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I think for gaming purpose these are a great idea, but as my good man Vik mentioned some of it does look oversized and flat at times.

However once it has been monkeyed I am sure all that will become unnoticeable

The holes in the decking are a bit big too, high risk of a leg falling through followed by a painful nut-impact But the interior stuff looks great!

Some amazing looking terrain - and flyers Keep it up!

the flatness is one other thing... and the connecting thingies that poke through look ...well...you know?... but it all depends on once it is finished, right?^^

The Warmill stuff looks great, but I agree w/ Vik, a bit too clunky. But if you were to use those cutouts as templates for .040 or .060 plasticard... hmm. HMMMMM.

I wonder what could happen?

Nice flyers btw

So finally managed to escape from the galley where Neil has been holding Scarp and myself......

Got caught up in that silly game known as RL and lost any hobby urges for a while there, but hopefully back for good now. (Iknow, I know, I've said that before )


Agree with all the comments about the terrain, all more suited to gaming than modelling, but should provide a good basis for a variety of things, and no doubt they will get used as templates too. The walkways wth the holes in will likey get some sort of mesh over the top to prevent the whole 'massive hole in the floor' thing they have going....

And a few pics of minor works that have been carried out during my time in the warp, just as a warm-up like....




Added the basic body shape and the twin tail booms, still working on designs for the tail iself, and figuring out the engine gubbins....




Cockpit for the looted necron flyer, thinking this one will have a painted canopy as there'll be too much work involved in getting a 'real' cockpit in there when it's in situ....and that will likely stall the project once again...want to try and get some stuff finished for a change




Moved the tilt-rotor flyer on from the concept stage. This was also going to get a panted canopy, but I've decided to leave it open now. Also realised after construction that I'd missed a trick at the wing/body junctions and should have had a disc at that point to cover where the turning plastic will scrape away paint...it's a bit more fiddly to add that now I've noticed it, and don't really want to pull the wing structures apart as I don't think I'll get them back in place with a good strong join.




Changed the tail design, and started to add some gubbins to the engines. I've as decided to add further support at the exhaust end to raise the craft higher off the ground in it's landed configuration...also means the jets could be used for VTOL without clogging in the ground




A few boys wwith some colour on...not much and not applied in the smoothest possible way, but nevertheless it's a touch of colour One oldish boy, one driver (for the ping-pong bat trukk if anyone can remember that far back) and one hastily put together boy to get back into things.




If you cast your minds way back when you may recall the hill-billy style buggy, it finally made it into the spray shop...
So far it's had a heavy skrag brown drybrush, followed by a runefang drybrush, followed by a liberal sepia wash that I let pool in certain areas. Should provide a nice base for further weathering. And there's a quick copper coat on a few areas - in caseyou didn't notice...




And also started on a pat-wagon for Dredd, so far had a black spray and some rough highlights applied, once there's another colour in place it'l make another appearance.


Not a huge amount to show for the time lost in the warp, but hopefully it'll count as proof of life.

Even though I wasn't interested in building anything my magpie genetics have meant there's been a few supply drops during the off-time, and several KS packages have turned up at various points, so who knows what things could be appearing later......

Thank you for flying Air Dakka, please exit the flyer now and make your way toward your destination, which you should find approximately 800 metres below you......

Glad you escaped Neil's clutches! I've missed your Cyborks and they look great!

very steampunky comeback...

your flyers will be a very nice thing to watch while developing....a vertibird always gets the deserved amount of attention....!!!

What an update!! Crazy and wonderful stuff in the offing there! Love that trukk. Steam power baby!

THANKFULLY THE MADNESS HAS RETURNED slow start but good to see the old stuff still being worked on HAH like I can talk.

Some strange but cool looking flyers love the twin tail craft, great to see some Orks with colour mine seem a little plain in comparison.

That dread truck is a nice piece where is that from ?

Welcome back! Now if only that Arakasi fella would get back to updating too...

Great to see you that Mega City truck would make a great Inquisition transport as well or a 40k popemobile.

Nice flier! I also love the golf cart of Waaagh!

Happy to see you back

I'm actually jumping up and down shouting "Monkeytroll, Monkeytroll! Monkeytroll!!" right now.

Well no actually I'm not, but only because its half six in the morning and the other half is asleep. In spirit I am!

How the feth did you escape that galley , I thought you were happy down there with all scarp's jumpers and mattresses ;-)

So glad to see your stuff again , I think the twin tailed bird is also superb. Though I can't deny its cool to see the dread stuff making an appearance, there has been plenty of interesting kickstarters around so that's enticing to know some might make an appearance

All in all a great return to form for mad doc grimsnick ,
Long live the monkey troll system..

Btw what is this RL you speak of ?

 neil101 wrote:
How the feth did you escape that galley , I thought you were happy down there with all scarp's jumpers and mattresses ;-)

So glad to see your stuff again , I think the twin tailed bird is also superb. Though I can't deny its cool to see the dread stuff making an appearance, there has been plenty of interesting kickstarters around so that's enticing to know some might make an appearance

All in all a great return to form for mad doc grimsnick ,
Long live the monkey troll system..

Btw what is this RL you speak of ?

RL is something you need to stay away from Neil its bad very bad …….

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I'm actually jumping up and down shouting "Monkeytroll, Monkeytroll! Monkeytroll!!" right now.

Well no actually I'm not, but only because its half six in the morning and the other half is asleep. In spirit I am!

Its lunch time here so I can get away with it. Whoot he's back

The tilt-rotor flyer does it for me....something about the shape.

I hope you pressed save on RL and get back to it after a good dose of Dakka

Nice to see some more madness around here. Welcome back.

Wow, thanks guys, good to be back


Moltar - He kept me there with promises of lots of shinies to cut and chop........Thanks man!


vik - Not quite as elegant as the viktorian stuff, but then da boyz ain't renowned for their elegance I'm just hoping to get some decent progress on them before getting caught up in the other dozen flyerz zooming in my head. Err......


Gits - Thanks buddy.But to be fair that's not a huge amount of work for 6 months


LDD - Old stuff always gets worked on.....just gets slower as more shiny things get built...er, start to get built....

The pat-wagon is from Mongoose Games, part of my KS stuff - still have a hover version to come....


Arakasi - Thank you! Well, I see you have a little 'side project' in the wings, general hobbying is going to take a hit while you look into that


Llama - Great to be back mate. As with most of my KS choices, the pat-waon was chosen as potential loot material And I'm sure the eagle could be Aquilafied for Imp use too, Inq chimera just sitting there waiting to be had.... It was touch and go when I got it, but I'm liking the idea of vehicles for MC-1, so ha to ave at least one Justice dept vehicle - at the moment the hover version is earmarked for da boyz, but that may well change once I get it in my grubby little graspers.


dstein - Cheers amigo! If Billy-Bob-Jo and Billy-Jo-Bob manage to get it started it beats the heck out of a golf cart


Sageheart - Thank you and happy to be back. Good to see you too, feels like you were awol for a while just before I was


weety - Always happy to have young ladies jumping up and down shouting my name It's Saturday, why are you up at half six?


neil - We were content for a while mate, but after a bit the jumpers stopped smelling of the girls that had worn them, and to be frank, that was all that was covering the smell of the mattresses, those are in a terrible state...

Oh there are all sorts of goodies squirreled away, for a variety of purposes - some (brace yourself!) may even just be painted up as is At some point I'll sort out the JD stuff into groups to start work on, but for now it'll be a few random bits, and probably more citizens and the like.

RL is kinda like an all-encompassing virtual reality that sounds really good but lets you down in so many ways but is still really difficult to stop playing


dog - You played it too huh?


PDH - They're probably used to you jumping up and down yelling random stuff at your work though But thank you

Glad you approve - it wasn't feeling quite right to me until I tried dropping the nose.

Nah, think I'll start a new character


Dr H - Oh I'm sure there's been plenty of madness whilst I've been in the warp And thanks.



I'm all warm and tingly inside now after that welcome back

Or possibly i'm being targetted by a bowel disruptor on a low setting.....



So, what can I show you today...?

First, the tilt-rotor..

Added landing supports to the engines and now pondering:



Have the body tilted back with a landing strut where the tail ends now like above...



Or with the nose dropped like above....

Possibly with struts at either fore or rear or both...

Was originally planning a turret type thing on top of the body, but I think I'm going to go with dual gun pods either side, just in front and below the wings. Maybe another set under the body or on top

Thoughts on the two variations for the 'at rest' gratefully heard, I'm still umming and ahhing about it, but I'll think about cracking on with the dakka in the meantime....


Picked up a few paints today and couldn't help myself, so here's another koncept from the mekshop:



Was originally thinking a more open rotor at the rear, but then noticed that the lift engines from a Dropzone Commander ship fitted in there quite nicely, think that'll be the one. The rotors will be larger, possibly multi-bladed.


And another koncept for a buggy based on a hovercraft from Aintsy castings - mentioned hese a while back, part of the Hammer's Slammers game seen at salute:



Maybe more of a dakka-on-a-stick in place of the platform. Want a few of these to tie in with the hovercraft junka that sit half-finished out the back of the mek-shop Also looking at 'bikes' using a diferent design of air-cushion vehicle, but that's just a body on top of the vehicle atm


And lastly some minor changes to one of Antenociti's vehicles which will become a ground car for some Mega-City citizen :




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

RL is kinda like an all-encompassing virtual reality that sounds really good but lets you down in so many ways but is still really difficult to stop playing

spoken like a true battle poet!

i am a bit unsure about the landing gear... looks rather big and heavy...hmmm.... but i have faith

and i have to say...your amalgam of tau tech and orky gubbinz... it has a very late 30´s WWII alternate theme vibe to it... that really is a very aesthetic approach!!!

Liking the hovercraft (is it full of tentacles/eels?).
Car looks cool.

Not-Tau-any-more flyer is also good.

The tilt rotor; As Vik says the supports look a bit heavy and not terribly aerodynamic (not a problem for Orks I know).

How about little fold out legs (from the jets), like those on the Mars attacks UFOs?

I would also say, tail down. With a little foot/skid.

OH but my it's good to see the monkey back out of his tree!

Oooh, looking forward to the Pat-wagon!

I would go with dual gun pods either side the top turret may be a little heavy even for Orks, like the fan on the Tau ship nice fit handy that

I have to say the Ork overcaft is a nice idea and rather fitting for the Green Skins, nice start and interested to see it orked up some more

I also have been considering purchasing the Antenociti's car for a while and was just looking at it the other day, although I am surprised to see it in such a normal state in your thread

I have played the RL game it is rather depressing full of glitches keeps crashing and very repetitive, I cant even change my dam character

Yes RL sucks, so many repetitive tasks, and the loading time! I have to lie in bed all night waiting for the next day to load. Its no wonder I'm up at 5:30 really. Or maybe I have a sleep disorder?

Nice work, I'm also getting a WW2 1930s mad scientist feel from the tau/ork thing. I love the ground car - I thought about getting one of those but all the smooth surfaces scared me off.

Tau ship reminds me of the Aircraft in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. I prefer the nose up on the tilt rotor which also looks like one of the Nazi wunderwaffe craft well worth a look at for demented inspiration. I'd personally add the Dakka to the platform on the Hovercraft making it a Trukk sort of thing.

Hovercraft is fantastic!!

Your small flyer reminds me of Slave 1, in fact its so close its almost tempting to give it a go

vik - Big and heavy it is I think they're just big old iron rings, sturdy enough to not get melted by the rockets during 'emergency' take-offs

Cool, that works for me! Just need to figure out the cockpit properly.....


Dr H - Eventually (when else with me ) I'd like a whole force that's mounted on acv's or the like....can play with the sharks then

Cheers.

They are heavy, and not very aerodynamic either

I wanted something heavy-duty to withstand the rocket exhausts, plus I felt it was coming together a little too neatly so far, looked too much like a production model, needed some 'clunk' added Idea added to databanks for future reference though.....

Think I'm leaning towards tail down too.


graven -


Squidbot - Not too many details on the wagon so who knows, it might be a contender for an actual finished piece.....


ldd - No dakka is ever too 'eavy for da boyz

Someday there'll be more......and yes, more wires....

Grabbed a few pieces form Antenociti's for use in the big meg, just as civvy background really, at some point in the dim future I may get round to doing some taken from the page, but these'll do for now.



weety - Oh don't get me started on the loading times!

Mad scientist all the way (With due respect to Dr H of course ).
Oh, but think about the shiny blends you could do across those curves


Llama - Pulp action orks ftw! It'll either be a small paltform with a dakka-man ready for shootin' stuff, or some kind of auto-gun...haven't decided which this'll get yet.


dstein - Thanks man. Always on the lookout for hovercraft types to loot.


Giraffe - Do it Do it Do it Do it Do it



Ok, your Sunday update:


Testing to check my plan for the bubble-nose trukk works:




Seems to be ok...and the fact I used tiny dabs of blu-tac to hold the struts in place means I can safely paint most of the underside of the struts and just glue centre and edges - that's nice as I was a little concerned at how I was going to hide the white plasticard from the other side of the bubble.


Pat-wagon:



Black pretty much done, first coat of red and yellow, Brother Bob popping by for scale

Unsure how I'm going to tackle the windows yet...blue gem effect?


Buggy:

Hillbilly orks getting a bit more attention:



Thinking a couple of differing metal bits, the details and then on to rusting...maybe a few oil spills first.


Random bits:

Rosie says "If your rivet gun goes kablooie, hammering with a feth-off big wrench is a good second best...."




And caught a traitor guard sniffing around:





So long and thanks for all the squigs.....


[edited for stoopid spelling]