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Nice convertions, and a cool view on cartoon orks ^^

Cheers LFF666

Real tasty orky stuff!

Thanks for the kind words guys.

Also, decided that even though I have some models that have been primed for 6 months yet not finished, I should paint the kannon first. Posed with a couple of spare grots that will suffice until I can be bothered to convert up a couple of loaders.



Not the best picture but my camera and I were apparently not seeing eye-to-eye.

Love you work man your conversions are amazing love the Termie Nobz awesome

Put some paint on the painboy for the Nobz squad:



But more importantly... I decided to actually take step by step pictures of the next thing I'm building. This will be a Zzap Gun battery, yes I know they aren't very good but after building the kannon (which when I get the appropriate parts will also be made up to 3 guns) I kinda got the bug for artillery and had 3 spare lascannons.

Here's what I've started with: some wheels and axles from some old toys and the aforementioned lascannons.



First order of business is to remove all the cabling from the bottom of the lascannons to give me a bit of a smoother base to work with.



To be continued...

I LOVE that Painboy!

Hey, hey, some nice stuff appeared on here since I last checked in. Really like that new buggy, and I have to agree with Arakasi about the time it takes to finish that paint stuff Painboy looks pretty sweet too

@Bunnygurl: Thanks, he turned out pretty well although the photos as always just point out where I've been lazy, fortunately not as easy to see in person.

@Monkeytroll: Cheers, still have to think about what I want to do with the final buggy for that squad. And both you and Arakasi are somewhat above me in painting skill so I think you've got more than enough excuse to take a while


Did a little more with my Zzap battery, built up a bit of the body around the wheels first:



Then got onto the important task of adding some orky plates to the actual lascannons themselves, I seem to spend 90% of my time either painting checks or gluing on rivets...



After that they were attacked to the wheels in preparation for a whole heap of bulking up:



Starting to come around to the idea of building things in batches.

Did a fair amount of work on the Zzaps, made the front panels, complete with lightening bolt glyph and bullet holes.



Then built the back section, adding some screws as weight as the damn things kept falling over.



Not much left to do now, just adding a few more panels and rivets then it's off to be painted... eventually.

Nice tutorial, i will have to try this out for my self (and hopefuly save some money on the £15 GW zapp guns!)

a small waagh wrote:Nice tutorial, i will have to try this out for my self (and hopefuly save some money on the £15 GW zapp guns!)

Hey, go for it... damn, didn't realise those things cost that much, looks like I just saved myself 45 quid

Little art update:

My Big Mek finally has a name: Gobwrench! And to celebrate (not to mention try a different colouring technique) here's a cartoony version of him.



Also on DeviantArt for those inclined that way.

Oh, the Zzap guns are finished, just need to take a decent photo and then wait until I can get some Primer.

Ok, been meaning to grab pictures of these for a while, did the additional detailing a little while back but only 'officially' finished yesterday with some greenstuff strengthening on it's underside. But anyway, here's the new rear end detail:



And a quick shot of them all nice and together:



There, one more useless unit from the codex that nobody uses... but for next to nothing in price! Don't know exactly when they'll get painted as I've run out of primer but have plenty of other stuff to keep me entertained in the meantime... should probably finish off that Battlewagon for one.

They are really nice finished. The detailing really makes them look first class.

Thanks Wazzdig

Rummaging through my old models I found this sorry state:



This old Grot is damaged, covered in a terrible paint job but he shall live again! He's currently being striped and will go into my Grot mob eventually as a bit of nostalgia, after a fair bit of repair. I know I could just go on ebay and buy these guys by the handful but that's not the point

Personally I find stripping and rebuilding models to be one of the most enjoyable parts of 40k, just one that a lot of people don't end up doing in favour shiny new plastics.

BLACKHAND wrote:Personally I find stripping and rebuilding models to be one of the most enjoyable parts of 40k, just one that a lot of people don't end up doing in favour shiny new plastics.

Absolutely, I've stripped and rebuilt almost an entire army for my Fiancée (from Dark Angels to Space Wolves) and it's pretty damn rewarding to give old models you weren't using a new lease of life.

Certainly cheaper as well, which is nice.

Quick art update: Wolf Guard Terminator, unusually for me, done entirely by traditional means rather than with these new computer things that everyone is talking about.

Wow! Great scratch-building. Keep it up

very very very nice stuf you got here
quick question: how do you make the armour plates like on the lascannons and on the bionic arms and stuff????

@hungryp: Thanks, I'll certainly try

@Skotter: It's just plasticard cut into correct shape then roughed up along the edges with a craft knife, the rivets are just tiny bits of it cut up and stuck on.

okay, thank's alot

The real question (for me at least ) is how you get the curve in the plasticard. Do you just glue it in place like that, or do you heat it and bend it first to help it keep the shape?

hungryp wrote:The real question (for me at least ) is how you get the curve in the plasticard. Do you just glue it in place like that, or do you heat it and bend it first to help it keep the shape?

My usual method is actually to place the piece I want to bend underneith my cup of tea (being extremely British there is always a hot cup of tea somewhere in my vicinity) it heats it up enough to bend into shape before gluing.

Update time.

So the Grot is stripped neatened up and awaiting a new foot made with greenstuff but, as always, I got kinda distracted by some other stuff.

The first is an old Eldar jetbike I found in my bitz box, it was broken and unloved so I decided it should be made into something useful: An Objective!



The idea being that my Big Mek has somehow got the jetbike flying again but the Boy given the job of test pilot couldn't control it and it's gone flying off out of control. It eventually stops working and falls to the ground leaving the Boy piloting it miles away from his Warband without his trusty shoota and choppa and shouting angrily at the now defunct jetbike.

The second thing was that since I acquired my new Nobz the old ones from AOBR have become obsolete so I figured I'd tart them up with bits left over from the new set meaning I can field my Nobz in a wider variety of ways.

These are the 4 that are completely spare (the other one is set aside for the next mob of Boyz).



As you can see, they're a mass of mould lines and mediocre paintjobs (not to mention the unnatural poses they come in) but with a little bit of chopping apart and stripping the first one is taking shape:

I like the objective, but don't jetbikes, and skimmers in general, kind of nose dive when they fall out of the sky?

And secondly, the Ork looks like he's holding an invisible gun at the mo. Maybe different arms? Not criticizing, as I'm loving your army, and this objective is very characterful, but I'm just throwing some suggestions your way.

ghosty wrote:I like the objective, but don't jetbikes, and skimmers in general, kind of nose dive when they fall out of the sky?

And secondly, the Ork looks like he's holding an invisible gun at the mo. Maybe different arms? Not criticizing, as I'm loving your army, and this objective is very characterful, but I'm just throwing some suggestions your way.

Thanks for the feedback.

Yeah it could do with being a little embedded in the ground, it's only blu-tacked at the moment to the base so I was thinking of building up some grooves in the earth beneath as if it had torn it up upon landing.

As for the Ork, yeah I get what you mean but I'm currently at the mercy of what arms I have available and I was kinda going for a "Y U NO" guy vibe. Admittedly the picture is not at the best angle to show that.

Actually, I'm liking the arms. If you'll notice, it's not actually a pair of gun arms, but two of the 'holding' arms, so he's kind of doing that Italian Mobster thing: "Why, Vinnie? Why ya gotta break down on me way out here?"

I for one love the "WTF!" look of that jetbike pilot.

And as for the jetbike plowing nose-first into the ground, I think it's more suitably Orky that it would have just stopped dead in the air and dropped like a rock.

Thanks for the input guys

Got a couple of Nobz mostly done now (well, apart from greenstuff patching up).


Devoid of any more Kombi-Skorchas I had to make do with what I had to hand, I think this works OK, doesn't look quite as unbalanced in person I must say.


And added some bits to this guy's shoulderpads.

I also drew another Space Wolf, trying out some alternate techniques:

As always, on DeviantArt for people of that persuasion.