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Monkeytroll you make even random packaging look great, glad to see your still alive

Damn, must have mis-counted posts

Figured I try for an index on page 50, to aid navigation through the random jump cuts that make up my hobby stuff. As is probably fitting for this blog, I started out with one idea, went through sveral others and ended with a bit of a random thing.
It'll probably need editing a few times before it's quite right - I went back and re-started it several times as I changed what I was doing. I think that most entries (I've gone for monthly) mention any major modelling/painting bits, a few interesting things that came up in discussion, and a bunch of random stuff that caught my eye.

I've added a few pics, so there's stuff to look at, even if they're old pics - a couple of 'choice' items from each month.

The wise words entries, started as useful or important advice from others, but again morphed into random sentences that caught my eye as I was re-reading, and yes I have qouted myself a few times - it's my blog, I can do that if I want.

Hopefully it's useful to someone (me, probably), or at least mildly entertaining

Apologies in advance for any layout issues/lack of orkmoticons and anything else that results from me trying to set this all up as a text doc and not re-proofing the whole thing in preview

OK, roll VT...



June (Page 1)

Introduction - basic concepts of the force, personal guff etc.

Deff-dread pip, first few boyz -including velociraptork-(some of whom are still unfinished) and servo-grots

First appearance of Dok Grimsnik (all the parts in the first shot got used),skorcha, bionikopta and speeder-kopta.

First mini gets completed - less than a month, setting a precedent never to be repeated.
Ol' Gruntknacker

From the first post - "They all need cleaning up a bit still, a bit of gs and some details like wires." Soon to become a common phrase, and the first indication of a wiring fetish.


TV shows mentioned: Thunderbirds

No. of times I say 'Old-skool': 3

Any fluff? x2





July (Page 1-3)

Deff dread completed.

Various servo-grots finished.

Dok Herbork West gets an engine upgrade after a prod from Commissar Khaine, starting a push for crazier detail amongst the cyborks.

Mono-nob makes his first appearance, and gets a song.

The grot-in-a-bottle experiment!! ("Note to self: Listen to Arakasi !") It fails, but there are several good suggestions.

I hatch a cunning plan for hover-boy. Then ignore it.

A brief warning about solvent fumes. Fairy Power Spray rocks!

Orky servo-skulls.

Upzag's torso gets a few try-outs.

First bionik-boy (ard-boy)

Tv shows mentioned: Thunderbirds, Batman ( and a brief shudder at the thought of the Batman & Robin film..Uhhh)

No. of times I say 'old-skool: None!

Wise words: Arakasi - "Whatever you try for filling the "experiment" - make sure you do a test run first - hate to see that unique model spoiled by your own experimenting!"





August (3-5)

Troops are getting restless, various cries for paint echoing around the workshop.

Gutslumpa, Zyklopz and da hovva-centuriork all get completed. As does Bad Dok Herbork West.

I attempt a mini rust powder tutorial.

Mega-nob concepts.A rogue train of thought happens upoun a Nemesis themed Inquisitorial force.

Da Red Kount makes his first appearance, under the nomme-de-build Jetbike-kopta.

TV shows mentioned: Shh, someone mentions the Judge Stallone film.

No. of times I say 'old-skool': None again.





September (5-7)

Wherein I foolishly disregard CK's advice on chainsaws, and confuse da deff'wing wiv da rav'nwing

vyper-bike kopta

An interesting discourse on deffkopta landings.

trikes and cyboars (cyboar rodeo's anyone?) Some peaceful water-side shots

Squigs on tracks, centaur tracks on buggies and... a mini cooper? Looted speeder kopta takes shape
Ork zen?
Spider attack.

First sighting of trukk #1 !

TV shows mentioned: None?

Old-skool: 1

Wise words: Lord Kaesar II - "no ork left unmech"
CommissarKhaine - And if you're gonna keep changing bits, a modifying platform might make a nice objective counter!
Me - And so the obvious third thought was 'why not both'

Any fluff? x1





October (7-10)

Scribbles.

More cyboars.(including some pwetty colours)

weety wows with a weird Wheelie-suit.

Sleazy rider.

Trade cyborks for schank and Sage(started and finished - must have been a time-quake)

Arakasi becomes mid-wife for Da Waaagh-ky racers idea (it's only in hibernation, it is not dead)

Internet loss creates a drunken take-over.

Grimsnik painting commences (*still in progress)

Wyrd boy requests some leg shots.

TV shows/films mentioned: Return to Oz, Wacky Racers, Black Books, Monster
Old-skool: None.

Wise words: Lightning Frog - People Say orks will take over the world others say robots will. No body said anything about Cyborks.
Arakasi - Too clean - gotta Orky up those clean Tau lines

Anyone playing video games? NeverWinter Nights





November (10-12)

Yellin' and choppin' we was, and then we 'ad a nice little chat 'bout old-skool orks like wot dat nice Paul Bonner humie used ta draw. Not the last time this subject would appear.

Tri-wheel buggy takes centre stage, and sparks an idea for Trotta's Indapendant Trading

The joy of bitz.

A rl orky 2CV?

Da Flood!! Pretty much ends play.

A few old minis - some of my very first (1979 - ancient history to some of you I'm sure)

TV shows/Films: Only Fools And Horses, For Your Eyes Only, The Fall Guy

Old-skool: 1

Wise(?) words: weety - hope this makes sense, its homebrewed blackberry wine-O-clock
CK - I agree; I probably spend more time rummaging through my bitz box then painting/modelling . I also find Dakka is a great community, very constructive and there's always a nice exchange of ideas going on, it always makes me want to up my game!
Arakasi - Particularly putting up incomplete ideas. The end results are nice - but the journey, that is where it's at!


Any fluff? x1







December (12-14)

Monkey - the original Daemonhunter?

Outdoor bionikopta shots.

Start concentrating on my chipped paint effects, starting with the buggy. Boar'd yet?

Resort to building with only the bits available on my desk, as the flood has put the rest into 'storage'

Squig-hound completed

TV shows/Films: The Fall Guy, Monkey, Grindhouse, Short Circuit,





January (15-16)

We continue to build with the desk contents. We start playing with GS bionik eyes - they'll become a staple.

Gollum becomes a servo-grot.

Noes Internet!

Ard boys. A grot-kopta appears. I try an interesting new paint technique.

Dik Dastardork! 'Return of the Mek'

The boat slowly dries.

Some mumbling alcoholic uncle seems to reminisce about the good ol' days of enamels.

The first Orkus Mekanikus says oi.

Dalorks.

TV Head!(Yep, the one still looking for a face *whistles innocently)

neil gets a cookie.

McVey cowgirl and dinosaur.

I'll say that again.

McVey cowgirl and dinosaur.

Da Red Kount finished.

TV/Films: Dr Who, Wacky Racers, The Magic Roundabout, Buck Rogers, Happy Days, Wurzel Gummidge

Wise Words: Hadouken - The, uh...Head tube gun legs guy....He reminds me of one of those....things. With the...air?







February (16-18)

Sharks.
With lasers on their heads obviously.

There's some other stuff, but that was the main attraction



Oh, Okay then ...

Dread-trike and buggy.

Some group shots. (Yes, that means more than one finished mini)

The AOBR warboss-big mek tries on his first face. He doesn't like it.

TV/Films: Simpsons, Rhubarb & Custard,No Country For Old Men, TMNT, Wacky Racers, The Big Lebowski, Robocop, Automan, Manimal

Comics: Transmetropolitan

Old-skool: 1








March (18-20)


HovvaWagon

e-bay snotlings. Pong!

Tek-Masta Stumpy (my god, is that when I started him. And he's so small too)

One of my boyz actually sees some action (and makes big badda boom I'm told)
Slaaneshi screamer.

TV/Films: Austin Powers, Q-The Winged Serpent

Old-skool:2

Wise words:

Anyone playing any video mgames: Oblivion, Dead Space, Eve Online
neil on New Vegas, Killzone 3; weety rocking it old-skool with a master system; PDH doing likewise with a Mega-Drive






April (20-22)

Weathering, mainly on a buggy.(This is getting depressing now, I weathered it early April? Damn, I am slow)
We discover a method for great ripped seat covers.

TV Head - painted save his face. Yeah, that face...the one still waiting)

More sharks get painted.

Transplant feva and his fellows come and say 'Hi'

Spider-ork scuttles into centre-stage, dragging Da judj and Chew Ya Fat with him.

People want Ork Airkraft Karriers.

Gitstompa bum-rushes da show with a bunch of nobs in tow. And his tiny delicate gunsight.

MacGyver!

Adam Blork's Travellin' Cirkus an' Unfair

Bit of Terran Trade Authority love.

TV/Films: MacGyver

Wise Words: weety - The spell checker says there is no such words as slicey cutty, stupid spell checker.
Arakasi - though Chorlton looks like a boy with a Nob arm (could just be the photo angle...) and the first Nob (woz 'iz name?) looks like a Nob with a Boyz arm (pretty sure this isn't the photo angle
me - Even when you're a bionik killing machine with inbuilt multi-spectral targeting, metal jaws, a telescopic waist and a small tank for legs, there's something comforting about wielding a piece of rusty pipe.
This is just another sad example of what happens when a perfectly average hyper-violent fungoid life-form gains access to guns and knives and cybernetic mono-wheeled prosthetics. Do you know where YOUR orcs are?
Hey, it's the wacky monsters that are the draw here, not the in-depth analysis










May (22-23)

Is it a grot-hawk? Is it a grot-tank? No, it's Upzag! Well, part of him.

Chortlon screeches into view,a mis-matched magical attempt to steal weety's speed painting skills backfires and TV Head gets a test face.

TV/Films: 'Ork and Mindy', 'M.O.S.H.', Will-O-the Wisp,

Video Games: NeverWinter Nights, Oblivion, Fallout3, Morrowind,

Wise Words: Arakasi - Was it suggested to put a smiley face (grinning Ork face?) on TV head's screen? If not - I'm suggesting it now (Think the robots in Fallout: New Vegas - if that means anything to you )
PDH - "Awwww I wanted to play fetch with it".
me - Sorry Arakasi, laziness and forgetfulness conspired to keep the smaller arm in place.









June (23-26)

Da Judj shows his colours, a cybork goes 'shrooming (apparently whilst wearing a summer dress) and I finally find a use for some smurf-boy bits.

{And I've just been reminded about Waltork da Robot}

Year One - an update that shows just how little you can acheive in 12 months with a little hard work and the right attitude (25 finished minis in this case)

neil finds a trukk cake.

Lord Kaesar helps to point out my lack of paint.

Turbo-rolla and another version of mek-it-so.

A short discussion of the 'bitty' way I sometimes work.

A surprise package from PDH

Some robogear stuff (including Artsoldier's excellent gliders)

TV/Films: Will-O-The Wisp

Comics: Judge Dredd

Old-Skool:3

Video Gamesortal

Wise Words: Arakasi - Right... first - you need to slice off the screen from TV Head and magnetise several plasticard replacements - that way you can change his face to match his (or your) mood!
schank - Every ork should have his own dolly.
me - Finally found a use for an ultrasmurf piece too
Because as everyone knows, buying more junk is far more conducive to completing constructs than, you know, actually working on them and stuff.






July (26-29)

Da Turbo 'Triffik gets reborn as a fighta.

That trukk from page 1 gets ressurected. (July is The Ressurection!) Plus more trukk goodness.

Skorcha gets some colour. Shiny lens-masks. A finished unit, with a celebratory fly-past. Brian brings up squad ID.

Concepts for big mek in mega armour, Kommissar Yaaagh-rik. Some book-porn for neil.

Finished (Yes, you read that right): Drone Dude, Velociraptork, Chew Yer Fat, Transplant Feva, Da Nob in da Iron Mask, 'Ardtoof 'Eadbanger, Drilla-Killa, Tonka-Tink, I.C. Hans Du (wow, bumper crop, that's nearly half as many as finished in previous 12 months. Not gonna see that happen again I tell ya)


TV/Films: Casualty (Don't blame me, I'd rather not mention it, but it did come up so I put it up here), The Highwayman,








August (29-31)

Paul Bonner rulez. Old Ghaz gets the chop. Trukk work and the Dok's head set.
TV head options box.
Grots learn to fly.
DA Emprah's Shrooms? More mekky business. Yarrick's second fist gets looted back.Ice cream.
Various boys stalking around.


TV/Films: Wurzel Gummidge, Will-O-the Wisp,

Comics: Watchmen,

Old-Skool: 2

Wise Words: weety - mmmm pink wafer biscuit and tea...
paint him you know you want to
me - Unfortunately the steering is a bit wonky, the pilot's only got one arm and the navi-gunner is just bemused by the sparkly lights on his console. Flight 010 from Orkadia City may have delays....








September (31-35)

Grot orderly and Cog 'ead Mcnulty open up a new month. A bit of messing with interference mediums.
Fun with sprue trukks. First airkraft karriers, now the public wants orky space shuttles.
Slork stormboy. neil finds some gobbledegook. Trukk & Fighta work which leads to paint.Grabbed by Da Konvertas!

Finished: Githunta Mcreddy , Jo Mononob, Tommy Knocka, Nori Nailbiter
TV/Films: Blue Peter, From Dusk Till Dawn, Mad Max

Old-Skool: 4

Video Games:Tiberian Sun, Red Alert 2,

Wise Words:weety - Yes - someone needs to fill his gap with a plastic member
I did actually click on your blog this morning, scrolled down for a while absent mindlessly, and then got confused and wondered whose thread I was looking at. The sudden rush of paint is very cool
The Good Green - Say... is that a skaven skirt on that ork?
Gits - Love the ultra-diaper....
CK - I find the idea of an angry ork stomping off mid-operation highly entertaining
me - Sometimes when you get an idea, it's worth just laying the parts down together, see if the scale works Otherwise, you might end up with this situatuion.
Colour, shading - A modeller craves not these things, mmmm.
Lemon slice is optional. Tea isn't.
but Arakasi prodded me to try a bit more colour back at the start, and hey, whaddaya know, I liked it.








October (35-37)

Squig hound and fighta get some brush love. Hubble Deep Field View. Some fisherman's jumper girls make a suprise visit from scarper's blog.
Packages.Orc head anyone? Handwriting and my own 'special' gallery search?


Old-Skool:1

Wise Words: vik - it was and will be my secret fomula to get hot wimmen into my lair...er...dang no it isn´t secret anymore...








November (38-39)

A few boyz. The riveters get loose. A hiatus due to lack of connectivity.

TV/Films: HHGTTG, The Mighty Boosh


Wise Words: weety - Leg-arm, tube-legs, Massive serrated cleavers, star-trekish visor - all things which are good to look at early on a monday
dstein - You get frustrated with yourself when your brain works faster than your hands do on projects. At least I do.





December (39-42)

Return from incommunicado. More packages and old boxes of resin goodness. Hovva buggy. A variety of boyz and a mek. Outpost construction.
Old paint and ink, ahh, nostalgia. Maximus,Jawz, bendy armed mekanikus, Edwood SaladFingas. A mek, a tripod and a grot with a head-ache.
Impulse internet buys - ruining your wallet since the 90's.
Jalopy - complete with Compork 500 netbook.

TV/Films: Mad Max (Road Warrior & Thunderdome), Samurai Jack, Phase IV, Blue Peter,

Old-Skool:4

Video Games: Oblivion, Deus Ex: HR, Not Skyrim!, Lots of peeps on something called 'minecraft' apparently

Wise Words: weety - Interesting helmet that nobb has.
CK - and don't mind the size; few people make an issue out of it
Arakasi - A bit more odds and ends and you'll have your very own Lair ov da Astrorkmancer!
neil - Subtle has now left the building ..
Jihad_Ragsta - So I removed the filter only to discover... You might actually be slightly mad.
vik - your work is totally inspiring in some weird ways^^

me - the grey panelled stuff is from Wills, a railroad terrain manufacturer. And those walls are from their 'finecast' range. They should look to set their IP lawyers on GW








January 2012 (42-45)

weety rumbles me for the evil wizard with shrink ray that I really am - curses. Platform for the outpost - plus some sort of colouring medium, paint I think it's called? A quick plug for Anvildude's company.
Supply drops. Checks - why did it take so long? Upzag's transport gets some bits. Swappable madness this way lies. Lil' Bob floats around waiting for some manipulators.
Plasticard reproductive cycle. An arm for Upzag - that moves and stuff!Tiny piston drilling - the cause of mucho swearing in the workshop. Tek-Masta 'Stumpy' Gutwerkz finally starts his journey to the cold of Scotland.
Waaagh Dakka grothound gets some long-needed love. London Model Engineering Exhibition. Buggy(?) concepts. Gifs! More terrain?
The day the music died.

TV/Films: Mad Max, Captain Scarlet, The Jetsons

Old-Skool:

Video Games: Dead Rising 2, Yakuza 4, Amazingly - still no Skyrim

Wise Words: CK - Oh, and madness + attention to detail = genius
Tortured-Robot - Rivets are always a good thing.
neil - I must be in the wrong blog .. Humans !! (me - Don't think of them as humans. Think of them as field rations.)
Arakasi - Outstanding job! The only flaw is that it won't see play...
vik - that looks totally 80´s and i mean that in all the respectful and admirational way i could muster! and it isn´t even finished!!!
i think what you now have found made you loose something lese...sanity...but well... that was always not overly treasured i assume^^
lone dirty dog - Your combination of parts seems ridicules at times but some how always works you really are the mad hatter of this hobby







February (45-49)


More terrain-stylee stuff. And some more.Little bit of looted wagon and jalopy business. More terrain stuff.The League comes calling....
Too slow for commissions? Girders. And chains.Floating storage solutions and cheap, cheap terrain/bitz. More terrain. A bit of weathering. More terrain? Girders and chains.
Curtains. Comic-porn. Bit more looted wagon.
Poor GIMP drawing skillz are shown.


TV/Films: Captain Scarlet, Stripes, Battlestar Galactica (the original)

Comics: Freakangels, Frankenstein's Womb, HellBoy, Captain Swing and the Electrical Pirates of Cinderey Island, Sandman, The Five Fists of Science (plus pics of many others)

Video Games: New Vegas


Wise Words: shaso - Nice, I was first thinking the long pipe protected the Orky string-n-can comms set so it wouldn't get cut so easily.
weety - I've really gotta get out of retail. Work in a morgue maybe.









March Hmmm

Due to a chronic anomaly in the space-time continuum, March decided to skip this area....



April (49-??)

Escapes from beyond the event horizon to return with some more terrain thingummies from gak....



Err, and that's about it.


Hope that was an educational, enjoyable and downright enthralling traipse through the last couple of years.

Awesome! And thoroughly enjoyable - it looks like so much more when you put it all in one place doesn't it?

I didn't realise how much I contributed either! (though it seems to have been a bit lax more recently...)

Here's to the next one at 100!

Crazy man... just crazy... Thanks for the summary, wow. Very impressive and a lot of fun to see all together like that!

Great to see you back, monkey! Mindblowing seeing all your work together like that, not to mention all the TV discussions and 'wisdom'. You should put it all together in some kind of madman's primer! Did it feel good to get a lookover everything like that? I sometime find that modelling a huge project like this is sometimes such slow progress that it can be a little demoralising

The new terrain looks great, and you're a true mek with all the scavenging. As long as you didn't smash the drawers apart to get at the girders, you've still got a little sanity about you.

Here's to 50 more pages!

wow...so much...of everything...and it feels as if lots has skipped my mind already...but the awsome feeling still lasts on and on and on...^^

This stuff is insane. Even by ork standards!

Dastardly and dread orks Just hilarious and amazingly created, how you do it mate is beyond me.

Wow, nice effort read It through all of It and enjoyed It a lot!

Absolutely Amazing .. My face is aching from laughing .. what a blast seeing your blog like this mate.. really enjoyed reading all that .. the quotes were hilarious .. It seems mad max has proved very popular in this blog , i reckon he deserves a special mention ..



You are a genius ..

yep...that poster is very much the style of monkeytroll....

nice hommage poster there neil!

Glad that went well

OK, some replies.

From before the catch-up:

Gits - Thanks a bunch man. Be nice if it occasionally gave me a chance to finish something before charging off on the next thing, but hey-ho


Graven - My laptop's not that bad... . Many thanks.


Arakasi - Thank you, and don't worry, there'll be plenty of lootin' going the other way too


ldd - Cookies and terrain all in one handy package - what more could you ask?

Yep, pleased with the drawer runners myself, have to rootle around a bit back at my folks, I'm sure I have some more from other dismantled furniture somewhere..

Well the thinking is that the area the orks are in was once part of a kind of shanty-town area of a hive, where a lot of buildings had already been re-cycled from various silos. There'll be other shapes too though, won't all be round.


vik - Cookies are always highly valuable

Glad to be back vik, glad to be back


zinge - And your bits are most excellent for playing with sir

I used to fill packages like that with plaster too, but the aerosol foam's a good idea, nice and light too.


vik - That just means you get to go and buy stuff for interesting packets again


Selvaggio - Thank you, and nice to be back. Orkses is green, we's da tuffest re-cykla's around.


dstein - Cheers bud. Loot away, when I eventually catch up with the umpteen pages I've missed on your blog I'm sure I'll be stealing stuff back


neil - Thanks man, good to see you back on form too. And knew I could rely on you for some bad punnage.


bigfish - Believe me, it's a relief to me too

And after:

Arakasi - Cheers! It does look like a viable force with progres being made like this

Well, there's not been so much happening here recently You and all the others have been an enormous help both in terms of actual input and the motivation to keep going and keep upping the game. Plus it was the combined might of yours, CK's and Panic's blogs that pushed me from lurker to member

And hopefully there'll be some more stuff finished by then


Gits - Thanks man, it was a blast going through it again myself.


Scarp - A madman's primer? You don't need a primer for going mad, you just go mad It's not generally something you plan out carefully beforehand (not that I recall anyway...), and once you're mad you just KNOW what to do
It was fun checking out what I had actually done, but it did get depressing to see how long some of the unfinished stuff has been in it's current state And let's face it, even little projects take a long time over here. I'm looking at you Dakka-cyber-squig-hound...

But I can get by without drawers I tell you, they're just a tool of the secret government...


vik - So much ...unfinished Glad you enjoyed it.


Goresaw - Warms the cockles of my oil filter to hear that


ldd - Thank you. It's like Edison said - To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.


Selvaggio - Cheers, glad you liked the catch-up.


neil - Thank you. And most of the quotes did come from you good fellows, so ..well done you

Fantastic poster, thanks for that, I'll start bit-hunting tomorrow


vik - ^^



And, lo, he did bring forth more stuff...

Almost there:



Bit of tidying and some detailing at either end to go.


Metal tread:



Played around with some effects for bare metal treadplate. Base coat of bronze/copper mix (3:1), drybrush of silver/bronze mix (2:1 maybe), devlan wash, drybrush of silver. Vallejo grey and black washes blended straight onto surface with water, emphasis on the grey. When that's almost dry some flesh and sepia in a few areas, and a touch or two of green, which is lightly wiped with a tissue to remove most of it. The grey wash is proving very useful for dirtying bare metal.


Walkway:



And the top to the brassy/concrete thing. It's a rotating bridge, with a pringles can as the basis, the lid rotating to turn the bridge. Some detailing still required on the top gubbins, and the tread plate needs attention.


Beach-hut:



Started in on the yellow paint chips in earnest. Even though I've only base coloured the blue and red
I'll need different methods for more heavily weathered (read really battered) walls, but thought I'd try a couple like this.

Also need to dig around my ecals and such for some markings on some of the silo's and metal scraps. May have to try masking and spraying some too.


Boyz:



See, I said there was SOME colour going on some mini's too. There's a few more in similar states (some with less flesh work, some with more colours) and a servo-grot who I should get finished tomorrow, so he ducked out of the pic.

And that's about the size of it...

That green poly tunnel looks rather nice , i have often wondered if i could make food packaging look like real terrain ,

Does anyone else think the ork on the bottom left look like he is striking a Saturday night fever pose

lol...

as fo your work...good to see you being so productive again monkey! that cookie building looks better´ n´better!

1. - You are WAAAAY too organized man!! -Try decaff

b. I can't believe how simple, yet how effective your screwheads are! I am so impressed, I intend to steal this idea immediately!

3. Your terrain is just knocking my socks off man! All that great use of round structures...I need to vary shapes on my table, so you should expect some stealage then too!

IV. Same goes for the waethering, simple, yet very effective...Did you just scrape down to the basecoat?

5. You have a real talent for styling and your buildings are full of character dood!

neil - 'Course you can Just need the right bit of packaging and proper preparation.

Or you could do it like me and see what you get

That is actually a plinth at the local Ritzy he's just climbed on you know


vik - Let's just see how long it keeps up for


dstein - £. That has got to be the most unlikely phrase to have ever been directed at me In what strange manner are you referring to my organisational skills?

%. Not even intentional the first time Accident caused by trying to pick rivets up with a scalpel whose blade was still good but whose point was blunted Looked ok, did it again

3. Steal away. I'll be looking for some more girder-work style to loot from yours

Y. Yep. Then leave it out in the rain for a few days for the rust effects.

!!. Thanks bud!



And ever onwards....





Done. Absolute nightmare trying to get a decent pic of the metallic walkway. The turquoise was too vivid for verdigris here, should have watered it more or used a greener hue. It'll do though


And 'finished' the grot.




Burt Wheelydink at your disposal sir.

Except as soon as I saw the pics I realised I hadn't done the last few washes.


And got some movement going back on the trukk.



Mainly weathering, but I also finished off the dakka turret and have started switching a couple of colours. I also had to do some emergency repairs after dropping it . Of course it'll be fine balanced on on knee for a moment

Both wheels, one suspension unit, the front plate and some minor bits came off. And now the wheels are even less aligned than previously.

Alignment we dont need no stinkin alignment... Sorry to hear about the accidental damage but you could look at it as serendipidy helping you make the vehicle look a little more ramshakkle and orky

im really loving these buildings! and to no suprise of mine, you are in the =][_,= so congrats as I dont recall noticing that! btw, did you use size O for those diamond plates you put on your buildings?

Wheeled grot just brill mate, I wanted to build grot bikers but that looks way better


The truck does not seem to have been affected badly by the judgment error still looks great from the pics wheel alignment who needs that anyway

Also I bought cookies however it had no tray need to buy more know

i was a bit worried that the cookieterrain would stay too dark...i guess i have to wait and see...as you don´t do disapointing it seems^^

that grot looks lovley... very steampunky...i recall having that arm too...one day i have to find a good use for that steampunky gun!

That was very visually exciting - the packaging buildings remind me of the buildings in fallout 2. So much funky stuff

Excellent work , I think bert should be renamed chorlton , ,..

actually forgrt that , knowing you , there will already be a chorlton in hear somewhere .

the ritzy pun made me chortle for all the wrong reasons ..lol

mullet - It wasn't already ramshackle enough Damn, I'll try harder next time


Rogue - Cheers man. Most of my tread-plate is either 1:25 or 1:50, but there's possibly a few other unknown scales floating around too.


ldd - Thanks dog!
Yeah, a few balancing judgement issues recentl, I tried balancing some open sepia wash on top of some other round topped bottles the other day too. Luckily there were no painted mini's nearby

Yep, gotta keep trying those cookies till you find the right package. It's a hard life being a modeller you know
As an additional point to that, it transpires the many ridged packet that made the green walkway building was actually from Fudge's cheese wafers. I re-discovered that when I bought a packet the other day.


vik - Good to know I'm not disappointing vik I'm positive your viktorians will find a cunning use for such a sidearm.


weety - Even managed to get some colour in there for you


neil - Yes, there is....



I think he was even mentioned in the catch-up And now I've picked him up again, maybe he'll join the painting queue again.



So, these wi-fi dongle thingies are no fun, let me tell you

Since the weekend nearly every time I try to reply to a post, or upload pics the connection drops. And when it's there it may as well not be - was averaging 24 kbps earlier Took me an hour and a half to upload the pics below, and it's not like they're killer pics or anything

In other news, my New Vegas game has been corrupted and crashes whenever I try to enter the Strip I'm at 98hours and the last save that will let me enter is at 62 hours . I may just start a new character already.


So, been working on this guy:




To go on this base:




And slowly progressing on a few others...





And dithering over the castor-buggy



Not the actual pieces to be used (excepting the bubble for the second), but the 2 basic concepts I'm contemplating. Cockpit in front with dakka mounted behind, or bubble canopy in the middle with dakka (likely rokkits in this case) either side.


And toying with an idea :



The incredible exploding Mister fisti-gun, would it look better with added effects?



That's a rough idea of what I was thinking, maybe even having a couple of fragments of the barrel embedded in the bang?


Now, this little dude here:



...who was a wip in the above shot, is now finished I believe. The first shots I tried to upload the other day, don't worry I've not suddenly developed weety-like speed painting skills. He is a very small chap indeed, based on the OLD LotR gollum (late 80's).

Actually, I don't think I've finished the rivets on his gun-arm. OK, almost finished.


And the grot on lookout has managed to evolve a bit further too:



Well, that's most of the evening spent hitting the refresh button to try and clear the 'internet explorer cannot display this page...'

It's like Christmas in April!

*applause*

thqat wheel chair chap is just very disturbing i cant decide what to think of him...

the mister exploding fist... definatly do an effect for the explosion...am i right that this stand in is just for the basic shape of the blast? it will see paint at one point? if so then i think you are on the right way... will look comicesque but i think that is only fitting with so many weirdness with your minis...

the ex-gollum looms very fitting to the gang... if you´d had painted the fish red you could have used it as a protosquigg^^

and the lookout i like a lot!

cheers...you are a very productive man of late!

I love mr fisti! Name is somewhat disturbing. Definitely go for the explosion effects. I want to call the wheelchair dude Dr Scott...

Wait.........Are the wafers Fudge-flavored, or cheese-flavored?


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..>And YES, the wheelchair is disturbingly fascinating...

Gits - Glad to play Santa for you When I first tried replying I had a comment about the weather being like December, but this morning it's nice and sunny, so I'll skip that

vik - Interesting, didn't have Chorlton down as disturbing. Granted, the idea of a head being kept alive by machinery is slightly disturbing. And when you add violent fungoid based alien lifeforms and heavy weaponry into the mix the level of disturbing-ness (it is so a word, you all have whack, out-of-date dictionaries ) rises a bit more, but other than that base state there's not a lot more

Yeah, that was just to see how it looked. I'll either re-model another blast, or add some more flame-tendrils (OK, you got me there, I'm not sure that's the correct terminology) to that one. I want a couple of bits of barrel shrapnel in there too as I'm worried the blast hides the split barrel, making it look like he's falling over due to recoil from some extra-bangy ammo.
Which isn't a bad look, just not the one I'm aiming for.

Interesting idea, I may have to go back and re-look at that little fishy

Thanks, just felt I wanted a few more interesting bases scattered around.

Just trying to make up for lost time


graven - Don't worry, that's just the name he travels under, his nom-de-urrgh if you like I know I'm going to kick myself when you tell me, I can feel a little meme-squig running around my hind-brain telling me I know the answer, but I'm not parsing that reference right now. But I have only had one cup of tea so far.


dstein- Oh man, sorry for the confusion, should have made that clearer - getting bewildered by bemusing bakery based befuddlements can be extremely hazardous to the unprepared. They're cheese wafers, made by Fudges. That is, a company called Fudges, rather than 'those biscuits you've got there were made by that bunch of fudges over there.'

'Disturbingly fascinating' I like

Out of interest, are you guys finding Chorlton more or less disturbing than this guy:




Ok, so Friday night's hobby time was mainly spent catching up on Gits' awesome MW blog, which I'm sure need no introduction to most of you (if it does, then I suggest you have a peek in his sig a few posts up ). Yesterday's hobby time just seemed to evaporate with me diging through bits. Not looking for anything in particular, just having a bit of a rummage.

Did get a little done though.


Thought some smaller structures might be nice.



Based on an old mini-disc to keep in with the CD basing

And it now looks like this:



Base needs finishing, plus some touch-ups and adding some interior bits.


Well, as I'd pulled apart a minidisc to get the actual disc out. I had some bits of plastic case left over. Might as well find a use for them eh?

Klub Grottz - somewhere for the littl'uns to relax.





Who knows, may get some more stuff done today, we'll see....

flame-tendrils

i quite like the sound and implication of living fire to this...in the olds days fire was considered to be alive...well only fitting to have methapors in that direction then!

and yep...that new chap is also quite disturbing...but as you stated ...when dealing with orks... you are already pretty much high on the matter of distrurbing-ness^^ so there is little chance to raise the bar even more^^

the new quickly done buiding...the two walled one looks very good! it is almost one of my favorite now as i think the boards look very nice and all those nice details (well orkyness of nicety) give that small shed a nice feeling...the more i look at it the more i am astinoshed about the fact that there is nothing to complain about it... i know i am sometimes rather blunt with critizism but here i am totally liking that one^^

I'm loving the wanton destruction of technology. I would live to see a bus timetable up in the grot shack though, just remind of those huts you get randomly on a country lane. Quality.