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Trondar wrote:Wazdakka Gutsmek!

Do I get cookie now?

Good enough cookie?

-skrall

Love your tanks, But I would be very happy to see your Blood Pact army also, same goes for your VC

@trond; the VC's will be back on the table soon. The blood pact commission got put on hold till christmas/new year, and its been scaled down to small units (for reasons it would be unprofessional to disclose). Unless someone commissions something between now and new year i'll be focused on this gitzkrieg. in about 2 weeks i'm going to buy the first two stompas.

here is wazdakka at the current stage of progress; its pretty early on, alot of clean up/modelling needed, but i think for a kit bash its shaping up nicely.






Just for scale, that biker next to him isn't further away, he's base to base.....

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-skrall

update time, this time with a descent scale shot...





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-skrall

Interesting stuff, looks good. Glad you put the scale shot in for Wazdakka, was thinking he looked a little small in the first pics.

How did the casting of the scrap tank work out?

wow.... 8 posts without a reply. man i love dakkadakka....

Welcome to the blog section my friend. When it comes to posting in here, most people think if its not GD worthy its not worth their time. *shrugs* I feel your pain buddy


But Im rather jealous of all your tanks! Holy cow they look good. Keep it up

@monkey; 50/50, i had issues with my mold for the core of the body, so i'm going to be rebooting the design for the tank to make it alot more cost effective/higher cast/build quality.

@king; haha thanks dude! glad you like the armoured gitzkrieg.

So, we are nearing the end of the wazdakka build. a few more pieces (the burning pole), some cleaning and filing... then some gs and he's done.






That back plate will eventually read 'howz me driving? U Dead yet?'

-skrall

Love this, the tanks are great, very original

@blood; Thanks dude!

Time for another WIP (Wazdakka in progress) update!

I've GS'd all the gaps, rebuild the muscle structure so its correct and filled in a clean up a few gaps. I've spotted one error that i need to correct, which is i've missed some muscle of the back of the Klaw arm.





All i've got left now is a few touch ups then the everflaming skulls and he's done.

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-skrall

Great thread, glad I found it!

Subbed!

@emperors thank dude!

Now, people have been asking to see more close up shots of my painted mini's so they can get a better eye in on the quality of them. As such i am now happy to provide an partial pip for one of my big meks;





He's still a little grubby atm, but since i've still got alot of colour to paint he's got a little ways until he's finished.

-skrall

Update! I've nearly finished the KFF mek. I've got a few touch ups to do to the cables, base and OSL on the KFF itself, but i've got work today so i figured i'd get some feedback before i push for a finish tonight.






and a close up of the skin/osl. They held up suprisingly well.



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-skrall

Great painting!

Loving your wazdakka!

Awesome warboss on page one, and I like the paint on the Mek as well.
Ever think about doing the base in a grey/ colder tone? The brown kinda washes out the reds when viewed as a whole.

Wow, you move fast!

Wow guys thanks for the comments!

@cricket; yeah i did, but when i started the army i wanted an armaggedon yellow chemical sands of death basing, since (foolishly) they were death skullz back then. I enjoy keeping the sand theme because it looks Fething awesome when used to weather tank tracks.

As a reward to my loyal readers here's a tutorial on greenskin tone i've done. Same technique i used on the mek, just a little more muted.

Step 1; Dark angels green base coat;



Step 2; Knarloc Green over all by the most extreme area's of darkness.



step 3;




Now i don't actually own any goblin green or snot green due to GW's current feth-headed policy towards shipping things, despite being 23 miles from the uk my former stockists have stopped. As such i have to order online or get creative.. so i got creative. this mix is 65;35 dark angels to scorpian to get a nice solid mid green.

Step 4;



Once you've mixed the original colour go 4 parts 'ork green (the one you just mixed...or use gobbo/snot green), 1 part golden yellow one part bleached bone for a highlight layer, once done give it a wash of thraka green to blend in the colours without loosing the highlights.

Step 5;



Same with step 4, only the mixture is now 2;1;1, which creats a much lighter tone. in some places it might be worth washing, but this is where its down to subjective opinion.

step 6;



Now just use thin bleach bone highlights to represent stressed skin or extreme highlights, in this case i've avoided the upper shoulders because i know that snikrots going to look alot different when its no longer red and green, but as my mek shows it works well to highlight alot of the areas.

hope you find this useful, more handy tips coming soon!

-skrall

Its time for an update! wazdakka is now complete, and my warboss has been stripped and his powerclaw upgraded!



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-skrall

Wazdakka is looking cool - though his Boss Pole looks a bit weedy? Can't comment on the Warboss - he is too dark in the background - I think an individual shot would be appropriate for an Ork of his stature

Great looking army, my only moment was when I saw the paint all over that mac...


keep up the work, I can't wait to see wazdakka painted up

Wow, thanks for the close ups. Your Mek, looks great. I love the way youhave done your Ork Flesh

Really great stuff here, glad you've given us some close ups to ponder. Waz is looking fantastic but I agree with Arakasi that his boss pole needs help. I'm guessing their'll be a tattered banner or some such flying from it?

Ok wow alot of comments today! thanks guys

@alf; in the 41st millenium... even macs are casualities of war.
@git; i've removed it till i can forge something more substantial!

So an update time, since i aim for 1-2 a day. I've started wazdakka's paint job so i'll shove up the close ups as have been requested, though i've removed the bosspole until i find something more stable and less weedy. I've also finished one of my tanks and i thought i'd display the 4 meks i own... of which the more obvious meks are the good the bad and the dakka. Oh yeah, its also a scale shot of wazdakka, a tank and a biker...







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-skrall

Update!

The Big mek is finished,





And next up on my paint desk;



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-skrall

Very nice. Lovely rusted up appearance.

Possibly the 'batteries' in his sack could use a little something to make them stand out from the backpack, but they might already do that in RL.

As mt says... you might look at adding some contrast to the pack and the axe... it'll help make things stand out a bit so that everything doesn't fade into a red/brown mish-mosh. Nicely done though.

Thanks for the feedback guys! You've both got a point, i might paint chequers onto the grenades... seems like the orky thing to do.

So... a few days ago i won a metal ghazghkull for £6 inc p&p... it arrived about 20 minutes before i went to work. After getting home i've spent about an hour or two cutting and pinning it together again... But what for? Well, the below picture is the artwork i'm aiming for with the warboss... and then there is the warboss, who's only just been put together roughly (it came with no claws so i'm rebulding them... into a marine)






I was going to wait to tomorrow... but i thought 'nah, people need to see me discover using PINS!'

Thats right. first model i've ever pinned. Rock on!

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-skrall

Nice concept, all looks sweet so far.

Pin noob

Nice. I'm using that head for my Warboss/Ghaz conversion too! It will be interesting to see how you pull it all together - but certainly looking very promising so far.

@monkey; find me another noob with such a good opening into the world of pinning...

@arakasi; thanks dude! yeah i've gotta work out the claw hand next, bit of a challange but there you go!

Update time! Finished another tank, done in the usual red dust and rust.





And i may have gotten a bit ahead of myself with the warboss.... i eh.. sort of did his banner before i finished building the rest of him.



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-skrall

So this updates coming a little sooner than i planned to, but i made a final push on the warboss, and so once the GS sets, the excess trimmer and the details added (maybe some rivets) he'll be ready to for action.





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-skrall