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You make me blush, thanks.

That's the way we want our Meks mate, well done!

Very nice work on the mek... the lenses are a beautiful contrast to the muted yellow and green & really make the figure pop.

Cyborks are looking good

Very nice paint job so far on the Big Mek, he's going to be sweet when finished.


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Stupid fething wi-fi dongles....

Thanks guys, I was a little worried the blue was to light and was thinking of doing it again, but as everyone seams to like it I will leave as is.

No photos tonight I didn't feel like tackling some of the finer details so started on the KFF instead. Just two coats of Boltgun and I don't feel thats photo worthy. So many nooks and crannies on it, its going to be fun to paint but a little tricky I think, I wish I had spent more time cleaning it up though.

These Orks are looking great. I really like your technique.

I recently joined DakkaDakka and happy to have found this thread.

Good stuff!

Glad you like it Gutsplitta stick around.

Dakka is a great place and if your looking for some more inspiration check out some of the links in the signatures of some of my other commenters (is that even a word, spell check is flagging it) commentors commenties followers

They have some great work and are well worth looking at.

I thought things were going to smoothly.

Over the weekend I finished of some details on the base and the metal on the KFF. I couldn't figure out exactly where I wanted colour on the KFF so decided to construct the Mek to get a feel of what the model would look like as a whole, that is where things started to go wrong.

First the gun arm. I used a pin, not so much because of the weight but to get and keep position, this pin was tight but I didn't think anything of it. I put some super glue on the joint and pin and went to insert it. All of a sudden it didn't fit flat against the body any more. I guess the glue added a little to much thickness to the pin. It is just a guess though, to be honest I don't know, this is the first time I have pinned anything and it did fit before the glue so it must be the glue right?

So now I'm pissed.

With some not carefully enough applied strength I manage to pull the arm back of. Breaking one of the spiky bits on the should pads in the process.

Now I'm getting stressed. I don't deal with stress to well, I tend to start reacting in a rushed manner without thinking. I should have stopped and taken a break, but I didn't.

So I repaired the shoulder pad and then went to work on making my pin hole bigger, to big. Try and glue it again and cant get the position, pull it back off. By now everything has a thick layer of super glue on it and I have to start scraping it off. I've also noticed that I am starting to ware paint off and the anger in raising. But result the arm fits and is looking good but...

I CAN'T PUT THE MODEL DOWN IT IS STUCK TO ME!

I must have got some glue on my fingers and now as I prise my finger free the paint is pulling away from the model and staying on my fingers.

I manage to stop myself from tossing the thing across the room, and finished attaching the KFF determined to get this bloody model together.

Unfortunately though by now the wife is getting an earful, some how by this point it had all become her fault, an accusation I later had to apologise for.

I wanted to try and fix the paint but by now I realised I was doing more harm then good, both to my model and my marriage, so I went to the pub.

Anyway photos, damage first.



And then more WIP shots.






So I'm going to try and touch up the damage, maybe just cover it with an armour plate. I might have to repaint the whole arm if I can't get the touch up to match, something that will be more difficult now I have finished construction.

What have I learnt?

When things are going wrong take a step back don't keep pushing on, you will make it worse.
£1 shop super glue comes in crap tubes, pay more for a better pot in the future.
Don't blame the wife

Anyway I think I'm going to take a break from the Mek, come back to it in a week or two.

Thanks for reading my rant.

That would have stressed me as well, but You can work It out I think.
Your Mek is already half cybork, why don't You try to fit a little cable on the harm to cover up the damage, like out and in the skin in the places where the paint came off?
It might work...
Anyway, is coming out awesome!

The good news is that even at close range it's not very noticeable... I think you can fix that up properly with a little effort.

I'd say repaint the area as "charred" skin and muscle from an errant arc of electricity...

Hey Bangbang - I've felt your pain in pinning in the past. Biggest issue for final fit that I've had is getting the two holes to line up. If they don't line up, the fit will be off right from the start.

Not sure how you handled that, but here's how I've learned to deal with it. Before drilling any holes I put a small dot of red paint one side of the joint. Then, while it's still wet just touch the other side where it should fit. This give me two sides with small red dots that match. Drill the holes on the red dot and the two parts should mate well. It's not a perfect solution, but it makes it much more likely to get a good fit.

That Mek looks great though. I really like the skin tones you've got on there and the weathering on the yellow is great.

I'm with Gits - it's not immediately obvious the paint's been damaged in the full pic - and you know how much these pics emphasise errors

Shouldn't take too much to fix it (the wife probably needs a bit more attention though ), but I do like Selvaggio's suggestion

So my plan to get a 1000p army painted in time for sixth went to gak when my wife became ill. She's on the mend now and I can spend a little more time on myself, I might even update this blog semi regularly . I've set myself a new deadline of the end of August, that gives me what six weeks, yeah "plan on success but expect to fail" is my current personal motto.

No progress made on previous projects at all but I will finish that Mek soon promise, thanks for the encouragement, with hindsight the damage isn't to bad and should be easy to fix.

Spent the last two months mainly conducting myself in the practice of retail therapy. No real aim just buying bits from 3rd parties and loads of plasticard but I did get a airbrush that I haven't had the chance to bust out yet. I have plans to practice using it on some terrain and then to paint a bike/truck army. Oh and I got sixth rule book of course.

Anyway you didn't click the link to hear me ramble on, so the Dakkajet. I did buy a real one but although I don't think the model is bad I just didn't get excited about it. So decided to build my own. Still some plating to go and hundreds (if not thousands) of damn rivets before I even think of paint.





So what do you think? Its obviously based on the Fokker Dr.I triplane as made famous by Manfred von Richthofen (the red baron). What should I do about the six super shootas? I did think of putting one on each wing but I think that may look naff. My current plan is one of two big ass mini guns in the middle. Not strictly WYSIWYG but it will have 6/12 barrels so that should be ok right? Right!?

welcome back!
The Red (go fasta) Baron looks awesome, nice job man. I would put as You said two minigun together just above the rotors, It would look more balanced.

Loving your red baron so far! Now I know what to build next lol

I say yeah, go with miniguns. I decided ti put some on my warboss-trike, they are damn easy to build and look cool!

Very much looking forward to seeing progress on this!

Thanks guys. Just ordered some of the bits I need for the guns, should be here for the weekend.

OK so I started on the guns, this is where I'm up to.

Dude these look really good, I think you'd do many dakkanauts a favour by posting a tut! (Though I can kinda imagine how you did them... )

Awesome flier! Care to do a tutorial?

Thanks guys. Going to have to do the guns again but smaller, I've realised they are going to be far to big, yeah even for orks

They are quite easy as I'm sure you figured out MrMerlin but I will try to get a few more WIP shots and do a mini tutorial.

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Super Mega shoota (got to call it something ) v2 is still to big. I have some scale shots comparing v1 and v2 for your viewing pleasure but I am going to try again. Got some ideas on how to add some interest to the erm body? of the gun, make it less of a box. I did take some photos to do a mini tut as I went, will see if I can put them together. Here's a scale shoot of the shootas



And I found the gun originally used on the Fokker was a Vickers MG and although this isn't exactly a faithful reproduction by any measure I figure its worth keeping a pic for reference.

Oh and some exhausts that I started on

Really liking the look of the new guns and the exhausts, you just need to put more rivets on them. Especially ork things need plenty of rivets!
As for the miniguns, bigger is better!
Have a look at this WIP of my trike for ideas.... Maybe do a half-round body to make it look less blocky?


Google and wikipedia helped me a lot btw.... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M61_Vulcan)

Thanks for the pics and links MM, should be helpful. Don't worry about the rivets I haven't forgotten, should be starting on them soon.

Been a slow month again

Still a bit stuck on the gun problem, mainly because I have put very little effort into solving it. I have continued to work on the plane though, adding details and rivets, lots and lots of rivets.

In other news I bought a airbrush and compressor about four months ago, but I'm one of these guys that puts of doing new things, especially when there is a risk of trashing expensive models. So I decided to build some small scenery pieces to test the airbrush out on. I've built a small scrap shack/shed to store gubbins in, and a spiked plant thing inspired by the old GW cocktail stick cactus.






So watch this space you never know this might be the month I pull my finger out!

That shack looks awesomely orky, very good work man! Now give it an equally orky paintjob! lol

Nice to know you're still there

That's a great little shack, and shout out to the old-skool crew with the spiky cactus

Great blog, love your stuff. Have a couple questions for you.

Where did you get nuts and bolts this TINY?

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OK so I started on the guns, this is where I'm up to.

Also, what colors are you using to do your brass on the Big Mek arm and KFF? I like the effect, and I'm not quite getting there with the new GW metallics.

I'm loving your work. That Big Mek is awesome and those terrain pieces = aces! Nevermind all those scratch build guns!!!

And the warp spits him out.

Maybe I've been a little neglectful, but time being the most valuable of resources has been spent elsewhere. Fear not though, for I once again I have time to waste direct towards valuable hobby. projects.

My Dakkajet has been safely stored on top of my fridge, where it successfully managed to collect a layer of bacon grease. Months of procrastinating went by, should I clean it? Should I finish it? I really should clean it but in the end though I figured screw it, carry on with the model and clean it afterwards.

And that is where I'm at. Model finished, time to give it a bath in hot soapy water and store it somewhere better until such a glorious time comes that I feel comfortable to throw some paint on it.

The gun has been reworked, hopefully if I get to field it it will pass the rule of cool and people wont mind counting it as three twin linked Supershootas. The pilot can't see a damn but... Waaaagh!!!

Oh and rivets so many rivets, over 800 I think.

So pics, I grabbed these outside today, it looked like rain so they were taken in a hurry and look a bit shaky but I'm sure you get the idea







I've also been working on some Kans and a Dread. I should be able to grab some photos of these next week but I want to dig out my tripod first.

A quick question though. I have some off-road resin wheels, imagine you are looking at them from above, driving up the page, should the tread go like this.

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or like this?

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I feel less manly for having to ask but you know what they say, There are no stupid questions, just idiots.