Red Jack's (sukigod) Waaagh! Log

[TSS]

Subbed! And thats just after looking at the first 2 pages. Im off the read all of this wonderful blog right now!

[sukigod]

OK, the orky mug above, which was originally going to be a design for the t-shirt, has been put on hold. I got a much better deal with graphics in the form of taytonclait allowing us to use some of his great work - I am so stoked to see all the stuff produced. It's gonna be awesome! Some people asked if I was going to have those mugs produced based on my early design work... Maybe Me and my friend who does resin casting have been throwing ideas around and it might actually just happen. We'll see, and I'll keep everyone around here posted

That said, I'm beginning the production of this years trophies. I've been sitting on this idea for almost four months and I suppose I need to get them rolling to be done in time. Here's the quick mockup for placement and sizing.



A defective 1 liter mug from last year, a wood base, a garage mounting peg for shovels and a Nerf Enforcer pistol. I have a friend who has a wood shop and he'll be turning out a set of custom bases for the mug and gun to sit in, I've got metal tags for designations on order and I'll be sending the mugs out for etching/sandblasting next week. The guns will be orkified into Sluggas.



Pretty, aren't they? This came about after finding the Nerf guns on clearance before Christmas last year for $5 each - couldn't pass that up. I'll be working on bulking them up a little and making sure all the Nerf text is obliterated then find a paint scheme that would befit an ork pistol.

That's all the orky stuff I got finished tonight. Between this and the board I'm making for Waaagh!Fest (along with all the setup and administration for that!) I think I'll have a pretty full plate until June.


Made some small progress on the Skypad over the last few days. I spent about 3 hours masking off the chevron areas and painting them yellow. Masking can be a tough and tricky deal. This photo shows the worst part of the job after removing the tape.



The tape wasn't stuck down well enough and some of the paint seeped under it. Mot too hard to clean up afterwards with come Chaos Black. I also went and blacked out all of the small beacon lights surrounding the platform. There's almost as many of those as skulls on this thing!



Here's where it sits after chevrons, cleanup and lights. I wanted to have the lights blacked out before I start the weathering process as I'll be doing those last so they have a bit of fresh pop when it's done.

[Solun Decius]

Excellent trophy ideas man! You seem to have your hands full, hobbywise, right now.
Very nice work on the landing platform so far. Nice and clean, ready for dirtying up!

[sukigod]

Here ya go Solun!

From nice and shiny new landing pad to something with little age and wear - something used!

Spent a little free time weathering the skypad over the last week or so. Started with a sponge treatment for the chipped paint, airbrushed on a layer of badab black and devlin mud. This was followed by re-drybrush of the rotting flesh to bring back the highlights and details back in the areas where the paint wasn't chipped, then a fine brush treatment of the metal edges and larger paint chips down to the metal.

I think I just need to retouch the skulls a little (the badab really muted them) and then the landing lights - which is almost as many as the skulls!

Later!

[razormasticator]

That is looking great Suki~ Want to paint mine? LOL

[sukigod]

That is looking great Suki~ Want to paint mine? LOL

Not any time soon!

And thanks! Now I need to work on the bastion, gun platform and pumping station.

[Gertjan]

Damn, a very inspirational thread, amazed I didn't stumble on it before. I feel slightly jealous of your painting and conversion skills to be honest. I'll be following this for inspiration for my own grot liberation army. You truly have a gorgeous looking army there.

Thing that made my day was that I spotted the most awesome gretchin ever in one of your army shot, a certain standard bearer , epic that some people haven't done away with him, nice to see I'm not the only one who appreciates him

[sukigod]

Thing that made my day was that I spotted the most awesome gretchin ever in one of your army shot, a certain standard bearer , epic that some people haven't done away with him, nice to see I'm not the only one who appreciates him

Thanks! I hope to see that particular grot make a return in the next codex. Would be nice.

[CT GAMER]

The effect on the skin is amazing.

[sukigod]

Thanks CT Gamer!

Whoops! Wot's dis? An update?! Crickey!

Real life has been either extremely busy lately, or extrememly sick. I'm wrapping up day 10 of being run down and finally on the mend. Sucks. But at least now I've got enough energy to get something done - and boy do I have things to get done!

Granite City Waaagh!Fest is less than two months away and I've got a 'uge laundry list of things to get done by then, net the least of is building the Slugga pistol trophies. I finally got to work on those this last weekend.

The trickiest part was changing the shape from "Hey, that's a Nerf Maverick!" to "Hey, that looks like an ork slugga!" I started by mocking up some changes and additions using foamcore to get an idea of shapes and sizes. The next was building out those additions. I started by creating under-boxes. These were made out of acrylic sheet from some recycled display stands we had lying around at work. All of the Nerf identifiers were covered in rough cut acrylic sheet panels and glued over where it said Nerf and Maverick, etc. Working with acrylic sheet sucks. It's brittle, the glue is some of the worst to work with and, of course, I'm extremely inexperienced with working with it. It's also very, very sharp so almost every edge where someones hands might run over it had top be sanded down a smoothed out so as not to cut the recipients.

All in all, I did get the major construction wrapped up today. It's a little difficult to see the actual shape with the acrylic being transparent but I don't want to prime it until after I get the glyphs on. That's all I need to do build-wise. The barrels were extended about an inch as well using a bit of pvc pipe connector. I'm thinking of adding some kind of long screw to the top as a sight of sorts, I'll have to dig around the scrap bins and see what I can find.

I'll stop yapping now, here's the pics...




Later!

[sukigod]

Quick update - finished the glyph on the left side. I primed just the front section so I could actually see where everything is.



I'll be putting a skull glyph on the other side then more rivets (of course) to add a little more detail, then on to paint!

Later!

[Snoddie]

I would suggest getting some leather and wrapping the grip of the gun as the current one looks far to fancy for an Ork Slugga.

[sukigod]

I would suggest getting some leather and wrapping the grip of the gun as the current one looks far to fancy for an Ork Slugga.

Plans to correct that are in place. I'm using hockey tape to wrap the handle (easier and cheaper than leather). I'm also looking into making some clay teef to add on a string tied to the lanyard loop on the back.

[sukigod]

Quick post, nothing too major, just some metallics. Started with a dry brush of Tin Bitz, then a Boltgun Metal followed by a highlighting of Mithril. The Tin Bitz doesn't show through in the photos but it's there. Yay -Paint!






Later!

[sukigod]

Quick update. Masked off the metallics and based with an airbrush using Mephiston Red Base. Darker than I had anticipated but it worked well.



Then a coat of Tamiya X7 flat red and topped off with Blood Red.





I snapped a panel off during painting so I'll need to reattach it of course. I ran out of Blood Red after the first gun so a trip to the local hobby shop for one of the new reds is in order to continue.

Later!

[sukigod]

Long weekend gives me some time to work on the guns!

I finished up airbrushing the other guns with Evil Sunz Red and I think this is a better top-end red than Blood Red was, not so orange. I also cleaned up the overspray with black and marked out the areas that will get metallic treatment, mainly where the gouges in the metal are.

I don't think I can say this enough either.... CERAMITE WHITE IS THE BEST PAINT IN THE NEW RANGE - PERIOD.

I wish they had come out with this years ago. Granted, I did do two coats but that was because I thinned it down a bit for outlining the white areas first. This covers so well it's ridiculous. Anyway, on to the paint





Next is the chipping, followed by metallics, a dirt wash and final dry brush highlights and I can seal them and call them done! Woohooo!

Later!

[Dudde]

sukigod - I want one! The guns look fantastic, what will be after the guns?

Can't wait for more.

[The_Dark_Raven]

They are looking so amazing. I might try doing something up similar for my gaming club. It's a really nice feeling to see stuff like this that adds to the hobby.

[sukigod]

Did get the chipping and metallics done today. The primer level is a sponged on mix of Chaos Black and Scorched Brown. The metals are only Boltgun Metal at this point, also sponged on. I've also gone back through and filled the deep scratched and large crush areas with a brush as the sponge doesn't cover those spaces well.





Here's a closer look at the chipping.



Next is a wash with airbrush, highlights with a dry brush of a Blaze-y Orange color for the reds, Mithril for the metals, seal with Dulcote and them wrap the grips with hockey tape and I can call them done!

Later!

[razormasticator]

Wow Suki those are Amazing!!!! Anyone should be honored to have one of those.