STOMP! SMASH! KILL!
I’ve been waiting for this release for a long while. I haven’t settled my opinion on these new models yet, I need to let it sink in a bit. But my initial reaction is good.
I think, I really like the Kans. Too bad I already have a ton of them. Three more won’t hurt right?
Images copyright Games Workshop.
We can’t stop here. This is bat country!
I submitted a silly picture of my ork trukk to Bell of Lost Souls pic of the day, and they posted it. The trolls didn’t like it, but they hate everything, and can’t appreciate art. I think it’s pretty funny and some of the captions people came up with are priceless. So I’m posting it’s sister pic here. Because it’s even funnier when there’s two. See Mom, I didn’t waste all my time at art school.
Enjoy.
-Skeller
Last month, I bought a copy of Mordheim on Ebay. I’ve always wanted to play it, or at least build a warband for it. So I got my new book in the mail, worked out a possessed warband list and then I headed right over to Hoard o’ Bits and bought a bunch of stuff as you can see.
I got flagellants bits, chaos spawn bits, beast man bits, and a huge honking Reaper Miniatures Ogre. That is a big step for me. I haven’t bought anything but GW minis since the 80’s. I feel odd, like I’m crossing a line using a non-GW mini in a GW game. I know it’s all in my head, but it feels very strange. Doesn’t matter though because I love those Reaper minis and this Ogre is perfect as you can see below.
Since the possessed is going to be the real center piece of the gang I’ve started on him first. The conversion isn’t to drastic, just some hand swaps and a little greenstuff work to hold it together.
I’m going to go back and reread Ron’s green stuffing tutorials on From The Warp, since I have very little experience with it.
When the big fella is done I’ll dive into this pile of bits and have a real time of it. I’d also like to thank Tom’s Boring Mordheim Blog for tons idea and inspiration.
Let me know what you think so far. Here’s my working warband list.
Mordheim Posessed Warband:
Magister - Lucas Tasker - 73gc
Mace
Dagger
Possessed - Holgoloth - 140gc
Great Claw
Mutant - Verner Castelle - 69gc
Extra arm
Dagger
Dagger
Mutant - Silas Mannefreid - 65gc
Extra Arm
Dagger
Dagger
Beastman - Fharug - 48gc
Mace
Dagger
Brethren - Karl Merke - 25gc
Dagger
Brethren - Brother Fulg - 25gc
Dagger
Brethren - Barnibus Crugel - 28gc
Mace
Dagger
Brethren - Hans Bugher - 25gc
Dagger
Now that I’ve got some base colors on this guy you can see more of whats going on.
I’ve got some entrails spilling out the right side and all sorts of pocks and boils. This is just the first stage, blocking out the major color areas. I’ve still got a lot of work ahead of me.
The daemon weapon will get the typical rust treatment, and I’m going to try to individually paint as many of the nodules as I can stand.
This is the big fella relaxing in some of the prototypes for our new machine cut mdf terrain which we may be selling as kits in the near future.
Last just a shot of the ruins themselves.
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Here you have a preview of my secret project, a kind of true scale Greater Daemon of Nurgle.
Made almost entirely of expanding insulation foam. He’s big. Bigger than a rhino. I’m a fan of the GUO’s that lurk hugely in the background of the old Slaves to Darkness illustrations and this guy is just the size for that. He also fits the GREATER daemon title more than that rinky dink GW model. He’s no contender vs the forge world guy, but he did only cost about $3.50. He is being painted now, at my regular frozen sloth pace, so expect pics of the finished piece this summer.
Below is a pic the middle stage, with a Plague terminator in for scale and some Great Stuff product placement. He’s holding a card board mock up of his soon to be plasticard great plague sword. Looking back I sometimes wish I had stopped at this stage, he looked less sinister and more jolly old grandpappy Nurgle, and I like that.
Oh the delicious nook and crannies.
Plastic tube toe nails.
A close up of the finished head with horns and teeth carved from a sliver of pvc pipe and trademark mouth tentacle.
I know this is another of my, “You’ll love it or hate it” projects, so let me know what you think.
Painted pics coming soon.
Believe it or not these guys started out as loyalist space marine terminators. A guy I know had purchased them, assembled them and then scraped and chiseled off all the Imperial iconography. He was building a chaos space marine army with a “just after the heresy theme”, so they needed to be less spiky than the available chaos termie models. He traded them to me along with the rest of the unfinished army in exchange for some landscaping. I’m a huge fan of the barter system. I’m pretty happy with all the models I got, but I never liked these guys. They were to hacked up to resell and I didn’t like their neat and tidy loyalist looks at all. I want my Nurgle marines to be oozing entrails and vomiting maggots. I can’t dig on the clean white armored Heresy Death Guard some people have going, it’s not for me. So these guys sat on my table for a long long time. I would fiddle with them when I got bored. First I pulled all there heads off with a pair of pliers (curse you plastic glue) and replaced them with some zombie heads. Then all hell broke loose and I just started gluing on random bits, and wire, drilling in bullet holes and hacking them up with battle damage and what have you. It was a nice change of pace for me because I’m usually very timid with my models, always afraid I’ll mess them up. I didn’t care about these guys and that’s how I got them to where we are today. I don’t work much with green stuff. I do however make a lot of hideous zombie heads and masks out of Great Stuff. Yeah, the expanding insulation foam you get at hardware stores. So I put these termies to a test.
I sprayed out a bit of the foam and then with a length of wire I scooped it up and applied it to the models, ever so slightly, because it does expand by 300% or something crazy like that.
It swelled up and oozed all around nicely. These dudes were definitely looking Nurgley. I was really happy with the results of my 10 minutes of work. So I primed them up and took them to battle. Where if I recall correctly, they got viciously hammered by bane blades. So I brought them home set about painting them. The paint jobs are quick and dirty with lots of rust corrosion and purple buboes, with a basing to match my ash wastes/city fight table.
Took me about a week to get them all done. I’m guessing folks will either really love them or really hate them. Let me know what you think.
I visited The-Waaagh.com after several months of hiatus and got so inspired I headed straight for the mek shop. It also helps that we have a big narrative campaign games day coming up. Both of these vehicles are builds I’ve been planning for a long time but could never manage to get started on.
The first was rebuilding my old gorka morka trukk in the fashion of the new GW trukk kits. I also wanted it to be a chopped down hotrod version, built for speed. I tried to reuse as much of the old truck as possible and I had this great little toy engine that fit in perfect too.
The Looted Wagon is a orky homage to the tanks from Metal Slug arcade game. I still have a ways to go on this build. The skorcha and boom gun have magnets on them so I can change up the load out and the skorcha has a neat fuel storage system the snaps onto the back. I still have lots of detail work and rivets to add on this one. Probably need to find a place to add some big exhaust pipes too.
I finally found a place to use all those extra killa kan hoses.
I thinking I might build a Kill Krusha tank when I’m done with these and finish painting on the battle wagon, if I can keep my momentum going.
We’ve been running a small slow play Dark Heresy game in our forums, HERE. A few players have already come and gone, which is typical, I find, of internet RPGing. Right now we have 2 players and 3 GMPC’s. We’d love to have 1-2 more players to spice up the action. The game updates on Wednesday and Sunday, usually on time, with a few surprise up dates when I get the time. If you’d like to give it a go, you’ll need a copy of the rule book and a sense of adventure, just register on our forums, roll up a character and post it in the character thread. First come first served and there’s only 2 spots. Hope to see you in the grim dark future.
After months of semi-functional or mostly broken commenting feature, we now have a functioning Disqus comments system. Thanks to Master of the web, Bitterman. This development almost turns this place into a real blogsite. So stay tuned for more posts, and now you can really let me know what you think.
It is slow going here in the mek shop. I finally caught a minute to sit down and put in some time on my #2 Stompa build. The first was built in 7 days. The second is looking more like 7 years, or you could just call it 7 very non consecutive days.
I’ve added some structure and werky bits to the gun arm. I put two glyphs plates on the right shoulder and plated up the feet. I made and applied about 100 rivets, added some spikes to the feet and apron and drilled in a few battle damage bullet holes at random. I also put a little swiveling crane up on the left shoulder to mount my grot rokkits on so day in the far future.
I think the biggest change is I snapped off the two front big shoota mounts. They were just too symmetrical and neat. I think I’ll be adding something a bit more orky soon. If any one has comments or suggestions I’d love to hear them.
You can see some more of this stompa, here in the WIP section of our forums.
