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I use hotglue for the vast majority of my big projects, its just so cheap and works really well. I hadnt thought enough on how it was going to support its self, I figured the leg would be enough. Over time though, the weight really piled on. If I do that again (which why wouldnt I make a cool model?!) Ill make sure the leg that is contacting the ground, will be built around a metal rod of some kind. One strong enough to hold several pounds even. Oh well, not a huge deal.


As far as a pilot.....erm....I hadnt thought of one? I was just going to add a tail the guns and a tongue flapping in the wind. Although......you might have just given me an idea for one.......hmmmmm Ill go play around with this for a bit and see if something pops out


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HOLY MOLY! PAGE 10!!

 nerdfest09 wrote:

LOL nerdfest hilarious, needed that picture this morning.

I vote YES on the outhouse hat great work so far KC, you need tank tracks for a tongue

Good work KC. Congratulations on 10 pages of Orky goodness.

 KingCracker wrote:

As far as a pilot.....erm....I hadnt thought of one? I was just going to add a tail the guns and a tongue flapping in the wind. Although......you might have just given me an idea for one.......hmmmmm Ill go play around with this for a bit and see if something pops out

How about a small squig on a makeshift treadmill in the mouth, with servos attached to his "head"! then put a grot on the cannon on top to give it that multi-orkish team to operate such an exquisite piece of machinery!

OOOOOooor, you could have a grot with a joystick hanging around it, kinda like a kid with an R/C monster trukk!

More ideas to come later if needed...

I had a cool idea for a pilot, and it just wasnt working out. Im sure if I actually started with a pilot in mind, things would be different, but since I didnt, it just looks kindda thrown in and I dont want to rebuild the entire jaw just to say cool, a pilot. Im still not sure what/how Im making the tongue, I think next time Ill jump into that whole shebang and see what I come up with. Thanks for all the compliments and such everyone, really warms a Meks heart strings

So today we worked on some GUNZ! Yea, you know, the important part in Ork Kulture. I made sure they are nice and LOUD! DAKKADAKKADAKKADAKKADAKKA

Anywho, for realz, Supakannon, and 3 bigshootas. The Kannon moves up and down and stays in place rather well, and the pair of Bigshootas swivel in place as well.

Pics and stuff






And lastly, I want some ideas for the eyes. I have been scratching my head big time on this part. I THINK I want to make one of them a blob of lens/roboeyes but thats really it. Thoughts? I need to get this part done for sure next time because....well it cant see and no eyes makes it look completely unfinished. So bang your heads against something hard until good idears plop out ladz!

Cylon eye?

is that a basalisk turret on it back there? (also looks really good)

it needs angry eyebrows, for sure!. I think eyes like this would work:

http://www.irondogstudios.com/images/tater/tater-concept12a-bg.jpg

specifically the glowing green eye's brow.

I also think the cutout other eye with the void (as if something inside was peering out would be cool. also a spot to put a gretching hanging out throwing a grenade or something

 bigfish wrote:
is that a basalisk turret on it back there? (also looks really good)

The back half yes I've had that thing for a decade now.


I like the angry eye idea, that adds instant character. Maybe I'll put some big bolts and such to hold that on too. My current problem with adding bodies and hanging grots is that I'm pretty much out of extra bodies to do those things. And I've got a pretty tight hobby budget currently, though I did have a job interview yesterday so that might change


Cheers

It needs goggles like the minions from despicable me. They can be bolted on, and then it needs a windshield/eye wiper.

Hey... now that is a good idea. Very not bad Theo, very not bad. I might just give that a try tomorrow and see what I or together.

Well I think Ill do some work on the MekaSquig tomorrow. Theres a couple things I need to do to finish it up, its actually closer to finished than I thought. That makes me excited because after the Squig....its GROT TANKS!

Well, the MekaSquig is pretty damn close to completion. I was thinking about working on some more things today when the wife showed up and handed me 3 bags of cheap ass pens and said "Here, they were cheap and figured youd use them for something"

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And I figured hey, I should start some Grot Tanks! Because they seem like a pretty good unit, and look cool, and shoot well, and.....and...why not?! So I bashed this little fella together. It didnt take TOO long. It would of been a good 30minutes quicker had I known how to do the tank treads the way I ended up doing them. So figuring that out took some time, but after that it was cake.

As always enjoy and C&C and all that jazz




The individual treads took some time but wasnt too bad, considering I think that really made the tracks.

Love the grot missile launcher, the pen tips are great looking on there. He better fire salvo as he's not lasing long enough to get three separate shots out.

Nice work KC. Cool concept.

Thanks ladz! Yea, the secret to grot tanks, is the secret for most Ork sumfings, too many to shoot down

Looks like an Orkish version of that movie Wall-E lol! safe to say that's a pretty damn cool little tank dude! :-)

Well the Commander tank isnt finished yet, but its pretty close, antenna and such and of course the guns. But he looked good and figured, why not Sorry for the weird color tone....Im not sure why it did that.

Why yes...thats a megaphone





FORWARD YA PANZIES!!! WE CANT LET DA BOSS DOWN NOW CAN WE'Z?!?!



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 nerdfest09 wrote:
Looks like an Orkish version of that movie Wall-E lol! safe to say that's a pretty damn cool little tank dude! :-)

Yea, Ive tossed around the idea of making an Orky WALLE for a Kan or something. Who knows, Im rather sporadic at times

Boss KingCracka was busy looking at maps and star maps scratching his chin squig pondering his next move for more destruction when a sudden, high pitched yell shook him from his concentration.
GROT COMMANDA SIR GROTINGHAM THA 3RD RE-PORTIN FER DUTY SAH!!!! Sir Grotingham the 3rd then saluted as stiff as a board, looking as professional as possible. One arm strait by his side, the other up, bent at the elbow with a thumb stuck into his ear, fingers sticking strait up above his head.
KingCracka was jolted, knocking over random things from his desk. He looked down at this pint size Gretchin, and what he saw was rather odd, even for a Grot. He was slightly tall for a Gretchin, well dressed in a crisp clean uniform, that was clearly taken from an Imperial Officer from somewhere, the blood stained bullet hole saw to that.
Er....who are you'z again? KingCracka said puzzled, still trying to figure out just what he was looking at.
GROT COMMANDA SIR GROTINGHAM THA 3RD! SAH!!! KingCracka covered his ears and winced at the sheer volume of squeekyness.
You'z dun hav'ta but KingCracka was cut off mid sentence
IZ HERE TA RUN YER TANK SQUADRONS! SAH!! Grotingham saluted again, his heels clicked so hard together it echoed in the Bosses tent.
ILL KEEP 'EM IN TIP TOP SHAPE, SAH! WONT TAKE NO GUFF! WONT TAKE NO PANZIES EITHA, SAH! YOU'Z'LL HAVE THA ROUGHEST TOUGHEST ZOGGIN GROTS IN THE TIRE UNIVERSE SAH!!!!!!!
Then Grot Commanda Sir Grotingham tha 3rd saluted once more, stuffing his thumb into his ear, fingers strait as nails, spun in place, and marched out of the bosses tent, making sure to whack some confused boyz who were curious what all the commotion was in the bosses tent.
GET TA WERK YA LOUSY GITS!! DOUBLE TIME DOUBLE TIME MOOOOVE IT!!!!!!! squeeked the Commanda kicking the other boy in the pants.
King Cracka just scratched his head in total confusion. E'z got guts dats fer sure

Your stuff continues to awe me.

lol, really good.

and the tank looks good too.

Thank you thank you. I really appreciate the compliments folks

I have another tank built and I'll post some pics tomorrow while I work on the 4th tank.

Cheers

Yea so I lied about updating yesterday, Im a jerk. I did spray these suckers and here ya go. Im really thinking about painting these guys up and then working on more. Granted 3 is the minimum to make a unit, Im going to have the squads bigger preferably just cause.

Enjoy!



Size comparison with my IG Commander(still WIP paint wise)



And the 3rd tank all on its own (the turret moves and comes off)







Thanks everyone!

cool! i like the way you've done the tracks on the little grot tanks. That and that guard comander looks pretty cool as well

Well thanks for the compliments on both fronts! Im not going to get any work done today for sure, as its a pretty damn busy day for us. Infact, its not even noon yet, and Ive already went and volunteered at the local VFW to help build a storage unit, and Ive got plenty more to do afterwards.


But thanks! I do plan on slinging paint here in the near future, these 3 Grots just looks too cool to not have color on them! Also, I need to get off my rear and finish Commander Obadiah Hearst, his coat is colored nicely, but thats about as far as I went with him Im lazy sometimes AND a little bit of hobby ADD I think.

Cheers

The tanks are coming along great.

That commander is awesome as well, please tell me his beard will stay white .

I'm thinking Grey and white yes. He's an old man for crap sake

Holy mother of Greenskins! I'm actually working on a build, for the first time in years! I was inspired by seeing some chaps building a HUGE warboss out of a Reapers miniatures fire giant jailer....or some such nonsense. Anywho, although they looked cool and I could see where the fellas were going with their builds I just kept seeing things in the minis that just broke that Ork feeling to me. Either they left the boots looking like fantasy boots, or the gauntlets were the same, or the heads they used too small, which left it looking like a pimple or that shrunken head guy from Beetlejuice

Anywho, I said screw it, im going to make a Boss that makes other bosses tremble and swallow hard! Space Marines quake in their power boots! Guardsmen and women off themselves at the mention of his name! A Boss that flosses his teef with Necron Lords and uses Hive Tyrants for toilet paper!
King Cracka da world Smasha! ( clever name I know )so I already started a bit, and I only get to work on this beast during the weekends so sometimes this blog will stagnate for a week or two depending on life but hey, I dont play anymore so I dont really care about the time frame or money, since it's morefor show than anything. So I'llstart with the original mini next to other Ork things to show its massive scale


Notice that this guy isnt on a base, so even if I just make a regular flat base, itll add to its height









So I'll be bulking out and Orking up the sentinel leg, I'm green stuffing the other boot into a more Ork combat boot, I'll leave the metal upper boot parts, probably round em up more so they dont look like fantasy armor. My plan for the head is to actually quad cut an Ork head I choose and plasticard it to stretch and bulk the head just enough, that will be tuff but I know I can manage. I'm going to build 1 or 2 giant robo power fist hands to replacethe fists. They look OK on their own but at least 1 hand is becoming a giant smashysmashy hand. If I keep the other hand its DEFINITELY getting the gauntlet ground down and covered with a more appropriate Orky junk of metal and rust. As for a gun, since I'm making this more for looks, I'm seriously thinking a GIANT scary burna, maybe add a gatling gun or big ol heavy bolter for gaks and giggles.

I also have an idea for his boss pole. I figured King Cracka has beaten. A LOT of other bosses and taken their boyz and he would have taken that bosses banner as a trophy, so not sure how yet, but a big ol pile of banners kind of hap hardly mashed together just to show everyone on the field that hes da biggest an baddest around! So if anyone has ideas for pretty much anything feel free to add to it, because the skies the limit on this one, I dont have to worry about WYSIWYG in the slightest.

Cheers everyone!

Welcome back KC. Nice project to return with.