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Great job mate loving the alternative exhausts heads nice touch, also think some kind of supports to hold up the grots protective armour would be a cool idea

The hanging cabling looks great and chaotic

Dr H - And that's what counts... Cheers!


Gits - Glad you approve, especially as it was your comment that set this off. Wires are like dakka....


Selvaggio - Well the temptation of a little green head poking up just in front can be a bit much sometimes...


ldd - Cheers bud! There are brackets holding the corrugated iron in place...just not very visible in those pics...



Windy as a windy thing in a wind tunnel here so that's my excuse for ignoring the P

Meks have done a bit more to the looted wagon:




Dakka-point 1 completed and struts in place for dakka-point 2.....rear platform added - possibly get some chains added to that for extra support




Magnet on the bottom of platform for hooking up to the old sprue land-train modules.....


Obviously with that build getting close the meks turned their bionik eyes to other tasks....




Started in on some more air-support...




They can't tell what it's going to be yet, but they like the fit so much they'll be doing something with it....

Love the way those are looking mt.

Nice.

That flyer looks good. What is the green thing you're using as the body?

Fantastic work Monkey! The engine work is brilliant, and the half-dakka is phenomenal!

That's very interesting with the chimera sections. Quality goods mate!

Looking good!

Is that a British WWI tank under the chimera top? I'd add a robotic torso on the turning plate and grabba claws in stead of sponsons

Sorry missed the supports can see them now ……….. well just

Love the flyer I also would love to know what the green thing is or at least was

Like the chimera top on the tank what scale is 1/72 or 1/48 scale

Don't know where you mean to add the chains for support little baffled by that to be honest

How many sections are there to be in the land train then

Gits - Cheers my friend!


Dr H - Thanks. Good question It's been lying around in bits for a good while now....I believe it was a modern German apc/missile launcher?


dstein - Cheers Dave!

Time you got some vehicles going


graven - Gracias amigo!


CK - Thank you!

It is indeed the venerable Mk I. Hmm interesting...there's possibilities there....


ldd - That's alright mate, you can barely see them in those pics.

Well, see above for best guess at present

1/76, the 1/48 scale Mk I makes a reasonable stand-in for a land raider.....

Chains have been nixed, but they would have been from roof (or struts on roof) down at angle to back of lower platform....

They're from a while back when I was making stuff out of sprue, think there's three sections with wheels or tracks, plus a couple of others that haven't got that far yet....


Build on looted wagon is complete, crayons have been sighted in the art-grot's grubby little fingers...






If a squig eats a grot in an empty forest, does he make a sound?

Love the different colors on the floor plates. Really well executed!

A suitable cacaphony of colours. Like it . I used to have a 1/48 scale MkI to turn into a land raider someday. Then GW came out with a land raider

Wow. When your Mek loots a vehicle, he means it. Fantastic work as always, and I'm still baffled at how you get your paint to look so old and beaten and your rust to look so perfect. My jealously is boundless/ And yes, I have tried to replicate it many, many times.

Amazing work.

Gits - Cheers! The boyz aren't too bothered about re-painting whatever bits they've salvaged in most cases Although that does mean there's an exponential increase in the time taken for colouring on my part


CK - Thanks bud. I sincerely hope it got looted if not used as a land raider then


Skalk - Well, it all depends on how much of the original vehicle is intact when it gets back to the mekshop Someday I'll try and put up more details of what I'm doing with the paint...it tends to get forgotten as I keep trying different things each time, and the long pauses between colouring sessions don't help


Ok, long time no dakka...

Went to Salute with my old man a few weeks back, had fun spent far to much money and managed to completely miss seing the painting comp...
Lots of goodies procured which will slowly work their way onto dakka...a nice haul from zinge and a few bits from anvil, which were the expected outlets to receive my cash...some dystopian legion tankettes and hover bikes, couple of hovercraft, various useful terrain bits, a few interesting models for salvage and looting, and a few pieces of laser-cut terrain from Sarissa....fair bit of this stuff from various companies there, seems to be the big thing at the moment.

My old man was really interested in the terrain (he was only looking for a few vikings for a dio himself) and expressed an interest in building some, so I bought a small settlement pod for him to play with and this is what he did with it:



Screwed and glued small hinges to the doors so they'd open. He just gave it some rough washes to give it a bit of colour. I'll probably base it at some point.

I've only had a quick play with the stuff myself, but the kits seem nice and easy to work with.



A set of low steps, which handily is pretty close to the level of my terrain based on the label rolls. Took just a couple of minutes to punch the pieces out and assemble them...although obviously they haven't been sanded. The structure is stable as is, just pushed together. And you get the bonus of some interesting shapes left over after you've removed the cut-outs


The catamarhino has had a bit more colour placed on it and the trailer...but stupidly was left too close to a bookcase and has been battered in the course of duty....repairs are needed on the two dakka mounting points at present.....





But mainly I've been working on some flyers...




Wings are so last year.....





Turbo-fans are magnetised, at some point I may look into some magnetised wings just for fun....

Working on the various dakka options a the moment....


And sticking with the variable lift designs another little concept...



Bit big for a 'kopta.....bit small for a fighta....


And also :



Dose beakies never put 'nuff intakes on dere flyerz...




Dey never fort ov stikkin' a trench on front either....




Ahhh...not air-mobile trench warfare then....


And as a meager bonus a few shots from Salute (I also forgot to take pics for about 98% of the day )



Couple of displays using flats.




A 15mm game called Hammer's Slammers, based on the books by David Drake if I recall correctly. Nice board, and I have some ideas for some of those hovercraft....

That's all for the moment...now I need to go catch up on what you lot have been doing.....

Good to see you back.

The old man done good, like the habitation block thing.

and I'm liking the flyers. The third one is particularly interesting.

Keep it up.

the second propeller looks a bit weedy... but with orks...yopu gotta have faith

and welcome back mister!

Loving the big VTOL wings! And I tried to resist but... The old man has taught you well!

You're making an X-Wing, aren't you?

interesting train of thought anvil....!

The rhino conversion and trailer looks great so far and the weathered platform really jump out, nice use of colour

See you get the talent from father, wish my old man was still with me to do stuff like this, hell I might have made it to Salute myself then.

I have to ask where are the turbo fans from ?

The trench front Fighter reminds me of the fighter from Battlestar Galactica :

Dr H - Cheers buddy!! As the blog is titled Cyborks & Flyboyz I decided I really should get some more boyz in the air....


vik - originally it was going to be jets, but I figured props were more fitting for this one....


Graven - Yeah, been meaning to use them for a while...came from an Avngers Iron Man Assault Craft (!), various wing parts will be seen in other vehicles soonish...


Anvildude - I do have an x-wing on the cards, although this isn't it....but that has made me realise that the cockpit is a good fit for one, should have spotted that sooner.....



Edit:

vik - snuck in there, interesting but wrong in this instance


ldd - Thanks mate.

See above for your answer

And yep....

Viper fighta to go with the Cylon Raider fighta

Anvildude wrote:You're making an X-Wing, aren't you?

lone dirty dog wrote:The trench front Fighter reminds me of the fighter from Battlestar Galactica

Ha ha, and I was thinking of Wipeout craft...

 Dr H wrote:

Anvildude wrote:You're making an X-Wing, aren't you?

lone dirty dog wrote:The trench front Fighter reminds me of the fighter from Battlestar Galactica

Ha ha, and I was thinking of Wipeout craft...

Yes that to

Doh...ninja-ing my edits now

I thought we'd established it's not Ninja-ing, it's SneakyGit-ing

 monkeytroll wrote:
Doh...ninja-ing my edits now

You need to be quicker me thinks

oh.... well I am fine with that too

Your dad is seriously talented... I can see where you get it. Lovely work on the flyers. Going to be great fun watching you build them out. I'm glad zinge doesn't make it to Adepticon in the U.S., I'd be very broke after visiting their booth.

Interesting flyers on the move Monkey

Gork (or Mork) approved

graven - Must have missed that


ldd - Possibly


vik - Good


Gits - I'll pass on the compliments.
Going to be fun building them
Yeah, only thing I knew I was going to grab for sure was the bike tank....then just looked at the list of bits and kept adding stuff to the pile Looking forward to some of the stuff he's got coming soon too, not least the led kits.


Selvaggio - Cheers buddy!



Not much of an update, but spent a couple of hours in the wee hours checking out some of the laser-cut terrain bits....



Food booth from WarMill....looks suitable for Mega-City One....




Packing container from WarMill




Portable Utility Pod from WarMill....minus the base supports and steps atm. The roof piece I used turns out to be the base, there's no detail etched on the roof piece, but it has holes to allow another couple of struts to go in, which explains the slightly awkward look of the top of the vertical front struts....




Basics of the Explorer pod from sarissa...needs glue to hold this one in place....




A few gantries from Sarissa, along with the basic shape of a silo.....


Easy, enjoyable builds with plenty of scope for customisation....

the only downside with laser cut stuff is the details tend to be too thick...like that door angles...hmmmm


and I want to see how you will fit that all to your general orkyness^^