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Remember Ogretusk, if there is one thing orks loce as much as scrappin, it's lootin. You ain't nikkin someones stuff, you just lootin. der's a diffrence.

Remember Ogretusk, if there is one thing orks loce as much as scrappin, it's lootin. You ain't nikkin someones stuff, you just lootin. der's a diffrence.

If it tain't nailed, bolted, screwed or riveted inta place, then youse din want it, an its up fer grabs.

Damn right. Well, unfortunately I have to put the fylin saucer on hold. Until I can buy one of the new flying stands from GW, I can't work on it. I noticed after I painted yesterday that I had knocked 4 rivets off one side. *curses*. So nothing will be done on it until next week. Stupid 17 dollars for a clear piece of plastic. So, I've decided to work on Mecha Waaaghzilla and possibly come up with a conversion for Mad Dok Grotsnik. I am thinking something along the lines of Frankensteins monster. Patched together from different things. Hope it turns out as well as what I am picturing in my mind. "Alright grots, 'and me dem tools. We can rebuild him, we 'ave da teknology."

Wait a second. So, you're basically scratchbuilding your saucer, your 'zilla, and a bunch of your army... and you're going to buy a flying base? Are you mad?

If you must have the 'clear plastic', get some plexiglass from your local craft or hardware store for, I don't know, maybe a couple bucks for the amount you need? Or make a diorama-type base, covered in scrap and tiny squig-cows, and use some heavy wire to suspend the saucer over it. (Or a clear blue plastic cup, centered, as though it's the 'beam o-light' coming from the bottom of your saucer.)

Or a clear blue plastic cup, centered, as though it's the 'beam o-light' coming from the bottom of your saucer.

Now theres an idea, scratchbuild an old rhino, with a guardsmen or a marine in the top hatch looking up and have the blue cup sitting over them as if they are captured in the light. off to the side have a few grots sneaking up on the rhino bearing some really wicked looking poisoned blades. the poor blokes are so caught up in the light effects that they don't even see the sqeeky deff that is headed their way.

That sounds so cool.

Anvildude wrote:Wait a second. So, you're basically scratchbuilding your saucer, your 'zilla, and a bunch of your army... and you're going to buy a flying base? Are you mad?

You know what, you're right, and I kinda feel like an ass for even contemplating buying one. Okay, so a base built out of hard board, roughly the same shape and size as a flyer base. Next, I have some clear plastic that is pretty sturdy, I make that into a cone, cover it in "Golden Gel Mediums" Hard Gel, with a bit of blue ink mixed in to give it an eerie movie abduction look. I build a small radar dish on the bottom of the craft to count as a Lift Droppa, and I add either a squig or an imperial guardsman being abducted by it. Thank you for verbally knocking some sense into me. Give me a day, (one more night shift to work. 12 hours blech), and then I will have some time off to work on it. Gonna spend all night mapping this thing out while I work. Now I just need to look around the house and see what I can use to make a radar dish. I need something sturdy.

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No problem. I think I've found my purpose in life: to harrass Ork players on this forum until they've found (or rediscovered) their Inner Mekboy!

Anvildude wrote:No problem. I think I've found my purpose in life: to harrass Ork players on this forum until they've found (or rediscovered) their Inner Mekboy!

lol I have to say this is very true but very motivational. A little hard to swallow at first but it does get you thinking about what you can improve on.

Now if I could only get some photos on here, to lead by example. I really, really need to figure out where to find a digital camera. Or else start using my scanner...

So, I can do you one better for my flying stem. A guy I work with designs and builds and maintains specialized salt water fish tanks. He has one that is 6 ft deep by 4 foot wide in his living room. He told me he works with acrylic tubing all the time, and that he could design a clear tube, roughly 1/8 of an inch thick that was about 9 inches tall, and with a clear square stand at the base for support. He has all the stuff lying around his house. He told me he could even rig 8 LED's in the top to make the whole thing glow, and that he would do it for free, and that he would have it ready by Friday. Man, some people deserve so much more than they get. I barely know the guy, but I think he is as enthusiastic about his hobby as I am about mine, and hence the generosity. See, more people in the world need to play 40K. Anyway, now that I am done standing on my , Time for some sleep. I am still holding off on the saucer till I get that pimpin stand from that guy at work, but I will be working on some more stuff. Plan on painting a few models and posting them, working on my Bomb-omb deff dred, for me and Schanks competition, and possibly even working on that Grotsnik conversion I was thinking about. Anywa, time for sleep. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!

Man I wish I knew people like that. But if I ever take up knitting there are alot of ladies at work who keep trying to show me. Ya soe up a torn shirt once at work and they try to get you to start knitting. Had to go all macho on the and say "Hey! I'm a man and big gun and squirrel and stuff." Awesome stuff though. Cant wait to see that base and your Bomb-omb dread.

I really like those rokkit spears.

Thanks Manny. Feel free to use any idea you see that I use, just be sure to give credit where credit is due.

And if any of you out there who check my thread, but don't check Schank23s, he and I are having a contest between the two of us to see who builds the better Dredd out of a Bomb-omb candy dispenser. Figure I'd post pics here of it too. Here is what I have so far.



These spurs were my wifes idea, and I had to use it, cause they are hilarious.



As always, thanks for reading, comments are always welcome and, aw hell what was that last thing? Of Yeah WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!

i must ask. does it still despense candy cause that would be awesome! :

WAAAAAGGGGHHHHH candy

It could. I contained fun dip, and the cap, which looked like the plug with a fuse sticking out of it, had the sweet suckin stick for gathering the sugary treat. It could still work. I actually have 2 of these, one has candy in it, the other doesn't.

On a side note, the guy that was designing the acrylic cylinder for my saucer will have it ready by tomorrow. I doubt he is putting any LED's in it, but regardless, I will have a pimp 8 inch stand for my saucer to stand on. Time to paint a couple of squig cows.

mmmmmmm..... Squig-cow. Almost as good as squig-chicken

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Well, after working 16 hours for three days straight, I am off for a day. I think I'll just go die for 8 hours and then start working on some minis. Sorry I haven't gotten anything done. Thanks for subscribing. Night.

Well, here is some more work done on Dredd-edd. The two arms you can see, have been made out of plasticard and are surprisingly sturdy. Was afraid they would be flimsy, but I did use a much thicker card. Hopefully I will have the arm holding the sword (the one that is raised) done today before I have to work, and I can finish the 4th arm Friday or Saturday.

liking it, cant wait to see it with the sword.

Absolutely loving this thread! Really looking forward to how that flying saucer will turn out, as it's easily the most unique scratch-built fighta bombas I've seen. That stand you describe sounds pretty epic, too.

Well, thank you everyone for staying interested, and bearing with me as I work on such a small time frame every week. Fathering and working full time is rough. The guy cutting the acrylic tube is an for telling me he would have it ready last friday, and yet I am texting him now, reminding him to bring it to work. And yet he is a saint for being nice enough to do this for me for free because he sees my passion for my hobby just like he has for his. Fortunately I have the weekend off, so I can finish putting together my Dredd-edd and hopefully continue working on the saucer and the stand. Wonder if my electrician buddy can rig 8 tiny LEDs into the top of the stand and make it glow. Rofl, who am I kidding, the man is the patron saint of all things electronic, of course he can.

On a side note, I wanted to ask an opinion of all the Ork players out there. Mad Dok Grotsnik fascinates me, and his ability to give anyone a cybork body makes him amazing. I think he may become a mainstay in my army, but the real question is, do you think it would be worth it to give my Stormboyz, including Zaggstrukk, the cybork upgrade. I figure 14 stormboyz, led by zaggy zag, that can deepstrike and assault, they have 6+ saves and a 5+ invulnerable. They lose D3 on the deep strike charge, but even if they lose 3 they stay at fearless, and they have the hitting power on the charge to wipe out a unit, they've done it before. What is the verdict? I love the idea of a unit of robotic orks dive bombing out of the sky just to put a hurtin on someone, and the modelling ideas are driving me nuts.

Hmm. You know, I've never seen Cybork Stormboyz? I'd say proxy it for a game or three, and see how it goes. One of the biggest issues with Stormboys seems to be how they're a 'one-hit wonder', dying too quickly to be of use anywhere else on the table, but Cybork might be able to fix that.

The same could actually be said of the Deffcoptas.


Actually, I wonder... Yeah. Woah. Technically, it's possible to give Orky vehicles Cybork with the Dok!

@anvildude Yeah, I noticed that my Stormboyz have died in every game I have played, and the only one to survive through to the end of the game is Zaggstruk. Vehicles can't have bioniks because they don't have wound statistics. Warbikers, Warbuggies and Deffkoptas could take it. Interesting thought though, and really for 5 points, the upgrade is really worth it.

I agree w/ Anvildude, I think that's something worth trying out to see how it goes. Zaggstrukk already has a Cybork, so it could certainly help to give the rest of his squad a little much-needed survivability as well. My gut tells me that they'll still be a bit too frail to take on more than one unit, but I could be wrong. Let us know how they work out for ya.

I've only run Grotsnik once or twice, and I used him to give Cybork Bodies to a small squad of Meganobs who he then ran with. That worked out ok. I like the Stormboy idea, and I REALLY like the Deffcopta idea. I may have to write up a new list.

Yeah, Bikers gain no benefit from it, but deffkoptas and other units with no real armor would really be able to kick some butt. My tankbustas is another unit that bites it really early. Fortunately I have a friend that runs a real good army, and is always trying out lists on me and with me and would be willing to let me play test a unit without having to have the actual unit. I really think that if deployed properly, Waaaghmachine and his unit of Flying Grunts could be a force to be dealt with. Assault one unit, wipe them out, and then use your consolidation to move closer to the next unit, and then get your possible 24" charge to the next unit. Stormboyz are highly underrated, and now I'm beginning to think they are about to prove their worth in my army.

On a side note, I meant to show this to everyone, since I will be converting a dreadknight into a looted ork vehicle and making him look like Megatron from Transformers, I wanted to kinda build on that idea as well, so the first of my Decorkticons is going to be breakdown. Gonna field 3 as a unit of Killa Kans.
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Let me know your thoughts, and remember, if you can't beat em WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!

Hmmm, Cybork Deffkoptas, and Warbikers...... gotta try this one this weekend. I'll let you all know how it goesl.

The warbikers, exhaust clous save is better, granted template weapons can still get them, but seems like a useless upgraded. Deffkoptas is good. Everyone keeps talking about Grotsnik not being any good cause he has to always move towards the nearest unit.. I'm sorry, I thought we were playing Orks, not panzy oomans. We's ORKS, if we ain't charging, den we ain't krumpin. And why you an ork if you ain't krumpin sumfin?

Oh, on a side note that guy brought the tube. Man, it transmits light so well through it. It is almost hard to describe what it looks like when light is passing through it. Should look great, the problem is though. It is friggin huge. 12 inches tall and almost 4 inches around. He cut the top at a 45 degree angle which it perfect, but the saucer will be so high up. Maybe I am being overly critical. Anyone have any idea how tall the flying stems are for the Valkyries and Stormravens? I can't seem to find info on it any where. That would help me figure out what I need to do with it. I will post a picture when I get back up. Night/morning all.