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Armoured Kurmpany Reporting in!

Welcome to my new army log, as my forum name is Waaagh Baron, you got to know I love the Greenskins. To be honset I love tanks, I love scratch building, Kitbashing and making that post apocalypse stuff. Now for a some light head cannon fluff of the army:

8th Armoured Krumpany, is a DeathSkulls unit/army that is a comprised from the looted wrecks scavenged from the battlefield of their endless Waaaghs across the stars. The Goal a completely kitbashed scratch built army. If you love watching a crazy man with his plastic toys make custom models welcome.

So the Krumpany consists of two completed builds from made from looted Leman Russ Hulls:


And Meet the new recruit, a landraider I got from friend in the local gaming group. I can hear a spacemarine player screaming in the background but it's Krumping Time!:


I began by breaking own the Grey Knights Raider, then I started cutting it down, the goal a Macharius like model, to that end I need to shorten the track height and lengthen the segment:



Next I glued them to a base core part of the tank and began adding custom track:

Each track piece is 5 sub parts, 1x C Channel, 3x Tube & 1 Rod..... yes 5 subparts, 40 tracks per side..... 200 parts needing glue together, I'm Insane.


Comments Welcome!

Insane - but it looks really good - so sane?

Yikes. You're truely a mad Mek. Looking forward to followin the build. Krumptacular!

I like a bit of craziness. Actually i like a lot of craziness, so yes, I'm looking forward to seeing more.

I am, as well, a fan of the craziness. Looks like a great start.

Arakasi wrote:Insane - but it looks really good - so sane?

Yeah it does look good, but they were missing something so I added more things Rivets! Took a bit.

theCrowe wrote:Yikes. You're truely a mad Mek. Looking forward to followin the build. Krumptacular!

Mad Mek! Yeah that sounds right!

amazingturtles wrote:I like a bit of craziness. Actually i like a lot of craziness, so yes, I'm looking forward to seeing more.

Thanks!

416_SpaceWolves wrote:I am, as well, a fan of the craziness. Looks like a great start.

Thanks! I hope to keep folks interested.

So update, after the small task of putting tracks together, both sides, 80 tracks total (40 per side) but dang it looks good:


I've roughed out the hull and started work on a forward turret, and yes that is part of a Valkyrie my bits box is large and odd.


Close up on the finished track segments, I used a 1/8" hole punch & plastic cup to create these large rivets.


Next up is the turret and more bulking out of the model. Then the long detailing process begins with rivets.

Comments Welcome!

Well Dang its one of those dreaded double posts but here's my days work on the MORKcharious:

I built a turret and detailed it so now all I need to do is add two sponsons and detail this monster out:


Close up on the turret:








Also added the hull mounted Double Dakkaaa (Heavy Stubber)



After reviewing the photos I think I need a better lighting setup, ahh well next time maybe.

Thanks for looking and as always
Comments Welcome!

I like the little box turret on the front, with the bit of rotation. I need to start building my own guns, buying big shootas can get expensive.

The lighting set up isn't terrible, at least for WIP shots. If you can get a second, identical light source it should be better for those final shots.

I hope you don't mind if I steal that tank track style. When I get home I'll pass across some grot tanks I made from various designs. I really should touch them up.

Mate you are absolutely mental. The attention to detail is incredible in here, managing to capture both the Imperialness of the looted vehicle and the orkiness of the looting.

I love it - every bit of it - please keep posting!

That turret is fantastic, this tank is giving me really realistic vibes for an Ork tank!

This is making me want to start a fourth - ork - army... well done. Clean work.

Mr Nobody wrote:I like the little box turret on the front, with the bit of rotation. I need to start building my own guns, buying big shootas can get expensive.
The lighting set up isn't terrible, at least for WIP shots. If you can get a second, identical light source it should be better for those final shots.

Thanks, also here's my advice on big shootaz.

First buy this: https://evergreenscalemodels.com/collections/14-polysytrene-tubes/products/217-rod-assortment then you got all the subcompents of the barrels, also power drill for drilling the holes unless you hate yourself.

cody.d. wrote:I hope you don't mind if I steal that tank track style. When I get home I'll pass across some grot tanks I made from various designs. I really should touch them up.

Loot my ideas as much as you want I'm using this: https://evergreenscalemodels.com/collections/14-35cm-opaque-white-polystyrene-channel/products/267-250-6-3mm-opaque-white-polystyrene-channel its a bit large for normal sized warhammer track when it comes to going around the tighter wheels.

tzurk wrote:Mate you are absolutely mental. The attention to detail is incredible in here, managing to capture both the Imperialness of the looted vehicle and the orkiness of the looting.

I love it - every bit of it - please keep posting!

Thanks!

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:That turret is fantastic, this tank is giving me really realistic vibes for an Ork tank!

Yeah I was hoping to grab what an ork could actually fit in and give it enough Dakka

416_SpaceWolves wrote:This is making me want to start a fourth - ork - army... well done. Clean work.

Thanks, also you got to use the God Father quote when it comes to orks:
Just when -you- thought -you- was out, they pull -you- back in.

So build stage is done:

The sub assemblies:

Closeup on the details:









Easy part is done, the painful part starts. Personally I hate painting but I am trying to get better at painting.

Thanks for looking and as always
Comments Welcome!

Inspirational work! Great job, Baraon, you crazy, beautiful big mek, you!

What Klan colours will we be seeing?

That is an amazing build. Thanks for sharing!

posermcbogus wrote:Inspirational work! Great job, Baraon, you crazy, beautiful big mek, you!

Thanks!

Mr Nobody wrote:What Klan colours will we be seeing?

We be of the DeathSkullz Klan, a totally looted IG tank army what other Klan would I be.

Flinty wrote:That is an amazing build. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks!

So I started Painting the Dakka Wagon:

Now to be honest I don't like painting and will take a long time in painting my tanks.

I Also Started a new Tank, I'm calling her Scrapper and its a Trojan recovery vehicle:





Closeup of the track assembly:


Thanks for looking and as always
Comments Welcome!

This is some truly amazing work, well done!

Dang, this is awesome! v

I wish I'd thought of the name "Armoured Krumpany." So perfect.

Gulgog TufToof wrote:This is some truly amazing work, well done!

Thanks, its a lot of work but worth it

Martin Ralya wrote:Dang, this is awesome! v

I wish I'd thought of the name "Armoured Krumpany." So perfect.

I wish I'd thought of it as well, an old friend of mine 'CrayolaSmoker" from another forum came up with it.
Here's a link to his old blog post: http://buildpaintplay.blogspot.com/2014/02/flashback-friday-armored-krumpany.html


So scrapper is taking shape, I added a grabby klaw for repairing vehicles. Also got to get that loot'n chain for dragging the good bitz off.




Thanks for looking and as always
Comments Welcome!

You have more patience than me but it's definitely paid off-Those are looking great so far

Fantastic work on both of these so far. Painting anything bigger than a troll is a labour of love. By the look of what you've painted so far I can see it's going to be well worth the effort.

SpaceGoblin1980 wrote:You have more patience than me but it's definitely paid off-Those are looking great so far

Patience, now thats a word. I'd have used insanity. THanks!

theCrowe wrote:Fantastic work on both of these so far. Painting anything bigger than a troll is a labour of love. By the look of what you've painted so far I can see it's going to be well worth the effort.

I really need to get back to painting making some time for it this weekend I hope.


So in a change of pace I'm going to some terrain for GorkaMorka, a fort for my mob I'm going to start building. I want a water tower, so I got myself one of those blank Christmas Decorations and started orkifying it:



And why yes that's paper, its a foreign medium for my builds but folds nice to the dome.

Thanks for looking and as always
Comments Welcome!

Been a while but that sphere turned into a water tower:
Work in progress shots:








Still waiting on parts but here is the "finished so far"
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Now while I wait on the mail I decided I need to build a barracks with a Billboard sign of my orks Energy Drink:
The build:

Closeup on the sign:


The Finish-ish of the Barracks:





Thanks for looking and as always
Comments Welcome!

A fancy pair of buildings, your ladz are well looked after!

Fantastic work on these buildings! Really looking forward to seeing that big sign painted up.