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  1. Thank you! I think it's about Titan sized so if anyone ever gave it tabletop rules I expect it would cost quite a few points. Unless it was so badly built (gretchin tend to be more enthusiastic than competent after all) that it fell apart or exploded the first time it tried to do anything! 😀
  2. Thank you very much! Terrible pun names have a long and glorious history within Warhammer 40,000 and I find that all good rebel grot projects in particular start with terrible puns. 😁
  3. For some in the miniature gaming and modelling world October means Orktober and is a month for projects involving the goblinoid and orkoid races common throughout many fantasy and sci-fi games. This year for Orktober I kitbashed together the mighty* Waaagh Rokkit Ajax! Within the Warhammer 40,000 setting exists a small faction of gretchin (one name for the setting's goblins, who are also known as gobbos, grots and other less savoury things) who have rebelled against the much larger orks that typically boss gretchin around (and occasionally eat them). Rebel grots are members of what is known as the Gretchin Revolutionary Committee and are led by the inspirational Red Gobbo**, hence Waaagh Rokkit Ajax's red paint scheme and proud revolushunree flags. The majority of Waaagh Rokkit Ajax is built from Warhammer 40,000 Sector Mechanicus terrain kits, with various third party resin bits used to add details, plus a mixture of plastic and resin gretchin and snotlings***. In addition some of the oldest spare parts in my bits box found a use on this project, with unused parts from the 1/24 Airfix Harrier that I built about 35 years ago providing Waaagh Rokkit Ajax with its bombs and wings. Waaagh Rokkit Ajax in fact shares one other thing with that ancient, large scale Harrier - at 23" long it's pretty much the same size. Waaagh Rokkit Ajax turned out to be quite a significant undertaking for me, especially given my self-imposed deadline of getting it finished by the end of October. This means that I concentrated on quick but effective rather than high quality techniques for getting it painted. All the gretchin and snotlings were painted with Citadel Contrast paints (except for the ship's pilot, which was donated ready painted to the project by a friend). The ship itself was primed using black rattlecan primer and then drybrushed and stippled with craft paints to give it a basic rusty metal base coat. Applying the red to the various panels was quite time consuming but thankfully the goal was to make it look like it had been badly painted by only semi competent gretchin, which greatly sped things up! This photo of the ship's engineer checking one of the engines, while his snotling mate roots out whatever it is that's stuck in his impressive nose, is probably my favourite photo that I took. While I have a worked out ways to photograph more typically sized miniatures quite easily photographing Waaagh Rokkit Ajax was quite a bit more of a task and ended up taking up quite a lot of my living room and involved borrowing the LED desk lamp from my workbench. Rather than spamming more pictures here I'll point you at the Flickr album I created for this project, which includes several more overall and detail shots, plus some WiP photos too: https://flickr.com/photos/thinkingengine/albums/72177720303320066 * For a given value of mighty. ** It's more a title or perhaps a state of mind, than a specific individual, which is handy as gretchin typically have very short life expectancies in any combat situation. *** Snotlings are the smallest and weakest of the orkoid species, and fail to make up for their lack of intelligence or competence with enthusiasm, but who do try really hard with the enthusiasm.
  4. Coincidentally I modelled the same aircraft, from the same kit (even using the same Airfix decals for its tail code and serial number) last year, though possibly from an earlier time period. On the other hand I didn't sort out the missing pylons (I did get some 3rd party intake trunking though) and generally mine can't hold a candle to yours, well done!
  5. That's a Citadel paint called Tesseract Glow. It's like a wash, you paint it over something like white or silver and it produces a bright luminous green effect. It does require an incredible amount of shaking/stirring before use though, it is very prone to separating.
  6. Nice Necrons. I think it's always great when people go with homebrew colour schemes rather than going with any of the dynasty/chapter/regiment/craftworld colour schemes specified by Games Workshop. Though I won't be subscribing I've bought a few individual issues of Imperium and coincidentally today I finished painting the three Necron Warriors I got from one issue. As a fan of The Flaming Lips I was keen to paint up some pink robots:
  7. I thought I'd already shared this here but it seems I didn't. Given I finish model kits so infrequently I feel I should at least post up some pictures when I do complete one. This is Revell’s 1/72 Eurofighter Typhoon. The kit is OK, it has comedically little intake trunking so I added an aftermarket set of resin intakes. Fitting those and getting something vaguely resembling a smooth join was not pleasant. A bunch of parts that could be modelled open or closed (e.g. the undercarriage) were clearly much better designed to be modelled open than closed so some fiddling (and some accepting they were not going to look perfect) was necessary to depict an aircraft in flight. Finally the kit did not come with all the pylons and missiles necessary to depict a typical RAF QRA loadout, so it’s only equipped with 4 AMRAAMs and 2 ASRAAMs, not the 4/4 loadout more commonly seen. I build this kit as a gift for my dad. It’s modelled as BW/ZJ921 of 29(R) Squadron circa 2007 or so. Some decals were liberated from an Airfix kit owned by a friend in order to have this specific serial number and tail code as while the Revell boxing I had contained 29(R) squadron decals from the correct period they were for another aircraft. An acquaintance of my dad was flying this plane around that time so he was pretty chuffed to receive it. I actually started building this kit several years ago, but I finally kicked myself into finishing it back in March so I could give it to my dad for his 80th birthday. Perhaps oddly despite getting the serial number and letter code details from the acquaintance it's not his name marked under the cockpit, I don't know if the names are somewhat symbolic and planes are used by different pilots, whether the acquaintance's name was on the aircraft at a different time from when the decals were designed, or if something else is going on.
  8. Might it be Leakycheese? They've done a few videos about how to work with Forge World kits.
  9. I am fond of the Crusader for some reason, possibly something to do with the funny shape of the turret and the big mantlet on the mark 1 and 2. Your rendition looks very nice!
  10. I figure there's a chance that Torvolts is "quick release" at the waist, so they can switch to a smaller locomotive unit when they want to move around in smaller surroundings. 🙂 Also, I recently painted up a companion for Torvolts, a "classic" late '80s Citadel Imperial Castellan robot. While other tech priests may use such robots as bodyguards, I'm not sure that this is really the case for Torvolts!
  11. Thank you! I feel that I should have put more effort into painting the fiddly details than I did. While kit bashing the model together I didn't pay as much attention to how accessible various bits would be for painting than I should have. This, combined with it having a lot of details and fiddly bits meant that towards the end of painting it I was relying a bit too much on the initial metallic base coats and letting liberal applications of Nuln Oil and Agrax Earthshade do their jobs. Thankfully they are very good at their jobs and the overall business of the model means there's plenty to look at even when the painting could be a bit better.
  12. This is an Adeptus Mechanic tech priest conversion I recently completed. It is derived primarily from the Necron Canoptek Reanimator an Adeptus Mechanicus Tech Priest Dominus Warhammer 40,000 kits, with a few other 40k bits and bobs and some green stuff mechadendrites (robo-tentacles). This is Magos Logus Torvolts, Dominus Ultima of the Nyarlax Cluster Forge Worlds. The Nyarlax Cluster is a group of solar systems that contain several minor Adeptus Mechanicus forge worlds. The cluster was thrown into chaos following the opening of the Cicatrix Maledictum (a great tear in reality that split the Warhammer 40,000 galaxy in two). A group of hereteks, the self-styled Rad Lords of the Nyarlax Cluster, rose up in rebellion against the ruling synod of its Forge Worlds and plunged the whole cluster into war. Magos Logus Torvolts appointed themself the title of Dominus Ultima and took command over the resistance to the Rad Lords following a surprise attack that destroyed the ruling council that had previous ruled over the cluster's Forge Worlds. Under Torvolt's leadership the cluster's loyalist forces successfully held out against the Rad Lords until relieved by forces from the Indomitus Crusade. The pollution on many Forge Worlds has effectively destroyed their biospheres. However for some reason the pollution on the Forge Worlds of the Nyarlax Cluster has mutated their flora and fauna enough to make their remaining wild areas as dangerous as death worlds. The tech priests of the Nyarlax Cluster hunt down the mutated beasts that infest their Forge Worlds as a rite of passage. Many wear the skulls they collect as badges of honour. Symbolically this represent their dominance over the weakness of the flesh. When it comes to the Adeptus Mechanicus I have long been inspired by the aesthetics of the early artwork of them by Wil Rees and John Blanche. In particular the use of animal skull masks has stuck with me, so giving one to Torvolts was as fundamental to this little project as using a de-Necroned Canoptek Reanimator body was. Everything else evolved as I did my best to stick as many baroque techno-gubbins onto the model as I could find and fit onto it. I have a Flickr album for this model, which contains a few more photos and full res versions of the photos above.
  13. Thank you! The 40k Imperial Guard aesthetic is pretty low tech but like the 40k aesthetic in general there's a "too much is not enough" sort of vibe going on so it felt very appropriate to try and cram as many weapons and pieces of equipment onto Gerti as I could.
  14. I like that combination of blue and yellow over the grey.
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