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I like the idea of it's front legs running madly to keep up with the jets pushing it forward.

I'm interested to see how the jet assembly will be integrated into the body.
I kinda like the idea of it looking like it was installed long enough ago that it boar's body has started to grow over the edges.
Or that the skin was stretched over the edges and pinned down... very horrorshow that though.

It's cool if you have other plans for that though.

The (Mad) Scientist would approve of your jet powered boar

A face only its mother could love or at least his mechanic, by the way I think it needs an oil change

Maybe add a few cables from the back jump pack to the stomach section, make it look like it runs of bio fuel.

Like how you used the marine shoulder pad for the gun section

That is looking like one sweet cyboar!!!!

Dr H - Yeah, there's various ideas for crashing, stumbling cyboars floating around the workshop....

Stretched skin riveted in place is the current idea, but we'll see what happens when I start work on the join...it may end up as something different...


ldd - How could any decent mek resist...bionik bits and big teeth...lubbly jubbly...

Haven't decided on where cables will be running yet...it's quite a busy piece as is...


Haz - Cheers matey!


So rider has his personal dakka done now..



Decided against a GS eye and used the sensor bit from the termie instead..
His slugga arm came from the boar boy arm, the remains of the melta bomb used on the boar, a censer from the DA banner and mag from a bolter...
Needs some gs to fill out his back and straps, and should b good to go then...


And on his 'trusty' steed..




Need to decide what I'm doing with the hooves, work on the join between bioniks and flesh, and add a bit of fur texture....

Laters.....

Looks fantastic mt!

AMAZING add the bionic hooves and a couple of cables going from the pack to the gut love the boar rider cant believe the amount of parts you used on his arm

DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA!!!!!!!

Gits - Cheers buddy!


ldd - Sorry dude, don't think the cables will make it, although I'll be looking at them again once there's some colour on the wee timorous beastie...
Four bits to make a bionik slugga arm That's taking it easy man....


Haz - Never enough is there? Unless you're name-checking this site, in which case you've got one too many



So, time to add the jets...tank bomb looked to be a good bet for one side, and maybe the hip joint left from the kan side for the other...but that looked a bit too awkward when I tried it. Then tried using the torsos from the mantic elves as connectors, but a bit too weedy. Bck of the beakies torso was a bit too chunky...



But the circular part from the mantic sprues was just right



Finished with lower exhausts from a beaky backpack.





A bit of sanding, add the rivets for the skin and ready for some undercoat...


And as to the slugga boy on foot...



Nothing spectacular, but work has commenced with the crayons....

Sleep tight, don't let the bed squigs bite...

For the random sprue piece usage. Looking good.

Base that boy! And that Cyboar is ROKKIN!

Those Cyboars are so great! I miss the days where Orks had calvary.

Monkeytroll, demonstrating the art of making something out of nothing.

ha ha ha ha bed squigs!!! Looking good!

Tune in next week, when Monkey builds a Thunderhawk Gunship out of a dog turd, empty water bottle, and a cigarette butt!

 dsteingass wrote:
Tune in next week, when Monkey builds a Thunderhawk Gunship out of a dog turd, empty water bottle, and a cigarette butt!

I am half way there all I need is the empty water bottle and a cigarette butt ………….. no found the cigarette butt

 lone dirty dog wrote:

 dsteingass wrote:
Tune in next week, when Monkey builds a Thunderhawk Gunship out of a dog turd, empty water bottle, and a cigarette butt!

I am half way there all I need is the empty water bottle and a cigarette butt ………….. no found the cigarette butt

I ate my dog turd.

HAZZER is the Ralph Wiggum of dakka

How many crayons are up his nose?

Dr H - Cheers. Never forget, sprues are a modeller's friend


Deunstephe - Well, let's see about getting him painted before basing hey Glad you like the cyboar.


Goresaw - Thank you! Bikes, cavalry, a small platfrom comprised of grots - what's the difference to an orc in a hurry?


graven - Well, hardly nothing...'twas a goodly supply of finery from he who has gone to brighter shorez.....


Haz - You'll not be laughing when you wake to find they've munched your leg off my boy....


dstein - Oh please.....

Obviously it would be a looted thunderhawk, durr


ldd - Well if you're missing the water bottle you should still be able to go for a storm raven....come on, build something


Haz -


graven - I think you have it there...


dstein - I thought that was the new technique being used for miniatures these days?


OK, so a splish and a splash of paint managed to find their way onto the minis somehow....











All horrible wip shots so far, I'm hoping they might push me into getting more progress done today rather than finding something new to buil...ohh shiny....

No, early colours work well IMHO like the boar scheme so far hope you keep it dark, but grudge dreg at the bottom is my favourite by far but thats the look more than anything

I love the little bits of brass mixed in with the metal... really works to add interest.

Looking good so far. Skin of both the orks and boar look good so far and the selection of metals is good.

and yeah, sprue is amazingly useful. I have a huge pile of sprue (not just from GW) and use pieces from large lengths for structural purposes to small slivers for detailing.

I think my favourite bit may be the sm shoulder pad. I normally think those studded pads look guff, but I am proven wrong it seems!

ldd - Cheers. As usual I expect a mix of dark and light by the time its done No telling what will occur on the way....


Gits - Yeah, never a fan of just one metallic look, the meks have a wide variety at their disposal after all...


Dr H - Well, thank you, but early days yet, lots to do, and lots of oppotunities to get it wrong.... I think most of my pip shots look terrible, right up to the end..

Yep, sprue is great stuff, and a variety of different sources is always good, get a nice selection of cross=-sections that way....


graven - I'm a big fan of the studded pads myself, but always have issues painting them on beakies..



So, where did we get to....






Details and weathering to go...






Highlights, details and weathering to go...







Lot still to do. Including fix that broken hoof...
Playing with interference colours again. Mixed interference blue with metallic blue...finish doesn't show well in pics..
Was originally going to mix with metallic red for an iridescent look, but decided blue fit in with the Red Boar look






And just about done...

Need to do more to the green flames, add some darker 'highlights', but that's about it. And threw in an attempt at osl type stuff....not great by any means, but the first time it's not looked like I've just been a clumsy fether with the brush, so I'm happy

Avoided building any new stuff....but have several plans now after playing with bits....

A ha, I somehow failed to notice the change to hooves 2 updates ago... Good job.

and coming along nicely.

Hey Monkey, I'm not sure if I've posted here before, but your thread is so full of win. Love your wonderful creations, really unique and fun

What are "interference" colors??

Very cool. I like the way he turned out.

Dr H - So did the boar, he was most distressed to find hed lost his claws...

Thanks!


Ruglud - Well thanks for stopping by, glad you enjoyed your visit. Feel free to make yourself at home, help yourself to tea and biccies (just make sure it is biscuit based confectionery you pick up and not dries slivers of grot brain...they don't dunk so good)


Gits - Interference mediums are used to get interesting colour shifts depending on the angle of viewing, think iridescent effects like oil on water. Using them mixed or in glazes over other colours gives some interesting effects. I used a blue interference mixed with a metallic blue, which has taken a lot of the colour shift out, leaving faint purply hints at certain angles. If I'd mixed in a complementary colour like metallic red then thered be a more dramatic shift between blue and red as the angle changed, which I'll probably use on some vehicle with curved surfaces at some point, curved surfaces allowing for more changes in the angle of viewing/light hitting. I could mix it with a non-metallic red, and then there'd be a shift between flat red and metallic blue....
Thin glazes over other colours is something I want to experiment with too, have seen some interesting stuff done on flat painting using them. They are a bit thicker than most modelling paints, so best used on larger surfaces.


Ice - Cheers buddy, think I've lost track of your thread, I'll have to remedy that shortly...



Ok, just home from work so no update yet, but did get a supply drop today, firts part of my DreamForge KS. Only a few troopers for me in this wave, I went for the Mortis Leviathan which will be later in the year, along with the awesome APC...




One box of twenty troopers, and two lots of accessories.



One of the cool features of these is the wargamesfactory sprues, which stack neatly....




Shadokesh handler (alien forces to be released later...) and Ada, forgotten her rank....





Stromtrooper sprues....2 each of the larger and one of the smaller in a box, fair few options there...





Accessories sprue...heck of a lot of options there, plus bits to make three 'mules' - gear carrying 'bots which I'll admit were the main attraction for me

Thanks for the explanation mt... didn't know that. Pretty neat stuff!