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Create-A-Shoota - those are brilliant!!

You have some interesting stuff on your page. You need to advertise those priests in the thread.

However (and I don't want to come of as a dick or anything but) I think you need to get some better paintjobs on the minis and bits. Now they are painted very flat and monotone, thus making them look less attractive rather than more appealing.

More weapons! Have some revolvers:

http://fox-box.co.uk/product/fox-box-orc-revolver-arms/

CalgarsPimpHand wrote:Create-A-Shoota - those are brilliant!!

Cheers!

Zywus wrote:You have some interesting stuff on your page. You need to advertise those priests in the thread.

Yep, looks like I forgot to post about them here
I was hoping to promote them once they're painted but more on that below.

Zywus wrote:However (and I don't want to come of as a dick or anything but) I think you need to get some better paintjobs on the minis and bits. Now they are painted very flat and monotone, thus making them look less attractive rather than more appealing.

Absolutely agreed . The front page of the site could do with a rework too, I don't mind saying.

Couldn't you just put together an easy Wordpress site using some sort of existing template?

 Malika2 wrote:
Couldn't you just put together an easy Wordpress site using some sort of existing template?

I meant more pretty photos of some of the stock (i.e. not painted by me!)

I'm not really sure how to describe these. Accessory arms maybe?



Anyway they're out now and you can find them here:
http://fox-box.co.uk/product/fox-box-orc-yob-arms-7/

Too cool!
Any chance to have arms like these for grots too?

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
Too cool!
Any chance to have arms like these for grots too?

Ooh, good idea! Some multi-part gobbos could be grand

By the way, your gobo bodies, the great coats, their feet are beneath the cloth, right?

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
By the way, your gobo bodies, the great coats, their feet are beneath the cloth, right?

The ones done by Basicks?
There's just a flat surface on the bottom.

Phew, it's been a while. ExiliCon and related really kept me busy.
On the plus side it helped me go through my older stock and have a bit of a clear out. I'm trying to determine what's getting a remaster and when. I don't really want to drop anything from my catalogue but some things will be unavailable for a while once the remaining stock is gone.

The current priority is the Truck Extension Kit. The last units of it are gone and the old moulds need to be replaced.

Here's the masters (without the wheels):


Mostly I'm actually quite happy with them. There's a few things I'm going to tweak or repair (the odd lost rivet here or there) but I hope to have them cast up in the next few days.

I'm excited because this was such a difficult kit to put together back in the day and it ended up costing a lot to boot (and so a high price on the store was required). These days I reckon I can probably do all the parts (except the wheels) in a single mould. That'll make casting it a breeze and allow the price to come down to much saner levels. It'll also be cast in a more well-behaved resin.

Whilst working on the truck extension kit I ended up getting a bit sidetracked and started creating my own truck kit.
With any luck it'll be a standalone design that can be extended into a transport vehicle using the extension kit.
 


 
It's the same overall length as the extended version of the GW trukk as you can see in this early picture:


I'm looking forward to the next bit of the construction process as it's going to be pretty much exclusively detailing. Then I've got to design another two axles and the canopy frame/roll bars.

Glad to see the extension kit is coming back and always glad to see new ork vehicle kits.

I'll certainly be in the market for both when ready.

A request I will make of you, a range of decent looking, similar but each slightly different, guns for converting GW gobbos into grots. I have a shed full of the little bastards I'd like to turn into grots with a suitable grot gun (I'm thinking something like a more slender/lighter built ork shoota. A sprue of several, like the old gorka and necro weapons, would be sweet.

This is brilliant! The "build your own shootas" is absolutely incredible. Definitely gonna dump some change in the coming weeks. Are there any plans/potential for a "Build your own Snazzguns" kit for Flash Gitz? Honestly, I'd flip if you expanded on the "build your <weapon> idea with burnas, rokkit launchas and deff guns, etc.

MeanGreenStompa wrote:Glad to see the extension kit is coming back and always glad to see new ork vehicle kits.

I'll certainly be in the market for both when ready.

I'm pleased to hear it
I'm planning an anti-air configuration and perhaps a tow-truck arrangement. If you've any fun ideas do let me know!

MeanGreenStompa wrote:A request I will make of you, a range of decent looking, similar but each slightly different, guns for converting GW gobbos into grots. I have a shed full of the little bastards I'd like to turn into grots with a suitable grot gun (I'm thinking something like a more slender/lighter built ork shoota. A sprue of several, like the old gorka and necro weapons, would be sweet.

I've had a goblin assault rifle sprue in the works for a while but other projects have taken precedence. Some of those weapons were used for the Goblin Guerrilla Fighters. Would you prefer something less Kalashnikovy?

MacMuckles wrote:This is brilliant! The "build your own shootas" is absolutely incredible. Definitely gonna dump some change in the coming weeks.

I'm so glad you like them! I'm looking forward to putting together a unit of Ork Shoota Boyz using them when I get a few minutes spare.

MacMuckles wrote:Are there any plans/potential for a "Build your own Snazzguns" kit for Flash Gitz? Honestly, I'd flip if you expanded on the "build your <weapon> idea with burnas, rokkit launchas and deff guns, etc.

Snazzguns, eh? Well that would allow for a lot more details! There should definitely be a car battery haphazardly attached somewhere, for a start.

Which weapon classes are the biggest priority? Whilst I could do the lot there's only so many hours in the day and I'm not the fastest mek in the world.

MacMuckles wrote:This is brilliant! The "build your own shootas" is absolutely incredible. Definitely gonna dump some change in the coming weeks.

Fox Box wrote:I'm so glad you like them! I'm looking forward to putting together a unit of Ork Shoota Boyz using them when I get a few minutes spare.

MacMuckles wrote:Are there any plans/potential for a "Build your own Snazzguns" kit for Flash Gitz? Honestly, I'd flip if you expanded on the "build your <weapon> idea with burnas, rokkit launchas and deff guns, etc.

Fox Box wrote:Snazzguns, eh? Well that would allow for a lot more details! There should definitely be a car battery haphazardly attached somewhere, for a start. Which weapon classes are the biggest priority? Whilst I could do the lot there's only so many hours in the day and I'm not the fastest mek in the world.

Your pick, mek! I'd be cool with whatever orky contraption you'll build. Maybe see if others might like the idea (which I'm sure they would) and have a vote on which set of weapons you might make a "build a <weapon>" kit for? My vote goes to Snazz Guns and burnas, personally

I've been working on the armament for the truck and the crew. Once they're done then it should be easy to continue on structural things. This is the problem with creating multi-part kits - things need to interlock but one can't glue them together properly during creation.

The truck is going to have a machine gun option and a rocket launcher option. Currently the focus is on creating the machine gun as it's a very specific design (and whilst the rocket launcher is also its design is significantly simpler). As with other things this is where 28mm "Heroic" scale is tricky - things aren't proportional. I have to make a judgement call on which bits should remain prominent and which can be safely shrunk down.

So for reference the machine gun is based on the M60:


Here it is on the truck (missing its rear iron sight - it hasn't been attached yet):


As you can see the gunner is sitting on a stack of boxes. Currently they're placeholders as they're going to be replaced by ammo tins:


I'm working on a master at the moment:


Once it's done I'll make some copies and use them for a variety of things. Extra boxes and stuff to decorate vehicles
If anyone is wondering the rocket launcher is going to be based on the M202 Flash (you might know it as the Grim Reaper from Call of Duty: Black Ops).

MacMuckles wrote:
Your pick, mek! I'd be cool with whatever orky contraption you'll build. Maybe see if others might like the idea (which I'm sure they would) and have a vote on which set of weapons you might make a "build a <weapon>" kit for? My vote goes to Snazz Guns and burnas, personally

I'm starting to have a think about snazzguns but I'm not really sure of many interesting directions to take flamethrowers. Maybe inspiration will strike yet though!

The build your own guns is a truly excellent idea, I second the idea of expanding this for your orc range, I think you could do some fantastic things. As you didn't include the ammo with the bodies of the guns most could be pretty universal, so you could just expand into other mags/fuel/battery's to clip underneath and matching barrels/nozzles/rockets on the end.
The progression of your skills seem to be rocketing off. Keep it up look forward to picking up a custom truck and some gun parts and seeing where you take all this!

 Zognob Gorgoff wrote:
The build your own guns is a truly excellent idea, I second the idea of expanding this for your orc range, I think you could do some fantastic things. As you didn't include the ammo with the bodies of the guns most could be pretty universal, so you could just expand into other mags/fuel/battery's to clip underneath and matching barrels/nozzles/rockets on the end.

Cheers - are you suggesting using the existing ones as a basis for things like Snazzguns or would you just like to see the range of shoota options expanded further?

 Zognob Gorgoff wrote:
The progression of your skills seem to be rocketing off. Keep it up look forward to picking up a custom truck and some gun parts and seeing where you take all this!

Thanks! I've come a long way but I hope to go a lot further

Progress!

Nice! Btw, what do charge for postage to Germany? I feel an order coming up

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
Nice! Btw, what do charge for postage to Germany? I feel an order coming up

Postage to mainland Europe starts at £4.99 but it's based on weight so it'll vary depending on what you order. On the plus side the cart has a calculator that gives accurate numbers based on what you've picked.

thanks mate! will take a look!

I'm trying to decide whether these need more rivets:


They're gobbo scale but will also fit humans.

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
thanks mate! will take a look!

Awesome Let me know if you're after any of our newer resin stuff and I'll see about getting a preview cast sorted out.

 Fox Box wrote:
I'm trying to decide whether these need more rivets:


They're gobbo scale but will also fit humans.

These are precisely what I had in mind! Gobbo scale, smaller than the orcs but in a similar style.

Some of you may have already seen but I figured I'd post it here too. I'm trying to decide what this new set of weapons should be called. They were going to be called "Goblin Assault Rifles" but that was before I added various other weapon types to the mix. There’s a machine gun (RPK), a rocket launcher (RPG-7), and several carbines (AKS-74U and similar).

Second problem - putting "goblin" in the product name is a bit confusing because they're for humans too. Here's a GW Catachan squaddie with one:


I also thought of just calling them "Goblin Assault Weapons" but the term "assault weapon" has a fair bit of political baggage attached to it in the US. Probably best to give that one a miss.

So, erm, HALP!

Heavy Kalibers?
Scrapguns?
Shooters?

AK-40K7s?
AKs Of The Future?
Sci-Fi Russian Rifles?
Sci-Fi Bad Guy Guns?
Adeptus Kalashnikus?
Accept No Substitute? (as in "if you absolutely, positively got to convert every last miniature in the room, accept no substitute...")

'Goblin' could be the name of the actual guns (or the factory which produces them), rather than who they're for.

Assault Kanon 47. Because seriously if its that size on a catchcan, then it's the size of a canon for a goblin/gretchin. Kanon with a K since goblinz kant spel rihte. Model 47 because ........reasons

Attack rifles?