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Thanks drcheese, and good to have you aboard!

Added sides to the howdah. Can't help but think its missing something - rivets, maybe?


As for the platform sides, do you think solid sides or balustrades?

I'll try to get back to more regular posts once I'm properly I'm school routine,

graven

Rivets required, oh yes

I'd go with balustrades for the platforms, with maybe some patches of 'armour' plating.

And some cables.

Very nice squiggoth, loving the howdah.

Err, lots of other cool stuff earlier too Lemme see...

Some old-skool GK termies - lovin' those

Cool libb(ies?), one stepping off the base, one with swappable jet-pack - think they were both libbies. Oh, it's all become one massive blur. Too many blogs to catch up on. Too much stuff happening in all of them. Arrrrghhhh



Sorry, calm face now

More old-skool going down with the jetbikes- very nice, especially the c-beamer for the motf

There was something else too....but it's gone now. I'm pretty sure it was awesome though

Needs to look more orky.

So rivits are a yes, as well as hodge-podge repairs etc.

Also a steering wheel (or similar).

D

Rivets cables and plates, oh my!
Will do
@mt: great to have you back mate! Glad you like the Libby (both the same - step off, mag pack). Yeah, gotta love those old gks - and must get on with the motf!
@dr: I'm planning a steering device of sorts - SM piñata!

The howdah is good, but... too imperial looking. It needs less symmetry and more crap. You could of course cover the whole thing in glyphs, trophies, faeces and such, but the best thing to do would be to make the underlying structure less 'tank' and more 'pile of crap'.

Make the side platforms completely different for a start. Treat it less like a walking gun and more like the epitome of green trailer trash.

@ Mabrothrax: I don't disagree, but bear with me!





And with el jefe:

Nice work graven. Very cobbled-together looking (in that nice, orky way).

Lookin' reet proper that is lad!

Needs more cowbell.

@gits - thanks, I think the thing is to let it just come together organically (I mean Ork-Kan-ikly, sorry). Each time I'm adding a layer of plate I look again at the uber bags of junk spread out on the table and just grab bits until they for right. Baneblade bits in particular feel very orky, I think. That light's going to have a smiley on it (possibly with watchmen style blood splatter if I can manage).

@mt: cheers bud, you are an orky kitbash guru so I appreciate that. Sorry for disregarding your balustrade idea (I had sprue cut and everything for it), should I add to the front of the side parts or just leave em? I also wonder about walkways etc.

Other vexing problems at this stage:
Do I add more dakka? I mean aren't these things supposed to be walking walls of gun? I have a baneblade cannon I could add above the head/under the howdah (or somewhere else altogether). Where else, and what else, should I add?

I plan to add grots sitting in the sponsons, and this leads on to my second problem: do I integrate crew now, or after painting the rest? I have a nice mix of grot and gnoblar models to add in, and part of me thinks I'll get a better visual narrative if I integrate them into it before painting - however, that obviously means it'll be trickier to paint generally.

Also, anything else I should add generally?
Cheers gang,
Graven


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@ Mabrothrax: eh?

That's the way to build orky stuff

Hah, I often plan on balustrades on walkways/rooftops etc, but they always seem to become solid plates by the time they actually appear


More dakka is never a bad thing....Under the howdah is an interesting idea. What's planned for the turret hole?

Walkways? Maybe if there's an area which is awkward to get to, but I see grots clambering all over the place using ropes/chains/handholds etc on most places.

You need to plan out where the crew are going and what they're doing before painting (or at least the majority of them), but paint them seperately - unless you feeling particulary masochistic when you start the colourisation process

Put more small dakka on it. Needs Big Shootas and the like- Kannon and Lobba and Zzap are all well and good, but Moar Dakka demands, well, Moar Dakka.

Cheers mate, good pointers. More dakka and separate grots a-go-go. Turret hole is just planned to have a hatch and a nob in a large sombrero, possibly with a tequila Molotov. I had planned on giving it a gun turret but I think that would return it to LRBT hull status, which I want to avoid.

Oh, and fair point too on the little dakka!

Quick pic:

Can't.... see..... anything....

Argh! Dreadful pic, sorry. WIll try to rectify....


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Hopefully an improvement.

Wooooooooooooooow!

Theres an Orky Squiggoth if ever ive seen one!

Nice graven. Looking very good.

Thanks fellas.

Not really much more in the way of progress as am now on day 6 of killer headache. Boo...

Anyway, tusks added:

Giant forehead blade - yay or nay?

Here's my thought on sponson dakka, just tacked on for now (obviously needs orkifying too)


Adding some big shootaz - well, stubbers. Any thoughts on how to orkify them - big muzzles maybe?


And a couple of shots of where the supa Kannon would go - obviously will need a proper mount etc, and indeed a chunky muzzle. However, is the principle sound?



Other than adding a few more plates, and a top hatch, howdah's largely done - or does it need a couple of stubbers and/or another lobba/Zappa?

Thanks for all the input gang!
Graven

I say yeah to the giant forhead blade. This Squiggoth's already got a kinda Juggernaught look to it- give it a Choppa on its head.

Cool. To clarify, this is the blade:

I like the blade but it's a bit over the top and would get in the way of your cannon.

How about a smaller, forward curved blade, thus forming a triangle of doom with the tusks?

Maybe, or indeed another battle wagon tusk out the top. I had considered, alternatively, making it the seat of the ork with SM pinata. On the plus side, found some big shootas after a rummage in the box, which look much better than stubbers.

Big blade yay! Tarasqus YAAAY! Moar Gunz! Moar Dakka!!!

Congrats on 60 pages.

SL

"Congrats on 60 pages." ?

What's next? "Congrats for not drooling all over yourself while you type." ??!

Funnily enough I am slightly soggy, though from wife drool (nothing NSFW, just asleep on me watching tv).
Stoked about 60 though, so thanks! Need to get back to doing stuff...


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Actual p&m that is

Ouch, Gits laying down the hurt

Just building up egos & then slappin' em back into place!

It's what I do.

Shouldn't you be more worried about the 16 day silence on your Mantis blog Gits? :p