Sukigod's Ork Waaagh! Log

[SotonShades]

At your request Sukigod;




I'm in a lazy mood so I haven't repaied it or touched up the paint job at all. Above the muzzle there was a sculpted eagle (think like the hood ornament from a Rolls-Royce car) as well which really made it look quite special. All made with too much free time (kinda... also known as not sleeping between working!) and extruded polystyrene insulation sheets.

But wait, there's more;




Glowy! You can clearly see it in daylight, but my camera doesn't pick it up too well, so I had to turn the lights off. You even get light coming out of the heat vents around the muzzle. The torch I mutilated to achieve this even has a flashing mode, which I imagine is what happens when it is getting hot. Gets people's attention more too lol.

Compared to your Sluggas, its a bit rough to say the least. I think you are also taking a ton more care with your paintjob. That said, as yours are going to be prizes as opposed to a costume prop like mine, that is only right and proper.

[sukigod]

Holy crap! - it glows! That's a sweet gun Soton. I wouldn't be knockin' yours, it's the first plasma gun I've ever seen. Was this based on the Maverick or a different model?

Long weekend gives me some time to work on the guns!

I finished up airbrushing the other guns with Evil Sunz Red and I think this is a better top-end red than Blood Red was, not so orange. I also cleaned up the overspray with black and marked out the areas that will get metallic treatment, mainly where the gouges in the metal are.

I don't think I can say this enough either.... CERAMITE WHITE IS THE BEST PAINT IN THE NEW RANGE - PERIOD.

I wish they had come out with this years ago. Granted, I did do two coats but that was because I thinned it down a bit for outlining the white areas first. This covers so well it's ridiculous. Anyway, on to the paint





Next is the chipping, followed by metallics, a dirt wash and final dry brush highlights and I can seal them and call them done! Woohooo!

Later!

[SotonShades]

Cheers very much. When I was making it I downloaded every picture of every plasma gun and pistol from GW that I could find. Then I just kind of coalated them and took inspiration rather than copying any of them exactly. Although, to be honest, a lot of the size and shape was dictated by the handle (left over from making my culexus assassin helmet) and the torch/plasma tube.

Thos sluggas are looking truely fantastic. Really looking forward to see the weathered etc!

[sukigod]

Did get the chipping and metallics done today. The primer level is a sponged on mix of Chaos Black and Scorched Brown. The metals are only Boltgun Metal at this point, also sponged on. I've also gone back through and filled the deep scratched and large crush areas with a brush as the sponge doesn't cover those spaces well.





Here's a closer look at the chipping.



Next is a wash with airbrush, highlights with a dry brush of a Blaze-y Orange color for the reds, Mithril for the metals, seal with Dulcote and them wrap the grips with hockey tape and I can call them done!

Later!

[sukigod]

Fini!







And for everyone attending Waaagh!Fest...



Later!

[SotonShades]

Manifique!

I am far too tempted to have a go at this myself...

[miteyheroes]

Great stuff!

[b-man]

I can't wait to drink out of one of the glasses!

[sukigod]

Aaaaaaand back from the edge of space..... (there's a good reason for the lack of posts for the last six months - I was busy!)

Sheeze, three days back on the bench and it shows me what for... Did something today I haven't done in nearly 20 years - drove an exacto deep into my finger. One of those stupid things where two seconds before it happens you're thinking... "YA know, if that slips it's gonna go deep and hurt a lot..." SLIP! And in the 1/10th of a second it takes to go in and come back out, you're already thinking, "Yep, that's gonna bleed like a sonofa*****. Probably hurt too." Well, it did both. Pre-drilling pilot holes in gun barrels with the exacto to make sure it's nice and centered. The hole was a little off so I tried to push the blade to the side to correct and WHOOP... off the precariously balanced barrel tip and deep into my finger.

Welcome back to the bench!

Oh well, direct pressure and three band-aides later I'm ok. Typing is a little awkward but I'll handle. So if I'm making a post like this that means there's updates and pics. I've got both for ya all. It's amazing how much you can fit on a workbench when there isn't a Thunderhawk on it! There are four main projects I'm working on, all of them are green of a sort but not all are orks. First up is a kit my wife wanted me to make and paint for her. From Moebius it's the Bride of Frankenstein 1/8 scale model kit. This is a great model, well done. Also my first large format model with human(oid) figures. I've assembled, cleaned, puttied, sanded and primed the sub assemblies. Here's where it's at with all the parts in place. It's about 10" across and 9" high.




He's green, right? Yeah, that's my story and I'm stickin' to it. I've brought the blasta bommer back out and staged it so I can think about things while I'm working on other things. Working on my new dakka jet (below) I came up with some solutions that will allow me to move forward with this beasty. I'm starting to feel excited by this project again instead of the creative block I've had for some time.

[sukigod]

This will segue nicely into the next portion of the new Red Jack Air Farce. I needed to create two rokkit paks for my new stormboyz mob as I sacrificed a number of important parts bashing my Wazzdakka model last year against Uberdark. Here's the new packs made from the bitz box scraps and some styrene tubing and channel.




This leads to the expansion of the original new-model stormboyz squad I started about a year and a half ago. I've added 10 more to the squadron and assembled a dakkajet today to go with'em.



So, this should give me (when completed) and aerial force of 1 blasta bomma, 1 dakkajet, 2 fighta bommas and two 20 strong stormboyz squad, 1 lead by a PK nob and the other by Zagstruk. There are four toy plane fighter bommas and some grot egg-plane fightas in the long range plans but nothing to show yet...

And for my last bit of green project.... (I'm bracing for screams of "traitor!....")




Yes, they will be green. I'll be starting small alliance force if 'umie. I've already got a skyshield landing pad and a bastion. I'll be adding just the standerd HQ Command Squad and two regular troop slots to start. Yes, I plan to add more, probably in the 7-9K points range when I'm all done so I can add super heavy tanks and the like. Expect lots of tanks.

Later!