Welcome to PaddyMick's Chopshop, the semi-legal 40K vehicle garage where I will be carrying out conversions with alternate and official 40K vehicles.

First on the chopping block is a Hades Breaching Drill I didn't want to pay Forge World prices for. Here's the official model. Mine's the Desert terrain version innit.

I am part-way through the build and need to add bits to the side, like pistons or something.

Bits used so far:
a 1/72 armourfast tank chassis I bought by mistake
Balsa wood
Raumjager Infantry model with arms and control panel from a Goliath
Goliath Rockgrinder blades
a couple of spare tank bits
Ice lolly sticks - these may feature in a few conversions as I like to eat ice lollys













I have enough parts for 2 so i'm starting the second one now





I bought the Goliath kit for a future project - it's going to be a Trukk in a Blood Axe warband, and it may also be the gift that keeps on giving, as I'll use the Incinorator gun to make a Hellhound, along with these bits - a 3d printed apc, lego technics wheels and moar lollys.



I've used bits like this before for a Desert Pattern Taurox



....and finally for now, here's a glimpse of that future ork project

Great looking vehicles here!

Thanks Gwyn

I forgot to mention i'm also working on a squad of scout sentinels using Robogear kits:



I've had some modest success with this line of models before, for armoured sentinels:

Welcome back to the Chop Shop.

Here are the two ready-to-paint Hades Breaching Drills, with added pistons and tanky bits. Also pictured are a couple of the Combat Engineers, the sappers who use the drills to assault enemy fortifications.

Here are the completed Hades Breaching Drills

Great work all around!

I love the Robogear kits- have done couple of projects with them and saw the natural use of the T-rex walkers as sentinels, but could never get going doing something with them; your project has given me some ideas to get going with. I've done up a couple of the Tehnolog tanks and one of the 'monitor/guardian' tracked things- lots of fun and they used to be cheap.

Wasn't sure t first about your Hades Drills- but man, did they ever turn out good in the end! Nice adaptation nd the weathering and general grub to them makes 'em look properly well-used.

Rock on!

Some really imaginative stuff there, very nice.

Cheers guys! i'm never sure how these things are going to turn out but i'm happy this time.
Re: robogear kits, yeah they are awesome, i'm gonna use the rocket launchers for a Manticore soon. When I say soon, probably next year or when the Guard codex gets released and I get inspired again.

Got a few conventional marine vehicles to paint up now, but will be getting round to starting the Ork project after that.

Many thanks for reading

Those came out really good! Well done mate!

amazing from what you started with. Looking forward to future instalments.
Btw, you have a place where you post about your reclaimed marines? You planning to do it here? Maybe?

 jeff white wrote:
amazing from what you started with. Looking forward to future instalments.
Btw, you have a place where you post about your reclaimed marines? You planning to do it here? Maybe?

Cheers, yeah, I did a showcase thread at 1000pts,Broken Skulls is the name of the custom chapter now. I'll update it soon I reckon 'cos I've got loads more done and on the way. It's 'cos of that project that this thread ain't been updated in a while, there's loads of vehicles but no conversions as such, just bodging rescues.

Those drills are great and the sentinels look like modernized/enhanced versions of the egg walking egg sentinels of RT!

Are you planning to stick to ground vehicles or is something like a converted Valkyrie in the mix?

dangerously interesting blog, on the horizon !


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"some, really cool conversions,


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didnt notice the time gate, where Eldar was making time experiments,



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but , mainly i'm thinking about some gnome-like soldiers,



whatever this idea would become, i think - its cool

Pass that reefer, dubman
Sounds great mate go for it

@Valhallen, no plans yet for flyers, but i'll have to have a think on that. The next stage of this project, after the stuff mentioned above, will take me into 2023 I reckon. I'm adding sandrunner cavalry and mounting my general on a giant sandworm.

Biggest vehicle in the army done is a Crassus, from an Aliens APC 3d printed prototype for a kit this guy on ebay was building, cost about £20, not muching conversion needed, but plenty of dollar saved.



Also quite pleased with the Leman Russ, from american korean war tank kits, bulked out with 2 cassette tapes in cases in the middle

Wow) You, my friend, should continue! It seems to me that you will even have your own, recognizable style)

 Massive_Damage wrote:
Wow) You, my friend, should continue! It seems to me that you will even have your own, recognizable style)

Thanks mate! Looking forward to seeing some more of your stuff too, especially if it's orks.

I have loads of half started Guard stuff still to do, but could not resist jumping ahead and breaking ground on a new project. This is the big one, my dream army from when I was a kid. It's mostly RT era space ork infantry, but there are a few vehicles, and I decided to start the project with a trukk boyz mob so I could get some time in the Mek's Workshop.

Goliath as trukk looks good.

I put the orks on hold to get ready for a GT with Guard and came away thinking I need to change my list, so I am making different turrets for my taurox and building 3 more. The plan is to eventually have 6 that can count as any chimera or taurox chassis vehicle.

Here's a completed manticore and chimera and some works in progress. Chassis is a 3d printed modern apc, bulked out with lego wheels, lollipop sticks and rockets are robogear.

Progress on more chimera chassis.







I built three scout sentinels from Robogear kits. Roll cages will be added after painting so I can get at the pilots, who are half robogear, half iron core and half raumjager infantry. The big guns are from leftover bits that could count as multi-lasers or auto-cannons, and are magnetized.







***yep I only realised after taking these pics that the legs are backwards on one sentinel, so i'll have to get the hacksaw out and re-adjust - that's why it's called the chop shop!***

BONUS PIC

I needed to give my assault squad jump packs but didn't want to spend any money, and the official ones aren't very graceful, so I chopped up a normal power pack and added my favourite building material.

_Love_ seeing Robogear and Tehnolog bits being used in conversions and yours are great!

Interesting mash-up of parts for the Sentinel pilots too, very nice looking from the pics you've provided.

I like the jump packs too- back in the day (late 80's) everyone was constrained by a) no money and b) no kits: things like Rhinos and jump packs didn't exist yet. Nice, simple, realistic within the confines of the game conversions you've made there.

Rock on!

Thanks Meer_Cat. The Wargames Atlantic kits are great, I used them for all my infantry.
I do remember the days when neccessity lead to creativity and since coming back to the hobby I find that it's still just as much fun.

Some painting progress, and I realised I needed some lasgun arrays for the chimera. I have magnetized them with magnets in the hull and strips of metal from a baked bean can lid on the lollipop stickgun mounts. Guns are from the Iron Core kit.

I need the guns on the sentinels to be Heavy Flamers, so I glued a plug fuse to each one to look like a prometheum tank. The barrel kinda works as a flamer too, I like it.



I knew burnt out plug fuses would be worth adding to the bits box. I think only the UK uses them though.

nice work on those vehicles, I particularly like the grinder track ones.
I would suggest to try adding an extra layer of smaller details, such as little screws or actual GW bits to finish some of the areas and not leave too many flat/untextured surfaces.
You did a good job on the rhinos with the wheels, although I find the wheels design a bit too toy-like, but interesting nonethelsess. Before adding the details I would have sanded the surfaces, since it clearly looks like a 3d printed model. Maybe you make it work with some interesting weathering and painting

Cheers Killatores, that's interesting, I never even thought about sanding them down to get rid of the lines. I won't be doing to these as they are already nearly done but I may try it on the next 3d printed stuff I do.

 PaddyMick wrote:
Cheers Killatores, that's interesting, I never even thought about sanding them down to get rid of the lines. I won't be doing to these as they are already nearly done but I may try it on the next 3d printed stuff I do.

You an probably use milliput to fill the surface first, and sand it after. Its work, but I would say it would give a better final result.

The heavy flamers look neat- I'm stealing that idea!

'Sfunny, it never occurred to me to try sanding 3d printed pieces down until Killatores mentioned here, and now it seems so obvious. I had a bunch of printed wall sections that were supposed to be stucco and the print lines just didn't work. I tried smoothing them out by 'painting' white glue on them, but that wasn't terribly successful. The trick of smearing milliput on and then sanding smooth sounds like it can't miss, though, looking forward to trying it out.

Age old trade off: Print at finer resolution and take a lot longer or print faster with a rougher surface at the end.

Great addition to your Sentinels!

Nice one Meer_Cat

Here's the whole batch I was working on laid out ready for varnishing. I'll take a break now but will hopefully get an army shot before the RTT i'm playing with these guys next week.

Here's that army shot I promised, taking these guys to an RTT tomorrow.



Next thing for me will probs be marines but this i'll post again when I do more work on those ork vehicles.

These are looking great, Paddy! Always cool to see an army shot.

Cheers Olthannon! I got the wooden spoon at the RTT but got to fight the new 'quins and tau, and sell the lives of my troopers dearly for the Emperor. I've now decided the only sane response to the current meta is to scratch build a Malcador Infernus - watch this space.

I forgot to post the finished sentinels, here they are:

PaddyMick,

Your Sentinels remind me a bit of the original running egg version from Rogue Trader.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks Captain, I remember those but never owned one.

Here's the Malcador Infernus I'm working on in order to kill space elfs more efficiently.
I managed to find a toy tank in a charity shop for £10 which is about the right size, and the rest is bits box vehicle stuff, cardboard and insides of an old VCR.

Some painting progress on the Malcador. It's not far off ready. I've had to put the flamer sponsons at the front. Those and the turret and tank is magnetized so I can use the base to mount something else in the future.

The Malcador Infernus is finished. Pictured here with the markings of the Eolian Desert Fighters and a special weapons flamer squad for scale. I can feel a Pyromaniacs army list coming on. Next up: flamer sponsons for my Leman Russ moulded out of Milliput.








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Once more, with 'sponsons'

That's a lot of fire!

Sure is, ta Gwyn, i'm taking a pyro list to a tournament next month, i'll post n army shot nearer the time.

Changing tack, and slowing down, a new army project, seen earlier in the thread, is now well underway. This is a personal best for me for painting, and the weathering was really fun - wanted it to look beat up and dirty.

Very nice! The weathering is well done- it's easy to go overboard and foul everything up beyond all recognition (FUBAR). Good use of color to make things pop too- the yellow fuel tank underneath, the bits of red. I particularly like the no-slip plating in the bottom of the crew area: grubby where it should be, dull but comparatively clean where it shouldn't. That's an area that is too easy to get carried away in (no pun intended).

Cheers Meer_Cat! Army Painter can take some credit for their special effects paints and tips on the website.
I was a little afraid of overdoing it as it was my first proper go at weathering, so deliberately held back, and i've never had a problem calling a model done as i'm always excited to move onto the next thing...which will be.... ridgerunner buggies. But loads of infantry to do first.

Gotta love a mohawk! great stuff the Malcador is actually quite intimidating

Cheers lord. iit get's a flank to itself during deployment. Hopefully the enemy is too scared of it expoloding to actually want to shoot or fight, and they all just run away.

Looks belter that! Love the mohawk and the glyphs. Waaagh!

Thanks Olthannon

Here's that army shot I promised - taking my Death Korp to an Escalation tourney this weekend.

Subbed, some really cool stuff on here

"In mass lies perfection"- great army shot, really gives perspective to all your hard work!

Cheers guys really appreciate it.
I've got another squad of sentinels to do, then an RTT to play in June, then i'll be packing this army away for a while, so will get a shot of the full 5000+ pts before I do.
Then it's more ork vehicles I reckon.

In the meantime, here's the Guard army warlord, featured in another thread, repeated here, 'cos even though he's not a vehicle, he might have to 'count as' one in games.

I have started on three buggies for my Blood Axes. The conversion work from the GSC ridgerunner kit is pretty minimal and mostly i've just stripped them down and not used the safety rails, lights etc. Metal old school crew though, and an AM heavy weapon team autocannon for the main gun 'cos i've got loads and it looked about big enough. They will count as Boomdakka Snazzwagons.

The buggies are finished, as well as a Freebooter Bad Doc Painboy, who will be converting some Castellan Robots into Dreadnoughts for me soon....

Love the old skool krew.

 PaddyMick wrote:
I have started on three buggies for my Blood Axes. The conversion work from the GSC ridgerunner kit is pretty minimal and mostly i've just stripped them down and not used the safety rails, lights etc

"Safety rails? 'Oo needs 'em? Waaaaaaaggh---- oh shiiiiiiii"


Looking forward to the Castellan dreads.

Cheers Olthannon

I'm also eyeing up those necromunda ash wastes vehicles..... but plenty of infantry to get painted first. Reckon when what i've got now for this army is done, i'll get some nice photos, make a showcase thread, and then treat myself.

Just started the castellan dreads; i've took inspiration from whatsisname from the teenage mutant ninja turtles cartoon

I've decided on the weapon load out, they are going to be close combat dreads. It's a dreadmob, with rogue bad doc painboy and a bad mek, and want to make them look evil. Heroclix doc octopus arms and heroquest orc weapons.

Looking very Killy and choppy! love the dynamic motion you've put into the chains.

Kraang would be proud, you'll have to do an Orky technodrome now - it could count as a mega stompa!

 lordbickerstaff wrote:
Looking very Killy and choppy! love the dynamic motion you've put into the chains.

Kraang would be proud, you'll have to do an Orky technodrome now - it could count as a mega stompa!

Oh man, don't give me ideas..........

Cheers mate

Progress on the Dreadmob. These are a bit silly

The Dread Mob is finished. Had a game with them already, they are hilariously good fun to teleport in and flail around.

Love 'em

 Skinflint Games wrote:
Love 'em

Cheers!
Plan next is to do a Mega Dread from an Armiger Chassis. Then it's a Battlewagon using the Cargo 8 Ridgehauler.
Lots of infantry to paint first though.

I'm not going to do the Mega-Dread next.... the list needs a Battlwagon; can't think of a better model to use than this:

I've added a magnetised Deff Rolla. As with the Trukk, i'm leaving off most of the fiddly bits, ladders and safety rails, and the roof of the cab. I've put magnets under carraige so the warboss's retinue can go on top and not fall off.

Man those dreads are fantastic, love the faces and the wiggly arms. Absolutely class


Trukk looks awesome as well

Cheers Olthannon, really appreciate you looking in

The Cargo 8 (Cargork?) Ridgehauler Battlelwagon is finished. I prefer it without the Deff Rolla. Pictured with the Warboss and full retinue. Can't quite squeeze all of them onto it, in-game, but I found I didn't want to do much extra bits or conversion, 'cos i'll be taking models on and off, and they add interest anyway. My first go at camo, incidentally, and somewhat accidentally as it happens, but I'm happy with it.

Also did another Trukk for da boyz, this one has a veteran crew.

Canny little updates these. The cargo 8 looks brilliant, really like the camo you chose. It reminds me of my old micromachines.

The classic banners are a nice touch.

The little grot in the last photo is great as well, what a good expression

Cheers mate! Honestly the cargo 8 is a great kit and hard for it not to look good. Micromachines... I remember putting them back in the box never to play with again at age 10 when I got my copy of Rogue Trader. Wish I still had them!

That's the Ork project done for now, just in time for the Leicester GT this weekend, the big event of the year for me which I have been working towards. Here's an army shot, for my last post of 2022:



I've got some stuff to paint for a mate, then hopefully i'll be starting a project in the new year.... maybe Chaos Knights.

Were your opponents suitably bowled over into submission and their dice meekly surrendered?

Looking excellent! Didn't realise you were in Leicester. I did my undergrad there, really nice city!

Wasn't that also where GW did the first international GW tourny?

Really great conversions! The cargo-8 with camo looks good.

Ah man, the mention of Micro Machines, they were certainly my "baby's first wargame" before I even knew what that was.






I had those two bases. Nostalgia tripping hard here!

@real chris cheers, not quite but had some nice comments; there was one judge who loved it and kept checking in on me Possibly first tourney in lesta, in fact yeah i remember reading jervis's trip report in wd, think they held it at lesta uni

@olthannon yeah the uni bits are especially nice, this tourney was at dmu.. Whereabouts are you?

@ph34rcheers. I had some of those as well; one oppo this weekend kept calling my buggies micro machines. Not even gonna look on ebay, too many dolla!

Love the latest conversions, and the micro machines reference is most nostalgia-inducing

Thanks for sharing

Thanks IGtR!
Hoping to do at least a couple more ork vehicles in the new year.

This is such a fun blog.

I really need to pick up the Gloliath truck at some point.

Cheers Kid. The Goliath is a great kit. I used the rockgrinder parts on my breaching drill (page one) but I gotta figure out a way to use the gsc crew somewhere as well.

A Bad Mek is visiting the boss's camp and in exchange for teef, bits and access to some imperial weapons, is making a Gorkanaut in the Warboss's image. The paintbrush is temporary while I find a big enough axe.

Love the big stompa, the hat is terrific. I think it being such a mundane addition to a giant war engine that makes it so funny.

 PaddyMick wrote:


@olthannon yeah the uni bits are especially nice, this tourney was at dmu.. Whereabouts are you?

I'm afraid this was some years ago, I'm back home in the north east now! I worked in Leicester after but left the year before they won the League and I was gutted. Must have been a fantastic atmosphere.

 Olthannon wrote:
Love the big stompa, the hat is terrific. I think it being such a mundane addition to a giant war engine that makes it so funny.

 PaddyMick wrote:


@olthannon yeah the uni bits are especially nice, this tourney was at dmu.. Whereabouts are you?

I'm afraid this was some years ago, I'm back home in the north east now! I worked in Leicester after but left the year before they won the League and I was gutted. Must have been a fantastic atmosphere.

Thanks, the big kit is so much fun i'm already planning my next one. I find with GW kits that there's a lot of bits I just leave off, like exhaust pipes, bullet clips, etc - anything that's too fiddly and will break off anyway. I did hesitate for a moment before cutting the arm to fit the new pose - it's a lotta dolla, but then thought feck it, my model, i'll brutalise it. I'm a bit baffled as to why all orks now have horned skull motifs everywhere - used to be just Deathskulls - so had to shave off the one on the front; makes it look beat up and scratched which is an added bonus.

Winning the league in 2016 was special and the whle city was buzzing.... i'll never forget it, but i'm a bit disallusioned with.. not so much city, but the premier league now. I declined to renew my season ticket after lockdown. Great memories though. Let me know if you're ever visiting and fancy a small fun game of something at the flgs or a pint or
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I have added the Axe - it's a paintbrush with a kids toy on top. I'll probably eembellish it a bit.



Being Blood Axes, I wanted some imperial weaponry, so replaced his normal shoota with 3 heavy bolters, to represent the dakka, and a heavy flamer, mainly beecause he is armed with one and it's supposed to be sticking out of his chest (which I think looks a bit silly, and I realise how that sounds coming from me) but also because I only had 3 heavy bolters.



He also has a couple if rocket launchers. The model comes with a guy firing a rack of rockets from this hatch. I've gone with this RT ork with rocket launcher, to tie in with the rest of the army.



Now I have to add 4 big shootas somewhere, maybe a few other bits, and it will be time for a black primer.

The Gorkanaut is built and ready for priming. I've lowered and enlarged the axe, added a banner pole, and glued the big shootas onto his knees because that's the only thing that made sense.










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Also I should add I left off a lot of fiddly bits that I didn't like, such as exhaust pipes, extra 'orky' horns and skulls, and bullet casings flying out of the guns (never been a fan of 'action' or 'effects' on my models).

Knee shootaz is an excellent idea to me, good Orky logic that is

Premier League can be dodgy but the Toon is flying high at present so I'm guzzling it down.

Always up for a pint and a game next time I'm down Leicester way!

Fair enough @Olthannon; Newcastle fans deserve their moment in the sun.

Here's the big lad with a lick of paint; i'm starting to believe he'll be ready for a game on Sunday. Gonna stick him in a tellyporta and deepstrike him in with the boss and his drinking buddies inside.

The Gorkanaut is finished. The glyphs on the belly read: Warboss Big Axe of the Blood Axes Big Boy Waaargh attacks and kills Goffs, Beakies and Stunties.
The banner just says Waaaaaaaargh! The head on a spike belonged to a Goff.

Outstanding job!

For his name in glyphs on the front you forgot to add "the 17th"

Cheers Meercat
I'm still learning ork

Looking propa orky, I like all the glyphs and banners.

Thanks Olthannon. It's very liberating painting ork vehicle since an ork is supposed to have painted it. If that makes sense.

Incredible work! Subscribed!


Capt. Hodgeheg

I'm making a morkanaut and the idea is that it fires squigs. I've started, as usual without a solid plan, but hopefully I can have him loading squigs in the top, they come out the back, load in the gun, and fire. Somehow.

 PaddyMick wrote:
I've started, as usual without a solid plan,

That may be the orkiest way to build something. I love the teeny-tiny head sticking out of the main body.

Cheers Josh, It's very liberating, building ork vehicles!

 PaddyMick wrote:
I'm making a morkanaut and the idea is that it fires squigs.

Love it looks fantastic so far, the little Squiggly face poking out is great. Can't wait to see how you get on.

Cheers Olthannon

I've done some more work on what I'm calling the Squiganaut. The idea is he's lifting the willing squigs into the hatch for a 'treat' being belt fed into their mouths as they go through the gun housing but it's a rocket, they are then propelled into the enemy with hilarious results.

Only thing I have to figure out is how to get them from the back to the gun. Clear tubing? or rails? Couple more squigs to go in whatever conveyance I can come up with, and i'd like them mostly to be visible.

Also need a cool looking head, was thinking a mohican likke the bad mek who built it (below, pictured with his posse).

Here's the completed Squiganaut! I'm so happy with how this turned out; it's probably my most ambitious vehicle conversion so far. I went with wire rails around the back for the squigs to fed into the gun barrel, and I thought it would be funnier (and easier to model) if they looked they were going voluntarily. Maybe they think the belt fed rockets that pop into their mouths as the go through the chamber are tasty treats. Or maybe they are bred to be kamikaze squigs.

As for the painting, I tried to make the face look like a blurry TV screen. Not sure I succeeded but using colour shift paint for the first time was fun. The glyphs on the front read: ''The Waaargh will not be televised''.

Great looking squig ammo tube!

That is a fantastic result- great work and tons of imagination!

Thanks Ph34r and Meer Cat, the encouragement is much appreciated. I learned a few things on this build as well that I can carry over. Mainly that I need to slow down a bit or little mistakes creep in, like the rails ain't perfect - but ork conversions are very forgiving, and no regrets here.

I'll line up another build soon. Got some pesky infantry to paint before that.
Reckon could do a Stompa that fires Nobz on Smasha Squigs?

Great concept. The squigs are that lovely, orkish mix of weirdly cute and comical. I also like the computer screen face, it's something an ork mek would conceive.

I think your paint scheme works well enough. It makes me think of an aging whitewash that is being stained by rust. You could try sponging on some brown for chipped paint or drybrush a white for scuffed edges. Experiment with some weathering techniques and put them on top of each other.

Absolutely fantastic mate, you must be dead chuffed. Such a good concept and the end result is packed full of details. I love the squig going into the hopper with the tail in the air. Really nice desert paint job as well. Love the idea of the next project too!

@olthannon cheers mate, appreciate it. That was just a joke about the Stompa! one day maybe.

@mr nobody thanks for the kind words; reckon you're right about the weathering, I may go back at some point. Cheers

This is about the coolest thing I've seen in a while! I love the concept, and that TV screen face! Makes me think of BMO from Adventure Time...

The way you describe your next Orky project sounds like a giant slingshot mounted on a tank!

Thanks @mcmatilla, advernture time is awesome, i've been re-watching it with my kid

@meer_cat that was a joke! I couldn't possibly.... cheers for lookinhg in

What a great conversion idea! And the execution is fantastic. Great hilarity was had!

Cheers Gwyn

Here's a minor conversion, just finished, intended to showcase a model I got in a secret santa last xmas (not my paintjob - so probably the best painted infantry model in the army!).

Blood Axe Kommando Trukk



This vehicle marks a bit of a turning point for me, more so than the last one; the confidence and speed I was able to do it with I mean. It;s been 3 years, and 15,000 points, since I got back into the hobby, and I'm loving every minute.

I bought a built and painted raider off ebay and hacked it up. It's not even for a modelling project.

Rock on- the world needs more non-modeling projects!

Now I'm intrigued: what is there in life but modeling projects?

Insane creativity going on here, getting serious 3rd ed vibes off that Kommando trukk! Everythings Orky enough to be believeable and WTF!? at the same time

Cheers fellas!
I was joking of course; i'm building a Grot Pirate Landship.

Ice lolly sticks make a long awaited re-appearance on this thread.





Sheet from a shortbread tin so the models with magnest won't fall off, and wheel from one of my kid's old toys



Ahoy me hearties!

Great updates mate! Looking forward to seeing the crew of this pirate ship!

Cheers Olthannon

Some progress on the landship. Got a top tip for the sail from Dave at MS Paints (great youtuber/hobby community) - the sail is made from a wet wipe, wrung out, then dipped in pva. Dries rigid but can be shaped.





The crew is almost finished, and i've added a runtbot mascot 'cos in 10th ed the unit needs a runtherd, and these chaps won't take the lash from an orc.

LOL I love it!

Those grots are adorable! The scratch build looks like it's coming along nicely too.

Thanks Kid_Kyoto and makeitorky!

The landship is complete. The Glyphs are an unrepeatable filthy gobbo slur about elfs.

 PaddyMick wrote:


The landship is complete. The Glyphs are an unrepeatable filthy gobbo slur about elfs.

Love the concept and the finished product is so impressive. The design on the sail looks brilliant, really nice work mate!

Thanks Olthannon

I've just purchased a Stompa from ebay for cheap as it's missing it's head and arms. Watch this space...

I'm starting the Stompa build; and there are some freshly looted imperial vehicles just arrived at the Chopshop.
Can you guess which bits are going where?

Treads underneath, weapons arms to the sides!

Not quite
The whole of each ARMiger will be each arm, the Dunecrawler turret will be the head, and maybe the legs for a klaw. Earthshaker cannon for a gun


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Actual basilisk, i'll turn into a big trakk I think

Looking forward to this Stompa! Sounds hilariously Orky

The Stompa is almost built; just got to add a couple of orks popping out hatches, and maybe some nipple rockets. He's got Defiler claws, sawn off Earthshaker,a Dunecrawler head, and Armigers for arms.

Kitbashing with my 4 year old boy. His paintjob on the walker, pilot pro-painted from ebay

Looks excellent mate. The armigers are a great touch.

Your little lad did a grand job on the walker!

Wow that stompa is really creative, great job!

Thanks chaps, much appreciated

I've finished the Stompa. Thought it looked better without the gun shield. Went for a camo paintjob, to make it easier to hide.















@Mr Nobody - I did the sponge technique for some chips, and actually went back and did it on the Squiganaut at the same time. Happy with the result.

Looks great painted up loving the Classic orcs and the camo theme, really suits the stompa for some reason?

Even when you explained how you were going to use the Armingers I couldn't see it; now, complete, it looks terrific! What a novel concept to exploit the Ork penchant for incorporating captured systems (and anything else lying around handy) into their builds. Great paint job to boot!

Cheers chaps, i'm very happy with how it turned out. To be honest Meer_Cat, I didn't know how it was going to work either!

Just come back from it's first game; it has a problem moving around terrain, but it managed to punch Mortarian into space

Oh, wow, what a cool kitbash! The use of other, smaller mechs for the arms and head worked much better than I imagined when I saw the pre-assembly photos. That was truly inspired!

Absolutely awesome mate. Great job with the painting. The camo looks really cool.

Thanks Josh and Olthannon

I've almost completed the build on the final 'naut for the army i'm taking to Leicester GT in December

Army list


I've gone for a mad dok painboy theme. He's wired himself in like a dreadnought.



The arms and legs and feet are chopped up and re-arranged so I can try and make him standing or walking. I've added in Defiler and Chaos Knight bits too.



I'd like to give him a huge bloody butcher's apron; might try the wet wipe with PVA method I used for the grot landship sail.

I've finished the build. I've added a missile rack from a gsc buggy to make it as least slightly wysywig - although I find I'm caring less and less about that these days - and the butcher's apron is one of my baby daughter's bibs, chopped up. Someone remind me how to do blood splatter, and dried blood please

That's a nifty kitbash-- all the parts fit together seamlessly, like they were from the same kit. The apron is a fun addition.

Love the idea of the doktanaut! Great choice of face as well, really funny to see his little face poking out. Top work!

Thanks Josh - it took some figuring out, but I was very lucky with how the different kits went together.
Cheers Olthannon! always appreciate you looking in.

The Doctor will see you now.

As a doctor myself I can assure you that that last model is definately not a genuine licenced medical professional!

Love the carnage on the base!

Cheers Doc

Well thats me done with orks I think, until the new codex drops in spring. Next army will be out-of-the-box marines so won't be posting them here; probably see you in the new year guys, unless I do an army showcase thread (it's finding the time to get it all out and photograph it). What I will do is post a pic of the army i'm taking to the Leicester GT in December, when i've finalised my list, which will include at least 3 of the bg guys.

Love the paint job PaddyMick! That's an Ork who knows how to heal his dear comrades!

Cheers Olthannon

Here's the army shot for the GT at the weekend. I've only taking the suqiganaut and bossnaut, as the stompa struggles to deploy or move anywhere on uktc terrain maps, as I found out in my practice game.

I've built some snot tanks. Admech breacher kit, plus metal oldhammer snot. Missile rack and mortar from gsc buggy, big rokkets from morkanaut, grenade launchers from cargo 8 ridgehauler.

These look great! Tiny but brutal!

Cheers Olthannon! i've undercoated them but they will have to wait for a paint job since i've got tourney this weekend and they didn;t make the list, and I need to paint other stuff. I'll post army pic and list if I get a chance. In the meantime - not a vehicle but I just completed this mob, the squig fang boyz, who will be ridin in the squiganaut coem saturday.



The mek workshop in the background is what i'm currently painting, as I am also takin it to the tourney. Sadly no conversion, as it's a multi part, 'use the model' fortification where you deploy the bits 1'' apart - and I want there to be no ambiguity when it comes to the games.

Here's my army for the International Team Tournament in Coventry this weekend. Big Mek Bobby Loo Ellen has tasked his 3 apprentices to build big robots to see who can stomp the most gitz and the lads are hanging around to loot some more scrap.

What a terrific army shot- good luck!

So much Tekky stuff it'd make Bad Moon envious!

What a beautiful army! Inspiring work with personalising these vehicles.

Love the dok naut - the bib is hilarious- and digging all the old metal goodness going around too.

Thanks for sharing!

Cheers tzurk, meer cat, shasonzebi; appreciate the encouragement.
It was a great event. I lost every game by a lot but had a blast, really good fun. My team won a couple of rounds, and I got to stomp some space elfs....

Anyway, I won't be losing any more games now Rokkit Squadron is complete.

Losing games means you are playing games, which is what this is all about, right? I wish I was playing games...

Those rockets are really cool. The snotling pilots are a fun little detail.

Thanks Josh! yeah, the playing is the thing; every game told a story, or was just a good laugh, or both, and the fun started at list building weeks before, and was in discussing the meta and match ups with team mates. No local clubs where you are mate? No chance of a game?

 PaddyMick wrote:
Thanks Josh! yeah, the playing is the thing; every game told a story, or was just a good laugh, or both, and the fun started at list building weeks before, and was in discussing the meta and match ups with team mates. No local clubs where you are mate? No chance of a game?

Well, there are quite a few ex-pats in the area, but we all have such disparate work and/or social schedules that it's hard to get together. When it does happen, it's always later at night, which doesn't work for me. Maybe when my son goes to uni and I have fewer obligations at home, but for now I'm a community of one.

Ah, obligations; I get it, Got 2 young 'uns myself, so appreciate how hard it can be to carve out the time, but at least i'm lucky about having a club and no lack of people to play. I find big events suit me as a way of cramming games in and giving me something to work towards with painting, even if I only go to 2 a year. Hang in there bud!

 PaddyMick wrote:
Ah, obligations; I get it, Got 2 young 'uns myself, so appreciate how hard it can be to carve out the time, but at least i'm lucky about having a club and no lack of people to play. I find big events suit me as a way of cramming games in and giving me something to work towards with painting, even if I only go to 2 a year. Hang in there bud!

It was actually better when he was younger-- he was my regular opponent for Deadzone and Frostgrave, up until he turned into a teenager and became too cool for his dad...