Pretty Pictures: The first five for Waaagh! Orkzenhower!

After about a week of mucking around and experimenting, I've completed the first five models for Waaagh! Orkzenhower. The first thing I had to work out what skin colour - my usual Ork skin is a more 'natural' look, starting out with an olive green which would be far too close to the colour of WW2 GI uniforms. The solution was to go with a more traditional, brighter green Ork skin look, but it took a little while to work one out that was distinct from the uniforms. Then I had to work out how to paint the military green of the uniforms... Now that I've worked that out, I should be able to get the next lot out much faster...
Of course, getting decent pics is another problem, and I'm really not completely happy with what I have got.
Anyway, here they are.

I did try to get close ups on all of them, but they all came out rather blurry apart from the two above. I think I'll borrow the school's photo studio and lights next week and try for better.

Pudding Wrestler's Perfidious Projects: Grot Tanks for the memories.

Having built new Grot Tanks, and mostly painted new Grot Tanks, I decided that my old ones looked all wrong. They were the first ork vehicles painted for Waaagh! Snaggatoof, and I have changed my painting style, so they don't fit in. I have stared to remedy this, and I'm also going to build a few more. I'm low on Plasticard (just ordered more) so I'm going to try to make them with as little structural plasticard as I can. As a result, the next two will be based on PVC pipe. I still have tons of .5mm plasticard to add details and plates, but it's a bit thin for structural work.
Anyway, time for pictures!

This is the second Grot Tank - this time armed with a skorcha. I was channeling Italian tankettes of ww1 and the ww1 Ford 3-Ton tank on this one. It's the first Grot Tank with exposed road wheels.

It has ended up longer than the others, mostly because I didn't think it was selling the whole 'flame' part of the design without the big fuel tanks.

Here it is with the Rokkit version from MFH Twenty-Nin.

And here is is mostly painted with a second rokkit version I built later.

Meanwhile, Scale Reference Cat is being stalked by the Morkanaut (actually, this photo is the result of me looking at Scale Reference Cat from behind and thinking that from certain angles he bears a strong resemblance to the Morkanaut from certain angles...

I've started to repaint my old Grot Tanks to match the new stuff - I was never happy with the weathering on them before, and everything else in Waaagh! Snaggatoof is pretty clean as Bad Moons are the only orks with enough teef to afford to run their vehicles through the car wash - since Scunthork is by the sea and has a salt-water car wash it's pretty hard on the exposed metal parts, hence all the rust to go with the clean paint.

Scale Reference Cat, meanwhile, is ignoring me and sleeping in a box full of miniatures - moslty Mad Juzzy the Flutist's Bounty.

Well, that about wraps it up for this update. I'm going to start working on some PVC pipe based Grot Tanks, and I'm also planning on building a Gun Wagon and Grot Mega Tank soon. Plus, I just ordered a 1/35 Tamiya Sherman online for a mysterious orky project of mystery!

Pudding Wrestler's Perfidious Projects: Now THAT'S. gun!

Time for a tiny little bijou update-let I think!

I've finished and installed the main cannon. It's so huge that any attempt to just paint the inside black will look ludicrous. So I'm going to install a shell inside the barrel. With a happy face on it. 

I've also added a tank commander converted up from a nob with some mek boy parts. He's magnetized because I fear he'd break otherwise, and also be a right pain to paint. I have started work on the ork who will fit in the other hatch and operate the rokkits.

And here's a special bonus pic of Scale Reference Cat giving an idea of the size of the left over wands I made for Son Of Hoodling's Harry Potter Party. One of them has a Hagrid's Beard core. The one with the Cheese and Tomato core chose a young wizard on Saturday, much to said wizards confusion.

Pudding Wrestler's Perfidious Projects: My tank is BLAST!

Time for an update on the Kill Blasta (I think). I have not worked on it all that much of late - the weekly descent of the Hobbiests of the Hoodling's Hole has been lightly interrupted by Lego these last few weeks, but I have been spending some time either before work of after dinner most days.

This side is the more complete side. I have plated and detailed the upper hull, and plated the lower hull (not detailed yet because I have to work out the suspension). I have not added rivets to most of it yet, sort of planning to do that all at once in one big orgy of riveting.

Here's a detail shot of the exhaust mechanisms on this side.

This is the rear hatch which allows the 12 boyz carried in the armoured bowels of the Kill Blasta to spew forth and hit things. There'll be hatches on both sides and one above the main gun too. The four tubes top right are the rokkit lancher, and are just mocked up at the moment.

The main gun in only blu-tacked on at the moment, so I've removed it for a clearer look at the engine.

I've basically worked out how I'm doing the drive sprockets, road wheels idlers etc for the suspension, but I'm still working out how to make all the track links. Probably slowly.

Pudding Wrestler's Perfidious Projects: The Stompa is COMPLETE!

It's been a very long time coming, but the stompa is finally complete! I started this bad boy at Easter last year, worked on it slowly until June due to a spectacularly nasty and long running cold, and then sort of stalled until a few weeks ago. And now it's done. I built the final twin-shoota pintle mount yesterday, finished it up today, added some final rivets around where it's installed at the lower jaw, tweaked a few more rivets here and there, and then installed pilots to the supa rokkits. And now the vast task of painting comes...

So now there are actually a whole NINE kit parts on the model - all but one being figures. But just look how happy the ork gunner here looks!

Here's the twin big shoota pintle installed, all the riveting done, and me thinking 'YAY! FINISHED!' until I noticed the pilots in the supa rokkits not being there yet...

I suspect the boy here may suffer from deafness due to having a Mega Gattler going off right over his head all the time...

Here's the right-side supa rokkit on it's launch rail.

And the left side rokkit - this was the first one I built. 

Here's the mighty Deff Kannon as it looks installed, with the new Supa Rokkit shoulder pad installed above it.

And now the Mega Choppa or whatever the damn thing's called. There were some parts hanging off the back designed to link to a hydraulic system to push the arm up and down, but they broke when I dropped it, and I liked it better without.

And finally, here are the supa rokkits with the pilots installed. The one closest to camera is a complete grot, trimmed down to fit. The other two have green stuff bodies.

Well, I guess I should probably start working on the paint now. Which could take another year.

Pudding Wrestler's Perfidious Projects: Back on the bench.

Guess who's back on the workbench? That's right, after a very long break, I'm working on the Stompa again. So far this has just meant working on the Deff Kannon (or mega kannon or whatever they call it these days...)

This is where it all started - the ammo cylinder. Originally, I was planning on a sort of revolver design, but I ran into some problems with making the cylinder properly (this is part of the reason the project stalled). I decided to simplify and go for a drum magazine instead which was much simpler. The end caps are MDF cut using a hole saw and drill, which have been plated with plasticard.

To get a rough idea of the gun's length I cut out the barrel and tested it - obviously there's more gun behind the cylinder.

The more gun behind the cylinder in question.

The gun as fitted to the shoulder. I was also having trouble with arm design until I realised the gun was too big to fit to an arm without clashing with the legs, so I just welded it right onto the shoulder. 

And here's the gun fully detailed with underslung skorcha - there's also a big shoota mounted to the top but it's not visible here. The gun is about the same size as the old Rhino kits, and gives the current Rhino a run for its money.

Well, there it is. The Stompa is now well on its way to completion. I'm working on the supa rokkits now, and then it's just a matter of a pintle mounted twin big shoota on the lower hook of the moon.

And paint. Oh so much paint.

Pretty Pictures: Gaslands Mishkin and Pirates.

Well, there's only a few hours left in 2019, just enough to squeeze one last blog post in so this isn't the most embarrassingly low post-rate year in TFH history...
So here are some pics of the painted heavy truck, plus some other projects and full pics of all the mishkin cars too!

Behold! The heavy truck, plus the smaller truck made from the spare cab, plus a friend who donated a chassis to the smaller truck.

This then is the full and undiluted might of MIDNIGHT ROGER. I have deiced to name my pirate truck MIDNIGHT ROGER. Because it amuses me to do so.

The detail on the wagon tail lights is very soft, making painting them somewhat guesswork. Fortunately, I know what a 1956 Chevy tail light look like, so this should be fairly accurate...

Harpoon gun and gunner are both Northstar Miniatures. I find them a bit hard to paint - the figures all have their arms out front grabbing a wheel or a weapon, and it's hard to manoeuvre the brush to get to their chests.

Note the freehanded pirate markings.

Behold the Mighty Boy! I am sure that, had Suzuki been building cars in 1956, this is what they would have been building.  Due to the whole hot wheels scale thing, this is a 56 Ford F-100 cab on the chassis of a mini. In real life, the mini would be about the length of the bonnet and maybe half the door.

The Mighty Boi has been armed with a load of dropped weapons. They could be any of the dropped weapons really, but they are red barrels which as we all know means they will explode.

Behold the Smol Panzer! I sent a WIP pic of this to my brother, and he instantly dubbed it 'Der Smol Panzer' and the name sort of stuck... It's the mini which gave up it's chassis for the Mighty Boi mounted to the tracks from a Matchbox resuce tank. 

Smol Panzer is armed with rockets. It's not a tank, it's just a car fitted with tank tracks. It's probably not that great an idea to be honest, but I had the parts.

Mishkin time! You all know this one.

Rear view as well.

This is the buggy with Gravity Gun. I dropped it just before the photo and the top prong of the grav gun broke...

I have two more of this model - kinda thinking maybe a rutherford buggy team - they look sort of like cockpits from fighter planes. That's the sort of military tech Rutherford would have... Might even add wings...

This is probably a performance car. It's pretty jacked up and all-terrain looking, but it's too big and heavy for a buggy. Anyway, it's got the arc lightning cannon.

I tried to find cars for Mishkin with some sort of round detailing at the back - often some sort of tyre - which I can repurpose into some sort of generator by painting a glow in them.

This is the car with the magnetic disruptor. The glass on this one was mis-installed and also warped. I've realigned it, but you can still see the shape is not right on both sides...

And there's the magnetic disruptor.

Van with thumper. It took a while to find a mishkin-y van, and when I did, it had glow in the dark wheels...

Well, there you go Hippo Fans - the last post of 2019. As for what 2020 holds, well, you'll just need to check back tomorrow when I'll probably post some sort of rambling plan or something.

The race that once more fails to stop Pudding Wrestler's Perfidious Projects: The Sequel.

Here it is, nearly 2100 on cup day. Not a great deal got done this afternoon. Things sort of slowed down and I got sidetracked by DVDs. However, some of the mystery surrounding the Shokkjump Dragsta can now be shed.

Here's the dragsta with the body mocked up. This is not quite the final position, but it's close enough to give you an idea. That's a 1:32 toy kombi van by the way.

Here's the driver - he's from one of the trukks that formed part of Mad Juzzy the Flutist's bounty. The beige stuff is all part of the kombi's interior. The rest has been cut off to make room for the shokk reactor which will be going into the back.