The Ishoo Twelf Poll

You may have noticed that the Ishoo Twelf people's choice poll is a tie.
So we'll be doing both. Ishoo Twelf A will be missile silos, Ishoo Twelf B will be boats.
None of which will happen until after Ishoo Eleven anyway, but I thought you might want to know.

Ishoo Ten: Orky Dropship

This ishoo we look at an item which not only works well as a piece of terrain, but could also be used as part of your army, given the right scenario; the Orky Dropship. The beauty of scratchbuilding orky vehicles like this is that the orks themselves never do a great job of building them, so any little mistakes you make just add to the character of the model!
Take it away, Grot!


*PTFE stands for Polytetraflouroethylene, or Plumber's Tape For Everything. You can buy it from any hardware shop.



Well, there you have it! For this example Grot and I used a 120mm polystyrene ball, but you can get much bigger ones, up to atleast 200mm diameter. I used one of the large ones to build this crashed Ork Dropship several years ago.
I entered it into the Starship Modeler 'Wrecks' contest of 2007; you can see details here.

Stay tuned for Ishoo Eleven in which we'll be building a 15mm castle for educational purposes (no really!), and while you are at it, vote for the next reader's choice ishoo, which will be coming up in Ishoo Twelf.
See you then Hippo fans!

CUP DAY SPECIAL: Khemri Khottage

Well, it's Melbourne Cup Day which means the race that stops the nation has resulted in me getting a public holiday. Not one to let the race that stops the nation stop me, I challenged a few fellows on the What-If Modelers forum (My brother and the Brian-that-is-known-as-Brian) to a single day model building event. Anything was aceptable as long as it was built entirerly on November the 3rd, 2009.

So I took a day off from working on the Pontiac (which is almost done anyway) to build a new Khemri Khottage. Back when the Tomb Kings army book first came out, I built a set of Khemri desert terrain for Hampton Games Club, but it's now showing signs of it's age (ie: it's getting wrecked!) Fortunately, I have worked out a new, more sturdy way of producing Khemri buildings, a way which is (all together now!) SO EASY EVEN A HIPPO COULD DO IT!

Take it away Grot!


Like I was going to let a horse race stop me.
I'm working on a few more similar structures, although larger and more grandiuos. It's hard to tell which will come first, pics of the other Khemri Khottages or Ishoo Ten. See you then eitherway.