Ork Goodies
- project finished on 2/09/10 |
Customer: Eric Hubbard
Project Outline: A bunch of Orky tidbits.
Some Big Bommz and Buzzsaws for Deff Koptas, as well as
a custom built Kaptin Badrukk and accompanying Flash Gitz
bitz.
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Concept,
Construction and Conversion
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First
up is the custom Kaptin Badrukk.
I converted him from a plastic Nob body using a resin pirate
ork head. I also lopped off his right leg and relaced it
with a custom built pegleg to keep with the priate feel.
I've got him standing on a piece of slate with the pegleg
up on a treasure chest, ala Captain
Morgan.
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Here's
a side shot of the Kaptin showing his custom snazzgun, "Da
Rippa".
I built it from various bits, icluding parts from a couplf
different shootas, a knife, styrene tubing, and the wooden
stock from a waaaay old GorkaMorka shoota.
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Here's
a shot from the other side showing the pegleg and the treasure
chest.
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Here
we have 5 out of the six snazzguns that I'm building for
this project. The customer wants them seperate so he can
build his Flash Gitz as he sees fit.
These were made from the various combi-shootas out of the
Nobs boxed set. I added ammo drums, magazines and belts,
as well as extra barrels, scopes and wiring in a few places.
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One
of the other parts of this project was to attach the resin
pirate heads to the Nob bodies using pins.
After some trial and error, I realised that attaching the
heads to the bodies before the snazzguns were in place would
be a bad idea, as they might interfere with the snazzguns.
How bad would it suck to have the heads glued on and then
have to break them off to get the guns on correctly.
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My
solution:
I used a combination of small drill bits and a sharp hooby
knife to very carefully hollow out the back of the head
so they will fit on the nob bodies like the normal plastic
heads.
This way, the customer can glue the heads on as he sees
fit once the guns are in place.
Next up will be the Buzzsaw and the Big Bommz for the Deffkopta.
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Here's
a shot of the custom buzzsaw for the Deff Kopta.
I went with a "weed eater" style attachment,
which places the blade at about neck height for the standard
40k infantry model.
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The
custom buzzsaw from another angle.
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I
kept the buzzsaw in two seperate pieces, the saw and the
support strut. This way, the customer can adjust the angle
of the blade as he sees fit before glueing it in place.
It's hard to see in this picture, but there is a small
hole drilled in the base of the support strut that the end
of the power cable fits into
I left both the support strut and the power cable a bit
long so they can be trimmed if neccessary.
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Here
is the last of the snazzguns and the beginnings of the two
big bomm prototypes.
At this point, I'm waiting for the greenstuff in the nose
cones to cure before doing anymore detail work. I'm going
to leave one nose cone pretty much blank, but the other
is going to have some wedge shaped armor plating bolted
to the nose cone.
Once the prototypes are finished I'm going make some molds
to reproduce them in resin.
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Next
up, we have a few embellishments on the Kaptin, including
a banner pole made from a Nob's bosspole. I put a severed
head on it, as well as a bolted-on 'eyepatch' to fit in
with the whole pirate theme.
The "parrot-squig" has been moved over to one
side a bit so the Kaptin's choppa won't cover his face.
I also added a fuel cannister to the Kaptin's back with
a cable running into the handgrip of 'Da Rippa' just to
give it some extra juice :)
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Here
are the two Big Bommz cast in resin, along with two hardpoint
struts to mount Bommz under the wing of a Deff Kopta, or
any other aircraft for that matter.
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I
just couldn't resist painting up a couple of copies to give
you a feel what they'd look like painted.
These guys will be making it into the store section before
too long I'm sure.
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