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Thank you all.

@ Gits. LOL Going to have to do something along those lines now.
@ Dr.H Thank you for the dino facts, funny enough I actually just about knew that one, it wont be like that for long. Casting issues asked about on otherstuff blog, with these the original had pointy rokkits sticking out, but no matter what I try cant get the rokkits to cast, keep getting air bubbles. These are those casts cleaned up and drilled for effect, Might still try and make some "rokkits" to stick in the holes.
@ Briancj, Crew are being added, though Nerdy will be adding his own heads.
@ Shas Yup, but will be giving an alternative weapon system for each, probably big shootaz.
@ Richiefuzz, Thank you sir.
@ LDD LOL Ah but Orkses listenz to Great music!
@ Levi, Thank you sir.
@ Red Like the idea of Harpoons, especially as Nerdy has done a spearwielding Navy Seal Ork. The dodgy holes issue, I will sort, most of the time I use a Dremmel, with pointy bit, as it varies the holes a bit, which as LDD says is more orky.
@ Minus, Thank you sir, much appreciated. Painting will be down to Nerdfest, I will be posting them soon I hope as they will take forever to get to the other side of the world, and he paints so fast, he may be done with the orks by the time they get there?!!

WOW, OK, update, bit boring really, barring n alternative for the weapn systems, calling No1 done. Was not 100% happy with the front end so did a little alteration...






Thank you all for your support, cheers for looking in.

Gotta do at least one skorcha!

Once I have these 3 done, I am doing a skorcha and a Wartrakk.

 Camkierhi wrote:
@ Dr.H ...Casting issues asked about on otherstuff blog, with these the original had pointy rokkits sticking out, but no matter what I try cant get the rokkits to cast, keep getting air bubbles. These are those casts cleaned up and drilled for effect, Might still try and make some "rokkits" to stick in the holes.

I see. Yeah, I have tried to do simple casts of similar things before and not managed to avoid the trapped bubble in the tip issue.

If it's an open-topped mould and the resin doesn't cure quickly (I think you use quite a quick one), then you can try poking into each hole with a cocktail stick or similar implement to dislodge the bubble.

Or it's a complex mould with air escape track thingies (dyslexia fail, whatever they are called) for each missile tip. Probably easier to make them separate and stick them in.

 Camkierhi wrote:
Once I have these 3 done, I am doing a skorcha and a Wartrakk.

Awesome news!

I its much better indeed love the front section looks great, the back could do with more rivets though

As for the missiles why not buy the HW Guard rockits of ebay or ask on here as they are normally spares knocking around, as for casting them have you tried casting in 2 halfs then stick them together afterwards

Thanks guys,

First Up Buggy No2






This rokkit launcher is magnatized. Not a brilliant hold, but will stop it falling off while moving the model around. Cables Magnetized as well so can go to shoota arrangement when I get to it.

Casting....

This is my current mould, did also try casting in 2 halves, but used the reusable putty stuff and it just did not work, Will try making a better set of proper silicone molds, in 2 halves I think.



Seriously thinking about a different resin at the moment, I am just about happy with what I use, but I see others getting better results, so going to try some other stuff. Doc, where do you get yours, Ebay'd it and only comes from Australia, very expensive?

Thanks for looking, in and the comments are always most welcome, especially constructiver critique.

hello Cam,

happy new year to you and your loved ones...
hope you had a good time during all the festivities...

as you see with my current avatar...´m lurking...:( still...

the squiggoth looks amazingly promising... I hope to see some more of it soon...

the buggies...a very cool work so far...I see them as a wave of small vehicles swarming over any opponent...actually these would also have been very fitting for grots...

the truck is a piece of art...I probably mix threads here... but your amazing work is amazing regardless of the thread it gets shown^^...

and then your two latest warlords... ... on so many levels of wow...the flail is one hell of a nasty piece of weaponry...

cheers, lurk...er...vik

 Camkierhi wrote:
...Seriously thinking about a different resin at the moment, I am just about happy with what I use, but I see others getting better results, so going to try some other stuff. Doc, where do you get yours, Ebay'd it and only comes from Australia, very expensive?

You might get away with poking in those holes as you slowly (as you can) fill that mould, try and dislodge the bubble before it's fully submerged, one hole at a time (You've got three hands, haven't you ).

I bought both my silicone and resin from Bentley advanced materials. It's the Smooth-cast 300 series Urethane plastic, but they have many flavours available. They are also quite helpful with answering questions. But not terribly cheap (although cheaper than from Australia).

No vents on the deeper recesses will surely make difficult for the resin to flow in/bubbles float out. Maybe you could try "hand" filling the tips with resin - depending on viscosity, by brushing it in, or daubing it with a toothpick - before pouring the main lot?

Triplets looking great, BTW!

Those buggies are kicking it cool style. Excellent work cam. Your in-house casting makes me superbly jealous.

Thank you guys,

Will be buying some different resin the end of the month I think.

In the mean time, sorry for not updating you. Life been a bit crazy. Got a promotion at work, and before I could even get my self started, I am covering someone who's job is several steps up again. We will see how I go. Does mean my comute just got even longer. (on a normal day 100mile round trip, now 160 mile round trip.) Still did get a few little bits done.

Been working on buggies, barring the big shoota options thats the 3 done.



Then started in on the first Trukk...

Cab...





Then some wheels etc.


And the start of the load bay. Will be no seating, Orkses don't sit.



Still long way to go, crew, weapon system, Lots more plating, possibly a frame on the back and maybe a tarp!

Secong trukk will be different again.

Thoughts appreciated.

This stuff continues to impress. Grats on the promotion, hopefully it works out well for you!

First off congrats on the promotion shame about the workload but thats life I guess .......

The buggies looking awesome I gather they are getting close to their trip around the world soon then

Nice start on the truck love the cab section and crazy front grill plenty of dials as well never thought an ork would need that many or understand them

Great plating on the floor as well and love the door s as well and working nice touch

Crazy commute you got Cam, but grats on the promotion. Hopefully it wont stem your creativity - the truk is excellent work, truly impressive speed you work at

A promotion! Terrific! You mentioned moving too. Sounds wise. 160 miles/day is crazy. Given the size of Great Britain, that is almost halfway across the island or more, at leat in some parts?

The half-track truck is nicely started. How about a differential on that front axle, since it is so visible? The exhaust, will it be trimmed? And you definitely will have a motor pool. Great idea. You'll need to build a maintenance shack or garage too. And a fuel dump... Heck, a whole table of terrain. It would make a great themed table y'know.

Thank you guys, especially for the "personal thoughts".

@ Red Please see what you think of the exhaust now, I will be putting on a front and rear diffs, not sure whether to actually put a second engine at the back for the track drive or to have a driveshaft? kinda silly thing a Mek might do. As to the terrain, I might just have to do that, probably after I move as I am hoping to have a bit more settled hobby space, maybe a nice garage! But for these vehicles I will not need that as these will be winging there way around the world to transport and support Nerdy's amazing orks, he is currently building.

(If you have not seen Nerdfests orks, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN???!!, here's a link.)
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/5460/356350.page

@LDD It's not so much dials, more Purdy lights to amuse the Boys between shooting.

Exhaust detail for this side done....


Started on the Big shootas for 3x buggies and the trukk.


Thanks for popping in, feel free to comment.

If you put another 8 shootas on top of those you could have a nice broadside for the side of a land-ship trukk

Congratulations on the promotion, commiserations on the extra work-load and mileage.

Buggies all look great with the rocket-pods in place, and the half-track is shaping up very nicely indeed

That's a beautiful looking Trukk cab Cam. Your scratch-building skills are amazing to behold.

And I would offer my congratulations on the improvement of your mundane circumstances as well. With promotion comes increased responsibility... that kind of goes with the territory.

Got you

" ewww lewk prudy flishing red thing " .....................

" hit it wid spanner den " .........................


" CRUNCH ........ BOOOOOMMMMM!!!!!!!" .........

Nice work on the truck, Cam. Looks nice.

Again congrats to your promotion! Well deserved for such an artisan like yourself!

The jeeps are really nice, and three is always a magic number...

The new truck is already awesome, too bad this won't be paiinted by you... But then again these in the hands of nerdy is also a good thing^^
Love the row of dakka I see there...

Soooooo awesome right now! everything looks better than anything i've seen conceptually before! will look amazing when they are painted up too, just the right amount of different 'stuffs' to add character :-)

Really glad you like them guys, especially you Nerdy.

Calling it a night, think I will just leave this here.. Big shoota configeration for buggies.....



See you all tomorrow.

Groovy...

Big shootas for the WIN, they look glorious! and very shooty

Cam, you cannot mail them off until somebody confirms that they have seen Bladerunner. Just sayin'

The exhausts are much improved. Consider making some sort of jig for future use, so that you can just bang them out quickly, and cleanly. Even orcs would do such a thing... less time spent makin' means more time for shootin'.

Overall quite impressive.

Those BIG SHOOTAS for the win they rock mate !!!!

Yes don't send them till he has watched Blade Runner

Are these for you or actually for Nerdfest09

LOL! That was my thought too ldd... BIG FRIGGIN SHOOTAS!

Cam is on a fast track moving from the buggies to the half-trukk and back! Amazing!