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Oops, forgot those.

Nah, not really, got the kans, lots of cool pieces in there, some may even make it onto kans

Your metioning of the pirhana got me wondering why I've never seen a looted Eldar vehicle....

BACK OFF IT'S MY IDEA RAAAAAARGH!

i must say your boyz are some bloody sick gang! I really love the painboy... keep it up

awesome work!!

cant wait to sede them all painted too!

Everything looks awesome! keep at it.

I'm waiting for paint too!

Some pretty cool stuff youve goot here!

Ok, quick pics to show I am doing SOME painty type stuff
One of my lights just blew and I can't be bothered to get lamp from other room, so apologies for poor quality, have auto-adjusted second(hopefully) of each.



With the painboy, not sure if I should paint up more of the track unit, or keep it metallic. Was thinking the side plates might benefit from some red. All still PIP. Happy with skin on the first guy, pleased with how he's looking so far. Others need another highlight on skin, maybe 2, then mainly straps, bit more highlight/shading and details.
Couple of boars have been in for some impromptu amputations too.


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Hadouken - Did mention dark eldar looted as one of the inspirations for these guys, and there is a falcon and a vyper in Upzag's workshop But I don't think they'll be recognisable after they've been hacked up

gewaltatron - I thank you sir And the painboy wouldn't be quite so good without the nudge from CommissarKhaine

NecronBender, JDM - Thanks guys, it's the support of Dakka that keeps it going - however slowly

Looking good. Especially like the fly'n centurion an da Painboy! I prefer less metal on my boyz - and red is always a safe choice for Orks - so I say go for it!

Love that painboy! Maybe add some worn hazard stripes around the track unit if you want to break it up?

Thanks guys, did a bit of both, didn't think I'd be able to pull of the stripes on the track unit itself, wishing I'd tried now, will bear it in mind for next tracks.

So a few more pics, close to finishing




Not sure what the splotches on the arm are, can't see them in rl. Really do like the look of this guy, just need to go tidy up the eyes and decide on whether to tint the lips or not. Was thinking of a red/pink/orange glaze over the lips, maybe a touch of pink on the nose.


Need do do something with the air-cushions here. Had a grey drybrush then a devlan wash so far, not sure what next. Helmet needs tidying, hover unit needs dirtying. Axe fittings and arm bands still to do. And still needs something adding near the exhaust, may have to leave for now and re-visit later.


Helmet, wires arm-rags and boot still to go. Probably paint jaw red too, plus a bit of work on the skin.


Need to tidy up a few details and do the arm straps, pretty much it. Toyed with blood-stained mask but think I might just grubby it up a bit instead. Definitely prefer it with a bit of colour other than metallics on there, not sure if I should go for the stripes on the track-unit, it needs something htere to contrast with the actual tracks, but I think hazard stripes now will look a little busy. Maybe just rust it up a lot inside there with paint and some weathering powders. Also need to paint up the various wires and probably replace the moulded wire still in place on the power-plant.

servo-grots and an orderly. Orderly probably will be getting blood-stained, and just dirty.

da servo-skullz. Lenses on the mekzkull, weathering and details on the dokzkull - including the mekkadendrit which was constantly being moved during painting as it's so flexible. May have to give it a few extra coats of varnish, or maybe some pva glue once it's done to stiffen it ever so slightly.

Progressing very nicely!

beautiful work again!!

My thanks.

So I thought these guys were finished till I saw the pics




Gutslumpa still has green fingernails - oops
Zyklopz needs the wires tidying - not surprising I was going cross-eyed doing all the wire-work, but not frustrating funnily enough, in fact I actually enjoyed that part. Also needs some weathering to the base. And has green fingernails.
The hovva-centuriork also has green fingernails and still needs something adding to the back
Dok Herbork Wezt needs a bit of tidying around the power-plant and some rust to either the tracks or the unit - probably the tracks.

But essentialy they're done

edit: also finished the dokzkull, but put it to one side until I decide how I'm basing it. May attach to the dok, his base or have a seperate base.

Reminds me, a bit, of the old Tinboyz models.

I've got a few of them kicking around somewhere...

The eldar, squat and marine style tinboyz? Nice.
That is: Lucky you, nice that you have some of those guys, and thank you, nice that you're reminded of old-skool mini's by my work

Shame I wasn't into orkses much back then, but I guess there's always e-bay

:O Sweet zombie jesus... That pain boy is amazing! Without doubt the most original ork army I've ever seen, eep I mean cybork army. Keep it up, everything is so unique and impressive Shame when they get hit with a battle cannon

How are you going to add the rust on them? I've heard good things about brown inks, what's your method?

I love Dok Herbork Wezt, he's the most awesome Pain/Mek boy ever!!!

Yggdrasil - Thank you kindly

Dark Lord Mr Fluffy - I thank you kind sir, not least for adding an exclamation I was not expecting to see No the doks and meks love a good battle cannon hit - they get a gak-load of spare bits Don't have a true tried and tested technique for rust, tend to try differing approaches and get various results. Lately I've been experimenting with a few splodges of dark flesh and orange, followed by various red, brown and orange washes and inks, followed by drybrush of chainmail or boltgun. Had some good results on a few bases, but decided I wanted to try messing with weathering powders a bit more.

Mixed up a bit of Mig standard rust with some water and painted a few dabs on the tracks.

It dries pretty quickly, then I took a wet brush and smeared it around to cover a good area.

Once dry I took a short, hard brush and just brushed at the dried powder till I got the effect I wanted. Then with a dry brush added a little Mig light rust and brushed it in.
I used the wet powder to start with as I wanted pretty extensive rusting, otherwise I'd have just used dry powder.


Gutslumpa very worried now. This pic actually shows up something I'm not overly happy with, and that's the weathering on the orange sheet and the yellow trim. It doesn't fit with the rest of the model and I'm still not quite sure why I decided to use that style there.

The latest batch undergoing surjary at the moment


The Nob will get his legs lengthened just a tad. The second guy was a very old chaos warrior which I converted to a space ork back when Rogue Trader was new. Given him new boots, axe and head, but decided not to strip the paint as there's a lot of chaosy skull details and by painting over the already several coats thick paint I'm hoping to get some shapes which look like they've been bashed into vague skull shapes. Guy on a stalk was going to be a mek, but may yet become a painboy, needs tracks or wheels under the sentinel toes and the 'eye' needs filling with gs to make a single orb. Next up are two classic meks one with a mkb and one with a servo-harness type affair which will have either a kmb or a slugga/choppa type affair. Last come the mega-nob concepts which are probably getting scrapped. I'm having trouble getting a heavily armoured look going for the sentinel one and I think the other one will actually fit better in with my rogue trader/ad mech.

Every conversion idea I had was shot to hell but what you've done. Keep up the amazing work. Can't wait to see some killa kanz.

Don't scrap those last ones....
You don't want to see me when I'm angry....

Oh that painboy is simply cool. Totally mental. I find guitar wire really tricky to use...any tips?

Also really like the one holding the broken chainsaw and how the left arm just ends in a bionic stump. Reminds me of mean machine from the Judge Dredd film.

Peter

Great work! The bits combos are quite inspired. The ork with the chain sword in hand looks so worried. I love it.

Gah! Pfft! Urggh! Film? Film? FILM? I think you'll find you meant comic there. Please don't offend people with the memory of that, what did you call it, film.

PDH - Actually I have plans for a mean machine style one, originally was going to use the arm on the above nob, but err, the nob got it Gutslumpa's actually holding the remains of his bionik-choppa, but just realised I didn't make that clear anywhere, what I get for using too recognisable a piece, should have gone the scrath-built arm route I guess, but I went with my original image. Yuo've just got to take it slow when shaping guitar wire I've found. I use some sort of needle-nose pliers make a tiny bend, move the pliers a fractional amount and make another tiny bend, repaet till done. I generally start with a piece that I KNOW is going to be too long, start shaping from one end, ensuring I've left enought straight to fit in the hole it'll be glued in. Keep comparing it to the place it'll be occupying, snip the end off when you're happy. If you leave it so you need to squeeze it slightly when fitting I find it helps keep it in place, and I always (he says) glue after painting. I also tend to use a variety of wires and cables - twisting copper wire together in different configurations gets some interesting cables - most of the wires used across the cyborks, especially the servo-grots, use this. Floral wire is also very good for plain cables, or even wrap a bit of copper wire around floral wire.
Wow didn't mean to waffle on wire quite so much.

Hadouken - Do you turn red and burst out your clothes? The senty might still survive, getting a bit stressed that I can't find the version I was building for Inquisitor, I'm sure I've been through all my boxes a couple of times now, and I'm sure I've seen it this year somewhere The ther ones not getting scrapped so much as re-claimed by the Adeptus Mechanicus. Possibly. Sometime. Soon(TM).

Reprisal - Thanks for the support. I think the same thing about my ideas when flicking through the gallery or various blogs - I keep seeing better versions of stuff I'm planning that I was sure no-one else would have thought off It's all good though, keeps us improving, I think and hope anyway.

Ooops. Sorry for the poor pics to words ratio there, I'll try to do better next time

edit: (not this time, obviously, I mean NEXT time)
GG- snuck in there whilst I was typing Thank you, I've become rather taken with Gutslumpa myself, a bit like the grot with the wall-e type eyes.

ah! Pfft! Urggh! Film? Film? FILM? I think you'll find you meant comic there. Please don't offend people with the memory of that, what did you call it, film

+1. Loved the comic, the film was... Meh

Love the conversions, they're full of character. You could always add a grot in 'the eye'; the opening seems quite suitable for the one from the battlewagon set.

CommissarKhaine wrote:
+1. Loved the comic, the film was... Meh

And that surprised you?

Wow, really awesome, amost makes me want to stop selling my orcs and cybork the lot!!! but.. I must focus!!! ....so please stop posting!!!

again beautiful!

*jaws drop*

Nice, keep up the good work

Sillyboy

In my defense I never said it was a good film. To the extent that only two things in the film were any good. Mean Machine, those special effects looked bloody good. Unlike the flying bike and Dredd taking him helmet off - come on no ones face really looks like that!!!!

While googling the name of the Decommissioned Combat Robot from the film (the other good thing) looks like Karl Urban will be playing Dredd...filming starts this Autumn.

Thanks for the tips on guitar wire...I enjoy waffle (you're read my log ) A further little question..Why do you glue it in place after painting?

Peter

Your crime was not saying it was good, but mentioning it. Do not worry, the Inquisitors will be with you shortly. In the mean time Be Pure! Be Vigilant! Behave!

Oh God, now that's started a whole new train of thoughts going! Haven't seen any Nemesis inspired Inquisition yet No..be firm...be strong...continue with the cyborks...GorkaMekka commands it!

And as for the post-painting wire gluing, that's generally because I seem to choose cable placements that would cause me real headaches when painting so I just leave it off as a matter of course - although I have changed that with the current deffkopta, the wires were too fiddly to want to attempt after painting and aren't badly placed so they got glue.