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That looks excellent - though I suppose I should have expected that from you by now

I have it! strap a huge tank full of 'roids and stimulants to his back! with pipes coming out of the tank and heading to his arms and other points of his body!

if you have ever seen that batman with bane in it youll understand!

he looks great but I think he needs to be madder looking.. like maybe the lower points of the brow over the side of each eye, have that arch up a bit? just a thought, otherwise awesome

Well, tonight I took a stab at making fists and I have to say it was a giant step sideways. Hands in particular have always eluded me. Back when I was making my Big Mek and I had to come up with a bionic hand, I went digging through my Bitz bins like a lunatic because it just wasn't looking right. This is much the same - though I took a stab at creating some proper-sized manhandlers out of styrene and paperclips, the results were substandard at best.





The one thing I will say I got out of doing this is that I learned I like his look much better if I have closed fists, rather than the open hands like what the original dire troll mauler had.





That last picture has his fist angled forward a bit strangely at the wrist, but you get the idea, anyway.

I may make another attempt at making a closed fist tomorrow in roughly the same style, with a bit more precision than the haphazard eyeballing I was doing today for finger joint lengths. Truthfully, though, I think this one might be a job for the toy stores - I'll have to go and take a look at things like transformers and gundam toys to see if I can't find a pair of robotic smashy fists already made the right size. I found a couple in Privateer Press's Warmachine lineups - the warjacks have a couple nice hands - but I don't know if they're the right scale, and I'm not desperate enough yet to order them and see.

IMO i think the scratch built one you just made looks pretty good already

You're right, it does look a lot better closed. The fingers look really long when opened.

comeon hes not really a warboss without a huge power klaw.

looks I founds him one http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m1184311

but hey really an awesome job so far lookin great.






Twister....

That is probably the most senseless conversion i have ever seen. I mean, who would call it a conversion? You may as well have just scratchbuilt it, theres virtually nothing of the model left...

... And thats a good thing, because its looking fantastic. I dont mind the open hand, as long as you have lots of eires and gubbins on it, it will look fantastic. Keep up the good work!

he could be crushing an annoying grot or an enemy guardsman in his hand

I think said guardsman would have pissed himself to death upon seeing that friggin thing headin his way. You ever see a man piss himself to death? Trust me, it's not pretty.
I think that the build quality of the power fist you have made is good, however let us not deny what you have built; a power fist. He really needs a klaw. However, for purposes of sheer mass, if this guy wants a fist he gets a fist. Also, I think if you bulk up the back of the hand; not add gubbins to make it pretty, but actually add some bulk to the back, it will look a lot better. Not eve Tau have a flat hand, so this guy should look better with a little more mass back there. Just having a flat plate is killing the look of it.

Get him a big snappy klaw, and he'll respect you in the morning.

sniff...

pictures blocked in Red China...

Email addy Kyoto? I'll send em over

I'm getting an object not found 404 error on the link you provided Twister..

looking very sweet. will continue to watch this one evolve.

Love the sculpting on the fig. I think the hand is fine. Open or closed. But I agree with grizgrin, that you need to bulk up the hand. The fingers look long and wrong since they are as thick as the hand.

love it, keep the fist closed, he wants to smash, not bitch slap someone

needs a power klaw though, no such thing as a warboss without one

This my friends is what you get when Hellboy and Incredible Hulk mate.

That Ork is amazing! Keep the great work up.

Sorry it worked the first time i tryed it.

so here is the pic itself.



See his power klaw would be perfect for him it is from the inquisitor line of minis.






Twister....

jamsessionein wrote:

Ah now I can see, bless you proxy server!

Yeah... I can kind of see what you were going for here and for the first try it's really not bad.

behold the fists of gork and mork!

cheers,
gutteridge

and i second a pk more choppy even though its a powerfist in respect

i wonder if he could step on grazzgkull

i also agree its too un-orky without a power klaw

This is an incredible model. WHere is the finished product?

I think the right hand you have for him now works out really well, if combined with a big powerclaw on the left hand. The power claw will be easier to have open and gaping without worrying about finger proportion.

Overall, terribly excited to see you posting again!

wow, those powerclaws on the model TwisterMcPeak posted would look kickarse on your conversion!!!!

the inq. model is called Krieger 'Krash' Thrax, old model, but still on GW for £18 ($36) im sure you can find just the claws or so on ebay.

would be the right size too.
now i need a new warboss, mine will get steped on :

Guys, guys, guys. Come on now. I picked up a Krieger Krash Thrax model at Gamesday Baltimore, but I have no intent on using it on this guy. Do the klaws fit? Yes. But they're not what I have in mind for him.





As you can see, I remade the hand to be a bit less sloppy work. While sloppy might have been orky, the hand I previously made couldn't close into a proper fist due to the finger lengths I gave it. This new fist has been designed entirely around having a closed knuckle sandwich, and I think it looks a fair bit better for it.

The exposed paperclip areas are going to be filled in with greenstuff at some point, and I'll try and sculpt 'ribbing' like what you see on the joints on marine armor so it looks flexible. There's obviously an unfinished space behind the hand - I'm thinking maybe running wires into the knuckles and down the back of the hand into that space. Hydraulics were my other option, but because the inside of the 'gauntlet' is curved, it's a bit too tricky to try and fit something that looks workable in that space.

I know the general preference for Warbosses is a snappy looking powerclaw, but I'm trying to avoid that approach with this guy by making two giant knockout fists for him. This dude's not about cutting or stabbing or slicing or any of that. He's summed up in a single word: Smash! This guy has boxing matches with blood angel dreadnoughts.

That said, seeing as how Terminator Power Fists and Ork Power Klawz are roughly equivalent, and based on the size and obvious strength of this guy, I don't think anyone is going to be telling me, "Uh, sorry, you didn't model that S10 klaw for WYSIWYG."

Extra details will be added as I go. I'm going to be sticking an exhaust pipe or two somewhere on the exterior of the gauntlet, as well as a vent towards the back. There will be some cabling running up and into the musculature of the biceps area in the upper arm to help 'control' the fist a little better. I'm contemplating trying to add 'flame' glyphs at the knuckle end of the outside of the gauntlet, or whether or not I want to do something like that with paint. Hell, I haven't quite finalized the outside arm details to any degree in my head.

Also, because I think it's fun, here's my big boss next to the Black Reach boss (who, I should mention, is just a hair bigger than the old metal boss).



I should mention that while I am still unsure as to the particulars of the outsides of his bionic arms, I do have the general gist of their function in mind. The way I see it, Gargrim (the boss) is obviously way too impressive to armor up, and from his own point of view he's too big to care. What he will do from time to time is use his bionic arms as a sort of shield for his torso; as he charges forward into the path of a tank or gunline or what have you, he brings both arms up infront of him to shield his body from enemy fire. With that in mind, I expect the exterior would be reasonably dinged up with bullet holes, scorch marks, and maybe a tank shell hole or two.

i think he needs a bigger base
looks a tad small for him lol, and its worrying when an ork out grows a 40mm monster base

That said, seeing as how Terminator Power Fists and Ork Power Klawz are roughly equivalent, and based on the size and obvious strength of this guy, I don't think anyone is going to be telling me, "Uh, sorry, you didn't model that S10 klaw for WYSIWYG."

LOL, don't bet on it. If someone sees that bad boy lined up against them, you can bet they'll be crying about any little thing that they percieve will get that thing off your lists.

Broke out the greenstuff and quickly remembered why I sent the thing to Noze in the first place. Still, I got some sort of joint covering over the knuckles.







Look decent enough? It's too small for me to really styrene the joints with any degree of reliability, so sculpting was really the only option. I think it turned out okay; should be less noticeable when painted.

The actual punching part of the knuckles is going to be covered with a styrene strip for extra armored hitting. It should be like a hinged brass knuckle sort of arrangement that can swing up when not in use (read: almost never) so the boss can use his fingers independently to do things like grab weapons. Or tanks.



The wider strip is where I'm going to feed some of the wires into that lead up into the protective covering of the forearm.