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Nice work. Looks cool. Like the hot bits.

Awesome Junk pile

thats really neat looking damo, awesome work

excellent Junk Pile! I love the OSL on the generator bulb tips. That is a technique I need to learn, now that I have a bunch of rust/corrosion practice under my belt...

Looks pretty cool, should go with your ZM board quite well. Whats it made of?

Cheers guys, I'd have to hunt around for the bits shot but it's just cardboard tube, a wire, a couple of resin doo-dads a bit of scrap plasticard or two and some of the little power thingies off the Battle for Macragge terrain set as well as some random metal doohicky's and I think watch bits? I'm not too sure at this stage! :-) and hopefully it will make it's way onto the ZM board when that gets the green light!

Ahhhhh that looks like JUNK!!! >_<

Sorry about that.

Badrukk looks great but your pics are just fuzzy enough to lose detail. WE all know how awesome they are but other people just surfing the gallery will see a slightly fuzzy pic and it takes away from the amazing work you did.

I need some advice I got a package today from Angry Badger and it's my floor tiles but i've encountered a small issue, the tiles were specced at 5cm square but I didn't realize they were talking about the actual etched tile part so it's a bit bigger than what i needed to fit snuggly on my tiles to put the walls so they match up in differing configurations

The tiles themselves are really good, nice and thin and cut perfectly, not to mention they look exactly as i wanted so I really want to make this work, especially as i got 300 individual tiles to use

first some pics.







and this is the overhang I need to remedy, should I turn it over and get some kind of saw to trim the excess off the edges? if I can do that easily what sort of saw do i need to buy? i'm heading into town tomorrow so I can grab something then! I can't leave it as it is because when I finish it won't slot into my gaming table neatly.


i'm just so close to having it all organized and ready to start! I want to get it fixed and get into it!


Many thanks guys!

Very cool. Love the way those look with the marines!

Table saw or band saw would work for that.

I'd go with a band saw, and cut each one. Bigger pain, but if you mess up, only going to ruin one piece, not bunches.

I've got to say - those Greenskins are just the nuts - I'm in awe of your style - simply perfection... as for everything else, truly amazing, just pales into insignificance next to the Orks (in my opinion at least)

Awww shucks! Ruglud thanks man! I have to say my current Ork dalliance is suprising me too, I never attempted them before due to the mass of them i'd have to paint and I didn't think i could do a good job on them for so many! but I really enjoy painting them and still have a couple up my sleeve for the blog (although I have to say my Flesh Eaters are by far MY favorites )

Now speaking of Orks, I finished the Runtherder






I did notice 2 small things I need to fix, nothing major just a strap or 2 which will be done by the time you read this but I still hope you guys like him so far! next shall be his ten little helpers who are all going to be treated as mini characters!

Pants are too clean and entirely unorky.

2/10 would not WAAAGH! with.

Very nice. As well as the good skin tone, the metals are very nice.
And the little red helper is also good.

I think there are two reasons you're so good with the orks Nerdy.

1) Your ability to paint skin and faces is top notch, and the orks expose far more skin than any other model range aside from say, chaos demons.
2) You paint with humor... which the orks are loaded with.

Makes you a perfect ork painter!

1) Your ability to paint skin and faces is top notch, and the orks expose far more skin than any other model range aside from say, chaos demons.

This. So much this.

2) You paint with humor... which the orks are loaded with.

And to a lesser extent, this.

Hey NF, if you haven't gone to town yet, consider one of these:



You won't be able to cut the entire lot at once but if you score a line on the wood and put it into the box as they fit you'll get a perfectly straight cut every time. I used to have one and it finally had to go after years of use. You just reminded me that I really want a new one.

Gentlemen again I thank you :-) glad the Runtherder has the approval of you all! even if his pants are too clean! :-) all i can say to that is- Deal with it!- Lol Orks i paint are obviously affected with some Orkish OCD sydrome!

Gits, I hope you like the way I do them? it does seem you do! and you're right about the humor, I love things with a certain theme or style I can use and the Orks have a lot of skin which I feel confidant doing as well as the cheeky little additions and quirks they all have, I think that's why i want to do a BloodAxe themed force, completely silly and not competitive but I can sink my teeth into a feeling amongst all of them!

Skalk, I did indeed go into town and I bought a fine toothed tenon saw like the one you pictured! :-) if i glue all the little tiles on the big tile and then flip it over, the edge of the foam tile is a perfect cutting guide for the saw! i've done one so far so I'll show you later.

Snrubby! I'll be sending some sneaky clean Bloodaxes your way! then if you see them before they gut you, you can feel free to tell them they're too clean lol! :-)

I'm scared man. Really scared. I'm shaking in my stylish, yet affordable boots.

Damian I don't think there is a thing your brush touches that doesn't come out looking great! I think you're seeing part of why I love the orks so much. They have so much character to them and they take paint incredibly well to boot.

The new Orks are looking great. Really liking those skin tones, and actually making me wonder whether to keep mine consistent with what I've been doing for the past 20+ years or to change them up when I start painting new Orks. (as opposed to finishing the half-painted ones).

The techmarine and scout are also coming along typically well, and I love the junk pile, particularly the overheated and molten aspect of it.

Your orks look great Damo !
I love them. Especially Baddruk. I only don't like the brown base rim.
But the skin, the metallics, the fabrics, the feather, they all look damn good ! Good job.

You can blame me for the base rim Minus. All my stuff is rimmed in scorched brown. Works very nicely with my basing techniques.

Thanks guys! I have a habit now of basing all my mini's in brown so I can't blame Gits for that lol! it just suits my FleshEaters is all and Az, why don't you mix it up a bit with your Orks? different Fungal strains i'm sure would have darker or lighter tones? and I know how much you love the fluff behind them being fungal spores so just for good measure I'll use the term Fungal spore in the sentance one more time!

Now may i also ask for some feedback?

I was going back through my BA Codex for some inspiration and re read Seth's entry, I felt I should give my counts as, something more akin to 'Bloodreaver' I have two options I can convert but I want your opinions please, either one will be changed to have a Chainaxe head on them as well.

so, option one is the staff and arms from the new Libby plastic kit. converted into a ChainAxe of course! (when my axe's arrive that is)



and option number 2 is the double handed hammer from the DC kit?



so whichever I go with I'll re paint and get them to look like they belong

also while fiddling with this little conversion it left me with a Libby with no arms but thanks to my DCM Secret Santa I had a spare Librarian lying around saying "rip my arm off!" so I dummied this up for one of his arms and am now stuck, what arm/weapon do I give his other side? any suggestions and model parts I can use will be muchly appreciated!



and just to further whet your appetites, I have been playing around with my Zone Mortalis I will have a sizeable update for you end of the week on it all I can say is, I'm excited and hopefully it will be stupidly cool when i'm finished, and with your help and ideas on how to proceed with style and design it will no doubt be as individual and cinematic as can be!

I think the hammer one would be better for the axe.

Yeah, I'm preferring the hammer arms.

Yeah the hammer arms were my first pick too after seeing them on him but the other ones were just a bit more different :-) i'll see how many more pick which ones and then see which way i bend! if I use the hammer arms I can then use the force staff to convert back to being useful on the Libby too? hmmmmmm

What if you popped the hammer head off and dropped a chainsword on the end of it? Like a chain glave sorta thing?

Mmm, mmm a Chainglaive i can feel :-) I may have to do that if my Axe heads don't turn up, I suppose that way i can make it as big or brutal as I need too!

(also still waiting on Fulgrim, hopefully this week he'll arrive!)