassemble them in a variety of amazing and hilarious ways. This obviously adds considerable time per mini. I'm not sure I have ever seen you paint a model with out first slicing it up a treat - so if we say a conversion is worth at least 3 unconverted minis then that means you've done.... er 75.

In all seriousness they are unique and special, and there is no need to rush; you've got years and years to get this lot finished - and when you are old and weary you can have bionik eyes and fingers fitted so you can carry on!!

Happy dakka day matey i could smell the mention of cake from my dining room table and had to come and investigate , should have known it was all talk so i brought my own..


Not mine found in dakka gallery


really like the paint work on Eavy D and Nob#1 especially the fleshy bit

Lovely to a round up of your boys ,The reanimated Herbork West being a fave along with your Q the winged cyber beast, and i nearly spat out my false teef at seeing a SM in here
great paint job on him btw. and the muties and cultist also the 1st dread i dont remember seeing before , has really nice weathering as per.
And i think Weetys on the right track with the multiple mini maths , although i reckon its more like 6 minis per ork , and that makes its ,er...just calculating ...er... 2.3.. er.. BOOM ! my calculator blew up

I for one think that less is more whn it comes to your work monkey keep it up matey , this blog needs to remain Orky so the Bashed has somewhere to bring his gang!
its beeing much fun following your thread Mate , and i have never lollled so much at plastic , well apart from that incident at school with a medical orthapaedic instrument ... but thats another story

Oh and thanks for reminding me to finish that Manufactorum thingy me bob , now where did i puts it!

^Lol, trukk cake!

That made my day!

wow thought you was an old horse here on dakka...er...are^^
your collection of orks reminds me of the crude bunch of tortured toys from the first toystory film...remember them?

and i absoloutly feel too that the community here helps and motivates one to produce much more output than probably done alone...really boosted up my engines a lot too!

so i hope for a productive second year here too for you^^

cheers, vik


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*bows humbly for your linkys set here^^* two refferences to my junk-related threads^^ well someday even the airship will see some work again^^

Somehow this blog had fallen off my radar MT. I can't begin to tell you how wonderful I find all of your whimsical conversions and painting.

Glad I'm back on board. Subscribedamundo!!

awe...I want cake now!

Awww, I feel all warm and fuzzy inside now. Must be coming down with something

bigfish - thanks, I hope so too.

schank - Does that mean I can count da Klawz in with my finished total? I'll not deny that hearing someone say they've been inspired by yourself is pleasant, but don't forget it works both ways. As I've said before actually seeing your trade guy in the flesh pushed me to finally try adding some different washes to my skin-tones.

weety - "so if we say a conversion is worth at least 3 unconverted minis then that means you've done.... er 75". Thanks for that
Yes, well obviously I wasn't planning on doing quite as many as you And the fact you seem to know how long I've got left makes me even more convinced your speediness is the product of arcane covenants with the Deep Ones.

neil - " so i brought my own.. Not mine" So stealing cakes from hungry modellers now are we? Good spot with Herbork, believe you're the first to mention that, I'd pass along a cookie but as you have a looted cake... Hey, I have 2 sets (they can't really be called armies at present)of marines, gotta have something for the boyz to loot from, can't be doing with having it all smurf-boy gak And there's obviously a batch of ork-modified calculators doing the rounds at present

Matt - It'd be great to play against... 'Hmm, I've immobilised your trukk, guess I'll have to eat the wheels for wysiwyg purposes'

vik - Thank you sir, and yes, the airship is eagerly awaited (but no hurry ) Indeed, it's the community that keeps me interested and motivated, and what attracted me in the first place.

Gits - I'm glad you're back on board, thank you and thank you.

Zeke - go see neil, he's probably pinched some other poor buggers confection by now

monkeytroll wrote:schank - Does that mean I can count da Klawz in with my finished total? I'll not deny that hearing someone say they've been inspired by yourself is pleasant, but don't forget it works both ways. As I've said before actually seeing your trade guy in the flesh pushed me to finally try adding some different washes to my skin-tones.

Ha sure ya can I don't mind one bit. Thats the main reason why I love this site is finding and trying new ways of doing thing.

Lots of very talented people on this site and I have you in my top 10 favorites.

by the way, totally forgot to tell you that i really love that one pegleg that you fully scratchbuilt! that is one hell of detail on such a small scale, and it look 100% convincing! realy draw-my-hat- material^^

Happy borkday!

Still no painted velociork, I see.

Though it may not seem so much, that's still quite the amount of accomplishment you've got under your belt for 1 year work. Makes the models looking forlornly up at me with half painted, nay even unpainted, and mostly unconverted bodies ask why I have so forsaken them. In this last year I may have painted as many as 30, maybe 40 models, on a high end, and that's with relatively little conversion work for the most of them

schank - Cool, that brings me up to what, 30? And thank you, that is very flattering

vik - I thank you sir. And in reply to your query way back on my chaos blog (which should get updates soon...[shameless plug mode off]), I model purely for fun, haven't played since Rogue Trader, but have a nasty OCD which keeps me making 'legal' armies. Although I'm starting to feel a pull away from that as some of the recent codex reading I've done has been a bit slow to get my juices flowing.

graven - Cheers I plan to get Tek-Masta 'Stumpy' finished up over the weekend.

Lord Kaesar - Velociraptork is definitely in the 'seen some brush love' category In fact, just for you, I've just moved him from the back of my 'waiting in limbo' section into the front-line 'colouring-in' area 30 or 40 ? That's nearly 50 That's twice as many as me That's the way to think on these things



So, last night was mainly GS into gaps in heads and bodies. This evening was a bit of tutting and filing, followed by some proming. And then a few more concepts gained progress:

Danger,danger, roborks about



Probably won't end up with those arms and head. Maybe he'll get the part-robocop arm from the hovering drone boy, as I've decided he's not getting that now. Didn't have anywhere near as many teef as needed. I've since found a much better replacement for those legs, so I may take this in a slighlty different direction to where I was thinking.


Potential 'ard boy/bomb squig/attack squig/something else entirely



Originally conceived as an 'ard boy (with a slightly smaller arm and shoota), but there's potential for some squiggy goodness there too I feel. And some good grotness too. Although I think I've moved away from the boss legs idea.


Turbo-rolla



Wheels, a turbine and a shoota - always a killa-kombo. Head and arm aren't finalised yet, there's a bit of detailing and filling to do, and the axle needs to be beefed up a bit from a cocktail stick and blu-tac.


Mek it so



Found a better head for this particular mek, and started on a mek-pak for him. Haven't decided on the right arm yet, and needs some more tools off the pak.


Thanks for stopping by.

you sir are ridiculous in your creation, development and painting skills.
again another set of brilliently thought out and delivered WIP boyz.
i think my fav is the AOBR warboss convert. i thought that was very nice indeed. keep up the good work


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oh and do you mind if i loot that termi body idea? its frika frakin excellent

Nutty... completely nutty. (love them!)

Really liking the Tau vibe from the Big Mek so how about a looted Railgun?

Not so hot on the first two - needs more time in the monkeytroll Painboy hut - but Turbo-rolla and Mek it so are inspiring already. As always - can't wait to see where they all eventually end up!

Plenty of nice conversions there Monkeytroll! The title is what drew me in, for my own orky fun, I am starting a Fighta-Bomma from scratch, I will likely be needing some ideas to add stuff in to it as it progresses. Vik already gave some..

monkey...whatever you take when you make those conversions (for a lack of a better word...) i want some too...i feel way too sober when compared to your stuff...there were so many artists that achieved great art by using someor the other substances...and your boyz seemed to benefit form at least half a dozen of the possible substances out there^^

i can´t even understand the process of how you go for a new mini...do you just at first wildly cobble everything together and then decide what looks good or do you actually plan that? it is awsome and randome and good working....not something that the universe would tolerate at a long term periode...prepare for a chaosy assualt i guess your drawing attention ...


or to put it another words...great stuff mate^^


and concerning your OCD (which i had to look up first^^) stuff legality....whoever di´dn´t just want to play with you and your army out of the sheer fun of it is not worthy of either...fun, you and your weird army^^


so i have spokeneth!

vik

slicey-slicey cutty-cutty




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Also thankyou for those chaos backpacks, they are like mana from hell! And I'm using the plasticard you sent me as well after finally digging it out from under the bed, makin a sentinel!

A greenstuffed turbine engine?! Really?! You're crazy! (and excellent).

Love the 'wildly flailing' look of the pogo ork

Turbo-rolla is fething awesome.

You should make a knock back rule for the jet in close combat. Where he can shin it 180 degrees and use the jet force to push his combatant.

I love it.

Is Turbo-rolla a Flash Git? 'cause it looks like he has a Gitfinda.

Somewhat similar to one of my own (literally just finished) Flash Gitz, with that one AoBR Terminator bit stuck in his eye socket.

bigfish - with 'ridiculous' I assume you're talking about the slow pace yes? Thank you (although I'm not sure this set is brilliantly thought out...) And please, loot away, it's what orks do

Gits - Too kind sir, too kind

Llamahead - It's possible, I've been saving that for a 'small tank thing' which has been kicking around for a while needing direction. Still unsure of what I'm kitting him with, but I'll plaay with some Tau weaponry, see what happens...

Arakasi - Yeah, those two need more work for sure. The one with Robbie's legs sort of lost a bit of impetus when I found better legs to use and has really just had any old limbs tac'd in place for now. The termie guy I really like, but as stated haven't narrowed down which way to take him - possibly even making 3 of the little buggers as 'bots to tend the Dok's 'shroom patch Turbo-rolla's pretty much there, just needs the wheel/axle bits sorted and then a load of filling. Although by then his head and arm may have gone walkabout Happy now I've found that head for the mek, the others i'd tried were good, but just weren't doing it for me, I'm still trying to find a decent plume to come off that little projection on his head though. And another arm.

shasolenzabi - Thank you, and glad you dropped by. Unfortunately the flyboyz part of the equation is still fairly limited, I have plans for a fighta/fighta-bomma based on an old Cylon Raider, but that's really waiting till I've built the cockpit before proceeding.

vik - The trick is to grind up those pesky blue beakies really finely, then put the resulting powder in a turbo-pipe
I find mini creation to be a fairly varied procedure, some are solidly planned, some have a loose plan and a lot are just the results of endlessly playing with bits Creativity shouldn't be stifled by sticking to one methodology What I find happens a lot with the orks is I have an idea for, or make, a small part of 'something', which then sits around for a while until I happen across some other bits that work with it. A case in point would be Turbo-Rolla above, the stormboy torso and burna-boy fuel tank were glued together months ago. There's been a couple of different ideas for their use (a burna-boy, a tracked guy using the fuel, a 'limb coming from the pipe-work - 'leg' and 'arm both considered - a wepon mounted on the pipes...) before I started playing with part of a pre-heresy jump pack, and then it fell into place.
Current fluff for them has them on [insert forgotten name of planet later], a planet currently suffering the ravages of war (unusual in 40k I know ) whilst the system is being isolated by a warp-storm. Guard, marines, chaos and a small 'nid contingent are all present in some form or another.

weety - thanky-thanky hanky-panky
No problem, and yes I've seen the speedy progress your walker has made

Scarper - Cheers, seemed easier than cutting lots of tiny slices of plasticard Although I suspect I'll try that too somewhere else. I like that arm, but that boy needs alot more attention yet, and probably won't get that arm.

edited for taking so long to type (guess P&M isn't the only thing that transpires at a glacial pace around here) that 2 more replies got in

schank - Thanks man. Now that's the kind of thing we would have done back when I did play, RT was great for having each member of your warband (we kept to small skirmishes for 40k, large scale battles were fought using slightly altered RT with Epic scale minis) come with a host of rules that only applied to that one mini

Anvildude - Actually, you raise a good point there. Although stating earlier that he just needs a bit of tidying really, there are still a few unknowns. I'd briefly considered making him a nob , then realised I didn't have an idea I liked for arming him appropriately, so he defaulted to a shoota boy. Now he could become a member of the Orkus Mekanikus (my flash-gitz) but they wear robes/tabards/cloaks etc, and not sure I could do a decent job of adding such to this guy. I'll have a think on it though. But the weird bionik eye is pretty much commonplace in Upzag's crew (there are a variety of modified heads rolling around the desk awaiting body donors).

What I find happens a lot with the orks is I have an idea for, or make, a small part of 'something', which then sits around for a while until I happen across some other bits that work with it.

i think this is a good way to deal with any conersions... a pre wip phase so to speak...something that fits is brought together and sometimes one has to take the time to get another persepctive to the things before built...then new bitz get assambled...i think sometimes i work like this too...it is a bit like a big puzzle...you don´t sit there at the table and brutally force your pieces into place but go with the flow and then when the time is ripe you have a perfect match...your work proves this/ these methode (s) right!

to the jet engine... if you try this stunt again i would sincerely beg you to do a tut on that...the look is very fitting and i might have need for that... i did for the airships main propeller just that and cut plenty of ugly and bent pieces of cardboard and it sucked greatly....so a change of methodes again would seem to be in order^^

your fluff enables you to create out of a cornucopia of so many factions...this makes your possibilities totaly unmatched by anyone else! with orks you get so many oprions and you even riase the bar higher by this^^....*have to remind myself that i try to make a IG army...* "stay focused, stay clean....DON`T TEMPT ME!!!!!....." ^^


cheers mate....hope to see more stuff soon!

vik

I certainly don't recall your airship turbines as sucking greatly vik, think they were better than that The gs method would probably not work so well on a larger version. Easy enough though (although it took a couple of attempts to figure it out).

Two bits of tubing that will 'nest', I rounded the edge on the smaller 'rim' piece. Flattened a small ball of gs and placed it over the end of the longer piece, let it cure for 10-15 minutes. Trim the edges off and use a wet blade to create the lines, just lightly pushing in rather than trying to cut or score them. I thought doing each line across the whole diameter would be better than working the radius, but for some reason it didn't, your mileage might vary. Used a tool/paintbrush/stick to gently poke the 'blades' from behind (through the tube) as the line making had slightly deformed the GS. Added a GS cone for the spindle. Put the rim piece in place, hiding any rough edges on the gs. No real sculpting/shaping required so fairly easy.

Take a bit more care than me and you could probably get blades to be even in size too.And if you had a very narrow blade (or similar thin triangle) you could press the side of the blade in at an angle to create angled blades - which you'd probably want for anything larger.


The fluff came about purely to tie my different 'forces' (none could be called armies at this stage) together. Or more precisely, was created for the guard to explain their make-up, and then expanded slightly to fit the others in.

thanks for the insights in the jet making...i grant you that that on a bigger scale the lines making might cause some serious problems...the angled blades was what gave me histerics...the ones i did ruined the ones i did before...and when completed the circle mostly all looked off into another direction....today i was in a DIY store and let the man there saw me some wood to go as a cutting edge station (in refference to the paint station^^) if interrested i will show pics on my thread... i have a nack for scratchbuilding but absolultly no artezian knowledge...in fact one might argue eben no talent^^... straight lines and exact measures are something i come very hard by...so i made the man there do me wooden rulers in various sizes and this might help me get parts later cut to size that i actually want...thus crating fitting parts...something totally new^^ at least for me^^

so in this process then i think a revisit to the airship might be done^^

(although it took a couple of attempts to figure it out).

it feels most of the time as if i have to invent the wheel anew...^^ so learning by error...er...doing...is something i do on a daily basis...

Hahah this blog is awesome and so compeltely orkified up. Gotta love all your crazy conversiosn even the legs above that said were going to be scarped I think it looks like a jack in the box which is funky.

Thanks JamesG. The legs are staying, it's the head and arms that'll be going. And orks don't scrap stuff, they just endlessly re-cycle - they's green ain't they?

Yeah, the basic shape of the Fighta-bomma to come in my blog
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sorry to thread jack but can you post a link to said thread?

Love the little Mek-grot in AdMech-looking robes!

gud stuff

Lol your "Mek it so" looks like he's sporting a Jeremy Beadle style hand in the first photo. The head and drill arm look great but are you going to try to do anything with the body/legs? I mean thats a whole 70% of the model unmodified, so unlike your crazy style.

sweet!

shasolenzabi - Yeah, checked it out I'll be keeping an eye on it

prototype - http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/376455.page#2945182 if you haven't found it yet

lindsay - Thanks, the servo-grots are cute little fellas

tough n' orky - Thank you.

Bangbangboom - Yeah, had another comment about that, photo-fu is weak in this one Any further body modification will probably depend on where I take the right arm, but at the moment it's unlikely. I'll probably get another for completely chopping up. I could swap out the right leg fairly easily, if I had a good replacement, anything else would start turning into a complete re-build, which I'd want to plan out first. I've already disappointed myself with the sides I put on my skorcha, as I could have pretty much replicated that without using the base model. Plus there's more to come on his mek-pak anyway

The Crusader Of 42 - Cheers!


So a quick, crappy update. Tonight I only have 3 out of 4 lights working in my living room, so used a desk lamp, so horrible lighting, and these are looking horrible, but I uploaded them anyway, just to show I'm doing something
Just a selection of what's going on at the moment:


First, for Lord Kaesar, velociraptork is almost there




I was hoping these would show he's not a kross-dressa, but I was also hoping he'd look better than this




The fire-breather has a bit of colour to him now, still looks dodgy here though




And the Ork formerly known as Chorlton was to become Da Albino, think he's already gone too green though





Lot of bare metal in those pics, some of that will get painted, if I have no clear colour scheme in mind then I tend to paint all metal areas metallic to start with, then decide which bits will get the colouring-in pencils Poor lighting and macro photo's mean I'm not as happy with any of this progress as I was before sitting at the PC, oh well.

Thanks for looking, hopefully there'll be better pics next time you swing by this way...

Thanks Monkeytroll! Sometimes I have to work by just the screen of the computer lit up at night myself.

Those look great monkeytroll! So glad you uploaded them even with the bad lighting. Well worth it in my opinion.

Me like so far. That last one with the tire for legs is my favorite I think out of those. Well him or the cybork. Ya made him look like he is blastin down a flyer. Love that pose.

I feel sorry for those flutter-byes...

absORK-LOOTLY beautiful work!

Th Kross dressa is no longer invited to ladies , Fantastic paint work matey , Velociraptork is just great , and the albinos skin is very realistic.

Just read the first few pages of this, got 'Eadbanged.
Love the conversions, wish I had the bitz for 'em!

crossdressers and albino orks... who thought there was no limit to were this army might meander is in for a surprise yet again^^ i think the lighting is pretty good from what i see, my followers have got used to lots of poorer sights^^

i really like the cyborks poses you created for them...i think you captured the orkiness in each of `em

cheers, vik

shaso - no worries

Gits - Thank you!Even if it's dodgy pics I like peeps to see I'm still doing something

schank - Cheers. "...him or the cybork." THE cybork? They're all cyborks, doesn't cut it down much He thinks the flutter-byes are flyers, carrying tiny little grot-kin who are after his internals

Big Mek Dattrukk - It's ok, the pwetty flying things are tiny, he's got a BS of 2, and he's wasted. They're safe enough, even before taking into account that they're a figment of the his clockwork noggin. And thank you!

neil - well, in that case maybe he'll paint it pnik with flowers on, will that get him back into the ladies? "...and the albino's skin is very realistic." This ladies and gentlemen is a fine reason to love Dakka. We're willing to talk about realism in relation to the look of albino orks (And I'm not sure you've been paying attention to old Gwynne have you )

Gutsnagga - sorry about that, the boyz can get a little raucous now and again, and if you've got a metal bonce waht are you going to do with it? Glad you could join us, hope you enjoy the rest of the journey

vik - Thank you. Well Upzag and Grimsnik (or is it UpZag and GrimSnik ) run an equal opportunites mob, they take in the lost and unwanted from across all Orkdom (and quite often beyond), feed them, house them, give them love, attention and most importantly, Big Metal Choppy Bits


And got into work this morning to find this :



Sent PDH a chaos head he wanted, and as a thank you he sent me an old-skool mek and shoota! Thank you Peter, that's awesome!

are you interrested in old school RT orkyness? i might have four or five of that collecting dust ... will take a pic to show tomorrow...

Nice find there Monkeytroll!

Hooray for the Velociraptork! Still loving that one, though of course your others are, as usual, excellent too. An old skool ork boy, eh? Seems rather more metal than is convenient for making into a cyboy, but I suppose if anyone can do it, it's you, with all your... unique creations so far proving that.

Keep up the unique work, and I am thrilled I made a difference to your regular painting program. Kaesar II

Thats a nice oldboy Pdh sent you, such a nice chappy.
Have you been at already ? he looks like he is missing an arm, i guess he is already undergoing an operation.

Grimsnik : oi you , bring me dat saw, dis ere is how you chop up metal! Its a bit more tricksy than those new finecast poncy boys .


( fervently rechecks his work to see there is no grammtical errors )

vik - Dere iz no skool but da oldskool, an' I'z da fethin' 'eadmasta (to paraphrase ) pics most welcome

shaso - I was pleased!

LK - Plastic is certainly more convenient, but old skool metal comes with character already attached (in most cases). There's a replacement arm for starters, feet are easily clipped, there's a nice flat attachment plate on his back, ears can be lopped to help with a metal face, then there's the major changes like removing the other arm, turning the fuel tank into part of the right arm with the pipe going to something interesting... I'll try and keep velociraptork on the colouring front-line for you

neil - Yes he is, and no I haven't Classic metal/plastic arm hybrid. (Missing an 'it' from the second sentence? Upper case H & I in the third? )

pics got delayed... tomorrow is promised! wont let you down^^

here are the pics... i think those two minis, the ork and the gretchkin are from gorka morka nut sure tho... and the other five are really old ones, says 1895...








well i think these wont be featured anytime soon in my painting schedule...

Yep, those 2 look like gorkamorka likely lads.

1895 you say? That does make them pretty old-skool indeed In fact, that would make them just about right for fighting Queen Vik's regiments surely?

oh i bet the queenys best would battle anyone as hard as they come^^
and the hunched stance in my opinion gives the oldschool style away^^

I had those guys back in the Vik_ Toriana days of my youth ,

now now neil, we do know that you are old enough, but a victorian timetravler is beyond your reach^^

I dont know, he could be a Time Lord. Alonsy!

that would explain some of his projects pace of completion...

Timey whimy.. Some folks would call me a time lord ... wasting time lord

I thought I was one of the last few.

I am known as....The Slacker.

For Gallifrey!

lordy... blimey^^

So very little done this week, far too much Dakka reading (and maybe posting a few irrelevant remarks ). But I have a free weekend coming up, no plans whatsoever, and so hopefully might actually achieve something (yeah, right).

I have received, via the magic of internet purchasing, a few bits and bobs to hopefully aid in my quest for some finished pieces. Because as everyone knows, buying more junk is far more conducive to completing constructs than, you know, actually working on them and stuff.

So I've had a bunch of AOBR nobs, some random Empire steam engine pieces, some orc warlord pieces (he seems very small, will only just about fit in as a nob), a bag of watch bits and a robo-gear flyer.

I've looked at some of the robo-gear pieces before, but mainly in my pre-ork days, so never got round to getting any (except some of the terrain kits). I thought I'd have a proper look this time so got a Trade Protectorate Sprut (sprut does seem an appropriate name for something that may become an orky flying machine). Simple construction, basic pieces, but I think there's something to use in there. Here's a couple of pics that came to mind when I saw the sprue, more to show scale etc to anyone that's interested :

The wing structure could be used in a variety of ways, but does need some wotk on the underside -



The turbines will certainly find a home somewhere.


The main hull could be a useful basis for a land, sea or air based jalopy (that's a nob biker body in there atm -




And there's some potential dakka in there too -




There was a pilot blokey too, but I've already managed to misplace that sprue since opening the box a few hours ago.

It even came with 3 pots of paint and a brush ( no details, but I'd guess enamel as the kit-box has airfix and humbrol markings on. The brush will join my dry-brush/rough coverage brushes

The little warning sheet that came with it had some nice little gems in it too - 'Store chemical toys out of reach of young children' I want some chemical toys now. 'Do not allow materials to come into contact with the skin, the eyes and the mouth' It's a model kit and I'm not allowed to touch it?

Come back soon and there might even be some real updates to peruse at your leisure (I'm sure you won't need to use much of your valuable free time )

that robogear stuff is just so tempting... stummbled on j3r03n´s blog over it and it since then didn´t let my imagination go...
those weapons are the very spirit of dakka, definatly some great use on them... the cockpit will be a good thing too...but i guess needs the most orkyfication of the lot... way to streamlined as of now...
the wings and the noob inside look very promising...death from above it seems is now in orky hands all over dakka^^

and those turbines will certainlyx look very good on two stormboys...

Because as everyone knows, buying more junk is far more conducive to completing constructs than, you know, actually working on them and stuff.

you just had to point that dirty secret out all in the open? thank the gods that my wife doen´t read dakka^^


good stronk stuff mate^^ hope you can cobble something together out of these...

besides, the shown orks were mostly for testing the waters ...if you were interrested in them...i would be game to make a little trade or something^^

cheers, vik

Have you seen the ones I got off of ebay?

LOL! Great model!

Hey Monkey, what's with these rumours that a trukk was involved in this thread?If these lies get perpetuated it might spell the doom for the credibility of your loyalist orkbots. The Inquisition may even need to get involved on this case. We can't have any sort of fake/ heretek/ blasphemous machinations fighting in the name of the most revered, most holy, most constipated God Emperor Mork (or Gork?).

On a different note, ooo, flying machines that involve some dangerous chemicals. Chemical toys are always fun, just like radium pills.

Kaesar II, jumping the space shark once again.

that robogear stuff is just so tempting... stummbled on j3r03n´s blog over it and it since then didn´t let my imagination go...
those weapons are the very spirit of dakka, definatly some great use on them... the cockpit will be a good thing too...but i guess needs the most orkyfication of the lot... way to streamlined as of now...
the wings and the noob inside look very promising...death from above it seems is now in orky hands all over dakka^^

and those turbines will certainlyx look very good on two stormboys...

MWAHAHAHA *Cackles Madly*

I've looked at some of the robo-gear pieces before, but mainly in my pre-ork days, so never got round to getting any (except some of the terrain kits). I thought I'd have a proper look this time so got a Trade Protectorate Sprut (sprut does seem an appropriate name for something that may become an orky flying machine). Simple construction, basic pieces, but I think there's something to use in there. Here's a couple of pics that came to mind when I saw the sprue, more to show scale etc to anyone that's interested :

I actually have two Spruts I am not using that came with my purchase of the Robogear Starter set, for my purposes the Condor's look better as they are close to resembling Valkyries. Of course if you manage some impressive stuff they might be utilized for my Kult of Speed.

nice looking flying wing thing monkey, reminds me of the green goblin flyer.

vik - The main advantage of the robogear stuff as I see it is it's cheap, and gives a reasonable base to build on - Art's gliders for instance. Definitely a fair bit of work needed, but that would also be true of any GW piece I sold my family to afford. As for trading, yeah I'd probably be up for that, saves on the old pennies, what kind of things you looking for atm?

Art - Indeed I have, I really like those When I opened the box I figured that was what you'd based them on.

Gits - Agreed!

LK - Umm, think you have to go back to page 3 or 4 for that. And, err, progress has kinda gone backwards on that one But GorkaMekka approves of V-hickles.
I'm still trying to find the chemical toys in the pack, maybe it was invisible chemicals?

J3r03n - I think the condor looked a little better too, but when I was trawling the only ones I found were more expensive/had silly shipping costs, and as I shouldn't really have spent what I did... I'll no doubt look for others at some dim point in the future when funds are available (or I think they are )

neil - Yep, I can see that, although I just stuck that ork there more for 'show and tell' purposes, with a bit less of the 'tell' part of the equation Although now I'm going to be considering possible supervillains to reference


Nothing on thew actual progress front yet as I started playing Portal last night (Yes, the first one, like so many games it's been sitting untouched in my Steam library for a long time) and that kept me going till about 3 or 4
And now I'm just watching the fools who thought paddle-boarding lessons would be a great idea on a rainy day The marina staff were evidently unaware that starter lessons and BBQ's should not be scheduled for Glastonbury weekend

Lol ,Fun on the river :-) , Bailey has portal 2 and its so much fun .

The super villain flyer thing, The Green Gretchin has a ring to it..?

i am off for now but i get you a good answer to your question monkey in the late evening...ok?

My niece has a bunch of robo gear stuff. Been trying to get here to give it to me for a bout a year now. Even offered to buy it off her. But no. She said she was gonna use it for her orks. Her ORKS!. She only freaking 11 years old and I got her in to orks. Stupid kids........

Good going schank, get her into the green love early Of course, as you've discovered, it does make looting their toys that much harder

Too true. My boy's already noticed the similarity between a toy robot of his and gargants.

Kids just love orks Probably because youngsters are definitely some kind of grot-kin

So today has been stupid hot in the workroom, very little done as a result. It's been 27-29 in the lounge, and that's been a lot cooler than the workroom. In fact I was thinking of offering it as a makeshift sauna to some of the bikini boating babes that have passed by today

Have put a splash of paint on a few more guys, there's a few that are oh, so close to being finished, I'd have really like dto get on them today so they don't fallback into the almost-there pile, hopefully it'll be cooler this evening. A few random bits of plastic managed to get stuck to each other too, but nothing worth showing yet, apart from maybe this guy (who has been sen before, but had no arms at that point. And graven, yours is inching ever closer to that fabled finished state - even though I planned to get him done last weekend )



There he is enjoying the sunshine that's burning my back as I type, and shaded by my ever so useful shadow.

In other news I've had to help 2 of 'my' swallows find there way out of the boat today after trying to do stunts through it(I'm not 100% sure they're the ones that live under my feet, but it's a reasonable assumption I feel, plus I like to think they're just checking out what the big pink biped is doing above their heads)

Stay frosty people...

Ha ha I'm glad you got them:



I wasn't sure what you'd think of the mechboy, I love the blow torch but had no inclination to paint/strip it (probably because I didn't have a right arm). I hope it comes in useful for something. On the other hand I thought the custom shoota would be useful for one of your boyz. Well worth the swappy swap for a the head I needed (not that you actually wanted anything for the head ). Thanks again.

As I'm a few pages behind I'm bunging up some reminder pics of your stuff


WOW! This works for me so much. I wish the servo arm was actually his arm...its teeny and tiny and looks so odd it works.


The tiled floor area looks ace. The dread is cool too I'm rather fond of the Ork mask. What is is from? Oh and how I hope that is an Imperial First Dreadnought


LOL....Spider grot is ace. The two shoota grots are brill and but the one at the back is my fav. Oh and I like the chain knife the one at the front is holding and his bionic eye is cool. I wouldn't want to be an ork anywhere near this army.


Cute!


Damn I thought that was 28mm when I first saw it and thought Whoot! Its still Whoot but not so much now I know its 54mm . Still pretty cool. Do you play much Inquisitor?

Well those were the highlights for me. The other stuff is cool too though.

Peter

lol a segway grot...what will they think of next^^
specially like the pointing finger... brings recollections of E.T. ...

as for trade PM me if you might have something you wanted to part with... i even have some AoBR orks too...with bosses and WAAGH!! boss too...

PDH - Thanks again, rest assured mek and shoota will re-appear at some point (by now you should be able to take a wild guess at time-frames involved here )

Big Mek: I did play with the idea of having it (or similar) as his arm, I quite liked the asymmetry, but then any arms that went on to the mek-pak would counter/detract from that.

Dread: I'm quite fond of the floor too, originally it wasn't going to be as rusty, but I felt it needed more contrast with the rst of the base. The head is a CSM shoulder pad with an orky iron gob. The original dread was actually looted from the BloodFists, one of my own chapters

Servo-grots: Spider-grot had an unfortunate falling-type accident moving back in from sealing, and has yet to have legs re-attached (costing me one finished model from my count ) I like the one with the squig-leg in his mouth too, mainly as I'm tickled by the idea of him running around still trying to eat real food when his tin-body won't actually let him. Need to find some more of those old chain-bayonets, only have 1 or 2 left now. The tekkies have grown resigned to 'umies finding them cute

'Hot-Rod' Davis - Yeah, wish I could make 28mm look like that Never played Inq, but had to get it for the background And there were some nice models which I just loved converting at that scale, really need to go back and do some more sometime, finish the scavvies, and actually get an inquisitor finished.

Thanks for the comments


vik - if left to me to decide I'll never part with anything If you can't come up with any ideas I'll have to go back through your blogs to see if anything strikes me as being useful to you. And that might take me a while I'd be up for some AOBR orks too, haven't played with any of those yet, and another warboss would be useful, several things for that to be used as I'll start thinking on what I've got.
Hmm, there's always the possibility I could make some 'things' up for you if we can't come up with any bits you need too.

edit: As a starter I have bits for marine, chaos, guard and old dark eldar in reasonable ( ) amounts, there's a variety of other stuff too, and orks too, but you probably knew that last

IF you could part with some orky shootas or some heavy shootas even, i would love to use these for my victorians... as for guard...well in short i will be in need of some torsos of cadian/catachans...and everything else that can make a guardsman happy^^ i am currently working on a cardboard version of a viktorian chimera and this might need some tools too...no need to rush here as we will be on holiday at the next weekend , so i could send you some but you in return could go the chilled route and think deep thoughts before packing things^^

Yeah I think I might have a couple of shootas lying around Torsos are a can do too.

*wanders off thinking deep thoughts ... 'Marianas Trench..Call of the Abyss..Valles Marineris....Blue..'

no... deep thoughts should cruise around 42 i guess... are we talking about guardsmen torsos here? *rubs hands*

have you ever mounted a shoota to a guardsman arm? does it look too goofy?

also when i think about blue...tuesday comes to my mind and for some matter pickles...but that ight be just coincidence...

monkeytroll wrote:

*wanders off thinking deep thoughts ... 'Marianas Trench..Call of the Abyss..Valles Marineris....Blue..'

Noctis Labyrinth

Nice pic

But I didn't want to have two canyons in the post, else it would have become a lengthy, lingering, lasting list, a stretched, spun out, sustained, statistical slate, an expansive, elongated, extensive enumeration... a TL;DR is what I'm getting at I think

could you be a tad more specific? it seems that you are talking about something important but i cant figure out what...then again i might be wrong...or not ,you choose...or rather me....now you have me confused...a bit...er... where was i?...gosh it is that late again... better go to sleep now...*bye*

I wonder what Monkeytroll would with Looted Warmachine stuff? Mixed with Orks just for weird looking cyb-ork warbosses and other things?

I really like this army you have got here.

shaso - Hmm, something like this maybe:



Just off the top of my head like

NicMonsteR - thank you, glad you stopped by.


edited for sneaky peeps posting whilst I type

So much orky goodness. And see look monkeytroll. You made progress. Now I'll leave it to you to figure out what one it is.

i got one of the smaller warjacks(?) the other day in the post... it looks really good to me full steam so to speak and i wanted to use it as a ogryn count as...too bad it is about one cm short...but the piece is brilliant... i think i had the pice mentally put in the warmacchine range when seeing the torso of yon segway grotz... seems there must be million more bitz to be of use for monkey out there...

Yep pretty much that!

Ok schank, think I got it now, this progress thing is about re-posting older pics, yes? I can do that

So PC seems to have gone to the great chip factory in the sky. Time for a new mother-board me-thinks, but that'll have to wait till I have availabe teef. Works laptop has too small a screen to be looking at dakka, so busted out my old laptop, runs about as fast as I paint.

Got no further last night as I was pulling wires about, and not that much done so far today, but as it's been a few days now...


Big Mek concept

One of the e-bay purchases I got a while back included most of a set of mega-armour. I'd not really come up with a use for it as I still think any MANz will be robotik creations, until I decided it could be another big mek.



Try to imagine some tekky-joint-thingummy in place of the big blu-tac lump, a different shoota, with the other shoota between the shoulders. The burna-arm will be chopped and repositioned too.



Fighta concept


I've had a fighta-bomma planned for some time, utilising the body of an old cylon raider kit, and keep moving the wings around to different pieces of different projects (I last had them down as part of a looted DE raider). Decided the wings could make a good fighta. Now that body may stir some peoples memory, it may get used, but I have parts for another... The Waaagh-ky Races kinda got stalled with the Turbo-Triffik. Parts of that body have been built, ripped off, re-built I don't know how many times now. For some reason, in complete opposition to my normal working practices I've consistently refused to move on to another part of that project without getting past the difficulties I ws having with the TT.
Now I'm thinking that if I use the main part of the TT for something else I'll be forced to move on, and may actually get back into moving the racers along. As said I have another valk jet available, so that if I come back to that version of the TT later I can.


Way back last year sometime I put up a trukk concept



The pieces have been dragged back into the workshop by some grumbling servo-grots, mainly as it's my first entry into Arakasi's Inaugural Trukk Rally : http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/379736.page

So all you big mek's out there, get building. And all you little ones too.
Orkses can neva ave enuff trukks eh?

Quick and dirty paint job.



Why so quick and dirty? Well, I dont envisage seeing much of him:



Pain trying to get a good camera angle inside there

Yes, rather than keep the nice simple painted view screen on the trukk, I decided to cut it out and build an interior Or part of one. Or something a little reminiscent of an interior. Or just something...

Happy huntin'

Bottom two pics look really cool when the V-hickle is painted it will rock.

Nice update monkey , sorry to here a bout your comp :-(

Looks like you have been having some bigmek fun. Like the cylon concept , looks like some of your smaller stuff , but a lot more powerful. I was thinking that thesentinel trukk cabin looked like something from star wars , then i realised it was .Lol, he needs a bowcastor now. Its actualy a pretty good trukk design , sorta , ww2 meets sci fi .

Thanks for the book porn , thats an immpressive IA collection and both realms of chaos , you greedy man ;-)

Wow! Your fighta bomma made from a old Cylon raider kit with the engines from a Valkyrie, and the AT-ST cab for the trukk with Leman Russ bits for the track section, very nice and looty looking!

shingouki - I hope so

neil - orky know how has fixed it...for now. I popped to the shop earlier, when I got back the PC had booted itself Obviously I'm a bit concerned it might not re-start tomorrow, but hey..
I like the fighta too, still having qualms about abandoning that build of the Turbo Triffik though, not like my usual happy-go-choppy approach.
Figured it was time for a bit more bibliophilia, maybe I'll take shots in front of some of the other bookcases soon

shaso - Nope, pay attention That's a fighta you see there, the fighta-bomma uses the rest of the raider But is all but unseen as that's pretty much all it is at the moment, needs the cockpit to be done before it can proceed, and I plan a detailed job there.

OK, so PC came out of standby this morning so that's good for the moment.

Painting wise various nobz and others slowly edging towards that fabled finished state, but no changes worth posting really.

Model wise mainly just little bits blu-tac'd here and there, nothing that really warrants further investigation to be honest. But the spanna-boys have been hammering away at the trukk the towed in the other night. The rally final is less than a year away now, need to get on it, especially as I plan some other entries too

(with added softcore bibliophilia - you know you want it you dirty reader you)



Wheels/axle, boarding plank and the track guard thingy are all just blu-tac'd placeholders for now. Well, those wheels aren't placeholders, they will be the wheels. Deciding on the suspension/steering mechanisms now. I'm not planning wheel guards so the gubbins will be visible, and I'm thinking it needs to be a step up from the simple bits the buggy got. Possibly have the suspension coming down from those side cannon mounts.
The back has a split level design to make it easier for the boys to clamber over to the boarding plank , they only has short legs you know.

The cut-outs in the hull will be filled with worky wotnotz/grotty goodness/boarding bitz. Underside still needs to be put into place too, weapon mounting (probably in the gap between cab and left tracks), and decide whether the rear will get a tail-gate/ramp/something.


Now, stop reeding dis an' go get ya trukkz in shape. Dey don' fix demselves ya knows.

Is it just me or is the cab (purposefully) off centre? Looking forward to seeing where this goes

It adds to da orky-ness !

It's kind of almost central in regards to the outer tracks

The double tracks on one side do throw your perceptions off somewhat, it does certainly look 'wrong' from certain angles. Which I kinda like

It's also off-putting when trying to align the wheels

That looks super mega awesome.

Wow. you are just going nuts with this. Really really nice conversion work. Awsome.

Lovely work monkey , now it looks like its really comming together , it does remind me of thos ww2 half tracks , and they are the best vehicles of all time , so thats pretty awesome. also looks kinda oladschool , rogue trader art too.

Now BOOKS FOR THE BOOK GOD! i spy with my little eye , gil scott heron, is that you betraying your musical roots , or your fight the system ;-)
classic huxley , i just named a charter after him in my pimp my wizard fluff , as its the first book i had to hand lol

all good stuff so far , you dont get this qaulity over at the eastern fringe.. snort snort..

and finally lots of eastern mythologies , you did say you lent that way before , i have some catching up to do in that area i am afraid . only manga anime and cinema is the extent of my knowledge , although my brother is married to a japanese girl and he is always bringing cool stuff back , like studio ghibli gromdark cookies

man i think i over did it , too much litereature in one night .... must watch t...v

moonshine - Thanks dude

sennacherib - Thanks a lot, glad you enjoyed your visit

neil - Half-tracks FTW Gil would be signifying both I think As for good old Aldous, Antic Hay, Jesting Pilate and Doors of Perception are just out of shot/focus. Now stop watching that TV thing and put your beak back in a good book. Unless you're watching some Ghibli of course

Little hobby time (or even dakka time) recently, but a few days off next week should help to rectify that situation, in the mean time here's a quick filler..



Fighta moving on from blu-tac stage. dakka to go by the cockpit area and on the wing 'tips', still working on the final design of the back, and deciding on the tail-fin.




Bit of riveting on the trukk




And concept for 'Yaaagh-rikk'. We ain't leting no pesky 'umie loot our bitz. Need to find some thing beter than a skull for the gun, maybe try and make a grot skeleton using the old plastic skellies.

Hopefully there'll be more piccies later....

loooooking good so far with 'Yaaagh-rikk'

The fighta looks cool, good to see orks getting their bits back.

yaaaagh-rikk is a a cool concept! and even some nice retribution in the model itself^^
the fighta looks so retro cool with the wings of the cylon fighter! i am eager for more shots, maybe with a lick of paint on that...

somehow i am not so sold on the trukk...maybe it i because of the asymetric tracks...otherwise i cant put my finger on the point why....

but boy am i glad to be back^^

vik

So, Yarric had his arm cut off by and Ork, and then killed that Ork and took his Bionik Powerklaw arm to replace the man's missing one.

Did Yaaarork have his arm cut off by a bionically repaired Imperial Guard with a Powerfist, and kill that guardsman, take his arm, and replace his own missing one with it?

no,this is what hppens

Yarrick had his arm cut off by an Ork, and then killed that Ork and took his Bionik Powerklaw arm to replace the man's missing one, then yarrick cut off a different orks arm and the ork killed him, taking the klaw.

its a visious cycle

That's a mighty fine lookin' Yaaagh-rik'. I agree with you on the skull. It just doesn't look mean enough, whereas a poor Grot skeleton wrapped around it will make it look awesome!

what if you have yarricks head on the gun?

bigfish - Thaaaaanks

neil - Cheers, yeah, can't let those darn 'umies get away with looting orks, it's just not krikkit.

vik - Glad to have you back safe and un-sound of mind Also glad you like Yaaagh-rikk and the fighta, but I can't say when you'rs going to see any paint, you should know better by now
The aysmmetry of the tracks and the cab do makee the trukk look 'wrong', but that's why I like it, Orks don't have the same sensibilities as 'umies after all.

Anvildude - "So, Yarric had his arm cut off by and Ork, and then killed that Ork and took his Bionik Powerklaw arm to replace the man's missing one. "
Yep. Then this Ork cut off Yarrick's looted powerklaw and took it back in the name of GorkaMekka - can't let 'umies get away wiv nikkin' orkses stuff.
That's why Yarrick got re-released with a different-style PK

Oh, wait...that was this one:



Yep, some right-minded ork cut his new stolen arm off too, took that back home I'm guessing we'll see a new Yarrick released soon...

And then we'll take back that one too

prototype - almost, didn't kill him though, just took the arm back. See above

Gathering Storm - Thanks man. The skull was just a place-holder to show the gun was going to be similar to Yarrick's old one with the monkey-skeleton wrapped round it, it was easier to find than a hollowed out grot skelly, surprising non?

prototype - Hmm, interesting, but that kind of means he's been deadeded, I kind of like the idea of just chopping the offending arm off time after time till the old man realises he's not going to keep whatever he takes from the greenskins


And from out of nowhere zooms an early star of the show, making a surprise appearance with a new look:




Not much more than the basic red down, and the gunner's still wandering around the back of the workshops looking for his arms. Well, not exactly wandering, more dragging himself about by the teeth as he has no legs. But he knows where they are...gone. he's just mis-placed his arms.

Well, not exactly by his teeth either, he doesn't have many of those left. Or indeed a mouth to keep them in. Not much of a face at all to be perfectly honest with you. Let's just say he's squirming around the back of the workshops, looking for his arms. That should cover it.


Right, 'member wot da boss said 'bout kommando stylee - quikk in an' out, befores dey notices ya...out, out...go, go ,go....

Orks+treads=Awesome

Cult of speed much?

GREAT SCOTT thats a lovely red . I see alas poor Yarrick has lost another limb.

Nice Yaagh-Rik, and the trukk iz fine! just goes ta show Ork Kulktur iz da best! coz orks make anyfing work!

somehow your onetrack reminds me of:

Not much more than the basic red down, and the gunner's still wandering around the back of the workshops looking for his arms. Well, not exactly wandering, more dragging himself about by the teeth as he has no legs. But he knows where they are...gone. he's just mis-placed his arms.

Well, not exactly by his teeth either, he doesn't have many of those left. Or indeed a mouth to keep them in. Not much of a face at all to be perfectly honest with you. Let's just say he's squirming around the back of the workshops, looking for his arms. That should cover it.

ever read some books of pratchett? sounds like you brits have a sense of humor that was spread out with a big shovel^^ or to put it in another wording: like^^

and the yaaagh-rick and yarick squabble reminds me why orkses are the most and best species to get more lovin....they are the true spirit of recycling! that and the never encounter a thing to gross to not use over and over again... if all else fails they just use it as literall connonfodder^^

and now to something completly different...*puts on serious barterer face*


so what about some interrest for some dusty orkses of mine? could make `morrow some nice and shiny pics of me stuff to let you oggle over...??? should i?

over to you


vik

Lessee wot I gotz.
4Warbosses
a sqwad a nobz fer each of 'em
Burna boyz(12)
'Ard Boyz(11)
Lootas(10)
Stormboyz(11, Zagstruck in der)
kommandos(9, one is Snikkrot)
Shoota Boyz(20)
Deffkoptas(9)
3 mobs of Boyz wit Nobz an' support(Lots!)
Grotz(30+3minders)
Weirdboy/warp-ead
2 Big Meks(one w/KFF)
Grotsnik the maddokk
2 battlewagons
3 trukks
buggy
skorcha
wartrakk
Deffdred
3 killa Kans
Stompa(named Patches)
and soon a fighta bomma.

Is that paint I spy? Don't worry about the missing gunner - 'eez 'armless *sidles away quickly*

Alas poor yarrick, I knew him. Horatio!

That arm had a power claw in it, and could rend once...

i was patiently waiting for a comment of this to be made...^^

Cypher's Sword - Cheers! I thought it was Orks+treads=Natural way of things

neil - That's a Homebase brand red spray over a still wet black undercoat then hit with a liberal layer of old GW magenta ink. Variations on that are the basic red for the vehicles, think one of the buggies got red ink, the other got a mix of red and magenta.

shaso - Skorcha But I notice I forgot to mention that in the post, guess I was expecting peeps to remember year-old concepts

vik - I feel he let himself down there a bit...went to all the trouble of building a 'speeder, then drives it dressed in a tracksuit and baseball cap.
Yep, the British were given a sense of humour to keep everyone else entertained whilst the cats took over the world.

And yes, I'm up for some swapsies

shaso - well, wot I gotz iz.... err, less dan dat.

Arakasi - 'Hello, hello, what's all this painting? We'll have no colour here, this is a modelling blog, for modelling people.' No, that's not paint, look at it, that's just a model that got caught in an arterial spray during a nearby horrific yachting accident.

*looks around for tumbleweed orkmoticon*

weety - See, we get a better class here on Dakka. If this were a lesser forum we'd have had someone using well in place of Horatio.
That arm will rend again, don't worry

vik - weety's or Arakasi's? They were both inevitable


And so for tonight' small attraction we have another returning contestant, this time with a slightly re-worked appearance, and even dare we say it, a spot of....paint.



Gave him a new head, replaced the robocop arm with one to grasp some wiring with. The yellow looked better until I hit it with some yellow ink to give it a bit more kick. The ink made the different layers stand out more from each other, c'est la vie. Almost done, quite pleased as he was still in bits earlier today.


edited for better paraphrasing

Niiice

Your knife must be blunt because you appear to have picked up your paint brush at last looking good.

hooray for paint!!!

yup the `armless comment was also inevitable...

will prepare some pics in some moments...er..^^ and try to summ up what would be possible for swapsies...

the new diskork looks very good specially like the wires and the scabbard of the sword...that looks like good blending right there...

and as for humor...cats took over the world...rofl...hope not...but i guess we were doomed as soon as we let them in our lives...and that error was made millenia´s before me...


cheers, vik

bad azz conversions, really impressed

That's really great monkeytroll! Very cool!

bigfish - cheeeers!

Bangbangboom - Nah, I just dipped the blade in some coloured stuff before I started chopping

weety - Shocking I know! And more shocks to follow...

vik - No blending, washes saving the day yet again And too late for hope now, except to hope they don't get bored of the Human Experiment soon.

CKO - Thank you, glad you enjoyed your visit

Gits - Thanks man!


And so moving swiftly onward to avoid the onset of shock....

Finished guys: (dodgy lighting tonight, I'll get some 'hero' shots in the lightbox tomorrow. After sorting the little issues I spotted on the macros...)

DroneDude



Should have spent a bit more time on the drone, but then I guess I'd never finish anything...


Velociraptork



Lord Kaesar, this one goes out to you, spurred me on to get one of the original batch finished Possibly the only finished guy from that original batch too.


Chew Yer Fat



Actually needs a bit more tidying...


Nob



Noticed the pouches need highlighting


Transplant Feva



Think he's done... I really wanted some sort of view-port in his head, but couldn't get one to work. I tried a bit of clear plastic inside the hole, meant that it was resting on the brain, and reflections killed the view. Tried a piece of clear plastic inside a plasticard frame resting on the head, looked a bit naff to be fair. tried a bit of clear plastic resting above the hole, with the sides coloured to represent the frame, not great, but might try to re-work that.

I'll get better shots tomorrow, might even get joined by a couple more of the usual suspects, then I'd better put a stop to this colouring in business before I get carried away.

Blimey, I never thought I would see the day when you slapped some paint on these guys! I have to say that they are my favorite orks of all time, funny, original and a treat to look at. Great work!

Cain

How cool are those!!!??

Wayyyyy cool!

If that's not awesome I don't know what is. Where do you get these ideas from ? and how come they allways end up great ? It's almost like you try it out on living "volunteers" first.

Transplant Feva is awesome. Have you thought about filling the hole with water effects, or clear resin, it might look glassy or I suppose it could just look like water? Might be worth a test on a scrap head though.

Cain - Thank you, good to see you again sir, glad to suprise with a bit of colour too Don't worry I'll be back to chopping soon, it's not habit-forming. I can handle it. It's just a cold..

Gits - Thank you! I'll try and get some more finished over the next few days, I realise that they look cooler to everyone else when they move into the wonderful world of technicolour

moonshine - That was never proven, and the courts ruled it shouldn't be brought up again...otherwise I'll have to send 'Boris' & 'Doris' out for a 'play'

Bbm - Had a passing thought about resin but passed it straight by tbh. Hadn't considered water effects, not quite the look I was after, but worth looking into certainly, cheers.....

Alright then, I belive you.

So where do you get your ideas from ?

They come in fortune-cookies delivered by the servo-grots, sent by the cats

Monkeytroll, those guys look amazing. They were awesome before, but with paint they blew my mind. Transplant ork is jaw-dropping.

I like the brain hole as it is but I'm sure you will come up with the best solution. And I am currently in the recovery position with a foil blanket over me due to the shock of seeing all that paint. I may need to raise my legs even. And hyperventilate into a bag...

Has "chew yer fat" bitten his own leg off or was he involved in an unfortunate accident?

I fully support this "paint" thing. I think it's time to start pestering for group shots?

wheres the sword on drone ork from, its ausome!

Chew yer fat is genious , the body is one I havent seen before. Also liking the leather colour of the straps on drone dude. I have to say that the pinkish brain on transplant fever made me shiver ...urghh .. cover it up ! ( looks to real ) then again i cant watch casualty without leaving the room.

Good stuff all round mate. think i need to follow your lead and get some paint in my blog soon

Moltar - Thanks dude! Funny you should mention the brain transplant, having just blown your mind, please step this way....

weety - Just make sure it's a paper bag, not a plastic one Chew Ya fat broke his robo-leg, think it was a dodgy bit of wood that the dok painted to look like metal. It's behind him, but not really visible in those pics, look below

Arakasi - Now don't go giving the spektata's ideas. And I still don't think there's any actual 'groups' that are complete anyway

prototype - I assume ausome is Australian for awesome I believe the sword comes from an old fantasy chaos sprue, not 100% sure though.

neil - Funny, I also find Casualty much easier to watch from another room, preferably another house, but that has nothing to do with the graphic content Chew's body is just a standard one from the fantasy orc sprue, straps were just Calthan brown with Khemri highlights, sepia and devlan washes.


Ok, so here's the better pics I promised, took me longer than anticipated to sort it, made sure there was plenty of light through the windows, got a couple of daylight lamps ready, eventually found myself closing some of the curtains to reduce some of the glare I was getting And it's an overcast day too. Auto-adjusted one pic in each batch. And as per usual, spotted a bunch of stuff that needs fixing on the macros Including the fact I should have dusted them.


Transplant Feva




Dodgy Drone Dude




Velociraptork




Nob In Da Iron Mask




All still need sealing, as weather's been poor, quite obviously as I have some time off.


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Whoops, missed off Chew's glossies..


Chew Ya Fat





With any luck may get one or two more finished today....if so servo-grots will be dispatched with oxygen tanks to help stave off shock. Of course, there's no telling what the actual contents of the oxygen tanks will be, but that's all part of the fun of flying Air Ork...

"OI! YOUZ! legz not gud 'nuff? too slow? cant jump high 'nuff or jus' sick of fleshy dangly bits dat get 'urt quick? Den kill a tau today an nick his stuff. Den give me sum teef!"

....don't think Zognutz has grasped the idea of advertising yet... love the drone legs. Agreed that the hand gripping at wires is much better

The new pics show up much more detail and the vibrancy of your colours. The weathering is beautifull mate , the subtle rust on the choppaz is particularly nice , worth a mention too is the nob in da iron mask, the yellow red combination makes his eyes really stand out, as does the blue tongue on transplant feva , picked up by the turqoise buckle. really too much to mention, but also the highlights on his wrist strap and the bone work , all top notch , thanks for reposting them anew.

Well, that was interesting. Dakka semed to go down just after 03:00, just after I started putting this together. An hour or so later(Yeah, I know, it's not just painting that's slow around here) I discovered this when I hit submit. A classic instance of 'Oh noes, I broke the internet' Luckily I had saved beforehand Obviously I should then have gone to bed and re-tried in the morning.

But that would be no fun, would it? So I spent another hour or so fruitlessly trying to log on(I get stubborn around that time of the AM ). As it was nice and light outside by then I decided the best course of action would be a long, hot shower to wake up a bit. Followed by cooking a decent sized breakfast which I enjoyed out on the deck about 06:30, when it was a glorious morning. And then returned to spamming my internet button and trying to log in again. And now our glorious leader Legoburner has fixed all, all hail Legoburner.

So back to the scheduled programming:


Davidian - I think that'd work on a fair few of da boyz, Zognutz has obviously been studying his TV, just watch his head doesn't turn into one Upzag and GrimSnik prefer to use z'blemonal 'vertizing, where the customer doesn't even realise he's being sold something.
At least, not until they wake up with sore gums and a new shiny part of the body that was old and green when they could last remember.

neil - Thanks mate! Glad you appreciated the better pics, must try and do all finished minis properly Although a few bits got added between the two shoots, things I'd picked up on when taking the first lot Still missed a few bits though...


So, obviously I didn't get that extra guy or two up the other night. And to be honest I don't think either of those two is still completed. Been remembering why I always get stuck at the last details stage and move on Think there's two or three guys done. Have quick final check, notice 4 things which need doing still. Get those done, have another final check. Realise you've only half done one of those things , and notice 3 more. Get those done, another final check, realise the guy you've just done wasn't one of the ones you were supposed to be doing. Finally get it all done, final check. Notice you need to tidy up the last thing you did. Do that, skip the final check, move on to photo-shoot.


Look at pics, notice 5 more things glaring at you accusingly from the monitor.

Look at group of models waiting for more colour to be added to their dull, wishy-washy life. Look at the half-dozen standing precariously on the edge of the desk, hoping they'll get finished - oh that fabled state, spoken only of in the most hushed of whispers - done and moved before the ever encroaching tide of metal and plastic pieces - torn limbs, broken machinery, distressed weapons, nameless gubbinz - pours over them, pushing them to their doom on the far away floor.
Look at the big pile of sprues. Notice the clippers. Pick up the clippers...


Well, I didn't reach for the clippers just yet, but boy, is it tempting Did get a few more done, but really want to finish a few more before geting back to proppa mek stuff Still, I've spent a good deal of the last couple of days off painting, and have finished the details on five models. Oh, actually, 9, including the first lot, that's not so bad after all I was a bit depressed at that figure tbh, that's cheered me up.
I've been playing with less paint layers and more washes to try and speed my painting up a tiny bit, but always hate the photos, looks sloppy. And sometimes it is, to be fair Also played a bit using washes to create colours on things like straps. Say, paint a bunch of straps with tallarn flesh, put a shade line down the middle with red wash, then whole strap gets a mud wash, vary colours throughout. Maybe an odd highlight here and there.


So a few more candidates for 'finished'. Maybe I should just skip straight to photos when I think I'm done and use those to see what needs doing Including three of the original line-up, whose skin I basically re-layered and washed, and re-did some of the other shading. And a bit darker than previous shots as these were done with lamps.


ArdToof 'EadBanga



Didn't upload the pic I thought, where his head-banging pose really stood out. If He'd had a back patch on, I'd have re-done it now with some heavy metal band on it. Keep thinking to try a tiny Eddy on one of the back-patches, but maybe a black and white image would be easier, could try that with a micro-pen...
Wheel needs finishing, teef in mouth and on bracelet need re-touching, base not finished..sigh


DrillaKilla



Bit dark is ol' DrillaKilla, metal high-lightings a bit rough, but loks okay in the hand. Stil not as happy with chipping red as yellow, need to play with the orange I think, bone is to light for use on red I've found, but orange isn't really doing it for me , perhaps yellow next time?


TonkaTink



Just been re-furbished. But didn't have enough teef to get his head re-sprayed. Not surprising really, teef are harder to come by when you've no mouth. Oh yeah, happy with green chipping as well as yellow. Now, blue, blue I'm not at all happy with yet. Realised the red light at the back has a wrong light source.


I.C. Hans Du



Couple of washes still needed, base needs finishing, and the name may get changed


So, a few more are close to completion (I know, you've heard that before right, but look, above, piccies see You're in the Monkeyverse now, time moves slowly in the Monkeyverse ), including Eavy D and Mono-Nob. Both of whom happen to have SM shoulder pads as part of their face.(Don't see that sentence very often outside Dakka)



So I was thinking I'd do it using a variation on the classic dark to light gem style. Now obviously more layers are needed in these examples, but I'm not sure the technique works well for this shape, or if I'm getting the layer shapes wrong. I was thinking a blackstone gem style like Vent's might be better here, but not sure about then having a large black surface area. Thoughts anyone?

Think that's it for now, and although I'd like to get a bit more of that P-stuff done, experience has taught me my colour-fu is poor after no sleep So probably best to just go for sharp tools instead


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Blimey, it might just be my eyes, but they look a lot darker than they did last night. Do they need re-taking?

The paint is all looking good, and the shoulder-pad visors is FABULOUS.

As always mister monkey troll an inspiration to all of us ork converters cheers mate! keep the good work and thanks for that injection of creativity

They look fantastic monkeytroll. I wouldn't worry about them looking dark or anything... probably just the lighting and they look great the way they are.

i read the banter and i see the pics and i am startled... am i on mokney´s thread still? from what i read i still am ...the pics seem from some far away time double of monkey who finally got some serious painting done... the thing about the edge of your table and the floor...this seems to be a thing ol´freud had a thing or two to say about...
haven´t realized that you ued the oneeyed or big visor shoulderpads idea with your cyborks...thats very good looking...specially when you give it a bit of glossy varnish... in fact the first torso^^ and the pad remind me of a certain alien form...i tend to forgett the name of said species...
your I.C. Hans Du now reminds me in a strange way more of captain america...so maybe a steve rogers pun would be a cool idea here...
and your drilla somehow reminds me of a slurpy can^^ for obvious reasons...i am still a bit bugged so that i haven´t felt like taking pics but rest assured that the time will come...

oh did i say how much i love your orks? well i do^^

cheers, vik

Wazzdig Dagga - Why thank you dahling, this year it's all about the big shiny face look. It works well with sluggas, choppas and shootas, comes in a variety of colours to suit your ensemble, and if you polish it up those rokkits will be reflecting like no ones business. Now most are opting for the big, bold statement made by a good old beakie pad, but there's a few daring souls out there going for 'umie pads. Fashion victims or fashion gurus? Too early to tell yet, but we'll keep you posted...

And discovered your blog earlier, very nice

wyrd boy - hey, glad you could drop by and enjoy the show Bit of colour always bolsters the troops what.

Gits - Thanks a lot. Yeah, saw the pics once they'd posted and caught a combination of tired eyes and bad laptop screen angle they're definitely darker, but not as black as I first thought.

vic - Yeah, I know the feeling. Things get weird around here sometimes, but all this colour? It's just not natural. But it's probably coming to a close soon, can't see it lasting Doubt there'll be any painting today, and if I start any cutting and pasting then that'll be me distracted away from those no-good, soft, bristly type knives Captain America? Not sure I'm seeing that there myself, but I wouldn't do a Cap anyway, not after seeing that awesome Kapitan Amerikork (or something similar) on here a while back - been trying to find a link but no joy.
And no worries on the pic front, rest up first mate.


And so to further stave off the slavering hordes of colour zombies whilst I load supplies on my boat....a group shot. A unit shot. Yes. that's right, we have a unit of boyz complete




12 boyz with sluggas and choppas, 1 with rokkits and a nob to tells 'em wot ta do.


And in celebration of a complete squad a small flypast was organised. Well, not so much organised as just kinda happened. Looked nice though, kept the crowd entertained for seconds.




Bionikopta's out in front...




Da Red Kount takes him...




But obviously Bionikopta comes through at the end. Everyone knows a vertically orientated rotor is going to out-perform a pair of jet engines every time.


And a few updated solo shoots of the koptas, mainly beause I can if I want to, it's my blog And let's face it, it's not like this place gets overwhelmed with finished models. If it helps, think of it as part of my first dakka-day celebrations that I never got round too. A late, small part.

Bionikopta




Da Red Kount





What? You want new colour? Go on, get on with you. You'll make do with a bit of second-hand colour, and you'll like it too. Now be off with you...



Oh, apologies for any dodgy layouts I'm providing, still posting from my laptop, and I only get one image across, no idea what you're getting


edit: Although if your posts are just visible as a scroll of single images, scrolling up and down the page gives you a little flick-book type movie of some dancing cyborks

And vik, think it's the blue and silver helmet...

I love DrillaKilla. He is so awesome.

I think actually having a cardiac arrest.... But in a good way

Thats a great group shot monkey, I'm green with envy.

You really should paint more often.

Alas, with very characterful army, it tends to blur together in group shots.

How are you handling squad identification?

Briancj wrote:How are you handling squad identification?

ssssshhh! lets just be content with paint at the moment.

samwell - Glad you found a favourite, everyone should have one. Or two or three.

weety - Well, as long as it's a good heart attack then everything's fine I can fully understand the shock though, don't worry, shouldn't happen often enough to be of major concern Although I may still post new pics of the other 2 or 3 finished ones. Make it look like I'm doing something. Plus, it's probably been so long since anyone saw them they might not get recognised

Bangbang - Green's the colour to be, so no worries there. If I painted more often I wouldn't have so much to paint though

Briancj - I know, but it keeps some peeps happy if they see the odd group shot
Now as to squad identification, that's a good question, and a timely one too. Meaning I'd forgotten that bit I'd discounted shoulder brands/tattoos as obviously not every guy gets a shoulder. Same could be said about any part of the body. So I'd thought maybe I could use the spanna glyph in squad colours. However, I forgot all about that idea when actually painting. Another problem with the speed at which I work
None of the nobs have bannas yet, partly for that reason. I may leave it without for now though, it doesn't really bother me that much for these guys, this lot will just get on whatever trukks nearest and go krumpin' with whoever else makes it onboard.

prototype - it was too late anyway, back to the choppin an' cuttin'. It's what it's all abaht innit?


SO not much of anything to show, couple of minor updates on trukks. Did some messing about with some pieces and had a possibly great idea on how to get in a reference to The Highwayman (Dodgy obscure show with Sam Jones (Flash) that had one cool idea that I think I might be able to loot). But later for that...

Tiny bit more to the trukk, also starte on one of the grot riggers, got one boarding plank together, still deciding whether to use make a second or use the one that came with the trukk. Still toying with having the weapon mount on a tower in the gap beside the cab's left, or build up a small turret on top of the one in the cab roof.




And the start of trukk#3. Almost became the cab for trukk#4 but has now become too high for that cab, so back to #3



Dem beaky lan'speeders iz ded killy. 'An dey make pretty good buggiez too, if'n youse can gets 'old of one. Seen lotza good meks do dat. Got dem jets to make it goes fasta, some nice bitz of armour to hack up. Yeah, reel nice. Prob'ly make some meself someday. But dis one I got, well jets woz krumped good, 'ad to toss 'em. Some of da armour woz pretty poor too, fell apart when we woz 'aving a look. So we went an' stuck a propa engine in dere now.

Sleep tight, don't let the paint-squigs bite...

I'd like to award you with the prize for best use of a space marine land speeder.

(Expect teef to arrive by grot bomb between 2 to 5 Waaaghing days)

It really looks like a trukk cab great mekking

It's amazing how much your models come to life when you paint them. Love all the neons and metallics, so so much. The trukk is shaping up awesome too!

I have a quick question.

I sent a squad of grots over to your house and I havnt heard from them yet.

They where supposed to steal your blueprints on your trukk and bomma.

So if ya see them running around please have them call me.

I miss them.

I think I might have to steal your choppy up the models and make new ones one day.

They way they turn out is just mind blowing. But first I have to finish my Brazen Klawz.

Always fun to see what you come up with next.