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Efl and her trailer are DONE.
Would you like a video tour?
She's 15" long and has a fully functional pole cat rig and a rack of thundersticks.
A detail I really like:
What your lads would see if they were trying to hijack the rig:
"Do you have any idea who you're stealing from?! You and your friends are dead!"
Would you like a video tour?
She's 15" long and has a fully functional pole cat rig and a rack of thundersticks.
A detail I really like:
What your lads would see if they were trying to hijack the rig:
"Do you have any idea who you're stealing from?! You and your friends are dead!"
#Witnessed
ED- legitimately, I have nothing I can say about this, it is an exceptional piece of work
ED- legitimately, I have nothing I can say about this, it is an exceptional piece of work
I've been a bit bad at updating here. I've also been quite bad at hobby stuff so you've not missed out on all that much. Let's see...
I needed a grot for a thing so I sculpted one. Then a few people suggested other designs and before you can say "runtz" this happened:
The one in the middle was created for a terrain piece. Two important things:
A bucket is there at ground level to collect teef. It'd then be winched up and its contents dropped into the deposit bin. That bin would periodically be emptied by an Ork on the ground with a long pole with a hook (remember those from school? It's how those windows high up would be operated). The grot keeps a tally of how much fuel was sold and operates the fuel gauge reset lever. There's a gauge for him and a gauge for the customer - the pressure drop is how consumption is measured, and so pressure needs to be reset for the gauge to reset.
Right, got all that?
So what if someone was to cut the phone line, fuel up, and then drive off? How's the grot going to call Abak and dob the thievin' git in? Needless to say, the sum grot isn't happy about this turn of events!
I needed a grot for a thing so I sculpted one. Then a few people suggested other designs and before you can say "runtz" this happened:
The one in the middle was created for a terrain piece. Two important things:
- Sumboyz canonically exist. Ork accountants/logistics specialists.
- Post apocalyptic settings with accountants are some of my favourites. Fury Road has one, Waterworld has one, there's probably more but those two are the first that spring to mind.
A bucket is there at ground level to collect teef. It'd then be winched up and its contents dropped into the deposit bin. That bin would periodically be emptied by an Ork on the ground with a long pole with a hook (remember those from school? It's how those windows high up would be operated). The grot keeps a tally of how much fuel was sold and operates the fuel gauge reset lever. There's a gauge for him and a gauge for the customer - the pressure drop is how consumption is measured, and so pressure needs to be reset for the gauge to reset.
Right, got all that?
So what if someone was to cut the phone line, fuel up, and then drive off? How's the grot going to call Abak and dob the thievin' git in? Needless to say, the sum grot isn't happy about this turn of events!
You'll have to wait a while for me to actually paint the damn thing though.
...no, you won't. It's already done.
I'm sorry I betrayed your trust like that.
The tank itself is made from an olive tin. Whilst I like olives I bought these specifically for the tin. The contents were fairly disappointing!
The pegs on the back are 3D printed (I could post the model but it's not exactly complicated!) as is the telephone.
If you have any questions then please ask and I'll try my best to give a helpful answer.
Other than this I've been Painting. Like, proper painting. Capital P painting. I normally paint because things need to be painted, I don't recall when I last painted to make something pretty.
Well, for once I felt like it and did my best to approximate the paintjob on the box (because it's a named character and if that's how he's supposed to look then I figured I'd give it a shot).
Oh, who? This guy:
There's OSL, there's wet blending, there's edge highlighting, there's quite a lot of hours on a single model that I probably will never field. Weirdly that's what made it easier to take my time and be methodical about it. Could it be better? Maybe. However I was reaching the point where the risk of messing something up with a mistake was substantially higher than simply stopping.
On YouTube you can see him on a turntable in 2160p60 (4K UHD video), I don't know if the embedded player will allow for that so click through if you want to see in more detail:
...no, you won't. It's already done.
I'm sorry I betrayed your trust like that.
The tank itself is made from an olive tin. Whilst I like olives I bought these specifically for the tin. The contents were fairly disappointing!
The pegs on the back are 3D printed (I could post the model but it's not exactly complicated!) as is the telephone.
If you have any questions then please ask and I'll try my best to give a helpful answer.
Other than this I've been Painting. Like, proper painting. Capital P painting. I normally paint because things need to be painted, I don't recall when I last painted to make something pretty.
Well, for once I felt like it and did my best to approximate the paintjob on the box (because it's a named character and if that's how he's supposed to look then I figured I'd give it a shot).
Oh, who? This guy:
There's OSL, there's wet blending, there's edge highlighting, there's quite a lot of hours on a single model that I probably will never field. Weirdly that's what made it easier to take my time and be methodical about it. Could it be better? Maybe. However I was reaching the point where the risk of messing something up with a mistake was substantially higher than simply stopping.
On YouTube you can see him on a turntable in 2160p60 (4K UHD video), I don't know if the embedded player will allow for that so click through if you want to see in more detail:
I love the commentary with your posts. The amount of thought put into the backstory for a single terrain piece is impressive and you did have me with the naff “you’ll have to wait a while” joke too 
I was wondering. It looks like Lidl's Greek-themed stuff.
Did you ever get the War Rig painted up? Just watched the new Furiosa film at the weekend.
Yes and no. No, I didn't, but someone else painted it for me!
I've been wanting to do a photoshoot of it but my whole garage is currently full of boxes and my wargaming table and terrain inaccessible. There will be pics eventually (I just didn't think the space would stay out of commission for so bloody long!).
I've been doing a spot of painting. I backed Red Nebular on Patreon and picked up the Primal Raiders. Mashing those up with some original GW minis from the late '90s resulted in this:
Other than the skin, the majority of the painting was done using speed paints/contrast paints/whatever the generic term for that type of paint is.
Other than the skin, the majority of the painting was done using speed paints/contrast paints/whatever the generic term for that type of paint is.
Your Diggas look great. I'm currently preparing to the Red Nebula Diggas myself; did you need to scale them at all to fit in with the GW ones? The files seem a touch large to me.
I did, although I can't give you the scale factor as I didn't keep the relevant files. I do remember that the leader model is particularly massive - he's the size of a modern Ork, easily.
Wait, so you don’t get to keep and reuse STL files when you “buy” them?!? (I don’t have a 3D printer)
I have the STL files, but to print things one runs them through a "slicer" which turns them into the relevant format the printer likes. That's where scaling is usually adjusted. After a successful print there's no particular reason to keep those, so I bin them.
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