tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48491089157922331302024-02-19T12:49:32.306+01:00Da Wazgarg RokkazOrkz, Trukkz & Rokk'n'RollMad Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01908854985418866749noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849108915792233130.post-68606902027156323762016-12-13T22:57:00.000+01:002016-12-14T02:59:51.622+01:00Gorkamorka kommishun - almost dereWell, actually already dere as of the time I'm writing this post, but for the sake of chronology and stuff I'll split the remaining content between two posts. So yes, everything is 100% finished, and based. This post will be focused on the remaining boyz and grots, while the next one will have group beauty shots of the entire commission. Trukks, bikes, buggies and gits all together, with bases complete. I also want to include a short video showcase, for which I've already recorded a ton (~90 mins) of footage that I now have to cut down and edit into a short, presentable clip, max 10 minutes long. Once that is done, The post will go up, hopefully by the end of the week.<br />
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For now though, let's have a look at the remaining minis. There are sixteen in total: one nob I've finished up, two spannerz, three boyz and ten grots.</div>
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This guy finally got his choppa arm, with the choppa part swapped for a fancier one from the savage orks kit. Also strapped his mags together and glued the head, steel gob and the rest together.</div>
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Really happy with this one, even though he's just a kitbash. Legs from some second-hand burna I had laying around, six-shoota stolen from a grot, savage ork spear and a stormboy head. Quite like how the pose came together.<br />
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Another savage-based boy. Given him a slugga hand with an extended clip, affinity for bones as snacks and implements of melee-based pain infliction and some spare mayhem makers on his belt from the stormboyz kit.<br />
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Second of the spanners. Because I forgot to include the vehicle crews in my calculations, I ended up running out of legs, so I based this one on an AoBR ork, of which I have quite a lot. The choppa was modified using another choppa blade, some creative cutting and plasticard to turn it into a massive wrench. His slugga is a cut down shoota from the boyz kit (the only one with a stock), cut off and fitted to the left arm (it comes with a right arm, as most of the shootas do). The front was finished with a barrel sliced off a slugga. Also gave him a chain whip from some leftover cutoffs and plasticard goggles (they do nothing).</div>
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Idea for the third spanner was based around the fuel tanks from the aforementioned burna. Trimmed them a bit to sit flush on his back and greenstuffed the missing straps. The torch was made out of a slugga arm and a burna nozzle, along with a greenstuff hose. The head is a regular one from the boyz kit, but since I've used it already and wanted every single one of the footsloggers to have a unique head, I spruced it up with a plasticard welding mask. Just a piece of tube carved up and some spikes shaved off previously ruined choppas.</div>
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Now this one is mildly controversial, due to being a female ork. The commissioner asked me if I could make one, and since I fancied a challenge, I decided to see if I could make an ork look at least somewhat female. I used an ork head and tried to round it out and smooth out the features a bit and added a lick of hair. The torso is sculpted entirely from scratch. Started as lumps of leftover Miliput I kept collecting into a rough shape of a torso, which I then greenstuffed over. Had the fantasy ork legs laying around and it would be a waste not to use them on this model. Also made a motorised rolling pin, using the chain choppa arm, tip of a rokkit and some tube. I guess that's as female as an ork can get. Kinda curious to see how well the torso will look when painted.<br />
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And finally, the grots. A pretty simple job here, some time ago I got a handful of WFB gnoblars from a trade with a friend and decided to use some of them here. They are a mix of grot and gnoblar bodies and heads and some miscellaneous bits I had laying around, including some small ork pouches.<br />
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I also went for a few weapon swaps to vary things up, including some ork sluggas, one of the small pocket choppas from the boyz kit and the grot heads from the stormboyz and bikerz kit. Overall really happy with the variety.</div>
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So, that's it for now. Check back soon for pics of the entire completed commissions and possibly the video as well. That is if my editing software will comply. So far it's acting up when importing the video files already. Anyway, thanks for reading and see you soon!</div>
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Well, I could go on and rant about how this all took to long, but I'll just get to the point instead. About a week ago I finally ticked off all the items from the vehicle list, thus making this part of the commission complete, leaving me with four orks and ten grots left to build. Of which I currently have only two spannerz left.</div>
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Here they are in all their fully-equipped glory in a group photo. As you can see a bunch of stuff was added since the last post. Armour plating, weapon mounts, and several gubbinz. Pretty much everything is magnetised or removable, making everything highly customisable and allowing certain stuff to be swapped between vehicles.</div>
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First, the big trakk, which was already showcased, but I'll repeat that for the sake of completeness. Six separate armour pieces, gunner and driver all magnetised. Tracks are pinned but not glued in place for ease of painting. Wheels fit snug and can be swapped between vehicles. The biggest and heaviest of all four, can fit a bunch of boyz, lotta scratchbuild, plasticard, cables and all.<br />
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Now the trukk. Probably my favourite from the bunch. I think I really managed to nail the speedy profile I wanted. And then I managed to make a set of five armour sections that compliment the bare shape really well. Crew magnetised, less scratchbuild then the previous one, but more coherent with satisfying use of existing parts. Really like the detailed undercarriage, seen in previous posts.</div>
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The trakked buggy. Rather simple use of leftover chunk from the Big Trakk kit. Four armour bits that can quite transform the look, along with two interchangeable fronts, one looking more sturdy and reinforced than the other. Didn't really get what I was going for with this one, but it's not that bad either.<br />
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And finally, the buggy. Three armour parts, a reinforced ram and a blanking plate for the gunner's cupola. Mostly kitbashed from trukk parts, with just a few scratchbuilt bits. Also really happy with how it turned out, particularly the hotrod shape and the exhaust array.<br />
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Vehicle accessories: gubbinz and gunz. Two assault planks, which can be used on both of the trukks, grabbin klaw and a wrecking ball which can be mounted on both trukks and the trakked buggy and a full set of weapons, which can be freely swapped between all the vehicles. Left to right: spear chukka, linked shoota, 'eavy shoota, rokkit launcha, skorcha and a harpoon gun.</div>
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<br />Mad Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01908854985418866749noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849108915792233130.post-13105949780976173922016-08-22T01:21:00.001+02:002016-08-22T01:24:11.659+02:00Gorkamorka kommishun - just end it alreadyCan't really find the energy to post an update, but it's been ages since I posted once more. Same old case of "K, I'll post an update on Sunday". Then Sunday comes round and I want to get one more detail finished, then that drags on over two days, then something else, so I move the goal to another day and bam, two months without posting. Probably gonna skip the usual neat post layout for this one. I'm absolutely worthless at everything that's related to making models except the part where you glue bits together. Self-discipline, deadlines, keeping stuff in order, actually working at an acceptable pace, and all that, I'm absolutely rubbish. That being said, pictures:<br />
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Got some stuff done, at a disgustingly slow pace, sadly. I hate to admit it, but most of the working time is actually spent sitting and staring at the models, wondering why is nothing going well. I probably have burned myself out on this project ages ago. I hate myself for how long it's taking.<br />
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Also got the third bike done, simple stuff. Extended front forks, old ork bike front wheel with about fifty little studs made using those little pellets from a water jug filter. Done when I was feeling particularly braindead and needed a job that required no thinking but was tedious.<br />
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All the vehicles got their drivers and gunners finished.<br />
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And the trakk got an actual reinforced ram to differ it from the standard weedy one. I wanted to try out a piece of PVC pipe I had left over from making the lightbox.<br />
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Also, the trukk got brought mostly to completion. Finished up and detailed the side filler panels, added some railings and most importantly figured out the rear.<br />
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As I mentioned, I hated the square, flat, chopped off look. That was fixed by moving the step mounts to the front and reinforcing everything with some cables with a few details here and there, with a small trukk fuel tank or something. Definitely my favourite out of the four vehicles.</div>
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Finished the exhaust tips too, here's how all the undercarriage detail looks.<br />
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That's all for now. Thanks for reading and see you next time.<br />
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The results so far are all the four mounts and gunner bodies done and magnetised, which means I can now go on with building all the interchangeable weapon options, so that they can be freely swapped. As seen in the picture, so far I have (left to right) the 'eavy shoota, linked shootas, a spear chukka and a rough idea of a harpoon gun. All are still in need of some rivets and decoration, as per usual.</div>
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The harpoon gun on the big trakk. Gunner is a standard torso and legs, with a shoota arm adjusted at the wrist. The gun itself is a winch from the trukk kit, WFB ork spear tip and a plasticard tube. Needs an extra tank perhaps, some hoses and of course the harpoon cable, along with an upgraded tip.<br />
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Spear chukka on the trakk buggy. Gunner same as above, except for a slugga arm. Leftover of an AoBR nob slugga, some tubes, savage orc arrow tip as well as self made ones plus trukk boost kanista make up this one.<br />
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The 'eavy shoota on the trukk. With the big shoota from the trukk kit as a base, another barrel was added along with a cut up magazine, some plasticard, sliced up slugga and other bits. Gunner comes from the trukk kit as well.</div>
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That's all the progress for now, but not the end of this post. Recently the blog's hit some numbers I would like to share.</div>
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Seeing as this blog began it's life roughly a year ago, I think this is a pretty decent result, considering the several hiatuses and overall sparse (to my tastes anyway) posting, as well as lack of advertising effort on my part. All the more I would like to thank everyone that shares my blog with others, helping me get a little sliver of exposure in the ocean that is the wargaming blogosphere. Also, it would seem I got myself some followers recently. Even though I don't exactly know what that means. Is it when you add a blog to appear on that reading list on Blogger's homepage? Regardless, I would like to thank <a href="http://conversionfanboy.blogspot.com/">Scott</a> for featuring me after my last post and say hello to <a href="http://recalcitrantdaze.blogspot.com/">Rictus</a>, who's also one of my big inspirations. It's quite a rewarding feeling when the people who have inspired you, follow you back. Also thanks to <a href="http://www.feedyournerd.com/greggles-tabletop">Greg</a> and <a href="http://tauofwar.blogspot.com/">Tim</a> for their feedback in the comments. I hope the following year will bring even more content for you to enjoy.</div>
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That's all for now, apologies for my untidy writing, but it's 4am and I really wanted to get that update out today. Also, this means I've been working on this commission for a year, while I originally intended to be done with it in three months. Zog.</div>
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Progress is happening at the usual steady pace. That's putting it in a positive way, as what I actually mean is that it's too slow. I've kind of managed to negate the part where I run out of ideas for a particular model and get stuck by jumping between different vehicles, but I'm afraid there's not much I can do against the blistering summer heat that's setting in just now. Temperatures reaching 30 degrees Celsius, with 35 prognosed for this weekend. It's not much cooler in my room, making it rather hard to find the will to do anything else than slowly decomposing on the bed with a book or something. Regardless, I've started on the last buggy and actually managed to get a decent chunk of it done. Mostly due to it being almost purely a kitbash. Eh.</div>
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That being said, I'm pretty happy with how it's turned out so far. On the other hand, now I find that it makes the trakk buggy look kinda meh in comparison, but it might be just me. Similar to the two trukks, this is the speedy counterpart to the heavy ruggedness of the trakk version.<br />
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Turned out it was as simple as gluing the front axle to the front of the frame rather than it's designated spot. Once that was figured out, I cut the rearmost part of the frame off at an angle, attached the rear axle upside down and figured out locations for the engine, driver, gunner and the radiator (I really wanted to use that last one for the classic hot rod look)<br />
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With that stuff figured out, I went about some optional armour. The rear part was made out of trukk side and cab panels, while the lower wall of the flatbed served as a base for the reinforced ram. The driver uses biker legs, which were magnetised to sit in place and standard trukk driver arms, along with the instrument panel which will be mounted to fit. The gunner will also be based on the standard trukk gunner.<br />
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As seen in the opening photo and here, the exhaust system is a mix of trukk parts and leftovers from the big trakk, arranged in a somewhat haphazard manner to emphasise the somewhat speedy wedge shape. The reinforced ram was given some extra bits and the skull totem from the warbike kit.<br />
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The chassis as seen from below. The reinforced ram is magnetised with a set of two 3mm magnets in the back and two 2mm ones to keep the front from dropping. It kept submitting to gravity still, until I realised I glued one of the small magnets the wrong way round. Rear armour is held on with two sets of 3mm magnets. Driver, similar to others has a 3mm magnet on the vehicle and 2mm on the mini.<br />
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At this point, since all four vehicles are basically finished, as far as their main shape and placement of all the crucial features goes, are done, I decided to start on the weapons and equipment. Going with the gunners first, since they will be interchangeable between all four. The way I figured it out, each vehicle will have a mount, with each weapon type being attached on magnets. As seen in the picture, the gunner has a magnet on his foot, holding him to the vehicle and a small one in his hand, keeping him in proper alignment with the mount. Once all of the latter are done, I'll start on the weapons themselves, so that everything fits together and looks well.</div>
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That is all for this post. Thank you for reading and see you next time!Mad Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01908854985418866749noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849108915792233130.post-70307205646374766132016-06-13T01:37:00.000+02:002016-06-13T01:37:44.708+02:00Gorkamorka kommishun - bikering continuesOkay, I'm back to Gorkamorka being the only thing that needs to be worked on, meaning now it hopefully will go at a pace that satisfies me. Although going off past experiences, I'm skeptical about that. Anyways, what progress has been made since last post?<br />
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Well, the general shape of the trukk seems to have been determined. Still not 100% set on the extra standing room on the back, though I can probably remedy that with extra armor and stuff. Gotta make the back more interesting and less flat too.</div>
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Also, only when taking pictures for this update did I realize that I somehow omitted the suspension progress in the previous post, so here it is now. In the back I used leaf springs trimmed off the trukk chassis along with the center section of a trukk axle, widened with some plasticard rod. The front is more of a scratchbuild, incorporating the bits cut off the rear axle. Should be sturdy enough once the tanks are glued in, giving the suspension another point of support.<br />
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Also since I stalled a bit on the trukk due to a lack of vision, I decided to start on another bike in order not to waste any more time. This time it's a hover hybrid with treads in the front. Used the tracked bike as a base, trimming the treads off the back, and assembling them to fit the front suspension with the brakes removed. Bit of plasticard to fill in the middle.<br />
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The engine is a stormboy rokkit pack, with some extra tube to fill in the gap, with two halves of rokkit pack tip making up the side hover jets. The back had some stowage and a trukk boost kanista added. Slightly less visible in those pictures is a skid made out of one of the many deffkopta ones I found in my junk bags. </div>
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That's all for this update, see you next time.Mad Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01908854985418866749noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849108915792233130.post-40170624770958157722016-06-01T16:53:00.000+02:002016-06-01T16:53:00.979+02:00Gorkamorka kommishun - da endless cycleOf working on stuff, then having other things take over, then being angry about slow progress, then making no progress due to being depressed about the pace at which the project advances.<br />
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I am bad at making assumptions. The assumption that once I'm done with uni I'd have more time was wrong as well. Don't really have the energy nor time to elaborate now, and I'd rather just post the progress that I wanted to have posted on Sunday.<br />
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Pretty meager progress too, considering the time passed since the last time I posted. Except that time period was mostly filled with other stuff that shouldn't really have been there in the first place.<br />
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Overall I'm pretty happy about the result, except for the time passed since I've started working on it.<br />
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First up, the objective markers. Somewhere around September last year I was contacted by <a href="http://kromlech.eu/">Kromlech</a>, who asked if'd I'd be interested in making some models for them. It came as a bit of a surprise and I guess I was equal parts flattered and excited, so after a quick e-mail back-and-forth we've settled on a set of junkyard-themed markers.<br />
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The first attempts were simple flat markers that would be easy to mold, but rather unintersting. The second try had a vertical plate, but still was single-part, which was limiting the design choices available that would keep it mouldable. Finally we've settled on two-part markers, with a base that can be cast in a single-part mould and the vertical sign with a number to be cast in a two-part mould. After gluing in the structural elements, the base had a layer of putty applied to it, forming the base shape of the terrain, which I then pressed all the junk into. Once that settled, I would build the signs, add detail, cables, etc. The final step would be filling all the gaps and crevices to prevent silicone from seeping in and possibly causing the mould to tear up and adding sand texture to the bare putty. In this case I used semolina, glued with PVA and sealed with several layers of water-thinned PVA.<br />
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The second thing was a quick relax project to rest a bit after I finished a sleepless marathon of trying to wrap up all my classes in time, before I continued finishing my thesis. I've had this old deffkopta conversion that was the first thing I started when getting into the hobby. I got the tail, wings and rokkit pods done and it just kinda sat there ever since. I decided to try and finish up building it and paint it in time for a challenge over at my country's 40k forums.<br />
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It had the original tail, exhausts and rokkits cut off. The tail was scratchbuilt, the rockets turned into rocked pods to be installed under the wings, magnetised to be swappable with the shootas, built out of spare barrels, old warbike dakkagun body, chimera road wheels and plasticard. The rotor got some scratchbuilt stuff as well.<br />
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The front where the rokkits were was built up using warbike parts and tanks, which source I'm not aware of, found them in my bits. Some other miscannelous bits were added, as well as rivets and greenstuff welds.<br />
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The whole thing, test assembled on a flying base.<br />
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Going with the chipping method, the model was primed black and airbrushed with Warplock Bronze wherever the metal areas were supposed to be. Depending on whether I wanted regular or bronze finish I sprayed zenithally and/or stippled Leadbelcher or just went on to Brass Scorpion. Washes and drybrushed of appropriate colours followed, along with some actual edge highlights. Once that was done, the whole model received a coat of chipping medium, hence the glossy look.<br />
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Next step was airbrushing all the base colours, alond with zenithal highlights, gradients and whatnot. Seems that this time I finally got the transition from red to orange and into yellows I was going for since I started painting. Really happy with how the colour turned out. Also some black on several parts that actually is really dark grey, highlighted to blueish grey to make it more interesting and contrasting nicely with the warm tones.<br />
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With the base colour done, I went on to freehand all the checks, dags spirals and other small stuff in white. With that done I went in with a wet brush, chipping the paint back. It was at this point that I stopped, realising I didn't have the varnish I needed. Have yet to finish it up due to thesis and more important projects. Namely Gorkamorka.<br />
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Eeh, I don't really know what to start with. Apart from the fact that I'm pretty pissed about taking three months since the last post and having almost no progress to show for it, when I actually wanted to be done with this project by the end of March. But I'm really bad at judging how much time stuff will take me to do. Finishing up my last semester of uni and my thesis paper afterwards took longer to wrap up than I thought. On the plus side, it means I am now done with school and in theory can focus all my time on hobby related stuff. What's more, it means I'm at that point in life where I should make a decision regarding my future plans. And I really would like to try and see if I could get anywhere with miniatures and related stuff. I feel like there's still a plenty of niches yet to be filled that I could tackle. As a result of entrepreneurship classes this semester we were supposed to write up a business plan and I unless I was way off, it seems like it could maybe work out. If it doesn't, there's not a ton of investment involved and I could simply proceed to apply for master's degree course of some sort next year. I just want a break after all the years of education to try and go for some of the many plans and ideas I kept having for the past year or two. However, while I think I'm capable of putting out quality stuff (mostly according to others, my self esteem isn't really that high in regard to anything) it's the pace at which I can do that that concerns me mostly. If it's gonna go anywhere near as good as this project, I might as well not bother at all.</div>
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Yep, work has started on the second trukk. Actually, it did somewhere in January, when I laid out the wheels, flatbed and front bumper on the cutting mat and figured out the general layout of things. It then sat there and taunted me while I kept trying to get my thesis done as soon as possible.<br />
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After getting the wheelbase and rough placements of all the components I made the chassis rails out of plasticard and glued them to the trukk flatbed. The rear axle had the drop parts removed, was made longer and attached to the frame with a pair of leaf springs cut off from the other trukk frame that will make a basis for the second buggy later. The cab floor had the driver half cut off and moved forward to match the gunner side, so that enough room for the engine was left. Front bumper is a leftover from the big trakk. Fuel tank is based on two Tamiya barrels, with warbike fender and dakkagun mount, along with two choppa blades in the front.</div>
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The cab was then built up with body panels made from armour plate halves and the driver was added, with his feet slightly shaved down along with the seat supports to make him more reclined. The steering wheel arm is the same combo as on the buggy with the wheel made of three wires twisted together tightly.<br />
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The standard trukk engine had the gearbox cut off, the halves were glued together at an angle to make it more massive (an idea I looted from CrayolaSmoker's <a href="https://www.google.pl/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjK3Pbq0OTLAhWG1hQKHRgHCpEQFggbMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.the-waaagh.com%2Fforums%2F%3Fshowtopic%3D34936&usg=AFQjCNGZz3Zi8CS-WfPhGszNGFKCYEraaQ&sig2=g_EAF0Mnqy_E3b9vbC37cQ">wrecka trukk</a> over on Da WAAAGH!) and the gearbox was glued back on. The air intake/soopacharga is a stormboy rokkit pack intake, some plasticard tubing, a shoulder pad, two deffkopta exhausts I found in one of the bitz bags I once purchased along with greenstuff hoses I made with my newly purchased Toob Tool. Simply had to find a way to play around with it. The fuel tank assembly was also detailed with two hoses.<br />
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Mad Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01908854985418866749noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849108915792233130.post-11661896076824028212015-12-31T05:05:00.000+01:002015-12-31T05:24:03.212+01:00Gorkamorka kommishun - an' dere wuz light......in more than just one way, actually. Glad I managed to get this post out in less than a month from the previous one. I was going to on Saturday/Monday, but there was a little delay and then stuff happened and I postponed it till today, for a very good reason, as you shall see. Also worth noting probably is that this is the 20th post on Da Wazgarg Rokkaz. A small anniversary, but an important one nonetheless. Somehow I'm able to keep cluttering this little corner of the interwarpz with my ramblings and pictures despite various swings in mood and resulting productive output. Over 3600 views were accumulated since I started in late May, which I have no idea if it's a significant number, considering I only applied to Natfka's banner roll. That's not important though. What's important, is that there seems to be a handful of people who like my work enough to keep checking back every once in a while. I would hereby like to thank you all for this silent encouragement. Furthermore, I would also like to thank Greg and Tim for not so silent encouragement by leaving feedback in my comment section, glad to have you guys here.<br />
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Okay, that seems to have turned into a bit of a summary post, which makes sense, seeing as I'm writing it on the last day of 2015. But enough's enough, time for the good stuff and pictures.<br />
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The big trukk is pretty much finished, as far as the major things go. I might add a separate reinforced ram, as the current one is attached permanently, but that's it. Finished the last of extra armour panels and added some chain to tie down the stowage. I might just be growing up to the decision to finally glue the engine on along with the exhaust stacks so I can add the mounting brackets and connect the driveshaft.<br />
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The frontal armour plates got a railing to help the driver climb aboard, while the rear ones got a set of spikes. I'm contemplating adding some magnetised spikes and blades to other areas, also for the sake of representing the upgrade and the chance of it being blown off.<br />
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Furthermore, as you might have notices by now, the photo quality has improved greatly. That is because I have finally gotten around to building myself a lightbox. A pretty solid one at that, while quite simple to make. I checked my local home improvement store's website and found those lamps are waaay cheaper than I thought. This, combined with them having a handy mounting bracket gave me a spark of motivation to go there and buy all the parts needed. The frame is made out of 1/2" PVC plumbing pipe and the diffusing screens are an unused bedsheet. Combined with some cable (the lamps don't come with one), a switch, plug and some connectors to split the cable to all three lamps it turned into this neat 60x40x40cm lightbox. The pipes are such a tight fit that they stay together without any glue, meaning I can take it apart for storage or modify the layout at any time. The backgrounds are mounted by having two screws in the back, with holse punched in the sheets.</div>
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And that is all for this rather lenghty post and for the year 2015. Thank you for being here and see you again in 2016, hopefully the year when I finally complete a 1850 points Ork army and begin other exctiting projects.</div>
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The big trukk had a bunch of stuff done, pushing her quite close to being completed, I think. First pair of extra armour was added, as well as a rollbar, and some stowage. The blue exhaust parts were finally glued to the engine block, and had some detailing, welds and damage done to them.<br />
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Also started on filling out the front with some grille mesh, slated armour and a skull from the warbiker kit. Figured out how to put the driver of this one together as well, gonna use arms from the trukk driver. He already has a magnet stuck in his butt to keep him in the seat.<br />
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Buncha stuff going on in the back. Fuel lines were added, the empty space in the middle was filled with random stowage consisting of spare track links, a slugga, Tamiya bag and assorted junk bits. The bumper had bits added and a pair of extra shocks were added to the sides. Just need to chain it all into place<br />
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The buggy had some detailing done around the cab and gunner position. Extra pipes were added, along with a piece of floor, some torn up rag wraps and welds.The driver is also pretty much finished with a slightly modified slugga and a steering wheel made from a piece of wire bent into a circle and greenstuffed over. The wheel is attached to the hand, while the steering column stays with the car. Just gotta find a nice head with goggles, either from warbikers, stormboyz or AoBR deffkoptas.</div>
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Here's the snazzy new setup, still so new it's actually a bit unfinished. Gotta add the shelves in the back for storing whatever crap I pile up in there and finish off the rim of the large panel in the back. It's pretty awesome already though, being 2 x 2,2 metres, with 70 cm deep sections, there's enough room for everything I might possibly want to dump in there, including a dual-screen world domination control centre (I've had two screens for a year, but no room to set both up), the building section with plenty of room in the back corner and most likely a painting station to the left, once I set it up. The PC desk is one part, 130x70 cm, the rest is completely separate, as it would be an absolute bitch to put the whole thing together in one piece. The old corner desk is going to be relegated to casting duty, as it's in a poor shape already. The old PC desk is currently holding all the typical desk mess so that the new one can stay pristinely clean as long as possible.<br />
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That's it for now, see you next time. Hopefully sooner than a month.Mad Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01908854985418866749noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849108915792233130.post-19656145454253457162015-11-17T22:00:00.000+01:002015-11-17T22:01:54.820+01:00Gorkamorka kommishun - keeps bugging me<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Ueeegh, I'm hardly in the mood to write anything extensive this update. It's way overdue I posted one, though. The secret project was finished, hopefully I will get to show it to you soon. This means I can get back to Gorkamorka full swing. Which at the moment isn't very swingy at all. No idea why, everything is just seems so difficult to work with and figure out and on top of that, I don't find any of my ideas satisfying enough. One good thing is that I finally got the first part of my new desk assembled and set up and it's pretty sweet. Finally I can have a dual screen setup. The workdesk will follow as soon as the store restocks the pipes and fittings I still need. But enough ranting. Picture time.</div>
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More work was done on the trakk buggy, all the suspension/wheels/treads is done. Also added a simple front bumper, extra armour and started on the driver's cab.<br />
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The driver is removable in case he chooses to leave the vehicle. The seat slots into two tubes on the chassi and a magnet in the back holds him in place.<br />
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Overall it's not looking too shabby, although I'm far from being super satisfied with it. Maybe it'll grow on me as I add the remaining features and a ton of sotwage, decorations and such. Still, there's the same issue the trukk has, a tiny cab leaving an awkward gap between the front wheels and the tracks with no good way of filling it.</div>
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Anyway, that's all for now. See you next time and thanks for reading.Mad Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01908854985418866749noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849108915792233130.post-26305612455425383442015-10-25T16:34:00.003+01:002015-10-25T16:34:31.032+01:00Gorkamorka kommishun - progress is buggySorry to keep you waiting for another update. Originally I intended to post it last Sunday, but since I have Mondays free, I thought I could squeeze a bit more progress into it. But then I rushed back to the secret project, then it got dark and so eventually it kept getting postponed for the whole week.<br />
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As you can see, I started on the trakked buggy that was mocked up a while ago, as well as began building up the back of the trukk. That means I can finally have the tracks kept in place in a somewhat stable way. Same goes for the buggy, as soon as I copy it to the other side, I can start figuring out the body.</div>
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I ended up not cutting the frame for the buggy, since it ended up working better the right side up. Just needed to trim the front a bit to fit the turbine. A while ago I purchased an old Hellhound, which was basically the old Chimera model with metal fuel tanks. That means it came with a bunch of road wheels the new kits don't have anymore, so of course I had to recast them for future use. Luckily, the model was assembled with super glue, meaning they were quite salvageable. The track links were made out of plasticard in three different designs and recast as well. Took a bunch of fiddling around to get a good shape, but eventually I managed to put it together in a way that looks good and makes a bit of sense. Suspension assembly is done as well, just need to copy it for the other side. At this point I miss working in 3D, I could just clone and mirror the whole thing in three seconds. Alas, that doesn't work here.<br />
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For once, the photos have decent lighting, since I remembered to take them during the day. Still going to be a while before I get a good photo setup, probably after I get my new work desks done. Those are currently underway, just waiting for the shop to cut my countertops and gotta get a few more plumbing pipes and the PC desk will be done. Once that is figured out, I'll just repeat the process for the work desk and finally I will have enough space for building, painting and casting at the same time.<br />
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Anyway, thanks for reading and see you next time.Mad Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01908854985418866749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849108915792233130.post-5944480819302945812015-10-04T22:57:00.000+02:002015-10-04T22:57:29.941+02:00Gorkamorka kommishun - can't fix woz brokenJust take it apart and try again instead. I've had a small hiatus from the other secret project, so I went back to try and figure out the trukk and it's issues. I stripped the plating from the front only to discover that the problem lies even deeper. I kept trying to figure out just what is wrong until I took a look at my sketches and it finally clicked.<br />
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Front wheels were misplaced. Simple as that. Whereas in the sketch they were in line with the front engine, on the model they ended up in the middle between the two. The reason being there was a neat spot for top suspension mount. That in turn made the front feel unnaturally long and made it impossible to come up with anything decent looking.<br />
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Some minor progress on the third nob was made as well. He got his kustom shoota built. Choppa arm, shoota body, extra magazine, half of a stikkbomm chukka and a choppa head along with some plasticard. Still gotta figure out the other arm to go well with the pose and add some armor.<br />
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That's it for now, kinda lacking after missing an update last week, but there's only so many things I can work on at the same time. Thanks for reading and see you next time.Mad Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01908854985418866749noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849108915792233130.post-50293281353855136962015-09-14T22:57:00.000+02:002015-09-14T22:57:34.298+02:00Gorkamorka kommishun - late and exhaustedHa! Puns. A very small update today, not a lot of progress to show due to various unforeseen circumstances. Did most of the work on exhausts of the 2nd engine, all the pipes, tubes, welds and all. Since that is done, I can proceed with figuring out the layout of the rollcage and integrating the front with the back in a more coherent flowy way.<br />
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And the engine removed from the trukk. Everything's pretty much test-fitted for now and can be taken apart. Blue pipes come in pairs, glued and greenstuffed together, yellow pipes are glued to the loudners, the plasticard manifolds are just barely tacked on with a hint of glue.<br />
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That's it for now, thanks for dropping by and see you next time!Mad Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01908854985418866749noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849108915792233130.post-62830043529390704072015-09-07T00:01:00.001+02:002015-09-07T00:01:13.279+02:00Gorkamorka kommishun - goin' sumwereYes, that time of the week again. The time when I should have tons of stuff to post. Obviously I have nowhere near as much as I'd like to. Everything goes slower than I want it to, except for the moments when it stops going at all, like yesterday, when I spent the whole day banging my head against my desk trying to figure out what to do with the trakk's front. I did eventually figure something out today and made some meager progress. Still no idea if I like it or not, but if I keep going I'll eventually end up at the point where it's not really feasible to go back.<br />
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Here it is then, week's worth of progress on the trukk. Got most of the engine done, bar a ton of details, sorted out front frame and suspension and started on the bodywork of sorts. This thing turned out to be big. Like, really big, way bigger than a standard 40k trukk, it's at least battlewagon-sized. Which I'm overall happy with, as vehicles in 40k are smaller scale than the infantry, meaning this thing is reasonably close to how big an actual big Ork trukk should be in relation to the orkz themselves.<br />
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The frame is simply two 2mm plasticard strips pinned to the resin body, with a L-profile connecting them where the front engine ends, placed to fit snugly and a rectangular shape connecting the suspension parts for extra durability. The suspension was taken from the big trakk as well, with simple shocks added to the top. The belt is two 0,25mm strips glued together. Makes them retain shape better than a single thicker strip.<br />
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The front is for now just a bunch of profiles and sheets and looks somewhat awkwardly modern and un-orky, but hopefully that will be solved by adding a ton of junk, welds and rivets to it. I might have been slightly going off the classic Gorkamorka trukk designs, trying to combine it with whatever else came to mind. Here's how the whole thing looks from the side<br />
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And from the front. Dunno. Feels like I'm struggling with shapes and proportions.<br />
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As you can see on the group shot, there really isn't that much progress, and the vehicles are mostly just mock-ups to see how my sketched ideas hold up when smashed into the unyielding wall of reality. There's gonna be four of them, and I decided to split the variations evenly, so there's gonna be two trukks and two buggies, one wheeled and trakked of each kind.<br />
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And here's a super early buggy mock-up that's basically five loose bits put together on top of each other. As it turns out, FW used part of the trukk frame in their kit, which means the turbine fits perfectly into upside-down GW frame. Which is nice, because time savings. It eventually will become a trakked buggy, the rear part of the frame needs to be cut off and flipped upside-up.<br />
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The aforementioned sketches. You can see the two above being conceived.<br />
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And the slightly touched-up boyz. Savage got his missing muscles sculpted, and a spare mag added along with a strap. Mechagit had a shoota arm put together, just needs a few staples and a tube or two, and the spanna got a fully scratchbuilt six-shoota. I just can't resist scratchbuilding. How are people even capable of putting kits together according to instructions? I know I should limit it to the minimum on this project, but I just can't half-ass things. I'm a bloody perfectionist who either goes big or goes home with this stuff and I'm not sure if that's a blessing or a curse. </div>
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That's all for this week's update. Thanks for reading and see you until next time.Mad Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01908854985418866749noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849108915792233130.post-796725353318525452015-08-23T23:00:00.000+02:002015-09-07T00:03:14.967+02:00Gorkamorka kommishun - wurkin' titleOkay, I'm really fed up with the atrocious rate at which I work. Because of that, I'm changing the way I'll be posting updates here. Instead of dropping one whenever enough content has built up, I'll be posting weekly, no matter if I blutacked one mock-up together, or built a whole army. Hopefully the fear of having nothing to post will motivate me enough to cease being an atrociously lazy git.<br />
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That being said, measly progress was made. First up, the spanna had his arm assembled and a blowtorch built. Needs a hose going to the button at his belt and a handgun.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>A cautionary tale on why you should do your best not to visit the dok too often. Inspired by all the dok serjery tables from Da Uvver Book, this boy was heavily augmented with a massive power klaw, along with a crude power pack based on the ammo mekanizm taken from an old ork warbike (the one that remembers Gorkamorka). Used a barrel from a broken shoota as an exhaust, along with some plasticard details and greenstuff cabling. First time I did that and boy, is it fun. The ribbed one had a wire rolled inside it for better poseability. Head from the stormboyz kit, representing an iron mask, which affects his enemies with fear. Probably gonna finish him with a cybork shoota arm. And a peg leg maybe for humour.<br />
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Decided I might as well make one more regular boy using a savage torso, pretty quick job. Slightly cut up shoota, grenade arm from the stormboyz kit, boots transplanted from a pair of legs I had laying around with the upper part rather damaged.<br />
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And finally the last of three nobz, this is gonna be the all-round one, with a shoota and a choppa. Going to make him look heavily armoured, hence the biker nob torso, goes well with all the plates it has by default. Head and iron gob from the boyz kit, so are the legs, boots transplanted from two AoBR nobz I had already cut up for other transplants.<br />
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As you can see, the crossbow and kannon boyz got finished, and three new were completed, one with a flail and a choppa, another one with a shoota and what can pass as flak armour, I guess and a slaver with a whip, net and a slugga.<br />
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The kannon git. Same as above, added details, sculpted up gaps, arms removable. Might give him a pack of cigars to go with the head.<br />
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Now, the melee boy. Or maybe yoof. Regular boy legs cut up for a running pose, mek torso from the burna/loota box, flail made from the pipe arm from biker kit, choppa hand from boyz box, chain from bikerz and a piece of an old ork warbike. Choppa arm from the stormboyz box.<br />
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Shoota boy. Pretty straight up kitbash. Fantasy torso, biker head, AoBR big shoota that was missing its barrel, choppa arm with the choppa removed and wrist repositioned.<br />
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The slaver. Mostly a simple kitbash as well. Slaver body and whip arm from the grot box, stormboy head, slugga arm comes from an AoBR boy, slugga was cut up and mixed with plasticard according to one of my designs. Needs a bit of grenstuff in places. Net made by putting thing gs rolls on a grid, waiting for it to cure up a bit and then folding/bundling it up and adding a few balls as weights. Could probably look better but it doesn't look utter shit either, so I'm happy. Guess the paintjob will sell that one.<br />
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And the work in progress spanna/driver. This one was somewhat tricky. I wanted to use the stormboy torso, because of the quite fitting aviator jacket/seatbelt harness look. Of course the way they're designed, I'd have to cut up the legs a ton and then figure out what to do with the back. Instead, I took a slightly mangled regular boy torso, sawn the front off, glued the two together, filled gaps with cheap putty and then sculpted the missing detail with greenstuff. Will give him a blowtorch on the back and a handgun of some sort. Also, a work in progress wrench.<br />
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<br />Mad Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01908854985418866749noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849108915792233130.post-60919909740802088872015-08-02T01:17:00.000+02:002015-08-02T02:13:39.655+02:00Gorkamorka kommishun - blunderin' aboutStill trying to kick into a proper working pace, I'm slowly overcoming all the crappy moods and bouts of pessimism. I'm way behind the schedule I was hoping for. By now I'd wanted to have at least all 20 boyz done, and I'm just barely skirting half that number. Wonder if I can somehow get those done until the end of next week. I want to get on to the vehicles dammit.<br />
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Meanwhile, here's a group shot showing the boyz in their current state, all 10 of them, 7 of which are done. The shooty nob on the right needs minor work, while the two boyz in front were just test-fitted together and need gluing, filling and detailing.<br />
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Now, the minis. First of all, the slaver got finished off with a shoddy blunderbuss slung around his back. Just in case enslaving someone won't cut it.<br />
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Next, the shooty nob. Got his backpack done, with a backup blunderbuss, in case someone gets too close to kannon him to bitz, bunch of spare shells and a stikkbomm for good measure. Also, finally figured what to do with his other arm. Teef knuckles, in case all of the above fail to get the job done. All that's left to do is sculpting up his neck and tongue to fit with the savage orc head.<br />
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Yay for detail that won't even be seen most of the time. In case anyone's wondering, here's how I made the shells: put some plasticard rod into my cheap dremel knockoff drill, clamped it to the desk, voila! Poor man's miniature lathe. Then simply used my modeling knife to turn the groove into it, as well as a right angle corner of an old blade ( the dull part that goes into the knife's grip) Also tapered the end, then cut it off and repeated 'til I had the needed amount. Then, used a hole punch to cut out several small disks out of thin sheet, glued those to the bottom, waited for it to set properly and used the lathe again to trim and smooth them down evenly.<br />
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Now, for the new minis. I've actually had an idea for the crossbow guy since the very moment I began working on this commission. It just had to use a leaf spring as the prod. I used the shoota which has a small crank detail on it's body, cut off half off its barrel, the ammo belt and top part of the ammo feed section (which had the good grace to shoot off straight into my left eye without poking it out) The leaf spring was made out of three strips of plasticard sandwiched together and kept bent while glued together and two pieces of rod at the ends. Rest is a square plasticard beam cut in half, some sharpened rod and a piece of wire.</div>
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And finally the kannon guy, thrown together just today. Used a rokkit launcha with a bunch of stuff trimmed off, then it was just a rectangular beam, some tube and channels with rod for the magazine. Lots of fiddling with the arms to get it low enough to get the head to fit. Actually ended up having to cut off the grip holding arm at the wrist and replace it with a regular shoota one to get enough room. Pins mandatory, just as with most of the hand swaps. Might have to fill the gaps between arms and body and leave them off for the painter. Might be a tad tricky to make it look good, but the kannon obscures too much of the body just to leave it there glued. Obviously needs a bunch of detailing and maybe a sidearm. Maybe a pack of cigars, since I kinda like him with this burna head.</div>
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<br />Mad Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01908854985418866749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849108915792233130.post-88168807891496448492015-07-21T23:19:00.000+02:002015-08-02T01:17:41.996+02:00Gorkamorka kommishun - sluggin' forwardYeah, so after the last post things went rather unexpectedly downhill. Nothing serious really, just that I hit another one of those periods when there's no point to anything and I can't ever seem to get anything done. It went on for a week. Since I was completely unable to get any creative work done, I decided to settle on re-creative instead. I just sat comfortably in my bed, took out a sketchbook I got specifically to draw stuff for this project that sat unused so far, because I hate my drawing skills (or lack thereof) and went about sketching down all the gunz found in Gorkamorka rulebooks' illustrations. Well, almost all of them, there were a few designs I opted to skip (again, lazy days). A slow drawing session later, this was the result:<br />
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<a name='more'></a>That being said, since I still couldn't seem to find my way with miniatures, I simply kept sketching, this time using the reference to come up with a handful of my own designs, resulting in a page filled with six-shootas and sluggas, two common Gorkamorka weapon types. Both being single handed and usable as close combat implements, easy to see why the orkz like them so much. First three rows are six-shootas, the rest are sluggas.<br />
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By the end of the drawing I was eventually starting to regain my willpower, though in the meantime I still did clean up my PC desk out of sheer desperation. Finally, however, I got back to finishing the three minis that lying around in various states of completion. First up, the blunderbuss boy had his gaps filled and got a shoulder pad to better denote him having some form of armour.<br />
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Next up was completing the savage orc-based slaver. Equipped with bolas made out of a broken biker chain and a grabba stikk, he had some missing musculature sculpted, along with a pair of shoddy boots. Still needs some sort of a firearm, most likely gonna be a blunderbuss as well.</div>
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Finally, the six-shoota yoof/boy. His left-hand gun was actually built before all the sketches were made. In fact, it was probably the last thing I got done before the low mood has struck. I included it in the drawings for the sake of completeness. Biker torso, burna head, his other six-shoota was based on one of the sketches.<br />
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And sadly that's all for now, hopefully now that I'm feeling more positive I can make up for the wasted time. Thanks for reading and see you next time.<br />
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Why am I building stuff for Gorkamorka even though I don't really have a playable 40k army after two years? Well, I've accidentally been commissioned to build two Ork mobs for the game and after a bunch of emails being exchanged I decided to roll with it. I'm supposed to build 20 boyz (including nobz, spannerz and all that), 10 grots, 3 bikes and 4 vehicles (mix of trukks and buggies, 2 regular, 2 trakked) The picture below shows what I'm working with. Of course, my ridiculously large hoard of bits comes in handy every now and then.<br />
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I'm having quite a lof of fun with it so far. The range of options is naturally way better than your regular 40k boyz mob, which is pretty much all I've done so far and it's great to play around with. Also, since I'm mostly supposed to convert rather than scratchbuild, things are going faster than I'm used to, which is super nice as well. </div>
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The first guy assembled. A nob using a savage orc body as a base, with boot and hands transplanted from an AoBR nob. Exhaust pipe two-handed choppa built using electrical wire and plasticard. Bionik leg along with the boot were fitted so that they give the model extra 1-2mm, which along with the pose and bigger base makes him big enough to stand out as a nob. Rounded out with some greenstuff straps and a slugga.</div>
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Second one is a yoof armed with a bow and a knife. The latter being a standard weapon in that it's free to buy and doesn't actually have to be displayed on the model as per Gorkamorka rules. Not much to say, just added a bowstring using some wire, knife taken from savage orc sprue, so was the bow and quiver.</div>
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Third mini, also a yoof, this time with a spear and shield. A simple conversion just like the previous one. Leg was cut up slightly to give a running pose.<br />
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The crazy bommer. There always has to be one equipped with naught but stikkbomz, even for bashing heads. Savage orc as base with the stikkbomb arm from the boyz sprue, stikkbomz and head from the stormboyz sprue, shoota holding arm with a scratchbuild krak and a tankbusta bomb with plasticard stikkbomb in the back. Greenstuff here and there. </div>
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Here's a work-in-progress nob, this time based on a stormboy and shooty to boot, with a 'uge sod-off kannon. Also gonna have a blunderbuss probably and some junk around his backpack. Head is kinda placeholder, though I do want a savage orc head on this one.</div>
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And another work-in-progress, a boy and his blunderbuss. Also a simple conversion. WFB boy legs I had laying around that kinda match Gorkamorka artwork and a blunderbuss with a shoota barrel for the body and some plasticard bits.<br />
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That's it for now, just slowly crawling forward. I'm probably gonna try to update stuff as I finish minis, or maybe upon completing 2-3 ones so that there's actually something to show. Thanks for reading and see you next time!Mad Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01908854985418866749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849108915792233130.post-63690803445636175402015-07-04T03:44:00.001+02:002015-07-04T03:52:14.097+02:00Rokk 'ard, ride free - Da biker nobzAlright then! Last one of the catch-up posts is here. That means the next one will be of an ongoing project and it should hopefully continue like that. Those are the last minis that I've finished, a trio of nob bikerz that were painted together with the looted wagon.<br />
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Once upon a time I bought a box of bits and various crap that looked reasonably useful for its price, though later it turned out to be mostly crappy recasts of various ork parts and I kinda set it aside. Once I actually dug through it fully, I found about ten old ork warbikes, along with a bunch SM/CSM ones. Ended up trading the SM ones to my local crack dealer* buddy for some more ork bitz and decided to see what I can do with the rest. Since I usually tend to overcomplicate things on the first go, I went for nobz rather than regular bikerz, meaning I'd have to make sure they're bigger than regular warbikes.<br />
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Now, since those were supposed to be nobz, I didn't want to use the regular warbiker legs from the kit, since they're boy sized, so I decided to make my own. In a rather painboyish fashion, I cut up two AoBR nobz to get each leg in the desired pose and glued those together. Afterwards kept applying greenstuff until satisfied and went about recasting the result.<br />
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Here's the start of the second bike. Same procedure, except wheel size swapped and killa kan leg for exhaust. Headlight on the first one was one of the lamp bits that come from I have no idea where with one of my resin bits added to the back, greenstuffed up and cast for future uses. Also, in the bottom left corner you can see the concept for the second bike's dakkagun.<br />
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For the third one I decided to loot a Chaos bike. Slapped a track instead of the rear wheel to make it a tad longer and used a new warbike front wheel.<br />
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Scratchbuilt the dakkagun and the ammo drums on the second bike and half of the dakkaguns on the third one. There's a plasticard gun and GW ammo drum on one side and opposite on the other. The front was later built up/ lenghtened with the prow kinda thing.<br />
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Also, bunch of stowage and other detail, like dials, handlebars with brake levers, cables and dials were added. Here's a compilation picture of all three built. Nob torsos are from the boyz kit, the bikerz kit and one is yet another chopped up AoBR mini. Two power klaws had only the klaws replaced, one was converted/scratchbuilt.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">*plastic crack, of course; can't afford drugs with all the money I spend hoarding ork junk</span>Mad Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01908854985418866749noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849108915792233130.post-34470455083197567382015-06-30T16:20:00.000+02:002015-06-30T16:56:28.784+02:00"Da Boss Killa" Looted WagonOkay, so this is the second to last of the catch-up posts. Work on The Project has started, but I'll wait with posting, so that I've a decent amount of material to show. For now, the looted wagon. My first finished vehicle and also quite the conversion, took over a year to finish due to being a testbed for all things conversion related, bunch of direction changes, breaks, lack of motivation and so on.<br />
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It's pretty much just your regular looted wagon: get an imperial vehicle, take it apart, reassemble with lots of plasticard and stuff, add a turret or two, rough it up, etc. However, while I did have a rough idea at the beginning, I did not know how much it was going to evolve as the work went on. The name "Boss Killa" comes from a few of my first 40k games where I've fielded it in a very unfinished state. In most of those 500 pts battles it ended up being the last one standing. In two it came under attack by the enemy HQs, the first time by a Chaos Lord on a steed of Slaanesh, which got blown to bits by a lucky rokkit hit after the boomgun shell went wide. The second time it became the target of Saint Celestine who had already used her revive to tank up a boomgun shell which would otherwise have decimated a squad of sisters. Her flamers did nothing to the mighty AV11 and she was subsequently greeted with a boomgun to the face.<br />
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I took it apart as much as I could, one of the side panels was glued a tad too well. First of all it was made longer, then I started on a turret. With a boomgun, since that was before 6ed codex came out.<br />
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This in turn did mean I had to paint the interior before continuing work or I wouldn't be able to do so afterwards. Which meant I had to wait until I got all my painting stuff, as this was about the time I painted my first five orkz, making the interior the second thing I've painted, hence it being somewhat lackluster.<br />
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With the interior painted the work went on. At some point I was inspired by the FW Repressor and decided I want a similar plow for my tank. Also, the track links were made quite some time prior to that and I would cast a bunch every now and then. One of the treads was magnetized for immobilized results, cause at this point I might've as well gone all the way.</div>
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There'a a bit of a fast forward skip with the pictures here, to the point where the tank was pretty much done bar all the details and rivets. I might've been lazy with taking photos, or just felt I wanted to show more progress at once. The turret ring section was raised, whole new turret was built with all the guns and wotsits, exhausts were modified, some vents were added and all that.</div>
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And here it is with all the modelling stuff finished, ready for priming. If I recall correctly, 525 rivets were slapped on the whole thing, along with some greenstuff welds, sometimes used as a handy gap filler, mostly on the frontal plate.<br />
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It was then primed and ended up waiting until the nob bikerz were finished to be painted together. To begin with, the whole tank was painted metal in preparation for the hairspray chipping technique.</div>
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After applying hairpray (not generously enough in some places as it was about to turn out) the tank got a coat of the actual colours as well as some glyphs, symbols and checkers.<br />
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Which were then all scrubbed away with a toothbrush and warm water. As mentioned, in a few places there was not enough hairspray and paint either wouldn't come off or would along with what was supposed to stay, sometimes including primer. Oh well, learning experiences and all that.<br />
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All the remaining colours and details were then picked out and finished in preparation for the next stage, weathering. One that I'm pretty sure I've overdone due to it being my first time with pigments and oil washes and whatnot and also being in a rush to finish it for a model festival, which meant I did all the weathering in a single night.<br />
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First the whole tank was varnished to prevent white spirits damaging the existing paint job. Then it received an oil wash over the whole thing, which was later cleaned up and left in the recesses. afterwards I went on applying paints mixed with pigments around the rivets and dragging them down with a brush loaded with white spirit to get a a streaking effect going on. Black pigment was applied on gun barrels and exhausts and I went on experimenting with application methods here and there, as I mentioned overdoing it in a few places. I do want to fix the tracks, exhausts and a few other things at some point.</div>
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Mad Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01908854985418866749noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4849108915792233130.post-7814744436356838402015-06-19T00:48:00.000+02:002015-06-19T01:13:08.581+02:00'Ard boyz trukka unitOh wow, I can hardly believe it's already been two weeks since last post. Time sure flies when you're trying to finish all the bloody assignments on time. But that's in the past now. Semester's wrapped up, holidays have started and I'm winding down after all the rush and slowly getting my room and work desk into shape for upcoming projects. But that's roughly next week, in the meantime, another unit.<br />
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A small mob of shield-equipped boyz with a nob, intended to be trukkboyz. Their trukk has yet to be built. They're an extension of a concept from the first unit, that one kneeling boy with a piece of trukk armor. I decided to give myself a small challenge with this bunch, namely using only AoBR boyz as bases and not ending up with a unit of clones.</div>
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<a name='more'></a>There were 3 different body patterns used (not counting the nob ofc) and I'd say the end result looks diverse enough. Tried to keep them simple, without a lot of complex scratchbuilds, so that's mostly limited to the shields.That being said, wip shots (or actually just unpainted pics):<br />
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As you can see, it's mostly plasticard shields and various combinations of arm kinds, too keep the poses varied. Some minor weapon mods here and there, such as a shoota cut down to make a slugga, alternate magazines or extended muzzles. Two boyz got their legs reposed to give them more of a running stance. This time around I tried for quick and simple mods. The nob had a bigger, more impressive shield with the band's symbol on it made, a bosspole and his klaw was kustomized with bigga klawz and a shooty bit, since his other hand is busy holding the shield.</div>
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Here's closer shots of finished boyz</div>
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And here's a compilation of photos I took more recently with slightly better lighting. Still not perfect, but I'll eventually get to having a softbox and 3 lights.<br />
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And that's it for now. I guess next time's gonna be the tank, since I try to do these in roughly chronological order. Thanks for dropping by and see you next time!<br />
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