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Since no one seems to have any ideas I shall dazzle your minds with a boring update on the little bit of work i have done for my Battle-Fortress.

I made a top for it,(or bottom of the second layer depending on how you look at it) but don't worry its removable.



And please give me some ideas on what to do next on the krawla.

Something I'd suggest is to make the sides with smaller pieces- not smaller sides, but instead of a big slab of plasticard, maybe use a bunch of little triangles and plates, all stuck together. Would look a little more orky, I think.

I agree, And I will be making it look like that, this is basically just the framework.

i want to see pictures of the whole thing please so i can see what you have where on it. at the moment i cant see how all the bits fit in together.

Of the battle-fortress or of the krawler?

both really, but esspecially the fortress

Sorry about all the stuff on the table My grandmother just got back from getting groceries.

Love the thought to put a jacobs ladder on top of your zap cannon. Very creative. i also like the battle fortress alot . you are doing a great job with it. love the free form orky architecture. Jobs a good un so far.

Pretty cool, me likes! Adds a lot of coils as well

Thanks for doing those pics really really helps get perspective on the entire thing. ok first of all loving the krawler it is seriously cool but i think as a krawler it is a bit small, just because krawlers are surposed to be bigger the battle fortresses by quite a bit so that they can carry entire ork forces arond. still i think that it is looking very very serious, especially those guns on the front. maybe a trallier for the krawler on the back where you can fit the things it is surposed to be carrying around. maybe articulated? i would be thinking about a ramp as well so that the things on the back can get off and on really easyly.

with the battle fortress i have actually been thinking about what you are making there for a very long time but i was thinking about doing it with 2 landraiders and ditching the rhino all together. but anyway i think the battle fortress should have another balcony on the secound floor for the ork boyz to shoot from. with the diorama in the cockpit section i was thinking about the guy you currently have in thee in the chair liturally surrounded by boyz and grots all pulling leavels and pushing buttons on the walls. i think two drivers in the front 2 sides both driving the thing ranting and waving arms. also the cocpit would be a really cool place and a very good place to make some real situations like grots tripping over wires and ork boyz argueing over controls. i also think a mekboy in the cockpit is a must i mean this thing is like a 500-900 point machine i seriously dought it is'nt going to have a mek on it to do repairs.

Anyway to end i think you have a good handle on these two projects and you obviously know how to do what you are doing. btw now i have seen you do the landraider thing i really really want to make one

cant wait to see these two finished, sorry about how long this post is just trying to help

Thanks bigfish drop me a PM with your info so i can send you some of that wire that I use.

And now what all of you have *not* been hoping for, A NON progress update (but still totally project relevant)

After running out of what i consider amazing ideas (Not counting bigfish's, as I am seriously considering the boyz trailer) I remember that I have around 3GB of Warhammer reference pictures that I have collected over the course of a couple years. So I printed out 70+ Ork scratch build pics and made an Ork conversion inspiration book. There is some really good stuff in there so expect some equally good stuff this week.

dude dont worry about the wire, just trying to help out a fellow mek. liking the sound of this scrap book as well btw

Alright I have made some actual progress (do I hear an applause or are my ears playing tricks ) I decided to add a sort of suspended gun platform, It is still very much a work in progress and the platform itself is pretty much 2% completed. But I have done a bit of impressive progress on the power feed for the "ZAP BANGA KANNON" which has no rules yet (I haven't thought that far yet, nor have I thought of what it will look like)




I think it looks awsome.

Oh yeah and the platform (keep in mind its barely even started)

That does look awesome. You have some of the best use of cabling I've seen with Orks, honestly.

Platform is a bit early to comment on, but the zapp coiling is great!

So, I went downstairs to my work area this morning with every intention of getting some work done on that platform. I said to myself "okay lets start on that gun". But one thing led to another and before I knew it, I had taken an unplanned detour back to the Zzap Kannon (Or Mega Zzappa if you prefer).





As you can see I got rid of the mounting brackets which were a good idea but didn't fit with my new (and more detailed) vision.
The pewter cabling is supposed to be some sort of looted plasma conduit, or something of that nature. Obviously more work needs to be done but at least its taking shape.

I have just now decided that this will be mounted on a very cool elevate-able turret. Think of a cross between a turret and an earthshaker trajectory changing thingy (I'm having a tough time thinking of the correct word it's been a long day)

Ok I got a little bit of work done of the zzap kannon/supa zzappa




The red wires are just there as place holders they are not glued and obviously not cut to size. When its done there will be multiple types wires/cables cut to different lengths going into the zzap kannon/supa zzappa sort of like i did with the blue wire on the battle wagon zzap gun

I also added more pewter cables to the one side of it.

I apologize for how small these updates are. The pharmacy that I get my medicine from up and didnt fill my script when i called so I've been going through withdrawls from not having my anti depresents for an entire week, it has not been fun at all.

GOOD news everyone I am back in action and even have done some interesting progress




OH NO NOT THE ZZAP KANNON AGAIN!

Don't worry folks there is more stuff

I thought you guys might like to know i got a stompa in the mail today (basicly paid $5.25 for it and am so thankful to the person who sent it to me)


The stompa body will be for next years contest (Provided Matt.Kingsley doesn't decide not to do one)
I will be making a kustom stompa.

The guns from it are going to be looted I am currently working on making a boomgun turret out of one of the grot barrel guns.

I'm really liking how that copper wiring makes the area look much busier and Orkier.

Also, Jacob's Ladder? Good stuff!

Lastly the Mega Zzappa is looking ded killy. Keep up the good work.

Thanks Fox Box.

I took pictures of the boomgun turret that I talked about in my previous post.

I have a friend at the shop I work at making me an attachment for the punch I used to make the rivets on the Junka, The attachment will be to make smaller rivets. So when that's done (and since business seems to have picked up I don't know when he will be able to get to it) I will be adding rivets to everything.

And here is a pic of where the turret is magnetically mounted

looking good on the boom gun there

Although it does raise the question of why there is a boom gun on the battle fortress when it cant take one (unfortunatly :/ )
still cool though

Well to be honest bigfish it's not an ordinary battlefortress, It was going to be a krawla like the one on the vehicle building comp picture but I decided That It will be a MEGA BATTLE FORTRESS.
I'm going to write rules for it once it's completed, they will be similar to the Stompa workshop datasheet from IA:8 but with some new weapons and obviously for a super heavy tank and not a titan

meh i think if you can fit titan wepons on it, it should have titan weapons. would love to see a over loading mega plasma cannon on a ork super heavy. still tis looking cool so far


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(i also like this mega battle fortress idea, makes me want to make a "Giga mega big huge battle fortress of meganess")

If you do that bigfish then I will be forced to match your "Giga mega big huge battle fortress of meganess" and raise you a Ultra Mega Gigantically enormous Battle fortress of Impossibly bigness
This morning I decided to tear apart the worst looking model in my entire collection, a landraider I bought on ebay 6 years ago, it had hot glue all over it with blood red painted on it. I guess it was supposed to be gore or something but it was terrible, and the fact that the sponsons were broken didn't help.



As you can see I am redoing the platform a bit too It will hopefully look even cooler the further along it gets. In case anyone asks, Yes the power cables are going back on along with the grot with the wrench.

ok you win

After thinking about The Gun platform revision I decided I didn't need the power cables there anymore. They will go into my ork vehicle bits box until I decide exactly what I'm going to use them for.
Here is what It looks like now.



As you can see I have added an arm.
AN ARM?!
Yes an arm for helping to bring shells down to the platform basicly a loading arm like at those huge harbors.
I also fixed all those open spaces I think it looks almost properly orky.

I thought this news was deserving of a whole post rather than an edit.
I am making rules for the mega fortress, both as a guide for me and a gift to all of you.


*They are now (hopefully)* Finished Though they proabably will have things added to them as I think of more stuff

Excellent. Love the Mega Zzappa

Thanks Awesomesauce

I won't have any updates 'till tomorrow evening. The camera is being borrowed, and I don't want to do any work and risk forgetting to take pictures of it when I get the camera done.