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Quite a wide waist you've got going there...

Love it, great to see the detail of your scratch builds as you progress through them. keep up the great work!

Arakasi wrote:Quite a wide waist you've got going there...

I had noticed that too. Good? Bad?
He is a bit fat, but i think once the arms are on they'll balance out. Kinda jumped the gun on gluin him to the base, and true to bein me I never measured

s.j.mccartney wrote:Love it, great to see the detail of your scratch builds as you progress through them. keep up the great work!

Many many thanks!
I try to have a ton of detail in the final product, and thats whats killin me in the tourney. Everything has to be primed, and I dont like priming till i finish the model, sooooo.... this should be interesting ><

it's like...giant plastic deffdread=AWESOME...how thick is the plasticard you are using...and how do you cut it?

Ramos Asura wrote:

Arakasi wrote:Quite a wide waist you've got going there...

I had noticed that too. Good? Bad?
He is a bit fat, but i think once the arms are on they'll balance out.

It looks too wide at the moment, but I don't know what you have planned. But, if you can see it (and it matters to you), then you can at least work towards minimising or eliminating it It's definitely not an issue yet - just a concern (and only mine at that)

Thats an ambitious goal for something that has to be done at 11:00 in 5 1/2 days. Your doing a kan wall then? You'll crush me if we get to play.

WillyBRags wrote:it's like...giant plastic deffdread=AWESOME...how thick is the plasticard you are using...and how do you cut it?

I use multiple sizes: .125, .25, .5, and 1 mm thick.
Then tubes I use all sorts and sizes, the list is too long to mention
As far as cutting goes, I use a #11 exacto knife and a small metal ruler. For bigger pieces i have this Fiskars paper cutter that cuts roughly straight edges.

Arakasi wrote:

Ramos Asura wrote:

Arakasi wrote:Quite a wide waist you've got going there...

I had noticed that too. Good? Bad?
He is a bit fat, but i think once the arms are on they'll balance out.

It looks too wide at the moment, but I don't know what you have planned. But, if you can see it (and it matters to you), then you can at least work towards minimising or eliminating it It's definitely not an issue yet - just a concern (and only mine at that)

*nod nod*
I gots a vishun... Gork 'n Mork came inna dream or somefin'
Big, killy, stompy...

whalemusic360 wrote:Thats an ambitious goal for something that has to be done at 11:00 in 5 1/2 days. Your doing a kan wall then? You'll crush me if we get to play.

I find that the TO put it best:
"Sounds like Kan Wall on Steroids"

Nothing in this list has wounds, nothing has AV under 11 (not counting kan back armor)
Its looking nasty

I dont know the rules on the big guy, but you might have problems with DE or BA, that can move fast and get strong shots off. Maybe even crons, if MegaDave plays his.

13 armor front and side, 12 back. 5+ invuln, armed with a KFF and a gun that shoots a small blast that i think is S8 AP5 and you can re-roll armor pen. also is pinning Then he has a Wreckin Klaw which adds +1 to Damage rolls, and he has Mek tools which gives +2 attacks on charge and allows him to fix vehicles.
I think he is like 250 pts? i gotta recheck. Plus hes the HQ choice xD

MegaDave doesnt play his Crons anymore- sold em to chaotic_enforcer here on Dakka. Both of em are good friends of mine so we talk tactica alot.
chaotic is taking the crons to the tourney (and yeah, im not lookin forward to playin them xD )

That's kinda a cop out to play an army at a hobbyist event that he didn't make/paint, unless he repainted em.
I thought about using the Lucius Pattern drop pods and making a BA Dreadnought list of drop assaulting doucheness, but wasn't sure if I'd have to get the FW dread pods or not, so not this time.

Love your work. Conversions are looking very nice. Heck more scratch build that conversions. But again very nice cant wait to see more.

@ schank23: Many many thanks! Hes gotten a bit more on him, but I havent had time to post more pics xD


T-MINUS 0 :: TOURNAMENT COMPLETE


Well that was fun! Had a great time, even though I was unable to play. I got to meet WM and a bunch of other really nice guys.
I had very little of my army done, and couldn't get a good list built with what I had.

Running on no sleep since noon yesterday- spent all night building grotzookas and junk xD

Ill give more updates after i get some food and some sleep.

One note of awesomeness: I placed first in the single miniature painting competition! Im really excited- there were a lot of really talented painters in the competition!

Indeed it was. I will be posting pics on monday when I have more bandwidth, including (I think) your winning model.

I can also assure people that in person with the torso on (wip anyways) it doesn't look overly wide.

Also just noticed your avatar is a .gif, has it always been like that?

@ WM: Yup yup! Its a really subtle animation... something from when i used to do photoshop A LOT!


OK! So Im back again! (Or am I?) Dont worry, the layers of dust are part of a science experiment! (Or are they?) And I come bearing news of continued Ork goodness! (Or do I?)

The answers to these increasingly common questions (in no particular order) are: "Yes", "Maybe", and "Dont touch that, Ill finish it as soon as the research grant comes through!"


Progress does continue on the Meka Dread, and his legs have been 99% finished and primed (in hopes that itll get more tooth for drybrushing). Also, all parts of this beast are magnetized!

His left arm (the Rippa Klaw) still has a ways to go as far as beefing it up with armor goes.

The Shunta arm:


The Mek-face

Hes gonna get a proppa set of Orky Jaws (thats that faceplate) as well as a suitably Mek-ey "eye" setup on his right side.

The "Powa-Pakk":

This is gonna get a bit more lovin from the Meks. More armor, and a better integration into the main body.

And finally, some Fixin' Arms:

These sit on the same side of the Dread as the Rippa Klaw- You can probably see where the holes for the pins are in the pics.

So y'see Im not completely goofing off!
Ive been workin on random projects here and there- though school is starting to be quite the bother!

Ah, and before I go, A little Teaser for you guys:

that looks really, really, really, really, really, really cool

That looks surprisingly similar to when I saw it in person. You know, a month ago? Slacker

I love your work.

I'm also looting your sentinel Kan idea.

@ moonshine: Many thanks, man. Just wait till theyre finished!

@ WM: Shhhhhhhh!!! Im trying to make it seem like I was actually doing something
But yeah... since youve seen it last it hasnt progressed much- lovely school has seen that i dont get time to build stuff as much ><

@ samwellfrm: Thanks! And feel free! Thats what orks do, right? build off each others' ideas and creativity to build all new things! (that and fighting of course, but that is neither here nor there...)


So yea!
I got a little more work done on that little teaser project (mostly the base) and may I present to you:

The Meka-Fex!


This is something I have wanted to do for a long long time, almost since I fist started up my army!
My friend was getting rid of a bunch of his Nid stuff, so naturally I took a look, and at a bargain deal I got a pair of Fexes and a hive tyrant!
The other two are currently untouched (in the holding pens, as it were), but this guy got hit full force with the Mek-Hammer.

Im gonna be using them as Deff Dreads (often running them all three in a squad, ala the nid codex) and they will be modeled in three flavors- Freshly Looted, where the big bug still has alot of his own skin left, "New Gubbins" where the Fex is a larger portion metal, and finally "Da' MekaFex" (this guy) which has been around long enough (or been "repaired" enough) to have become more machine than bug.

The MekaFex will be modeled as a Dread with 3 CCW's and a Skorcha:







Building this guy has given me inspiration on how I want to base my army, too!


Im going for an ash waste industrial scheme, with plenty of rusting metal and mysterious green goo (martial arts-trained reptiles sold seperately).


C&C Welcome and appreciated-- Thanks for reading!

So cool!
I cant wait to see that finished!

I've always loved the idea of looting tyranids. The mekafex looks great.


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I've always loved the idea of looting tyranids. The mekafex looks great.

Poor carni, we barely knew ye. I like it. Looks more like a looted nid then most of them we see, that are orks riding random nid with 2 wires in their head.

HA I love it. Cant wait to see it painted and I have to agree with WH. One of the best lotted nids I've seen.

@qwerty: Thanks! Keepan eye out around here- Paint is gonna come soon! (Im gettin a little impatient myself!!)

@samwellfrm: This guy has been a long time coming- his concept has been living in my head for well over 2 years now!

@WM: Yeah I know the type- I was kinda considering doing the other fex similar to that (that'd be "Fresh Loot"), with a Grot on a fishing pole in front of its head.
I still may implement that (though a bit more metal than previously planned) and I gotta do somethin special with the Hive tyrant!! (thoughts anyone?)

@schank: Thank ya Thank ya! I really have enjoyed buildin him!

No pics of the MekaFex right now (will post some tonight), but Ive got a couple more armor plates on him- mostly in the chest region. im going for sort of a Tony Stark-esque chest for him, with a glowy bit of some sort upon his chest (oooh... Object source lighting anyone?)

Also present are armored thigh-pads. Legs are being beefed up presently, and will recieve cabling and more armor.

Until next time!
-RA

Looted Swarmlord with 4 orky boneswords (deff copta plades maybe?). Make it so.

Nice Ramos, that nid contraption is awesome. Can't wait to see more!

Very cool, looking forward to seeing the three of them

whalemusic360 wrote:Looted Swarmlord with 4 orky boneswords (deff copta plades maybe?). Make it so.

A good plan, a good plan

IceAngel wrote:Nice Ramos, that nid contraption is awesome. Can't wait to see more!

Thanks Ice! More are definitely on the way!

monkeytroll wrote:Very cool, looking forward to seeing the three of them

Thanks monkeytroll!

Ive a good plan for the remaining Fex and Da Swarmlord. Combining several ideas from here and my FLGS. Should prove to be a pretty awesome trio!


But as to my absence first and foremost:
Its been hectic around here to say the least >< Moved to ANOTHER new apartment, and will be doing so again in late august. So most of my stuff is staying locked away in boxes.
40k however, managed to unpack itself, and in my disappearance from Dakka, Ive actually made a fair bit of progress!


THE MEKAFEX HAS PAINT NOW!!!




Im not 100% on the paint on the talons- in retrospect i should have painted it THEN put the plates of armor on it!


Legs both got a little beefier:


Da Meka-Arm:


A close up of the exhausts, details of the patina ive been playing around with on brass parts.


And his base:

From here, there is little more to go. Mostly it is the teeth and spines that need painted, and the purple armor plates need finished as well. Then its a bunch of weathering, especially the bare metal surfaces (legs, arm, etc.)
I want some of those weathering powders like MIG pigments so I can rust up the legs and give them more depth.
Then I want to go all over the model and sponge-weather the metal following a tutorial ive found online.

So yeah! Thats what Ive been up to xD
Thoughts? Comments?

Its a good thing you dont work fast, it would make me feel really inadequate at both modeling and painting to often. The only thing im not 100% on is the patina. Seems like to much of it atm. Maybe once you get the rest weathered up, it'll be good.

Looking great!

Definitely looking good with a lick of paint on