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monkeytroll wrote:GorkaMekka commands it!

QFT

OK, I'll listen to GorkaMekka

Finished on the DE jetbike deffkopta, just need to add vents to the rear of the rokkit launcers (magnetised)


Just realised I should add a plate under the bikes too, probably with a magnet for big-bomm.

And concept for another one, will be getting a KMB in place of the shoota that's there and a few cables and some gubbins beneath the pilot.



Thanks for looking.

Your DE Jetbike is very orky - and oddly StarWars speeder esque.

Impressive job keep it up.

Thank you.

OK, so the vyperbyker has a couple of options at the moment - helped out by the stormboyz set I had to pick up after looking at the rokkit paks in a few plogs - mainly Arakasi's stormnobz




So my first thought was with added intake under the body. I like it a lot, but I like the fairly clean lines it has, which is not particulary orky.



Second thought was to strap some rokkits to it - breaks up the eldar lines a bit better.



And so the obvious third thought was 'why not both'

Wanted a bit of feedback on the 3 options as I was see-sawing between them all, but think that I'm heading for the third option now I've looked at them a bit more. Guess I'll see what I think tomorrow

Thanks for looking.

some of the best cyborks I have ever seen! Keep up the good work.

Go with the rokkit packs on the wings, undercarriage or not- very orkcellent.

Just do it.

What he said

monkeytroll wrote:OK, so the vyperbyker has a couple of options at the moment - helped out by the stormboyz set I had to pick up after looking at the rokkit paks in a few plogs - mainly Arakasi's stormnobz

My corrupting influence is spreading Actually, I was mightily impressed by all of the rokkitty goodness in the Stormboyz box - would have been good to know *before* my Deffkoptas...

Back on topic - it's looking chunky with all that weaponry, but then, that's Orks - so Third option for me! What does this count as again?

I would suggest cutting off the wings unequally, say at the first scribe line on one, then the second line on the other side...then make bolted-on wing extenders and fins. Should take care of the orky.

Looking great! My personal favourite is number two since it has a great sense of speed to it. Paint it red and you're all set . The rokkit pack underneath makes the model very tall, which detracts a bit from the sleek look IMO -not to mention it makes me wonder how he lands

An ork flier... landing? Now There's an interesting concept. Course, he doesn't exactly have landing wheels in the first place, so it's more of a fall and fly thing than go up, fly, come back down, fly another day...

Commander Cain - Thank you. The work will continue for as long as the community keeps my ADD at bay

Lord Kaesar II - preference noted, thank you.

Hadouken - as above

Arakasi - Your particular brand of corruption most welcome (not by my bank manager tho), just don't let papa nurgle hear that Yeah, some nice bits in there, it was the 2 intakes you'd used that really caught my eye, for use on bikes, koptas, whatevers.... and having opened the box I then had to go and order a few spare bits
Oh, and it's a 'kopta with KMB Although I've got a few more ideas using the support piece with ork attached.

Briancj - Nice idea, if you zoom in on the pics you may be able to make out a bolted on support on one of the wings, and although it doesn't show in the pic that piece has been trimmed 'out of shape'. I decided that would be just as effective as replacing it May add some more fins now you mention it though.

Commissar - You had to mention the p-word didn't you? the rokkit pad underneath is only a couple of mm deeper than the actual wings, but that was my concern over option 3, although I still think it looks superb as option 1 - just not orky enough. Which comes into play with option 2 I find. From the side it just looks a little too sleek and still has an eldar feel to it. As for landing, he uses the gravimetriks to nestle ungently onto a special perch where he is untenderly cared for by attendant painboyz and meks It's not like after he's landed he can go walkabout anyway Although at least one of those ideas mentioned to Arakasi involved 'plug-and-play' cyborks, as do a few other concepts floating about.

Lord Kaesar - Well, I could refer you to CK's answer, or I could invent a new one...like : As for landing, any surving deffkoptas that actually manage to make it back to base end up entangled in a giant net that the servo-grots erect, and then the meks get several hours of fun un-entangling the assorted flyboyz - usually with buzzsaws, burnas and very large hammers - more bitz for the next generation

Well the on-wing rokkit paks are definitely going on, I think the under-body rokkit will too, but I won't glue that down till I've finalised a design for the KMB, just so I can see how it looks.

Thanks for the input guys

My Deffkoptas don't land. They either:
1. Explode
2. Crash - see 1.
3. Run out of fuel - see 2.

I was about to model a Deffkopta landing pad on a bunker I'm building, until I remembered that my deffkopta orks were all suicidal nutjobs.

Well, that's OK, you could make it a deffkopta launching pad then

monkeytroll - I think you have gone beyond Odd Boy now and you are truly a Mad Boy.

They are unique, crazy and look dammed zippy.

Peter

Wow, really don't know how I've missed this thread! These are all ace - really original, really quirky, and above all, every single model is really interesting to look at!

You must have one hell of an extensive bits box to be pulling this off, and I really can't think of a better use for it. Keep it up!


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p.s. my favourite so far is the spidery-legged ork trying to work out how to put his arm back on

monkeytroll wrote:
Commissar - You had to mention the p-word didn't you? the rokkit pad underneath is only a couple of mm deeper than the actual wings, but that was my concern over option 3, although I still think it looks superb as option 1 - just not orky enough. Which comes into play with option 2 I find. From the side it just looks a little too sleek and still has an eldar feel to it. As for landing, he uses the gravimetriks to nestle ungently onto a special perch where he is untenderly cared for by attendant painboyz and meks It's not like after he's landed he can go walkabout anyway Although at least one of those ideas mentioned to Arakasi involved 'plug-and-play' cyborks, as do a few other concepts floating about.

People do it to me all the time as well - figured I'd return the favour . On a more serious note: I thought it stuck out a lot more, a few mm makes it less of a problem IMO- though I'd still love to see him land - I think the huge magnetic cranes they use in carwreck yards would offer opportunities here . In the end, it comes down to personal preference I guess : I like the sleek, speedy look, you prefer a bulkier, more 'flying on powah rather den wingz' approach. Your models, so your choice!

An rememba - CommissarKhaine favours da weedy grotz ova da propa boyz. Just sayin

These are some of the craziest orks I've ever seen!

Can't wait to see the paint jobs for some more of these models, and the subsequent group shot; it will be an impressive army to behold.

So much win in this thread! I'm gonna have to steal some of your ideas for my scavvies (sorry).
Stand outs for me are the tracked painboy and the dome-headed boy!

PDH - Ohh a promotion, yippee!!
Thank you, unique and crazy is a good summation of the look I was going for.

Scarper - Thanks man, good to hear they're all interesting.
I think it's more of a bits room than a bits box these days Then again I did get my first mini almost 30 years ago now (a grenadier models dwarf archer if I recall correctly - who got red armour and clothes, blobs of flesh on hands and face and brown on the bow and arrows ) and don't have a very extensive finished model collection - damn my sloth-like pace.
And I agree, Gutslumpa is my favourite so far

CK - Grrr, now I've got ideas for a full-on orky airport with launch platforms and landing cradles - 'sigh'. That'll have to wait till that long-lost rich uncle dies and leaves me a fortune so I can get somewhere with enough space. To be honest, I'm still undecided about the underneath intake, and think it may stay that way till it's finished, I forsee painting it up still unattached and deciding then Although checking over this post I've just started thinking about a similar one with rokkit-launchers under the wings - maybe I can have both versions

Arakasi - True dat! Although they're not so weedy once they get in those exo-suits and armour.

Bishop - Thanks for another 'crazy' vote, keep 'em coming folks Umm, afraid you may have to wait for more of that paint stuff - certainly winning no prizes for speed-painting here And you'll definitely be waiting for the group shot, lol.

Jackanory - Thanking you. No need to apologise, that's part of the fun of Dakka, and I'm sure I'll be 'borrowing' some of your scavvy stuff at some point

And now to counter all the wordy stuff a handful of pics


First up the almost done 'kopta, minus a few cables and potentially the rokkit underneath. And yes, somehow some paint did manage to sneak on to the pilot.


A lone servo-grot, bit sloppy with the mono-wheel (other side) and just noticed I haven't filled the gun as I intended.


Couple of burna-boyz, need a bit of tidying and they're currently without cables. Track unit is another excellent piece from maximini (and I've just ordered their mono-wheels), not sure if he'll still have the helmet when painted (eventually), was thinking of a burnt helmet, which was originally a burnt and damaged auspex he'd picked up wondering if the meks would like it. May yet change again.. Other guy based on a stormboy the rokkit-pad rest makes an excellent fuel tank rest
They've also been joined by the painboy/mek with the sentinel foot and the tau-pad head, he's been demoted and given a burna made from half a chaos combi-flamer - no pics as he's just been primed black, and pics won't show any detail.

And lastly my current concept for a trukk

Obviously very rough at this stage. Was originally thinking of having one track from a leman and one from a chimera for a really asymetric look - these meks just don't care- but just couldn't get it to work. I'm thinking I may make one side with double-width tracks to keep with that idea.

Thanks for looking

Cool stuff, though you keep changing that weapon on your jetboy, I've noticed lol. Cool trukk looking in the progress, and, as always, loving your "no ork left unmech" standard. ANyway, keep at it and get to the choppa.

Snivelin' mekboy; hur hur hur.

Love the Koptaboy; thought he chainsword looks a bit thin on front. Is it just a decorative stabby bit, or will it be used for a buzzsaw? If it's the latter, I'd go for a heavier chainsword - or two . And if you're gonna keep changing bits, a modifying platform might make a nice objective counter!

The monogretchin looks cool, and those maxmini bits really spruce up the burnaboyz as well.

An rememba - CommissarKhaine favours da weedy grotz ova da propa boyz. Just sayin

Arakasi - True dat! Although they're not so weedy once they get in those exo-suits and armour.

Da weedy grotz took out an ork warboss and his retinue in the tournament I recently played - in close combat.

Looking as great as ever! Heh, and to think, I was gonna ask for a few patches on the eldar kopta, but you read my mind
I don't know why, but something that stands out to me are his arm stumps. They feel too... Clean Think you could add a few bolts on them? Like the ones you get on the back of the standard smooth faced ork choppa?
Love the burna boyz so far, all you need now is another 28 of them
Oh, and btw, thanks for explaining your rusting technique! Hopefully gonna try it on some nurgle iron warriors

each time i come back here your work is getting weirder and better! keep it up!

Lord Kaesar - Thank you. That is the final KMB in place now, though it might get a bit more work yet It replaced the plasma based one because that just looked like an extended plasma gun, and that replaced the shoota because that was just a place-holder in my initial concept.....honest, it's not just because of my ADD. Which does mean that the trukk will change a fair bit before finishing Only thing that's set at the moment is that cab and the Leman tracks.

CommissarKhaine - I'm fairly sure there will be various mek related objectives in the future Want more units done before that though, and really should move on the objectives I'm putting up for the Objective Trade Tony-nids started up. Hmm, A modifying platform you say...
Well it was intended to be a bit buzzsaw-ish I did try a few others, but the only one that I thought worked well was the sentinel chainsaw mounted so the blades were on the sides rather than top and bottom ( that was badly explained) and I really wanted the blade to be on the underside for this one. It'll get a few spikes - probably from the DE sprues - on the top. Any way I thought it was more in keeping with your 'sleek and speedy' look Although I don't think I tried 2 of the imp chainswords side by side - I had 2 stuck back to back, but not 2 seperate ones, hmm maybee...
Yeah, I've been really impressed with the maximini bits I've got, excellent for further chopping too

Da weedy grotz took out an ork warboss and his retinue in the tournament I recently played - in close combat.

Hey, I only agreed they're weedy outside their armour, bet they were wearing it in the tourney

The Dark Lord Mr Fluffy - Shh, don't let the Inquisition hear I'm a psyker..err, excuse me a minutee...what? ....umm, No....No, no one hear by that name, no,... no, think there used to be guy over there like that though...yes, just around the corner..no problem..bye now
right, where were we..ahh yes, arm stumps.
You're right there, hadn't spotted that, thanks, I'll have to change those.
Another 28 you say...and then I expect you'd like some paint on them too hey? Think that might be a while, tbh the main reason for the burnas is to get more meks in Only reason I'm thinking of lootas too
Glad you liked the explanation, as I said I keep trying different things - been thinking about a few nurgle marines just to try them across an entire figure, or possibly just some unaligned guys, or probably some that could be either. Look forward to seeing how yours turn out.


Sageheart - Thanks, I'll try - there's definitely some weird in the next batch, that is if they actually become the next batch

And a quick pic, just so it's not all words and to show there has been a bit of the p-stuff going on. I started the DE deffkopta and the red areas just increased until it was obvious what was needed

A quick additional brace/wing set and he became 'Da Red Kount' - he never really got the hang of all those different humie boss-names. Was originally thinking the lower set would be that way up, rivets showing on the bottom, and angling the 'kopta on it's base so it's more visible, but now I'm thinking it might be better with the rivet detail on the upper face, and yes I probably should have thought it through first and added rivets to one side.

edited for complete qoute fail twice!

Excellent - and I see paint too! May I have a side shot?

CommissarKhaine - I'm fairly sure there will be various mek related objectives in the future Want more units done before that though, and really should move on the objectives I'm putting up for the Objective Trade Tony-nids started up. Hmm, A modifying platform you say...

I know the feeling; I still need to army-specific objectives for my grots as well- they've been 'borrowing ' my IG objectives till now. As for a mek-objective: a box of meccanoes or legos would be fun

Well it was intended to be a bit buzzsaw-ish I did try a few others, but the only one that I thought worked well was the sentinel chainsaw mounted so the blades were on the sides rather than top and bottom ( that was badly explained) and I really wanted the blade to be on the underside for this one. It'll get a few spikes - probably from the DE sprues - on the top. Any way I thought it was more in keeping with your 'sleek and speedy' look Although I don't think I tried 2 of the imp chainswords side by side - I had 2 stuck back to back, but not 2 seperate ones, hmm maybee...

I get what you mean, I just feel it looks a bit thin; I used two kan saws side by side on my kopta, and I felt it added some oomph to it; We'll see how it works out I guess

Hey, I only agreed they're weedy outside their armour, bet they were wearing it in the tourney

Only 16 grots were wearing armour *whistles innocently*

Love da Red Kount, and +1 for the side shot vote!

I keep thinking... I need to do some objective markers.... and I have these spare Trukk engines... imagines grotz swinging on a Trukk engine in a harness...