Scarp - Thanks man! You know, when I was a wee nipper I knew there'd be a use for that teething ring someday... I've said it before, no doubt I'll say it again (no one will notice, I know you only come to look at the pwetty pics ), I feel like the last 30 years of collecting have just been to get me enough parts to start on Orks

Glad you like the boss, as I said he nearly became anothe Mek, and there was plenty of debate (betwen me and the parts involved) over which of two heads he would get and which another mek/boss would get. Made the right choices in the end though (you'll have to wait to see the other guy, he's still looking for a suitable arm. Might take him a while. He started looking in the pile of heads)

Good spot, that's the shoulder from one of the suits (Stealth? Not sure now), and now he's been named too
And yes I expect that may well crop up at some point. One day I'm going to do something with that mini myself


vik - It'll fly one day, never fear. look at how your tank has come on recently. I mean, we might have to get Mrs vik to lock you up again...but it'll happen

I did toy with keeping him sans hand, but feel that particular arm ended up a bit short (I was over-compensating for the smaller scale on the old mini). We'll have to see what I come up with for his hand...

sam - Thanks. Still not sure on quite how my take on them is going to work out, but.....



....a few concepts:

Was going to wait till I'd actually built a few more, but figured I might as well show these for now. All very much 'rough sketches' in plastic and blu-tac at the moment. Some of those pieces are already ear-marked for other pieces, and there's unchopped bits from AOBR. There was also to be a bit of fluff to go with their first appearance, but that's only half-written so far, plus some of it might need changing anyway as I'm not set on my course just yet.

So we're not heading down the sexy ork path, what could there be of interest to orks in the realms of Slaanesh? Sensation. The joy of battle. Loud noise. Vibrant colour. These things would be of interest to your average green-skin (or purple-skin, red-skin, whatever-skin )
Noise boyz seems to be an emminently suitable path for orks to take



You'll maybe notice that they all happen to be cyborks too. Don't want these guys to spin of into a completely different project just yet, if at all. That shoulder mounted speaker on Noise Boy #1 is a dead cert to be turning up in place of mouth-parts all over the place.




Some of the possessed CSM parts will find a good home here I feel. And more of those boar boy heads are needed, they have a nice Slaaneshi vibe going.




This was what I meant with the 'well, not really' bit after the orky boobs. Mekanikal grot boobs seem almost wholesome compared to ork boobs Obviously the flail isn't a particulary suitable weapon here, it just happened to be a loose arm of the right scale. Actually, this may not make it out the workshop, I had a sudden flash on where I could use that torso to possibly great effect just before I took pics. Depends on what heads I can find. Not an orky thing anyway.




And they hold some possibilities for squigs on a Slaaneshi tip don't you think? Been saving them for either 'nid or slanneshi goodness for many a year now, never quite found the right use for them. Although I believe a couple did get chopped up some years back.

Cheers for the look-see, happy huntin' now...

Re: Previous update - looking better and better - and you finished with the best - love the look of Slork (da slaya)!

Recent update - Chaos Orks huh? Looking good - have you considered a more punk rock/heavy metal less Chaos/Slaanesh vibe? Just taking your idea of love of fighting and Noise Marines to it's natural conclusion...

Wow, I can still not get my head around how detailed and intricate your conversions are.

did toy with keeping him sans hand, but feel that particular arm ended up a bit short (I was over-compensating for the smaller scale on the old mini). We'll have to see what I come up with for his hand...

well there is always the option to go for another gunbarrel for a hand...or to give a bit of normality just a vanilla hand...er...on second thought just go for a barrel^^

Arakasi - Thanks! Think a few more simple black orc conversions are on the cards. I've been using odd bits here and there, keeping away from the basic weapon swap style, but it works well so... Just need to make up some backpacks for the ones wearing powa-arma.

Hmm, hadn't really thought of that, but it's certainly worth looking into. In fact, there's the excuse for some rock band patches I was looking for. Time to start practising tiny pictures of Eddy and Metalhead then And a comeback for the goff rockers possibly..
Possibly takes it a bit further away from Da Emprah's Shrooms, but we'll see.

Wazzdig Dagga - Thanks a bunch man. The trick is to have some basic conversions, then when a more detaile one comes along it 'pops' a bit more

vik - If he gets a barrel, he then needs some ammo/power, maybe a re-pose, maybe some re-balancing... Possibly.
Vanilla hand might be workable on the end of a bionik arm, raspbery ripple might be better though.

Slanneshi orks, cool concept mate, wheres that ork cheerleader gone , she would look very nice with a purple twist and a long claw.

oh noes.... i think this thread now is doomed with the mentioning of the orky cheerleader...

as for

raspbery ripple

whut??? think this must be some slang, right?

i would either do a "shotgun arm" or for a bit of close combat possibilities some sawblade?

That BLK Orks is AWESOME. CSMOrks are so gonna get krumped by my Loyal SMOrks. Now if someone would just perfect that whole teleportation thing I could Bamf over to the UK woop up on some CSMOrks and Bamf back to the US in no time. Or I'd get caught in one of you Mekky booby traps and my head removed and something added in it place. Bah its worth the risk.


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Oh frik just got an idea for a 2h for your CSMOrks or Slorks. Swinging an amp or big ass speaker. Ha! or and axe (guitar). It could be fun.

neil - Well I'm not convinced that even a crazed bunch of Slaaneshi worshipping orks would go near that
At least he didn't post a pic Scarp


vik - it was only to be expected..

and as for raspbery ripple:




"See that big yellow part? That's ice-cream. I love ice-cream."

Current thinking is a few wires, kind of mini-mekka-dendritts.


schank - Cheers dude! You could try using a giant SAG. There's a lot of water surrounding me, if you survive the firing and the trip, there's a good chance you'll land in water rather than half in a wall.

'Course, then you ripe for the cyber-pike and laser-sharks, but hey, that's another problem entirely.

Big-ass amps and speakers added to the gubbinz list. That's a bit like 'The List' except that in place of santa delivering there's you looting.


And so a few more reprobates have escaped from the clutches of the mek-doks.

Come to papa little 'umie:




Looted Yarrick's second PK arm back off him. Cheeky beggar, lootin' from us orkses.
Still needs a power pack and the cabling finished off, few touches of GS required, from the look of these pics might have to re-visit that bionik eye too, looks a bit battered. Biggest pain was cutting away all that solid crud between front and back loin cloth, hate that solid block of cloth look.


Orkus Mekanikus:



Tracks, evil-looking dakka and a mini jet turbine with hand throttle. Just what the dok ordered. Well, it bears some similarities to what the dok ordered. That is, similar in that those items have letters in their names, and the items ordered had letters in their names too.

Head's not glued, should be a slightly different angle to that. Touch of filling needed on the dakka, bit of cleaning needed on the power gubbinz. Originally had a cloak, then some rags looted from a kroot, then the power stuff got in the way. Might have to try a small GS cape-type thing, I'd prefer all the Mekanikus to be robed/cloaked etc.


"I just soiled my armour..":



Big, bad, scary mother of an ork. This thing's going to chase you down, cut you up, shoot you down, then chop you up some more. Then he's going to play blood bowl with whatever's left of your skull.

I'm quite taken with him

Been toying with this one since Velociraptork was being built. Figured the chain-wrapped legs (Used to belong to a chaos warhound titan) would be suitable for a nob version. Couldn't find a torso that worked well though. Once I'd re-found that brass ring things were a bit better, but it wasn't till I got bored and started playing with arm poses that I realised a PK on that torso would look good on the legs.
The goggle head sells him as a remorseless hunter I feel. Don't get an overwhelming urge to have him kicking a marines helmet now



I'm a rokk-star me:



A possible taste of slaaneshi-orky-heavy metal goodness. Go on take a bite. You know you want to. You know this is what's been missing from your life all these years....

..or I've got some nice Earl Grey if you'd rather?

Blu-tac'd only for now, although I do like it. I'm keeping all the Slorks in blu-tac support for now whilst I mull over various paths, options and other things of a higher nature. Well, apart from those ones which I stick together properly that is. They'll be glued. Not blu-tac'd.

Thought the wolf-pelt gave a certain rock-star feel to it, thought about changing it to a boar's head, but not sure, without the tusks coming from the lower jaw I'm not sure how it would look. But I might, shouldn't be too difficult.
Going to add a bit to the feet, maybe some kind of pneumatic high-heel, make them a sort of platform boot

Well, that was a pleasant little diversion wasn't it? We must do it again sometime...

why do i get the impre4ssion that this pic only solves half of my irritation or better doubles it...tendrils would be a nice option...and would blend quite good in to the slaaneshi movement in your ranks...

sometimes i really wonder where you get your parts...the one with the soiled pants has some nice oven looking bumparts...very steampunky...

sorry vik - raspberry ripple is a popular flavour of ice cream over here, it's like vanilla with a ripple of, wait for it, raspberry, thrown in.

I actually had to disassemble an old Zanussi's bum to get that bit. It used to belong to a Hotpoint. Five long years, the Hotpoint had that bit up his ass. Then he died of bit-up-ass disease, he gave the Zanussi the bit. Zanussi hid this uncomfortable hunk of brass up his ass two years. Then, after seven years, he was sent home to his kitchen. And now, little ork, I give the bit to you.

And after the earlier ice-cream chatter I think the dok wants a word with you, in his kapacity as toof dok:

Hmmm... "ripple" is a really cheap, high alcohol wine over here.
Great works on the orks man... fantastic!

I love all your Ork conversions, keep up the excellent work monkeytroll.

Makes me want to do something Orky, but I must resist.

Hahahaha, yeah, small blessings, right? And raspberry ripple is an amazing flavour! Nothing on mint choc chip though, obviously.

Your ?goff rocker guy is awesome - all the parts seem to fit perfectly. The stalker is just downright creepy though - something about those wiry, tall legs and the loping, gangly pose. I've got a picture in my head for exactly how he'd move. I think creepy is hard to do with ork stuff, so kudos for finding a way!

The stabby pose on your new dok is really suited for a dentist, just kinda fits. It's not even that I don't like dentists, so there are no personal neuroses there, I'm sure

Gits - And it probably comes in raspberry flavour too ? Thanks a lot!

GiraffeX - No. Do not resist. It is your destiny. For whilst some believe your avatar to clearly be a Predator, and some say it is but a blurry monochrome pic of Swamp Thing, it is obvious to those who see clearly that it is none other than a blurry pic of a grey ork Embrace your inner ork.
Cheers

Scarp - Well in the absense of any lemon sorbet I'll probably stick with vanilla, provided it's real ice cream, made with real cream. Maybe a bit of neopolitan on the side. Oh, all right, it doesn't matter, as long as it's ice cream. "I scream, you...."
I might have to play up the rock-star look a bit with that one, maybe a mic? I'm very pleased with how Stalka came out (he has a name now ), I got a little video running in my head of him loping through dingy corridors. Possibly chasing Molly, who knows?

Of course, not. Now, open wide....this won't hurt too much....


And another old-skooler proving he's still got the chops...



Found an old-skool cybork gun-arm to go with the old blood-ax body (which reminds me, I was going to replace the cap symbol with a spanna), and sourced his other arm from a catachan since, you know, it's obviously not a human arm.
Maybe a bit more detailing on the slugga, and maybe some plastic glyphs on his back patch. Haven't tried that yet. Also, the final, after paint, wiring will probably be tighter coiled and closer to the arm. Probably.

You've been busy in your little floating workshop of horror and amusment. Hope the lazer-pike are doing well. The latest robo-ork looks oldschool. I like that me. Slannesh seems to work well - but I can imagine the orks might get the wrong end of the stick with slannesh and just end up having a big party with lots of bands smashing guitars. Slanesh will say "dammit you lot your not perverted enough" cos everyone knows orks reproduce asexually...

The chap wth the brass gubbin and the chainwrapped legs is my fav of course - paint him you know you want to.

I think your conversions are getting better. The gun arm on the BLKOrk is beautiful. It looks scratch built.

Oh and BTW dont look under your bed. I'm not there.

these are just fantastic Monkey , now your just showing off!

weety - Cheers. The cyber-pike had a little incident with a rogue sharktopus that made it into the marina, but it's all good now. (And how dare you spell laser with a 'z' *shudder*).
Well, Slaanesh is the Lord of Pleasure, for Orks that would be focusing on colour, noise and krumpin' stuff. For us debauched humans, sex and lust and all that good stuff are the obvious paths to get into our hearts, but He/She would concentrate on other sensations for other races.
Yeah, Stalka is the stand-out of the bunch for me too, as for paint, well, we'll see

schank - Thanks man, that arm is one of the great MaxMini bits. They're great pieces, you can see fairly easily what they've used to make bits and work on your own from there. They also dis-assemble very easily, which I really like
I do hope you're not, for your sake if nothing else. Squig-spiders, mutated socks and whatever that is stuffed in the corner, plus it's a wee bit cramped under there when empty.

neil - Thanks! And Yes


So, most of the above contenders have managed to drag, crawl, walk or hop to the colour-yards, and are currently resplendent in black undercoat and a touch of green. May try to add to that later, but I've still got a building itch that needs scratching so we'll see.

In the mean-time here's a couple more guys:

Grot Orderly:



He's found a few wires which would look much better once they've been put inside you. And he wants to spike you with whatever he's cooked up in that hypo. Skaven body, grot head, gobbo arm and some good old guitar wire. Typical servo-grot really.


Cog 'Ead McNulty:



Another Orkus Mekanikus, fitted himself out with a Mk II Positronork Brain. It's a bit glitchy, but to be honest, he wasn't all there before that anyway. Trenchcoat torso from Micro-Arts Studio.

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy your Thursday (or whatever it is wherever you are)

Man those are great monkeytroll! You have an amazing knack for doing this type of thing. Just love the "gear head"!

You need a sign that says Caution: genius at work. You've inspired me to do a Cybork. Curse you and your dark mekanikorks!

Some brilliant work, as usual. What did you use for the hypo?

I don't know how I missed this thread before. First off, I love the CyberGrotz and the Flyboyz. And the Borks. Nice work. 31 pages??? I wanted you to know that I've exalted this post. I plan to read all of them and draw inspiration from you in the future as well for my own upcoming CyberGrot unitz.

that gearhead is so cool, and it shows truly how tiny you can work! i think this is something i would have to specially train for^^

Seriously cool! And I mean seriously! . . . I'm serious!

Seriously though, awesome thread, that bomber thing! WOW!

Subbed!

And here was me worrying I might get caught by auto-appendicitis. Thanks guys

Gits - Thanks guy, seems like my youth wasn't entirely mis-spent then

graven - Cheers I used to have one, but I needed to use it to fix a passing sub. Glad to have fired something inside your head That's the whole raison d'etre (sp?) for Upzag & Grimsnik, spreading the word of GorkaMekka

CK - Thank you, very pleased to see you back on dakka, grots all over have been restless in your absence. The hypo came from 2 bits of plasti-tube (I know, you already got that bit ) and a piece from a watch. Have a bag of watch parts, lots of interesting little piees in there, also where most of my gears and cogs come from.

Solorg - Thanks for the kind words, welcome aboard. Help yourself to drinks and nibbles, but be warned, they came from the sevo-grot's 'kitchens'. Could be anything. Best sign this waiver if you do plan to ingest something. Hope you'll enjoy the read and find something to pique your interest. Also should point out, colour can be a bit sparse in this blog sometimes. The good thing about reading it together is that it will appear as if I move a lot faster than I really do

vik - Cheers. It's all down to those tweezer-fingers as weety figured out. You've had all the training you need - building things Just start working on smaller and smaller details as you go along. The optical implants help a lot obviously. As do the servo-grots. They're smaller than me, closer to the bits, easier to see.


So digging around, looking for some bits when I came across a stash of old 'special' paints - glow-in-the-dark, granite textures, mettalics, interference mediums etc. Well, I mentioned that the interference colours might be interesting on the fighta. Why not try them out?
Obviously, being me I'm going to do this colour by colour, working methodically, noting my results.

Daler-Rowney, cryla Interference Medium 713, red. Instantly decided I'd throw a bit of the blue in their too, sod science, this is art So about 3:2:1 water,red, blue. Almost did the prototype Slork with the big sword, figured it would be interesting Slaaneshi armour, then thought I really should just test it first. (Hey, a sensible idea). So went with Stalka's shoulder pads:



Two thin coats, still a little patchy (worse in the pic), pleasant shine, looks nice, but some of the areas appear white and cloudy when not shining. You get a nice pinky sheen in the areas which would be 'high-lighted', and the areas which would be 'shaded' have a whitish tinge to them. This is a dynamic effect, the areas change as you move the mini. Not sure what causes the white look, I do know that's how these paints can look when put on top of white or pale colours, but this was over black.
However that is only 2 coats, I'll do some more later. Although the mix won't be quite the same Not sure if they're so good watered down either, but they're a little thick to use straight from tube on minis.

So then I threw a little knarloc green into the mix:



Again, 2 coats - actually, might have been 3 here, coverage still a little patchy, things are starting to get interesting. Although that's quite hard to tell from the pics. This time the 'shaded' areas appear green, then as you turn the mini they show pinky mettalic. You can get a glimpse of it from these, hopefully as I play with them more I'll get better results on camera.

Definitely worth playing around with these a bit, I'm thinking maybe throw a pale blue in with the interference red, that might be cool. Obviously I've got a lot of messing about before I'm happy with what I'm actually doing, but it's all good. I do have absolutely no idea how to go about shading and highlighting these, that'll be fun too, maybe figuring out how to highlight other metallics with these.



Snake 'Ead Jonez:



Had the temerity to come back to the dok complaining about his gun-hand. Luckily the dok was out so the grots fixed him up, gave him a 'choppy-shooty'. He seemed pleased with it.


Slurpee Boy:



Stopping for a quick top-up mid-battle, that shootin' stuff sure takes it out of you. Well, shooting at stuff, with a BS of 2 he's not hitting much. And I very much doubt that's actually a slurpee in there. Could be though, can never tell with these guys.
The arm still neds a bit of GS, it was originally meant to hold a Mekanikus' big dakka, but I bent it a bit too far for that, so it came over here. Probably not the best 'face' to use for this as it gets obscured by the hand, but I liked the idea of it feeding into one of his head-holes. Did plan to further orkify his shoota too, that was previously modified for some chaos dude who never picked it up. Always the same with them spiky skull freaks. Always needing guns, always wanting more spikes added to the skulls, always wanting more skulls added to the spikes, then they never collect. Never. All that effort, all those materials, they think I've got time and money to spare? Anyway, I digress...



This could get messy:

So, out of nowhere I decided to mess with something else (no surprise there), and thought it might be 'fun' to document it.

Sprues:



We've all got loads of 'em. Lots of us use them for other things, that's the kind of people we are. That one looks interesting, nice size to work with, let's get those bits off it. It's a bit bobbly still (that's a technical term ladies and gentlemen), chop some of the funny shaped connectors off, we'll keep all the little raised circles though, too much effort to cut off, plus it adds a bit of depth. Should now be able to lay something flat, maybe a piece of platicard, on either side.



Those little circles can get a little glue love and then I'll stick it to a sheet of plastic-card. Oh look, there's one I prepared earlier. (I do wonder what became of my Blue Peter badge). Actually, that wasn't prepared earlier, the single sprue shot was taken after this one, and then I realised I hadn't taken that one. Same sprue though, black orcs.




And add some detailing to the top of the plasticard - that was needed for structural stability. It looks a bit like a floor now.




Got some fence type bits here, hey, they fit nicely, the rivets line up with the base, the rivets on the reverse will help with the gluing. Love it when parts fit together naturally. I'll just shave a few protusions off here and there, not sure why yet, something'll go there no doubt, don't want to hack at it once it's in place. Almost looks like it could be something now.




Ahh, that looks like it could make a nice bit of terrain. Some sort of rooftop vantage point. Maybe even a low-level platform. Plan it right, could be both. Maybe something with magnets, inter-sliding tubes, pins or maybe just cleverly thought out supports.




It'll need some support, maybe some more sprue? Yes, why not, let's cut the corners off another bit. Bit of cutting and re-cutting to get them level, and I'll try and glue them so there's a lip between the edge and the support beams.




Wow, pretty much level. That's always a bonus. That could almost be a low-level platform as is. Maybe a couple sets of steps, make them seperate, still got multiple uses for multiple bits of terrain. Possibly enclose the other 2 sides, we'll wait for that though, I have a feeling they might be different styles to the long sides.

Right, now we need to grab a sentinel cockpit. Wait, what? Where's that fit into it? Well, could be it's not a terrain piece at all. Could be that's the flatbed for another trukk (I don't know what #, lost track of which is which now I think anyway ) Won't bother with the mono-wheel drive gubbins just yet, need to check heights and stuff for that. So, blu-tac a wheel under the senty cockpit, shove some tubing through those 'support bars' for axles, shove on those big ol' wheels and put the senty up front to get a feel for how it looks.




OK, that's not so good there then.

Sometimes when you get an idea, it's worth jsut laying the parts down together, see if the scale works Otherwise, you might end up with this situatuion.
Right, well that mono-wheeled senty cockpit will have to go to another vehicle then (this could possibly shed some light on why I've lost track of trukk numbers). What else have we got? Hmm, a landspeeder cockpit? They're good for a variety of situations. Actually, there's a partly modified speeder in that box by my foot, let's try that.



Well, that's certainly better than the senty. Still not fully convinced though. I have a plan in place for that cab (which is keeping those tracks), and I don't think this beats that, so time for something else.

There's a few ideas with off-central cabs coming straight off the flat-bed, I like the feel, but not going to work with those wheels I think.



So, looks like it'll go tracked then. I really liked the senty idea too, shame. I'll have to see if it fits any of the other layouts I have scribbled on foam board and plasticard. If it stays tracked like this, think a high, off-centre cab will work. It's now getting close to some other ideas that got sparked off by some of the Realms of Legend concepts over in Kid Kyoto's civilian vehicle thread

(http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/391316.page).

Might have to re-look at those before seeing where else this will take me.

Anyway, that'll wait for now, not sure if that was interesting for anyone, don't think I chatted as much as I planned, but that does seem to have taken up a big chunk of time with typing rather than modelling

Thanks for looking, not a great deal of real updates this time round, hopefully it was 'fun' though











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Emperors_Champion - Snuck in there whilst I was shuffling words and pictures around. Thanks a lot man, seriously Come in, grab a chair, relax, I'm sure someone else will come join us shortly.

Honest-to-gourds, that looks like a fine LAUNCH CRAWLA for an Orky Deathstrike Missile Launcher.

I'm just SAYIN'

--Brian

Orky Shuttlecraft? Always wondered how they got into space to begin with...

Maybe a little rok, with big ol' Rokkit engines on the bottom, bein' wheeled into place? Could still be a bit of Terrain, there.

Huh, how did i miss this thread... oh yeah, dakka dakka the wall of ever streaming projects.

Ok, feedback; some great stuff here dude but... damn some of its wierd. i mean, all credit, the dok and mek must be eating some serious mushrooms to turn boyz into that...

nice work!

-skrall

Holy crap!!

(that's all I got.... o.k., add "Wow!" too)

Slork looks great. This blog just continues to inspire me.

Brian - Well, now I'm wishing I'd stuck to my original idea of leaving the sprue's central cirle proud, and cutting the floor to fit around it.
That would have made an excellent base from which to add re-placable load-outs. As you may have gathered, I hadn't fully realised how big it was when I started on that bit of sprue. Adding a base plate for extra goodies to get loaded onto is a good idea though, I'll have to think about what other uses it might have.

Anvil - It's not that big
That would be a fine idea, but would take me far too long, and would be far too big (starts wondering if there's still an old revell shuttle still hiding in the parent's garage). I'm still completely unsure where exactly all these orky vehicles are going to live.

Skrall - Yep, easy to lose sight of what you're not already tracking around here.
But glad you found it, make yourself at home. And thanks a lot - I can't hear "great...but damn weird" enough
It's not like they weren't already weird. We are talking about a bunch of cybernetically enhanced psychotics made out of fungus here.

Gits - Thanks. I'll take that

lindsay - Thank you. Always happy to be inspiring




So grabbed a much smaller sprue, one of the 40k accessories 'quarters' if you're sad enough to be interested.
Plasticard stuck to the flat surface this time as there's only four jutting circles (I'm sure I do
know the proper term for those bits)




Looks ok with tracks, haven't tried wheels yet, didn't have any the right size immediately to hand. I believe I'm going to need more of those Ramshackle tracks, think that's all of them accounted for now.
Bit small for a trukk, so pop a mounting plate in the centre-ish and have a replacable gun mount. Replacable so that I can take it off, and hitch a second flat-bed - made from the sprue you see in the background - thus creating a trukk. Could male a whole orky land train out of them.
Hmm. If I centrally mounted the cab, and magnetised the whole cab unit, I could then magnetise some coupling links to replace them, and then switch between buggies, trukks and land-trains.
Oh Yeah - Orky Amtrakk Wars time

Throw out da blooprintz, dey's not fast enuff, we needs da Redprintz for dis job.....

I must say, Monkeytroll, the new-ish recruits look awesome. The different vehicles are starting out cool too. The guys on the page with the Hand-throttle mekkanikus ork are all fantastic.

I hate you. I hate you with every cell in my body.

How do you do conversions so fast. And make something out of nothing.

One day I will destroy you and you will be mine. Oh yes. One day.

GAAGH! my brain! it breaks in the vicinity of such awsomeness!! only problem i can see is you need to spend some more time with the brushes. i know the glue vapors help you think, but these things need color!

Hey, that's how I usually work: inspired by bitz ) . I'd vote making it a mobile orkcraft carrier, a launch platform for either grot bombs or pulsa rokkits.

CK - Thank you, very pleased to see you back on dakka, grots all over have been restless in your absence. The hypo came from 2 bits of plasti-tube (I know, you already got that bit ) and a piece from a watch. Have a bag of watch parts, lots of interesting little piees in there, also where most of my gears and cogs come from.

Thanks, good to be back. I've caught up with real life instead of the other way around this time . Looks like I'll have to get me some watch parts!

Could you fit a Trukk or Battlewagon on that trailer? Could be the equivalent of an Orky tow Trukk or even just a loot trailer (or both - you know - for carting those ramshackle wrecks back to the Mek pit...)

I will remember this sprue idea - all sorts of terrain and vehicle possibilities!

Nice little blog here i go from start to finish from time to time to give me conversion ideas keep up te work

:O The sprue using idea.... that is just genius. (kicking my self for getting rid of my sprues :( when i could have made them into trucks)

I can sell you some real cheap! (I have a whole box - haven't thrown away anything yet...)

^ or i could just buy more models

GG - Cheers bud! Concentrating on the fighta and trukk(s) for a while seemed to get a few ideas brewing ready to leap out when I went back to the boyz. And these latest vehicles, well. That started as a simple decision to build that mono-fronted trukk, and hey, maybe document the process. What I should have done was get a concept built up, check the rough layout, etc before starting.
Doing one of my more impetuous builds means it's already gone off the rails


schank - Well I had to come to some arrangement with the painting and modelling gods. Basically I had to sacrifice my painting speed.
And now you've made a classic megalomaniacal mistake. You need to rehearse your monologues, get them looked at by someone other than a flunky who's just going to say 'Yes Boss, sounds good!'. Otherwise you end up making mistakes like threatening to destroy someone, and then capture them. Works so much better the other way round : capture, then there's the ever-present threat of destruction on a whim.
Also, if you are looking for a better class of minion, one who could help out with your monologues, maybe even ask pertinent questions to help propel the plot, then you need a good class of base. And what does any classy base require?
Sharks.
Nudge-nudge, wink-wink. You know, sharks with you-know-what's on their heads. I can help you out there at very reasonable rates

Hope you bamf'd out from not being under my bed before I put those squig-traps under there.


Big Mek Dattrukk - Thanks, if you need a replacement skull-filla I've got a few bits around here somewhere. Hmm, yes. This should do it. Hold still, this should fit in without too much of a squeeze...

Colour, shading - A modeller craves not these things, mmmm.


CK - Yup, always sed you woz a proppa mek. I'll sometimes plan things, sometimes I have a rough idea of what I want, but sifting through bits looking for interesting conjunctions is both the most relaxing and stimulating method. Toying with bits is relaxing, but then when you find that spark from a couple of pieces your mind bounds off with ideas. Sometimes.
So possible configurations - looted deathstrike, grot bomb launcher, pulsa launcha, deffkopta karrier. Think there's some possibilities there, all switchable of course
Glad to hear you're all sorted.

I grabbed a bag of watch bits off e-bay some time back, but that's not the most economical way to get them.


Arakasi - Not quite that big, well might be actually, I'll have to see if I can dig out that trukk under-chassis for a size comparison. It'll JUST fit 2 of those smaller versions on. Another interesting possibility.
I figure an empty sprue and a piece of plasticard is probably cheaper than the equvalent size foam-board, plus easier to create hollows, inserts, holes etc.


Rogue Wolves - Thank you, glad you find it inspiring, always nice to hear.


bigfish - Always happy to bask in other's recognition of my inherent genius.
I'd be very suprised if no-one has used a similar idea before, probably for terrain. They could make great bulkheads.



With a few magnets or pins & tubes you could probably make a modular terrain system. The sprues sizes are able to mix'n'match quite well, a bit like the actual models.

And why did you toss those sprues, after the assorted plastic you used on your pieces you should have been well aware of the potential lurking in those funky bits holders we call sprue.


Arakasi - You sure youse not a Bad Moon? Youse got da same merkantile stylee.

bigfish - Ahh, but then you'd have to clip off all those annoying model bits to get at the spruely goodness.


Had actually planned to paint a bit today, but messed with those trukks instead. They were calling me. Pitiful cries, I couldn't ignore them. I do feel bad about he painting though, not so much about my stuff, but there's still a few pieces for other people waiting to be finished. Still the weekend though.


So what happened to those bits then? (sorry guys, this turned out a little longer than I thought)


On with the smaller version. Spent a few moments looking through the Ramshackle tracks, looking for the cleanest casts. Didn't want to spend too much time cleaning up, and the resin they use is a bit tempermental. It can be very brittle, and sometimes you'll easily lose a chunk when trying to cut a bit of flash away. Gave the chosen pieces a quick wash and rinse, then drilled a couple of holes in the top of each. I tend to drill the hardest material first when pinning mixed media, if I miss the mark slightly I find it easier to adjust the drill point on the plastic.
Look, I don't know why. I just do okay? You can do it your way, it won't affect anything.




Do make sure you've got a nice ventilated area and your dust mask if you are going to be drilling and sanding resin though. I drilled these right next the window, if I lived elsewhere I probably would have held the tracks outside. I'd hate to think what that stuff would do to the greedy ducks and fish that would swarm on the dust asi t hit the water though, so I'll just bin it instead.

Used the same copper wire I use for cabling for pinning, added a little touch of GS as those tracks aren't smooth on top. Superglue along the top and on the pins, and I find it comforting to run a little Revell glue along the sprue. Normally I'd give it a touch of Plastiweld aorund the edges once I'd superglued it, but as I'm out of that atm I revert to comfort gluing And over application of glue too looking at the pic. You don't need that much. It won't help stick it if there's more.
Obviously there was GS left over, even after only making a small ball to start with Just enough to adjust part of the robes on another Mekanikus guy, add a bionik eye to a grot head, and roll a tiny piece to be cut for rivets later.


Whilst that's drying I think about the top of the flat-bed. I'm going to have it all one sheet this time, if I'm going to have a few based on the same design I'm going to have to go wth them being looted rather than built by meks. Although I plan for un-standard configurations, it should be evident there is a standard design at work. They'll be in various states of repair, and I decide this one will have it's original flooring intact. (Also, although not of grave import to me, there's the fact that really ramshackle floors with lots of hand placed rivets aren't always that good for practical gaming use. Those rivets can catch on base rims for a start, pulling off the rivet or toppling the mini.)

I'll go for some of the smaller tread-plate, and I think there'll be a base-plate mounting for a variety of dakka.
A quick scrabble comes up with an old rhino hatch. Think I'll put it on another plate, and rather than shave down the plastic on the underside of the hatch I'll carve a hole in the plate.



Cut a piece of plasticard to size and mark out the hole by running a marker round the edge of the under-hatch and pressing it to the card. It's a bit small for my poor excuse of a circle cutter so I just use my scalpel. I tend to keep a scalpel, a curved blade and a straight blade fitted in my knife handles as they're the ones that get the most use. I do have a turny-blade type thing for cutting curves, but I haven't seen it for a while, scalpel will do. Should use the straight blade and keep the scalpel for just fine work, but it's in the most comfortable of the handles
Cut it small rather than large, then filed away to get the correct fit. I'm not looking for a neat circle here, the lip on the hatch will cover minor wonky bits. The bit I cut out goes into a little box (well, blister part in this case). All these little off-cuts get kept, when I need detailing I can cut away at these rather than hack up large sheets for tiny squares. All the sprue bits that were clipped off to clean it up went into another box (or an upturned landraider lid holding ork sprues(attached) in this case). They'll get used in rubble piles somewhere.



Penciled in where the mounting was going on the tread-plate, then shaved down the detaiing in that area, get a closer fit for the mounting. Also drilled a hole in the centre of the rhino hatch. Not sure yet of what attachments I'm going to need there, but I'm fairly sure a central hole is going to be useful
Glued the hatch and mount to the tread-plate, and the whole lot to the tracked sprue frame.


Then went looking for wheels, both for the mono-wheel cab and the other flat-bed (which has had a sheet of plasticard attached). Best grab that old chaos biker box, and hmm, that jiffy full of lego wheels too. Oh look, there's an orky wheel, best have that.
On a side-note for those that were wondering, the marine wheel sprues, if used in a similar manner, would make walls just high enough to block LOS to your average infantry mini.



I won't say anything about having a wheely great time if you don't. Clean up the flash and glue them together. Whilst they set grab a cup of tea and a lemon slice. Lemon slice is optional. Tea isn't. Don't try this without tea kids, it'll end badly.

After the citric goodness has gone I delve back into the murky world of whatever-the-hell-this-is-I'm-doing.

A few comparisons later and I'm having a marine bike wheel for the cab, and lego on the buggy/trukk/train/thing. Now I know a lot of people equate lego with fail in modelling terms. I'm not one of them, as far as I'm concerned the only fail in modelling is failing to utilise something that you could. And they look suitably chunky and orky to me. The hubs should be covered though, most don't look good.



These ones don't have the word lego on the tyre, but they do have some numbers. Not all bad, but I'm going to shave them off with the scalpel. This is the kind of task it should be used for. I don't do a fantastic job of it this time round, but I do scar up the tyres a bit as I go, cutting odd chunks out here and there. A few bits of plastic rod get used as axles and the ends get filed flat. Using a mitre to cut the ends straight would be a much better idea, but I don't have one small enough for this kind of work. I really should get one someday.
Anyway, I'm not too bothered if they're not completely level, slight variation in tyre alignments helps show they're independently sprung




Well now, how can I attach the wheels to the body anyway? Three seperate axle systems is a bit much for these, I want something easier Maybe just solid walls down? Another little play to confirm whether I want the wheels inside, outside or half-and-half in relation to the flat-bed edges. And I decide another couple of bits of sprue will make good supports again
Glue the axles to the sprues (after trimming the sprues to size and leveling the cuts) and test-fit to the body whilst they're drying.
Oops.
Quick eye-ball measuring before cutting the sprues meant I'd cut at the wrong level. These would have to be glued to the sprue frame itself to get clearance, so the wheels would be outside the flat-bed's footprint, and I wanted half-and-half.
Hang on, there's a sprue sized difference to make up? Well, that's easily solved.



Yep, sprue will fit sprue sized gaps. How marvellous. So a length of sprue gets stuck to the sprue wheel supports, and then to the actual flat-bed. Which has had a hole drilled in it's centre, again for future attachment usage. I made sure that I was drilling into a bit of sprue support under the plasticard. I don't want to be drilling into the structure whislt it's under construction if I can avoid it. Now to detail the floor.



Marked out the area of tread-plate to be cut, and scored it along the underside. That wiggly cut at bottom left shows why we score the underside. After scoring a couple of times I'd normally just flex the plasticard to break along the cut line, but that wiggly bit will likely go as well, so I make sure I cut through that part first. This time I'm going for a two-tone feel to the flooring So I cut the same shapes out of another sheet, and a thin strip to use as the join. There's a chunk missing from the piece I chose, but that's not important. That gets trimmed a little to resemble battered metal.



The first part goes down, and a 2mm magnet gets dropped in that hole I drilled earlier. Also a couple of mysterious numbered bits of card have appeared. Occasionally I will mark bits up so I know which is which
Once I've put the floor down I want to add some gubbinz to those pieces.



Whilst searching for said gubbinz I come across some more terrain bits that I think might fit. And, lo, almost perfect. Isn't it nice how all these disparate parts fit so well together. Those may very well become walls for some of these wee beasties.
And on the second pic we se some other parts that are almost perfect across the width. Low railings, bumpers, rear detailing? Keep hold of a couple of those too. And those push-together bits. I had been thinking of having the replacable cabs/couplings/whatevers attach to the flat-beds by harnessing the mystical powers of magnetism. But lo-tech push together may be viable. It'll need to be a bit looser than these fit, don't want to strain to pull lovingly crafted bits apart

You can see where the cut chunk on that plasticard has been hacked at a bit more, and bent up. If I'd thought it through I'd have maybe put some tread-plate showing where that's up, at the moment it's the original plastic sheeting showing, not sure whether to leave it as is, cut out part of that, need to decide just why that top sheeting is damaged like that first.



And a quick check to make sure the two stack up equally against each other. And they do. Excellent.




Also found some bits for detailing duties, a few cogs and some bits of plasticard (some of those bits I saved earlier). Not too bothered about what's being represented here, or the aesthetics too much, I just want to break things up a bit. It can be a bit messy.



The panels get glued inside the wheel supports, with bonus support coming from some more bits of sprue. And now there's something going on behind the wheels. Doesn't matter what in this case due to it's hidden nature, but a plain blank wall would stand out. I may even put a thin bar down on the outside, add some another layer to the detail. But for now, it's back to the cab.



The hinges and aquila have been shaved off the door as that won't be getting much usage. Even managed to save one of the hinges intact. Still not entirely sure on how the driver's getting sorted, but I'm fairly confident there won't be too much of the existing interior detail visible, so no need for pre-painting anything here. The plan is to have two arms/panels coming down from the front or middle of the cockpit, reaching down to the axle of the marine wheel. I grab a couple of wheels just to check everything still looks ok now the flat-bed is 'together'.
And spot the shuriken cannon as I do so. That was going to become forks on a bike or boar, maybe I could use it here instead.
A quick play with some blu-tac and copper wire (threaded through the wheel and twisted round the cannon to form an axle if you must know) and a new plan is in place. Cutting the rear of the cannon off leaves a nice piece which will fit nicely up against the angle where the cockpit nose drops, leaving angled forks coming from the centre of the cockpit.



As I'm working I think that it would be a shame to waste that nice round socket that's been provided with. Surely the forks could come from there instead. A couple of tries later and indeed, that is what happens, with the axle moving to the bottom of the forks, mainly for ease The axles actually closed up without me noticing during gluing. There was a thinner axle running through the wheel and into the larger tubing, leaving a few mm visible either side. The larger tubes seem to have slid down and glued themselves to the wheel now.
Pinned and GS'd for a bit of extra durability.




However, those last changes added a bit of height to the cab. Doesn't nestle so close to the body now. Going to need some extra bits in there, and probably time to figure out just how I'm going to make these bits inter-changable. I'll sleep on that one
That's the basics out of the way really. Oh, except for Mr Big. He's been patiently watching whilst his younger siblings get all the attention. I think it was patiently anyway.

Well, haven't glued the tracks on yet as final placement might depend on what possible configurations there are. Or because I was doinfg something else. Maybe a bit of both. Possibly with some of that thrown in too.

And before I toddle off, here's that size comparison I thought I'd get:



Big trukk, with little trukks on top, ork trukk chassis in front. Probably would fit then, depending on what sides it got.

Well, nothing other than the trukks today it seems. Sorry about that, see if I can't sprinkle something else in next time.
Oh my.
I've just realised it's taken me 2 hours to write this up I do hope you haven't fallen asleep trying to read all that. There were some pwetty pictures to look at too though. Well, some pictures anyway.

Okay, see you all later..







Kapitan's Log - Addishunal :


Just for those who were wondering (you know who you are), the lemon slice packets do fit rather nicely:





Possibilities for a generator carriage for the land train maybe?

For some reason my minions keep dieing. I think its from the lac of feeding them. But really. I have to make those mistakes. I wouldn't live up to the second rate evil genius if I didn't make those silly mistake that seperate me from a evil genius of your callibur.

And now it all makes since. You think I can get that number for the painting gods. Think I might have a little trade for them. Wonder if they would notice if my wife went missing?

Oh and if you have the time I think I left my right foot under your bed. That sure was nice of you to leave that hack saw under the bed. Would have been nice is it wasn't rusted and soaked in lemon juice. Can't win them all I guess.

By god though man some of the stuff you come up with is mind blowing. It hurts my brain sometimes thinking about it.

Ahh, the old food/minion issue. Always a tricky one.

Sorry, they use a series of one-use cell phones, there's a bunch of quests and gak they put you through before telling you how to get the number for the guys that can organise the quests to get the current number. But the original 'they' in that sentence will come to you. You don't go to them. Pretty much all I can say about it without...hey..what the... hmm, what's with all these bits of plastic lying around? better throw those out, useless bits of junk.....wha..eh...what the hell? OK. Don't think I'm allowed to say anything else on that...

Hmm, foot's probably long gone by now, come to think of it I saw Little Snotgrass running around oddly earlier, sure he only had one foot the other day... I keep all my best tools in lemon juice. Lemon's good for everything.

And cheers

Pretty dam cool

Great update!

Def tracks for that crawler thing! great use of the sprue, and also those urban war bits. Might have to dig some out!

You must of gone through plenty of printers in this thread!

Great work - the use of the shuriken catapult is particularly inspired!

..... i am looting your sprue idea for warbuggies or trucks at some date.

bigmek - Thank you!

Emperors_Champion - Thanks. Those terrain kits are very useful I find. And not just for terrain I'm fairly sure there's not actually any printer parts used Old cameras, clockwork toys, watches etc. but no printers that I can recall. Not to say I don't have any printer parts lying around though.

graven - Cheers bud! Ah, just one of many things that have moonlighted as bike forks over the years

bigfish - loot away, it's part of why it all goes up.


So, not much done since last update. Bugger all in fact. Ended up going over friends for the weekend, so failed miserably in regards to getting the painting done that I'd set myself for last week. And getting home late this week so not really done anything since. And I forsee little getting done until next week, depends on what I get up to Sat night I suppose.

How little have I done? Well I'm glad you asked, gives me a chance to make this post look like it actually has some content. No pics though.

Started playing about with a little cyber-centaur-lady-thing, using that grot's slaanesh body from earlier and an arbites cyber-mastiff. Haven't found a good enough head yet, need to find my daemonettes, try those.

Put together the floor of an alternate cab for the sprue trukks. As in, I've glued a couple of bits of plasticard to a sprue. I figure I'll post the fascinating pics of that stage when there's some more progress to show
Oh, actually I drilled a hole too.

Blu-tac'd a few bits from the chaos mutation sprue onto orky torsos in a variety of ways looking for something special.
Not found it yet.
Randomly stuck a grot's head on to various bits and pieces.

Started tossing ideas about for a three-armed drumma ork and some possible poses for (guitar) ax-wielding orks. Wondered which of my chaos gribblies might be re-tasked as slaaneshi squigs of various types.

Started thinking about a suit of Mega-armour based on the top of a deff-dread.

Umm, I think you get the idea - little done

Thanks for reading, really hope you didn't miss an important train or anything because you stopped by.

It's always nice to see your new creations, you almost always get me thinking "how did he think of that"! Just have to point out some favorites, I really like the use of the noise marine vehicle part (have no idea what it is to be honest) as a head! And the mechanical brain is both beautiful and hilarious! I also like that you throw some old minis in the mix, I mean, as much as I like the new minis I believe that they lost something in the transition when they choose this quasi-realistic look over the more cartoonish look...

Always love the sheer brilliance (and madness-madness is imlportant) of it all. I'm off now, I'm going to wreck a few watches I think

Just a quickie before I'm off for a birthday lunch:



Just playing around with a concept for Slork stormboys/raptors.

Happy birthday matey. Nice jet powered ork there btw

Happy Ork day to you,
Happy Ork day to you
Hapy Ork day happy ork day,
Happy ork day to Youuuuuuuuuuu Wargh!

happy birthday

for some reason i have to think that this last stormboy of yours has found a terminal cure for sweaty armpits...looks freaky... so back to usual^^

Happy birthday! And: where is his gun?

Happy Uterus Eviction Day. And yet again another great use of BLKOrks.

I see a crotch gun in his near future. Well someone has to make up for the lack of Doomthumbs.

Yes - someone needs to fill his gap with a plastic member

weetyskemian44 - Thanks that made me giggle for a number of reasons....the inside of my head is a bad place.

monkeytroll - Happy Birthday....you shouldn't have got me a gift....the storm boy is fantastic. Love the arms....er I mean jet fans.

I have visions of an Ork version of Sex Machine out of From Dusk til Dawn now. Also, you're even older! Bravo!

Happy Bday you big green cyber mek hope you had a good lunch

heres your present matey

c0un7 - Thanks man. I've just got to figure out how to blend that loudspeaker head into the torso properly now.
I forsee more gear-heads in the future.
And it's the old-skool orks that are a major inspiration for me, so I have to throw the few I have into the mix. So much more character then (Fairly sure that's ben mentioned a few times here now - damn, is that old age starting up? Not just repeating myself, but repeating myself with nostalgia )


CK - Madness should never be under-estimated. Keep an eye out for those new-fangled digital watches. Not so many cogs in those.


mullet_steve - I thank you


bigfish - cheers!


vik - Freaky works for me


CK - Thanks! And I can't imagine where he's packing his pistol


schank - You know, I kinda miss being in there you know. Warm, comfortable, pretty stress free. Just a shame about the lack of materials to work with.


mullet - To be honest I was planning more on having it mounted to the side of his 'waist', possibly with ammo on the other side. Not to say that the dakka-peen is totally off the table, it's a slaaneshi ork after all. But I felt the buzz-saw coming in like a stinger was enough for this one.


weety - He's looking a bit concerned now. He's low on lubricant for a start...


PDH - Well, you know, sometimes the bad places are pretty interesting


graven - Oh now you've done it I'd somehow managed to forget that till now. I'd been thinking a few biker-types might be interesting, that seems to be confirmation


neil - lol, Cheers buddy! Classic Gobbledigook!



Not a lot to show:

So started on one of the marine wheel sprues.



This time I shaved off all the little circular nubbins so I could lay plasticard flat on both sides. This should be the floor of a cab for the trukk-buggies. It has a nice supporting strut down the centre, potentially useful for placing magnets.





I used up some off-cuts for one side as it won't be seen, I just wanted a better base for attaching stuff to. And you can see the handy LOS blocking size that walls made of these would be.

***edit: You can now I've put the right pic in anyway ***



Two more flat-beds waiting for transport options. And whilst looking for something to use in place of my rapidly shrinking plasticard I happened to notice something else that fitted the sprue size almost perfectly. A blister front. So I glued one down, with the help of multiple elastic bands and a couple of tiny pincer things, tricky to get that blister flat all along. It looked like a good shape to turn into either a power-plant or large weapon mount for a land-train configuration. Then I figured I probably didn't want to make it a permanent piece, and really shouldn't have glued it to the sprue yet. Especially as I then realised that was actually the last of those sprues I had

Again, plan something like this out and you'd be able to decide which size to use before hand, basing your choice on available materials. Or you could do like me and bumble along blindly. So I bumbled into the old(?) orc shield sprue, right length, slightly narrower. Easily fixed with a couple of spare bits of sprue. As opposed to those important bits of sprue.

Hard to see in the pic, but I've also drilled two holes at either end of each of the flat-beds now. After deciding to make the blister-pod removable I had to decide how to attach it. Obviously if I could use the same method for both attaching this unit and the cab/coupling connections it would be much easier. So if I have magnets in the bottom of the blister that will line up with the magnets used for the cabs/coupling it's all good. The white strip of plasticard on the left side is the start of a coupling link. It'll have a bit jutting out in the middle which will house the pin on a link piece. Mirrored on the other side. So two magnets in each end. Should be able to magnetise cabs, coupling links, tail-gates and various other parts.

I also considered flipping the blister over so the bottom was the sloped part. This could make the good start of a grot-launcher or similar. But not this time.



I decided it might make a good cab for the land-train configuration. That would probably have something a bit meatier than the senty-cab up front. It even came complete with it's own windshield material.

Of course that means some kind of interior has to be fashioned.

See this was supposed to be a 'little something', a quick and easy trukk. But due to the inherent mekness in which I operate, it's now four small vehicles with a whole bunch of options and one quite large vehicle with a whole host of options waiting to be explored.

It'z not eezy bein' green ya knows....

Happy (belated) Birthday, Monkeytroll! The new vehicles are looking ace, though now you've made me hungry for some Mr. Kipling's lemon slices. Ace work as always, and it's great to see your progress in a step by step. Hope you have fun tonight

Cheers Scarp, and actualy, you're on time The others were all early But you know, it now being a Monday and all...


edit: I just noticed how nonsensical that description of my magnetising plan is, even given the nature of it's surroundings I'll do a better description as i build it, pics will make far more sense than me.

Liking where you have taken these trukks and the new flatbeds , the new cab already looks rather nice , cant wait to see how you tackle the interior of the thing, i can just see a bunch of grots pushed up to the windshield

monkeytroll wrote:
See this was supposed to be a 'little something', a quick and easy trukk. But due to the inherent mekness in which I operate, it's now four small vehicles with a whole bunch of options and one quite large vehicle with a whole host of options waiting to be explored.

It'z not eezy bein' green ya knows....

Ah, but this is why Mad Meks are kept in their own propa wurkshopz. You have the Mek Taint, MT, and the only thing we can do is watch in horror/amazement.

--B.

You have my express permission to get very carried away with this project of yours Monkey, why stop at four carriages? I mean, it could be five, or six or...or, whew, got carried away there, sorry...

Ahem, super work as always, keep it up!

Cain

That looks cool monkey. Armoured land trains are always cool

It was my birthday too - and monkey sent me a present! Thanks Mr troll you are a decent chap.

neil - Cheers mate. I would like it to be a fairly basic and therefore 'quick' interior, similar to the one for the half-track trukk. I have ornate plans for the fighta-bomma interior, and for now that's the only detailed interior I want to have to think about Having said that, I have thought about using different side panels with windows on the side of the cab...


Brian - Izzat why dere wuz a lock on da doors? Well, I 'ad to use dat lock for some flyin' gubbinz dinn I.

And lols at the Mek Taint.


Cain - Thank you sir. Carry on grots. More bitz.

Well, actually, I think it needs to be a minimum of 6 to classify as a land train, one cab, 5 'carriages'. It's just getting some handy sized sprue


weety - Thank you. And my pleasure, yours only registered with me because it was so close to mine. Minus 10 years


Didn't get in from work till half-nine, so no updates tonight. And it's my mum's birthday tomorrow so not much tomorrow either probably. I did do a tiny bit of GS work.
And I do mean tiny.
Worked on some grot ears to change a rat-thing familiar into a robed grot. Started on a nose for a Watcher-in-the-dark, for the same reason. And started on a pair of tiny cylinders for a 12-shooter crotch-pistol Damn you graven
The thing is, I don't want whoever gets it to be permanently 'ready for business', so I'd really like it to be hidden behind an opening flap, and be 'poseable' I think I can pull it off with a black orc body. We'll see...

So long, and fanks for all da squigs.....

happy Bday to your mother monkey, are you getting her more urban exploration themed books ?

Pose-able orks , this IS new territory, sounds promising ,

what is a "Watcher-in-the-dark"?

No, David Bailey and Ansell Adams this time round I did have a look at some urbex first though

Watchers-in-the-dark are those little Jawas following the Dark Angels around and fixing their stuff up

Good choices

Watchers-in-the-dark are those little Jawas following the Dark Angels around and fixing their stuff up

I thought they just made space marines look big Cheers

I don't think they actually do fix their stuff up, just carry their stuf about it seems, although I'm not all that on DA fluff.
I just liked the image of a bunch of jawas rummaging around in the back of a rhino, before short-circuiting a servitor with an electro-blaster

Well, I'd planned this as a Sunday afternoon update, but it seems to have turned into Sunday night sometime between me deciding to do that and nw. So probably not another update later now.

Nothing done during the week due to getting some nasty bug that had me vomiting like a teenager on a binge. About all I did do was play a few missions on Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2 They're all I have left installed on this laptop. And spent most of today doing assignments, hard to get my mind back in that mode of writing. But I did get a bit done yesterday, so with the excuses over let's move on.


Fighta

Finished up the underside:



I may add a bit more detailing on the wings, but not much if any. Other than that it's just a final riveting pass and then onto the paint-grots. There was a small miracle when I managed to drop it onto the wooden floor with no damage other than one of the side guns getting loosened. I was sure it was just about to become history. Between the cabling is a little block with two dots on, and a bit of GS at the end. That's covering a rectangular magnet which I'm hoping is going to hold it on whatever I come up with for a flight base. The big square near the middle has attacment points for rokkits/bomms either side.



The attachments were a pain. I was starting to magnetise them, then realised I was fast running out of magnets, so decided to go for one pin and a magnet in each connector. Then thought the pins were tight enough to hold it in place. So I decided to do the sensible thing, measuring and marking where to drill in my 6 bits of plastic channel to get a nice even fit. Thus ensuring it all went together smoothly. Good job so far dude

Obviously, that's not really what I did.
I came up with a jury rigged way of holding the bits together in a little vice and drilling them all together. What a time saver.
So once I'd got tired of trying to fit the pins I'd glued to the fighta-side attachments into oddly placed rokkit/bomm attachments I came up with the brilliant solution that is visible in those pics. Holes in each attachment ..and...wait for it...magic! 'Cos that's the only way that's going to work at the moment. I'm deciding on whether I should forgo the bomms and just glue the rokits in place. But I want to play a bit first before deciding. Also decided against under-carriage.

For now at least.

*And note to self, need to grab some more tiny magnets, most of what I have left is too big to be of much use in modelling. (On a roll of double-one move the biggest magnet into the centre of the melee in such a manner that all magnetised options fly off the models, inflicting 2D6 damage on any spectators within range)


Trukk #? (1 I think, not sure anymore)



Heightened the cab and gave it a new top hatch. Also gave it a loudspeaka/spotlight. And re-glued the right suspension attachment as it came loose when I dropped the trukk, and by some further miracle did no other damage. Truly my butter-fingers are blessed.



Finished detailing the sides, except the hatch where the grot is peering out, that'll get finished after painting as it'll be easier to mask the hole as is, rather than with a half-open hatch in place. A weapon mount tower has appeared behind the cab too. And that tread-plate has finally been secured to the boarding plank. Still needs the front underside sorting. Need to extend the cab down to fill some of that space and figure the attaching points for the ram and anything else I might want to chuck down there. Also needs the tail-gate sorting, and thickening up the back end so it doesn't look like a single piece of metal sheet. And a bunch of hand-holds, maybe a few foot-plates aroud the cab. Once that's done and it's passed it's rivet-check I'll start thinking about painting it. The options for that mounting point on the left will start getting some attention at that point.


Orkus Mekanikus...



Dose other flash boyz sniggerin at ya out-of-date snazz-gun? Talkin 'bout ya bent barrels? Pointin at ya peelin paint-job? You need ta get yaself a brace of Tek-Masta Dooly's snazz-pistols. More dakka dan a wagon. More barrels dan a stompa. More Bitz dan a mek's table. An' all in a pakage wot's small enuff for ya grot's ta carry eezy-like. Kome an get yaself a bargin today...

Liked the look of the old-skool blasta as a pistol for a flashy ork, and figured a pair of pistols would be cool for some flash-gitz. Used plenty of bits and some copper wire to hide the gap between skaven legs and orc torso. The bionik leg went a bit awry, and I ended up covering it slightly by re-sculpting the robe. Why bother trying to move a single bit of plastic rod when you can get the GS and tools out? Still looks a bit wonky from a variety of angles, but I put that down to him spending all his teef on guns rather than legs.

Well, that's about it for now I guess, cheers for popping in and having a look-see, feel free to sign the visitor's book. It's inside the squig.

Those are all coming along very nicely mtroll. Love all the extras on the fighta (the gears are especially cool). Your mechanicus looks sweet too!

The Russ barrel exhaust pipe just made my day mate

I really like those tiny gears on the exhaust pipe

Very nice work there. Looking forward to seeing that painted

Wow since I started watching this a year ago your conversion are alot more detailed that before. The stuff your think up in that twisted head of your is mind blowing. I must have your brain for further study. Just sit back this wont hurt me a bit.

Lovely! You've really been upping game more and more as far as I can tell; the amount of detail is mind-boggling!

Yeah, I suppose we've been down that whole nostalgia path before, seems familiar... But some things can't be stated too many times (or maybe they can... )!

Nice stuff btw, the trukk is brutal and those rokkits looks really promising!

Very nice Monks . I have to agree with the others , the detailing on your work is getting ever more insane as are your creations. The trukk is great full stop. The " sky rockets in flight" ( afternoon delight ) are a particular fave. But the standing ovation goes to thye skaven legs on an ork with a rather nice retro blaster ( what model is it from ? )

Bravo bravo..(signs visitors book)

*posh nobb comming through*
"just hand me the vistorsbook and be quick about it...got places to go and people to meat (hur hur hur)"

lovley stuff you are continiously brewing up here, the skaven leg idea is something i wanted to be seen done with orkses ever since i saw all these 40k skaven armies being made! so it seems the bitz too have conversion potential!
for my own needs i often speculated about getting me some cannon barrels or even mortars form the emprie sets to go as steampunky stacks...so doing it for a futuristic look and using a LR barrel is the way to go!!!

guess the brothers have been keeping their beady eyes on you so that they protected the grotflyer from harm against the ever menacing wooden floar...but mind you what kind of modler has wooden planking in his workspace...to search forevermore after bouncing bitz in the hairs of carpets and how can you proove you´ve been working overhours on minis when no splashed paint soaks into said carpet? where is he evidence then i asketh thee...^^

by the way...was official of you being an old grunt before now it is just pointless to utter my condolences for you getting still even older...well then again...nawww...couldn´t bear with that


vik

those are some sweet vehicles nice job

Wow, everything is looking great. The plasicard work on the fighta is extra sweet for all the little detaily bitz and gubbinz. The gears on the trukks smoke stack are extra cool too.

Say... is that a skaven skirt on that ork? `,:~`

I like the truck. It is very chunky - looks like it could be part of the convoy in mad max 2. Lucky butter fingers not breaking stuff! I hate when I drop stuff but its always nice when they dont break...

Gits - Thanks man. Those gears are proving really popular right now. I had them sitting around for a while, occassionally pulling one out to stick in random places, then I just started finding lots of places for them


graven - Cheers


Primarch - As above, loads of details are just begging for some gears if you start looking


mullet - If you're a good boy you may get to see some colour before you expect


schank - Thanks a lot man. Spending time on dakka certainly helps you to up your game, provides the motivation too
The trick is to run a few spare brains in parrallel, studying one's not going to help that much. Come on, you need to think these things through to a logical conclusion before acting if you ever want to conquer the world. 'Double O decimal fraction of an imperial measure' will grab you in no time otherwise, probably before his first drink of the day.


CK - Cheers CK. Along with dakka's little pushes I also think it's down to having got several out of the way, I'm now comfortable with where I'm going with them. And by getting some ideas out fairly quickly (we're talking on a geological scale here obviously) I've got a bit of 'thinking space' for the rest.
But mainly down to dakka


c0un7 - Old-skool minis, old skool games - it's all good And thanks!


neil - Thanks bud! Can't recall exactly where the blasta came from, apart from one of my bits boxes. Possibly an old flash git?

Brave man shoving your hand down the squig's throat.


vik - Skaven are great, I've got grots and boyz made out of them Glad you like the 'smoke stack' too.

Umm, the kind of modeller that was too impatient to re-start modelling he never got round to re-laying a carpet after the gret flood of '10

Cheers


Rogue Wolves - Thanks, glad you like 'em!


GG - Cheers, I do find sticking tiny bits of plasticard together quite restful

Yes it is, Upzag and Grimsnik are perfectly accepting of cross-dressing, trans-species cyborks


weety - Thanks, Mad Max is always a good look for orkses Yeah, I'm less likely to lose things to the carpet's pet black hole now, but more likely to watch them shatter into a hundred little pieces..



So, let's see what's on the table at the moment -


Cute. And nasty



A sweet little attack squig to play with the kids.


Trukk #1 (I believe)

Finished the build on the trukk.



The 'smoke stack' got the dakka mounting plate put in place Some wiring, and final rivet pass. Post painting additions will be the hatch for the servo-grot, the weapons, and chains for the tail-gate. I did play briefly with structural tubes forming a roll cage type thing, but just didn't work. Neither did my idea for a buch of shields as extra armour. Not to worry, sure they'll crop up somewhere.


Fighta

The fighta made it into the spray-booth. Or rather, the spray-grots eacaped, and found the fighta.



Not a lot to see yet, but it does show I have started to colour it in


Trukk #1 - slight return

And started splashing some colours at the trukk



Mainly just base coats, but a few areas have more done, a few are still in black. The yellow panel somehow got almost done before everyhwhere had a base colour down. Actually didn't do it the way I had planned at all, was looking at a variation on the chipping scheme I've become happy with, but ended up stippling metal on before I realised And I like how it came out so far, think I'll just add some stains and pick out the rivets and pretty much leave it, add some powders after it's all done.
Forgot to mask the windshield, only noticed as I was turning it into the spray! Don't think any black got in before I stopped and masked it


And as it appears to be close to sunrise, I think it's time I tottered off, ta-ta.

Ah... progress... and paint! Looking good as usual.

Oh my.. Paint... Looking good, and I love that trukk! Not to mention the squig, a real little facebiter!

Paint is outstanding and am loving the chain-squig. Are you joining WaaaghDakka in any form? Myself, gitsplitta and whalemusic360 are doing cybork runtherders - and hey, what are they without cybersquigs and cybergrots?! Your deranged brand of mechanica would be well suited to Da Konvertas!

Like I wrote on the Trukk comp, that extra armour explosion plate is hilarious and awesome. The paint job as a whole is looking really good too. I like your color placement.

paint on this blog here :O shocked

although that truck and fighter are looking very cool and very orky with thse paint jobs. cant wait to see them finished

Nice to see the painting commence! Everything looks great mt, like that little squiggy thing too!

Rock On! Sweet painting on that yellow metal plate, very rusty spoons...

Wicked ! Now look what you made me do , that's the first adjective that sprang to mind , now i have to go read a thesaurus. the colours are spot on the use of your signature red and yellow with hints of dirty green , make it fit exactly as it should .

Arakasi - Cheers, had to happen sooner or later


CK - Hope it wasn't too much of a shock.


graven - Thanks. And you should take a look at the third post in that thread you linked


GG - As I noted, that wasn't the plan for that plate, it just sort of painted itself without me noticing.


bigfish - I like to throw a little shock and awe around when I can. Mainly the shock to be fair. Glad the paint so far meets with approval.


Gits - Thanks man, who knows, you might even see he tpainting finish someday


weety - Cheers! We're off to Orky moon, rusty spoon (sung to the theme of Button Moon in case you were wondering)


neil - Just trying to show you're down wi' da kids Thanks. That'd be the signature red due to them being mekky and vehicles, yelow and green because I'm happy with the way I weather those two



More shock and awe:


Githunta Mcreddy



Noticed his eye still needs doing, and a couple of rivets on the straps missed. He also seems to have hunted down some fluff to try and use as camo. Purity seal seemed to mute this guy quite a lot.



Jo MonoNob




Noticed he still needs another wash on his wrist plates and chest skull. The highlighting on the lens-mask really should be more prominent too, it doesn't seem to be in scale with the lens, and is only really visible from the right. He also still has a hole in his back for some kind of banna/nob pole.


I don't know, showed some paint on a trukk earlier, couple of finished minis here, it's almost like it's a painting blog....

CK - Hope it wasn't too much of a shock.

I'll live

Nice work on the other paint stuff, Mononob is looking especially nice!

Man those look fantastic! Well done!

love these conversions, and fantastic painting!!

so much paint in such a small space of time awesome

Great work on those two , the purple is a nice change.

Awesome!!! Always fun to see what you come up with. And I love your painting style. (Now just a little more brown nosing and he will be right in my trap and that beautiful brain will be mine.) Again sir great work as always.

i was a bit confused about the many different colors on the trukk...seems i am not as fluent in fluff as i thought...yellow, red and blue in one go? this aside the work is tremendously good! and just when we imagine the old man panting in his paintchair from painting exhaustion he pulls a set of minis from his head and shows off yet again...that monowheeler is so fine looking...a little chaosy influence i bet with the bikeweehl and fender and then that gettolooking goldchain skull...very cool and on top of that litterally the lens-maks...this is sooo....nice..er ...cool^^

and then of course githunta...what can i say... he looks so fine in his muted colors...very sober, but in a very professional way! and the metalpaintjob looks very good on the tubing for his bolterarm! maybe a bit of verdigris? if i have to choose this one is my favorite so far...

but this seems to imply...you should paint more^^...so get it on!!!

vik

Great paint mate. Also, I am a doofus.

There...there's PAINTING going on in this thread!

I.. I don't understaaaaaaaaand.

--Brian

PS: Sweet.

CK - Glad to hear it. I'll try not to do it too regularly.


Gits - Cheers bud.



tipios - Thank you.


bigfish - Well, only finishing touches on those guys to be honest. They've been kicking around a while now.


neil - There'l be a little more purple coming. I tend to use a similar pallete for each batch, purple made it into this one.


schank - Thanks man. And you're getting better - little asides are far more useful than monologuing.


vik - The different colours are just from different sources, my guys only re-paint if there isn't enough red on there already Or if they've paid good teef for a kustom paint-job. As I said above, I just applied final details to them, certainly didn't pull 'em out of nowhere

I'll see what I can do


graven - Thanks. Also,


Surely not another update?

Let's see what we can pull out from the magic pirate hat (see vik, they come from somewhere)

Squig #2



Added some scaly plates and painted him up. Haven't decided on a base yet, I'm thinking I might make it a bit more scenic for this guy.

Whilst sorting out my galleries earlier I noticed the other squig was nowhere to be found (see vik, they go to nowhere), and the pics of the squig-hound were a bit poor - well, a bit orange to be fair. So I thought I'd re-shoot those whilst I took the above.


Squig-hound

I started taking pics with a black back-cloth (or t-shirt, as we call it in the trade), but they looked awfully dark on the camera, so I switched to grey. The black looked OK on my laptop though, and auto-adjust seemed to do a reasonable job with them, so I've left 2 in for comparison.



I think the greys are a little less focused, but the blacks a bit 'shiny' due to the auto-adjust
Squig #1




Tommy Knocka

Finished up another nob.



The highlights on the chipped shoulder plate are a tad wide, with those purple rocker trousers it almost looks like a cheetah-skin pattern on his armour Realised I haven't chipped up the boots, and the belly plate is un-highlighted - although that doesn't show too badly in these pics. Also, put a splotch of yellow on the base.


Nori Nailbiter

And another 'finished' nob. What is the world coming to





Plenty missed there. The rusty blade and the copper 'powa spikes' get lost together. That red pendant needs toning down. The smurf-pad needs tidying. The grey on the torso has messy highlights, and blends a bit with the dark armour on front. The eye's a bit messy. The mouth could probably do with a re-visit too. Not the best skin I've done either. And the base needs tidying, that was put together far too quickly in order to put it up tonight
Not that I'm unhappy with it Just the pics


OK, today's uploads should keep those pesky paint-sniffers of my back for a while...


edited for Brian, sneaking in like a sneaky gitz whilst I wuz typing an' stuff - Sorry, about that, did mean to change the thread title to give peeps a warning, but I forgot.

Oh, watch out there's some more to come...Oh..no...if you're reading this, then you've already stumbled across that. Oops.

P.S. Cheers!


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Changed it now though, to avoid any further confusion to my loyal and not-so-loyal followers

Very, very nice mt. I'd honestly forgotten that you knew how to paint!

And then some. Is that a mcthrall arm I spy on tommy knocker? Class.

I forget myself sometimes fellas

It's not that I don't enjoy painting, it's just that I rarely seem to be in the mood for painting, and if I'm not in the mood then I get a really gakky result. Unlike, modelling, where on those rare occasions when I'm not in the mood, just playing arund can sometimes be productive, that just doesn't work with paint. Couple that with my general slow painting anyway and you get months of no colour, then a bonus bonanza of stuff I've managed to finish. I also tend to let myself down right at the end, and rush the last little bits in an effort to get the things finished

But hell, having an audience does mean I finish more than my pre-dakka rate


Yep, graven, thrall bits are very nice in an orky kind of way

Blimey more and more you have been a busy monkey

Pure cool man, and don't call me Shirley.

Nice! I really like the splashes of colour you add everywhere. Not GW 90'ies, but enough to steer away from the black+green+metal look of most ork armies.

Those cyber-squigs look really fun. The ork with the Ultramarine shoulder pad for a cod piece is cool also. It tells the Sm what they can do with their Codex Astartes.

I also tend to let myself down right at the end, and rush the last little bits in an effort to get the things finished

that is a known feeling/reaction by myself too!

Looking incredible Monkeytroll. I've obviously got a long way to go before my bioniks can compare to that armpit!

Excellent paint job too. It's a good'un!

Love the ultra-diaper.... LOL!

"I love the way you do chipped, rusty paint!" Is a sentence I seem to be saying for more often than would really be expected of a human whenever I visit your blog. So this time, I'm totally not. Ha.

Also, this guy:

monkeytroll wrote:

Just

Exhaust pipes are simply awesome! Reminds me of a hotwheel car...

true git!!! it does look that way!

Yes! the pipes are so totally orky! ...Makes me grunt

Gitsplitta wrote:Love the ultra-diaper.... LOL!

QFT... though I wasn't going to say anything ;P

neil - It's not all sitting around pinging elastic bands at toy soldiers around here you know


dsteingass - Surely not. Hmm, something seems backwards here, was that a time-quake ? Thanks anyway


CK - Thanks. Metal was originally planned to feature a bit more in this force, but Arakasi prodded me to try a bit more colour back at the start, and hey, whaddaya know, I liked it. I was planning red instead of black though


schank - Squigs and robotiks are always a good combination. And you hit the nail on the head with the smurf cod-piece. I avoided the temptation to add some nasty stains to it though.


vik - It's either that, or they sit around for years waiting for me to finish them. And I do mean years, I have guard and slaaneshi beastmen which are close to finish, but haven't seen any love since well before I joined Dakka.


GG - Thanks man, bionik armpits FTW


Gits - Best use for those pads as far as I'm concerned. Honestly, it took a while before I could bring myself to paint smurf colours even on an ork.


Scarp - Cheers bud. Now if only I could do it for more than just yellow or green paint


Gits (deja vu) - Hotwheels and Wacky Racers certainly an influence there.


vik (definitely deja vu) - As above


dstein (see above) - Always good to hear an appreciative grunt.


GG (guess there's a bunch of glitches in the Matrix) - No, please...feel free to express your smurf-rage here, we understand, we can help, we've been there...


Made up for the bonus stuff on Sunday by doing nowt last night. Went to bed early to help combat the sudden onslaught of snot. Did have a search around for a suitable body for a squig-hound for Waaagh Dakka. Don't seem to have the other old slaan hound body I thought I had, so having to re-think my plans a bit.




Ignore the snotling on cyber-rat, he's just looking for attention. It's not even a full cyber-rat yet.
I'm thinking swap the warhound head for an organic head and add a tail, either that or attempt to sculpt a squig-hound body to add tracks and legs too. I figure I'll probably start on this version, and if I'm feeling lucky at the weekend try a bit of sculpting. Or find that missing body.

I did actually click on your blog this morning, scrolled down for a while absent mindlessly, and then got confused and wondered whose thread I was looking at. The sudden rush of paint is very cool - nice brush work and very ork-stylie colours

Nice use of an old warhound

Hehe. Nasty little stains.

I do have to say thats one big cyber-piggie.

The squig goes RRRAAAAAAWWWWWWRRRRR! CHOP! CHOP!

Ily.

Jealous ! I always wanted that warhound and the reaver titan from Adaptus titanicus, I am sorry but that grot has no right attention seeking if not riding a fully cyberized rat , somebody grab him quick.

weety - Perfectly understandable that Don't worry I'm sure there'll be a sea of grey before the next venture into the wonderful world of technicolour. And thank alot, although I do feel they should have had a bit more care taken on them considering they're nobs.


CK - Well, you know I've used the legs, may as well use the body too - I know the dakka will get used at some point


schank - All the better to hunt grots with my dear.


KilroyKiljoy -


neil - Never got the reaver, just a bunch of weapons, but did like the warhounds. This was a 28mm army droid (from when they were called the Imperial Army ), one became an epic chaos warhound (the chain-wrapped legs) and one became a 28mm enforcement droid - the outstanding part of which was apparently the crushed coke can on the street corner base, at least, that was the feature everyone pointed to

Ok, guess I really should stop browsing through Dakka and go chop up some bits of plastic...

The monkeytroll goes CHOP! CHOP!

Is there going to be a grot riding that warhound? if not... Why not?

schank - Can't beat a good bit of choppin' now and again. Or quite often.

steve - Doubt it. Though there might be bits of grot featured


And so there was a little bit of chop-chop, followed by a bit of stikk-stikk.


Tankbusta



The rokkit launcher got looted from a HK missile from an in-progress chimera build. I almost went for all tracks for my tankbustas, but then decided I wanted a few on foot - or whatever they have in place of a foot. Needs some more detailing on the launcher and lenses put in place.


Shoota boy



That was going to be a small turbo-prop holding him aloft, but then I figured I needed more gravimetriks going on, so the props vanished, and there'll be a bit more detailing done. The spiky things on his arm could be part of the gravimetriks now, but originally this torso was heading for a boy who'd left the dok mid-operation, as he really wasn't happy with what was going on. He was just going to have pointless bits of metal and wiring attached - that'll probably still happen to some poor unsuspecting ork bits.

Till Frazzled hates weiners, make mine Dakka...


edited so you don't have to look at the same picture multiple times rather than multiple pictures

thats a nice looking rocketlauncher arm

Floating orks! What the Bloody Mary. That'll put the wind up the other races.

That tankbusta is cool as hell. Love how you have done the head so far. has its own built in rebreather/vox. Nice use of the SM backpack bit.

i too like the tankbusta... i might have to steal that goggled look... the built is rather simple there, what with no real head at all... you got suddenly poor and have to cut on heads?^^ that rebreather is a part of a SM packback? cool idea... this has to be further explored!!!


vik

Shoota boy is cool, but that tank busta is pure post apocalyptic!

Wow, I love how you've done that rocket launcher, fantastic! The shoota guy is great too, but I'll reserve judgement until you've got the rest of the gubbinz on him

Love the tankbusta, and I find the idea of an angry ork stomping off mid-operation highly entertaining

Wow. I've been gone for a few weeks, doing college stuff and what-not, and I come back to this. Thank you for making my return worth while.

I was starting to wonder if the color scheme for your orks was gray and white.

By the way, I love the tankbusta and the shootaboy. The shoota boy looks like he's in agony because he's no longer able to use the toilet. Where does it all go???

Rogue - Thanks man, like I said it was built as a HK, but as that particular chimera has seen no love for several years the grots decided to grab it.


weety - I was going to ask what you were doing up at such a ridiculous hour, but I think that's been answered in your blog


schank - Cheers. I liked the look of slurpee-boy's head, but wanted to change out the wiring for something else this time round. No self-respektin' boy wants the same bits as another.


vik - Hey, the less heads I use on the boyz, the more heads I have to play with elsewhere, amirite?
Those vents are usful in all sorts of places - speakers, re-breathers, lights, sockets, even vents.


Gits - Nothing says cybork quite like a touch of post-apoc style


Scarp - Thanks bud. It's just some detailing on the gun and grav-unit, and some kind of powa-pak maybe, nothing major to come. Although as the head isn't glued yet there's always a possibility of change there


CK - Cheers, as do I


sam - Thanks, glad you enjoyed it What's wrong with classic grey and white orks, it takes a lot of hard work to get that 'plastic' look just right you know.

You never heard of methane powered anti-grav before

When he gets properly based he'll be at an angle so that the shoota is horizontal, that should make him look a little less constipated.


Not sure what I'll be working on tonight yet (hah, that makes it sound like there are times when I do), I was having a little play with something for neil last night, and it's been igniting a few sparks deep in the positronork brain.

rubs hands with anticicpation .
Latest batch are looking suitably cyber, love the 5 pin plug shoota guy

Those vents are usful in all sorts of places - speakers, re-breathers, lights, sockets, even vents.

LOL!!! but yeah i suppose your right....*trods off...to cut marine powerpacks in small nonrecognizable bits*

how you find more and more ideas of cyber orks without repeat i do not know

Love the rocket guy!! Good use of marine back pack. Where is that cirular saw from? that you used for the sholder, I could use one for another mini grotdread

neil - keep rubbing those hands. You'll need to keep warm during the long, cold wait I'm slowly colourising some of your pics


vik - make sure you cut the pieces small so the beakies can't pput them back together


Rogue - me either


tipios - Cheers! That's actually a gear, I think from an old pull-back motor toy. That might not be a 100% accurate recollection though, as whatever it was was dismantled a couple of decades ago


Small update on the cyber-squig-hound for Waaagh Dakka




Poor cyber-grot tripped and grazed his knee




Or maybe he didn't trip.
Still needs a bit of work on his loincloth and blasta-arm.




A few wires hanging from the body, and still debating if anything is to be added to the top.


Also a bit more paint on the fighta, but not enough to warrant pics yet. The wings got a watered down red wash after drybrushing, but it dried rather streaky, you can see all the brushmarks. I'm hoping that'll dissappear when it gets sealed, but I'll give it another, less watered wash first.

And that's about it for now, it's been a slow week...

Coming along great mate! Going to be a real hoot when it's all together!

That's gonna be a huge squig hound; he could have orks for breakfast!

'Lures squig hond into da orky drops'

lol that squig looks already hillarious to the extreme^^

Nice work Monkey , lots of character and story in that mini diorama. good luck with the coloring , save me painting em up in future

Gits - Thanks bud, I've got some impressive standards to meet in your mob


CK - Well I only have my other kustom squigs and hounds to compre him too, fits in with them fine


vik - Cheers mate!

neil - Thanks man. That colourings going slowly And knowing me I'll put it into movie maker and sepia tone the scenes I've coloured It doesn't seem to like previewing movies made from stills, on that last effort I had to keep exporting the finished file and watching it to see what needed doing


Progress?

A little bit, though most of today I've been weighing pros and cons of such wonders as market globalisation, oligopolistic markets and discussing stakeholder analysis and management. It's been far too long since I was in education to get my head back into the mode of answering questions like these
That's certainly not the reason you're here though, so let's see what wondrous items have appeared on the magic workbench this week:



Still a wip that one, but looks promising so far


So in place of some wondrous creations we have:

naughty grot



Needs some work on the arm, the eye, and the cloth, and on the bit of scrap metal on the base. Ohh, and a couple of tiny metal plates he's got on his arm and leg. Probably another highlight and wash on the gravel, maybe a couple of tufts of grass, and there's a couple of extra bits I want to add to help signify myself Need to place the hound first to check available space though.


da hound



First layer of metal and the start of the hazard stripes. Still unsure of a skin/scale colour for this guy, not sure that my usual blue/orange will fit with the mob well.


Fighta



Most of the basic colours in place, highlights on a few, weathering started on a couple. Still thinking about the colour of the 'walls' between the wings and the engine/body. At the moment it's either a red mid-way between the dark wings and vibrant nose, or possibly a blue. Neither strikes me as 'the one' though, but neither have any of my other choices. No more weathring for now, I plan to highlight all the colours, then gloss it before starting on the weathering. Partly to assure myself the streaky wash on the wings (notice there's no side pics ) will be less visible, as I don't want to wait till it's all done before realising I need to correct something.



And that concludes you Sunday update, normal service will be resumed in ..3...2...1.............Hmm, let's try that again.


ahem..Normal service will be resumed in ...3...2...1..

my only question for today: why do the wings of the fighta look so brownish....part of the weathering process or did i missread something?

oh and the second question if i may... galaxy pic and musings about economics....are we feeling small in a world of full of spacesharks?...

oh well only one question probably can be answered here^^

You are a crazy old man. Love the colours on the fights and the dead grot on the base is a great touch.

monkey is the divine creator and a cyber shark. and speaking of divine creations the sqaushed grot and fighta both look suitably ....erm...divine..:-), and the fighta looks like it could create its very own big bang. the wings are wethered very well , i cant help but think a nice bit of orky iconography would help it pop , maybe the british airforce circle or a great big target in red and white.

That is also the best use of the Cylon Raider kit by AMT ever, including trying to buld a Cylon Raider from the kit.

vik - They are a very dark red, the wash finish and the lighting make it look more brown than it really is. They also lighten as they reach the furthest edges, and one is darker than the other. They may get another red wash, I'm still not happy with the streaky look I'm getting, it might just be that I've not used washes on such a large area before, we'll see.
Umm, the economics bit was course work, the hubble pic just because I was actually going to put a big black square there instead, but then thought that would be prettier.
A favourite pic of mine, the Hubble deep field view, an absolutely awe inspiring sight.
Hold your hand out at arms length and your little finger-nail covers the area that shot looks at. All those galaxies, all those stars, multiply that by however many fingernails it takes to cover the sky and then think on how arrogant it is to assume we're the highest form of life to have evolved anywhere A rant my friends hear whenever I see that pic Personal issues aside, it is still one hell of a view.


graven - You kids get off my lawn. And stay away from my cats.

He's not dead, just been naughty


neil - Damn, by naming me both divine creator and cyber shark you seem to have caught me in some kind of paradox loop*. Cyber sharks prove the non-existence of a divine creator, as surely if there was such a being, they would have created sharks with lasers right at the start. And then probably not moved on to anything else much. I mean, once you've populated a planet with laser-wielding sharks you're pretty much set, what else would you need?
Haven't decided on markings yet, it's got an ork skull on one wing, there'll be something on the tail, anything else is still in the air.



* Obviously I had my servo-grots with me and they're aware of what to do in these circumstances - we get a lot of weird things crop up around here. A quick slap with a wet haddock soon broke the loop.



edited for that sneaky dsteingass sneaking in like a sneaky catachan, the sneak. (Maybe I should just learn to type faster. Have to look into getting a red keyboard.)

Thank you, Hopefully at some stage you'll see the rest of the kit

I mean, once you've populated a planet with laser-wielding sharks you're pretty much set, what else would you need?

you should definatly trademark that sentence!!! it is my favorite of yours^^ and by the way it is now sigged^^

i too think we are not alone in space... but i strongly think we got left out of a big party and no one wants to talk to us....so it is a sort of compensational thought to think we are the only ones...the thought of not being good enough for some tad bit of attention is too depressing^^

well about that fighta... i still will be glued to the monitor to see how this turns out^^

and at dstein:
lol...

including trying to buld a Cylon Raider from the kit

And on the eighth day The Monkey created sharks with frigging lasers..why ? because he could !, on the ninth day Monkey created beards , just so men could laugh at the razor blade commercials touting even more closeness with 22 blades used by sportsmen with unbelievably strong jaw lines, at some point in the far future. And on the tenth and final day ...yes ten not seven (monkey likes even numbers and symmetry) ! Monkey created fisherman's jumpers, for the girls he had created on day one contrary to popular belief. Actually it was for the men .. but monkey in his omnipotence knew that the women would steal the mens jumpers and claim them for there own , and put boobs in them and make them smell of perfume and stuff...Amen!

oh and at some point he created dinosaurs, monkeys and robots to fight the monkeys.

Been tinkering on this for awhile, then it hit me a Cybork Biker Gang and this is their leader "Ol Captin Conyak" w/ his Fungus Still Bike creation by Mad Doc Tinker Doo. Still gotta add some bits and stuff.

So..Much..Paint...


Looking great monkeytroll, and: I'd go for orange :

Dude!

That Fighta is looking really sweet!

And on the eighth day The Monkey created sharks with frigging lasers..why ? because he could !, on the ninth day Monkey created beards , just so men could laugh at the razor blade commercials touting even more closeness with 22 blades used by sportsmen with unbelievably strong jaw lines, at some point in the far future. And on the tenth and final day ...yes ten not seven (monkey likes even numbers and symmetry) ! Monkey created fisherman's jumpers, for the girls he had created on day one contrary to popular belief. Actually it was for the men .. but monkey in his omnipotence knew that the women would steal the mens jumpers and claim them for there own , and put boobs in them and make them smell of perfume and stuff...Amen!

oh and at some point he created dinosaurs, monkeys and robots to fight the monkeys.

amen to that.... thankfully someone brought the true and adultered version of genesis onto this board!

vik - Cheers, always happy to supply sigs to the needy

Well, look at it from their point-of-view. 'Not only do these guys play games about interstellar war, have you seen how much bandwidth they use up arguing about the games?'

Be careful with gluing yourself to a monitor. That always causes havoc when trying to get through airport security.


neil - The gospel of St Neilus, chapter 42?
"and put boobs in them and make them smell of perfume and stuff...Amen!" Amen, brother! That is a righteous prayer

Ok, dinosaurs, monkeys and robots - they all have their place alongside sharks with lasers, let's assume that's a given.


LordWynne - Fungus Still Bike Excellent idea, good start to the model.


CK - applied in stages, don't worry Cheers, and I wouldn't have thought that, you of all people suggesting orange? Strange.


Zeke - Thanks a lot man!


So nothing done yet, as all I've done is get home late, cook and eat. And I'm feeling like eating some more possibly
But..I did get a little package today, and it's always fun to share, right?
So got a few pieces from Zinge Industries, there's been a bit of his stuff popping up here and there on dakka recently, thought I'd get in on some of the action Also waiting for a few bits from Antenociti's, and the one that has me really drooling is a little something from masq-miniatures, been a couple of weeks since I ordered, but it's a little operation in Germany, and these small places can take a while longer, it's often 2-3 weeks for maxmini and micro-arts I find, so I'm not worried yet, just anxious for it to arrive

Anyway, what did Zinge send my way?



Just a few odds and sods, nothing specific, all generally useful.




Tyres. 8 of the normal wheels and 4 tiny wheels. I hadn't really taken in the size of those little ones when I ordered them, but they're cool, a great size for cybork legs or grot bikes. The resin is pretty light, has a nice feel to it, flash clipped off cleanly.
Thrown in a marine wheel for scale.




Ammo and other stuff. A few different ammo drums, with a bolter and shoota put in for scale. Some of the flexible ammo feeds, with a few bent into shape. They're cast in a rubbery type substance with a fine wire imbedded for shaping purposes. Easily shaped, and flattened back out afterwards with no issues. Five different styles on the sprue each about 75mm long, that should be useful for a fair few minis

Couple of tesla coil thingummies, bit of very fine flash, not unexpected on such a design, cleaned up with a pass of a blade. Haven't taken the time to cut it up yet, so don't know how it is to work with in that way, but cleaning the flash was very easy.

And some cables. I'm not going to resist trying some different wires out now am I? These are formed with one strand of wire wrapped around another, very flexible, appear to be strong enough to support a mini. I grabbed three sizes - 1, 1.5 and 1.9mm. I'd guess if they were the sole support of a mini, tech-adept on mecha-dendrites for example, there's the danger that it could be pushed out of place if you tried, unlike guitar strings, although it would be pretty stable under normal circumstances. And for small, intricate curves these will be great.




Oh dear, I hear you say. But wait one moment. These miscasts were in a little bag thrown in free with my order.

Free, unasked for stuff.

Think on that a moment.

Now I don't know if that's usual with Zinge or not, but I certainly appreciate the gesture. Miscasts that they can't sell, have no use for - throw a few out to the customers - works for me.
The fans were something I'd considered, and now I have a couple in my hand I've had several ideas already, so they've gained at least one more order from me at some time
The shotgun shells are on a flexible wire, this time cast from a more resin like substance. They're very cool, and the only miscast is on a couple of shells - they look more like fired shells, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
The black ammo band was broken by me at work, playing with it through the baggy, wondering if it was flexible too It wasn't.
And those steps are perfect for one of the trukks.

So, I'm looking forward to playing with some of these bits, and I'll certainly buy from them again at some point



edited for horrendous spelling

aye very useful stuff from zinge and no mistake! and he always chucks some miscasted stuff with a shipment too! the tesla assortment i have too and it is waiting to be used one day...well maybe you could allow the extra miles and make a tesla shark instead of a laser one?...how does that sound...pretty nifty...
the new amo belts look interresting material wise...i only own the ebony colored resin ones... and stil haven´t used them...

the big wheels should be a cool addition to your various truckk endeavors.... or futur ones anyway^^

as for glued monitors ...well i am afraid of fying anyways so no drawback there^^

I would love to have some of those tesla coils! About 18 of them to be exact. Who sells them?

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/349840.page


he has lots of useful stuff brewing and guns too... and his most recent work is treads for everyone^^

Good to see some paint Monkey. The fighta looks great but I am a little surprised buy the colour choice on the wings. I find the washes come out streaky on large flat services as well, kinda annoying isn't it.

Whats the delivery time like for Zinge? I've been thinking of ordering some myself.

Wow, those tiny wheels are tiny!

I like my Zinge bitz. I look forward to ordering more. I highly recommend the tesla coils and ammo belts.

vik - That's nice to know! Don't worry, there are more sharks in the future. I can't say when, but they're there.
Yeah, the resin 'miscast' ammo I got looks really nice, the new stuffs pretty translucent, hard to see detail till it's got some paint on.


dsteingass - I'll let vik tell you ....


vik - cheers!


Bangbang - Yeah, I'm hoping a gloss coat is going to hide the streaks. Like I said, it's a very dark red fading to a dark red, but it's definitely red in the hand. And that vibrant red on the nose probably doesn't do it any favours, but that will be heavily weathered.

And about a week, ordered last Sunday, got it at work today. Order was over £15 so post free.

Man ya dont check in in a few days and ya punish a guy with a bunch of reading. Come on guys I live is Tennessee. Its against the law to read that much in one day.

One of these days I'll infiltrate your work space and steal your brain.

OMG! Monkey used da paint brush!

Lots of super useful stuff there mate. love the idea if getting free stuff ..

Some nice work there, might need to place an order as well

schank - 'looks like we got ourselves a reader...'


shaso - Wasn't me! I just splashed some paint on a couple of grots the dok hadn't wired right, and let them flail arond my desk for a while.


neil - Yep, nice bit of customer service that I thought


CK - Yeah, he has some nice bits, I'll certainly be ordering more.


Tiny bits of progress on various things, not much worth showing yet, but there's a bit. Work, studying and life in general eating up a lot of potential hobby time at the moment, coupled with a fairly lethargic response when I am in the work-room means little moving quicklt around here. Well, less so than usual anyway

So, it's wet and windy as usual here, so I decide the best use of my time on a wildly rocking boat is to work on my hazard stripes and little fiddly bits


Waaagh Dakka squig-hound:



The main bits, and then a better pic of the stripes so far. (rocking boats aren't great for non-blurry photos either, these offerings represent the best by far ) Going with jade green as skin base, and blood red for scales - the scales haven't been properly base-coated yet, hence the ragged edges - I just wanted to check the colour combo. Eagle-eyed observers may notice I switched the blue scrap on the base for yellow. I weathered the blue, but it just didn't feel right, so I reverted to good ol' yella, hopefully it won't be too much yellow with the stripes on the body.


Orderly:



Most details still to go, needs a wash on the robes and hood, possibly the skin.


Tek-Masta Stumpy:

Remember me? GMS trade with graven? Sure you do.



Finally finished. Almost. Noticed a couple of things that still need a wash and tidy up, a couple of areas that need a brief touch-up with a stipple brush and then sealing.
Graven, I'd apologise for the time it's taken, but I know if I do that now, those last items will not get done, so I'll do that once it's finally on it's way.


'gaunt:



Wait, that's not an ork. But it does have a bit of green to it, so we'll let it in, hey? The gaunt that's taking down a Tranquility vet mantis Warrior for Gits' youngest. Which I cheerfully reckoned I'd get out towards the end of summer
Got a colour scheme for him now, using washes, there's a few more layers to come yet, plus details. I'm thinking I might edge the green plates with red, I'll make a decision when the rest is done.
Dheneb stone base, devlan wash, drybrush with white, then start on the washes.


And thinking of resurrecting this old klunker for da boyz



A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away this was part of a 'space crane' dinky-type toy. In my teens it became a genestealer cult hover-tank. In my twenties it became a DE talos. In my thirties it was ripped apart agin. No reason this time. So, I'm thinking that now would be a good time to do something else with it. The obvious thing was to stick a big gun on top and an ork in the front.

Obviously those bits won't get used like that. A similar configuration might work as a hover-buggy (I'm feeling a need to get more stuff off the ground, as befits the fluff for Upzag and hs gravimetrik tamperings), or I could put rotors up on top for a kopta. Or perhaps use it as the base for a hovering mek-bike. Hmm, I quite like that idea now. I've been toying with various ways to add mek arms and tools to bikes, this could be one solution.


And just because there's nothing wrong with a bit of head...



Second positronork brain looking for a suitable host, GSH, smoker, enjoys krumpin' and yellin', likes red ones.

Has had several try-outs, but haven't found the right partner for him yet. I was also playing with a tiny, tiny GS brain attached to wires, kinda floating in the head-space, but I'm thinking that might work better as a bionik heart now.


Laters all...


edited as I'm a numpty and apparently like to place duplicate images rather than different shots

Great work monkeytroll!! Man those gears in the brain pan are something else! Squig hound is looking really good, and those grots are just great. Sorry, nothing but compliments from me tonight.

And just because there's nothing wrong with a bit of head...

Dirty boy!!


Cool update monks, you have made quite a batch of colours considering your kinetic housing arrangements Really like the positronik head so much detail.. bashed boys will be in heaven if the ever reach your watery shores

lovely colours on the Gaunt , very eery, is that a word? and the Episode 1 hover tank just needs a Rastafarian ork acting like an annoying gakker and your all set
the weathering on Master stumpy ( i knew a guy called that ..well nearly that ) is superb.. really need to take more notes of that chipping technique
good colour choice with the jade .. makes change from the emerald green we usually see. and can i ask where is that needle from on the orderly ?

Fabulous stuff man! stunning.

Some amazing detail in there... I love the positronik brain. And the grots, obviousy. very nice red on the orderly!

the hounds base now looks way better in my opinion... and i think you have a good way of working with yellow so i thi8nk there isn´t enough yellow with your minis^^

awww isn´t he cute when he wants you to cuddle with him...


and that cogbrain...man i think you are a clockmacker? or what....i would have gone insane with that amount of smallishest work...where did you say did you got all these tiny cogs anyway?

vik

Love love love how the squighound is turning out, and I have no idea how you manage to get such tiny detail into your cogbrains. I'd really love some kind of 'supermarket sweep' type access to your bits box

Great to see you getting stuff painted - I really need to get on that myself. And as for the head thing, I don't think that phrase applies to, uhhh... Ork head.

(WHY IS THERE NO VOMITING ORKMOTICON?)

Gits - That's all right, I'll forgive you Thanks a lot!


neil - You know about the episode 1 nightmare? Wait, that means it wasn't a nasty dream, it really did happen? NNNOOOOOOOOOOO!!

With the jade I was looking to move away from my 'usual' blue and orange, I was originally thinking turquoise and red would be a change but still keep a 'connection'. Then when I reached for the turqouise I decided on the jade instead.

The needle itself is part of a watch, with plastic tubes for the syringe body.


dstein - Thanks man. I'm way behind on your terrain log, really need to catch up.


CK - Cheers! I'm pretty confident that the dok has more positronork brains planned, they're a lot of fun


vik - Yeah, I'm starting to find yellow my 'fallback' colour these days, which is a change from it being the 'yellow? No, that's a bugger to paint' colour So going with brighter colours for these guys has changed my range, but just changed it, rather than actually widening it.

He just wants his belly rubbed.

The tiny cogs are again watch parts. Always handy


Scarp - Cheers bud! Access to my bits box is on a 'first come, first eaten by the cyber-squig' basis.

You should hear some of the stories the catachan's have about troopers on ork-infested planets who haven't seen R&R in years

but a change of pallete is a good step... after all you can always go back to blue and red and then you have the knowing of the yellow too^^ so actually it is like learning to ride a bike... you can never un-learn it^^ of course major brainsurgery or just a frying pan in the right arc is a possible way to achive just that^^

I've forgotten how to write in cursive. But it's mostly because I've just always thought it was a waste of time.

you´re kidding right? i mean i once had that tendency to keep my paper in school tilted abou at least 30° and thus getting instant cursive but how can you do that intentionaly^^

As a teen I had tiny, tiny spidery writing, and started used capitals for all my hand-written stuff. After 20 plus years I find 'proper' handwriting to be really awkward

in the first schoolyears all my calssmates and my teachers sweared that i will become a doc... i feel betrayed... i am by far a doc now... i want my money back...:(

Damn Money, that positronork brain is awesome! Tek-Masta is looking great, too.

GG - Thanks man!


Umm, not sure if this is a good thing, but I think I may have been mainly responsible for creating a search category in the gallery. One of the options on the home page is 'cyborks', with 796 pics showing. I have well over 700 pics with that tag

lol^^ you are special too us^^ and even tho you are very special in a special way^^

Nothing in the world is in cursive script anymore, it's dead like latin. They are finally stopping teaching it in schools now in favor of typing skills.

oh had just translated the word cursive and it came up with the word for handwriting in a flowing hand.... i meant the lopsided look of handwriting...or printing nowadays.... stop teaching cursive in school... they really do so??? urgh....what will happen after WWIII when we have no electricity??? what will you write your lettres with??? chisels?

They will have to teach how to write in Times New Roman

well then chisels will come in handy^^

^ lol

Who needs chisels when you got glyphs

So little getting done on the hobby front at the moment. A combination of six-day weeks, late-night stock-taking, work courses to attend and assignments means I'm a busy bunny this week and the next few weeks. Somewhat consoled myself by having a little splurge on goodies. A combination of birthday money and no social life or food for a month or two meant I could stick my fingers up at the bank manager Still waiting for my package from masq-miniatures, been a month now, I've sent a mail to confirm it's shipped.

Took advantage of the last bit of sunshine we'll probably see for a while to grab a couple of pics of the fighta with fresh gloss spray. Which didn't get good coverage.



Hopefully now you can see it is red Gloss did clear up the streaky wash, even if it wasn't a good layer. Now the gloss is down I'll start the weathering in earnest, and finish up the details on the fuselage/engine. Still wavering on the colour choice for the 'walls' at the wing roots, but figured I can still do those later. Did try for some flying shots above the water, but hadn't prepared any decent way to do it, and nearly lost it a couple of times.
I did test it onboard first to see if it floated, as I almost tried a shot of it on the water. Which was just silly really. But did give me an idea for a floating platform to take shots from. If I start it now I might even have it ready by the time the days are light again.

Have played a bit with some different skins for some of the boys.



Gunner - base of tau-sept ochre, devlan wash, thraka wash, deneb highlight, selected flesh wash, thraka wash.

Mekanikus - something slightly different, but I've already forgotten, what the difference was It was done a couple of days ago I think.


And Snake'ead Jonez becomes the first non-green ork to join. (Albinork was yellowy-green).



Deneb base, sepia wash, flesh wash, deneb highlight, selected flesh wash, sepia wash. Purple wash around the neck and a rivet in his back - which looks a lot more subtle in the hand.

Have another boy who's had a tau-sept base and devlan mud - he'll be staying that kind of shade, but not woth pics of just those two colours

Afraid that's it for now, more of a note to self about colours than an update. Really should do that more here, as I'm always losing notes on colour schemes. Hopefully I'll get some spare time and energy to do a few things, probably a little burst of energy as new shinies arrive

Nice paint work there monkey! That fighta looks aces!

Although I prefer my Orks with green skin, The second scheme looks awesome, much more depth in color!

I like the mekanikus skin. Snake'ead is cool too, but a tad un-orky to me; maybe a Golgotha Ork? They were brownish in the books.

Your flying disc looks beautiful - all ready for rust and scratches!

you just gotta love non greenies...i for one do!

and the fighta is one hell of a red beauty! i just can imagine you making soft wooshing noises in that sunset^^ very good paintjob and i might even say a tad on the romantic side^^

The fighter is quite outstanding. The paintwork is stunning, genuinely. Nice one robosquirrel.

I agree the Fighta IS stunning! not sure if its the light but it looks light you have a gradient on the wings , either way looks super , and suitably fast, the blending on the nose is great. Shame we didn't get to see the over the water shots.

The new boys look as cool as the uvver bozs, nice to see the skin experiments , i thought snake head was just a regular non mekky conversion, then i noticed his arm is a shoota too. Should have know better . Cool updates monkey

shaso - Cheers bud!


dstein - Yeah I need to work more on green washed skin, there'll be ample opportunities I reckon


CK - mekanikus is better than the gunner, the gunner's deneb highlights were a bit streaky and harsh. Maybe another green wash. Yeah, Jonez does get a bit close to humie there, that'll be as close as it goes that way, but there will be several non-green green-skins kicking about. A few browns, a couple of reds, one blue one, with a 'elmet, a shoota and a pack Maybe a few others. Upzag and Grimsnik have travelled a lot and sent M-is-hairy's bearing da word ov Gorka-Mekka far and wide They've picked up a motley assortment of ork-kin from all over the galaxy - perhaps with some of their tek, even beyond.

Don't matta wot kolor youze iz, s'long as youze got some bionik bitz.

But they're mainly green


weety - Thank you! Indeed 'tis time to get scratchy with it.


vik - Glad you approve. And thank you.

Is Mrs vik fully aware that your idea of romantic includes tiny, psychotic, cybernetically 'enhanced' fungus-kin trying vainly to control a bloody great jet engine with a couple of 'wings' bolted to it, whilst shooting loud guns and BIG fireworks at everything in sight?


graven - Appreciate that my friend. Damn, is my tail showing again?


neil - Thanks man! There is a definite gradient on the wings, very dark to dark The nose isn't that good close up, the colours make it look better, but it wasn't that important as that's going to be getting some heavy chipping/weathering.

Not the best angles on Snake 'ead, hard to see that's actually an epic reaver titan head he's wearing along with the gun-blade. I'll blame the rocking again

Is Mrs vik fully aware that your idea of romantic includes tiny, psychotic, cybernetically 'enhanced' fungus-kin trying vainly to control a bloody great jet engine with a couple of 'wings' bolted to it, whilst shooting loud guns and BIG fireworks at everything in sight?

why do you have to even ask... it was and will be my secret fomula to get hot wimmen into my lair...er...dang no it isn´t secret anymore...

man that trukk is awsome mayby make an option or a supakannon and use it as a supakannon battlewagon

Blimmin' eck!

I've just stumbled into this thread and must now take a break to find my socks. Amazing stuff.

Quick question - you use tiny cogs in some of the conversions, where are you getting them? I saw Hasslefree do something like that, am I on the right track?

naww... he uses cogs from watches...i am too on the hunt for those^^

Well, Monkey does have a good eye for the unusual, always nice checking this thread to see what new things have been done, like a cross between a Mek and Painboy Monkey is!

vik - I promise not to tell any women I know heading your way

dakkagrot - Thanks man! I have other plans for battlewagons. I use the plural in the hope that at least one of the ideas makes it to construction stage Although the junka should be able to switch load-outs to become a battlewagon, don't have a supakannon planned for it though.

Fox Box - Sorry about that, some of the grots thought they'd make good dirigibles. And vik has the answer you're looking for

vik - ^^ (lol)


Ok, so still stupidly busy, and tomorrow after work heading off for training on our new computer system for the rest of the week. So not much coming either I'm afraid. So in place of any real update let's have another round of vicarious package opening Hmm, smell that fresh packaging...


Couldn't resist this when I saw it (but that's only because I have a little spending money at present):



Lovely kit, beautifully cast, I've found one bad mould line on one of the little thrusters, and to be honest, that's pretty much the only one that's even visible. Unfortunately, it was missing one piece when it got here e-mail sent, hopefully that'll be waiting for me when I get back. There's several nice looking leg bits at the bottom of the pic, they won't be appearing with the main body In fact, I'm guessing very little of the pieces will be going to the same home. And I think I might enquire about the posibility of getting hold of some more of that brass etch - very nice fan blades there.

I'm waiting on a grav-tank from antenociti's as well, and need to go grab a couple of built and unbuilt resin grav vehicles from my folks garage before seeing what can be done with it all But I need to get some more stuff off the ground, so to speak.


And speaking of photo-etched bits :



Some random bits for detailing, got a few more pieces along with some plasticard sheets and tubes, and a few bits of foilage littler.


And the bits I can see getting used an awful lot:



The Tube Tool from Masq-Miniatures. How could I resist a tool for making a variety of cabling I think there may be even more cables and wires appearing on a cybork near you soon. Not to mention old-skool robot limbs, dok-ock style tentacles and other stuff. That's a couple of test pieces I tried, two with wire inside the GS so I could pose it after, works really well, one tapered GS and a test on some blu-tac.
I'm going to have fun with these

Apologies for the lack of pwetties, hopefully a few days away combined with a bunch of new shinies to play with will mean there's a burst of productivity next weekend.

So long, and fanks for all da teef...



edit - Cheers shaso, although I'm fairly sure there's not always new stuff to check out when you come by...

edit - Cheers shaso, although I'm fairly sure there's not always new stuff to check out when you come by...

Like that hover tank and cables don't count?

OMG! Supply Drop! Niice stuff, the PE is making me drool a lil bit.

mayby an Uber kannon megawagon

You jammy little monkey , a wire cable making device .. "turns green with envy "..

The hovva tank looks nice , like some sort of sci-fi crustacean
that hasn't quite made it to the top of the North Face , due to some meddling grots unloosening all the bolts that held it together...i know i am rambling.. good luck with the computers mate, we shall all be hare when you get back, unless one of us isn't .. either way catch ya later .

I was thinking about buying those texture pads myself. Would they be worth me buying them, especially since I would have to pay oversees shipping?

Also this:

Apologies for the lack of pwetties, hopefully a few days away combined with a bunch of new shinies to play with will mean there's a burst of productivity next weekend.

QFT

So long, and fanks for all da teef..

^^hitchhikers guide to the galaxy fan I take, Bad movie great book

that movie had for me it´s moments...specially liked the charcter of zaphod beeblebrox done by sam rockwell...

at monkey...seems you make some jokes on my expenses for my lack of speach- fu...well...be warned...you never know when this might backfire^^

that hovertank is very cool looking and somehow remnds me of that nurgle drone from FW...and it has legs??? well...so how come you are now so good situated? finally robed that bank you told me not to talk about ...ups...kinda sliped me...ohoh...

that brass edged stuff looks very promising... never did any research in that matter...hmmm....specailly the fans look delicious...

on another thread i saw the GS devices too... they even makre some fur-making device...what did you pay for all this anyway... must have been rather two robbed banks me thinks...

*stretches out open hand in a demanding gesture...*

vik

is it my imagination or do those brass etch pieces look like oil rig/drill platforms?

mullet_steve wrote:is it my imagination or do those brass etch pieces look like oil rig/drill platforms?

Either that or elaborate radio towers.

Yeah, they look like 1/3000 scale oil rigs

I too would be intrigued to know costs of Masq stuff. Purty.

shaso - Well, no real work anyway And they weren't up when you first posted


dstein - Always good when the supplies hit


dakkagrot - A mega-dakka uber-wagon?


neil - How could I resist such a gadget? The North Face seems to be covered in algae, that probably didn't help either. And are you all rabbits now?


Primarch - Well I've only just started playing with them and I can see umpteen uses for them already. If you're into cabling (and I know you are ) I reckon they're a must. Might be worth seeing if anyone your side of the pond stocks them though, I suspect it'll be a long old wait for delivery as well as the postage charge.

Well, it turned out to me more draining than I thought, but I still got a little done

Excellent books, excellent TV series, never bothered with the movie


vik - Figured I had to use the ol' vik eyebrows at some point on my blog

Combination of birthday money and a complete lack of social activity for two months put a little spending cash my way, plus a little extra from an aunt who inherited a bit. That bank's waiting for later

Yeah, I like the look of those fans, really hope they'll sell them seperately. You should look into some photo-etched stuff, there's a whole load of gear available for tanks, and although it can be a bit pricy you can dish bits out from one sprue over a whole variety of models. I have some sprues going back years and years which have only had one or two items clipped.

Yeah, I saw someone mention they used them to get the funky looking cabling he had on his guy and instantly went looking to make a bookmark. Didn't notice the fur device though, have to have another look some time.

*slaps hand*


mullet - I can see the resemblence


shaso - I almost went for the transmission towers


dstein - Close, they're actually 1/1000 dock cranes. I had no real use for them, but thought as I was buying some treats, some tiny fretwork might come in useful bionik-wise


graven - As said, I think they're pretty darn cool bits of kit. They did cost 20 Euros, plus 10 shipping and took an age to get here, about a month. There's 3 sets each comprising two identical templates. You can get various effects from one set by varying the pressure you use when rolling. Then you can mix and match the sets for more effects or run them at angles to each other for more.



So, seemed to be missing that hoped for spark when I got back, lot of info to take on board over the week. Good food at the hotel though, and there were a couple of Fawlty-esque moments for general gaks and giggles.
Rather than jumping into my boyz with a passion I spent most of yesterday reading a couple of books, playing spider solitaire and generally doing bugger-all. Which meant I had to spend a good portion of today doing this weeks assignments. And reading the relevant chapters. Socio-economic and technological factors, and how they affect the business environment. Hmm, tasty.

Right enough whinging, what have I actually done that's of interest? A little bit


#1 (It's too late to think of their monikers right now )



Nothing like replacing an arm with a leg to go with the two-face look. Bit of GS needed to fill some gaps in the shoota and make a knotted trouser leg. A few wires on the leg, and still flipping between cogs or wires protuding from the bionik side of the head. Used some punched plasticard circles to make the foot, and was pleased enough with the look to make that one of the 'standard' foot pieces for a while. And used a bit of the zinge ammo.

#2



Head was going to be a Cyclops style guy for an x-men based squad, but in the end I couldn't come up with enough cyber-bits for all of them. And let's face it, Wolvie's the only one of interest anyway Slugga from a shoota, back gubbins from a KMB and choppa needs tidying and mould line shaving. Transportation from a light fitting, not decided whether it's a wheel-type thingummy, or a hover-type thingummy yet.


#3




Did I mention I have a cable making device? Should really have used a more orky head with those legs, but this one was attached to a torso with some gubbins on the bottom waiting for a pair of bionik legs to be built. Looked like three old-skool robot legs would fit just as well to me Almost got a couple of tentacle type arms too, but then you'd have had no chance of telling it was actually an ork Not sure if he's doing the orky tripod dance or just about to start walking up the side of a building Still needs some GS filling and tidying.


That should keep you going for a little while at least....

I love #1 and #3, I'm not quite sold on the 2nd one because of the use of the lamp. My suggestion is to add some sort of tubing or wires or some sort of gubbin of that nature to it, running from its back thing to the top of the hover device.

Very amusing! Leg-arm, tube-legs, Massive serrated cleavers, star-trekish visor - all things which are good to look at early on a monday. Cheers me up b4 work

Talk about Cyb-ork bodies! Da Dok has been busy!

Coooll. If anyone was going to get good use form one of those cable making tools it was you. Awesome cyborks as always.

well i must be getting myself some nice relatives that try to drown me in chash this season too... seems it is totally the fashion now^^

the cable device sure did pay off... hail to the triple leged gods! that is looking ace! that two face is looking very cool...only nitpick isfor the leg joint... looks a tad too fishy even for mek doc...better do something without that bit there... tho the leg in itself looks super! that visor cyclops guy is also looking amazing! and you are absolutly right about wolvie! he is da man!^^ oh and by the way.... tho i really like how you changed those orky guns... the first barrel needs in my opinion some cooling holes...

Love the Slugga to Shoota conversion!

Hare, rabbit, human, ork , all the same to me.. ;-)

Mr bendy tripod make me lol , great stuff the 1st looks like that Victorian villain from the mighty boosh

Just because there are some scientific theories that mankind should NEVER explore with for ethical reasons doesn't matter man, because you can make those things out of Orks and bitz! Stunning!

Very cool new Cyborks. I vote for hoover thing for the Cyclops ork. He could use the chain sword to fling himself forward. The two face bit is awesome, and the other, less orky head fits, I think. It reminds me of a boars head to some extent. That's a Tau bit isn't it?

Just because there are some scientific theories that mankind should NEVER explore with for ethical reasons doesn't matter man, because you can make those things out of Orks and bitz! Stunning!

insert manical laugh of a mad scientist...

Cue the lightning!

Primarch - Oh absolutely. There'll be a pipe from backpack to transport, it's just that I tend to leave wiring like that till after the paint (yeah, looong wait I know).


weety - As always, glad to keep you amused 'Monkeytroll - making Monday mornings better since 1971'


shaso - "Well, cybork bodies are a fine example of the strange symbiosis ork tissue seems to have with non-biological parts. Generally they compose of an organic remnant of an ork and some bionik parts which have been cobbled together by......."


Wazzdig - Cheers fella. I forsee cables in the future, lots of cables. 'My God, it's full of wires'


vik - The joint between leg and torso? Yeah, that was supposed to have a washer halfway along the joint and a few cogs on the torso side, but I forgot. I'll see what I can do after the fact though. No cooling holes for that one I'm afraid. That's an echo chamber to make da dakka louda - any holes will diminish the sound


Arakasi - Thanks man. Recently realised I needed to start messing with the basic guns a bit more, not much mass-production in da mek-halls.


neil - Good job you threw ork in there, otherwise people might think you're a furry Seen a few of the Boosh but don't recall a Victorian Villain, so can't take credit for that reference.


dstein - Thanks!
Does that mean I shouldn't be practicing on the local population first


GG - I was having trouble coming up with a good base for another hovering guy, which was part of the reason I was wavering, but I've just had a re-think, might try re-posing him to see if it'll work.
Funny you say boar head, it almost got tusks That head actually came from an eldar jetbike console


vik - Bwahahahahahahahahah!


edited for shaso sneaking in there again:

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Oh Yeah...Stumpy here looks ace!

cool lightening too.

May I make a minor suggestion?

"MOAR RIVETS!"

dsteingass - lol It really is a plague!

naww it is a blessing... it already looks better^^

Nurgle followers consider boils and putrid, festering sores to be a blessing.

well it all depends on ones point of view^^

or a mega uber dakka wagon

monkeytroll wrote:

I think what this boy needs is a leg stump choppa/chainsaw or slugga? it just seems unfair that he should have less weaponry than he compatriots?

Stubba or heavy stubba... make him like the Scotsman in Samurai Jack.

Can I point out one thing you often lambast yourself for a slow rate of work but I've been gone 3 months and tere are ten pages of interesting craziness and some odd outbreaks of twisted genius you get more done to a higher quality than you give yourself credit for.......

Llamahead wrote:Can I point out one thing you often lambast yourself for a slow rate of work but I've been gone 3 months and tere are ten pages of interesting craziness and some odd outbreaks of twisted genius you get more done to a higher quality than you give yourself credit for.......

agreed, everytime i come back to see if a new model or two is here i find pages and pages of awesome stuff!

You get frustrated with yourself when your brain works faster than your hands do on projects. At least I do.

OK - I'm back, catch-up time..


PDH - Cheers!


dstein - Hmm, now what could all those little dots represent I wonder?


GG - Could be


PDH - A very virulent virus I'm afraid, there's a good chance everyone on Dakka will get a small dose at some time


vik - Obviously vik appears to be the main vector of transmission


dstein - So do some of the local's round here


vik - indeed!


dakkagrot - Are you sure you're not compensating for anything with this big gun fetish?
Not that that's a particulary bad fetish to have.


mullet - Nah, he's a shoota boy, dat's all dey get. The other shoota boys only have the one shoota too, it's just they've been outnumbered by the the slugga boys.


Gits - Hmm, I haven't got any Samurai Jack references lined up yet, there's an excuse to re-watch some


neil - He looks like a screaming Japanese guy to you?


Llamahead - Well thank you kind sirrah. I could be a lot faster though, and to be honest it's normally my painting speed that I bemoan. I think. Isn't it?
Lots of things get built, or almost built, but then just sit around getting painted at an average speed of one colour per month. There's still un-finished guys from the first page of this blog, and these are the guys I'm actually motivated to work on by Dakka


Sage - If you're finding pages and pages of stuff you're not visting very often. Cheers though!


dstein - Oh definitely. When it takes so long for one idea to come to fruition, there's a huge backlog of ideas building up, some of which get lost in the wait.



So, been off for a month, mainly due to my pretty-much annual loss of internet. It's been a fairly hectic few weeks anyway, and to be honest I spent a fair bit of my remaining free-time playing Oblivion and Deus Ex. My will crumbled and I did get Skyrim, but I'm trying hard not to play it yet, even though I know there's no chance I'm going to finish Oblivion soon.

As I've been pretty busy anyway I didn't bother getting my internet sorted till this week, but once again it took 2 attempts for them to actually get here. Now I've got t'internet back I can get on with the christmas shopping. And catch up on about a billion pages of threads I've missed.
And I'd better put some stuff up here, what with being off for a month it might even make a decent-sized update.


So what nefarious deeds have I been up to in the meanwhile?
That would be telling now, wouldn't it? But I will tell you what I have done on the modelling front (no point in mentioning the painting front *mind momentarily wanders off thinking on a war compised of modelling and painting fronts* as that's been bloody non-existant)

I did recieve a little grav-tank shaped package from Antenociti's earlier:




Along with that crab-stylee hover tank the bits are calling to me to do get cracking on some vehicular mayhem, so I pay a little trip to my folks and go rummage in their garage for some old models. And find some - result!
There's a couple of promising boxes:



and this:




Plus a bunch of old metal skaven (some with paint on even - I was faster when I was a youngster)and a box of bits (including one wing from Vader's Tie, the chrome parts for two cars, an apollo lunar lander and a bunch of the old Epic buildings (from when it was Titanicus). I've now spent a fair amount of time playing with the roof sections of those trying to devise something.

Inside those boxes:



Most of the tank and the Orion shuttle from 2001. With some dodgy bits of plastic and old marine bits glued fairly randomly to it in an effort to turn it into a marine fighter plane as I recall. That might end up being cleaned up and looted as another fighta. And tank bits always useful, I knew it wouldn't be a complete kit as I've used several bits elsewhere. I obviously clipped one sprue into a bits box at some time, I thought the few remainng bits in my box were all that was left, so that was a nice bonus.

And the other box:




The bits and a rough view of how it goes together. You can guess how old it is by going back to the box pic and noting that I got all that resin for a princely £12! At one time I was planning on using the body for a tiny scale starship of some kind - just a generic build for fun, but never got round to it (some things never change ). Nothing immediately springs to mind for the bits, but jet exhausts and a cannon are sure to come in handy.


And some bonus shots of the green hover tank thigummy ( A Special Vehicle Force 'Euphractus' to be exact)



That's not the original gun, that's still in a bits box somewhere, saw it a while back I know. Not a particularly detailed paint job, but I don't think that was supposed to be it's finished state. That one cost £9 when I got it way back when (the box holds paints now).




'Oi, you young ruffians. Just you put that canopy back on.'

I'm particularly proud of the way I painted the console so that 20 years later it would look like I'd added them to the photo with MS Paint.

Basically, rip the seat out, install a greenie in there and find a suitable turret, hey presto, there's another skorcha m'lud.
Although it does have a back hatch and is the perfect size for a grot-sized chimera.

Or thinking on it, give it a big ol' cannon and it'll be a looted wagon. I think that ones sorted now.



And has anything been done with any of these miscellaneous parts in my dakka-absence, you ask.

Look, I know you didn't ask. You know you didn't. They know you didn't.

It was more a rhetorical kind of statement, allowing me to segue into the next bit.


A link, if you will.


Ahh, sod it, look, I did some fiddling with that grav-tank, see:


Wasn't sure of the parts that came with this, so had no real idea what I was going to do with it till I had it in hand. The hull comes as one piece, and looking at it I had visions of a hovering staff car type affair. After a bit of pondering (or staring at nothing in particular as it's sometimes called) I decided that a full-on staff car with ork general in the back would be awesome.
But a bit of a pain as I'd want to hollow out the body for a job like that - I wouldn't want the general to be a plug'n'play ork. So a buggy it is then.

So open a window and grab that dust-mask, there's resin to be hacked at.

Phase I



Got rid of the turret support and started to square off the panels so it doesn't look like a big ol' circle has been chopped out of the buggy.
At this point I'm thinking the driver will be to the right, with some kind of gunner behind and to the left, possibly an arrangement similar to a vyper gunner.



Phase II



Driver and console in place, complete with comfy back rest, possibly to get some electric gubbinses on top. Driver could be plug'n'play or just squeezed in there nic and tight - hard to tell at the moment so I'll probably throw a bionik arm into the mix, just to cement his cybork status. Start of a gun mount, switched idea on the gunner for now. Built some thingummies to fill behind the driver and started adding some bolted on panels.
Oh and started on some wiring too.

Bet that was unexpected.


Phase III



More gubbins added, mainly on the rear sides, plus a spotlight, some more tanks of dodgy kemikals, another bit of cabling and a nice rear plate to attach the engines to. Whatever kind of engines it's getting. I toyed with a few propellors but none of them were really doing it for me, this thing should look fasta, needs some jets of some kind. At the moment it's between three of the old hunter missile front plates, the jets from a land speeder or that classic old-skool solution - the toothpaste tube top. Gotta say, with some extra tubing, the toothpaste top has it so far.
Also got a wotsit ariel near the front. Very important that is.
Very, very important.

No idea what it is, but all da meks say it's mucho important.


Phase IV (where's those giant ant models when you need them?)




Pretty much done except the windshield - that'll wait till it's painted before I decide what style it's going to be.
Gunner Johansann is now in place, I fiddled with several weapons till I decided on that old fall-back of the drum mag shootas. This time rather than use extra mags to signify they're big shootas I switched up the barrels. The all-important barbed wire bumpers are also in place, and the driver's horn, or big hoota as he likes to call it.
And ripped the engine nozzles off the Euphractus in the end.

After this shot I un-blu tacced the arm, glued the roll-bar (definitely singular) in place with a little support bit, primed it black then gave the topside a coat or two of humbrol sand. Then gs'd the gap in the driver's arm I'd forgotten about. It was going to be red, but going for a more yellowy desert scheme as that's how I saw the original staff-car concept.

I'm now thinking it might want some kind of red and orange tiger-stripe camo just to get a bit more red on there.


Managed to put a few pieces of some boyz together, but none finished so I'll save those for later, make it look like I'm working faster

Anyway, that's a chunk to keep you going for now, I'd best go see what's been going on in other peep's blogs now....

Buggy (is that too big to be a buggy?) is looking really good. Inspired me to make sure I update my thread this weekend

Really like where that one is going MT.... cool. How you come up with all your mods is beyond me.

Yeah, it is a little on the large size for a buggy, but then so are the others I have on the go And that's what the part was screaming at me, so that's the way I went.
But let's face it, if I ever do start playing again there's going to be a gak-load of isues with sizes and other weirdness when using these guys

Da meks sez itz a buggy, so it must beez a buggy.

Woah their nelly , MONKEY'S BACK !! hey mr Troll , looks like you have been making the most of your sabbatical , The staff car is beautiful mate, soo much detail , its obvious lots of love has gone into this , the big hoota , is wonderful lol , The jet engines are really nice , would make a cool commando jump pack for a ermm commando ork ;-) , very jealous of all the wiring types you have used , i have been resisting picking up the wire maker but you are really making it hard not to ( shakes fist ) the cybork gundrone is fast becoming my fave cybork of all time , temie bits and tau bits , very nice .. where does the drivers dash come from ?
cool update fella ,
some orangy red cammo styles for ya

"Oi, you young ruffians. Just you put that canopy back on.'
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