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... and the group!

Nice work, Gits'. They are a characterful group (even if they are Nob 'eads )

Group shot's a treat! That last head had me confused until I saw the other angle with them all together. Great job, and the blue really does set them off a treat. The only thing I would say is that it's a LOT of blue - maybe some checks would off set that?

The original 3 bikes came that way (got them at the very biginning of starting my ork army) & I've just beenpaining to match every since. I could do some bands of checks I suppose, break things up a bit.

I think I'll add in one more big choppa... because I like them & you can never have enough chain axes.

They look great! I can't believe you're apparently so far ahead on AdeptiCon prep that you can work on other projects, whereas I'm just starting

It's an inspiration

Wow, amazing work. Thanks for sharing.

 RiTides wrote:
They look great! I can't believe you're apparently so far ahead on AdeptiCon prep that you can work on other projects, whereas I'm just starting

It's an inspiration

Well, I've been done for a couple of months save that we decided to shuffle lists around, giving me the extra FA slot, so I get to play with Necron bikes! It's really nice not to have to cram things in... I'm just paintin' away like normal. I'm really using these guys to avoid starting bigger projects that are looming on the horizon. These are the equivalent of procrastinating busy-work. But what the heck... they're my orksez!

My pleasure Cleatus, thank you!

Well, you could work on the Ancient's story arc?...pffft.

Story Arc?? STORY ARC!! We got tired of playing marines and getting our asses handed to us. THAT'S our story arc!

 Gitsplitta wrote:

 RiTides wrote:
They look great! I can't believe you're apparently so far ahead on AdeptiCon prep that you can work on other projects, whereas I'm just starting

It's an inspiration

Well, I've been done for a couple of months save that we decided to shuffle lists around, giving me the extra FA slot, so I get to play with Necron bikes! It's really nice not to have to cram things in... I'm just paintin' away like normal. I'm really using these guys to avoid starting bigger projects that are looming on the horizon. These are the equivalent of procrastinating busy-work. But what the heck... they're my orksez!

Lol at calling this painting busy-work . And Necron bikes sound Really cool!

They're actually pretty good (and really cool looking), they just get out-competed by other units for the FA slots. I'm excited about building them and will probably make them fixtures in future Necron lists.

Top notch as always Gitsplitta!

Thank you very much shasolenzabi! I anticipate more work getting done this weekend. Bandana-head is probably going to get his own big choppa & I may start piecing together the figure I'm going to use for Wazdakka.

Mr. Bandanna-head get's a new big choppa today!



These are always interesting conversions as the big choppas are meant to be used two handed. Last one I did I just cut out one of the hands... making it a carbine of big choppas. This one I added in a section where the second had was. The ludicrous size of the thing works well with the ork mystique & balances out the rather large head on the biker nicely. I was even able to use the spiked pipe he was wielding to replace a broken & lost exhaust pipe.

Now on to painting!

Thats one huge choppa, it looks even bigger than the Ork

So awesome. Nice work, fits in well.

Dat's an Impressiff choppa dere!

I haven't posted here in awhile Gits, but You're churning out stuff to make the finest Mek proud! The Sombrero Boyz will be starting a Mariachi band soon I hope?

I was trying to figure out how to use those big choppas. This works well.

GiraffeX wrote:Thats one huge choppa, it looks even bigger than the Ork

Big choppa is about the same length as a standing nob. This should be about the same as the section I replaced was just the size of the hand I had to remove from the handle... perhaps just a smidge bigger.

@Cam & shas: Thank you gentlemen!

dsteingass wrote:I haven't posted here in awhile Gits, but You're churning out stuff to make the finest Mek proud! The Sombrero Boyz will be starting a Mariachi band soon I hope?

I don't think I have any more sombrero heads... but after finishing the one I may have to order some more. Make a good trukk mob, don't you think?

Anpu-adom wrote:I was trying to figure out how to use those big choppas. This works well.

In this particular conversion, there's a lot of pinning involved. There's one long pin running through the white section, then another long pin running through the ork's hand. Making a shorter big choppa (just by removing the second had from the choppa & reassembling it) works fine too as you can see in the shot below.


What I think would look the best is a full sized choppa in a "choked up" position (i.e. the hand half way up the handle), however you'd have to cut out both hands and completely re-build the handle. While that's doable... it seems a bit more work than necessary.

Gork Mekbert and the Tijuana Brass?

Here's how it turned out. Kind of hard to set it up for a good photo because of the angle the choppa is held at.

Latest biker looks great Gits. Really like the contrasting yellow parts on his choppa. It's been awhile now so how about an update on the whole ork army or perhaps a whole army shot?

Agreed. The axe with those yellow bits is very nice.

Egg: You're not a nice person. It'll take me all night to get these back in their proper places.

This is what fits in the photo booth. Everything that's "finished" (I use quotes because nothing is every really finished in my army). Sorry for the blurry sections of the photo. Had to hand-hold the camera w/ the flash so the depth-of-field just isn't there.

Missing: A bit over 80 boys & 45ish grots.



Pictured: (roughly back to front)
3 dakka jets
1 battle wagon
1 trukk
4 deff koptas
2 dreads
5 kans
wierdboy/Zogwort
Mega Armored Big Mek (FW Runtbot)
The original "Gitsplitta"
Warboss
4 grot tanks
10 warbikes
3 zapp guns
5 nob bikes
Ghazzy
Buzzgob
Snickrot
Big Mek w/ shokk attack gun
7 meganobs plus special Bad Moon meganob character (who's name escapes me)
11 burnas
FW Flyboss
15 tankbustas & 3 bomb squigs
painboy & helper
11 cybork nobs
3 very cool orks by wazoo (red, two with shields, one with a really big gun)
A few random nobs & a couple of big shootas.
3 squigs for Zoggy
"CyberGits" the runt herd (and a second runt herd)
Big Mek w/ KFF
demon grot
15 lootas

*whew*

And well spent it will be, if keeping you up made that shot possible!

Great indeed!

PS The new bikers look awesome too

I need more vehicles. I have two more battlewagons and two squiggoths that make very nice trukks. Just need to force myself to make the time to paint them.

WOW! That's a big black sheet

Actually, the edges of the photo tent are pretty well defined by the figures. I Photoshopped the sides (which were white) to match the background.

Nice mob there!