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Thanks guys, I still haven't thought of a better solution to priming other then using veg.

The Finecast is causing me all sorts of problems, and I'm only on the head! The sprue joins in some very daft places, it looks like I might have to try and green stuff an ear.

The quality is appalling, its all little stuff but the quantity of little problems is just unbelievable.

I phoned GW and they are sending a replace miniature, In the meantime I have started work on my first Bigmek.

I shaved down most of the details on the back of the KFF, shaved down a burner gas tank and stuck the two together. I also grafted a Burner onto one of the Nob the combi rokkit guns. It was all fairly easy, the Finecast stuff cuts with zero effort, which is a plus. I also quickly blue tacked everything together to check it all looked alright.

wow that big mek is looking really nice so far. especially the bionic arm. nice use of parts as well.

Very nice conversion. The fuel tank looks right at home on the back of the KFF.

Cheers guys, yeah the gas tank fits very well. The arm is from kromlech bigfish but to be honest I'm not going to use it as it doesn't fit very well, this guys going to require a scratch built arm.

So what have I been up to? My replacement Mek turned up from GW, cast is just as bad, different problems this time and you can tell that they have tried to rearrange the mold because the sprue is laid out differently. Maybe in time they will get it right (maybe not). I primed some more Boyz but I'm sure no one is that bothered about seeing them at the moment, I've really got to pick up the pace on them though. My first KillaKan is still WIP as well, once the yellow is finished the rest of it shouldn't take to long.

Very nice. The metal is superb and the yellow to metal ratio is spot on.

Cheers moonshine, I've got a couple of small areas on the engine to pick out in yellow then I can start the weathering process. After that a few details and the base and it's done. Unfortunately for me thats at least a weeks work.

The metal is easy; Tin Bitz > Mud > dry brush Boltgun > Mud > Dry brush Boltgun > more Mud! > dry brush Mithril Silver > and surprise surprise Devlan Mud again.

Devlan Mud should come in litre bottles

Now he just needs someones head to be stomping on and make it go squish.

I tried that schank23, I wanted a dead Ultramarine, but I couldn't get it to work. Ended up with just the shoulder pad left behind.

Anyway the yellow is weathered and plasticard tubes/rods for the Mek arm are ordered (should be here for the weekend). Anyone got some good reference photos for bionic arms?

Looking good. That's some lovely weathering on the yellow

If you've got some of the kromlech limbs take a good look at them. It's easy to see how they've put them together as a springboard for your own versions.

So that took longer then I wanted, I have my excuses but no one wants to hear them. On the plus side after a two week long fight with the misses I am going to get to turn one of the spare bedrooms into my very own man cave. But first I have to finish the kitchen and sell the massive pile of crap that I collected to sell on eBay.

Anyway thanks monkeytroll the yellow is actually very easy but does come out a little dark. I was thinking of trying to do it a bit lighter on later models but the then the army might not tie together, so I probably wont.

The Kan is kind of finished, I tried to paint checks on one of the rokkits but that didn't go to well so got scrubbed, I might try again in the future. Other then that I got a bit lazy, there where plenty of little details I wanted to try to pick out but I figured all I was going to do was mess up what I had already done. So maybe when I get a little better.




I've been working on a rokkit arm as you only get one In the box, but no photos at the mo, I will try to get some up this week. And of course I'm still painting Boyz.

I have now completely given up on the date I want to finish by. But I am now hoping to get a 500 point army finished by the end of July.

Big Mek
2 units of 10 Boyz
1 unit of 3 Nobz
2 Rokkit Kans.

Yeay Badmoonz
The Mek is looking really good were do you get the bionic armes and other bodyparts? I have seen them somewere but I can't remember
The Kanz are simply good

Nice kan so far. Love the pose. And as for the rokkitz. Why not a smile face.

They're Kromlech parts Damien you can pick them up at Maxmini or directly from Kromlech on eBay. I checked out your blog you should finish the fighta bomba it should look awesome with all those grots hanging over it.

You know what schank23 I thought about a Shark face but an old skool acid house smiley face would look great. Thanks for the idea, once I sober up I'm going to sort that out.

Oops, thought I'd commented when I dropped by earlier. The kan looks great, and love the look of the base. I wouldn't worry too much about getting different shades of yellow throughout the army, these are orks, they didn't come off a precision assembly line all together

Well thanks for coming back monkeytroll. I suppose your right about the yellow, I must try to get out of that imperial mindset of uniform. On the plus side I have been trying to mix up the colour placement on my recent boyz so they don't end up all looking the same.

Wow so much win on that ebay page you bet Imma get some stuff there
I'll finish the fighta bomba probably after the AT-AT and I'm not gonna start on that again untill after the 25th

Yeah he does some good stuff. He has a page in news and rumors with his up coming releases, you should follow it.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/291012.page

Cool I'm gonna subscribe forsure, also I like to see an other piicture of the banner nob like to see the banner itself

Sure Damien here you go.



Been working on the rokkit arm today, I think its done. Going to finish at least 10 boyz before I start painting the Kan though. And I still need to finish my Mek

lol, i just noticed the stolen ultramarine plate on the banner. i shall be looting that please .
as for the rokits on the kan arm, very nice plasticard work there

Loot away, I plan on putting bits of looted/battle damaged Ultramarines all over the army. Its a throw back to when I remember Badmoonz being yellow and blue.

That banner is huge I love it.

Only good UltraSmurf is a looted UltraSmurf

Good job saving the finecast big mek. Before you open the next one, check the batch number if you have the old box still, if the batch numbers match you might have a similar problem.

I went through multiple replacements and still only have .99 of a Urien Rackarth.

Thats what all the girls say schank .

My thoughts exactly monkeytroll. I hope to use more as my conversation skills and confidence grows.

And finally, I didn't save anything btemple, both Meks had problems that are going to require more effort then I can be bothered to put in at the moment, I'm just going to use them for parts. I hope they (GW) improve things in the coming months, personally I believe they will.

Anyway no real updates to show shh don' tell anyone.

Your weathering is awesome!!!

Thanks a big bunch BangBang.
I wanted to use the picture to make a WAAAAAAAAAGH Banner but you were to late sadly I thought it up myself. It looks like yours nevertheless
The gun arm is sick I think it'll be hard to tell the difference between Gw and yours.

I'm back, hardly any work done but I figured I might as well show it anyway.

Thanks Ralin, its not to hard to do though, I find painting the base coat harder. I'm fairly sure I posted the tutorial I use on one of these pages if you want take a look at it.

You finished your Waaagh banner yet Damien, I would love to have a look.

So I've finished 3 more Boyz, still took me an age to do but I think something clicked whilst doing them and with luck I should be able to turn them around a bit quicker now.


Put together another Kan, this one has the rokkit arm I built and smashed lascannon on the base. Other then that its fairly standard, I carved off a few of the spikes.



And a Nob to lead my first Boyz mob. Anyone know what the arm's from? I think its quite cool. Puts the model way of balance though, going to have to try and sort that out.



So this week I hope to get 3 more Boyz done and make a start on painting the Nob and Kan. Wish me luck

Looking good, I think that arm's from one of the old tin boyz, I'm guessing the marine one, but can't be sure without looking it up, and can't be bothered opening other tabs on my laptop, it's slower than my painting as is