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Amigo, that is totally bad ass!! Perfect!

Today, I ordered some of Zinge's new wheels today, I was looking at the M65 Atomic cannon's prime movers wheels, and they are just way too big for the truck, but I could easily see those wheels working well! Are those from a Tonka truck?

Oh Yeah! The black chassis looks like it seperates from the yellow body nicely, very cool, I'll check the dollar stores sometime this weekend.

...rolls chair back over to painting bench....

Would never forget pics Vik.

Yes I riveted Juves! lol
I just used scrap bits of plasticard and added a few rivets. They aren't done yet Vik.

Thanks man!

I Think I will call these Juves done for now. I may add warpaint later, when I do gangers, we shall see. So for now, check it out.

Thanks Vik. You are right about the red, it is a contrast color, but is isn't ENOUGH contrast is it? I think they need more. The red is actually red rust weathering powder.

And the damn macro photography is foiling me again, everything is sort of gakky grainy. I will have to play with that.

I was purposely giving them a Miami Indian look. As close as I could anyways, since we basically performed exterminatus on them hundreds of years ago.


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The rest of the gang to do yet:

Three gangers/scouts

A shammy

And for some reason, I have 2 Chiefs/Gang leaders and a mutant pet rat, which I don't see any rules for the pet in the Outlanders book.

TBH, I totally forget where I got these, I know I got them secondhand, probably about 5+ years ago. They weren't painted, but they were covered in that wierd metal corrosion/rust stuff. I thoroughly cleaned them with a dremel wire wheel, then soaked them in lysol disinfectant. The corrosion did not return after a few days, so I primed them and this is the first I've done anything with them.

The tails are part of the rat skins they wear as clothes, they are not mutations or part of the gangers, from what I can see, but yeah, I remember wondering the same thing Vik!

Doh! Why didn't you guys point out that I forgot the eyes?? I'm doing my job over here, do yours!




Yeah yeah, the top guy's eye is a little wonky, I wish I could see as well as the camera could on that one!

..Now that I got the camera to do my bidding, I can clearly see there is much more refinement I could do to these Juves, and I will, but for now, I MUST move on to gangers.

Fluff-wise, I imagine they are exactly what would happen to ANY humans who were isolated from "Society" for hundreds or thousands of years, they would breed, and survive, and after a few generations, would have formed their own societies and practices. Hives are big places, and Imperial society would have also forgotten about these people in the underhive.

Yeah, but he has all those shotgun shells, but is hefting a stub pistol in the air..Do you think he should have a proper shotgun instead?

By your command...

Clipped the barrel and iron sight rail from the stub pistol, added 2mmx1mm styrene tube (same size as the Chief's shotgun barrels)

Used two slices of 2mm half-round sandwiching a strip of 1mm for the pump (or fore-end)

And more tube for the magazine. I need to plug the magazine tube with something yet and carve finger grips in the wood.

Thanks man! Please Do! And all I ask is that you show me a pic!!

Haha, no.. did you notice on that Raboesh styrene I sent you, that the ends of the pieces are painted? That's just the red paint on the end of the stock styrene.

Thanks a lot Max and Farty!

Let's see if we can build another shotgun in the same fashion:

Rectangle curved at one end for the shotgun body, and a piece of tube notched

The first slice of magazine tube glued on

two slices of half round and a slice of rectangle

Made into a sandwich

clamped in a vice, and using only the width of a saw blade to create the grips

More magazine tube

Magazine cap plugged with rivet rod.

And slice the rear end of the barrel at an angle like so to complete the look.

And here is the other angle.

THanks guys, you could easily use 2 scraps of regular 1mm sheet styrene glued together before cutting if you don't have strip. I have not usd anything here bigger than 2mm


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..Which I will now demonstrate by trying to build a wooden stock for the shotgun:

2 scraps of 1mm styrene

glued together (I used superglue here to expedite the build)

Sketch on your stock design

Clip and cut the rough shape

Use a flat and round file to smooth everything out

With a bit more notching action, the stock and shotgun are joined

Size comparison with lasrifle


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Here I have sketched the area for the shell ejector

and gouged it out with a drill bit, knife and file

and penciled in the hole so you can see it in the pic



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Some paint

Not perfect, I gougued the shell ejector on the wrong side of the body.
So this is a "Left Hand" model shotgun
But I didnt research at all, I just built this from memory or the warp, or whatever.
but really quite a decent basic pump shotgun for a lucky ganger eh?


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waiting on brown ink wash to dry



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And there you have it!
How to build a shotgun




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Happy New Year!

At the stroke of midnight, my grandfather used to fire his shot gun off outside to herald in the new year. I guess this is my way of doing the same

oh yeah, I just have to make a few more in order to make a decent one for casting.

THanks LDD, I just took a break, and everyone bitched about it, so no

Nope, these are the only Ratskins I have, original Classics.

Oh wow! I have never seen him. I didnt know that Ratskins could have Heavies! Is he a Special Charachter perhaps? All I have are the original Necro rulebook & Sourcebook, and the Outlanders book. I also have the re-released Necromunda Rulebook. In the Outlanders book, they only list Chief, Shammy, ratskins, and braves. Very cool though.

Here is the first Ganger of the New Year! Sans the basing- I will do all three Gangers bases at the same time to maintain some painting rythym- yesterday, Vik's shotgun idea distracted me a little bit Time flies when I grab knife and plastic

Yeah Vik, the ideas are endless. It's funny, when I was a kid, I used to build wooden guns with scrap lumber very much in this same fashion Thanks man, the eyes will all get fixed at the end of the bunch, I just need to move on through the gang, or I will never get done before I get sick of painting figs for awhile

@Khaine- Thanks man, I'll have to be on the lookout for him at the dig booths at Gencon or some other show.

Allright, I'll leave the accidental brushstroke and call it a tattoo! it's like my equivalent of the virgin mary grilled cheese sandwich lol

By your command....

Thanks guys!

The Shammy



I need to work on the bandoliers more, it s a bitch, because most of his shell holders are empty, but occasionally a few shells are in place, kinds hard to paint those.

Doh! It would help if I had the lamp shining light into his face and not on his butt

No, the only wash I used was badab black, mostly didi's magic brown ink (just like GW's old brown ink) All my leather starts with bestial brown, all the wood starts with scorched brown.

What color should tyhr shells be? I am thinking red, with brass caps? Or do they need to contrast even more? Yellow maybe?

Meh, I'm afraid this here is the best I can do, I think I painted too thick in this area, some of the detail seems missing. I just hope it gives the general idea of a half-crazy Shaman, fond of the drug "Slaught". He carries both his massive ceremonial club and shotgun to ward off evil hive spirits (the shotgun is the more effective tool, but I wouldn't argue with him if I were you )


Honestly, I have NEVER researched this figure, I assumed it was a ratskin, but it is really a Wyrd Beastmaster. http://www.collecting-citadel-miniatures.com/wiki/index.php/Necromunda_1995_-_1997_-_Collectors_Guide#1997_Redemptionists

Yeah, he prefers the breeze

hmmm...I'd imagine so, although I know for IG, they really shine as assault weapons with Melta Vet squads.
You just don't want to mix weapon types in IG squads as a general rule, not sure about CSM.

Yeah I know, but I'll do that when I go through the entire group at the end, no doubt I will have to retouch every one.

But, another ganger





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Did someone order a Flintlock pistol?

Thanks guys, the flintlock pistol was jut a whim, I don't really have anything in mind for it, it was just sort of a proof of concept thing (too see if I could do it). I just looked at this site http://www.redriverrenegades.com/bp_pistols%20&%20revolvers.htm
And started to carve a body out of plastic. The brass workings are just pieces of PE brass sprue hacked up with clippers. Maybe I will make more of these, I dunno, I don't really have too much of a need for these, as I still have several flintlock pistols left from ole Empire or Mordheim bitz.

HAHA, I guess so, that was actually the second one, for the first, I tried to carve the butt cap in the handle of one of the more ornate models, but that work proved to be too small with an x-acto, I sliced my thumb a bit , and I got the angle of the handle wrong, because I was trying to do it in two parts.


As you can see, the brass lock is a bit fiddly to file too, very small, and I broke it in half. I need to find a better/easier way of making the lock/hammer.
But it was fun. The shotgun is a much easier gun to make than this.

THe dremel would certainly work vik, but it is more of a problem with planning it out so that you have a solid way of holding the piece securely while you are working on it. My little bench vise is really too big for this kind of work, I need something like needle nose pliers that lock or could be tightened to hold firm. That brass sprue is super thin stuff. I would need to carve out the curvature from a solid piece while holding onto somethig solid. In time, I'm sure I will play with it more.

For steampunk vik, wouldn't you rather have WW1-type Vickers water-cooled machine guns? That should be easily creatable with the tubes I sent you



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For the proper (or other) Shammy in the gang


This guy TOTALLY makes me think of one of ALL of our favorite bad guys of all time:





Mola Ram!


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I am thinking Black rat fur, with red accents, bushy, dark eyebrows (of course), and plenty of bone


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And you see, I have only painted a thin flesh coat on, the rest is just a wash- I do this on models (and let them dry) so that I can easily see where the recesses are and paint shade color there. You would be surprised what details you find after this over a white primer that you couldn't see before now

Doh! I have a pair of those right in front of me! Thanks man!