Wishlist 2

More things to do:
- Paint up huge collection of Cyberpunk/modern figures
- Finish collection of 1/35 models - including Kubelwagens and M151 variants. Then Japanese LAV with Japanese and Australian troops. Finally resin Hilux - technical or SF?

To do list:

• Finish painting Waaagh Grabba.
• Build Battlewagon from LCVP and Rhino bits.
• Build flying stand for Fighta
• Buy new Ork Codex and some new boyz, truck.
• Mangulate truck into something even better.
• Think about what to do with Baneblade if I get one.

(Link to Librarium Online forum posting on Baneblade ideas)

WH40K - New Trukk

This war trukk is more of a hot rod. It is wider but shorter than the standard model kit, and uses the tracks from the wartrakk. I sort of threw it together - that's why it's got the hotrod 'slope' - it's the only way to make the tracks and the wheels level. Also, it is always going downhill, which saves on fungus fuel.

Converting Mighty Empire Tiles

I just bought the WD with the ME tiles. I don't play Fantasy - but they will make an excellent Battle Board for my Imperial Guard Colonel and his staff. Watch this space!

WH40K - Ork Fighta - WIP 5 - Finished Painting

I have painted blue skulls and spanners on yellow backgrounds on the side hatches. Matching blue skulls and spanners under the wings. Teeth and eyes on the cockpit, as well as little red safety triangles. (They don't indicate any particular function on the fighta; the Mekboys just thought they should be there.) There is also a red, yellow and blue tag on the tail, which I am not particularly pleased with. It doesn't mean anything; it just ties in the other markings.

WH40K - Ork Fighta - WIP 4 - Painting

Added cockpit canopy made of model bits, strip styrene and the clear plastic from a blister pack.
The fighta has been painted, but I am waiting for it to dry and for the massive amount of superglue I used to fog everything up before photographing it.
Still haven't decided on 'warpaint' (teeth, eyes, insignia, etc) except for some D-Day style black and white stripes on the wings.

WH40K - Ork Fighta - WIP3

Added wing extensions, some pipes and bits to the sides of the cockpit, and more bits to shape the nose. Also put too many rivets on the cockpit. It looks like it has been bedazzled! I have trimmed some off; hopefully painting will make them look more subtle.

WH40K - Ork Fighta - WIP 2 - Rivets

Added rivets to upper and lower wings, and a couple of patches to the 'fuselage'. This took a long time... I cut tiny bits of polystyrene rod. Then I dabbed glue on the plates with a toothpick and picked up the bits by just touching a blade to them, before gluing them on.

Getting the pilot inside is going to be tricky. He will need a block under his seat to raise him to cockpit height. I may paint the interior and mask/fill it before painting the exterior. I am considering constructing the canopy from strips and girders (with more rivets of course) and only partially glazing it. Still considering whether to add Grot door gunners, and to put weapons in the holes under the 'cheeks' of the nose area.

WH40K - Ork Fighta - WIP

Ork Fighta. I scrapped the idea of converting the Grumman Skyrocket.
Instead I used a Tau Hammerhead that had suffered the results of a poorly masked spray paint job. This was turned upside down and backwards to make the fuselage/tail.

- tail fin is from the crashed shuttle in the Battle for Macragge boxed set.
- engines are Star Wars model bits around copper plumbing fittings.
- wings are from a 1/48 scale MV-22 Osprey, with plastic card added to bulk them out - some rivets needed here.
- nose is from toy parts, some of which came from the 'Cart Racer' that made up the bridge of the Battle Barge.
- tail wheel is from a warbike. Front wheels still to come. I might cut a tyre in half and glue the halves on to look like retracted undercarriage.
- the pilot is a plastic boy on old IG jetbike rider legs, with a Burna boy head, holding a trimmed axe as a joystick, and sitting in a 1/24 racing car seat.

Lots more rivets and a few repair patches will 'orkify' it. Then maroon spray job, like the other items in WAAAGH GRABBA and away we go. I haven't decided what to do with the hatches yet. Perhaps Grot door gunners?

I recommend 'Deff Skwadron' as the consummate reference to Fighta Bommas and the like.

(Link to post in Work In Progress)

WH40K - Batvillain Harlequins

I bought the Harlequins just to paint them. A little experimentation and I decided there was no way I was going to be producing intricate, shaded, minute diamond patterns. Also, I was stuck for an idea for a colour scheme. Finally it hit me - Bat-villains!

Here's Mr J:

Harley Quinn:

The Riddler:

Two Face:

His right boot is speckly; I tried to make it look like snake skin.

I checked a couple of comics after painting and found that Two Face is usually depicted half in a light blue/grey business suit and half in strong black/green checks, but I mixed up this shade of pale green metallic silver so I decided to keep some of that. I also used this for Riddler's weapons.

Poison Ivy (not happy with her face - she looks like a drag queen):

And the Penguin:

Small versions, linked to WIP:

WH40K - John Woo slugga boy

I made this guy a couple of years ago, but only just got around to painting him. Inspired by countless John Woo movies - and well before The Matrix, you have to imagine him yelling, "Waaaaaaaaaaagggghhhhhh!!!" in slow motion, sluggas blazing as he leaps.

WH40K - Kaptin, Kannon and Krew - Painted

Here they are, painted and sprayed with 'Purity Seal' (matt varnish - hides a multitude of sins).