Everything before it’s done.
While I wait for glue to dry on the ‘naut, I build and prime zombies. I green stuffed little hats on them, with face guards similar to my skink team. I still suck at sculpting. 🙁
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This is an intimidating project. I don’t truly know where to start with it. But I think probably it’s a lot of silver and blue.
I’m not 100% on being finished. I look at certain other members of my community who have built entirely new things with a ton of crazy gubbins. I just put tracks on the standard ‘naut, and sure it was a lot of work and a cool conversion, but the top part of this model is just stock.
Any thoughts?
Season 2 of CHOP! Blood Bowl is winding down, and my human team is doing quite miserably for me. I’m on a 8-game not-winning streak right now (2 losses, a draw, then 5 more losses), and I’m very unhappy with them. I feel like 2 months ago every team except mine jumped into overdrive!
And because I like new, shiny, I started thinking about a new team for Season 3. Undead were mentioned, model photos were displayed and I bought some Vortice Miniature Wights and Mummies. But I wanted to convert the rest, since I’m a little cheap and ~$180 for an entire new team was a little much.
This photo and post got lost in my backlog, (…) and then again in the middle of that sentence I left this post open. I think I need to publish it now. 🙂
Didn’t have much time last night, so I just did some shims. The nice thing about this approach is a few things: I create a nice smooth surface to decorate (rather than cut-up Rhino innards), and I can check the fit on both sides of the shim to ensure it works. A problem I was having with the Rhino treads as-is was that I was never certain how much coverage (for gluing) I was getting — every time I went to check, the tread moved a bit!
I’m going to need to do a lot of gap filling. Both of these models were built by other people, and those people didn’t take as much care with good fittings as I would have preferred. Anyone have good materials for filling gaps? My go-to is green stuff, but the way I use it tends to create rounded pieces rather than straight-across pieces. Maybe I just need to overfill and file back.
I love this part of modelling – the fast and furious slicing and dicing of $50 models! I grabbed a Rhino from my bitz box (I have spares in case of Ork conversions!) and a hack saw and cut it in half.
I hadn’t built the start of the ‘naut (I received it from a friend), so I had to pull the legs off rather than just not gluing them. I cut back the Rhino halves until they were just track, and then cut up the “equipment case” in the back of them so they would sit flatter, and then cut up just in front of the middle so that the ‘naut doors would still open properly.
I wasn’t super happy with the “closed” look when I was done last night, but when I looked at it this morning I’m pretty stoked!
I think I’m going to get some plasticard glued to the back of the track portions so that I can try to create a flat gluing surface. There’s so much texture on the ‘naut, and so many recessed panels on the inside of the Rhino that I think any glue-job I did that didn’t include a lot of plasticard shims would fall off very quickly.
It’s perfect, ship it.
A friend Clayton said he put tracks on his, so I’m asking him to send me a photo so I can see what it looks like and make a decision. I think it involves removing the legs, so I actually haven’t done any work on the legs just in case I’m just going to cut them off. Probably going to need some plasticard, and I’m likely also going to saw a Rhino in half. 😀 😀 😀
Going to post a couple quick ones while I build this thing.
I’ve loved the look of this model since the 2014 Codex came out, but I didn’t play enough 40k to justify buying it, let alone storing it. (Storage space is at a premium at my apartment). I came into a good deal, and I’ve played more 40k in the last few months than the previous few years combined, so HECK YES GIANT STOMPY ROBOT.
Like any good GW customer (*cough*), I know that the best way to get the best bang-for-buck is to magnetize the options I want, and that primary happens with the gun arm.
I read a good accounting, and watched a video and got to work!
This photo is of the Deffstorm Mega-shoota front, with a magnet glued to it. Both of the links above used a 25mm 40k base, but I grabbed a Deadzone base of the same size. Deadzone uses perfectly round bases, rather than beveled. I had to bring out the Dremel to sand it down enough to fit in the gun arm, but it’s pretty great!
I glued the back piece such that the gunner will sit at the back, because the gunner is awesome. The back of the Kustom Mega-Kannon isn’t as cool, just having a little power-gubbin.
I glued the KMK wires to the top of the DMS ammo feed and jammed them both into the arm and cut a hole in the ‘naut to run the extra wide bit. I think I need more on the arm-end to make it look cool, but I like that both guns are accommodated.
I need to account for the other differences too – I think one has a skorcha and another has a KMB. I’m going to keep the Gorkanaut head because I like it better though.
Oh, and it has to have a Space Marine theme somehow. >.< (that’s an oooooold link!
Since I got back onto this Ork wave, I really needed to finish off my outstanding Blood Bowl stuff first. Thankfully, I’m waiting on one more Supa Zzap Gun before I start painting them, so I’ve got time!
I picked the GW Ogre Paymaster as my Blood Bowl ogre, because it’s an amazing model and I’m stoked to be able to paint it!
His basecoat is super simple — Mephiston Red, Alaitoc Blue, Steel Legion Drab, Dheneb Stone skin and Mithril Silver.
After the last thing I really painted didn’t work out the way I wanted (and apparently I don’t have photos of the rest of the team I finished…) I wanted to go back to the Mr. Wappelly roots I was working on before I got lazy with the Skorne, which means highlighting my basecoat. So I took the Dheneb Stone and mixed it in a few different layers with the other bases to highlight it. The skin I mixed the Dheneb with just Skull White. You usually don’t mix with White since it tends to pastel, but in this case that pastelling is ok since I’ll be adding a bunch of glazes over it to bring the real colour back.
Many many years ago I split an army box thing with Mr. Tall Paul and ended up with a bunch of orks that I had no intention of using. Like these tankbustas!
Terrible story though. After I had started sculpting that bomb on top of the squig, I spoke with my fellow Ork nerds and discovered that the Gorkamorkanaught doesn’t have any Fire Points. Which is absolute garbage. It’s like the designers looked at it and thought “we should give it transport capacity, but make it so no ork player ever wants to use it”.
So these guys may get left in this state for a while, since I was going to put them into the ‘naught and have them shoot out. As it is, I’ll be more likely to go with the prevailing wisdom of stuffing it with 6 Burna Boys, with 3 upgraded Meks to repair Hull Points as it goes. And that bomb probably won’t get strapped down for a while.