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How many pages has it been since a proper piratey thing? The buggey's great, and I love every ork you create, it's just I'm wondering whether you've given up on them or something...

Meanwhile at a place of chaos and randomness in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany....

A certain visitor has cancelled her visit during the week after my birthday and postponed it to January, when there will be more time at our hands..... I shall be looking forward to that

So while I'm waiting, counting days and decorating the walls with scratches in patches of five, I've been slightly busy, working on the swampy base a bit and fiddling with the boss' torso (pics when there's been some proper progress)
And I got this package in the mail....

As some of you may know, I've recently won the second -=]_,=- sponsored terrain competition.... and last week, the prize arrived
I present to you, a robot crafted by the enormously talented scratchbuilder Viktor von Domm:
(put in a spoiler so those who don't read every single post don't scroll over it and assume I built it....)



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oh and gray.... yeah I'm sorry.... if it's any consolation, I've got a mob of propa piraty flash gitz planned.... but you're right, I'm not as true to the theme as the title suggests... shall I rename the thread?

I have a pile of gear cogs with that same "tophat" in it. Thats funny, congrats on your win

haha yeah Vik says it's from a toy car....
It really works well as a top hat, you should build a gentlemany grot, KC! Complete with monocle, mustache and suit, lol

nice mr merlin, when are we expecting more updates?

happy belated birthday Mr Merlin.... from now on we call you old git too^^.... everything will be just downhill from now on... your youth is over

and i like the new base done by you... looks way better´n my tries^^...

and yep... that model was totally scratchbuilt by me... PC rods, cardboard, cork (for the base) and toy gears... which my kids suply me with in abundance... built in obsolesce for cheap toys anyone?

Help! I'm stuck!

I really can't figure out a way to build the boss on that trike. the warboss torso I have doesn't really fit, and I only habe half of it.

So, after sitting at that thing for hours without getting anything done, and subsequently being too annyoed to continue, I've decided to do something else, just to get my mind off the trike so I can get back to it later. (when you're getting back to a project after you've been working on something else for a while, you usually get good results)

I know you're all expecting me to finish this soon (some of you have expressed that wish very clearly) but I just can't do that at the moment. :( I hope you can forgive me!

I think I'll scrathbuild a deff dred or a bulldozer, you'll see soon!

I'll forgive you so long as we see something cool soon.

Knowing you, whatever appears soon will look cool, everything else here does.

I can't really help much with how to build your boss as I've not got onto Orks for my army yet.
But, maybe some ideas will help with inspiration:
Think about what sort of boss would use a trike like that rather than the alternative.
When I think of a trike compared to a bike I think of greater comfort and stability, It has a large engine and big guns (typical ork) but coupled with the extra stability, he may like greater accuracy (stable firing platform) and, coupled with the greater comfort, he likes to go fast but not at the expense of his rear end.
Although all that sounds a little un-orklike...
Maybe he's just a very big, fat, lazy boss that can't be arsed to bother with the lesser stability of a bike. So make him fat and lazy looking . Give him weapons and the usual bionik upgrades to match a lazy attitude.... Think of Joker on his bike in the anime of Akira, sat looking bored with his arms crossed.

Maybe none of that helps... Good luck anyway.

Cheers Dr H!

Yeah I was also thinking fat, lazy boss in comfy seat... the problem is, I don't knbow how to build him....

Anyway, I just started working on a scratchbuilt deff dred, updates coming tomorrow hopefully!


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Ok here we go, I started working on the Dread.

My brother wanted to know what I was building, so I quickly drew up this... please excuse the quality....





Aaaaaan here is what we have so far!

Sexy, it reminds me of the leg lamp in A Christmas Story

I feel like it needs spacial plating off those ligaments to form shin guards and stuff. What do you think mr merlin?

Now you need to get cracking to make up for the absence we'll note In Jan

18? Are you allowed girls at that young an age? I can't remember back then, it's all too hazy.....

Nice prize from vik...like it

And like the look of the leg so far, but hey,,I'm a leg man through and through ( unless it could be swapped for a wheel...or a track...or a pogo stick...or a jet exhaust...or a ski...or a mass of tentacles...or....)

Ok here's another update, it's coming along very nicely

Though my brother thinks the pistons are very unfitting and it would never be able to walk... ah shut up bro, who cares? lol We're talking orks, right?





william: Lol, what?

Panda: yeah would have been a good idea, but I've already put a piston there -_- oops

Monkey: Thanks for dropping by, monkey!
- Don't worry, christmas time is modelling time!
- I sure hope so, lol!
- Yeah, I love it! he's a great scratchbuilder, that one
- lmao, but you forgot a set of rotors!

To make the plating work simply make a you shaped bar to go around the piston. That will add a nice complicated look to the legs and then you can put plating on top of that (it will even give the illusion it wont inter fear with piston movement.) in addition to it the left leg needs the forward piston the right leg it has. IT looks great at this stage, but i see unlimited potential - keep up the work mr merlin.

the stance of the deff dread legs looks very cool!...

seeing your concept i think i won another one over to steampunk

oh and thanks monkey^^

panda: Plates have been attached, you'll see later....

Vik: cheers mate! And oh yes, I'm doing this one Ork-punk style!
It'll be powered by a steam boiler

hehe^^... for grotz and orks i have to say.... it is a very wise decision

UPDATE!

So I "speampunked" the legs up a bit (rivets!) and attached some plates, which are nobs shoulder plates

Oh and MERRY CHRIZTMUZ, YA GITS!!!

You're really good at scratch-building mate.
I suck at converting anything, I'm really admirative with people that are able to do such things.
I'm jealous. ^^


Did you paint your buggy/trike/machine with a huge engine whatever it is ?

Looking good so far Merlin. Keep it up.

Loving the 'stepping' pose Mr M! bloody good job dude, this is going to be a really neat model I can feel it in my bones!!

On a side note, strangely every time i see your thread title I read it as ' MrMerlins random PRIVATES' :-) ......

..... and yet I still keep checking the first unread.......

@Minus: Cheers mate! And no, I didn't paint the trike yet... I was stuck and didn't know how to proceed, so I decided to do something else instead

Thanks much Dr H!

@nerd: Haha thanks
Maybe I should really change the title... since there are no real pirates here anyway...lol

That stance is going to be hilarious. Looks like the stance some jerk off that brags about how awesome he is uses.

i love it! maybe even more platse!

That dread is coming out great MM. Can't wait to see it completed.

BTW, thanks for the tip, your lootas are priceless!

I can't believe that I missed them before.

Where oh where did you get the wheels on that awesome WAAAARGG trike?

That kommando nob looks boss, too!

Update!
The torso is nearly done, I decided to make it look a bit like a big oven, with a door on the front and a steam-boiler in the back. An Ork-pilot (with top hat and googles of course) will sit on top of it somehow, i think





arm #1 (wip, more rivets to come!)




oh and I looted our old and broken dvd player, look what I got from the dvd drive:




KC: haha thanks
Panda: cheers! But naw, I think that's enough
Gorgrimm: Thanks a lot, mate!
Green: Thanks dude! I got them from some LEGO vehicle

That's looking great. Liking all the little details and the door especially.

And I really like how your gatling guns look.
Have you done a tutorial of how you make them (did I miss it somewhere)? It would be interesting to see how you go about it, it looks like it's mainly made from various tubes.
What I'd like to know is, how do you assemble the gun barrels together? is there another rod in the middle?

Thank you very much, DrH!

Nope I haven't made a tut yet, and I can't really make one now... I'm out of the big tubes And ofc my local hobby store has all tube sizes... except that one, lol
but these gund are really easy to make, you just stick 6 small tubes into one big one, they automatically assemble like that, and then you add details.
The front bit is usually time consuming to build, lots of drilling.... but it's easy.

the ammo drum is basically two mantic bases (perfect size) with a piece of thin plasticard wrung around them. And don't forget the rivets!

Cool. I though as much. Simple but effective (unlike one I'm part-way though making out of odds and ends that is anything but simple).

Yeah I can see the drilling taking a bit of time.

Oh yeah, can't forget the rivets. lol