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Waaa...Aaargh!

Onnotangu wrote:guitar wire...

You obviously don't play... It's guitar STRING.



Ghidorah

Nice work there!! Love it! and keep em coming!!

I hate my house coz every time my brother replaces his strings and I keep the old ones for converting, they just suddenly disappear.

Make a squig/parrot hybrid for his shoulder...please! That would make me happy as...something really happy.

How come you no post rest?:

Love the hat. I always feel as though there is a lack of hats in 40k; in real life militant leaders always have unique headgear, yet in 40k so few characters have interesting cranial accessories.

That hat is sooo FETCH!

TheAmbit wrote:

Bloke on the left looks like he is boogie chillin'

TheAmbit wrote:

I like the guy in the middle. He looks like my cousin albert who has his hand stuck in a fan.

Grotz will rool diz wurld. Grotz'z rool, da boyz drool.

Hellfury: I have no idea what boogie chillin is so I'm not sure what to say

!?: I wasn't sure if I was going to blog here but thanks for ninjaing my photo's from somewhere else for me

Elnicko5: That's because characters have to run around without helmets all the time for some reason.

The Thousandth Son: Ha ha Maybe, maybe.

Thanks for the comments guys.

on page 1 you mention a simple guide to using green stuff can you show me where this is????

About 1/2 way down this page the guy has a Hat 101 tutorial

http://warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=116038&page=6

Enjoy

OMG nice conversion work

those kans look awsome with that paint job and i love warboss with the epic hat but he needs a parrot squig!

what clan is that or is it your own????

kool
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The Thousandth Son wrote:Make a squig/parrot hybrid for his shoulder...please! That would make me happy as...something really happy.

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This reminds me of an old minigame we played at my local GW once, it was called 'catch the Squidgeon'. You can probably guess what it was like

Well I couldn't resist making a battlewagon with the new kit, so here's my conversion. I wanted it to look like a semi-truck so I added wheels where the tracks were, two stacks for exhaust, and a hitch in the back. The ram has spikes which I magnetized for easy storage, and which I will probably count-as a deffrolla (hence the 6 spikes).

I tried to make it look beat up like old metal, let me know what you think.

awsome dreads love the warboos hat.

I like the dreads. They're a bit spindly looking in the legs department, but that really only adds to their appeal IMO. They look even better painted up.

The battle wagon looks great so far, I like the weathering effects. However, it looks like it would benefit from some different coloured detail work on some of the larger areas.

Good looking dreads! The Pirate hat is top notch! I like what you did to the battlewagon kit as well. I wonder if 2 part epoxy would stick to the PVC pipe, thanks for the idea on a main body for killa kans! I bought one of the kan blisters, the legs don't fit right and it took for ever to get the thing to stand. I recomend the larger bases, my metal kans legs kept falling off when I tried to secure it to the 40mm.
great job!

wow i love the look of the battlewagon, 6 wheels look good on it, nice idea

I'm a little embarassed, I guess I forgot to drill out the gun barrels on these guys. . . Ooops

Anyway here's the next squad of shooters (half of them) a little brighter than the last batch.

I play weekly at one of the local GWs and I like to vary my list from week to week. This inevitably leads to more models haha.

My newest addition will be two trukks to go alongside the battlewagon boyz.

As always, I try to cut corner and save some dough. For these two trukks I've used a few spare bits from a stompa and a few other sources, but for the most part I've made two trukks out of one!

The biggest and most important bit would have to be the two spare wheels but also very important is the tau ion cannon engine! Some nice v6 power for the lads.





C&C welcome

Very fitting conversions as everything seems to be in place.

Are these comparable in size to the official trukk (the first one seems slightly smaller)?

Metsuri wrote:Very fitting conversions as everything seems to be in place.

Are these comparable in size to the official trukk (the first one seems slightly smaller)?

Yes they're the same size, I made sure to keep the footprint the same. The 'smaller' truck is probably the one with the ork trukk engine right? That one is using the proper trukk frame with the box made out of plasticard cut to the same size as the actual model. So the only size difference would be in height perhaps, by about 1/2 an inch. Then the 2nd truck was made to size with the first. I wish I could give you a proper comparison to the real thing but I don't own one.

Glad they look ok

I painted up 12 more boyz to run in one of the trukks. I made sure they all had helmets and shoulderpads so I could claim they were 'ard boyz if needed. Maybe I'll eventually do up the rest to fill the squad to 30. Also the yellow helps set them apart from the rest of the black armoured boyz.

The yellow I hope looks ok and not too clumpy. It was a basecoat of Astronomican Grey because that's all I had, with sunburst yellow in 3 coats that I would say I semi-drybrushed on.

I'm running a poll, I have a 10man unique wound allocation nob squad to paint up, and I'm wondering if I should stay true to the army's colour scheme of blue pants and black armour, or if I should go with my newest squad's yellow armour. I'm not sure if it would start to look odd if too much of the army was 'bad moon' like instead of one squad. I know what I'd like to do, so I'll see what the handful of people who answer have to say and either feel good about my decision, or put more thought into it

Please vote!

ive always thought of this kind of idea is of all the differents mobs in your army having different colours but a very basic scheme to tie them together......

now for your poll i thought that why not choose a few nobs from each mob and paint them the squad colours with the basic scheme to tie them together.... itd be like the best of each squads get thrown together in a nobs squad?

After finishing a tau objective marker for a modelling competition I failed to enter, I figured I'd browse the net, get some inspiration and make 5 objective markers for my orks.

First the tau objective, which is quite a bit more extravegant than the ork ones. It's a downed ethereal that was being ferried around the battlefield by his honourguard. The ethereal is modelled after the 4th ed Codex cover art.





And then the 5 ork objectives.



The objectives are as follows: (A few ideas were stolen from Dakka threads)
- Two of them are 'top secret entrances' to underground orky bunkers.
- One is a fuel stash, because these boyz don't have time to drill for their own and something has to run the kans!
- One is some extra secret info that was dropped when the messenger suffered an 'accident'.
- And the last is a big red button! My mob can't help themselve but try to press anything that's bright and shiney, even though we're unsure as to what it even does. My opponents MUST attempt to prevent whatever it is from happening

Here's some ork nobs I finished this afternoon. With an astounding upset in the poll of 3-2 (one of those being mine) I went with yellow.

They're modelled WYSIWYG so I can abuse wound allocation. I've run them in a few games and while a strong unit, at 365 points excluding transport they are by no means broken. They die quite readily to blast templates, missile launchers, powerfists/claws and anything else strength 8 or higher. They do however punish tau quite well as they're disadvantaged in the str 8 category. Losing a nob to a railgun shot isn't bad as there are not many of them.





After taking the photos I can see a lot of areas where the brown wash pooled horribly so I'll probably correct that by adding more battle damage in those areas.

Everything looks great, but I particularly love your Deff Kopta, great work.

Very fast work. I particularly like your conversion work, especially the Killa Kanz and Deff Kopta.

The spikes are a great idea to represent the Deff Rolla. I am terrible with conversions, but I'm pretty confident I can even glue on some horns/spikes. Thanks for the inspiration.