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**Tim the Biovore**

Your Hive Tyrant = Awesomeness, Bug Style.

**Lemmingspawn**

I've been taking it slow for the past week or so. I'm waiting on some parts to arrive so I can start on the Zeppelin, they'll be on their way from Canada soon (along with paints and bikes and some other bits - battlewagon bits is very cool). In the meantime I've been fooling around with some other projects that have been sitting around waiting for time to come, and a couple of models a friend gave me a while ago I totally forgot I had, AND some necrons I found in a box of bits I bought off the guy who runs our local GW...

I have yet to add some token rivets to the kokpits of the landspeeders and I've also been dusting off the baneblade and making sure it's ready to undercoat. So I haven't been doing nothing but I haven't been doing lots this week

**person person**

Those are some clever LS conversions, they actually look like they aren't open-topped!

**elfboy**

I really like those Land Speeders, I'm presuming that they still need more work and that the paint will help make them look more Ork-like than they currently do. If I ran a Space Marine army (oh wait, I do... but it's entirely non-aerial) then these would certainly be on my Do Want list.

**Lemmingspawn**

Lol, they're not meant to be orky... I'll be tidying them up a bit to make them look more Astarte. I wanted them to look either remote or single pilot.

I also have a Rogue Trader landspeeder to clean up and adapt to the army as a special addition. I'm also trying to decide whether I leave the Typhoon/AC version standard or not. It might look too...random... for a Dark Angels army if I don't close it in too.

**elfboy**

Lemmingspawn wrote:Lol, they're not meant to be orky...

In that case, they look pretty nifteh and you can ignore me

I thought you were still on the Ork stuff, you see.

**EagleArk**

They supposed to be land speeder tempests? oh and love the thread so far!

**Lemmingspawn**

Something like a tempest, anyway. Like the FW one.

Well - I've been not really busy this week. In between projects and materials arriving and there's a few things that I can't start without having a long stretch of time to get them done, and then there's other things I can't start because when I get home I'm too lazy to undercoat the models. SO! I have myself at a bit of an impasse.

So here are the bits and pieces I've been farting around with over this past week or two - whatever time period it is - I'm losing track...

Argh! Don't anger the Rhino or it will own your... Rhino?

**Limbo**

Mangled rhino looks great, destruction is a form of art!

**person person**

Agreed. Nose mounted MM on the LS looks better, nice sunset too, all red-like.

**kravus master of Horus**

Nice

**Lemmingspawn**

Finally! The valkyrie has arrived from the US and I'm ready to build! This week sees the beginning of something epic. An epic balloon of destroyed valkyrie rebirthness-type stuff...

Here's my pics so far:

The original pilot they tried to keep alive and strapped in but the sucker died...so they just shoved some other cargo in with him...

The repaired wing:

And the current breakdown of parts:

I have a few ideas, like an ork holding both ends of a broken electrical cable connecting the current with his own body - unintentionally of course. What would be sweet is if I could add a big mek strapped down behind him laughing his buttocks off!

I also am thinking of adding some crew carriage platforms on either side of the main compartment exits for fast debarkation.

**person person**

You friggin' killed it, yet it looks so beautiful.

What a testament to the power of looting!

**aromasin**

Awesome!!!

**LiveforFun666**

YES! looted valkyrie sounds awesome, waiting patiently for next update

.... is it up yet?

**gretar**

Nice . Like it .

No wait , I dont , I loooove it

**Lemmingspawn**

Well to get into the vein of truly random - I've decided to bring in pics of the current Valkyrie progress, as well as some pics of my previously done Grey Knights.

Enjoy!

**oaktree**

The looted valkyrie is fantastic, i aspecially like the ork who looks like he has had a moment of genius or is away to electracute himself

.

**EagleArk**

Very nice, very nice...

EagleArk.

**aromasin**

Awesome!

**gretar**

Uhm, whanna trade ?

I'll give you the courtesy of using my idea for a thread name and I'll take the idea of a looted valkyre ?

**aromasin**

Close up on the zappy ork please?

**person person**

Nice Grey Knights, very grimdark looking.

As to the looted Valk, somewhere an aeronautical engineer is...

Which makes it awesome!!!

**Lemmingspawn**

Here's the progress on the Zeppelin. My only dislike is the balloon could benefit from being a bit longer and a bit flatter in shape, but aside from that I'm pretty happy with it. Being it's a plastic football it's next to impossible to adjust it without it popping and no longer holding its shape, lol.

Anyways - take a look!

**person person**

Nice!

Love the bike in the ramp!

**InyokaMadoda**

Great work on the zeppelin. Some really nice touches. I think the ork messing with the wires is fantastic!

**Teek**

Really great stuff here Lemmingspawn. The short circuit ork is fantastic!

This thing is covered in beautiful little details, but by far my favorite is the use of stormboy jetpack wings on the old school bike. Brilliant stuff, I'll have to loot that if I ever get around to making a second bike squad. Love it!

**w0chtulka**

I wanna eat that green ball

The thing that impressed me most was that power weapon for the grey knight hero... how have you managed to paint it like that??

**Lemmingspawn**

Thanks for the props guys

The power weapon on Stern is done with a basecoat of straight silver, then glazed on one end with blue gradually reducing the area of effect until there's mostly blue on the tip. Then at the hilt end is the same effect using glazes of purple.

I still haven't mastered glazing so that it works out as smooth as it could be, but I'm happy with the overall effect - considering I painted the entire GK army using that technique

**Tobber1202**

hahaha, i can just hear the "ride of the valkyries" theme in the back of my head when i see that thing ^^
really cool ideas