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That's obviously the hot plate for keeping the pizza hot whilst delivering.

I actually liked the look of the old Bad Moon schemes, but these colours are a better fit with the other vehicles.
As Arakasi said, if you're looking to portray stuff da boyz have looted and quickly swabbed blue to hide the source then you've nailed it, if you want to show koptas that have had care and attention lavished on them (in an orky sense of things ) more layers. I think the white could probably do with another layer regardless, but as the others pointed out, what aren't you liking about them? What look were you wanting?

Arakasi wrote:What are you unhappy about? It may give us some idea of what to suggest...

It looks to me that more coats of thinned paint to block out the colours better is in order - but I'd hate to suggest that if that was the effect you were after!

honestly i am totally unsure of the effect i am aiming for with these. i have kinda done them in the same style as the other ork vehicles but less bright. i Think my main thing is on the 2 with windows i am just unsure about the green, like does it look like window or does it look like green.

oh and when you say "It looks to me that more coats of thinned paint to block out the colours better is in order" you mean washes right like of black and beastril brown?

Moltar wrote:I feel like the first and third one could use some checkers on the wings. However, I'm confused, because I don't know what that slice of pepperoni is doing on the front of the third one.

I agree with Arakasi, knowing what you're unhappy with would help us make suggestions for you.

hmmmm pepperoni lol, well it is a shield from the wahmmer kits and it is the face from the cult of speed. but i am seeing the resembelence to peporoni there so maybe some blue is in order to make it have less meaty snack qualitys.

and i think my main thing is the windows and really the design as a whole. I think it is because i am trying to do an orky scheme on something that is streamlined and at its foundation and not very orky.
that said i am liking the checkers idea you surgested so i will try that out tomorrow.

monkeytroll wrote:

That's obviously the hot plate for keeping the pizza hot whilst delivering.

I actually liked the look of the old Bad Moon schemes, but these colours are a better fit with the other vehicles.
As Arakasi said, if you're looking to portray stuff da boyz have looted and quickly swabbed blue to hide the source then you've nailed it, if you want to show koptas that have had care and attention lavished on them (in an orky sense of things ) more layers. I think the white could probably do with another layer regardless, but as the others pointed out, what aren't you liking about them? What look were you wanting?

"i think my main this is the windows and really the design as a whole"

it is really just the design at the moment and the windows. design wise i am sort of thinking they might look a little plain really and i am not sure how i can make them look less plain (i am going to add checkers though and see how that goes) but those are my main gripes.


thanks for the responses

Bigfish I think these guys look great. Very original, just keep doing what you are doing.

I think they are awesome as is, if I had to say something, I would suggest something crazy, like, cut out the windowed tops on the other two and put orks in them as well. The ork that is in the front one just makes the model retty f*n Cool and that addition, though I don't know how you would accomplish it, would sell the other two pretty solidly. Paint job in itself is cool and don't think it needs anything. Really though, they are fine as is, original and perfectly kustom.

40kFSU wrote:Bigfish I think these guys look great. Very original, just keep doing what you are doing.

thanks

Runna wrote:I think they are awesome as is, if I had to say something, I would suggest something crazy, like, cut out the windowed tops on the other two and put orks in them as well. The ork that is in the front one just makes the model retty f*n Cool and that addition, though I don't know how you would accomplish it, would sell the other two pretty solidly. Paint job in itself is cool and don't think it needs anything. Really though, they are fine as is, original and perfectly kustom.

You know the only reason why i did'nt do that in the first place is i have run out of ork boy bodys and torsos, so it would have been quite hard to make them. and thanks you for your kind words

oks, so i m feeling a lot better about the deffkopters now as i have made some smll changes and added some paint. pics below



ok so i added the checks on the wings and some other bits and i also added the lighter green streak on the glass. i am rather liking them now really so i would be happy to leave them here and move on to the next unit (lootaz) but if anyone has any surgestions please say them.

Lootaz



5 of them are kustom the the other 2 are pretty much stock, i have really just started to get base colours down with these models and i am going to paint them in a similar way to the other ones i have done.

below are my two fav ones. one is sorta monkeytroll inspired and the other i made a while ago and i like the way he is about to please what will be a big red button.



anyway, thanks for looking and all comments are appreciated

I think the Deffkoptas are definitely looking better!

Arakasi wrote:I think the Deffkoptas are definitely looking better!

thanks


so lootaz are preeety much done, so now i have a full unit of 15

The new 7


The whole unit


not sure what i want to do next but i am kinda working towards making a 1500 list so i will decide after write a proper list.

thanks for looking

Im really digging how much character youve put into your army. Keep it up man

Koptas look good with the new checks, and there's nothing like an ork with a beaky bikes front wheel for legs

KingCracker wrote:Im really digging how much character youve put into your army. Keep it up man

thanks man (glad the character is showing)

monkeytroll wrote:Koptas look good with the new checks, and there's nothing like an ork with a beaky bikes front wheel for legs

on the kopter front thanks, and the beaky bike front thanks again



So recently i have just been waiting and waiting for ebay to set me up with the pieces for my next proper build, its been too long since i modeled some propa metal. anyway untill next time

thanks for reading

Ok so i may have forgotten to mention i was going away (being dragged away) on a camping holiday in dorset (has some epic skate parks as it turns out ) so that is why i have not been posting at all. but the good news is i am coming back soon and my ebay stuff should be waiting for me when i get back home so there shall be new orky stuff coming together (yay).

Although on a serious note, i said i would be entering a ruzzbot into matts super heavie blah blah blah competition right. well for a while now i have really now been feeling the plans i have in my head and on paper and i am really tempted jut to use the bits to make a battle fortress that can be have parts taken away so it can be a counts as battlewagon in smaller games and in apoc a battle fortress with 3 super kannons and a shed load of other gunz. what are peoples thoughts on this?

should i make a ruzz bot or a battle fortress?

Replys would be great as i am quite torn between the two, thanks



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oooohhhhh yea, before i left for this trip i started some work on the 19 slugga boyz from the black reach set .

i decided the best way to do them was to have the squad adorned with throphys from defeated enimies. i figured that the orks would be carrying these at all times untill sold so they would'nt be looted from them, but when the boyz charge into battle they would be overcome by the waaarghyness and just drop there scrap and loot to better get into the fight. Therefore this boyz unit is particually customed and i have made 6 tyranid stealas, 6 marine stealas and then 7 that are just theifs in general. The general lootas are inspired by a bit of fluff i remember reading that got me into deathskullz in the first place "deathskullz are theifs without equal, a deathskull could steal your shoe laces from you while you where wearing your shoes, and then strangle you with those laces"

anyway sorry for posting a lot of text, model pictures soon

I don't care either way, but...

BATTLEFORTRESS!!!

That way his whole 'secrecy' thing can go away!

Love those koptaz. They are looking much beeter now.

But I do have to say one thing. Slow the hell dowm.

Your making the rest of us look like a paraplegic potato that just went bungie jumping and the cord broke.

But very nice work.

Battle Fortress. Im not sure I even know what a Ruzzbot is.

Ruzzbot's are basically a tank hull with a mini-stompa/Big ol' Dredd torso stuck on top.

And personally, I'd love to see a Ruzzbot. Used to be a lot more Orky konvertin' stuff around, nice to see this contest re-igniting that Meky spirit.

Well, basically what you need to do is create a battle-fortress using your BW chassis and a leman russ chassis. When you take the parts off to reveal the battle-wagon, some of the bits you've taken off form the ruzz-bot. Problem solved, everyone's a winner

deffkoptas came out pimp with the touch-up paint job, amazing what painting can do. *Looks at unpainted models...sighs*
Anyways, Lootas look cool grouped together, really like the one with the wheel, a freakin wheel, yeah. Something else...
Of course, um, I want to say Battlefortress because that first guys post put it in my head, but the ruzzbot sounds cool, and finally monkeytroll has me sold that I should be safe and suggest you do both.
Ruzzbot if I have to, what does a ruzzbot look like...I could goole it or search dakka...or...wait for you to build it.

Well then...

Matt.Kingsley wrote:I don't care either way, but...

BATTLEFORTRESS!!!

That way his whole 'secrecy' thing can go away!

+1 battle fortress

schank23 wrote:Love those koptaz. They are looking much beeter now.

But I do have to say one thing. Slow the hell dowm.

Your making the rest of us look like a paraplegic potato that just went bungie jumping and the cord broke.

But very nice work.

lol, sorry
i was thinking the other day that eventually i might have to actually buy more orks to make and paint as i am starting to run low on bits. but hmmm that new marine dread from forgeworld is looking mighty lootable...

40kFSU wrote:Battle Fortress. Im not sure I even know what a Ruzzbot is.

+1 battlefortress

Anvildude wrote:Ruzzbot's are basically a tank hull with a mini-stompa/Big ol' Dredd torso stuck on top.

And personally, I'd love to see a Ruzzbot. Used to be a lot more Orky konvertin' stuff around, nice to see this contest re-igniting that Meky spirit.

1+ Ruzzbot

monkeytroll wrote:Well, basically what you need to do is create a battle-fortress using your BW chassis and a leman russ chassis. When you take the parts off to reveal the battle-wagon, some of the bits you've taken off form the ruzz-bot. Problem solved, everyone's a winner

ahh but that would take some planning and that borders on "hummie thinkin" and i ain't no blood axe (deathskullz for the win )
but i will think about it, i have and had been playing with that idea for a while and it would be very cool if i could get it to work

+1 battlefortress/ ruzzbot

Runna wrote:deffkoptas came out pimp with the touch-up paint job, amazing what painting can do. *Looks at unpainted models...sighs*
Anyways, Lootas look cool grouped together, really like the one with the wheel, a freakin wheel, yeah. Something else...
Of course, um, I want to say Battlefortress because that first guys post put it in my head, but the ruzzbot sounds cool, and finally monkeytroll has me sold that I should be safe and suggest you do both.
Ruzzbot if I have to, what does a ruzzbot look like...I could goole it or search dakka...or...wait for you to build it.

hmmm is that a +1 russbot then? (i am counting it as that).
really though the only reason i have bee doing a lot of painting is because my scheme is fairly easy and i have the time, so meh. thanks on the lootas front as well.



Quite a lot of feed back there which is always nice to see. so by my count that is

3+ battle fortress and 3+ ruzzbot... ( now i have to decide)

well i am going to look more into planning the ruzzbot battlewagon convert and as well as that start thinking about super kannon lenths and barrel sizes. But unfortunatly after 2 weeks my ebay stuff still has not arrived, which really is quite ridiculas to the point where someone is going to be getting a annoying email, but anyway worst comes to worst i will just go and get it my self ( )

so i have'nt actually said what i am getting from ebay yet have i? (no)
i have bought a landraider that has TBH really badly orkyfied. Although i intend on stripping it down to the basic hull and tracks anyway so that is not really that much of a problem. but yes i am going to use that as the base and then work onto it from there adding kannons and armour and orkys stuffs.

But anyway onto pictures

marine lootaz



scrap steala's



Nid break'as



And that is that. Quite a large update today but i think quite well rounded. anyway's i have also based the deffkopters but i cannot be asked to take the pictures and put them up now because i am shattered from the car jouney back from dorset.

so thanks for reading and commenting on my stuffs, really helps to keep me motivated to do and make more.

bigfish out

+2 battle fortress

Nah, I don't count, I've already had my say

If it helps, I vote ruzzbot just to see how you spin it

Hmmm... Battle Wagon carrying a Ruzzbot = Battle Fortress?

Photos look promising - but I demand better photos so that I can actually tell/bask in your good work!

Matt.Kingsley wrote:+2 battle fortress

Nah, I don't count, I've already had my say

Lol i am still counting it

Lord Kaesar II wrote:If it helps, I vote ruzzbot just to see how you spin it

fair enough +1 ruzzbot

Arakasi wrote:Hmmm... Battle Wagon carrying a Ruzzbot = Battle Fortress?

Photos look promising - but I demand better photos so that I can actually tell/bask in your good work!

lol i am not sure that is exsactly how it goes but that is quite a good idea. i was thinking battlewagon carrying meaga deff dead = ruzzbot but hmmm

and on the picture front i will have to take some when i have painted some colour on them as i can never get enough light on them to show the detail when it is chaos blacked.


oh and i got all the boyz base coated and ready for paint ( including the deffkopters )

booya

reaaally reallly want my landraider to arrive now, i have been arranging pieces for an age now in prep.

anywho see ya later and thanks for reading/ looking

So i finished one of the deffkopters and half done one of the others. i have really started to apprieciate bases more latly
not sure why but they make a difference. Anyway i am going to do the next one in the different shade of blue on all the panneling as i dont want the unit to look to silver.



onto the next one now.

thanks for looking

I like your blend of xenos technology with orkymekness. Its quite believable. I can see the Big Mek now just hammering away at that eldar tech.

bmosleysbux wrote:I like your blend of xenos technology with orkymekness. Its quite believable. I can see the Big Mek now just hammering away at that eldar tech.

thanks.

talking of the deffkopeters, they all fell off a table and scared the out of me. but the good news is that although it looked horrible only one of them was in need of repair



but it is ok i fixed everything apart from the flying base... which broke at the top bit that fits into the hole under the kopta... very annoying. but alas i have'nt had a lot of time for painting of late and it will be a while untill i do as i am starting the next stage of my education and working so not so much will be getting done. sad times for orkses.

Wow, you luckly.
Most models tht size and that delicate (being glued to the stand and all) break alot!

deffkopters looking sweet

I know it's been quite a while since I've had any original flying bases attached, since when I did my Speeders years ago I glued them to the vehicles- not the best move. Still need to make some new flying bits for them, now I think of it

Kaesar II

May your dice fall as luckily as your 'koptas

Matt.Kingsley wrote:Wow, you luckly.
Most models tht size and that delicate (being glued to the stand and all) break alot!

indeed, the deffkopter that did break is actually being a pain in the ars now because the bit that came off just wont stay on and surport the weight of the kopter on it, so i am going to have to super glue it or plastic glue the hell out of it just to get it to stay on. :(

Lord Kaesar II wrote:I know it's been quite a while since I've had any original flying bases attached, since when I did my Speeders years ago I glued them to the vehicles- not the best move. Still need to make some new flying bits for them, now I think of it

Kaesar II

get on it

funny to say about speeders, im considering adding some to my orky air division

Invicta wrote:deffkopters looking sweet

thanks

monkeytroll wrote:May your dice fall as luckily as your 'koptas

This actually made me smile thanks

SO i deciced to take some better pics of the boyz for yous, not good enough reallly. i uploaded them but they just look terrible so you are going to have to wait untill painting for proper ones.
sorrys





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The rest of the pics are in the gallery