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Wow this is impressive. Amazing work. It'll look incredible on a table top.

glomscient wrote:I have been planning to become a welder recently, and if it wasn't set in stone before, it certainly is now! I don't quite know what else to say, other than.......Paint it red!

Welding professionally is hard, painful, and very rewarding. Welding as a hobby is pure awesome. I really love the medium, I cannot wait to try TIG welding and miniature oxy-acetelene welding next. Everything on this model has been MIG welding, using .025 wire. Switching to TIG and oxy will allow me to make much smaller welds. I'm also playing around with a plastic welder. I think the future for me will be a mix of both steel and traditional model making tools, like accenting the frame with clay and plastic for ultra-fine detail.

And yes, I believe red may be in order.

Squidbot wrote:I'm beginning to think you actually are an Ork. Or severely tainted at least.

I hope so. It's all I see when I sleep, huge behemoths flying and crunching across destroyed cities. I'll also be looking into making more moving parts, remote controls, and a little pyro on future models for good measure.

caminacambob wrote:Haha this had me giggling like a school girl with the sheer craziness of the idea! Love it.

Pounds of Dakka...... A new standard has been set sir.

I think armies should be valued in weight, not point cost.

lennymaybe wrote:Wow this is impressive. Amazing work. It'll look incredible on a table top.

I hope so, although I'm running out of space to field all my super-heavies at once. Once this is completed, I'll have about 5,000 points in Super-heavies alone, that occupy several square feet of real estate.

I have a small but interesting update. I'm nearing the end game on the building side of things. I had to do die-grinding to take down detail, so I started also doing highlighting. metal gets darker as it rusts, so I started grinding and sanding in highlights. I feel confident I can control the color of the rust, but I don't want to lose all my hard-fought for detail in the aging process.

It's gonna be weird, but imagine all you can add is highlights, and you can only add a layer a day. On top of that, the lowlights will continually get darker and richer, till you stop the rusting process. I do have the advantage of living in Louisiana, so the humidity really allows me to control the aging and rusting process.

Here are the first round pictures of highlights, along with most of the final details etched in.











The tricky part is figuring out where I want the rust, and then neutralizing it. I should be done with all the welding by the end of the week, and thats when I can really start the rusting process. I still need to take off all the zinc off of the plated and galvanized pieces, and I'm not sure how the model as a whole will be affected by the Muriatic acid.

It should be a hoot though, just the fact that I need to treat the model with acid to make it rust is kinda fun.

The scary part is that even fumes from muriatic acid can rust on contact, and I don't know what colors it produces. I would do a test piece, but I need to remove the zinc no matter what so next weekend is gonna be a nail biter for me as I experiment on a completed model.

Thanks again for looking, I cant wait to start painting this beast!

This is insane. But more power to you!

Epic thread is EPIC!

that is one giant rusty love bucket.

Gork would be proud but also impressed, while Mork would be impressed but also proud. This is almost too awesome for words. I notice we don't see you in any of the pictures...are you possibly rather large and green with beady red eyes? Only an ork could make something so orky.

Just to clarify, I'm not an Ork.

UPDATE TIME!

I got me rokkits up and loaded. I wanted to add rokkits, as thats one of the few things on the original model. In addition, I needed a battery of pulsa rokkits to clear a path on the battlefield when it enters play.

First up, I got all the pieces together for the ten pulsa-rokkits based off the original template.



Next, I drilled holes into the rokkit plate for the right side, then used my doming tools to bow out the tube holes.



After that I made the rokkits for the right side and mounted them.





Next up is the left side. I made the rokkits and mounted them.







Lastly for this update, I welded pad eyes to the top frame.



This will allow me to put small shackles through to pad eyes, for a easy to grab handle. (I just used a rubber strap for the picture, I'll make a proppa chain handle later.)



That's it for today, closing in on the end game!

Now dat a landa with some dakka and some more dakka.

Oh man, that looks frigging awesome. Very impressive work

FYI, the pins in your section of O Scale railroad track you're using for Rokkit launch rails (LAUNCH RAILS, get it? Ha.)...anyways. The pins can be removed with a pair of pliers. Not sure if you're leaving them in their intentionally.

I would love to see the look on some players faces (as well as the shop owners) when this was placed on the table.

Regards,
Carl

could the table hold it? Nice work mate!

Some observations after checking all posts:
- Until I see a picture of "pox" I refuse to believe he is not an Ork. Notice he said he is not an Ork when he is a Mech Boy.
- May need to bring along an "engine puller" to move this thing around when gaming: some tables may not be designed with this high a weight allowance.
- Impressive welding creation: why simulate welding with plastic when you can do the real thing!
- Please do not make a Gargant. You may have to make it so it doubles as a shop stove when not in use.

I love my fellow hobbiests: no medium is safe from use (especially with Orks!)

 pox wrote:
Just to clarify, I'm not an Ork

 Talizvar wrote:
- Until I see a picture of "pox" I refuse to believe he is not an Ork. Notice he said he is not an Ork when he is a Mech Boy.

I'm not certain you have us all convinced...but either way I hope you take it as the compliment it was intended to be.

As to the new updates - way to go for adding MOAR DAKKA. I hope we get to see some pic of this bad boy being used in a game when its done!

This looks the most like something orks would make, out of any conversion i have ever seen! Great scratchbuild and expert welding skills! I tip my hat to you

 lennymaybe wrote:
It'll look incredible on a table top.

It will indeed look incredible on the table....

... right up until it BREAKS THE TABLE!

DIS STILL SO AMAZING...

PLEASE! We need to make a video of this thing opening and closing its gob yelling "IMA FIRIN MAH LAZZAR!" then shooting all the dakka. Little known fact, the Landa can make it self a smaller target for a brief second by firing all the guns simultaneously in every direction and using their recoil to compress the hull. Fortunately for AA gun crews across the galaxy the orks have never realized this or been able to execute this maneuver if they did, sometimes referred to as a 'Dakka Fart'. This maneuver does however require the replacement of several sguigs and grots who work in the jefferies tubes, once they've been popped back open

If you ever went to a GW store and an employee said you couldn’t put that on a table I hope that other gamers there would just line up and take turns kicking that guy in the balls. That beast desires to be able to play in any game it wants including kill points.

Damn, what a project!

Only weedy gits obey the laws of aerodynamics.

Awesome thread is awesome.
I can't wait to see how this turns out! Please post a finished picture on the tabletop in action when it's done.

I had no idea one could use welding and rust with such art and precision - beautiful and inspirational work. This is not merely modeling, this really is sculpture

Hi,
I am realy loving all of the work that you have put into this, can't wait to see this finished!!!!

subbed,

HAZZER.

Briancj wrote:FYI, the pins in your section of O Scale railroad track you're using for Rokkit launch rails (LAUNCH RAILS, get it? Ha.)...anyways. The pins can be removed with a pair of pliers. Not sure if you're leaving them in their intentionally.

I did not know that, thanks! I thought they looked alright, but I liked the look more when I pulled them.

Talizvar wrote:Some observations after checking all posts:
- Until I see a picture of "pox" I refuse to believe he is not an Ork. Notice he said he is not an Ork when he is a Mech Boy.
- May need to bring along an "engine puller" to move this thing around when gaming: some tables may not be designed with this high a weight allowance.
- Impressive welding creation: why simulate welding with plastic when you can do the real thing!
- Please do not make a Gargant. You may have to make it so it doubles as a shop stove when not in use.

I love my fellow hobbiests: no medium is safe from use (especially with Orks!)

I cannot in good faith post a proppa picture of myself to prove I'm not an Ork Big Mek, due to internet privacy. Yeah, thats the ticket. Privacy.

G. Whitenbeard wrote:

 lennymaybe wrote:
It'll look incredible on a table top.

It will indeed look incredible on the table....

... right up until it BREAKS THE TABLE!

I can weld a steel table in no time, maybe I'll just cart one around with me for games.

Panzer1944 wrote:If you ever went to a GW store and an employee said you couldn’t put that on a table I hope that other gamers there would just line up and take turns kicking that guy in the balls. That beast desires to be able to play in any game it wants including kill points.

Whoa dude! Take it easy on the poor GW employees! I do agree with you though, it would make great terrain when not being used in Apocalypse.

schadenfreude wrote:Only weedy gits obey the laws of aerodynamics.

My job has taught me that if you put enough explosives behind ANYTHING, it will in fact take flight. Not always in one piece, but it will fly. Such is the risk of Orks.

Million wrote:I had no idea one could use welding and rust with such art and precision - beautiful and inspirational work. This is not merely modeling, this really is sculpture

Thanks for that! I'd also like to thank everyone that I didn't quote, it really makes projects like these easier and gives me the urge to push on even when I'm tired.

UPDATE TIME!

I finished the engine room by adding tons of proppa gubbins, pipes, do-dads, and bits.









Next, I added the housing to the Pulsa-Rokkits. (and pulled the pins from the track!)





After that I added the side view port. I assume this Landa only makes left turns, as there is no way to see anything out of the right side of the ship. Us orks are an odd bunch when it comes to ship design.



Lastly, I added more gubbins to the jaw.



Here are some side shots for fun.





Not much left on the build, just a few little details.

I don't mean to leave on a sad note, but work is switching to twelve hour shifts so my free time is going to go waaaay down. I didn't make my February deadline to finish the build portion of the project, But I hope to be done with the welding and de-burring by next weekend.

As for the final rusting and painting, I'll have to play the timeline by ear.

Thanks again for all the support and feedback!

Good lord, once again. I'm listening to the original Transformers theme (the one from the 1986 movie), and it's somehow fitting.

This is just astounding. You sir are a gentleman and a scholar. This project is massive and anytime you can measure dakka in poiunds is a good thing.

Also anything that looks like a gun is with this, and that just makes me so happy.

That, dear sir, is an amazing piece of orkyness. Good work!!!!

Delightful. Sorry about the 12 hour shifts! Hopefully, you'll sack some cash away.