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This thread makes me proud to be an ork player, I have a similar army to yours, albeit with fewer super heavies and stompas! I even have an ork with a plan sign

@ Gork and possibly mork. Thats a strange coincedence, I first seen da plan on the gw website by someone who had there own models on there.


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Painting day today. Why must it take so long for each layer to dry. yesterdays kan is nearly complite and ive now begun work on a couple more scenic bases, again im waiting for stuff to dry. Think i will try and finish one of the bikers in the drying time

Things progressed nicely with the first kann, all finished off and armed up according to what i think he should have. Sadly the IG sentinels are only available single models, so i cant realy afford to make the three strong unit of them, so its only one sentinle spread out over several kannz-should be good.

Pictures?

Thats number one of v.2 kanz complited. i think i will make a 1500 kan list up, Plus they are going quite cheap on ebay. Would have had a few more pics but photobucket is playing up

Love the Baneblade with the Battlewagon on top. The side door really fits in nicely with the design and makes it look like a real battle fortress. I'd like to see more shots of the Baneblade and the flyer from different angles.

One thing though: For a Deathskull army I don't see a lot of looted things. If I could get away from my Evil Suns red I'd barely use regular Ork vehicles at all.

This little project got finished today


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Thats the last of the boyz, theres no need for me to ever paint another one again. ever


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So im definatley doing aroun 1k of kanz. heres a set of wip bases for the next pair. Im movein house at the moment so does anyone have the basic points for a single kann?


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wip for one of the sent-kanz


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this ones done apart from the arms. It has the legs from the sentinle.

Ok here it is, i belive the first thunder-ork conversion step by step guide. It may seem lengthy but i figured everyone is at diffrent levels in the hobby so this instruction set should work for everyone. Also with a few tweaks this is easly a spacemarine thunderhawk. Im a little dyslexic so dont worry too much about my spelling. Please leave a comment if this is of any use to you and any pics of built thunder-orks. Lets try and keep the name as its pretty cool too. Should this project be a bit hard for anyone i will happily do the build for you.


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The kits ive used are at the moment two stormravens and a marine vanquisher, tho i imagine towards the end of the build i will have used diffrent orky kitz


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stage one, get out them ravens and build to the instructions on the first page, missing out the parts where my thumb is and the part ive coverd over.


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Providing you have not fethed up stage one you should have this infront of you. Also i should have mentioned im using the humbrol glue with the needle on it. Defo recomend it.


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The sections where the lights go i left open, being an orky machine i figured they would rather have more gunz than being able to see there target. The doors will be left open till the detail stage, depending on what you go for they will realy personalise the kit for you.


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ONLY on ONE of the kits glue this section to the base


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The two sections are now going to be glued together, i did snip a couple of interior details to get a even edge to glue together.


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Glued, there will be a couple of upside down skulls to snip away at a later date. you will know whitch ones when you do the build.


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Ok, now put the ravens parts to one side and get out this box


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Build to this stage using the gwinstructions, however dont put in the inner doors as the extra armour wont glue on properly, perhaps the instructions are a little off from gw?


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continue building to gw instructions to this stage, then stop. have a little break as them glue fumes will be makeing you high


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Just a little reference on where things will be going and should be at this stage. Next up will be using the razor saw to do some serious remodeling

I never considered mashing to Stormravens together like this. Looks promising, keep it up.

There is much i can teach you, young padawan


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grab your vanquisher, cut away the section that is behind the saw. this should be a clean 90 degree cut. On a side note you may feel like a boss with a power klaw muchin threw umie tanks.


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next up were going to remove the rear section from one of the ravens. Again this is done in a 90 degree fashon.


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Glue the two sections together, this then makes the body of the thunder-ork. Be carefull as to the height of where the wheels are, they should be just below the top of the model. At a later date the wheel section will be boxed in and it should all sit flush. This is very tecnical by orky standards.


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Enableing a level finish i found it easyer to line up two existing sections of the ravens body with two fixed points on the vanquisher.


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As all of the main body is glued together, whyle the glue dryes ive built up some of the smaller sub assemblys. starting with the tail section. Just build them and pop them to one side for now.


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no surprises hear, this is the tail section


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There is only two wings required, one for each side. these are just built from gw instructions.


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Again only two engines are needed, built as per gw instructions.


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Thats the wings, done.

Won't the wings be too short for the final model once you're done?

onto fixin the wings, step one. Remove the exhausts from the vindi, Also take off the raised detail arount the area, i think it was ike two small rectangles of plastic. Then give it a little tidy up with a sharp knife


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Remove what i would call the spare flap, on the right of the photo. then alighn the square with the square area on the vindi, Glue sandwitch and one wings done.


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repeat with both sides and hold in place untill dry. This is where a good quality glue is important. now the model is realy starting to take on some shape


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If you followed the instructions clearly, the result will impress everyone. Guaranteed


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Feel free at this point to make areoplane noises and fly this into peoples heads


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Timw foor something a little more skilled. take the spare ravens top tail section, cut it in half. Down the middle. Place one of the pieces onto some plastic card to draw around to make a template, Ive used four pieces from the plasticard, each piece is 2mm thick. Glue the pieces together, so you start with four bits then end up with two at 4mm thick. These are going to be the stablser wings near the fromt on the craft.

Wings look fine now. This is getting more interesting by the post.

Just a quick shout out, one of my friends does lots of orky stuff on facebook, hes got a nice little page to have a look at. give him a like its called Grot orderly.
Progress is happening on the thunder ork, will hopefully have some more pics later today


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Attatch the two mini wings. Keep them nice and level


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close up on exactly where they go.


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ok, so hear is exactly where they will sit


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next section. build up two more wings. However dont add the warheads into front, as later on we can add a bit of dakka. however do put in the ends of the mistle pod


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Remove the flaps that are behind the saw.


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glue your baby wings onto the daddy wings like this.


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A close up of where to sit the wings, i found lineing them up with the lower section of the vindis exhausts looks good, and theres a little more to glue too


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With the wings firmly in place its time to move onto the tail section. Grab the tail that was built earlyer, then remove the section under the saw.




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This bit will require some measurement. cut some plasti card to fill in the section that is the top of the thunder-ork, glue it too the top of the vindi wheels. you may need diffrent sized card depending on where the wheels sit, but should ultimatley sit level with the top of the craft.


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If everything was measured correctly, glue the tail in place.

This makes me happy.. Great work man.

Now THIS is a great army. Subscribed!

Thanks again to anyone leaving comments. Ive also got my first ultra marine thunderhawk to build for someone. should be a good chalange, as the marine variant will have sharp crips lines whear as this ork variant is going to be a more scrappy look, as if the orks have looted it.


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Work todate.


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More sub-assemblys next. This order is for the cockpit. It should be easy enuf to find the spare bits to make this section. Dont glue in any weapons as later were going to add some more orky gunz in there. Ive removed the front aquila with a knife and glued over a bit of plasti card to the entire section. Try mixeing up the plasticard as this will give you lots of diffrent details and make the model more looted.


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Build up the gun, that is used by the servitor. Ive opted to keep the laz gunz, personal choice. Dont worry about the interiors.


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Glue the two sub assemblys to the front of the craft.


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This little section is a little more time consuming. by makeing a housing fot the top of the vindi you hide all the traks and bring the whole back section together. Ive used the top of a gun section from the ork battle wagon. build this as normal around the outsides and cut off the bottom so it sits flush, dont glue the top section on as you need to do some fiddly work on it


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Also now is as good a time as any to pull the top set of wings into the model by laying plasti card. 1mm thick to fill the wing gaps as you can see above


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heres a close up of the zap gun, ive cut it and added a length of plastic tubeing to make the barrel. glueing the end of the zap gun to the end of the barrel.


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Progress so far

Looks brilliant! Cant wait to see it orkificated.

Ah, Ork parts. Now we're getting somewhere.

ive had a slight change of mind. Ive removed the min gub as i feel its a little toooooo small for a orky craft, going to have a look on bitz box for a stompa one instead.

Thunderhork?

ive tidy up the underside of the thunder-ork. This is fairly straight foreward to do, just bung up any holes with plasticard and any bitz you have in your bitz box


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let the fun begin, Its time to build up all of the dakka-dakka gubbinz. Raid you bitz box and get out anything shooty or blowy upy. Theres all the stuff from a ork bommer/dakka jet hear.


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As a rule of thumb i put the biggest bombs on the rear of the craft. The mistles sit nicely under the steadying wings and the shooters have been put into the top set of wings, remember when i said leave the mistles out, that was why-twin linked shootas.


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At the moment you may have notices that the armour plate look stuck on. My current project hear is to greenstuff weld each plat onto the ship. This will take ages so i may be gone some time. Theres plenty of tuts on how to make the welds, just search in google for them if your stuck.I would say at this stage you can start to build up your model with the instructions so far. Ive only the welding, adding more armour plates, battle damage, building more dakk, primeing, building a base, painting, weathering and varnishing then its job done. Oh and makeing some gunz that are where the doors are.

as the project has progreses i noticed the tail section is much heavyer than the front. in order to get the craft to sit on a flyingbase ive made two circles, one on the craft and the other on top of the flying base, this will give me a larger area to glue the two sections together.


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the project is just about complited, ready to paint. i need to still get a gun from the stompa kit but other than that its job done.




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Looks good, could use some more orky gyphs though or more bodged plating

Allready done, i thought the same too. ive not done too many as the next time i build this im going to try to use one less storm raven to keep the costs down. this will then give me plent of oppotunity to make the pair very orky indeed.

Awesome work, I want to see some paint on it¬!!!!!!

so now with the thunder-ork finished i am getting back to my kanz list, this is the first complited three models, theres another two on mydesk plus two more part built then theres a pair more still on sprues. I think i will get a few kanz done before its time to paint up the thunder-ork as i need a bit of a break from it.

Been a little busy with moving house and some of the stuff i need going into boxes, so work has been a little slow. i should have some wip shots of more kanz up in a day or so.

wip, heres the kanz theres a bit to do on the bases, some yellow paint to be added to some of the armour plates, and a couple of armz each too. Anyone have any spare arms please get intouch

Been away for some time due to new job and moving house. Ive now got the paints out and managed to complite 3 kanns and ive built and primed two bommaz. They ill probably be complited by the time i find the camera to upload some pics of them.
Does anyone have and spare kann sized bases, also any kann feet as ive lost all six of them. oh and a bit of a long shot but does anyone have the AoBR dread, as the legs are going to be the lower half of the next kann