Done!

The Russ is done with Kommander Kraknek at the helm.

Amy was out of town for a couple days and I couldn’t snap some pix of it:




Left Side:


Right Side:



Also, the truck has had some work on it as well, as I’ve stated it’s now one piece, if I bust ass I can have it at gaming level by Opening night @ the Elk’s Lodge.

Busy Night!

gah! the internet ate my first post of this.

was super busy last night modelling.

• modelled my Russ commander
  
• painted the commander
  
• attached him to the tank
  
• touched up scrapes on hatch on Russ
  
• modelled power klaw on nob
  
• attached power klaw to nob
  
• cut off choppa on nob and replaced with slugga
  
• continued work on wartrukk
  
  • reattached halves
    
  • added armour plates to help cover up join lines
    
  • strengthened attachment joints with plates of plasticard

still need to do:

• dullcote the Russ
  
• fill gaps on new nob
  
• paint new nob
  
• model drivers/gunners for buggies/trukk
  
• model one of my shoota boyz into a burna boy
  
• paint burna boy

This list is getting shorter and shorter. maybe it's time to start building riggers, grots, and ammo runts. need to make one more nob for trukk boyz. will need one more for other trukk boyz mob.

Splutch, Grot rigger

Added Splutch, the Grot rigger and more weathering, added more mud to the front and back as i was told they looked too clean. and more oil spots around the tracks. All that she needs now is a tank commander.

Closeup of Splutch


Front end with caked on mud


Back end with caked on mud


Right Side


Left Side

Fuck me! I'm feeling creative!

So i've all but completed the Russ. Just need to model a commander and paint the grot rigger. here's some pix
























Also i've finally put some work into my Killa Kans. Amy loves 'em. They still need some work and the base will really round out the looks.

Progress!

I finally made some progress on my army. I haveprimed 2 more boyz w/rokkits, both kans are primed, and my Russ is primed and began painted.

i've primed it black, drybrushed it boltgun metal, drybushed mythril silver, bullet holes gone over in black and touched up in mythril. same with scratches. glyphs done in yellow and white. need to get a new pot of blood red to finish. not sure if i wanna add camouflage or just dags. prolly just the dags.

New pix of Russ

Front pix of the Russ showing battle damage and size of barrel:

Update on Leman Russ

been a couple of busy weeks. finally got a little time to model tonight. previously i boxed in the cannon and added a nice big barrel tip, (hard to see but there are dags on the tip of the cannon barrel), rivets, crosshairs on the cannon (just in case), etc. tonight i modeled my grot rigger(s) and a bayonet for the heavy bolter/big shoota sorry about the poor pix.

i'm aware that the bayonet looks like it's just hanging there. gonna strap it down with a little more plasticard or wire. the grot (i think Spluch is a good name) will be removed (currently poster-puttied) for painting. my fiancee remarked that the front and back need battle damage and armour plates as well. then modelling will be complete and on to the paint shop...

as far as painting goes...thinking basic metal look with some rust 'n' dust. checks and red dags where appropriate. the big armour plate on the right side of the turret will get something painted there (graffitti like) perhaps WAAAGH! or the like, maybe the warboss's name Don Grimdakka. not sure.

the sides of the barrel are another place where graffitti and the like can be put, not sure yet. perhaps just checks.

Looted Russ wip

this is my wORK in progress looted Leman Russ.

The thread is here

reprinted in my own blog:

so , i picked up a Leman Russ the other day to convert for my Orks, i was so excited to work on it I muffed up the tracks, but that's ok i play Orks, any i'll orkify them. here's a pic to show my work thus far and my plans (mind the sitck figures)

EDIT: i will be filing off/covering with an ork glyph the imperial symbol behind the hatch on the turret

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started my tracks

they're gonna be in a word, unsubtle. there's plans for rivets for each track pad. still working on what to use for the battlecannon (aka, BIG BOOM!) the big shoota/heavy bolter on the front is a long ways away

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finished the tracks, all that's left are rivets (orks lurve rivets!)

next up, there's a list: the turret needs beefing up. it needs armour plates. i need to decide if I want to add the sponsons. engine, needs to be monstrous, with lots of worky bits. cannon needs to be beefed up (looks a little weedy) heavy bolter needs to be changed to a big shoota. but, what do ya think? those tracks took Spartacus and three episodes of Band of Brothers to complete.

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got the modelling bug tonight after finishng my warboss and special weapons boyz last week. here's some more work on the russ. the engine has worky-bitz, the heavy bolter, well i tried to make a big shoota with two shoota barrels, but the pin between them was too short so i made a flash supressor out of some spare square tube i had lying around. it will look better painted. i *still* need to do something with the cannon barrel and the armour plates...

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still plugging away at the russ... added some detail last night (the turret and cannon are still being pondered, heavily) i think I may completely cut apart the turret and widen it as with the tracks as they are now it looks a little weedy. in any event it will definitely be getting some armour plates to bulk it up a little. as far as additions last night: added dags on the tracks (i thought i wouldn't do this but i had 2 scrap triangles of plasticard laying on my table and when i put them on the tracks i caved. added armour plates to one side, with rivets on one plate, other rivets to be added soon. finished modelling the hull mounted big shoota/heavy bolter. dropped the fuel drum onto the back end made some more orky exhausts (yes i see the mould lines, they'll be filed off soon enough)

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well, decided against widening the turret on this particular model. instead I slapped on super thick armour plates to bulk it up some. still unsure how to bulk up the remaining side of the turret. added remaining armour plates to other side of tank, along with battle damage. added glyph plates to sides as well. need to swing past Home Depot to get a length of PVC pipe in order to beef up that cannon. also have to come up with a way for an Ork to be commanding from the open hatch. here's some new pix: