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Still "Feelin' da Heat":


Gulgog Tuftoof presents a curious confluence of events. I've still got somefing speshul in da works, but in the meantime, I realized that I'm only two burnas short of a squad (there's a joke about my mental acquity in there somewhere) and I have a second kommando box so that's one in the hand so to speak. The painting comp theme this month is From the Shadows which fits the kommando thing pretty well. It's too damp and cold here in the PNW to spray prime minis, so I bought a bottle of ProAcryl Black/Brown paint on primer. I rewatched the LOTR trilogy to help stay up for New Years and honestly, this stuff makes the mini look like it just came through Saruman's twisted uruk hai breeding process so I'm feeling some good orky painting momentum building. Haven't painted over this primer yet, so I can't 100% endorse it yet, but it went on smoothly and I do like the color/effect so far. Happy 2024 all!

So here's da latest burna, "From da Shadowz..." I wanted to take at least one photo that captured the theme, so I pulled out some terrain that he could emerge from:






Tatoo:


...and a detail of another decal in my usual photography style:


I also just finished an Octarius Kill Team Kommando slasha boy kitbash today. I was hoping to get him done in time for the competition, but at least if I do complete a squad of burnas, now my kommandos won't be a man (or ork) short:








I love the way his face turned out, I painted the mask with a base of leadbelcher and then stippled on some ushabti bone, then covered it in several washes. Happy with my lens technique on this one too. The base was a rush job, but it'll be quick to redo the black around the base next time I break out the paints.

Speaking of which... da meks are done with their speshul assignment so I'll post some photos when I get a chance, but I'm a little terrified to put paint to them as I'm pretty emotionally and financially invested at this point and don't want to screw them up. Stay tuned...

All right lads and ladies, 'ere it finally is. Cutty has emerged from da mekworkx wif somefing speshul fer da grotz (dey likes dakka too you know).
Presenting, Gnot Tanks!
Gnot Tank 1:




Gnot Tank 2:




Gnot Tank 3:




Gnot Tank 4:




I've finally put all the CAD skill I've developed over the last 17 years to some good use (and by that I mean hobby use). I modeled these up and had a local rapid prototyping shop print them up on an MJF machine. I probably should have gone SLA since the surface finish would be better but I didn't want to deal with the sprues. Now I get to paint them and hopefully not mukk it up. Questions and comments always welcome, thanks for stopping by!

Love these! Very TONKS-worthy too!

Thanks Crowe! I've been following your blog and thought you would dig these.

Gnot tanks are looking sick mane. Must be a proud moment to hold something that you've designed in your hand!

Love the atmospheric shots of the burna boy too as well as his glowy/burned skin.

Cool burna boy pics, but those grot tanks are ace I’d not heard of MJF printing before, a quick google makes it sound cool. Was it a work contact that you used?

@Tzurk, thanks, and yep it's a good feeling. Now that it's painted, I have it on my desk and can't stop looking at it.

@Gobert, thanks. I'm a mechanical engineer, and we actually have an MJF printer at work which is where I heard about it, but we can't print personal stuff on it (although I'm trying to change that) so I had to have a local rapid prototyping shop print them for me (and paid for them myself). For future builds, I need to figure out whether there's a material or method that yields a smoother surface finish (if you look at the pictures, you can see there's kind of a crosshatch to it). If not, I may go SLA in the future and deal with clipping off the supports and filing the surface to remove the support nubs. The advantage of MJF is there isn't any of that. The resolution is stellar though, all of the detail from the CAD model is represented in the physical model, and most of the features like rivets and bolts and such are less than a millimeter across.

Here's the first one painted. I had to paint over the Deathskull decal because the color mismatch between the racing stripe blue and the decal blue was huge, but I learned that you can use the decal as kind of a template and paint right over it. Also, I've only ever done one other vehicle, so this is kind of new territory for me, and I wanted it to look appropriately chipped and rusted as befitting a vehicle of orkish (Deathskull at that) design, manufacture, and maintenance (or lack thereof) so I tried the sponge method for the first time. As with most of my first attempts at a new technique, I'm satisfied with the results but also appreciate that I've got more to learn by trying it more times and have lots of room for improvement yet. At arms length though, this thing looks fantastic and I'm inspired to keep knocking these out so that I can field them in a game soon.

Thanks for stopping by!

Very Nice!

Love the way you’ve developed the skull white/blue theme on this one. Looks great.

Yeah, the lack of supports is a cool feature. I quite like the cross hatching texture. It came out really nice on the side of the tank. It looks nice and orkishly weathered too

One more Gnot Tank painted, this one is going to be the leader of the squad. Still working on my weathering technique but I'm generally pretty happy with the way this one turined out. I've got rokkits up top representing every clan in camp too:












As always, questions, comments, and criticisms welcome. Thanks for stopping by!

Absolutely love these! I want to buy a set.

I can feel a new plot arc for “Give it yer best Grot” coming on.

Sweet paint job! Very fancy which is appropriate for bad moons