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Everything looks great so far. Love that Zzap gun, and really everything about that krawla


And it certainly looks like you've got your work cut out for you lol.

Thanks Awesomesauce, and your right besides all the normal obstacles of scratch building and my 'assistant' I get builders block alot.

However, Rejoice, For I realized I had an obvious piece of work that will take me a while and make a huge difference on my mega battle fortress (formerly designated Krawla ).



As you can see I finally put the other land raider side onto the mega battle fortress, It still needs alot of work to even get it to the same state as the other one.
I will also be ordering some magnets this week so brace yourselves for some impressive updates around the holidays.

*EDIT*
I did a bit more work on the mega battle fortress,

I don't know what It will count as but it looks cool and that's important.

*EDIT 2* YES the moldlines look terrible, Not my fault the ion cannon came in a box of bits I bought and was already glued with plastic cement, I will try to putty it up a bit and make it look better.

SweeT!

use the craft knife at a 45% angle and scrape it off? looking sweet though keep it up

Yep, like that

bigfish, I doubt that scraping will be a successful endeavor in this case. You see, When the ion cannon was assembled, the two sides were offset by maybe .5-.75 mm so its actually not so much a mold line as it is a drop-off.
Also I thought I would elaborate on the pieces I used, why I used them and how the gun functions fluff-wise.

The two pointy bits are from eldar tanks, at first I used them because they look like suitable sparky gubbins. But I just now decided that they are ork psychic discharge condensers. *AAAAAAAGH! Too many big words*

Thats fine I'm more than happy to elaborate. As all ork players know, Orks Generate psychic fields, a 'static psych' if you will, This field becomes stronger and stronger as more and more orks gather together. This is what empowers wierdboyz and is normally only useful to them. However A conclave of Ork mekboyz working under the direct supervision of Kogzzappa (My Big mek-boss incarnation) have developed a way to harness all the normally wasted from WAAAGH! Kogzzappa (Mekboyz are not welcome in the waaagh and are usually 'exekuted' .) The energy is pulled from the surrounding atmosphere with psy-active material (Though their are other possibly less efficient and more noisy /flashy ways of doing this that are currently in production). Once The Collectors batteries are full, the condensed and now tangible energy is 'injected' (That's where the IG dozer blade hydraulics come in) into the looted Ion cannons inner gubbinz that fuses the psychic energy with real-space 'elektric powah' creating an incredibly volatile energy reaction that is then propelled from the cannon in the form of a otherworldly colored beam

or, in ork terms
"pwitee cul'rs ge' owt ov da gun an' kils yu"

LOL kingsley!
and sucky , although i think it defo needs something doing with it

and sucky , although i think it defo needs something doing with it

What does that mean?

sucky = bad, like sucks kinda
and i think it needs something, the line is too noticable to ignore

Oh your talking about the mold line/drop off, Yeah that's gunna get fixed ASAP

Cue high pitched squeaking of 'the sparkle gun, the sparkle gun' from the grots, accompanied by much comedy eye-gouging, nose-tweaking and ear-biting.

Not a sparkle gun . More like snapshot of the roiling tides of the warp were condensed into a beam of light with an emphasis on shades of green.

Also I made some progress.

Good old Squadron Green Putty .

And I made some progress on the mega battle fortress:


I'm not sure if I want to have it to have a kill kannon like the other side or if I should build and mount the Gatling zzappa I have been thinking about. Or should I go crazy on the magnets and do both and possibly other things.?
Your input will be appreciated.

O.O

looking sweeeeet now that you have sorted out that gun. liking the fluff as well.

You should go crazy with magnets and do both and possibly other things.

"More like snapshot of the roiling tides of the warp were condensed into a beam of light with an emphasis on shades of green."

Yep, sparkle gun to the grots

oh crazy magnets for the win btw

Shame on you monkeytroll, shame There will be NO glittery sparkle, twilight nonsense in my army!

Now back on topic, I will wait until my magnets come in the mail, then mess around with some crazy configurations. They should be here on the 23rd but I might have to wait until after Christmas.
Also I added something to the Junka.

Oooooh, Good Lootin' there!

>.< why is everything soooo good!
seriously though, that junka is looking sweet, loving the missile launcher thing.

bigfish wrote:>.< why is everything soooo good!
seriously though, that junka is looking sweet, loving the missile launcher thing.

For serious. May be stealing that idea too.

Hey, if your mind connects sparkle gun to dodgy teen vampires that's not my fault To the grots anything that shoots pwetty colours is gonna be a sparkle gun

And you've added something to the junka. Hmm, is it a glyph plate?

Nah, launcher looks good, what did you use for the basic turret shape? Part of a gun mount from the terrain sets (CoD, Bastion)?

It's The mini turret from the battlewagon kit. The face glyph on the front is (possibly?) from the deffdread kit

That'll explain why it looks so orky then

I've not got one so didn't recognise it

Monkeytroll, I recognized it even though I don't have the kit

Guess what. I received my magnets in the mail yesterday! So I will soon be doing some work on the weapons platform. ATM I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to make that gatling zzappa, But I didn't post on here just to say that, nope.
I made some progress on the zzap kannon turret.





just to answer this question before it arises, no the belt does not actually move the turret, and no it never will.

That would look cool

Okay just to show that I have not been a complete slouch (Though I have been quite lazy) I will show you what i've been doing.





AND NOW WITH COLORS!
Painting in progress





I know that the chevrons suck, but (1) as any painter is aware yellow is hard to work with (2) I suck at free hand even something as rudimentary as this. (2)It at least gets the point across that that bulbous cylinder is dangerous.

Lookin' good all around

And don't worry about the yellow, it gets better every time you try, plus do you really think orks would take the time to paint them perfectly straight?

Ooh colour! This must be what it feels like to read my blog

If you want straight edges on chevrons and the like, try applying thin strips of masking tape over the yellow, paint the black, then remove the tape - waiting for the paint to dry a bit first, but not letting it dry completely and sealing the tape down. Or for freehand try marking them first in pencil/micro-pen, a lot of peeps find it easier to get a straight line that way.