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LOL... how do you come up with such an amazing idea! LOL... I love it...

I am at a loss how to make it, but I see it is as hilarious as can be!...

the I- beam as skiff idea is a very neat one... I have I-beams at a great amount and actually no apparent use , but now^^

chucking bricks...(lol...anybody thinking about cuck Norris? I think I need a brick then with a beard... or a grot with a cowboy hat?...muahahahaha)

and doc H... I actually had thought of the vogones while making the build... tho at that moment I was quite puzzled as to why...^^


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oh...and 475 pages of modelling silliness^^

Quick law for you from scrap pieces. I didn't have any other sections of I beam around, but I would use that for the arms if I were you.

Your ship could be the invention of a Ork who was trapped in a collapsed building. He had visions from Mork or Gork, to use what he had available. So after digging himself out he began collecting the parts of the old human habitat to create Da Brix Laya. It now terrorizes the human habitats were the Ork lines have already pushed ahead. The few humans that survived the attack and the rampaging hordes that followed by burrowing deep come out only to be destroyed by a flying brick. Grots that have fallen behind and left have swarmed to Da Brix Laya in hopes of becoming one of the highly valued positions of 'chukka', who throw bricks out the windows at the fleeing hummies.

I should be an Ork, but I hate mushrooms

oh......yeah.... exactly... I do my best to get this working!!!

and I like that lil piece of fluff....

You NEED more I-beams in your stash..go get some

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
oh......yeah.... exactly... I do my best to get this working!!!

and I like that lil piece of fluff....

I see what you did there with that beam. I know you see what i am doing here about I beams.

 dsteingass wrote:
You NEED more I-beams in your stash..go get some

Unfortunately with car repairs, it'll be a while for that.

just realized I have no brickstructured embossed plasticcard at all :facdepalm: now I need to scour the web for supplies...

JTT was the plastic I'm using.

I forget who showed the trick, but cut a small section of foam for the brick wall piece. Then cut a since sized pc of plastic card to be brick sized. Attach it to a small rod or dowel to it. Tap the brick into the foam to create the brick face. Repeat all around it at varying heights to get an uneven surface.

As for the bricks being thrown, use plastic sprue, unless your following Dr. H, in which case carve out genius from the bricks .

uh..I was just gonna say that.

ah, yes... sprue the last resort these days to modeling^^

the foam... well I did that already on other projects...

Vik, didn't the competition teach you anything? We reuse materials AND ideas on projects. You can build bricks that way many times. It's not just a one shoot item.

Hello? Did someone mention my name? and sprue?

You could make individual bricks from sprue, but that would be very time consuming.
However, you could make a line of bricks from a length of sprue by just scoring it at regular intervals and then put another length on top with the grooves offset... Still a fair amount of work over a square of foam.

However I'm stuck for ideas of how to make the brick texture on sprue...?

Da Brick! I love it! My Orks are all over that idea!

Since they're construction grade orks maybe paint heir shirts white and give then yellow hard hats made of greenstuff .

Good Evening,

I hope you don't mind my intrusion? I was just browsing this thread and felt moved to comment on how impressive your work with found objects is. Taking the mundane detritus of the modern world and placing it in a new context where it can be used to reveal the joy of creation and provoke the imagination is a real gift. To stir the narrative of your audience's fantasy is all any artist can ask for, that you do it with the discarded trappings of life is nothing short of remarkable and puts me in mind of some of the great artists of the Dadaist movement, Du Champ for example, or Tracy Emin. Or the found poetry of William Whewell or Hart Seely

Of course I understand that you are not the first nor the only person to recycle their rubbish as raw material for their modelling; I wish only to tell you that I would hold you aloft as an exemplar of the technique, whom. in my re-entry to the world of modelling I would seek to learn from and emulate.

With Kind Regards

The Guern

Theophony wrote:Vik, didn't the competition teach you anything? We reuse materials AND ideas on projects. You can build bricks that way many times. It's not just a one shoot item.

ha... of course... but still I tend to stick to one material at a project... so probably no foam works this time as I want to spray prime it this time... I think this projects needs a sturdy paintjob...

Dr H wrote:Hello? Did someone mention my name? and sprue?

You could make individual bricks from sprue, but that would be very time consuming.
However, you could make a line of bricks from a length of sprue by just scoring it at regular intervals and then put another length on top with the grooves offset... Still a fair amount of work over a square of foam.

However I'm stuck for ideas of how to make the brick texture on sprue...?

yup... sprue atm is highly in favour for me... I think this way leads the way to success... and those individual bricks will be of course made from sprue....
and since you made quite some good use of plastic cement for smoothing your sprue works... it can work the other way around too... you can soften the bricks and then add texture into the slightly softened sprue brick...

shasolenzabi wrote:Da Brick! I love it! My Orks are all over that idea!

thank you shaso... this is indeed true to the crazy spirit of the green tide^^

Theophony wrote:Since they're construction grade orks maybe paint heir shirts white and give then yellow hard hats made of greenstuff .

argh... I have to make some tin foil hats for you to not be victim to such crazy cool ideas and inspiration particles that seems to overflowing your area....how am I supposed to make hardhats like these

The Guern wrote:Good Evening,

I hope you don't mind my intrusion? I was just browsing this thread and felt moved to comment on how impressive your work with found objects is. Taking the mundane detritus of the modern world and placing it in a new context where it can be used to reveal the joy of creation and provoke the imagination is a real gift. To stir the narrative of your audience's fantasy is all any artist can ask for, that you do it with the discarded trappings of life is nothing short of remarkable and puts me in mind of some of the great artists of the Dadaist movement, Du Champ for example, or Tracy Emin. Or the found poetry of William Whewell or Hart Seely

Of course I understand that you are not the first nor the only person to recycle their rubbish as raw material for their modelling; I wish only to tell you that I would hold you aloft as an exemplar of the technique, whom. in my re-entry to the world of modelling I would seek to learn from and emulate.

With Kind Regards

The Guern

hello guern... many thanks for your high praise... and indeed it is very high praise to be even named in the same breath as these high ranking artists...I hope I am not too uneducated to soil these good names eventually...

but I have to ask you... where do you come from? your flag is not even showing where you are from... so I am intrigued...
I am atm lurking your thread too... your current constructions already show a promising view of necromunda forces...and I am too eager to see where this may lead...

and...welcome to the show (alright... quite often it is a freak show...but we have gotten used to that, right fellas? )


no update yet... later on I will show you the current status of the interior's of you are alright with that, yes?

cheers, vik


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oki doki...

I have some inside views to share with you...

here they are:

repurposed IG bazooka , somehow the grots didn´t really like the aquilla...


bench and steering gear...


big monitor and lotsa spare weaponry


and then something that just kinda made itself...I proudly present to you the brickzooka...:





hope you like...

cheers, vik

That's awesome Vik! You're really stepping it up a notch on this one!

Love the brick hoppers. You should have a grot with a bucket of bricks reloading.

Can wait to see how you pull the rest of this off.

I am intrigued by this flying brick and demand more.

I love the center ball piece, it just looks like a giant hamster wheel. It needs a grot running in it to power the brickzooka, which is a right awesome concept

Great work sir, great work.

dsteingass wrote:That's awesome Vik! You're really stepping it up a notch on this one!

thank you very much!

mars2024 wrote:Love the brick hoppers. You should have a grot with a bucket of bricks reloading.

Can wait to see how you pull the rest of this off.

now that is a most brilliant idea! I need to see if that is possible with grots models...

Valhalla130 wrote:I am intrigued by this flying brick and demand more.

and you will get more... that's for sure^^

Theophony wrote:I love the center ball piece, it just looks like a giant hamster wheel. It needs a grot running in it to power the brickzooka, which is a right awesome concept

well... I think your hamster ball idea derives from the origin of the ball... it is a cat´s toy I just totally re- used... I dunno if I can do this still... the ball structure has been quite immensely rearranged... I was more about to build a gunner inside the ball...but I grant you... that is again a spectacular idea

Camkierhi wrote:Great work sir, great work.

thank you sir!

They need to change the bob the builder cartoon into Vik the builder, with German subtitles.

oh... fear not... we have a dubbed version that is running here for what feel like a millennia

I see that turret and I just think grot millennium falcon.

argh.... not even more cool ideas

but if I have two of these it would be a very good idea indeed... (damn I actually have one more of these balls...)

Hmmm....those squig pictures made me have an idea.....Im going to build.... A GIANT ROBO SQUIG and its all thanks to your thread lol

Nice work Mek Boy Vik - you truly have been bitten by the greenskin bug haven't you

 Ruglud wrote:
Nice work Mek Boy Vik - you truly have been bitten by the greenskin bug haven't you

Mushrooms don't bite, but he has inhaled too much of the spores. I think Vik may have been too proppa for too long, and now his dark green side is coming out.

As to the grot carrying some bricks, a traditional method here at least would be a "hod". See pic below. And I know I have grots that look like they are carrying something on there shoulders, and it would be relatively easy to make.