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happy birthday and hopefully another year of excellent work

Even though you may not have finished as much as you like you have inspired many of us to further experiment with our own conversion. I don't think my Brazen Klawz would be what they where today if it wasnt for your work. Their skin tone I got from the ork I traded you. And that was the model that got me thinking outside of the GW cookie cutter models. SO that one more thing you can be proud of. But as I have said before Im a huge fan of your work.

Happy birthday!! this year I painted 130 minis (ooo I'm a right be-atch for pointing that out) - however I did not slice them into tiny bits, mix them around and reassemble them in a variety of amazing and hilarious ways. This obviously adds considerable time per mini. I'm not sure I have ever seen you paint a model with out first slicing it up a treat - so if we say a conversion is worth at least 3 unconverted minis then that means you've done.... er 75.

In all seriousness they are unique and special, and there is no need to rush; you've got years and years to get this lot finished - and when you are old and weary you can have bionik eyes and fingers fitted so you can carry on!!

Happy dakka day matey i could smell the mention of cake from my dining room table and had to come and investigate , should have known it was all talk so i brought my own..


Not mine found in dakka gallery


really like the paint work on Eavy D and Nob#1 especially the fleshy bit

Lovely to a round up of your boys ,The reanimated Herbork West being a fave along with your Q the winged cyber beast, and i nearly spat out my false teef at seeing a SM in here
great paint job on him btw. and the muties and cultist also the 1st dread i dont remember seeing before , has really nice weathering as per.
And i think Weetys on the right track with the multiple mini maths , although i reckon its more like 6 minis per ork , and that makes its ,er...just calculating ...er... 2.3.. er.. BOOM ! my calculator blew up

I for one think that less is more whn it comes to your work monkey keep it up matey , this blog needs to remain Orky so the Bashed has somewhere to bring his gang!
its beeing much fun following your thread Mate , and i have never lollled so much at plastic , well apart from that incident at school with a medical orthapaedic instrument ... but thats another story

Oh and thanks for reminding me to finish that Manufactorum thingy me bob , now where did i puts it!

^Lol, trukk cake!

That made my day!

wow thought you was an old horse here on dakka...er...are^^
your collection of orks reminds me of the crude bunch of tortured toys from the first toystory film...remember them?

and i absoloutly feel too that the community here helps and motivates one to produce much more output than probably done alone...really boosted up my engines a lot too!

so i hope for a productive second year here too for you^^

cheers, vik


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*bows humbly for your linkys set here^^* two refferences to my junk-related threads^^ well someday even the airship will see some work again^^

Somehow this blog had fallen off my radar MT. I can't begin to tell you how wonderful I find all of your whimsical conversions and painting.

Glad I'm back on board. Subscribedamundo!!

awe...I want cake now!

Awww, I feel all warm and fuzzy inside now. Must be coming down with something

bigfish - thanks, I hope so too.

schank - Does that mean I can count da Klawz in with my finished total? I'll not deny that hearing someone say they've been inspired by yourself is pleasant, but don't forget it works both ways. As I've said before actually seeing your trade guy in the flesh pushed me to finally try adding some different washes to my skin-tones.

weety - "so if we say a conversion is worth at least 3 unconverted minis then that means you've done.... er 75". Thanks for that
Yes, well obviously I wasn't planning on doing quite as many as you And the fact you seem to know how long I've got left makes me even more convinced your speediness is the product of arcane covenants with the Deep Ones.

neil - " so i brought my own.. Not mine" So stealing cakes from hungry modellers now are we? Good spot with Herbork, believe you're the first to mention that, I'd pass along a cookie but as you have a looted cake... Hey, I have 2 sets (they can't really be called armies at present)of marines, gotta have something for the boyz to loot from, can't be doing with having it all smurf-boy gak And there's obviously a batch of ork-modified calculators doing the rounds at present

Matt - It'd be great to play against... 'Hmm, I've immobilised your trukk, guess I'll have to eat the wheels for wysiwyg purposes'

vik - Thank you sir, and yes, the airship is eagerly awaited (but no hurry ) Indeed, it's the community that keeps me interested and motivated, and what attracted me in the first place.

Gits - I'm glad you're back on board, thank you and thank you.

Zeke - go see neil, he's probably pinched some other poor buggers confection by now

monkeytroll wrote:schank - Does that mean I can count da Klawz in with my finished total? I'll not deny that hearing someone say they've been inspired by yourself is pleasant, but don't forget it works both ways. As I've said before actually seeing your trade guy in the flesh pushed me to finally try adding some different washes to my skin-tones.

Ha sure ya can I don't mind one bit. Thats the main reason why I love this site is finding and trying new ways of doing thing.

Lots of very talented people on this site and I have you in my top 10 favorites.

by the way, totally forgot to tell you that i really love that one pegleg that you fully scratchbuilt! that is one hell of detail on such a small scale, and it look 100% convincing! realy draw-my-hat- material^^

Happy borkday!

Still no painted velociork, I see.

Though it may not seem so much, that's still quite the amount of accomplishment you've got under your belt for 1 year work. Makes the models looking forlornly up at me with half painted, nay even unpainted, and mostly unconverted bodies ask why I have so forsaken them. In this last year I may have painted as many as 30, maybe 40 models, on a high end, and that's with relatively little conversion work for the most of them

schank - Cool, that brings me up to what, 30? And thank you, that is very flattering

vik - I thank you sir. And in reply to your query way back on my chaos blog (which should get updates soon...[shameless plug mode off]), I model purely for fun, haven't played since Rogue Trader, but have a nasty OCD which keeps me making 'legal' armies. Although I'm starting to feel a pull away from that as some of the recent codex reading I've done has been a bit slow to get my juices flowing.

graven - Cheers I plan to get Tek-Masta 'Stumpy' finished up over the weekend.

Lord Kaesar - Velociraptork is definitely in the 'seen some brush love' category In fact, just for you, I've just moved him from the back of my 'waiting in limbo' section into the front-line 'colouring-in' area 30 or 40 ? That's nearly 50 That's twice as many as me That's the way to think on these things



So, last night was mainly GS into gaps in heads and bodies. This evening was a bit of tutting and filing, followed by some proming. And then a few more concepts gained progress:

Danger,danger, roborks about



Probably won't end up with those arms and head. Maybe he'll get the part-robocop arm from the hovering drone boy, as I've decided he's not getting that now. Didn't have anywhere near as many teef as needed. I've since found a much better replacement for those legs, so I may take this in a slighlty different direction to where I was thinking.


Potential 'ard boy/bomb squig/attack squig/something else entirely



Originally conceived as an 'ard boy (with a slightly smaller arm and shoota), but there's potential for some squiggy goodness there too I feel. And some good grotness too. Although I think I've moved away from the boss legs idea.


Turbo-rolla



Wheels, a turbine and a shoota - always a killa-kombo. Head and arm aren't finalised yet, there's a bit of detailing and filling to do, and the axle needs to be beefed up a bit from a cocktail stick and blu-tac.


Mek it so



Found a better head for this particular mek, and started on a mek-pak for him. Haven't decided on the right arm yet, and needs some more tools off the pak.


Thanks for stopping by.

you sir are ridiculous in your creation, development and painting skills.
again another set of brilliently thought out and delivered WIP boyz.
i think my fav is the AOBR warboss convert. i thought that was very nice indeed. keep up the good work


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oh and do you mind if i loot that termi body idea? its frika frakin excellent

Nutty... completely nutty. (love them!)

Really liking the Tau vibe from the Big Mek so how about a looted Railgun?

Not so hot on the first two - needs more time in the monkeytroll Painboy hut - but Turbo-rolla and Mek it so are inspiring already. As always - can't wait to see where they all eventually end up!

Plenty of nice conversions there Monkeytroll! The title is what drew me in, for my own orky fun, I am starting a Fighta-Bomma from scratch, I will likely be needing some ideas to add stuff in to it as it progresses. Vik already gave some..

monkey...whatever you take when you make those conversions (for a lack of a better word...) i want some too...i feel way too sober when compared to your stuff...there were so many artists that achieved great art by using someor the other substances...and your boyz seemed to benefit form at least half a dozen of the possible substances out there^^

i can´t even understand the process of how you go for a new mini...do you just at first wildly cobble everything together and then decide what looks good or do you actually plan that? it is awsome and randome and good working....not something that the universe would tolerate at a long term periode...prepare for a chaosy assualt i guess your drawing attention ...


or to put it another words...great stuff mate^^


and concerning your OCD (which i had to look up first^^) stuff legality....whoever di´dn´t just want to play with you and your army out of the sheer fun of it is not worthy of either...fun, you and your weird army^^


so i have spokeneth!

vik

slicey-slicey cutty-cutty




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Also thankyou for those chaos backpacks, they are like mana from hell! And I'm using the plasticard you sent me as well after finally digging it out from under the bed, makin a sentinel!

A greenstuffed turbine engine?! Really?! You're crazy! (and excellent).

Love the 'wildly flailing' look of the pogo ork

Turbo-rolla is fething awesome.

You should make a knock back rule for the jet in close combat. Where he can shin it 180 degrees and use the jet force to push his combatant.

I love it.

Is Turbo-rolla a Flash Git? 'cause it looks like he has a Gitfinda.

Somewhat similar to one of my own (literally just finished) Flash Gitz, with that one AoBR Terminator bit stuck in his eye socket.

bigfish - with 'ridiculous' I assume you're talking about the slow pace yes? Thank you (although I'm not sure this set is brilliantly thought out...) And please, loot away, it's what orks do

Gits - Too kind sir, too kind

Llamahead - It's possible, I've been saving that for a 'small tank thing' which has been kicking around for a while needing direction. Still unsure of what I'm kitting him with, but I'll plaay with some Tau weaponry, see what happens...

Arakasi - Yeah, those two need more work for sure. The one with Robbie's legs sort of lost a bit of impetus when I found better legs to use and has really just had any old limbs tac'd in place for now. The termie guy I really like, but as stated haven't narrowed down which way to take him - possibly even making 3 of the little buggers as 'bots to tend the Dok's 'shroom patch Turbo-rolla's pretty much there, just needs the wheel/axle bits sorted and then a load of filling. Although by then his head and arm may have gone walkabout Happy now I've found that head for the mek, the others i'd tried were good, but just weren't doing it for me, I'm still trying to find a decent plume to come off that little projection on his head though. And another arm.

shasolenzabi - Thank you, and glad you dropped by. Unfortunately the flyboyz part of the equation is still fairly limited, I have plans for a fighta/fighta-bomma based on an old Cylon Raider, but that's really waiting till I've built the cockpit before proceeding.

vik - The trick is to grind up those pesky blue beakies really finely, then put the resulting powder in a turbo-pipe
I find mini creation to be a fairly varied procedure, some are solidly planned, some have a loose plan and a lot are just the results of endlessly playing with bits Creativity shouldn't be stifled by sticking to one methodology What I find happens a lot with the orks is I have an idea for, or make, a small part of 'something', which then sits around for a while until I happen across some other bits that work with it. A case in point would be Turbo-Rolla above, the stormboy torso and burna-boy fuel tank were glued together months ago. There's been a couple of different ideas for their use (a burna-boy, a tracked guy using the fuel, a 'limb coming from the pipe-work - 'leg' and 'arm both considered - a wepon mounted on the pipes...) before I started playing with part of a pre-heresy jump pack, and then it fell into place.
Current fluff for them has them on [insert forgotten name of planet later], a planet currently suffering the ravages of war (unusual in 40k I know ) whilst the system is being isolated by a warp-storm. Guard, marines, chaos and a small 'nid contingent are all present in some form or another.

weety - thanky-thanky hanky-panky
No problem, and yes I've seen the speedy progress your walker has made

Scarper - Cheers, seemed easier than cutting lots of tiny slices of plasticard Although I suspect I'll try that too somewhere else. I like that arm, but that boy needs alot more attention yet, and probably won't get that arm.

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schank - Thanks man. Now that's the kind of thing we would have done back when I did play, RT was great for having each member of your warband (we kept to small skirmishes for 40k, large scale battles were fought using slightly altered RT with Epic scale minis) come with a host of rules that only applied to that one mini

Anvildude - Actually, you raise a good point there. Although stating earlier that he just needs a bit of tidying really, there are still a few unknowns. I'd briefly considered making him a nob , then realised I didn't have an idea I liked for arming him appropriately, so he defaulted to a shoota boy. Now he could become a member of the Orkus Mekanikus (my flash-gitz) but they wear robes/tabards/cloaks etc, and not sure I could do a decent job of adding such to this guy. I'll have a think on it though. But the weird bionik eye is pretty much commonplace in Upzag's crew (there are a variety of modified heads rolling around the desk awaiting body donors).

What I find happens a lot with the orks is I have an idea for, or make, a small part of 'something', which then sits around for a while until I happen across some other bits that work with it.

i think this is a good way to deal with any conersions... a pre wip phase so to speak...something that fits is brought together and sometimes one has to take the time to get another persepctive to the things before built...then new bitz get assambled...i think sometimes i work like this too...it is a bit like a big puzzle...you don´t sit there at the table and brutally force your pieces into place but go with the flow and then when the time is ripe you have a perfect match...your work proves this/ these methode (s) right!

to the jet engine... if you try this stunt again i would sincerely beg you to do a tut on that...the look is very fitting and i might have need for that... i did for the airships main propeller just that and cut plenty of ugly and bent pieces of cardboard and it sucked greatly....so a change of methodes again would seem to be in order^^

your fluff enables you to create out of a cornucopia of so many factions...this makes your possibilities totaly unmatched by anyone else! with orks you get so many oprions and you even riase the bar higher by this^^....*have to remind myself that i try to make a IG army...* "stay focused, stay clean....DON`T TEMPT ME!!!!!....." ^^


cheers mate....hope to see more stuff soon!

vik

I certainly don't recall your airship turbines as sucking greatly vik, think they were better than that The gs method would probably not work so well on a larger version. Easy enough though (although it took a couple of attempts to figure it out).

Two bits of tubing that will 'nest', I rounded the edge on the smaller 'rim' piece. Flattened a small ball of gs and placed it over the end of the longer piece, let it cure for 10-15 minutes. Trim the edges off and use a wet blade to create the lines, just lightly pushing in rather than trying to cut or score them. I thought doing each line across the whole diameter would be better than working the radius, but for some reason it didn't, your mileage might vary. Used a tool/paintbrush/stick to gently poke the 'blades' from behind (through the tube) as the line making had slightly deformed the GS. Added a GS cone for the spindle. Put the rim piece in place, hiding any rough edges on the gs. No real sculpting/shaping required so fairly easy.

Take a bit more care than me and you could probably get blades to be even in size too.And if you had a very narrow blade (or similar thin triangle) you could press the side of the blade in at an angle to create angled blades - which you'd probably want for anything larger.


The fluff came about purely to tie my different 'forces' (none could be called armies at this stage) together. Or more precisely, was created for the guard to explain their make-up, and then expanded slightly to fit the others in.

thanks for the insights in the jet making...i grant you that that on a bigger scale the lines making might cause some serious problems...the angled blades was what gave me histerics...the ones i did ruined the ones i did before...and when completed the circle mostly all looked off into another direction....today i was in a DIY store and let the man there saw me some wood to go as a cutting edge station (in refference to the paint station^^) if interrested i will show pics on my thread... i have a nack for scratchbuilding but absolultly no artezian knowledge...in fact one might argue eben no talent^^... straight lines and exact measures are something i come very hard by...so i made the man there do me wooden rulers in various sizes and this might help me get parts later cut to size that i actually want...thus crating fitting parts...something totally new^^ at least for me^^

so in this process then i think a revisit to the airship might be done^^

(although it took a couple of attempts to figure it out).

it feels most of the time as if i have to invent the wheel anew...^^ so learning by error...er...doing...is something i do on a daily basis...

Hahah this blog is awesome and so compeltely orkified up. Gotta love all your crazy conversiosn even the legs above that said were going to be scarped I think it looks like a jack in the box which is funky.

Thanks JamesG. The legs are staying, it's the head and arms that'll be going. And orks don't scrap stuff, they just endlessly re-cycle - they's green ain't they?