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Its a christmas miracle!

Looking great as usual, thanks for the updates. Glad to see it getting the attention it deserves.

Your kitchen countertop is beautiful.

The Stompa is too, I guess.

You have nice composition on the rest of the diorama as well. Equal parts humor and horror.

Horror is humourous! So its 100% humourous!

Breaking your humerus isn't very humouous.

Sorry about that I thought that the base was alot bigger than it is! Any way this is one of the best models I have ever seen profesionaly done or no. The only problem I can see is that it will make you want to convert the rest of your army so that they look as good as this guy.

On a side note you do have nice countertops

That's realy, realy, realy, realy, realy, realy, realy, realy, realy, realy, realy, realy, realy, realy, realy, realy, cooooooooooool!

And I agree about the counter tops. Very nice!

Not quite a spectacular leap of progress, as the majority of what remains is small details, but I come bearing many pictures.

A friend of mine has very gracefully volunteered me a few ork Kommandoz, which is spectacular, and I cannot thank him enough. I think they fit the scene pretty well, as they are in triumphant and aggressive poses and work very well in an urban setting like this. Of course, the more models I add to the base, the longer painting will take! They currently just pin into tiny holes I drilled in the base, so I can take them out and paint them easily, just like the guardsmen.











Like I said, I wish I could sculpt. I'm going to cut the top of the hat flat and try adding a brim.. I also found the old captain, actually, but I'm not too fond of him so I'm going to give this a go.




And some neat scenic pictures:






The eyes are off in the last few, but they're getting dim. Going to need a battery swap pretty soon.

Finally- a thread resurection that doesn't make me die inside!!!

Fantastic work Jamsessionein. In my opinion the scenic base is a little too big for its own good. The kommando with the stikk bomb should probably have that replaced with something else as it looks like he's lobbing it in front of the stompa

Grot Captain v2.0





The grots need a bit of touching up, as I can see mold lines and the likes, but I like this captain more than the older one.



He just looks meaner.

Golden Demon should be in your future. Open category. This has been a fantastic build. Thanks for sharing with all of us.

Found and attached the mouth-burna. <!--emo& --> <!--endemo-->



I can't think of anything else I'm missing or have yet to do, aside from a general cleanup. I think it's complete - I just need to take hi-res pictures and prime.

Any last-minute additions?

I say stick a fork in it. . .it's done.

I agree with the yak. Maybe stick an orky glyph on the front of the captain's hat, but that can always be done with paint if you don't want to sculpt it.

grot captain is excellent. Congratulations on finishing a great build!

Merry Christmas.

yes you are missing something. Dials and buttons in the grotpit. You need at least one big red button in front of the kaptin, and the kaptin should be poised to press it (rather frequently I imagine).

Because I know the most pressing question on everyone's mind:

But how does it stack up compared to a Forgeworld Gargantuan Squiggoth?

(Okay, so maybe not. But I just had to.)




As if I didn't have enough to paint, along comes the most phenomal christmas present! And speaking of paint...



The gant's just a bit taller than the gargantual squiggoth is without the howdah.

All I can say is that my opponents are going to be crushed directly into the ground.

All I can say is, 'Merry effing Christmas Ein!'

Ewww, gross! Da stompa dun choppa'd da squiggoff's 'ed off!
Now prime that bad boy so we can see if there's any last embellishments to be added. *salivates* =)

I'm hoping to get some advice as to how to paint my baby. I have this model (and diorama base) sitting in front of me waiting for primer and paint, but I've no idea what to do with it now. I wish I was good at painting, but I am sadly a relative novice. Part of me wishes I would just find some professional to do it for me, but I wouldn't be able to enter it in any sort of competitions if I do that, and I've invested so much work into it's construction that it just wouldn't be right. I do have an airbrush that I have used with varying success that I imagine I'm going to have to look at using..

Really, though, I don't know how to paint this up. A majority of my orky constructions are red, but I went for a very scrapheap appearance with the construction of this gargant, so I'm thinking something metallic and rusty might be cool. I've also had an interesting idea in mind for a little while - I want to make it look like it's made of very looted and scrap parts, so I'm thinking of finding a good panel, painting it up an ultramarines blue, and putting the ultramarines logo on it... to sort've suggest they blew a tank clean up, and just ripped scrap metal straight off it and bolted it on as extra armor without even an extra coat of paint.

It's a large task, and very intimidating, so I'm not entirely sure where to start aside from a coat of black primer. Faded and rusted metal would look good, but I'm not sure how to achieve the best effect, or where I should apply this to. Since I've just come into ownership of a box full of every Vallejo Game Color paint, this entire process should be much easier, but I'm really not sure how to best paint corroded or worn metals, and I'm also not sure of the general scheme I should utilize, so I'm more than open to advice for both colors and technique.

Finaly finished building? IT looks amazing.

For paint here is what i would do: I would paint the mjaority of the plates and spaces red and rusted metal and faded metal abnd make the occasional plate like the ultramrine you described. also i think that you should just go for it. do what you think looks good. and not worry so much about what we all think. >.> well thats my 2¢

Good luck and keep it up
Cheers
>Chaoshound

The good news is that this represents a vehicle made/repaired/scavenged from lots of other bits anyway, so for example the left arm can look quite different to the right arm without the overall model looking odd. That said, I personally wouldn't be practising paint finishes on the actual model until I was confident - you DON'T want to be stripping paint from a great model like this if you can help it. Do you have any other unpainted ork models to prectise on? Or, build some orky barricades from spare bitz, and practise painting them? (Maybe even use some of those barricades for the stompa's base?)

As for paint finishes, personally I've had good results with combinations of:
- drybrushing with a colour like boltgun metal
- priming with a very dark brown, then heavy drybrushing with a rusty brown , then lightly with boltgun metal - this gives a nice 'unpainted but heavily used bare metal' look
- washing with thinned down black

Well my advice would be to go with the looted and scavanged parts. A piece from an Ultramarines, a piece from a Guard regiment(iconography will do the trick as the guard painting is barely recognizeable when compared to a Space Marine painting).

And as Chaos Hound said, atleast more than half of the model should be red. The first thing an Ork will do once they build something that actually works will be to wash it red(either with blood or paint )

And dents thru the paint will look good too I believe. This vehicle probably goes thru buildings and stomps other things that go BOOM! under his boots so its painting will probably get damaged regularly and Orks are not the kind of people that will re paint their vehicle between every engagement. And as the base has a little story behind it that the Stompa just went thru a building to crush the IG heavy weapons position a few fresh dents on the frontal armor paint would be characterfull.

But if you ask me "How will you do it?" I can't answer that. I'm very happy if I can paint a model at the right colors I was trying to.

Posted By jamsessionein on 12/26/2006 1:02 PM
I wish I was good at painting, but I am sadly a relative novice.

Who are you and what have you done with Ein?!? Your basic technique is very clean and more than suitable, though it would benefit from more layers on the bare metal and flesh. Seriously, the risk here is over-complicating the paintjob and obscuring the heapings of orky goodness.

Posted By Construct on 12/26/2006 11:58 PM

Posted By jamsessionein on 12/26/2006 1:02 PM
I wish I was good at painting, but I am sadly a relative novice.

Who are you and what have you done with Ein?!? Your basic technique is very clean and more than suitable, though it would benefit from more layers on the bare metal and flesh. Seriously, the risk here is over-complicating the paintjob and obscuring the heapings of orky goodness.

I fall in and out of practice, depending upon how much I've painted... and it's been a long, long while since I've last held a brush for anything, let alone something this large, so I'm trying to prepare myself a bit.

Hey there Jam.

I've been a lurker around here for as long as I can remember, but god knows why, i never took the time to register. Finding your thread on this awesomely built model i just had to register and say this: DUDE THIS MODEL ROCKS! I just wish i had your skill to try and have a go at building something like it.

About painting it: I have a few forgeworld models lying around and i have been entertaining ideas of painting them for a while now but not having an airbrush was putting me off. I recently bought one so i have no more excuses so i started looking around for tutorials and ideas on how to achieve what i wanted, a weathered and worn look on my valquirie and vulture models.

Orc vehicles are different on the sense that they have a crude patchwork look but I think you can use some of the stuff i compiled on the gargant as well, anyway here are the links i have right now (the most useful ones at least to me):

http://www.armorama.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=34&page=1

http://codyscoop.com/ht-building.html

http://www.starshipmodeler.com/tech/aw_wx.htm

I tried a few of the techniques described for the first time on a SW Dread and was quite pleased with the final result given it was a first try (you can check pictures of it on the following link: http://paintingfrog.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A8E51C1B7B4B83E1!460.entry ).

I really look forward to seeing this baby of yours painted up bro. Congratulation on what is a wonderful job so far.

I've been wanting to put these on the diorama for a while, but I finally got my hands on two stormboyz.

They're pinned in to be suspended in the air. I imagine I have to sculpt rocket fire to help conceal the pin, but I'm not looking forward to that.

Those rock dude!

As for painting, I would go for a similar look that you did on your kicking rad Battlewagon, however, use several thin brown Magic Washes* to shade the red (and other bitz). The real key will be proper weathering. Put plenty of fresh and old nicks in it, with the fresh ones being painted in some sort of metallic tone, while older ones ranging in "new rust" (a ruddy orange) to "old rust" (dark red brown), including appropriately colored rust streaks. Also use thinned down black ink + a touch of brown (or purple even) for leaky hydraulic fluid and such.

Lastly, if you're sweating the paint job, start on the diorama base first or some other orky stuff to go with the army (like some buggies or something) to get back into the swing of things. That Vallejo Game Color paint set is great (I bought the whole line several years ago). Just remember to very thoroughly mix the paint up (it's verrrry pigment heavy, a good thing), use a pallete and thin with a mix of water & Future (aka Future Flow Aid)*. Like before, you might want to try these out on some other stuff to get the hang of it, but it's really not hard at all. Enjoy!



*Search the modelling forum for "Magic Wash" or "Future Floor Finish", there were a couple threads relatively recently with loads of info on using the stuff for washes & what nots, including at least one really long post by moi. Happy painting!

I don't mean to nitpick, but I would resist the lure of adding a whole bunch more minis to the diorama. You run the risk of people saying that it's too busy. (not me, though. It's bloody amazing)

The only thing cooler than your Stompa would be if you made one that was riding on the back of the Squiggoth. That would be pants-wettingly sweet.

Wow. I tried sculpting myself some fire a bit earlier, and it's pretty awful, so I just pulled it off. It's impossible for me to produce anything but what appears to be a gouged-up lump of putty. =\

Any suggestions? I didn't even take pictures of this one, it'd be too embarassing. I'm starting to think maybe I shouldn't even bother with the fire and just leave them pinned as they are.

Maybe try using fantasy horse tails? The ones from the Mounted Fantasy Khorne Chaos Lord and Archaon look like flames.

Cheers
>Chaoshound