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Hello all,

Well, I finished my very first superheavy, which is incidentally my first Ork unit not from Codex:Orks. It's a Kill Bursta, which is generally used for dropping really big pie plates.

I was surprised by how freaking big this model was! Here is a WIP image with a space marine for scale.



I made some minor conversions to the kit. The guy I bought it from had abandoned the kit unassembled, but not before he mangled the part where the main gun joins the body, so I made a hood of styrene to cover up his hackery. Some other minor stuff, such as I also changed the left side flamer to a dakkagun, which better represents the TL Big Shoota it's supposed to come with (why is there a flamer there??)

I also tried salt weathering successfully for the first time here. Much love to Gunhazard, Curnow etc for the invaluable advice on that. I also used pastel pencils to rust up some edges, but it's subtle. I also used a sponge for the first time, mostly on the ram.

At some point I might add some more options to it: for example, I could add a pair of twin-linked rokkit launchas, grot bombs, and some grot sponsons. I also have not yet glued on the top hatches, since I haven't really decided if I want them open or closed: I haven't done the Kommander that comes with him. But I might never get to doing those things, and it's "street legal" now, so here it is.












You can see on the 2 above pictures I screwed up the stencil work here a little. The overspray was kind of bad. I wound up rubbing off the edges with a damp brush to simulate peeling paint, which made it look somewhat - but not totally - better. If I ever do the sponsons and wind up spraying those in camo, I might go over the side again. However, this image is somewhat overexposed and makes it look a little worse than it is; the actually tank doesn't have a white smudgy mess all over it. I can only ever seem to get pictures that are either too bright or too dark.

Wow, that's good Ouze! Planning any LED effects on it later?

Thats looks awesome, then engine is sweet, are you adding more tanks to the army ?

Nah, no LEDs - I would have needed to have done them before I finished assembling it. Besides, there aren't really any natural places to put them - it doesn't normally have headlights, or a viewable interior to illuminate.

Also, turns out when I'm not screwing with LED's, I can get a major model done in, like, 5 days

So for as more tanks, yes. I have the 4 Forge World Grot Tanks I'll be doing in a similar scheme, as well as an additional 2 I scratchbuilt. That's probably it for armor, I don't care for the Looted Wagon too much and one Battlewagon seems adequate.

I want it, wicked work.

Beautiful piece of work! I look forward to the day I can paint armor like this.

Exqusit work, it makes me think. [i]Ho shizzz orks got a BFG again. My only problem is that I feel like its missing something, I dunno I guess I figure orks to be a bit more bright in color, may be from seeing all the red vehicles. But non the less great job, wish I could produce pieces like that.