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Man the plane is looking better and better

Oh wow! that plane is looking great!

Nice job on the turrets. They look good.

Would it be possible to beef-up the connection between the turrets and the fuselage, they look a little precarious?

Assuming you have them rotate-able, maybe a cylinder of "armour", cut to match the plane at the bottom and flat on top. It just needs to sit on the fuselage and the turret attaches as normal and can still rotate. Looks like it's supporting the turret, but is just for show.

Thank you all, really appreciate your comments.

So was about to call this done then I just noticed a couple details, bummer. But here goes as far as DD is concerned...



And individual shots zoomable....














And turret options...




Thank you all for looking, any C&C is welcome.

PS If anyone would like this please PM me.

Very cool . Superb job on the weathering. A whole lot of hurt this jet is packing.

That's definitely an ork jet! Love the dirtied and rusted effects on him. Certainly a prize wherever he goes to!

How cool is that?? Love the shading on the red Cam. Excellent work.

Wow, that is awesome. Especially the shot from below like it is thundering overhead!

I certainly don't see anything to change on it. The weathering really rocks.

Great job. Lovely weathering, looks like it's made of metal.

That has come along so nice! all that Dakka! the nose is a nice touch I must repeat!

Thank you all, really appreciate the comments.

So needed a little distraction, So threw these together, bit of scratching bit of kitbashing....



Thanks for looking, C&C welcome as always.

Nice work on the finished Ork Jet/Bomber it looks great all done.

Top work with the Nob kitbashing too, great models and the paint job is class.

EDC

Some excellent kitbashes here Cam, they could even serve as hq substitutes!

cam you flash git you! using gazza's as meganobz!

they look great though!

Turned out well for just "thrown together"

My thoughts exactly...

Overflow creativity + time = Camkierhi

Dude! Dude. Nice work there, sir.

This thread is currently my holy bible & hanes workshop manual rolled into one. Must have read it a dozen times now cam

 kestral wrote:
Wow, that is awesome. Especially the shot from below like it is thundering overhead!

I certainly don't see anything to change on it. The weathering really rocks.

The grit and grime on the bombs is especially nice.

Hello all.

Thank you all for the comments, been messing about a bit with other things. But this has been itching me for a little bit now. And had a thought. While I am at the build and paint I think I will try and explain more "how" I am doing things. I have changed the way I do somethings, a lot has been gained from the net, with so many proper modellers out there, I have stolen so many ideas and have filtered them down to a set of bits that help me, so think I will share them with you. If I do it right, I think I will start a Tut blog on the the tutorial section. Really am intrigued by doing videos, but so many people out there doing it, and (though I have you wonderful few) not many follow me, so not sure I would be benefiting anyone.

Anyway to the build.

More talk!
So GW do these Gorkanaut and Morkanaut figures. I have looked several times and don't really see what the point is. but they are orky. And I like the idea of a lumbering KFF to go with some kans and dredds, maybe a mob of boys. (please remember that I only play in my head, no game in like 12 years now.) So looked again at these monsters. And again. £65 for this thing. Hmm I can do better! Maybe.

So looking at the model I have one big prob. Now Imp. Knights and all the other races have giant robot thingies, on legs and though probably ridiculous in reality, they look like they could maybe work, but the orky stuff being bipedal looks daft, like anyone on top of that thing would be thrown of with the swaying movement if it could walk at all. I get that it is a representation of the Ork gods. but just really does not work for me. So I have the bare bones of an idea, I hope you will like it, tough if you don't.

This is a trukk and a set of Kans, cost on ebay less than £40 delivered.

Now admittedly I will be adding bits to it, I will try and keep to mostly these 2 kits.

Tools, I have too many, but the staple diet of my chopping stuff up are..

A proper utilty knife, stronger and easier to use than silly modelling knives.
Scalpel obviously
Scalpel based razor saw thingy (new but love it sooooo much) truly excellent at cutting things up with minimal waste.
Side cutters, tried loads they are all the bloody same, yes these are a GW set that are very expensive and i am gutted that I have nicked the blades within months of having them.
Steel ruler, doubles as cutting guide, I have stuck a sheet of rubber to the back of mine to stop it slipping about.
And the Styrene cutters, somewhere about £15 off ebay, speed up cutting tremendously.
So many other tools you can use and will use and I am a tool/toy junky so I have boxes and rooms and sheds full of them, but these are my staples.

Glue..

Just about all plastic work I use these in combo. Apply the Humbrol to area, stick it together and then run around a bit of the Tamiya and it is solid.
I use various others, superglue and contact adhesive, hot glue, pva and epoxy, On these others I have no favoutrite, over the years I have tried many and they are all as bad/good as each other.

Enough boring stuff for now, build time.

Have found some dimensions on the net, (if anyone has one please send me dimensions, pretty please) But main body seems to come out at 12cm front to back, 6cm wide and 13 cm tall.
Spoilering this as it is quite big...

A quick note on Orky panels...

Cut out an uneven piece, can be card or anything. Nibble at the edges with clippers, then file vigerously with a triangular file, clean up with a quick sand, it does not take long and is so worth it. There are a lot of orks out there who cut very straight and clean lines!

Now that was massive and wait until I get the paining thats the real muck about.

I really would appreciate your thoughts everyone. I am not trying to teach anyone to suck eggs here, but more a record of my curent methods. Thanks for looking.

You mad, mad doc.

Thanks bud, someone still looking at least.

Today has been adding panels....






Interior..




So sub assemblies so far....


Thanks for looking feel free to critique or comment.

Oooh Cam this gonna be sooo cool!

Only 13 CM tho? I thought they were taller :( that's a bit disappointing. I've not got one either obviously. My understanding is they're not horribly good in game (not that I've played much)

I'm kinda getting some "Howl's Moving Castle" vibes from this thing...it's mad and I love it...can't wait to see how it turns out

Wow it's looking great dude! Thanks for the tips on the Orky panels too, that's very helpful

someone still looking at least.

lack of comment doesn´t mean lack of viewers...
your work is making the viewers gawping and watching in total silence unable to even write...

this will be an epic piece of junk...

Wow think this might be one of your best creations yet .

To be honest I think this could be he is best conversions yet ( although there are many great ones, love the staff car just because of it simple but elegant lines and for it's pure 100% scratch build works perfectly and I a must envious of it, also this was to long of a sentence to put in brackets ) as for this latest build it's the creativity and reuse of kits that has blown my mind with the build and it it's Orks

The levels aspect is great and the fact that it seems like a multi purpose vehicle, the kan body being used as a cockpit section with the seated Ork behind I love.

so....Orky. Seriously, check your DNA..I'd bet it's part fungus.