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I'm going to write up the fluff for him proper some day.He is a grot masquerading as a ork. The other orks think he just a lot of cyber bitz only other ones who know are his pet grot and the mek/pain boy he 'stole' it off.

The grot who keeps his secret only gets beat on in public, and can boss other grots around cause he is the boss's grot which is better than normal grots get.

The mek/painboy is just curious as to how well his creation will do.

That warboss is absolutely fantastic. Im looking forward to the finished piece!!

HAHAHAHA! That grot is hilarious!

i really can't wait to see it completed

Thanks for all the motivation cant wait to have this guy done too

A few updates this time round since its been a while and i took a little 2day holiday and went camping

The war boss so far. Not much has changed i drilled a hole trough his chest at about shoulder level and stuck a plastic tube over the shoulders then stuck soem rod trough the hole to keep it in place

also had a little chest piece to form the grots 'seat'
also converted a fantasy black ork drum into a shoulder pad. big shoulder pads are the cornerstone of any armour



since i didn't have access to the camera i stopped work on the body and turned over to the hands

Right Arm

the gun was done using the AoBR warboss rigth arm i removed the barrles then added the barrel from a spare bigshoota

after some testing i choose to have a second barrel under the main similar to a grenade attachment. Like this i can swap out the under part to make the shooter either twin linked or kombi skorca/rokkit.
I'm not sure that just having holes to slot into will hold it but I'm thinking about getting soem magnets in there now ill see how it holds up

Left Arm

i was unable to find a way to have the power fist and big choppa so that the choppa was removable so i just made it as one its still a power fist so i suppose its OK

for now i hope to have the whole arm come out of the shoulder socket so if i later feel like it i can make a separate power-fist arm on it own and swap 'em out as needed

also here is a shot of all the parts side by size for scale


also messing around with an ork name trying to find a good name for him but still not sure about them. If any one has any suggestions on where i can find a good selection of names to get a better idea it would be much appreciated

so far that's all folks

Grotty Powa!!!

Awesome. Love the shoulder pad idea and the bioinc hand/powerfist implementation.

Name... hmmm... Knottagrot?

been a while but i took a break from my orks and was helping a mate out with some converted chaos space marines

so after my break i got back to my warboss built up some more armour around his chest area and some more armour on his cyborg leg to protect the pistons



I am going to need to fill the back beside his cyborg leg some how either green stuff or wiring ill try them out later

i also got alot of work done on his left cyborg arm
after 2 failed attempts at making the arm how i wanted, i choose the next smart thing and made joins instead so i could position the arm how i wanted after i have attached it

first some shots of the arm itself

articulation at the elbow

articulation at the shoulder



the arm slots into the shoulder socket easily
now i just have to choose how i want it attached and posed

or

the hand holding the choppa also comes out so if i find I'm crazy enough to make him a power first with out the choppa i can and they will swap out very easily

i think the actual pose of the arm will be chosen after I've completed the gun arm since that will be a flesh arm i cant have it moving about

soon ill be able to get some painting done on this guy cant wait so using him in game

the best way to name an ork is to take two glyphs out of the ork codex my warboss is called tufgul tuf=ancient gul=death to show he is a veteran ork warboss

Love this conversion. Great work so far!

love this! i like the axe down more rather than up, it looks more realistic whenits down, when he has it raised the body looks tooo weak.

Great job on the boss mate hope to see you back next week after am back in malta

this past week had been like living in an oven which as you expect killed most motivation towards working on my army but i got some work done

the boss's gun finally got back from the mek shop



I'm not sure if a chain sword would have been better or not but it was getting in the way of the barrels im sure even an ork would object to his gun blowing up EVERY time it fired

now the boss him self



the thing on his head is the starts of a generals hat I'm also thinking of hanging a great coat over his shoulders but the exhaust pipe on the cyborg arm is getting in the way so ill have to rethink that a bit


now i have to choose between a or b I'm not trying my other idea with axe as if its about to come crashing down his shoulders are too static for that

A


B

W-ouch. What a conversion. That just blows my Warboss right out.

awesome!!! can just imagine this guy jumpin on top of a land raider, and chainsawing through it, muhahaha

I'm thinking 'B' unless the head is able to turn, 'A' would look good if he was looking along the length of the axe, but if he's stuck looking ahead the 'I claim this space' pose works better.

Fantastic work! The only thing I am not sure about is the thing on his head, he looked better without it.

I like A. B looks a bit goofy to me...

Hey, your modeling is really great, love the creativity!!

Your paint work could need a few more levels of high lighting, and maybe I nice thined down ink wash in places to finish off.

Nice work so far!

TR

been a bit since i updated cause i had a few setbacks
the head broke off twice and i had to rebuild it and quite honestly if it falls off again I'm not gonna have it open ill just glue it in place. i don't see that happening however since the head snapped off cause i was being rather forceful to sand down the hat

the model work is complete i think i may add some more details if i can think of anything id like to add

@Commander Cain - the head did look funny but that's because the hat was not finished I had to give the green stuff time to dry to avoid repeating my previous mistake and do too much too quick. see what you think of him now, i personal prefer the hat maybe the horns would have been more ork but i likes him

@Tortured-Robot - my painting is very far behind i don't consider any single model i have complete and i need more practise also i don't have any washes.... yet. so i would have to agree with you

@monkeytroll - hmm i might have been able to turn his head the other way with some modding but his shoulder pad is in the way so he can turn down the axe which would have been very good i would have considered it I've left eh arm pose able so i can still change it ill add some magnets inside to keep it fixed

@every one else - thx for the feed back and comments

now the pics

hat close up


the finished(hopefully) model






because of how i've built him i do not see much room on eh base for his grot and less space where i can attach eh bosspole
so i had an idea and would like you input as players
i would have a small grot model (I'm thinking riding a squig) holding the boss pole and some ammo and stuff for decoration. Now my question: what is your opinion if i put this extra grot on the table using similar rules to the grot ammo runt or orderly, As in they do not count and if they are in the way i move them off the board. he would basically be there just for looks adds no other bonus and give no re-rolls
i ask my mate i will be playing against mostly he does not mind I'm asking to see how others would feel about this

now that my boss is mostly done ill get back to work on giving my boys those brodie helmets I've finished one test helmet im just trying to think of a way to speed up production of them ill pose pics of those once I've got some stuff to a few heads

guess the blog didn't keep me as motivated as id hoped but im still working on my army im hoping to get more work done in the comig weeks since i plan to play a game soon

No painting work done yest just some more modeling but Ive got more pics than normal to make up for my absence

Finally got a camera and took some pictures of the work i've done so far

firstly my warboss needed his conspirator/lackey but the base couldn't fit him so i decided to make the model

i was hoping to use the squig attack hound from the grot box as a mount for him , but it wasn't that good as the pose was wrongt and it was nt big enough
so i green stuff most of it keeping only the head and what I kept of the boy i kept to save on Green stuffing it all
the helm was my first attempt at green stuffing a brodie helmet but it turned out to small I'm working on another version for the boys but have so far fail it either looking to small or more like a Asian straw hat



i think the back pack might need more detail but i may get away with painting them on rather than modeling them

another model I've done but am not sure how i will use him yet is an ork chef.
I was looking in my bitz box and wondering what i could do with my runt herder. his potbellied pose left me in mind of a few chefs I've worked with and then when i remembered their personality ... maybe head chefs are part ork?
i may just play him as a boy just to offer some style to the squad of have him play as a pain boy his meat cleaver could count as the poison attack and his bottle of drink the feel no pain




still need some more green stuff on this guy to explain the floating pot on his back and will fix up the bubbling over effect i done


also ive started work on another fly boy this time id determand to update as i work on him
i want this one to stand out as i plan to make him the squad leader nothing special other than look i want every unit to have a visual leader in it and with the boyz maybe even a second in command

so first shots

so i cleaned away the extra pieces from the deff kopta
then added a huge grill to the front and a spare bit i had laying around to the back



the piping on the back is the inside workings of a liquid soap pump amazing what you can find around the house. i seen it an said jet engine
the 2 pipes in the front where to be shootas but i replaced them with the normal bigshootas as they looked off



added one of the runt herder head options im hoping to green stuff it around the eyes to give it a more goggle look


i knwo the guy is already kitted out with his weapon choice but since hes the leader im gonna add missiles to the wings
normay the wings are a single piece of plastic card but im thinking of using the I beam on he front of it and making the wings taper to a point
this will look more wing like and will also allow me to fit all the leftover rokkits inside the wing itself



hopefully i wont get side track again and will be more frequent with my updates finger crossed

hopefully next update will be more of the deff fighta leader and my plans on scratch build buggies

Looking good! Looking forward to your buggy plans.

here is the buggy concept i have



Waiting for my magnets to arrive before I start on these .

I'm also having difficulty finding suitable wheels.
I won’t buy the proper buggy model just for the wheels,as i has a load of plastic card i can use so the body wont be needed and ive got loads of spare boyz thanks to the 2 AoBR i got

i looked up Lego wheels but there loads to choose from and they ones that matched are selling for 5 euro for 4

i bought a cheap 1 euro toy that looks like a jeep thinking i can use that but its too big i ll just use it for an ork trukk

my current attempt is bottle tops are green stuff – hopefully that will work out if the wheel work out ill post a pick of them until i get the magnets

Loving all the conversions! The grot in warboss' clothing is super awesome and fluffy. I dig the sidekick/squig hound combo, and I'm defensibly steeling that chef! (counts-as chenkov here I come!)

I had a conversation a couple a weeks ago (outside of Dakka) with endtransmission about making Ork wheels and trakks out of plasticard tubes - so thats an idea. For something more concrete - check out this Dakka blog (assuming you haven't come across it before of course!) http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/302107.page#1721624

Concept drawings look great. If you don't want to build two lots of the underside, perhaps consider magnetising just the wheels and trakks themselves - ie attach horizontally rather than vertically.

I keep meaning to do a Trukk so that I can use a normal boy for the big shoota/rokkit launcha...

Good luck! I'll be watching

Yeah, the thread Arakasi linked seems excellent for wheels, still haven't tried it out yet myself, but nevertheless...
I did however recently make some small tracks using tubing for the wheels, plasticard for the tracks, with strips of plasticard as ttrack detail, worked well in my opinion and was not as fiddly as I'd expected. I f you use those techniques you can get wheels and tracks at the size you want.

The Good Green - thx if i use the chef as a pain boy ill make him a grot orderly carrying a crate of whiskey bottles

Arakasi - thx that link is awesome - my current attempt at making a wheel from bottle caps while promising was going to be too much work and too much green stuff or i could have tried casting i suppose. as for the wheels only the wheels will have an underside the wartrakk option would be a box in between the tracks but i see you point id have to see if i can use horizontal magnets and still have the wheels articulate unless i get very creative i cant see the tracks working too ... or maybe i can

doen soem more work on the deff fighta leada

added a screen for him to 'safely' shoot from behind and it gives the plane a more biplane look, green stuffed his neck since there was a gap and added the supports for the wings



for the wings ends im torn between an other jet engine on the tip of each wing or a rokkit launcha, both are good

for the jet engine option i'm thinking some thing like this http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Whittle_Jet_Engine_W2-700.JPG or this http://www.turbophoto.com/Free-Stock-Images/Images/Jet%20Engine.jpg
id leave the engine as bare bones as possible so the wires and piping show

or for the rokkit option the font of the wing was gonna house the rokkits anyway so i came up with an idea to turn the entire wing into a rokkit magazine clip for the launcha at the end
some think like this



also once the green stuff on his neck dried I'mhoping to give him a green stuff scarf blowing in the wind it would jsut look so lovely

Love the magazine wing idea.

yea those wing are great! and the greenstuff is amazing.

Sageheart - thx but from the work I've seen on here I've got loads of room for improvement which onyl makes me want to try harder

while trying to choose between more dakka or more speed for the deff fighta leada i was stuck so i made a compromise and chose BOTH

i made the wings longer than i planned so now there is room for both. After all what ork in there right mind would chosen Speed or dakka. any mek that says its either or needs to be sent back to mek skewl pronto



im happy with the way its going so far
the wings template

added some simple detail work by first drawing the different panels

then using my flat square file i 'carved out' groves along the lines the front to back lines are easiest to grove out you just files in a lien the ones going across that are not from tip to tip take a little more time using the top corner of the file to grove it out
be careful not to carve to much as it will loose its strength and fold or snap
this gives the wing a more detailed feel and and you don't have to add as much after wards

I'm sure i took a photo of the carve out lines but cant find it on my camera ill take an under shot later

i stuck the wings to the body and added the rokkits launchas at the center of the wing



thats all for now didn't get as much done as i wanted to day since i ended up reading a few treads on here instead