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So I've made ten, and I'm fresh outta Stormboyz!

Number 8 and 9, which are pretty boring to be honest:





I had a fun idea for number 10 - a loony stormboy who loves his boomsticks. I figured the zillion stikkbombz he'd be chucking would make up for the fact that I neglected to put them on most of the rest.



I'm fresh outta Stormboyz parts now, as I only bought enough for 10 to start with. I have to pick up another 10 at some point, and when I do I think I'll be doing some more fun things with them. I have an extra stormboy body, thanks to my Stormgrotz taking his place, so I may make a rokkit and have him hanging from it by a hand or something.



Anyway, I'm going to watch ebay for cheap stormboyz. In the mean while, I'll figure out how I want to base 'em and add some smoke and other finishing details. (I just noticed a slugga I forgot to drill out, and some mold lines)

I love them.

They look really great as a unit, very impressive. The flight stands really make the models dynamic. I definitely plan to do a unit like this myself.

On the topic of chain weapons, I was thinking knuckledusters. A basic Brass knuckle frame with a row of saw teeth cycling around it, smallish exhaust running up the boys wrist. A pair of those on a boy and you're in business. Super-Bonus points if you make them tall, with multiple rows of teeth. That's a punch to the face that will give anybody a bad day.

I'm interested in seeing these painted!

I dunno about the faces you made. Why did you give them snouts? They look like Storm Pigs now...

Green swine aside, I love the poses and the rest of the work you've done. Are they all well-balanced? Not mentally, of course (they are Orks), but physically.



Ghidorah

Wooooww! I really admire ur stormboyz. i love that one holding the chainsaw with two hands and those grots. good job mate ^_^

Nailz94

Shut up id like to see you do better.
they're awesome.

Yay! It's the Death-From-Above Moomins!

Anyway, I'm going to watch ebay for cheap stormboyz. In the mean while, I'll figure out how I want to base 'em and add some smoke and other finishing details. (I just noticed a slugga I forgot to drill out, and some mold lines)

Or you could...I dunno...paint them!

I really like them especially as a homage to the old 2nd ed Stormboys. I especially like the way you've thought through them as a unit an idea I should steal.

They're Awesome!!!

They look great, great use of the models, very inspiring.

Aw man, that outfit is so cool.

Slightly OT but, in your other threads what do program do you use for your concept sketches ein?

Dude! That jack-in-the-box grot is hilarious and completely believable. I love your stuff ...

Wow... these storm boyz DO look disciplined, which I didn't think was possible. And all while having two grots tagging along instead of a 'boy, and all the other hilarities (sp?).

Great job, and I'd like to second the chain-saw-brass-knuckles idea mentioned above as an idea for your next squad, when you get them!!!

i demand that you finish them with smoke and such!!!
now i need to make some myself
//J

Hey Ein, I've been following your work for some time, but only now have I joined Dakka. Your orks are truly amazing. I really like how you make all your models so unique. Well done mate, keep up the good work.

Those conversions are very impressive.

Definitely makes me want to convert the hell out of every ork piece I own.

So I've decided these guys are one of the first projects I want to catch up and finish off over the summer. I glued some sand and ballast down onto their bases for terrain, and before I prime them and paint 'em, I'm trying to figure out my options for smoke.



The left is steel wool, and the right is a cotton swab. Truthfully, I'm not too pleased with the appearance of either. The steel wool holds its shape reasonably well, but it's hard to pull apart and has a very dense look to it. The cotton's a bit better at looking wispy, but I think I'd have to use some sort of spray adhesive to get it to stay put well enough to paint. Neither smoke idea looks good enough that I want to really consider leaving it. The third option is to sculpt some sort of flames coming out of the nozzles, but I'm not too thrilled about the idea as I am poor at sculpting and painting fire would give me a headache. Alternatively, I could leave them smoke-less, but that feels like a bit of a cop-out.

I have seen things like armorcast's smoke bitz that are intended to give the same effect, but whatever I add needs to be able to fit around the wire that's holding the stormboyz up in the air. Plus, a metal smoke bit sticking out the back would seriously unbalance these guys, and I've gone to great pains to get them to sit stable.

On the bright side, I've figured out a nice recipe for a dark grey/blue military scheme that I'm going to be painting on all of their cloth and uniform parts, using primarily the citadel washes. Hopefully, once I sort the smoke out, I'll be able to get the first ten of these guys painted and done with.

when are we going to see some paint on these bad boyz

I was in a craft store the other day and saw a bag of premade smoke for WW2 tanks and such. Never used it but it comes in a couple different colors so I guess you mix the colors to get fire/smoke/coolness all in one. Might be what your looking for.
Also Im glad to see those gasmask heads on a mini. Ive thought of using those for Ard boyz heads. How do they work as far as putting them on minis? any problems?

Those look great. The gasmask heads really do pull the squad together.

Slann: Once I'm done sorting out the smoke, they're getting paint.

KingCracker: The heads work just fine, although I think they look better on something slightly larger than a normal Orc boy, such as on a black orc body or these Stormboyz. They seem a teensy bit big on normal boy bodies, and a bit small on Nobz. They fit stormboyz like a glove, as far as I'm concerned. There's a bit of cleanup required with greenstuff to touch up casting defects, but nothing too crazy.

So I figured out an absolutely brilliant solution to my smoke dilemma, courtesy of the tutorial on this nice blog. Essentially, one takes bushy flocking material and glues it to the flight stem, and after repeated glue applications it resembles a fantastic smoke trail.

The flock was applied with cyanoacrylate superglue at first, giving me what resembled large bushes trailing behind my Stormboyz.



After two coats of watered-down Elmer's glue, they start looking less like flying shrubbery and more like smoke:



The trails are firm, but a coat or two more of the glue might be necessary before I'm entirely comfortable drybrushing it. I may actually try and find some thinner cyanoacrylate glue so I don't spend all of tomorrow sitting around waiting for this stuff to dry up. I think it's a vast improvement over my earlier wool or cotton options, though, as it has a much nicer texture to it.


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Well, after a bit more glue application, the 'smoke' is now rock-solid. I know because I've managed to drop at least two of the stormboyz this morning, and thankfully both the smoke and their fully-pinned assembly held up just fine, even the flight stems.

Here's how they looked when I was done.



And off they went to the garage for a coat of primer. I'm using gray for this one because I want to do a dark gray-blue on their uniforms, and I think it'll look better with the smoke when I'm done.



Please excuse my poor or inconsistent photography here. I've built myself a new workbench in the basement and I'm still sorting out proper lighting.

The tutorial I was using for the smoke suggests that after priming, one should light the smoke-flock ablaze with actual fire to burn off some of the fuzzies and char the smoke. I'm probably not going to do this because I do not like the idea of lighting my models on fire, and the cyanoacrylate glue I used did a pretty reasonable job at sticking the loose fuzzy bits down and together in smokey clumps.

Anyway, next up is paint. I'm probably going to start on the uniforms - I figure I'll do the bases last, in the event any of the wash drips off the suspended figure.

Really cool stuff thanks for this it's been a gret help for my Tankbustas and Kommando's making me think of them as units and stuff to tie them together. You've been aspirational to me.

I haven't made tremendous progress, but I want to throw this up here to prove that I am, in fact, painting.



I've been base-coating the models so far, and finishing the nooks and crannies I have to, such as the skin on the neck areas beneath the helmets. I basecoat in the bright colors, and use the citadel washes to handle the darker areas. I'm going to be washing the skin with a hit of thraka green, then work on the metals and other tiny details, and then hit the whole model(s) with black washes and touch up what I need to with highlights. Here's one of the orks close-up, just so you get an idea of where I'm at for all of these.



After a black wash, the blue on the clothing will look a lot darker, and hopefully more like leather. This is the first time in a long time I'm doing any sort of batch painting, which is why it's taking so damn long... Not to mention all the other stuff I have going on around home!

More to come.

It's looking good so far ein. I know you've said you're concentrating on these right now, but did you ever complete the biker nob?

InyokaMadoda wrote:It's looking good so far ein. I know you've said you're concentrating on these right now, but did you ever complete the biker nob?

Not 100% - that's on the list of things being finished, along with my bikes.

You'll want a Nob to go with them, possibly using two rokkits tied together so he gets into combat twice as fast, right?

As far as the footslogger you have, I don't know if it's possible but you can try having him stand there without a rokkit in a "ready to launch" pose, looking up at his rokkit disappearing into the distance. "Uh-oh." He should have broken straps and burn marks on his backside and maybe an extra-crispy grot standing behind him who was adjusting something on the rokkit when it "lit up".

P.S. I'm stealing all your ideas.

is it wrong that I want to sing "stormboyz in da sky" to the music of "Brown Girls in the Ring"?