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This is literally inspiring.
Excpect a post in the next few weeks from me with a (much smaller) vehicle.

That is some great work.

1 suggestion. Teath on the waist skirt.

This is a beautiful piece of work, Just amazing.

ender502

Fantastic.

There is no such thing as excess to an ork. I've never heard mention of a gun that was too shooty, or a trukk that was too fast, or a boss who was too big. This is a mighty steam powered war machine, it should have great whistles and and long chains decorated with the remains of fallen foes. A chaos titan you would not even be questioning the illogical junk you'd still have to put on it.

Orks are creatures of excess. There is no great cliff where putting on too much detail will suddenly ruin this masterpiece. The only thing that is stopping you is your own ambition to paint this machine.

Cool stuff, way more cooler and creative than anything you could ever make for an Imperial army.

That's why I like orks.

I understand about the excess thing, I'm just a stickler for making it work as an overall piece. I've been playing with smoke stacks, guns, panelling and a few other things but I think I'll be leaving it after the rivets are finished, with the option for the megastrap-on killdo.

Posted By Lemmingspawn on 08/15/2007 11:59 PM
...option for the megastrap-on killdo.

Exalt!

the only thinh i dont like is the penis gun.

Posted By beef on 08/16/2007 4:17 PM
the only thinh i dont like is the penis gun.

[John Cleese]

Well, thats the sort of blinkard philistine pig-ignorance I have come to expect from you non-creative garbage.

[/John Cleese]

Lol, it's ok Beef, it's only for a bit of fun.

ROIGHT!  I've done the finishing touches, but I'm not sure about the big ork skull glyph on the front.  Let me know if you think I should take it off, I think it's a bit big....

I originally had a smaller one on there and it looked fine but this one, I dunno....



And here's a pic with the other big machines in the army so far

Looking great.

I'd take the skull off or move it. This model looks a bit distrubing (in a good way) with one arm and no head, the skull looks like a half-hearted attempt to give it a head.

Yes that's EXACTLY whats wrong with it, I just couldn't place why it looked weird. Done. I've moved it and put a little one where the big one was so now it looks like a glyph, and moved the big one to the side and it looks heaps better. Happy again.

Once the glue dries I can then set about undercoating this beast and then painting won't be far off.

Very cool. The skull glyph is just enough to make it orky and still look like a giant kan.

I agree with Kyoto about the skull glyph. I thought you chinced on making a head at first when I saw that.

Are those two ork blimps I see?

Youre a low-down, dirty-rotten, cheater-head!

lol. More ork make beleive. Only they could make lead filled balloons fly.

"Deez iz da gud flyuhs! Dey gowz fastuh dan duh nob shootah!"

That's great I can't wait to see it painted. I am also curious about those lead filled blimps you have there.

I think he had a thread about those a few weeks ago, yes?

Yar, I had a thread on the zeppelin here:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/Forums/tabid/56/forumid/8/postid/175324/view/topic/Default.aspx

dude, jsut like to say thanks for putting this up on the site, it's given me the insperation of how to make my.... two, possably three stompas without making them look like the traditional fat bellied ones . Obviously i wont plagurise, just steal.... i meen get insperation from certain parts of what you did, mainly the legs xD.

and btw, it looks amasing, i hope mine will look half as good

I love it. The zeps as well. Just brilliant.

Marvellous work - ther is no shadow of doubt that thing is built by an ork!

Looking forward to seeing it painted. BTW - any chance of group pics of your entire Ork army? I am assuming you have one.

Yeah I have my ork army. I'm still painting it and assembling and stuff. It's mostly assembled and undercoated, biggest hold up is the ideas I'm having for vehicles and stuff.

GRRR.....I needs some assistance....

I've been doing some painting of the beast and I am sorta unhappy with how it's turning out.  BUT the problem is, I can't think of the best way to colour panel it before weathering.  I suppose I can just keep pushing through and then wait until after the weathering is done, but I can't visualise how it's gonna turn out properly.  Any ideas on where I can panel and what colours?  Thoughts are welcome:

How about 'weathering' on the color in parts, like an old faded-red barn?

Also, I'd use scorched brown as the base for reds, yellows and the like. Too much metal here, it takes away from the model :-|

I was really wanting the yellow parts to be the main areas, coz I liked so much how yellow worked out on the Ripley.  It seems now after I've painted it some more, red is the best dominating colour, and I had to add touches of blue because it wasn't working without it....hmph....I wanted to try and go more yellow lol.

Anyways, I've added some more panelling and stuff in the various colours, I was thinking of doing the railings in yellow, so I think hazard stripes might work there (if it doesn't drive me NUTS).  Here's what I've done today since posting the first pics:




I know it's gonna come together heaps more once I do some more weathering, this is mainly the basecoating period for this model....so far....

I would suggest trying different shades of metal, because them mekboy builds something, he doesn't just take a bunch of completely new steel sheet, he uses whatever he has at the moment (and steals that he hasn't at the moment from other mekboys), so if you could make some metal plates to look rusty, others to look blackened from age, give some of them brass or bronze look, improvise, because now it's looks too uniform for orks.

I love it.

It would be cool to have the grot in back holding a fork with a couple squig sausages that he's cooking by the heat of the exhaust pipe.

I think the painting is coming along quite nicely, actually. It'll look more pulled together with the weathering. And a good rug.

It pulled the room together, Dude.

Posted By Jester on 08/22/2007 6:02 PM
It pulled the room together, Dude.

On that show last night? Yeah, I watched it. You know, they say that...

Posted By malfred on 08/22/2007 6:19 PM

Posted By Jester on 08/22/2007 6:02 PM
It pulled the room together, Dude.

On that show last night? Yeah, I watched it. You know, they say that...

The one with those people in it? yeah, its good.