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So I just recently started modeling and painting again. I've been with 40K from Rouge Trader to now, but frequently(Several times a year) buy and sell armies. I mostly played 40K to win, I love the game play and the models, but I excelled at the gameplay. Now after being a power gamer for years, I want to have really cool models. I'd could care less if my figure is over sized and easy to get LOS on, as long as it's cool and something I can be proud of.

So here is a link to my first post on the painting and modeling page. I'm considering this my first post on this blog.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/226354.page

So my last project has been some Tanker Buster Boyz and a Deff Dread.

So The Tank Busters






And The Deff Dread










I wanted a Deff Dread with 4 close combat weapons, because it will be scary. GW did not give me any attractive options for a 4 armed Dread, so I decided to convert a Defiler. What do you guy thinks?

Also, Warborne wanted me to post some pict of his salamander color tests.



He wanted to know what Dakka thought of the Orange Helmets.

I'll try to get some painting done in the next week.

no comments? Does the Dread suck and no one wants to tell me?

Its the riley pattern defiler in deff dred form!!!
awesome man

and by the way wait a few hours for comments is the general rule for threads.

I waited over half a day, but I did post it late at night, so that's my bad. Anyway, thanks for the comments. I hadn't heard of the Riley Pattern Defiler before. Does anyone have any info on it?

I think thats the correct name for it, it was this amazingly badass defiler conversion what had 4 defiler arms and was bipedal, oh and had more spikes than a dark eldar spike convention. google it

Try to search the Blogs forum for Lemmingspawn's Iron Warriors Uber Bang army of death.


Nice conversions. The Marines look a bit weird though. The orange/green combination can work, but you need another green tone. This one's too bright.

Here are some photos of other Work in Progress projects and some recently completed models.


All this is in some form of WIP except maybe the Trukk, where I want to clean up some details, but it's low priority. The Squigoth is just base coated and will serve as my second trukk for my Snake Bite trukk mob I'm going to be painting up soon.


A selection of HQ and character types.


My Looted Leman Russ, I did this years ago. It's nice to use it again.


Buffy the Calidus Assassin.


Old School SM Dread that I was trying to convince Warborne to use as this Venerable Dread Aggibob. I might convert him into a Kan or Deff Dred. Not sure yet.


My commandos, I built them a while ago. I need to score some more Sentinel Jungle sprues to convert some more up.


More Sneaky Kommandos


a big group shot off my army before a game. You can see what my army will end up looking like, lots of dirty colors, dark metal and Ork Flesh.


My Wagon and Trukk for a side to side comparison.


Old Epiccast Gobsmasha. Probably end up using it as a Looted Vehicle with Boom gun.


Kans


Mega Grot winning me a game against Warborne.

is that the mega grot?!

Yes, Mega Grot is in the His-ouse.

Some shots of my Battle Wagon and a Deth Rolla I pulled off a Mage Knight Steam Wagon. I need to build a connector of some sort as the Deth Rolla Arms are too short. Other wise this is a fine fit.







Warbosses and Nobs. The Painted Warboss is a conversion using an old Nork Deddog body.







Old Mega armor orks I've repurposed as Cyborks. I just upgraded them with some new wargear.
I might pull the arms off and remodel them into Flash Gits.



My unpainted Boyz, I plan on painting up a Truck squad of Snake Bite and Goff, and a Shoota Squad of Deth Skulls.



A Looted Wagon I've had half built for years. I need to figure out what I want to do to finish it. I've had it so long I'm not sure where to start.







My Squigoth. I've done a meh job of base coating the figure, but I can't decide what I want to do with the skin and teeth (as they are awesomely detailed and deserve more then a quick once over.



I plan on using this as a Trukk for the Snake Bite boys I'll be painting soon.



I prime my orks by hand, with an artists gesso. It's pretty neat stuff and Priming with a spray can is a pain for me, what with the weather and setup/teardown.

I'm super jealous of your epicast gobsmasha. It's one of my favorite models that I haven't seen in real life.

As for your looted chimera, why not add a few armor plates or re-shape the hull a bit, integrate the smasha gun and LR turret a bit more, and call it a battle wagon with zzap gun?

Good to see you have enthusiasm but I think you'll be replacing models as you go along because your painting skill will rise (not that it can go down anymore) and you'll buy more of the GW 5th Ed stuff.

After using plastic card to armor up the Deff Dread, I'm sure I could give the Chimera similar treatment.

A sneak peak of my Wazzdakka conversion.


Some shots of my now primed Deff Dread



Looks like I have some touch up work on the black primer.

I can't wait for that Deff Dread to get nice and painted up!

I'm diggin the deff dread but not convinced about the orange helmets on the Salamanders. They seem too bright.

Ozymandias, King of Kings

I started base coating the Deff Dread and some Bikes





I'm not quite sure where to go from here. I'll probably just start grabbing some yellows, blues, and blacks and start randomly painting panels.

This is a minor update as all I really did was assemble and prime some models.

I just bought a new truck and put it together as a Striped down cheapo version.


Some of the New Grotz. My favorite is the one holding a Stikk bomb over his head. Every time I see him, I think "Wild Card, Bitches"! A lot of these guys are going to make up my Retinue for Mega Grot.


A pile of Nobz, Tankbusterz and lootaz I'm About to prime.


now they are primed


Here's what I use to prime and model bases. The Gesso is the Primer and Grey Pumice for the bases, if you where wondering


Warborne's Marines. He darkened the helmets and armor some, then started detailing. I think they look sweet now.




A co worker is working on his new Realms of Battle, battle board. He's trying for a wintery wonderland. Any comments I can pass on to him?






My WIP biker squad.


Pink Eye da Mega Dred WIP

Looking great, how many battles have you played with them so far?, 100th post, yay

Why are the skull pits in the ROB blue? Since when are skulls blue? It confuses and infuriates me

I thought putting the skulls in that thing were optional (as in, thank god you can leave them out).

I Really like the extra large rokkit tankhuntas and the kamo on the kommandoz! Lots of character to this force, kudos.

I'd imagine the skull pits are blue because it's an arctic board, the skull pits now being cracks in the ice.

@Kormas: I've played around a half dozen games with this current Ork Army. I still haven't Got the Tankbusters or Mega Dred into a game yet.

@P4NC4K3: as Mekboy said, the skulls are being painted to look like holes in the Ice.

@MeanGreenStompa: The "Realm of Battle" does not give you a choice about the skulls, they are molded into the bourd. How ever it's not that hard to putty them up, or paint over them. I was thinking of painting them like hot lava if I ever got one of these battle boards.

I just got a new camera, so these are some test shots of WIP projects

Wazzdakka




Mega Dread, I could use some Ideas on how to paint this guy.


My Old Warboss


My Kommandos


Orks vehicles


Warborne's Vulkan Conversion


Warborne's Salamanders

P4NC4K3 wrote: Why are the skull pits in the ROB blue? Since when are skulls blue? It confuses and infuriates me

Because I hate the skulls, and want them gone. I could have greenstuffed over them to start, but I just blue inked the whole thing.

Covering the skulls is water effects, so with the totally blued skulls and water effects over them you can not tell what they are supposed to be. I'll get NinjaRay to post more pix when it's done.

I love the quality improvement from your new camera. Now that I can see your models clearly, I can safely say that I like what you're doing. Great Dread too...

Thanks Iboshi2! I'm still getting the hang of the new Camera, but it's definitely a step up from my camera phone.

I'm heading to a Gaming Convention tomorrow, so with a little luck, I can have a bunch of new pictures and maybe some new models.

And just because, the shelf above my desk at my work

Ninja Ray: The Yellow Eye boyz are looking good. The mega dread is pretty sweet. I gotta come back up and throw down with you and Warborne. Sure do miss the Bay Area.

I'm lame a forgot to take any pictures at the con.

Here are some picts of my Wazzdakka Conversion