tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9079756252785906012024-03-13T17:46:22.339-03:00Kitties and KitbashesA blog about my cats, my kitbashing projects, and some random thoughts.Kitties and Kitbasheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18274694334963624461noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907975625278590601.post-11750574214271895042024-02-24T10:30:00.000-04:002024-02-24T10:30:01.208-04:00The Kitbashes: Necromunda Buildings 2 & 3<p>
Today we have two more buildings converted from a toy that I got from the
thrift store. <br />
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<p>Silk doesn't appear sure about the possibilities in this one.<br /></p>
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<p>The first step is to dismantle everything.<br /></p>
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For the first building, I added a floor to make the windows a more reasonable
height.<br />
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Printed the first section of outer wall. I found that the wall details
come out better if I print the wall vertically. Unfortunately, at the
time I had to limit the height of each section as my Z axis would get a little
wonky after about 5cm.<br />
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<p>With interlocking bits.<br /></p>
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<div>Assembled wall sections. <br /></div>
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<div>I ran out of the grey filament and had to switch to white.<br /></div>
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<div>And the other side.<br /></div>
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<div>A tile-inscribed styrene sheet for the lower floor.<br /></div>
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<div>Upper floor and an LED for lighting.<br /></div>
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<div>A plain upper floor as I'm thinking of adding some carpeting.<br /></div>
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<div>A large Lego door at the new height required some steps.<br /></div>
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Lego doors all around. I wouldn't want to live in this apartment, with
the only access being a ladder (still to be added).<br />
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That's about as far as I've gotten on that build. For the other
building, I printed a whole new front, with space for more Lego doors.
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<div>And with the front in place.<br /></div>
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It's a tattoo parlour. Bonus points if you know what movie this is a
reference to.<br />
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<div>Extending the floor a bit.<br /></div>
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Printed a design for the ceiling, and on the right is a simple sheet of
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<div>Sketching out the location of the stairs.<br /></div>
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<div>I wasn't a fan of the molded-on lamppost.<br /></div>
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<div>So I covered it up with a wall.<br /></div>
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Before I finally bought some spring clamps. They're a marked
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<div>Printed some stairs.<br /></div>
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<div>Gluing on the ceiling and upper floor.<br /></div>
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<div>Added some 1/4 round styrene strips for crown moulding.<br /></div>
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<div>Starting to come together.</div>
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<div>I decided to add some lighting.<br /></div>
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Which necessitated the brute force removal of some of the plastic floor for
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<div>The light and wires.<br /></div>
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<div>Chimney and fireplace.<br /></div>
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<div>Upper ceiling and roof extension.<br /></div>
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<div>Upper ceiling in place.<br /></div>
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<div>And the roof extension.<br /></div>
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Primed and ready for painting. Now I just have to wait for the
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Kitties and Kitbasheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18274694334963624461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907975625278590601.post-13072270184023195962024-02-15T19:22:00.001-04:002024-02-24T10:31:00.433-04:00The Kitbashes: Necromunda Building #1<p>
Necromunda. This was a game put out by Games Workshop in the mid-90's
where two players could pit their gangs against each other in battle.
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The base game featured some plastic miniatures and 3D terrain made from
plastic bulkheads and cardstock floors.<br />
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Unlike other GW games like Warhammer and Warhammer 40000, this game had some
continuity to it from one game to the next. Your gang members could gain
experience and new skills and could also get wounded or die. This
greatly appealed to me as I was into role-playing games long before I got into
miniature battle games.
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I was living in Ottawa at the time and there was a group of us that got
together fairly regularly to play. Of course, one of the first things
that we did was to kitbash and scratch-build our own terrain to add to the
basic stuff that came with the box set. Heavy cardstock was cut up to
make new floors and walkways, and Pringles tubes became silos or support
pillars.
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Eventually our interest in the game waned and it became an occasional thing
instead of a regular game night. These pictures are from a few sessions
in my apartment in Ottawa in 2013 and in Toronto in 2016. I had acquired
a big honkin' folding conference table that measured 42" wide and 12'
long. One half was set up as the terrain for the game and the other half
held the various rulebooks, our gang sheets, and dice and counters.
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Of course, Lego as an ever-present accessory.<br />
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The view from the other end of the table, with Velvet chilling.<br />
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Here we have Silk making his way through the underhive. Velvet has the
ability to carefully walk though without disturbing anything. Silk, on the
other hand, clomps through like a bull in a china shop.<br />
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Even some Dark Future road tiles would occasionally make it onto the board.<br />
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Our tables were usually fairly dense with terrain. It made for some long
games as gang members would carefully maneuver their way into position.<br />
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There was usually a fair amount of scatter terrain to block line-of-sight and
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Velvet decided to be a roadblock.<br />
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An Orlock gang member comes face-to-face with Silk the Destroyer. <br />
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<div>Some Cawdor gangers take cover.</div>
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A big part of the game is checking to see if your model has line-of-sight to an
enemy model. <br />
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Counters are used to indicate certain conditions that affect models. This
Escher ganger is on Overwatch, meaning that she can interrupt the opposing
player's turn and take a shot at any enemy gang members that reveal themselves
to her.<br />
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Velvet is comfortably ensconced.<br />
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This hapless ganger's gun has jammed and an enemy ganger armed with a power
axe has just popped up through a hatch. Trouble's a-brewin'.
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"If I fits, I sits."<br />
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<p>
In 2013 I backed a Kickstarter for a whole bunch of plastic terrain. It
was advertised as being modular and clicking together like Lego for endless
creativity.
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While the terrain pieces looked good, they didn't go together like Lego.
The manufacturing tolerances just weren't up to snuff. Pieces were
either too loose and didn't stay together or too tight and wouldn't go
together. Between this and the fact that I never received some parts of
what was promised, I found the whole experience underwhelming.
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That said, the pieces will be used, but in permanent structures. The
first up is a large factory.
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It is a combination of the plastic pieces and 3D printed parts. Here is a
pic of the overall plan taken from Tinkercad.<br />
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3D printed pillar and support beam.<br />
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3D printed wall section and Lego door.<br />
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The inside of that wall section showing printed wall gubbins.<br />
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Silk inspects the stairway.<br />
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Some more planning pics. Tinkercad is great not only for designing pieces,
but for making 3D plans so you can visualize your build.<br />
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It took me a moment of looking at this trying to figure out why it looked weird
before I realized that the build is upside-down. Not sufficiently
caffeinated, I guess.<br />
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Some foundation walls.<br />
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Foundation in place.<br />
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This fire escape has seen better days.<br />
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Tedious process, adding bars to the railing.<br />
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The fire escape.<br />
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This is being made as a table-edge building, meaning that the open side is
butted up along the table edge.<br />
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The office section work in progress.<br />
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The main factory section.<br />
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From the inside.<br />
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The lobby has a tile floor.<br />
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Windows.<br />
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Big Lego door.<br />
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The printed pegs didn't have much strength and snapped off too easily. I'm
pretty sure I ended up switching to making holes and using plastic pegs.<br />
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A little bare. Need some furniture to provide cover.<br />
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A smokestack, made from pieces of a failed experiment. The four long
pieces were meant to be an extension for my vacuum cleaner so that I wouldn't
have to bend over so much to use it. However, they didn't hold together
nearly as well as I had hoped. The four short pieces were the original
test prints to test the fit with the vacuum hose.<br />
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Silk seems unimpressed.<br />
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things. Eventually I'll circle back around to it and get it
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Kitties and Kitbasheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18274694334963624461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907975625278590601.post-24743120028116360342023-12-26T11:32:00.005-04:002024-02-15T19:23:24.039-04:00The Kitbashes: HO Scale "Sweep"-esque LocomotiveI think that I was somewhere around eight or ten years old when I first got into
model trains. My memory is a little vague (at the best of times), but I think
that I started out with a basic oval on a 4' x 8' sheet of plywood, likely with
a cheap Tyco train set. Over the next few years the track plan changed a few
times, but it was generally an oval with a few sidings. Everything got
packed up into boxes when I moved when I was about sixteen. Since then it
only got unpacked a handful of times. One summer when I was in university,
I had a small (about 2' x 4') switching layout, and there were a couple of times
when I was living in Ottawa (1995-2015ish) when I had the intention of building
a layout but never really got past the point of temporarily putting some track
down in a little switching layout. One of the problems was the fact that I
moved a lot. Another problem is the fact that I'm easily distra...
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Over the past few years I've been experiencing some financial difficulties, to
the point where I have nearly enough eviction notices from being chronically
late with my rent to wallpaper my room. So I started selling off some of
my excess crap to help pay the bills, especially Bill, my bookie, and Bill, my
probation officer (and if you know where that's from, we can be friends).
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I started off by selling off a bunch of Warhammer and D&D miniatures, but
eventually I circled around to my model railroad stuff. As I started
digging it out of its boxes and sorting through it, the modeling bug bit
me. And so I decided to make a few little dioramas that I can link
together to make a small switching layout.
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I did end up selling off or trading some of my model train stuff, but I also
ended up buying some stuff, so that was pretty much a wash. However,
most of the stuff I picked up was old and well-used (if not broken) equipment
for me to kitbash with.
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I can trace my love of kitbashing to this article from the August '81 issue of
Model Railroader.
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I actually built a fairly close copy of this kitbash. Sadly, plastic
kits can become somewhat brittle over time and during one of my many moves
the box containing my model was dropped or something heavy was put on top of
it. The model had shattered like a pane of glass into a bajillion
pieces. One of these days I may recreate this build if I can manage to
find a couple more copies of the kit.
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I'm not sure when this picture was taken, but I'm guessing around 1980ish,
so I would have been about twelve. The locomotive, a CP Rail SW7
switcher is made by Athearn and it still runs today. Those old blue
box Athearns are built like tanks.
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So with my renewed interest in HO scale model railroading, I decided
that some kitbashes were in order, starting with my trusty switcher
and a dummy shell that I picked up years ago at a train show.
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I tried a window frame from some structure kit, but I really wasn't
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The glue holding these side bits failed. I'm fairly sure they have
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I cut the fuel tanks off of a dummy calf version of this switcher.
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The switcher with a kitbash in progress of a wood chip car.
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And a 3D printed bracket for the bell.
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And 3D printed ditch lights. I'm debating whether to add teeny
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Broken handrail. I guess this thing has seen some hard use.
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Aside from a little gap-filling and sanding, I think this one is pretty
much done. And then I just have to wait for the painting faerie to
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Kitties and Kitbasheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18274694334963624461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907975625278590601.post-11582181607559079872023-11-28T13:16:00.007-04:002023-12-26T13:52:54.665-04:00The Thugs: getting into everything<p>
At this point, Silk and Velvet were about seven months old or so, full of
energy, and very curious about everything. Silk made a little spot for
himself on my shoddy shelf so he could watch what I was doing on the computer.
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Multi-level resting spots.<br />
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Clean laundry dumped on the bed so I could fold it and put it away. So of
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I think that Silk was trying to say hello to Marvin.<br />
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Velvet's murder mittens are very sharp.<br />
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Mid yawn. Or mid scream. Can't remember which.<br />
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I think that I found his lair.<br />
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He looks a wee bit walleyed in this pic.<br />
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Velvet likes cozy little spots.<br />
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Loaf.<br />
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I think that he was getting ready to pounce.<br />
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"Again with the camera?"<br />
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Lounging.<br />
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Secret hideout?<br />
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She's such a goof.<br />
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I think that he's judging me.<br />
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This pic was taken mid-zoomies.<br />
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Aaand more judgement.<br />
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<div>They were apparently curious about my teeth-brushing process.</div>
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How is this comfortable?<br />
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They were watching a fly on the wall.<br />
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The fascination.<br />
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This is one of my favourite pics of them.<br />
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Alrighty. Time to show off some completed builds and what little bit of
painting I've managed to get done. Here we have a Goff nob being driven
into battle with a handful of his gang.
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Silk watches as I work on a trukk that has a looted Imperial cabin. I
had to cut the cabin in half and widen it a wee bit to fit the Orks.
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Apparently the driver had the roof cut off so that he could let his topknot
fly free.
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Another trukk. The gas tank is from the same kit as the above cabin,
a 1/35 Chinese Jiefang CA-30 military truck. The front fenders and
trakks are from the Ork battlewagon kit.
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And of course, the bumper and glyph plate are magnetized.<br />
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The harpoon is an old GorkaMorka bit. I replaced the head with one from an
Orc boar boy.<br />
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Ready for priming.<br />
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Silk inspects the priming job. <br />
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It's the scoop that does it for me.<br />
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I think that the tracked version looks pretty good.
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If I remember right, I used a piece of window screen for the grill. Which
reminds me, I have an entire roll of the stuff stashed away in a box
somewhere. I should see if I can find it as it would be useful for a
couple of my current projects.<br />
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A good view of the gunner. My thinking behind magnetizing his arm and
putting him on a base was so that in a game of GorkaMorka, if his big gun or the
trukk was disabled, he could go on foot and I could swap out his arm with one
armed with a pistol.<br />
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Slow start to the painting process.<br />
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Different trukk, same bed.<br />
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Magnetic glyph plate and a boarding plank.<br />
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Speaking of boarding planks, I should mention that I made them magnetic as
well. It takes a total of eight(!) magnets to mount one of these.<br />
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So... is the middle one a bumper like the one on the right, or a reinforced ram
like the one on the left?<br />
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I scratch-built a little shelf to hold some gas cans.<br />
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A shot of the trukk with the bed off.<br />
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I don't remember where these exhausts are from. The Deff Dread kit
maybe?<br />
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If I remember right, the headlights are from the Space Marine Rhino kit with a
bit of round tube added.<br />
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Here you can actually see the layering of sheets for the bed.<br />
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I used the underside of a bed to try out the Typhus Corrosion and Ryza Rust
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It gives a pretty good look with minimal effort.
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You can see where I gave it a pretty heavy coat of Typhus Corrosion.<br />
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After I painted some of the individual panels, I slapped on some more Typhus
Corrosion for good measure.<br />
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Some drybrushing and a few washes.<br />
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Top it off with a liberal dusting of weathering powders, and it's nice and
grungy.<br />
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Another bed. After painting and weathering, it's difficult to see where
the kit bed ends and the scratch-built stuff begins.
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<div style="text-align: left;">And another bed.</div>
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<div style="text-align: left;">Silk watching over the painting process.</div>
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I like the different textures that you can get with Typhus Corrosion.
I also like how the one painted panel came out.
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I like to experiment. I wanted to see if I could replicate this look.
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At this stage it just looks weird, and I was thinking 'what the hell and I
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Some more work and it was starting to look better.
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I initially painted the entire panel with either Lightning Bolt Blue or
Ultramarine Blue (I don't remember which) and then put on spots of
Electric Blue (I own some really old paints). Then in the center of each
of the light blue spots, I put on Typhus Corrosion and brushed on Ryza
Rust over that.
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The rivets and streaks on the treadplate were done with the Macharius
Solar Orange (I think). Then I had at it with some washes. I think at
first I only used either the Brown or Armour washes (or both). But
eventually I ended up trying all the washes. My technique pretty much
consists of slapping random stuff on until I stumble across a look that I
like.
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As for the end result, I think I overdid the washes on the blue part,
although it looks good and grimy now. I like how the long top panel came
out, and the right panel looks really corroded.
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I wanted to try to replicate this look:
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I don't remember the exact steps, but the white was a result of pooling
white paint thinned to a wash, letting it dry a little, then blotting up the
rest. The yellow was originally done the same way, but it didn't look
right, so I brushed on more.
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It still wasn't right, so I washed over the whole thing with a variety of
washes (although I think Sepia was the one I used most).
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I allowed it to mix and pool in some areas and blotted it up in others. I
like the end result, but I really have no idea how I got there.
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This was another experiment. I painted this panel neutral grey, and
then some yellow. I really don't know what I did for the yellow to end up
looking like it did, but it was stupidly hot that day and it was drying pretty
quickly. <br />
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Anyway, then I added some really thinned white, which I allowed to pool, dry a
bit, then blotted up the rest. I didn't get the same neat effect as above (and
forgot to take a picture of that step), so I covered most of it up with Typhus
Corrosion.<br />
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I added a couple of dabs on the yellow and drybrushed on some Ryza Rust and
painted the skid plate.<br />
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I thought I'd try something different and painted on some Vallejo Crackle Medium
on the yellow paint. After some time it *looked* dry and hadn't cracked, so I
decided to give it a wash with some Seraphim Sepia. Apparently it wasn't
completely dry and turned into a gummy mess. But it looked interesting, so I
left it. The panel on the right was lightly brushed with Typhus Corrosion and
then I added several different washes, not even waiting for the first layer to
dry before adding a different colour. <br />
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After things dried, I added some orange wash to some rivets and drybrushed with
Pig Iron and dusted on some grey weathering chalk. As you can see, I
don't really have a plan or a consistent method. Usually I keep adding stuff
until I get to "meh, good enough", but sometimes I have a happy accident that
turns out rather cool.<br />
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Another example of Typhus Corrosion & Ryza Rust with some washes &
drybrushing.<br />
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It could be better, but it's reached the 'meh, good enough' stage.<br />
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Silk giving me the hairy eyeball because it's feeding time.<br />
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Starting to come together.<br />
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I'm painting these to be mostly neutral colours and to use the clan-specific
glyph plates to indicate ownership. The fluff reason is that on the world
that I'm working on to be the setting for my games of GorkaMorka and Necromunda
(and future stories), paint squigs are relatively rare. So most Ork
vehicles are either unpainted (and rusty) or only have the paint that was
originally on them (for looted bits). Only wealthy Orks can afford to
paint an entire vehicle. <br />
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Most Orks will spring for the cost to paint the engine red to make it 'go
fasta'. The bottles of explosive squig juice (for thrusters) are generally
painted blue. Nobody seems to know why.<br />
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I wanted to see what the painting that I'd done so far looked like under natural
light, so I took it out on the balcony for some pics.<br />
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All in all, I was fairly happy with the progress so far.<br />
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A good shot of my Deathskulls and the spear gun.<br />
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A shot of the trakk base. I used a portion of the side walls from the
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Deathskulls. I was trying out some clear bases. While I like the
look of them when on vehicles, they're a real pain to attach.
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Wrecking ball.<br />
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Goffs.<br />
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Deathskulls. I'll eventually be putting up a post on how I made the dude
with the stop sign.<br />
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I like the Goff clan glyph plate. <br />
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Deathskulls.<br />
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The squig juice bottles also have a little 'Zag' lighting bolt glyph.<br />
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Oh, and I made the driver's head magnetic, so I can swap it out depending on
which clan the trukk belongs to.<br />
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And finally, I like this little detail of the closed clapper on the broken
stack.<br />
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And that wraps up my series on Ork trukks. At least until I build or
paint some more.
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If this is a complete disaster, it's because I'm attempting to write it before
I'm fully caffeinated.
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Today we're talking about making extended beds for the Ork trukk. Here
we have Silk monitoring the painting process.
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My extended beds so far.
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So far none of my beds have had the walls angled out like in the base kit.
To achieve this, I shaved down the angled sides of the bed.<br />
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I used .100" x .100" strip styrene cut to about 68mm long for the sides and one
cut to 51mm long for the end. There's a little bit of variation in the
lengths as I tend to just eyeball it rather than measure, 'cause, y'know,
Orks. I built up the bed in layers of sheet styrene to get the same panel
look as the bed. It's been quite a while since I did it, but I'm fairly
certain that I used a .040" thick piece for the core and .030" thick pieces for
the panels on either side.<br />
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I then added on some thinner strips and sheet for additional panels and
straps.<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">Add in some rivets.</div>
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Another example. I sandwiched in a bit of granny grating on this
one. Notice that on the end there's a panel with a magnet in the
center. I was thinking that at some point down the road I might want to
have options for dropped weapons like mines or oil slicks, or maybe a rocket
booster.
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For the underside, I added a couple of strips to hold the magnets, using my
handy dandy template as a guide. Note that the two strips in the middle of
the template sit on either side of the existing strip.<br />
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And then use the template to drill the magnet holes.<br />
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Holes drilled. Make sure you get the polarity right when putting in the
magnets because it's a real pain fixing it if you don't. Learn from my
fail.<br />
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The underside of another bed before I added the strip next to the thin one on
the right.
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Hopefully the magnets all line up. This is one part where you do
actually want to measure accurately and not just eyeball it.
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For the side panels I used scraps, the actual kit side walls, and some bits
from the Ork battlewagon.
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Random and ramshackle.<br />
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One of the things that I did was to have a nice flat spot on the outside of the
walls so I could add magnetized glyph plates.<br />
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I made some clan glyph plates. I need to make some more.
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<div>And of course, I have a template for drilling the magnet holes.</div>
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A magnetized glyph plate.<br />
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<div>I also added magnets to the inside of the wall.</div>
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Why, you ask? So I could add moar weapon mounts.<br />
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<div>For things like the wrecking ball.</div>
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And again, I got a little carried away with the magnets.<br />
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Fur-covered wrecking ball.<br />
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And that's probably enough for now. In the next post I'll have some pics
of the completed trukks and some of what little bit of painting I've actually
managed to do.
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</div>Kitties and Kitbasheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18274694334963624461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907975625278590601.post-28421899190592379042022-05-24T19:51:00.007-03:002022-05-27T18:01:37.056-03:00The Kitbashes: Ork Trukks (Part Deux)<p>Woo! Two posts in two days. I'm on a roll.</p>
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Here we have Velvet overseeing the painting process. I like to build my
kits in sub-assemblies that can easily be painted before final assembly.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSLqVAt6EsElftwlqFgzXO1Is4xrA2RDfaOR6xKfNIYm7Zb-NZHg9VpCOJ0IryZmZ2ZRY5dyDKAJtocDSYg2xMAqdFjQ_hBgRtS8pzMdix83-MreO8vyBehpTF1fMvaZMpqSxnFFCZk5egzHzQkY4nDc7lHSSLdDmWFM6SSOjrFBrmPGr9_LSZH0JplQ/s4000/Trukk02_010.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSLqVAt6EsElftwlqFgzXO1Is4xrA2RDfaOR6xKfNIYm7Zb-NZHg9VpCOJ0IryZmZ2ZRY5dyDKAJtocDSYg2xMAqdFjQ_hBgRtS8pzMdix83-MreO8vyBehpTF1fMvaZMpqSxnFFCZk5egzHzQkY4nDc7lHSSLdDmWFM6SSOjrFBrmPGr9_LSZH0JplQ/w640-h426/Trukk02_010.JPG" width="640" /></a>
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Alrighty, first up, the cabin. The biggest change I made was not putting
in the pintle-mount for the gun and wrecking ball, as seen in this beauty
by sulfhydryl on DakkaDakka:
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Linky: <a href="https://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/1068936-Ork%20Trukk.html" target="_blank">https://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/1068936-Ork%20Trukk.html</a><a href="https://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2020/7/12/1068936-Evil%20Sunz%2C%20Ork%20Trukk%2C%20Orks%2C%20Warhammer%2040%2C000.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="653" data-original-width="800" height="522" src="https://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2020/7/12/1068936-Evil%20Sunz%2C%20Ork%20Trukk%2C%20Orks%2C%20Warhammer%2040%2C000.jpg" width="640" /></a>
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I wanted to have the option of either putting in a gunner or a passenger like
this nob.<br />
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I trimmed the floor on the passenger side down and added a piece of plasticard
to make it nice and level. It also added a little extra height that made
it a bit easier to mount the gunner.
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In some builds I used treadplate instead. These are from Plastruct, and
again you should be able to find them in hobby shops that carry model
railroads. Or you can order from them direct: <a href="https://plastruct.com/" target="_blank">https://plastruct.com/</a>
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After I trimmed the piece to fit and glued it down, I drilled a bunch of holes
for rivets.<br />
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There are tons of different ways to make rivets. This is my favourite
for orky rivets, as I don't have to deal with tiny cast rivets or slices of
rod pinging off into the warp every time I try to pick one up.<br />
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These rivets end up looking kinda rough, which is fine for orky
vehicles. Not so much for Imperial vehicles. My thinking is that
the nice smooth rivets are done by grots with actual riveting tools and the
beat-up ones are done by enthusiastic ork volunteers with whatever blunt tool
was at hand.<br />
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I also trimmed this piece off the cabin back for a little variety as at the
time of building this I had four trukks being built.<br />
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I replaced it with a glyph plate.<br />
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I made a variety of magnetic weapon mounts out of scrap bits. The main
thing is to have the magnet positioned at a consistent spot from one cabin to
the next.<br />
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I think that this one looks suitably ramshackle.<br />
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I may have gotten carried away with the whole magnet thing. Not only
are the heavy weapons magnetized where they attach to the mount and the
gunner's hands, but the gunner's arms are magnetized as well.
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Here we have a magnetized 'eavy shoota. <br />
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Rokkit launcher.<br />
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Scorcher.<br />
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Spear gun. I eventually replaced the spear heads with ones from some
grot spear arms, shown here.<br />
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Twin-linked shootas.<br />
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Harpoon gun.<br />
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A different weapon mount cobbled together out of scrap.<br />
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I think that this weapon mount may have been scavenged from a pintle mount.<br />
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This weapon mount was obviously scavenged from some Imperial vehicle as it
still has a bit of an Aquila showing.<br />
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The last big modification to the cabin involved the back wall.<br />
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Part of the back wall rests on top of the bed. But since I was making
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Use a saw to carefully cut the bed along the red line. The circled
rivets will likely need to be shaved off too, depending on where the
cross-braces on the frame extension ended up.<br />
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Cut and cleaned up a bit.<br />
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Glue the cut piece to the back wall.<br />
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I glued on a couple of .040" x .125" pieces so that it will rest on the
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Here you can see the assembled cabin back and a lengthened bed.<br />
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I'll get into making the lengthened beds in the next post, as someone is
informing me that it's past their suppertime.
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</div></div></div>Kitties and Kitbasheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18274694334963624461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907975625278590601.post-85610560920744134512022-05-23T23:31:00.008-03:002022-05-27T18:03:41.947-03:00The Kitbashes: Ork Trukks (Part One)<p>Welp, it's long past time for me to post pics of my Ork trukk
conversions, so here we go. I'll also include a little tutorial on the
basic build. This is going to be a long post, so settle in for a spell.
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<p>Supreme Overlord Silk has final approval over all my builds.</p>
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Here we have Velvet watching over the kit. It's full of all kinds of
useful goodies for kitbashing Ork vehicles.<br />
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I've used the exhausts from this kit on several builds.
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I've picked up a number of frames, axels, engines, and drivers from this kit
from bitz sellers because they're so useful.
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I seem to be incapable of building a kit the way it was meant to be built, and
this one was no exception. I thought the trukk was a little too short
and stubby, so I decided to lengthen it a wee bit.
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<div><br /></div><div>To make these conversions, I use a lot of strip styrene from Evergreen Scale Models. You should be able to find some at a model train shop, or you can always order from them direct:</div><div><a href="https://evergreenscalemodels.com/" target="_blank">https://evergreenscalemodels.com/</a><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxbELUGAql-2lKqNeTagsrZd3Tcuv0JsFYLcQMGKviu-Hv5hhbodMfu8U2s_MYhvYr7LN2Thg-H-EBezeTp8LyYqi1GwLU8akSG3uByPkFnhgk4dGqLjYX2SRIuWYswqubg7Cwx1fv9VWC3oG_Ogmy4L3DBRzR-JwNSkzMfpcM8lbzaw8pz8puWd8XGg/s2000/Strip%20styrene.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1332" data-original-width="2000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxbELUGAql-2lKqNeTagsrZd3Tcuv0JsFYLcQMGKviu-Hv5hhbodMfu8U2s_MYhvYr7LN2Thg-H-EBezeTp8LyYqi1GwLU8akSG3uByPkFnhgk4dGqLjYX2SRIuWYswqubg7Cwx1fv9VWC3oG_Ogmy4L3DBRzR-JwNSkzMfpcM8lbzaw8pz8puWd8XGg/w640-h426/Strip%20styrene.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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First up is to cut the frame as shown by the red line. I think that I
used a jeweler's saw for this, but a razor saw would work fine as well.
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You want a nice clean cut to glue the extension pieces to.<br />
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It's a good idea to finish all the cuts to a piece *before* you start gluing
bits to it. I decided to make my bumpers magnetic, so the first step was
to carefully trim off the piece on the underside that is outlined in red so that
it is flush with the crossbar. After making a cut to the proper depth, I
used the chisel blade to carve off the pieces. X-acto blades are stupidly
sharp, use caution! My fingertips are a network of old scars from little
slips with a blade.<br />
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Carve off the bits below the red lines.<br />
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The end result should look like this.<br />
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Another view.<br />
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I decided that I wanted all the tires on my trukks to be the same size. The front tires of the kit are smaller, as seen here on this nicely done trukk by Deadshot on DakkaDakka. <div>Linky: <a href="https://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/1024655-Ork%20Trukk%20Goff1%205.html" target="_blank">https://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/1024655-Ork%20Trukk%20Goff1%205.html</a></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2019/8/31/1024655-Ork%20Trukk%20Goff1%205.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="389" data-original-width="800" height="311" src="https://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2019/8/31/1024655-Ork%20Trukk%20Goff1%205.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>
To accomplish this, I replaced the funky front axle with a simple straight piece of tube.<br />
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areas. The two rivets closest to the frame need to be trimmed off as
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<div><br /></div>Then trim off the pieces as shown below. I have a small bin that I toss little bits like these into for use as rubble or basing material.<br />
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<div><br /></div>After all this, you should have a pile of parts something like this. I also clipped off the sad excuse for a fifth wheel. Besides being ridiculously tiny, it's in a completely useless position. <br />
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<div><br /></div>Now to glue in the frame extension. Cut two pieces of .125" x .188" styrene strips to a length of 34 mm. These are the side rails of the frame extensions. Cut two .080" x .188" strips to the same length as the crossbars in the frame. Glue the frame extensions and crossbars in place. The crossbar closest to the front shouldn't be placed too far forward as a section of the cab nestles between the side rails. I put a section of .100" x .125" strip under the frame where it joins with the angled front section. <br />
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<div><br /></div>You may notice in this pic that the frame appears to narrow a wee bit from front to back. This is because I managed to cut the rear crossbar a little shorter than the front one. Since this is an Ork vehicle, I don't worry about it if things aren't quite perfect. In fact, that adds to the charm.<br />
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<div><br /></div><div>I decided to also magnetize the truck bed so that in the future I could make options like a tow truck or mount a big honkin' gun. I used a pin vise to drill holes for the magnets (1/16" by 1/32"). I put a drop of superglue in the hole and use a rod magnet to hold the smaller magnet while I insert it into the hole, then slide the rod magnet sideways leaving the small magnet in place. This ensures that I have the magnet in position with the correct polarity.</div>
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<div><br /></div><div>I made a jig so that I could ensure that I could drill the holes in the same locations on each of my builds.</div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-GRShUT8qhYQwUlVy2oZj5cVuN1CgVmudWTr11g0zCbJ8yzBmRiu5YXPo5iTH_TQAQVeTvg0-Iqh00qQ16z3hswPw_STafMwki85IBWpoYZ3xm6KDv5vnZzbX0pDlEgDt-9nFfIp7r0uOhsu9chynhjBYTAFa9AlNMAeOUQEFx4_ICeHo3PBqa9DWGQ/s1000/IMG_3397.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-GRShUT8qhYQwUlVy2oZj5cVuN1CgVmudWTr11g0zCbJ8yzBmRiu5YXPo5iTH_TQAQVeTvg0-Iqh00qQ16z3hswPw_STafMwki85IBWpoYZ3xm6KDv5vnZzbX0pDlEgDt-9nFfIp7r0uOhsu9chynhjBYTAFa9AlNMAeOUQEFx4_ICeHo3PBqa9DWGQ/w640-h480/IMG_3397.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7zpd8lN4C8Jn4XSqWDqGpV8T2ka_TNDi_4yz-90ebwUp62crg3Cx6pdJPYTQ8oE2y7IyxQ-1kVaWIV4-5kb_wclIm0D49-UiMmje7GE8r92dfx5VKIjovSyl5lnhWRndqN1JxXSitoZKHSZkFpJOHGwfZmmPLZTKT9o7eflEeRcWPDtDCktmx3CJFMg/s1000/IMG_3393.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7zpd8lN4C8Jn4XSqWDqGpV8T2ka_TNDi_4yz-90ebwUp62crg3Cx6pdJPYTQ8oE2y7IyxQ-1kVaWIV4-5kb_wclIm0D49-UiMmje7GE8r92dfx5VKIjovSyl5lnhWRndqN1JxXSitoZKHSZkFpJOHGwfZmmPLZTKT9o7eflEeRcWPDtDCktmx3CJFMg/w640-h480/IMG_3393.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I glued strips so that the template would sit above the rivets.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipyDPnqkxp2zoq67zmSrgxik4u7ok8tbROW11aBgBZv585IuGL58uJ2xmBQBdWFBzq6taLpQXNNg618KQ5_BkjVxR28yHXc1C7Z2mKyElAH3NQsWD-hFH2vHc3IuU2EwaCuak4Cn_oSFAzeQHxQV_qhny-JwW5Lbkx3xP2OTqylyzjwCVpPqB0-kbPlQ/s1000/IMG_3395.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipyDPnqkxp2zoq67zmSrgxik4u7ok8tbROW11aBgBZv585IuGL58uJ2xmBQBdWFBzq6taLpQXNNg618KQ5_BkjVxR28yHXc1C7Z2mKyElAH3NQsWD-hFH2vHc3IuU2EwaCuak4Cn_oSFAzeQHxQV_qhny-JwW5Lbkx3xP2OTqylyzjwCVpPqB0-kbPlQ/w640-h480/IMG_3395.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Now for the front bumper mounts. I used 3/16" channels that I cut to 9.8mm long and carved off one flange on each.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4GIY4WgypJ7zaNcVDsxFQjG_i38D--oOwsOuJqjcH3R3fWVMuZ6ha_qP1pMjbUp6UemmPu-_0UbJSrS1wlIkKeR9CsaJ1rkYymb6KXJq5FHzKEyN6ym8ALhuGrp3U4rLsq9wjy6-xoGEuV7_7yb7Fo5cbiP7POZaxkrhKdd6y_HOWQeLOiwWi1MS1Ew/s1000/2Frame_014.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4GIY4WgypJ7zaNcVDsxFQjG_i38D--oOwsOuJqjcH3R3fWVMuZ6ha_qP1pMjbUp6UemmPu-_0UbJSrS1wlIkKeR9CsaJ1rkYymb6KXJq5FHzKEyN6ym8ALhuGrp3U4rLsq9wjy6-xoGEuV7_7yb7Fo5cbiP7POZaxkrhKdd6y_HOWQeLOiwWi1MS1Ew/w640-h480/2Frame_014.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">These are glued into place on the frame.</div>
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<div><br /></div><div>I created another jig to drill holes in the bumper support arms.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioU2-xCD4MvYzsJSMb2dFwKHikLBvJq9vDkNNt9re6tzmzWR-SEWx06VNQUcMJsHodUPjY03Qp0pJ5_Kgm4qq6xr87HEUmaBF0PxyuUIKnrqBL2YLkTVXHSCVRP0fNQ8vdD9mtZVRR3R65GJsQuFUW7d2IPkOKxqTPgfdbCwgIKTzAJhfad0a7-2UJMA/s1000/IMG_3402.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioU2-xCD4MvYzsJSMb2dFwKHikLBvJq9vDkNNt9re6tzmzWR-SEWx06VNQUcMJsHodUPjY03Qp0pJ5_Kgm4qq6xr87HEUmaBF0PxyuUIKnrqBL2YLkTVXHSCVRP0fNQ8vdD9mtZVRR3R65GJsQuFUW7d2IPkOKxqTPgfdbCwgIKTzAJhfad0a7-2UJMA/w640-h480/IMG_3402.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I then used the bumper itself as a jig to drill the magnet holes in the mounts.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguiw5YBPyXCBCRnsyXhpXOKzPKb3AcMVVICqjK3SLP40P-thNOZTfy_p9BwZfsFO1gWSGqxuGtoXDEihMuPci93Otcw-eRZFket5YvSRFLx4k0O55dyMJJOrFZPPyapaY9cGEHoQkrwtyuvvhRbH-CGY4X63NBscnXJlDGMRVqVjJTgw7Aoc0a4Kf7lw/s1000/IMG_3401.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguiw5YBPyXCBCRnsyXhpXOKzPKb3AcMVVICqjK3SLP40P-thNOZTfy_p9BwZfsFO1gWSGqxuGtoXDEihMuPci93Otcw-eRZFket5YvSRFLx4k0O55dyMJJOrFZPPyapaY9cGEHoQkrwtyuvvhRbH-CGY4X63NBscnXJlDGMRVqVjJTgw7Aoc0a4Kf7lw/w640-h480/IMG_3401.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div></div><div>I used some pieces of .080" x .080" strips as bracing<br />
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<div><br /></div>Oh, and you can see in these pics the leaf springs that I glued so that they were touching the frame.<br />
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<p>That's enough for now. In the next post, I'll show some mods to the cabin and various weapon mounts, as well as some examples of lengthened beds.<br /></p>
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</div></div></div>Kitties and Kitbasheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18274694334963624461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907975625278590601.post-6128064674463811782022-05-14T11:15:00.006-03:002022-05-27T18:03:40.304-03:00The Kitbashes: Cheezy Marine<p> I really need to post more often.</p>
<p>So here is my most recent build, a Deathwatch marine.</p>
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I still have some work to do on him, like drilling the gun barrel, removing
mold lines, and some putty patch-up. And I need to add some grenades and
whatnot.
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I haven't added a shoulder pad for his right arm yet as I'm still deciding on
what chapter to make him from. I've received a lot of suggestions from
my posts on various Facebook modeling groups and on Reddit. I think that
my favourites so far are these:
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<li>
Lamenters - he was sent to the Deathwatch because he was just too damn
cheerful. Plus, I do like the look of the checkerboard version of
their chapter symbol.
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Emperor's Pointy Sticks - I like their chapter symbol too, but I can't say
as I've read any of the comics yet, so I don't know much about them or their
style. That might be a good thing to do on a quiet rainy day.
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Marines Benevolent - I like the idea of this one. What would their
chapter symbol be?
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Someone mentioned that he looked like Johnny Bravo. I'm considering
sculpting some shades and big ol' hair for him, but my sculpting skills are at
best...
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Here is a parts list and links to them in case you want to make one for
yourself:
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;">Body:</span></b>
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I just used Tactical Marine bits for the body because it's what I had lying
around. I think that the big thing here is to find a leg pose that looks good.
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<a href="https://www.bitsandkits.co.uk/space-marine-tactical-squad-legs-mk7-p-10175.html?sesid=b8ebva7o7ldbmt1smkirq321u5" target="_blank">Legs</a>
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<a href="https://www.bitsandkits.co.uk/space-marine-tactical-squad-torso-d-p-10168.html?sesid=b8ebva7o7ldbmt1smkirq321u5" target="_blank">Torso</a>
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<a href="https://www.bitsandkits.co.uk/space-marine-tactical-squad-torso-back-p-10172.html?sesid=b8ebva7o7ldbmt1smkirq321u5" target="_blank">Torso back</a>
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<a href="https://www.bitsandkits.co.uk/space-marine-tactical-squad-back-pack-various-designs-p-10161.html?sesid=b8ebva7o7ldbmt1smkirq321u5" target="_blank">Backpack</a>
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;">Arms:</span></b>
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<div><div>The right arm is from the Primaris Infiltrators kit.</div></div>
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<a href="https://www.bitsandkits.co.uk/primaris-infiltrator-pointing-arm-p-21665.html?sesid=b8ebva7o7ldbmt1smkirq321u5" target="_blank">Pointing arm</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.bitsandkits.co.uk/primaris-infiltrator-bolter-arm-i-p-21653.html?sesid=b8ebva7o7ldbmt1smkirq321u5" target="_blank">Hanging bolter</a><br />
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I didn't happen to have the ammo bit on hand, so I cut up the remains of a
Primaris Reiver bolt carbine that I had already taken the arm from for a
different project. Whittling it down to fit into the ammo slot was a pain. I
recommend just using the proper ammo bit.
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<a href="https://www.bitsandkits.co.uk/primaris-reiver-marine-bolter-carbine-a-p-15832.html?sesid=b8ebva7o7ldbmt1smkirq321u5" target="_blank">Ammo bit</a><br />
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The left arm is from the Devastators kit. Or at least, I think it is. The main
thing is to find an arm that points straight out from the body in the same
direction as the right arm.
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<a href="https://www.bitsandkits.co.uk/space-marine-devastator-chain-sword-p-12671.html?sesid=b8ebva7o7ldbmt1smkirq321u5" target="_blank">Left arm</a><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;">Shoulder Pads:</span></b>
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I used the Deathwatch pad from the Command Squad and cut off the flange on
top so it would fit. If you plan on making him a regular marine, then any
chapter pad without a large flange on top would do.
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<a href="https://www.bitsandkits.co.uk/space-marine-command-squad-deathwatch-pauldron-p-12873.html?sesid=b8ebva7o7ldbmt1smkirq321u5" target="_blank">Left shoulder pad</a><br />
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Once I decide on which chapter he's from, I want a textured pad that will
probably end up being 3D printed. If you plan on using a decal, then I'd
recommend using the pad from the Infiltrator kit.
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<a href="https://www.bitsandkits.co.uk/primaris-infiltrator-shoulder-pad-p-21671.html?sesid=b8ebva7o7ldbmt1smkirq321u5" target="_blank">Right shoulder pad</a><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;">Hands:</span></b>
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This is the fun one. I used the hands from the Devastator kit. I carefully
carved out the thumbs from the pointing hands, and attached the thumbs from
the open hands. I carved off the thumb from the Devastator pointing
right hand first because in case I mucked it up, I'd still have the pointing
hand on the arm to try again. But my first attempt turned out pretty
good, so I just ended up using it. This whole process was extremely
fiddley and involved much swearage.
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<a href="https://www.bitsandkits.co.uk/space-marine-devastator-hands-x6-p-12661.html?sesid=b8ebva7o7ldbmt1smkirq321u5" target="_blank">Hands</a>
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<div>If I were to do it again, I'd probably just buy these:</div>
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<a href="https://www.anvilindustry.co.uk/exo-hand-gestures" target="_blank">Anvil hands</a><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;">Head:</span></b>
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The head is this happy fellow from the new Chaos Marines. I cut off his horn
and I can see from the pictures that I have a little more work to do to
smooth out his noggin.
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<a href="https://www.bitsandkits.co.uk/chaos-space-marine-head-dd-p-27484.html?sesid=b8ebva7o7ldbmt1smkirq321u5" target="_blank">Head</a><br />
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That's about it for now. I'll really try to post more often.
Cheers.
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At this point in time, Silk and Velvet were about five months old and
just full of trouble.
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Some of their favourite spots were now getting to be a little cramped for both
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This sequence of pictures of Silk are some of my favourites. Just him
chilling in a plastic bin.
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Here he notices me taking pictures and gives me a look like "What are you
doing, creeper?"
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<div>"No paparazzi!"</div>
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<div>Silk and Velvet decided that these ugly green blinds just had to go.</div>
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Here is Silk giving me his best "I'm innocent" look. I got that look a
lot.
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<div>Cozy.</div>
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My worktable. I discovered that having a couple of empty bins kept them
from lying right in the middle of what I was doing. However, the bins
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Picture, if you will, me sitting at my worktable with a freshly opened can of
Coke at my right hand. The table is covered in tiny bits and pieces of
plastic models, with an open bin with more than a dozen compartments filled
with carefully sorted tiny bits and pieces at my left hand.
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Suddenly, a housefly zooms by my head, right at eye level. Followed
almost immediately by two lanky and energetic kittens, scrambling in a mad
dash in an attempt to catch the fly.
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There was what can only be called an explosion, an eruption, a cataclysmic
paroxysm of plastic bits and pieces, Coke, and cat fur. They didn't
catch the fly.
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I think they were about six months old in this picture. Look at how long
Velvet is, yet it still hadn't really sunk in just how big they were going to
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</div>Kitties and Kitbasheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18274694334963624461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907975625278590601.post-16718895888764414572021-09-02T23:45:00.009-03:002022-05-27T18:03:36.679-03:00The Kitbashes: 3 Stages of an Ork<p>
A few years ago I participated in a competition on
<a href="https://yaktribe.games/community/" target="_blank">Yaktribe</a> where the objective was to build and paint three versions of a model
that showed it as a novice, experienced, and veteran. I decided to do
three stages of an Ork: showing him as a yoof (otherwise known as a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7BMCZdXSlk" target="_blank">yoot</a>), one of the boyz, and a nob.
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What I started with... an old GorkaMorka boy, a standard Ork boy, and a
standard Ork nob.
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As the GorkaMorka models are bit smaller than the standard Orks, I figured
they'd do nicely as yoofs. As an eager young Ork, he started off with
whatever gear he could scavenge - a rusty knife and trusty six-shoota.
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The only real change I made to the model was to put some little horns on the
helmet. I planned to paint them up as Goffs, and Goffs seem to like
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As he got older and more experienced, he replaced his six-shoota with a
slugga. After loosing his right hand to the nob's ferocious pet squig,
he was forced to visit the doc to have a choppa attached to the stump of his
arm.
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<div>Silk, as usual, oversees all the progress.</div>
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Eventually he took over as the nob of his mob. I added some extra
armour using plasicard, and if I remember rightly, the mask is from a
fantasy model.
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I combined two sluggas to make a kustom shoota. I seem to recall this
bit being very fiddley to make.
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He also got a bionik power klaw. The standard one was a little weedy,
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<div>I put them all in the "say what again" pose.</div>
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The number of stikkbombs you get to carry apparently increases with
experience.
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The painting process.
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<div>I gave him a scar on his left arm.</div>
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Ork skin gets darker as they get older, so as a yoof his skin is pretty
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I was experimenting with clear bases. While I like the look of them,
it's a royal pain in backside to mount the models on them. Eventually
I'll get around to rebasing these dudes.
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<div>The boy.</div>
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How awkward would it be to have your lower arm replaced with a big honkin'
blade?
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Armour maintenance apparently isn't a big priority for Orks. Well,
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<div>While his skin tone is darker, his scar has lightened some.</div>
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<p>So, it's been a while. Pandemic + depression = lack of motivation.</p>
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I guess it's time to start posting again. I was originally going to post
pictures of my builds in more-or-less chronological order. Screw
that. I'm going to post about whatever strikes my fancy. Which
makes sense, since that's pretty much how I approach doing my builds
anyway. I can start a project, get it about half built and then get
distracted by something shiny. Then the project languishes in a box for
years until I finally get the urge to finish it. Many of my projects are
<b>still</b> waiting.
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So today we're going to show a project that I recently (mostly)
finished. I still have to do some greenstuff work to fill in gaps and
whatnot.
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This is a Leman Russ tank that was a cheap Ebay purchase. It was in
pretty rough shape with some parts broken off and my original intent was to
fix it up and paint it. But once I had it in hand, I felt like it was
just a little too... stubby.
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And thus the idea of lengthening the tank was born. Over the course of
several years I collected the various bits and pieces I needed from bits
sellers when they had a sale, and a few weeks ago the inspiration faerie
finally smacked me upside the head and said "Build yer tanks, ya git."
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A bit of cutting and filing later, and here we have the first lengthened
track.
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The body then had to be cut in half and lengthened as well. I shaved off
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I ended up 3D printing out the top plate as I still haven't mastered the art
of cutting a nice circle in plasticard. I used model train rivets from
Tichy Train Group, as my attempts to print out the tops with rivets didn't
turn out so great. What a fiddly process this was, inserting the stems
into those tiny holes. They had a distressing tendency to go flinging
off in random directions. It's a good thing I had lots, because I lost
quite a few.
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<div>The top plate in place.</div>
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I magnetized the weapon mount on the turret and 3D printed an addition for the
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Assembled turret. This is the turret from another Ebay tank
rescue. The tank itself will likely end up as terrain.
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Two new tanks.
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I also decided to work on a couple of alternate turrets. Here are the 3D
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My original plan was to take a couple of turrets from the Ork Battlewagon kit
and de-orkify them by shaving them down. But now that I have a 3D
printer, it seemed to be a much easier idea to simply design and print the
turrets.
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The idea is that the ork version is simply a looted turret. They cut off
things like the ladder and top bits and added extra armour.
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Silk and Velvet watch as a train hauling a couple of new tanks rolls by.
I'll add a post about my 40K trains later...
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I think the tanks look pretty good. They have a bit of a Russian KV-2
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<div>A close-up of some of the printed details.</div>
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Now I just have to finish off the back ends, add sponsons, do some gap-filling
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I remember one day I couldn't find Velvet. I looked all over the apartment until I finally found that she had discovered a cozy little spot in one of my bookshelves, where she was partially hidden by some books. I'm really not sure how she managed to squeeze herself in there.<br />
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Here is Velvet balancing herself on my computer monitor. I think she was trying to get my attention because it was time to eat.<br />
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Like many first-time cat owners, I bought an expensive toy for them, which they generally ignored. They would occasionally move the ball around in the track, but it usually required me to give it a spin to attract their attention. They were far more likely to use it like this.<br />
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Kitties and baskets. They were quite fond of this one. Neither one of them would fit in this basket now, much less both of them.<br />
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They were quite fond of getting on top of my bookshelves, and were pretty good about not knocking stuff off of them. Silk did learn that knocking stuff off the shelves was a good way to get my attention if I wasn't preparing their food at the proper time.<br />
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Who needs expensive cat toys? An empty Coke box provided plenty of entertainment.<br />
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I can't believe how small they are in these pictures, and that they could comfortably fit in a Coke box.<br />
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Look at those ears.<br />
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Flash forward to today, where for some strange reason I didn't put the lid down. I'm guessing I was distracted by something the thugs were doing and forgot. Or I saw something shiny. Either way, the lid wasn't down. <br />
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No, Silk didn't have an impromptu bath. <br />
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I was taking a shower and dropped my bar of soap. It hit the side of the tub closest to the wall, shot across the bottom, under the shower curtain, and up the other side where it described a lovely little arc and landed square in the toilet. <br />
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*Bloop* <br />
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Three of their siblings had the same general colour and markings as Silk, but he had more of an orange tint, especially around the face. The fourth sibling was totally grey and adorable, but I figured that the dividing line between cat-dad and crazy cat guy was after two cats. Maybe I should have embraced the fact that I am a crazy cat guy and taken the grey.<br />
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They liked napping on the back of that couch. I miss that couch.<br />
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Sleepy kitteh.<br />
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Silk likes the camera and doesn't mind posing for it.<br />
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Velvet eventually decided that she didn't like the camera, and often looks cranky when I take a picture of her, but at this point she was still all about being cute.<br />
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It didn't take long for Velvet to realize that she was a princess and to start posing appropriately.<br />
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The thugs decided early on that they weren't going to be lap cats. This was one of the few times that they did sit on my lap, and I think that they were simply informing me that it was past their suppertime.<br />
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I know that at least some of my readers will have little to no experience with kitbashing and the world of Games Workshop miniatures. Therefore I will include some links to wiki pages that go into more detail on some of the terminology and background for those who are interested.<br />
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I first started doing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitbashing" target="_blank">kitbashing</a> at a young age. I would chop up and combine <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HO_scale" target="_blank">HO scale</a> model railroad building kits to create larger or different buildings. I also kitbashed a few 1/25 scale vehicle kits, but my interest in those waned pretty quickly.<br />
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My dreams of having a huge model railroad have never come to fruition. By the time I was in high school, all of my model train stuff was packed away in boxes. Every now and then, they would be unpacked and I would start a small switching layout. However, I would inevitably end up moving, and everything would have to be packed up again. As I have lived in at least twenty different apartments over the years, this happened fairly often.<br />
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In the early 90's, I got interested in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warhammer_40%2C000" target="_blank">Warhammer 40K</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniature_conversion" target="_blank">converted</a> a few <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ork_(Warhammer_40,000)" target="_blank">Orks</a>. This one is a very simple conversion, I just cut the right hand off at the wrist and rotated it so that he was shooting 'gangtsa style'.<br />
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For this one, I chopped both arms at the shoulders so that they would stick straight out from the body, and added sleeves with putty to cover the mess I had made of it. I also cut the right hand off at the wrist and added that knobby bracelet for reasons that escape me. I have the memory capacity of a goldfish. Plus it was about 25 years ago.<br />
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Another very simple conversion. You can probably guess what it was.<br />
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For this fella, I cut the middle horn off his helmet and glued it along with another one to his shoulder pad. This was apparently before I began drilling out the gun barrels. More on that later.</div>
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For this happy fellow, I cut into his face, bent his lower jaw down, and carved off his mangled teeth. Then I added new teeth (or <a href="https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Ork_Teef" target="_blank">teef</a>, as Orks call them) made from whittled down bits of plastic and a tongue made from putty, if I remember correctly. I also cut off his axe and gave him a second gun.<br />
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This guy was supposed to represent the leader of my army. I cut off his side horns and turned them downward (I still like the look of those). I gave him a <a href="https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Power_sword" target="_blank">power sword</a> and a <a href="https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Shoota" target="_blank">kustom shoota</a> made from three imperial <a href="https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Boltgun" target="_blank">boltguns</a> and a <a href="https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Chainsword" target="_blank">chainblade</a>. At one time he had an odd-shaped piece glued onto his belt buckle that represented a <a href="https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Ork_Energy_Fields#Kustom_Force_Field" target="_blank">kustom force field</a> generator, but it is now long gone. Although it may be lying in the bottom of one of my many <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniature_conversion#Bits_boxes" target="_blank">bitz boxes</a>.<br />
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The bright and cartoonish paint jobs were typical of the day.<br />
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I much prefer the gritty, rusted look that is popular today. I painted these guys about four years ago. I think my painting technique has improved a little bit. I'll go into more depth on the process to make these guys sometime down the road.<br />
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kittens that needed to be adopted. They lived in an old farmhouse outside
of Ottawa and already had seven cats when someone abandoned a pregnant cat on
their driveway. They were willing to keep her, but eight cats was their
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I went out to visit and of the six kittens, two continually
played around me. I had been chosen. I had to wait a couple more
weeks for them to be old enough to leave their mother, but I soon became dad to
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This is Silk. Look at those ears.<br />
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This is Velvet. Her fur is soooo soft.<br />
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Silk started practicing his mind-control powers right from
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Toe beans!<br />
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I like that Silk's whiskers are white and Velvet's are
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You can see that Velvet actually has the same markings as
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I had no idea the impact that these two would have on my
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Kitties and Kitbasheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18274694334963624461noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907975625278590601.post-58908127128692249782019-11-15T14:37:00.006-04:002022-05-27T18:03:22.881-03:00And so it begins... Welcome to my blog. This will likely be a hot mess until I figure out what the heck I'm doing.<br />
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The plan is to show off pictures of my cats (Silk and Velvet) and progress pictures of my builds where I take bits and pieces from various model kits and smush them together in an attempt to make what I see in my mind's eye. There will be the occasional story about my cats or some random topic, and descriptions of the process and parts used in my builds.<br />
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First, a couple of pictures of the thugs, Silk and Velvet:<br />
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And a couple of pictures of some builds:<br />
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So there you have it. I will start with pictures of the thugs when they were kittens and stuff that I built years ago and add more pictures every couple of days or so until I get caught up to the present.<br />
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