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This Great Gargant is impossibly good!

Wow Man! Your bleeding eyes are paying off tho, trust me, I can see it

Skyrim is ridiculously good and addictive.... I got it for christmas too... 50 hours gameplay in just under 2 weeks isn't too much is it?

pox wrote:Not Skyrim, holy crap that's a well made game.

Go Nord or go home.

well said nowlan so thats why their has been no updates for ages pox lol

Lovely work, love the swarm of greenskins in there. Great work!

Holy gak! I somehow managed to miss your transition from workshop to gargant, and have just caught up with this thread. I think I may have to go and lay down for a while and let all the old-skool goodness flow over me.

Outstanding work

Absolutely subscribed and in awe!
The shoes are just epic

WanderingFool wrote:This Great Gargant is impossibly good!

Oh, it's possible. I just don't know if its possible to use it in a fight!

dsteingass wrote:Wow Man! Your bleeding eyes are paying off tho, trust me, I can see it

Where we're going, we wont NEED eyes to see.

mullet_steve wrote:Skyrim is ridiculously good and addictive.... I got it for christmas too... 50 hours gameplay in just under 2 weeks isn't too much is it?

I wont say how much I played, we will call it "a lot." luckily my boss is the kind of boss who took a month off to raise his ranks playing Starcraft II, so no actual damage to my life, haha. (plus our last project looks great, we just got an invite to Tribeca film festival for the finished film!)

Nowlan wrote:

pox wrote:Not Skyrim, holy crap that's a well made game.

Go Nord or go home.

Lol, I rolled me an awesome Orc thief. going berserk right before a backstab is pretty awesome, I must say.

dakkagrot187 wrote:well said nowlan so thats why their has been no updates for ages pox lol

No, see it was work. yeah, thats the ticket, work. these movies wont make themselves you know! Props to make, blood to mix, etc.

CommissarKhaine wrote:Lovely work, love the swarm of greenskins in there. Great work!

Yeah, I got around thirty of the greens stuck in this stupid thing.

monkeytroll wrote:Holy gak! I somehow managed to miss your transition from workshop to gargant, and have just caught up with this thread. I think I may have to go and lay down for a while and let all the old-skool goodness flow over me.

Outstanding work

Thanks! I really want to change my signature to "I not only teach at the old school, I have tenure." I never change it though, my current quote is one of my all time favorites. I miss cooking.

SelvaggioSaky wrote:Absolutely subscribed and in awe!
The shoes are just epic

Yes, I love me some epic shoes. I got some jacket work to match the shoes!

I got the basics for the structure points done. I still have to add glyph plates and weathering.











I got the rest of the hull getting worked on right now, just waiting to brush the salt off. After that will be to bring it up to the level of detail of the hull plates.

Next up is a huge amount of artwork to the front of the beast. I wanted something unique, but not clan specific. As part of the Glyph stage, I'll be adding this three-stage monstrosity. (in addition to the usual deluge of Ork graffiti.)







Nearing the finish line boyz, nearing the finish line.

ooo im liking this red color alot, and interested in seeing these ork glyphs!

Badassery! Drum Rolllllll....

pox wrote:Where we're going, we wont NEED eyes to see.

Okay, now you get a million extra points.

I really like those paint jobs.

it's all looking a bit Red Dwarf with that color not that I mind it's a great effect but I was kinda hoping you'd stick with the dirty dessert cammo...

You sir, are a god amongst men...


Excellent work, and the level of detailing you've delved to is superb

This is just awesome on every conceivable level O.o

pox wrote:
The CO2 tank for the airbrush rules,

LOVE the CO2 Tanks for airbrushes! Now I just have to actually paint every so often to make it worth it.

Oh, and the shoes! This bad boy is gonna be stepping out in style! Looking great!

Wow, just read through this entire thread in one go, this is the best gargant I've ever seen.

If I can make one critisizm it would be the feet, I just dont like them, they look too big and dont look functional, if stompa style feet arent working how about tracks?

pox wrote:

The raised area that the body will sit on looks like an Inquisistion Icon..... Just putting it out there

Rogue Wolves wrote:ooo im liking this red color alot, and interested in seeing these ork glyphs!

Thanks! Done, and done.

dsteingass wrote:Badassery! Drum Rolllllll....

Almost there...

The Dreadnote wrote:

pox wrote:Where we're going, we wont NEED eyes to see.

Okay, now you get a million extra points.

I'm just glad someone appreciated my effort!

IPS wrote:I really like those paint jobs.

Thanks!

mullet_steve wrote:it's all looking a bit Red Dwarf with that color not that I mind it's a great effect but I was kinda hoping you'd stick with the dirty dessert cammo...

I needed to do something different, due to the size. I was just going to make it a rusted hulk, but after staring at the rust for so long I decided it needed something more. plus all the scaffolding that goes around it will all be rust colored, so I decided a more classic look was needed.

Leigen_Zero wrote:You sir, are a god amongst men...


Excellent work, and the level of detailing you've delved to is superb

Yeah, I missed my deadline to finish it, but I'm both having fun and happy with the extra effort.

D.Smith wrote:This is just awesome on every conceivable level O.o

We will have to conceive new levels then!

RSJake wrote:

LOVE the CO2 Tanks for airbrushes! Now I just have to actually paint every so often to make it worth it.

Oh, and the shoes! This bad boy is gonna be stepping out in style! Looking great!

Whats funny is I convinced myself to get one for work, but due to the difficulties in moving the tank I'm pretty sure it's just gonna stay at home unless I'm shooting in the swamp again. I still justify it by saying I'm extending the life of my compressors! I just love the silence. pure, clean air, no filters needed.

sleazy wrote:Wow, just read through this entire thread in one go, this is the best gargant I've ever seen.

If I can make one critisizm it would be the feet, I just dont like them, they look too big and dont look functional, if stompa style feet arent working how about tracks?

They look right when he has everything on, and I found out recently that they keep stuff from getting to close to his plates and knocking them off. Plus I love me some curled genie shoes, gives him a...uh...unique look.

D.Smith wrote:

The raised area that the body will sit on looks like an Inquisistion Icon..... Just putting it out there

Whats funny about that was when I played Inquisitor, My main team was lead by an Ordo Xenos Ork hunter. as per usual, he used the weapons of the enemy, so he had a Custom-combi gun and a Ork chainsword. but then everyone started using the stupid marine guy, who just killed everyone so I switched to Fabius Bile. (Then promptly stopped playing as the game went the way of the Dinosaurs.)

Have I got an update for you!

It starts with stencils made from the drawings I posted last time. these suckers were so big, I had to break out the giant sheet of acetate.

Here's the cut templates.



I wound up changing them quite a bit as I painted.

Here's the completed Symbol of Gork. (or possibly Mork.)





I had to take the picture in subdued lighting, the paints I use are gloss and can't be photoed in direct light. The colors are really bright, once I get it matte coated I'll get much better pictures.

I really like painting this. It's the first time that I've added something so big I could paint it the way I would canvas, in a really loose cross-hatch style. I'm pretty happy with the results, it works for it's size but is in a very different style then what you usually see.

Up next, I got the rest of the main hull painted.







lastly, a picture of it disassembled, and one of my son holding it. He is not small.





The front plates are now 99% complete. all thats left is the final layers of weathering, which I will do all at once when the entire thing is painted. (loose powder works best when you apply then clear coat immediately, haha.)

I still need to build a last layer of detail onto the engine, I'm not sure if I'm gonna keep painting finished pieces or go back to building. (I still need to fix the shoulders ands finish the Lifta-Droppa.)

the thing looks great! the colors arnt cartoonish, the freehand glyph looks convincing, you didnt over do the checkers, and most importantly it looks 100% orky!

Great work, you really captured that old-skool 'gargant' feeling, and the paintjob is lovely!

oh my great garganty mork did you paint this with win and awesome sauce or something? I'm not normaly a fan of old school checks and stuff but that's awesome.

Great progress so far!
Keep it up!

Amazing, great work with the skull, love It!

Man, that is awesome! The glyphs are phenomenal!

That's phenomenal work pox.... just amazing. The work you did on the interior detail as well as the fantastic painting on the outside is just so impressive!

Wow, just wow. This is coming together so well! It's going to make an amazing center piece to your army! Super Job!

As for the CO2 tank, I lugged a 20 pounder rental tank around to my markets and birthday parties last year. Had it in a hiking back pack, makes it a bit easier to tranport, but this year, I'm buying a smaller 5 pounder that will be much eisier to move. Yeah, the tank is silent, and you don't have to look around for a plug-in if you are somewhere new!

How long can you paint with a 20 lb tank?

Screw Thraka, you must be the true Prophet of the WAAAGHH!

This is, without a doubt, the coolest thing i've ever seen. It edges out the BolS Warlord titan simply cause I'm an ork at heart. It's that level of awesome however.

Can't wait till you try and figure out rules for this thing