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He's got a point actually.
This would include hacking up the whole grot just to fit him in the tread.

But yeah,so far,the base looks like its coming along great.May i suggest a few small holes in the sand bags to make sand spill out of?

So, it's dried.. it doesn't look bad, but I need to figure out some way to seal all of this material down - the putty is hard, but a little brittle and crumbly and I don't want it continually falling apart on me. I'm thinking maybe watered down elmer's glue would help.. I'd prefer to not brush too much on the base as it'd end up brushing some of the extra material off. Any ideas would be appreciated - I sadly may have to elmers + retexture everything in an additional layer for the sake of strength. The gun arm is supporting the gargant in this picture because I haven't finished pinning it yet (nor will I until after painting) so don't consider the arms to be in a truly proper position for these pictures.

you know what you could try to seal with?
I remember using a spray in my art room that was basically glue in spray form.Its like spraypaint but glue.
If you can find that (craft,art supply stores?),maybe it'll work.And after you prime the whole ting,it should reinforce it.I used the same product to cover my terrain pieces and it didnt melt or anything.

On a bit of an artistic note. As it looks like the IG just got stepped on... maybe put a few little green stuff stringers around where the foot squished him. That would be his entrails squishing out.

That's not a bad idea. Obviously, there's a lot more to be done yet - lots of rubble and 3-dimensional upward-projecting pieces like the walls.. I might do some minor squishing to the guardsman - nothing too extreme, because it's really only his lower half that's been crushed underneath the foot, though.

I think I figured out a way to seal it, so I went ahead and tried it, and it looks like it worked.

Instead of brushing, I took a sponge to some watered-down elmers and just dabbed it around the base to let it flow into the cracks. It looks like it got down in there pretty good, so I imagine it'll be holding the terrain down well - it's going to take a test priming to see how the surface texture really came out, though, as elmers dries transparent to begin with.

Anyway, it's drying right now, and I'm not dissapointed with the results.

I noticed that the foot is ridged with green stuff, but the footprint has no ridges..... normally when I step in the mud, you can tell what kind of shoe I'm wearing.....just a suggestion. Besides that, it looks great. I wouldn't overdo the ridges in the footprint.... just make them subtle

Haha. Guardsmen are so easy to convert!







This dude's pinned in, but not attached yet as I figure he'll be easier to paint if I can get at all his angles. I'm thinking I'm going to put one more standing near him turned sideways and pointing at the gargant in a "Death approaches!" pose.

I got myself a Sanctum Imperialis box from a place about an hour away.. but I think it was worth it. I'm setting the ruins up presently - pictures will be up when I get it all done.

Still waiting on the circuit for the head.. but I'm going to have to start building around it for now.

Angron: the hole is just the place in which I was going to put putty for the footprint, as it's far too indented to begin with. Thanks for the suggestion, though.

So I have some interesting pictures and a whole lot of text. I'm sorry for any of you 56k users, there's a lot of images to suffer through below.

Firstly, while I wanted to add one guardsman being defiant and brandishing dual pistols at the gargant, I didn't have the necessary parts. However, I did manage to make a commander/commissar type dude with a large hat - he is standing there defiantly, chainsword in hand and pointing at the gargant as if to say, "Come get some!"





Of course, pesky comissars armed with chainswords are nothing to really be concerned with. It's reasonably safe to assume he was soon incinerated by a blast from the gargant's head-flamethrower (which I have yet to make! >_<.

I strapped a few extra bitz onto these guardsmen just to make them look more detailed, and tried cleaning up my greenstuff on their joints a bit. I basically sculpt like a monkey, I'm not going to lie. They're removable for painting and won't be glued down till I'm good and ready.

Now, this is something of a before-and-after of the ruins I added in. The base is now 90% done, pending a bit of work on the road and sidewalk area and a bit of sealing with the new putty.


Before the putty was added onto the new ruins:















After the ruins were.. well, ruined.

















And a grot footprint before and after:






Overall, I consider this to be a very successful attempt at a large-scale base and I think the things I've learned are pretty valuable. I unfortunately am now all out of putty, so touchups will have to be with elmers glue if any are necessary.. I'm letting it sit overnight and I'll be sealing the whole putty base up with glue tomorrow. I think the base does the model justice, in any case.

I don't recall if I have posted about this or not, but....

SNAP!  This gets better and better with each update!  I'm impatent and cannot wait for it to be finished.  FINISH IT NOW!!!  Forget the fire works and such!  No cook-outs!  You can have a cook-out any old day!

Sorry.  I'm done now.

With putting that commisar/officer standing there and pointing, I wish there was some way to put a speach bubble or something there so he can be saying, "GODZILLA!"

Oh my God.. that base is super cool. I love the running and squashed guardsmen. Nearly everyone in 40k is heroic its nice to see some cowards.

Fear for the win..

Just entertaining myself while I think about what I'm going to do for the rest of today regarding this. I've decided to wait on making the head until I get the circuit for the eyes and flickering red led.. just trying to figure out what else I can work on until it arrives.

Maybe the grot bomb.

Also, as I've been told, the catachan legs have a belt, as do the cadian torsos.. so I dissembled the two guardsmen, chopped the belts off, and repaired them again.

I put the gargant on it's base just to see how it's all shaping up. I added the ammo belt in just a few minutes ago - I know it needs to be shortened and hang better, I'm about to go do that with some bent paperclip cuttings to make it hang closer to the weapon. Also, the gun arm is holding it up, again. The blue thing that was supporting it from underneath kept falling out now with the new terrain, and as I haven't screwed the gargant to it's base yet it'll have to just hold itself up like that for now.









And just for fun.



I think I can add in some cabling to the top of the head, and some orky eyebrows.

Just entertaining myself while I think about what I'm going to do for the rest of today regarding this. I've decided to wait on making the head until I get the circuit for the eyes and flickering red led.. just trying to figure out what else I can work on until it arrives.

Maybe the grot bomb.

Also, as I've been told, the catachan legs have a belt, as do the cadian torsos.. so I dissembled the two guardsmen, chopped the belts off, and repaired them again.

I put the gargant on it's base just to see how it's all shaping up. I added the ammo belt in just a few minutes ago - I know it needs to be shortened and hang better, I'm about to go do that with some bent paperclip cuttings to make it hang closer to the weapon. Also, the gun arm is holding it up, again. The blue thing that was supporting it from underneath kept falling out now with the new terrain, and as I haven't screwed the gargant to it's base yet it'll have to just hold itself up like that for now.









And just for fun.



I think I can add in some cabling to the top of the head, and some orky eyebrows.


Edit: Holy crap, that movie is funny. Heh. I'm going to have to spend a few minutes making a trailer of my own once I'm done with the head.

Those .... eyebrows ...

wow, that is simply amazing! would you mind taking an areal shot next time your taking pictures? Keep on keepin on

It gets better every time I look! I better get to see this thing up close at Games Day!

So.. nothing really new for the head. Same old same old.



Or is it?

What's that on the back there?



Hm..

Flipping it over we can get a look at some of Ein's super-barbaric wiring.



Results?



Now to build a flamer and disguise that toggle switch a bit.

Dude, your kung-fu is outrageous. Kudos.

Here is the movie that Ein was referring to.  I thought it'd be amusing to just do a showcase of the models' expressions, and threw this together.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEW7vEE9CfA&search=stompa

Oh, sweet Lord.  That clip was LOL.

HAHAHAHA loved the youtube clip.

The Stompa is just gorgeous. Been doing this very long?

Would you believe him if he said, "No?"

Hey Ein, you got into 40k when? Around Christmas time or so?

Late Jan/Early February, actually.

Got the basic head frame attached. It's going to get a lot more cabling/wires/detailing in the next few hours. Also, please remember that there's a grot bomb going on the thing's back - it looks hunched over right now and a bit odd, but aesthetically I think the extra weapon on the back will help balance it out.

The jaw's also fixed in place. I wanted to make a hinged one, but it just proved too awkward - occasionally opening too much and covering the grots completely, which looked silly. I just stuck it in a halfway pose, so that when I make the flamer and put it in the head it'll look alright. Battery's still removable - I cut the toggle switch down a bit as well, and I'll be concealing it somehow once I figure out what's going on the back of the head. Probably make it look like a valve or something. The lights are on and off in the pictures just because I would walk away in the middle of taking photos to take care of something around the house and turn the eyes off so the batteries didn't die, but forget to turn them back on when I come back to finish picture-taking.

















The head's a bit of a mess - the new glue I got, since I ran out of my old kind, seems to give off odd vapors that harden and make the surrounding area crusty. -_- I'll clean it up with the dremel and an xacto later. I actually had the suggestion to give it lightning-bolt shaped eyebrows to give it a bit more character and imply that the eyes are, in fact, zzap guns (aside from the extensive cabling). I might give that a go.

Russ: Can you please remove the filtering on this one thread? I just can't seem to express myself fully without being able to swear. I mean, gosh darnit! That's awesome! It's rad to the max to the flippin' extreme. See what I mean? It just loses something.

jamsessionein: Dude, this just rocks. I know I'm not saying anything I haven't said before here, but this is totally awesome! The sweet thing is that this is the type of model that makes people want to play against your army. I've never seen rules for a 40K scale stompa, so I'm assuming the rules you will use are VDR or your own. But, that's cool because whoever your opponent is he's going to want to see that thing on the table! ...Well, unless he's a total dipwad. (man, I need to swear!)

He could always play it as a "counts as"

okay, that's my Gargant I put weeks and weeks of work in...that's a nice Lascannon you got there...okay, penetrated....that looks like a six what you got there...

I guess some structure points would be nice for this thing

This is just geeeeeeeenius!!!

ur my hero

The head looks awesome. The body looks awesome. The head's size, relative to the body, looks... like it doesn't fit :-( I really hope the future additions to the back and etc. remedy this appearance. Maybe if you had the head up and back a little bit? Anyway, love the green eyes and the glow distortion affect within them, very nicely done.

You definately need a label next to the toggle switch that reads "Sleep//Stomp" :-D

Well, aside from actually attaching the head this morning I've had a surprisingly unproductive day as I've been tied up in family matters for most of the afternoon and evening. I did get a chance to add that dangly-chain-glyph thing from the illustration - the chain is reinforced by superglue.



I'm having trouble with two parts in particular - the flamethrower in the mouth and the back of the head.







The flamethrower is proving to be a problem as I need to find a spot to fix it inside the head where it does not obstruct the batteries, as I've designed them to be removable when they die out.. I could put the flamer in the way if I made that removable as well with magnets or some such, but I'm just having trouble picturing a good burna design in my head. Obviously, I'd like for there to be some 'pilot light' sort of thing at the top of it, so that a flame is visible behind the teeth and inside the mouth..

As for the back of the head, I just don't know what to fill that area in with. Maybe cabling of some sort, but remember, the head has to be detachable for painting and grotpit display purposes (and the battery changes), which prevents me from just running cables into the torso. Whatever I add needs to be capable of having a sort of U-shaped scaffolding built on it for the grot bomb / earthshaker cannon concept I have for the back.. just can't visualize anything right now.

I'm also considering adding some sort of shoulder armor (picture a super-enlarged ork shoulder armor bit) to flesh the arm joints out a little bit, as they look a bit fragile right now. Or at least, vulnerable to attack. Then again, it's not all that vital.

I'm honestly thinking of leaving the eyebrows off this thing. They make it look silly in the same way the 'ears' on the original did.

In any case, I'd love some suggestions.