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Sorry guys feel a need to cleanse my pallet a bit. Will be back to beasties shortly, but need to get my Mek on here.....

So some bits....

The observant will notice i made a box

And added some bits to it....


Still early days, got lots to add to it, but thats the engine block..

See you soon.

looks convincing...waiting patiently for more^^

Engines are good....and....

... and quite large also.

Looking forward to the monster of a vehicle that requires it.

DakkaDakka means never having to apologize for scratch building things .

 Theophony wrote:
DakkaDakka means never having to apologize for scratch building things .

Totally agree!

Big engine, but what'll it be connected to..

EDC

Can't wait!

Little update...




See ya soon...

Anyone else notice that the ram looks like a pig's snout?

Now that you mention it...keeps it then in theme I guess...

Pig bike?!

EDC

Probably more like a pig-up truck...:-D

Cam wow, your new projects are exploding with character! What progress youve made in all your artistic endeavors! LoVE the boss, and the all the great details youve put into it. Beautiful stuff man, its been a while, but just showing my face a little bit take care !

BB

Thanks all, much appreciated.

OK, so what is it?

There is an excellent idea floating about on DakkaDakka about a Dakka clan of orks.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/656634.page
I have done a Mek for the army. Well we where messing about with some ideas, and in particular a gentle giggle at the Australian Host. Orks with a theme maybe.

Now some of you know how I love to build stuff, just for the hell of it, andI am always honoured when someone will let me build them something.

So I have an idea....

This is going to be a Razorback Road Train display piece that may possibly pass for a battlewagon loosely.

So we need a big engine...

Then started on a sub frame assembly...




Then added a couple bits...



Lots more to do, including trailers that will be interchangable, and trying to make the cab look like a pig!

Quick disclaimer, I intend no insults to anyone ever with any of my work, I apologise if in any way any thing I do offends.

Anyway, providing KB likes it, he will get a gurt big trukk to display the boys on.

So what do you think people?

I think it's outstanding! Looking forward to seeing it morph into a pig!

Ta Gits, morphing begins...




Oh and did I mention moving parts....



Thanks for looking.

Cam... you are one self-abusing puppy... I love the moving pieces.

Erm...I am still after all this time mystified by your painting / building agenda...build, paint, build ontop...further painting and so forth...
That would never work out for me...at least I haven't yet tried...

But seriously...when will riveting happen? Seems its lacking quite a few...


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Oh and moving parts is always aweinspering

Wow .... enough said!

The moving snout bits are just brilliant! LOL!

I've always thought the paint-build more-paint more was confusing too, it obviously seems to work but I'm not sure if it's for me either

Big truck is neat, please continue

Nice work Cam'. Looking beefy.

Moving parts ftw.

Thank you gentlepeeps.

Well the model-paint -model paint thing is down to some psychotic issue I have no doubt. I am like it in everything I do. In this case it is I want to paint the engine, and once it is in place no way I am going to get to it, so paint it now. You could argue since it might well end up that you can't even see the engine what's the point, well to a degree what's the point of building the engine, could do a GW and just tell you it has a nuclear reactor built into the hubs of the wheels or some such. I paint it because I know its there, even if no-one else will ever see it. The same way I prime all sides of a piece of skirting before I fit it. I know I have done the job right. A habit I have had all my life. So you see I have no idea how you all completely build a model then paint it, how the heck do you paint the back of the gun?

Sorry got carried away there, bit tired and silly....

Any ways, didn't like the bonnet soooo.........


Oh and of course it opens so you can see the engine....


Thanks guys please keep the comments coming, and I would really like to know how the heck you paint the back of a gun???

 Camkierhi wrote:
... and I would really like to know how the heck you paint the back of a gun???

Ah well, I do things both ways. Which is why I didn't comment about painting before assembly or painting things that won't be seen.

When painting before assembly you need to have some clever ways to hold the pieces; pins and clips and gluing to pieces of sprue (what else?) for example.
I don't like the paint things while they are on the sprue they are moulded with as leaving it on makes it tricky to remove the mould-lines, and if you don't remove them then (or miss one or two) you'll have to remove them afterwards, which will require some touching up of the paint; so why not paint it afterwards anyway.

Painting things that are not going to be seen: I do this a lot and it stems from my Airfix etc. modelling where there is often hidden parts; interior details, engines etc. The joy of modelling, for me, is mainly in the doing rather than the finished piece. So the more modelling I can cram in to a model, the better. Even if some of that modelling will be hidden. However one trick, as demonstrated above, is to make parts removable so that the interior parts can be seen.
An important thing to remember is to paint/model beyond where you think people can see. You don't have to go far, but further than you may at first think. This avoids problems later if you misjudged how much people may see, and more importantly it gives the impression of there being no end; if someone can pick up a model and turn it over and over, looking at every angle and can't see the end, the mind will fill in what can't be seen and the model gains that extra level.

For example: if your model has some shark gills moulded into the surface. A model kit will often have these "holes" filled in and you would paint the "hole" part black, and that would look adequate.
However, you could cut out the "hole" pieces and leave actual holes. Done neatly, this would look better. But on closer inspection you would see that the holes lead into an empty shell.
You could then add a box that covers the inside of the hole and add some details (e.g. engine parts or pipes etc...). This gives something to look at inside the hole. However, there will always be an end to the box and total blackness. This will look great, but...
...If you build the entire engine inside the model, you can hold that model at any angle, shine a light in the hole and you will see no end to the detail. Also, you will get light spilling in through the other holes and illuminating the interior in a way that you don't get from any of the above. This will look excellent and very realistic.
And more importantly, imagine all the fun of building the interior details, rather than just an empty box with black "hole" painted on.

As for painting the back of a gun; I go for a black basecoat that gets into all crevices and then anything that I cannot get to to paint properly are "in the shadows" and remain black. Job's a good'un.

Painting the back of the gun/arm can be annoying. Still gotta do it all at once though

Is this a Simi-truck ( War Wagon) Ork vehicle? MYbe pulling a trailer...hint hint..

I picked up these guys a while ago...
Mine are not painted yet.

I got a feeling that I may need to build a battle wagon for them... to perform on. Thanks for the inspiration!

Awesome... simply awesome!

Bonnet? Oh, you mean the hood It could use some vents in it, or some sort of air intake for a supercharger maybe?

Paint as you go is a fine way to do things. I try to do so when I can.

How are you hinging it?