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It's been a little while since I updated so here we go:

The looted jetbike objective and grot are both complete and go into the 'needs to be primed but have no primer' pile, will get some pictures later.

However, modelling ADD set in again and I decided late one night about a week ago that this old unfinished defiler:


Would look far better like this:


On second thoughts decided it'd be more useful like this:


So yes, my defiler became a deff dread. It' not 100% done, the dead space marine on the base needs some tweaking for one, but it's close enough. Tried out a much more dynamic pose since if I'm havign to rebuild large sections I might as well make it look interesting.

The remaining parts will become parts for another objective and (when I can figure out how I want to do the tracks) a Skorcha buggy

Just give the buggy legs. Nothing says that non-walkers can't still have legs. Bonus if it looks like it's sprinting, to represent the 'fast' quality.

Anvildude wrote:Just give the buggy legs. Nothing says that non-walkers can't still have legs. Bonus if it looks like it's sprinting, to represent the 'fast' quality.

Heh, sadly the legs are already earmarked for something else, I'm afraid.

Well then, could do what I've done.

Got a Brass Scorpion (Well, scraps of one) from a buddy who didn't want it, so I tore into it for bits. Took the lower torso bit (The 'horse' part of the centaur) and used it as the back end of a buggy. Put a sprue frame underneath, pointing out the front, and wedging down from the top to the front. Stuck on some bottlecap wheels, and voila! (hey, I spelled it right the first time!) Deffy body's got the underframe for a vehicle, and put the right gubbins on it'll look like a ridiculously oversized engine.

Yeah that's the sort of idea I was going to go with although as it's going to be a skorcha it should technically have tracks and I know I'd forget that fact without having them there as a visual reminder.

However I've got another rokkit buggy to build before that anyway so I've got a little while to figure out how I want to do it.

Dread's pretty cool, nice sense of movement. You should keep the bar-code showing when you paint him up

You going for tracks either side or a wide single track down the middle ? Or 4 smaller ones, or 3? or...?

@Monkeytroll: I think it'll be tracks ether side, there's a cheap model tank I have my eyes on that may provide something suitable, although I kinda like the idea of having just one giant central one

Anyway, a little art update in preparation for the Grey Knights codex:



Once again, also up on DeviantArt for those that frequent the site.

After a quick purchase of a cheap little tank kit I found I was able to start work on my skorcha buggy somewhat sonner than I thought:



Slowly working on bulking it up, it's slightly wider and a lot taller than the official model but it's a bit shorter (a lot shorter if you count the trailer). Was wondering whether to build a trailer for it or not, I assume it counts as a decorative element and isn't counted for TLOS on the official mode so it's all the same really but I'd be grateful of any opinions.

AWSOME!

The defiler dread and scorcha buggy are looking good there.

Lol! I love your art work. The style is great and its funny as hell. You could do a blog with just that and no modeling.

your warbuggy is looking fantastic!my advice? add some patterns to whatever warband you have[dont have to].lovin that big mek of yours!
ps:whats plasticard?

@ bigmek35 & Wazzdig Dagga: thanks a lot

@ schank23: Why, thank you, I would but my desire to draw things is far too erratic and 6 months between updates would likely annoy

@ da big mek skarfang: Already done! Well a glyph at any rate. And plasticard is a type of plastic that is used a lot in modelling, it usually comes in sheets like paper but is available in all-sorts of shapes.

Anyway, just to prove I do finish what I start (albeit somewhat later), here's the grot I set about repairing, he got a new foot built and trimmed off the remnants of his head spike as I didn't want him to stand out too much amongst the newer, shorter models:



Aaaand the skorcha is more of less done:



A bit of research shows that it's actually not as far off the size of the original model as I thought (barring the trailer) so I figured I'd leave it as is, it's probably not going to be used that much so I can always substitute something else if my opponent has an issue. Oh, and it may not have been apparent from the pictures but its turret can rotate and is removable for transport and weapon destroyed results:



All right, I think I seriously need to get on top of my painting now...

Nice job on the skorcha

How about a wrecked turret for weeapon destroyed results

What is this 'painting' you speak of? Does it interfere with modelling?

monkeytroll wrote:Nice job on the skorcha

How about a wrecked turret for weeapon destroyed results

What is this 'painting' you speak of? Does it interfere with modelling?

That's a great idea and if I had the spare parts to make it (Hell, I'm even low on plasticard right now) I'd absolutely do it, possibly with a dazed looking grot amongst the wreckage.

'Painting' is a mythical creature that occasionally visits, I do not yet know if it's a blessing or a curse but it sure does cut into modelling time.

Holy jesus! I actually painted something!

But let's not get ahead of ourselves, a couple more Nobz converted from the AOBR ones, certainly look a lot less stock.



Onto the painting, I was bitten by the urge to paint something and got around to painting my other Rokkit Buggy, the wonders of digital cameras have unveiled a few mistakes (although they aren't as apparent in the flesh but regardless will be fixed at a later date) but aside from those I'm pretty happy with it, particularly the driver who I spent far more time on than I usually do. Ignore the blatant advertising in the top left-hand corner, I just posted it there as well.

Nice job on the nobs.

The buggy is cool, nice distressed red, looks great.

Took me a little while but...

Painted the old Grot:


Built the final rokkit buggy for my squad:


And finished off the Battlewagon that's been half-painted for too long:


Back to work...

Like the buggy
and the BW is painted very nice^^

cheers// Tobi

For various reasons I haven't got around to taking any photos of what I've been up to recently, however I have just rectified that. You would have also seen some shots and maybe a mini batrep of a game I had with a friend at Warhammer World last week, but I forgot to put the SD card in the camera when we went, I'm kind of an idiot like that

But anyway, painting-wise I've made a start on the 2 buggies and deffdread:





Close-up of the dead Blood Angel on the base (It's been many a year since I painted a full marine):



On the building front I realised I was actually getting pretty close to my original goal of having a 2,000 point force (granted I can already do that but it wouldn't be a very coherent list) so I've been looking for deals on eBay for the final couple of models I need. I still need a battlewagon and some more boyz but I was able to pick up another old trukk for a few quid:



It wasn't in a bad state but the paint was a little thick here and there and some parts weren't put together particularly well so I stripped what paint I could off of it, extended the flatbed slightly (as I have with my other 2 OOP Trukks) and tried to make it fit in a little better with the modern Orks. Still not 100%



Finally, I begun work on another KFF Mek, what can I say? I love these guys. For a change (and also to help explain why an army of Goffs is using vehicles all painted red) I'll be painting this guy as an Evil Sunz clan member. Early days on him but you get the idea.



-wib

Love those old trukks! Seems like there's no end to the converting fun with them.

Wazzdig Dagga wrote:Love those old trukks! Seems like there's no end to the converting fun with them.

Absolutely, I do like the new models but my wallet won't stretch far enough for 3 of those so it's quite fun trying to make those older models fit in with the new stuff.

Anyways, small update, painted my last rokkit buggy:



And got hold of some more AOBR boyz and armed with the contents of my bitzbox and some greenstuff, set about making them look... less AOBR.



Quit happy with the result, they certainly look a little less odd than the standard poses they come in.

It's a real pain chopping those choppa arms off, ain't it?

Funny how many folks have dual slugga Boyz, really. I run mine as Shootas, I'm guessing your run yours as Slugga boyz?

It's pretty annoying yeah but worth it to make them look a lot more natural, plus a whole lot cheaper than the Boyz box.

I guess people just think duel-wielding is pretty badass Yeah, I'll be running them as slugga boyz since 2 sluggas plays exactly the same as a slugga and a choppa anyway.

really like the KFF on the mek, thou i feel like the body doesn't look meky enough, looks more like a reg. boy.

The blood angel, great stuff, I would just make the red brighter so it contrasts more with the bullet wounds.

Really cool stuff here.

Thanks a lot, I'll bare that in mind with the mek, he's still very much a WIP, partially because I still haven't got any legs for the poor fellow.

As regards the Blood Angel, I wanted to keep his colours fairly muted so he'd not become the focal point when you looked at the model, however I'll see how he looks when the base is actually painted.

Very nice. That skorcha is awesome. Might have to steal that idea from you.

schank23 wrote:Very nice. That skorcha is awesome. Might have to steal that idea from you.

Thanks dude, and feel free

In related Orky news, my Fiancée painted one of my Boyz and did a far better job than I usually do so here it is:



So at least one of my Boyz is painted well at least

Legs? LEGS?

We don' need no stinkin' legs! We's a mek, tracks is much better than legs


Nice ork from Mrs wib-to-be.

monkeytroll wrote:Legs? LEGS?

We don' need no stinkin' legs! We's a mek, tracks is much better than legs


Nice ork from Mrs wib-to-be.

Sooo tempting, oh so tempting...

And I'll pass on the compliment, thanks