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).

Kaptin, Kannon and Krew

I have found a use for the Iron Gobs that I never used on my Orks in Mega Armour - decoration for some Kannon. (Zap Guns, judging by the Imperial Lascannon barrels).

The Krew member - or is he a gun grot? - is standing on a plastic cog I found in something, plus assorted bits.

I had bought two boxes of Kommandos, meaning I had two Kommando bosses. The first one now has a Nob arm holding a Kustomized Shoota, with old style sluggas on his back.

The head of the second one was donated to a Nob with a Mega Armour shoota and the warboss' Chain Axe.

Finally, this is the Kaptin of the Battle Barge, from the following bits:

- Kommando Kaptin body,

- head from a Nob, with greenstuff eyepatch (Arrr!)

- poweraxe from a Nob, carved into a wrench,

- plastic dreadnought kneepad on his shoulder with Mek symbol in thin plastic,

- old style slugga and plastic pouches on his back/belt,

- some bullets and the pistol removed,

- assorted bits, including another plastic cog for that 'spare parts' feel.

Look for these guys - when I get around to painting them - in the Gallery on http://www.astronomican.com

WH40K - Painboss

... and here he is:

Body of an Ork Nob, with arms from the new Kommando Kaptin (yes, I bought two - one to lead a new Kommando Mob and one to be Kaptin of the Battlebarge). His right hand also includes an old plastic chainsword, a knife blade from a new Kommando and the claw from the Ork Dreadnought.
The surgical mask is greenstuff. More practice needed there, but I am pleased with the effect.

WH40K Cyborks - painted!

Here are the boyz. Now they need a Painboss to 'deeturmin da rezults of da eksperament'.

WH40K - Cyborks

Made from the newer Tau Stealth Suits, plastic WH40K orks, plastic Warhammer goblins and bits. Lots and lots of bits. Now I have to make a painboss so they have a reason to stop bullets. Although, Mekboss Stingy could be a painboss - there is no apparent difference in profile, just the ability to repair machinery/rebuild orks.

WH40K - Fighta Bomma project

I plan to convert a 1/48 model of a Grumman Skyrocket into an Ork Fighta Bomma. I wanted an unusual looking plane, not too expensive ($29.95 at the local Toyworld). I liked the twin engines (to be replaced with jets) and the twin tail. The plan is to scrap some old armour kits and raid the bits box to add armour plating, guns, bombs, teeth etc to the original model. It will have to have a heavily converted ork pilot - with flying helmet, goggles and fluttering scarf of course. I think one of the new Kommandos gasmask heads would be appropriate. Also, this is an opportunity to use a failed Wartrukk rebuild as the 'launch trolley'.

Reviews of the Minicraft kit here and here.

Mekboy concept sketch of partially finished Fighta Bomba. (Warboss Grabba only ever expects it to be partially finished. Since his 'axe-y-dent' Mekboss Stingy has the attention span of a rabid squig.)