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page 19 of the how to paint citidel tanks book has a pretty good way of green stuffing them on. you could still use rivits but use welds to break them up?

Hmm, I might try that; sounds like a good idea. Thanks!

Wow! Im glad you finally decided to take this off the shelf! LOL really nice job on the plasticard work. I envy your skills...... you should try and add som barbed wire when you go to paint.. Nice job!

I did the riveting and the turret of the second one last night. I'll post pics tonight!

Hey guys! Come check out my new and improved pics, using my new lightbox setup! Tell me what you think of them!

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/417843.page

Ok. Last night I promised pics of the *almost* completed grot tank numero dos.

Well, here they are. With a pro background because that's where my camera was atm.

Everything is done except the rivits on the turret.


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Wow, I didn't notice before. Those pictures are crap. I can get better ones if you want. :L

Grot tanks looking great a real chibi Russ. The Kommando's are awesome a great update of the original style.....

i really like how you have done the tracks, really effective. also Very nice plasticard work you got going on there with the pannels. All in all very nice

Can you go in detail how the Grot Tanks are made?
I'm particularly curious about the internal scaffolding of the thing.

Bloody brilliant work!

Augustine: Here goes.... Maybe I can supplement this explanation with mspaint drawings or something if this sounds overly complicated. None of it was really planned or anything, so I'll do what I can to explain. I got a lot of my inspiration from Kanvass1 on youtube; he does a complete tutorial of how he built on of his. Literally, it's a complete tut, he basically recorded every little cut he made from start to finish. Great vids. Anyway....

The first one was the back half of a wartrakk. It took pretty much half as much work as the second one did, so I'll give you a rundown of what I did for the second one. I used 1mm plasticard for most of it, and stuck it together with superglue (ideally I would have used plastic cement but I'm out of stock atm).

I started with the turret. First I cut out a footprint of the turret for the bottom. It is a tad bigger than a BW grot big shoota turret. Then I cut out a strip of plasticard that was as wide as I wanted the turret to be tall (about 1.5 cm). I cut the strip into panels that matched the sides of the footprint, then glued them on. At this point it was like a box with the lid off. Then I cut out another footprint for the top and glued it on. For the front kannon assembly, it was so fidgety and complicated (I made it so the kannon moves up and down) that I won't go into that. Then I added details like a fantasy dwarf shield for the hatch, a bosspole, and a trukk spotlight; as well as assorted armor plates.

Then I worked on the body; separate from the tracks. I cut out two sides and then plates that would match for the front, top, and bottom. I glued it all together (oh and don't forget to cut out a slit for the driver).

Then came the tracks. I cut out four large separate pieces to be the sides. Then I used sprue to make a gap between two of them, and wrapped super thin plasticard around the sprue to be the basis for the tracks. The track links are simply small plates with small bands in between them. Also I added the track guards on the top and back, mainly because I got sick of cutting out tiny track pieces.

Then I glued the tracks to the body, and covered the entire thing in random armor plates. The corrugated metal is from the little cardboard sheath from a starbucks cup (make sure to cover it in thin pva to protect the cardboard). I also added gubbins from my bits box, and an exhaust.

The turret rotates around a plastic tube.

It's difficult to explain all this without pictures. Would you maybe be interested in a tutorial when I make the next one?

Anyway thanks for the comments everybody!

EDIT: Yeah, as for internal scaffolding, there isn't any. These are small enough that the 1mm plasticard holds up well without bending or stressing joints or anything.

Nice work on those grot tanks, that second one's excellent

It's difficult to explain all this without pictures. Would you maybe be interested in a tutorial when I make the next one?

Most definitely! Meanwhile, I'll check the guy you mentioned on the tube

Where did you get the 1mm plasticard?

Really like the second grot tank! Nice job!

Warmastersolon: It came in the GF9 plasticard variety pack.

Ok, here are some more pics of recent projects! I got in a painting swing, so I dropped the grot tanks and painted up this BW that had been staring at me from my desk for months now.

It's aaalllllmost done. These are slightly WIP, but there really won't be any substantial changes in the finished model. I still need to do the grot turret on top and drill out the exhaust. Do you think it needs anything else? Pics aren't the best, I know; the lighting was terrible.

Kinda looks like a fire truck LOL I like the flames and the checkering. Are they all freehanded?

Orks don't use templates, so neither do I

Whaddaya think of the ork skull on top?

Looks like a pro painted it! It is very well done, I did't even see any brush strokes!

very nice, liking the dirt and mud, all done very well

Thanks Bigfish!

So, the most recent update: Today was unusually warm. Warm enough, in fact, to spray minis! So, guess what I undercoated? Yes, it's what you've been waiting for! The FIGHTA! Finally, right?

Expect some wip painted pics in the next few days!

BOOSH!

Just for Awesomesauce, fresh off the painting desk,

PIP fighta pics! It needs metal, highlighting, details, and weathering still... How do the flames look? C&C please!!

Nice!

Really nice!

Merry Christmas!

Yeah, flames are looking good

Can't see any issues with the flames - looks good!

nice merreh christmahs

Very nice

Thanks guys! Merry Christmas!