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Starting to come together now, looking great!


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 Warboss_Waaazag wrote:
Thanks, Captain.

I did more work on the fenders. Hopefully the black paint doesn't make it impossible to see...


Thanks for looking, C&C always welcome, have an awesome day!

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 theCrowe wrote:
Loving the distressed lower edges. They're doing a good job of bringing it all to life already. Great work so far.

Thanks, theCrowe!

 Tyranid Horde wrote:
Starting to come together now, looking great!

Thanks, Tyranid Horde (and also for the topic carry over)! More updates later today.

I swear, every time I post something along the lines of "...later today..." I fail to post later that day. At least this time it's only a few days instead of weeks, months, or years, right?

Anyway, I made more progress on the lower bun. Here's a bunch of pictures from too many angles.


Plus a close up of the too much detail I've been adding to this thing.


And the front end with my terrible sketches of what I might want the grill to look like.


Thanks for looking, C&C always welcome, have an awesome day!

I started work on the front grill using this template.


Then I promptly lost it. Completely gone, fell on the floor, nowhere to be found. So I started again with 2 pieces of plasticard.


Added rods for the grill plate (which, by the way were somehow so difficult to place) and a top ridge line.


Then a bottom ridge and started wrapping it with more plastic sheeting. This is as far as I've gotten.


Thanks for looking!

A few missed days never hurt anyone! The grill looks cool, it gives me a real 20th century american car vibe off it. If you could get some fine mesh, the radiator behind the grill would be cool.

 Tyranid Horde wrote:
A few missed days never hurt anyone! The grill looks cool, it gives me a real 20th century american car vibe off it. If you could get some fine mesh, the radiator behind the grill would be cool.

Hmmm, wire mesh you say? I may have to look into that. Cool idea, Tyranid Horde! Thanks.

 Warboss_Waaazag wrote:

 Tyranid Horde wrote:
A few missed days never hurt anyone! The grill looks cool, it gives me a real 20th century american car vibe off it. If you could get some fine mesh, the radiator behind the grill would be cool.

Hmmm, wire mesh you say? I may have to look into that. Cool idea, Tyranid Horde! Thanks.

Might not be totally useful, but the mesh screens you get for smoking pipes might fit between the grooves nicely? They're cheap enough too. Realising now I should have mentioned what wire mesh I was on about.

It's fine. I have sheets of wire mesh for sculpting.

Lots of progress, lots of shape starting to show!

Gotta tell ya- at this stage of development I'm getting a real Animal House Deathmobile vibe of this chassis- especially with the grill work you're designing:



When you finish the Orkster Meyer Weinerwaggon, you might be able to create a companion piece!

Rock on.

I did some work on some random boys.



Just letting y'all know this project is still alive.

Well that makes sense since WaaaZag is cantstoppable after all. Welcome back.

 theCrowe wrote:
Well that makes sense since WaaaZag is cantstoppable after all. Welcome back.

I love that you remember that. thank you.

Here's a group shot of the mob I'm working on. They're schtick is that they're stikkbommas, and there's 12 to fill out a trukk.


Of them, these are the most "done", even though I think I went way too subtle on their details.


Let me know if you think I should make the yellows more visible or if I should keep it subtle as is.

Waaaaagh! Good looking orks, I'd keep the yellow subtle on the edges, maybe go for something brighter on the glyphs?

That sounds like a good UK dea, Olthannon.

I'm trying not to overwhelm myself with orks, hut I did bring all my unfinished stormboyz to my work area. Meh, at least I'm making progress on my stikkbommas:

That's a lot of Stormboyz...

 Arakasi wrote:
That's a lot of Stormboyz...

Yeah. In 7th and 8th ed I could have 30 strong units of Stormboyz. So, naturally, I made three 30 boy units of Stormboyz. Now I have 45 too many. Or, put another way, I have to make 3 more Nobz for them.

Did some crazy yellow highlights on these boyz:


Plodding along. Lots of other projects crowded around.

Been working on rebasing my enormous collextion of boyz. This squad's theme is "Helmets and Sluggas".


And then converting rokkit pistol boyz and a tankbusta nob.




C&C is always welcome. Thanks for feedback and have an awesome day!

Oh goodness, I have so many orks to rebase. Good for you, taking on such a tedious task.

 Mr Nobody wrote:
Oh goodness, I have so many orks to rebase. Good for you, taking on such a tedious task.

Yeah. It's given me a chance to get a real count of my Units and to see what I need to finish. So far, I have
30 Helmet sluggas
30 no helmet sluggas
30 chainsword sluggas
30 fur hat shootas
30 bald shootas
30 hair shootas
30 helmet shootas
12 pirate shootas
20 no slugga choppas
20 stikkbommers
26 'ard boyz
90 stormboyz
30 lootas
20 kommandos
45 burnas
30 tankbustas
8 meganobz
75 nobz
2 meks
1 painboy
1 warboss
1 gazghul
45 grots
3 runtherds

Plus
20 primitive choppaz wip
and
20 cybork sluggaz wip

I have...so, so many infantry.

Such a wonderful catch up. Amazing boys. And so many of them.

Thanks, Cam. I apologize for these potato photos. This is what I've been working on lately.


C&C always welcome.

Hurrah- you're here! I missed your posts earlier in the month and am glad to catch up now.

I think you're taking the Napoleonic Wargamer credo of "in mass lies perfection" to its furthest logical extension with so many Orks- I read somewhere that the best way to eat an elephant is one piece at a time and keep at it.

Good luck and I look forward to seeing more updates on the progress!

Your enthusiasm has got me rolling on my horde of orks, though I dare not call them a horde in your presence. So many beautiful boys.

Thanks, Meer_Cat and Cam. Yeah, I hope to have another update tomorrow. I just got some kommandos and squigs. Some will be built stock, but I'm converting all the Cave Squigs to Bomb Squigs. For obvious reasons.