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The thing that always bugged me about tnaks with so much plasticard is that they still look pretty flat in the end. It'll be interesting to see how you will handle that.

Just caught up on the last weeks work, great stuff Primarch. The boom gun looks sweet and nice job on the platform

But I'm really loving the cabling Fantastic job there.

Well I got a package in the Post today. here are the contents of it:



and there is a looted basilisk but I did not include it in the picture.

Off to work on some conversions after I get rested up from working at the shop all day.

Big pile of random bits? Just what the doctor ordered.

:O i want that box!!!!!!

@monkeytroll most certainly!
@bigfish You are welcome to the box just not the bits

bet i could make something awesome out off the box

Ok I got a little bit of work done,


This is the start of the railing for the hanging firing platform.

And Kommander Kog

He is obviously very much a WIP, I am looking for an ork pointing arm, I think i have one somewhere. And you can't tell from the pic, but he has a bionic eye and is wearing a cap.

Expect more tomorrow, after a nights rest and a full day to be creative

Ok so I got a little done so far today which anvildude would be proud of:

Vera nice.

Just keep sticking stuff on the walls

Well I have been sticking a few things on the walls, namely rivets.




Also added some chains and a 'bang maker' to the boom gun:


And with the help of my new toy:

I did this:

Oooh a pin drill!

It's dead usefull, and only cost me $6.00 or so (hobbylinc.com is amazing and should be bookmarked by all scratch builders who live in the US.
If anyone here plans on ordering from them becuase I mentioned it, PM me first so I can give you my name, they give an additional 5% off to the referrer.

very nice holes in the gun, helps break up the plainness that was on the barrels before. also quite curious about what your using as rivets?

I used 2 types of rods for rivets here and some punched plasticard

1.5mm hexagon rod
1.0mm round rod

Thanks

So... Despite Battling a cold and an even more severe minecraft addiction, I have made some progress on the zzap kannon.




I thought It would be worth mentioning that side that looks like it has more glue on it gave me a hard time. In fact 4 times I thought It was glued and 4 times it either shifted or fell right off. It took a lot longer than it should have, to make.

looks nice! Really good job

Thanks Capitansolstice.

Well, My cold is nearly gone and I was forced to delete my minecraft world (stupid chunk loading error replaced nearly all of my factory with swamp land).
So I have done some work on the Mega Battlefortress.




And wait there's more!



The turret superstructure is not glued down yet, I stll have to fill all the gaps with squadron green putty, but I did take a quick pick to give you an idea of what It will look like when its done*.

(*DISCLAIMER : product still in development and subject to change )

And I thought I would introduce my "assistant":

Looking great!

Today inspiration has hit me! (I believe an applause is in order .) I'm going to do my best to make this a mega update day.
Here is the start.



I meant to make the big shoota twin linked before I glued it, but I got overly excited and forgot, So I managed to cut the barrel off while it was still attached and replaced it with an assault cannon to make it count as twin linked.

And I FINALLY completed the KFF (or at least made a lot of progress on it).

Some of the stuff I like alot... the other stuff... is... AWESOME!

KFF on the back of that junka-thing is looking sweet.

I need to get myself a rhino too... this stuff is too awesome as inspiration to pass up...

Thank you Nightfall and Sentinel.

just to show you that I am still working on some stuff:

Here is the third orkified exhuast stack on the junka:

very nice twin link big shooter, Very well done. also liking the Kff. Keep up the good work

Zzap gun and junka looking pretty cool, and cute assistant too. Looks realy helpful

thanks monkeytroll and bigfish.
@monkytroll, you would be surprised at how unhelpful he is, steeling minis/terrain/wires and carrying them up the stairs from the basement which houses the nerd cave. He also likes to jump or climb onto my lap right after i really get into building and puts his arms over my right arm (im right handed) in an effort to 'provide moral support', though this causes all progress to come to an abrupt halt as it's rather difficult to get any work done when a 15-17 lbs cat is on my lap.


Well that was a pretty mediocre mega update wasn't it.

BUT ALL IS NOT LOST, I've come up with a very good method of painting ork skin that actually pleases me and that is simple enough that I can get nearly consistant results (nearly because sometimes I get the shakes and it messes up my layering process as you can imagine).

So.... My camera was yet again taken without my permission so no photo updates yet.
however I did just make a list of most of the ork models I have to make it easier to write an army list, But I thought I would share it.
Here it is:

1 warboss with twin linked shoota, power claw and boss pole
1 warboss with big choppa, twin shoota and boss pole
1 Big mek with kff
1 unfinished grotsnik conversion
1 ghazkull
1 unfinished shokk attack gun mek

~10 lootas unfinished (bodies set aside awaiting guns to be attached)
10 lootas (nearly finished, need painted and such)

possibly 6 burna boyz (if I have enough bodies)

1 mega nob(missing gun)

3 nobz with big choppas and twin shootas
1 nob with twin shoota and waagh banner
1 nob with twin shoota and choppa
2 nobz with shoota and power klaw
1 nob with twin shoota and power klaw
4 unfinished nobs
1 nob with big choppa (missing other arm)
1 nob with big choppa only
2 unfinished nobz with twin shoota and waagh banner
1 painboy with grot assistant

22 Ork Boyz on sprue

~ 50 boyz (probably more)
~ 4 big shootas
1 or 2 rokkit launchas

3 unfinished bikes (old sculpt, may become buggies)

7 unfinished flash gits
1 unfinished badrukk conversion

1 battle wagon

1 Big mek junka

possibly 1 trukk (on sprue, not sure if it will be looted or not)

1 full zzap gun battery
1 kannon
1 lobba

1 chimera chassis to work with
1 stompa to work with
1 unfinished ork mega battle fortress (conversion)
1 unfinished ork battle fortress (conversion)
1 unfinished krusha killtank (conversion)

Looks pretty good.. cant wait to see it finished