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My latest project: a blimp for my about 2500p ork army.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39198499@N08/sets/72157624579531812/
The balloon itself is made of an empty plastic bottle, with a half floorball in each end and it's covered with cloth. The gondola is built from ork trukk parts and scratch. The ropes are rigging thread (used when building model shipps)
The painting is made with allmost only citadel's paints and washes, but i think I used something from Valejo too.

So please comment and let me know what to do better next time!

Nice!

Impressive, what rules will you use for it?

very nice

waaagh!!

use at as trukk

Looks spot on mate!

That is soooo cool!! niiice man i love how it looks realistic and its kinda funny to think that you can just picture them go all slow and then shot at lol!!.. Very good Blimp man kudos for you!

Yeah, i think i'll use some kind of customised trukk rules. It could be able to dropp some kind of bombs, but cause it's a blimp it has to move quite slowly, so everyone with a longranged weapon is able to shoot at it.

I really like that. Good skills.

I have a similar idea but more stunty at the bottom of my forces wish list. It may take time but it will be done.

Awesome build!!! Very humorous in true proppa Ork fashion.

Only thing that I think would make it better would be a big Ork glyph on each side of the balloon. I don't think orks could leave a surface that clean free of graffiti for long...

That looks great for the orks spot on , i really like the jungle terrain below .

Good job.

~UnDeAd~

Thats really cool.

Love it!

Great job on the construction and the painting. Very reminiscent of the old Goblin blimp thing from the original Warcraft RTS franchise. (Yeah I know it was based on Fantasy, I'm just saying they're similar).

Looks awesome.

really cool work. maybe add a cannon?

Nice! Only thing I'd do different would be to make the 'blimp' part more patchy.

Pretty nice, looks like it was really ork built... But the problem is its flying Lol jk

Looks awesome.

Tazay wrote:Pretty nice, looks like it was really ork built... But the problem is its flying Lol jk
Looks awesome.

Yes it flies untill somebody on board lights a cigarette and then whoooom! The gas explodes and it crushes down on da ladz on the ground.

This actually looks suitably 'orky.' I like it. I might recommend, however, 'makin it more shooty'. Or more choppy. A cannon, some guns, a spiked net, a ramming spike, big spiked iron balls that the orks can drop, stikkbombs, rokkits, and a whole host of other attachments just cry out to be a part of the experience. But this is very good work, and I am especially jealous of your ability to do so much from scratch. Good job.

Dude, that's a total win! Congrats on a great project that's been extremely well executed. No criticism to speak of!

Damn, wish I had thought of that one!

Sweet work.

Saweeeeeeeeeet!

Thanks for all comments!

Here's some rules for da blimp:
Da blimp 90 points

Bs F S R Type
2 10 10 10 Fast, skimmer, open topped

Range. Str. Ap. Special.
Weapons: grotbombs - 7 5 Blast 2
Dakka bombs - 9 3 Large blast 1
Big shoota 36" 5 5 Assault 3

Special rules: deep strike, tactical insertion

Options: may replace the dakkabombs with the transport capacity of 7.
May replace all bombs with the ability to transport a killakan or warbike.
+ the blimp has an own 2d6-damage table

1)crew shaken 2)crew stuned 3)out of course(moves 2d6 to rndom direction) 4)gas leak (moves next turn only the half distance) 5)weapon destroyed 6)serious gas leak(next turn, must drop a bomb after each 12" flewn to loose weight) 7, 8, 9 and 10 still under work 11) vehicle destroyed 12) explodes (crushes down and eplodes, all units 3" from the wreck suffer a str. 7 hit)

I'll keep working on the rules so please tell if you have any ideas!

For the 7, 8, 9 and 10 result of the damage table, make the result for a few of them (9 and 10 OR 7 and 8) something like this:

Deflation- the damage has caused a huge hole in Da blimp's balloon, making it quickly transcend to the ground. Da blimp is immobilized and suffers a crew stunned effect as well. Any models that the blimp crashes into takes a strength 7 hit.

I hope this helps a bit.

Nice.

This is a really nice model. If I were you I'd add a little more metal to the Blimp, just since this doesen't seem as "Orky" as it could be? I mean maybe you could add 'caps' to the sides of the blimp, maybe with the ork symbol thing on them? Sorry, I'm not the biggeet ork expert .
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ode2308 wrote:Thanks for all comments!

Here's some rules for da blimp:
Da blimp 90 points

Bs F S R Type
2 10 10 10 Fast, skimmer, open topped

Range. Str. Ap. Special.
Weapons: grotbombs - 7 5 Blast 2
Dakka bombs - 9 3 Large blast 1
Big shoota 36" 5 5 Assault 3

Special rules: deep strike, tactical insertion

Options: may replace the dakkabombs with the transport capacity of 7.
May replace all bombs with the ability to transport a killakan or warbike.
+ the blimp has an own 2d6-damage table

1)crew shaken 2)crew stuned 3)out of course(moves 2d6 to rndom direction) 4)gas leak (moves next turn only the half distance) 5)weapon destroyed 6)serious gas leak(next turn, must drop a bomb after each 12" flewn to loose weight) 7, 8, 9 and 10 still under work 11) vehicle destroyed 12) explodes (crushes down and eplodes, all units 3" from the wreck suffer a str. 7 hit)

I'll keep working on the rules so please tell if you have any ideas!

I really do like these rules, but I think if you were to have a 'Bombless' ability, in order to transport a killa kan, I think it should be able to carry at least 2.
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What did you use as the blimp portion? That is very nicely crafted.

That's brilliant, much kudos to you sir.

With my Picky Pickerson hat on I'd say some slightly curved 'ribs' on the bottle (underneath the tarpaulin/fabric of the balloon) would make it look more bulbous and a little more like it was really inflated. The ropes would also pinch the fabric slightly for an even more pronounced effect.

I must stress though that this is a tiny tiny reservation on my part, it's already a thing of Orky beauty.

Really!!? Orcs are awesome. Good Work dude!

Torch wrote:What did you use as the blimp portion? That is very nicely crafted.

The blimp part is made from an empty plastic bottle, to wich I glued a half floorball in each end. Then I added the cloth, wich I gave a wash with watered down brown paint. I fastened it to the gondola with a metal pin and then added the ropes( wich got the same wash as the cloth)