Stompa Gargant W.I.P.

[Justicar Billybob]

Just wondering, but have you priced out this model using the Vehicle design rules from Chapter approved 2004? I imagine it\'d be rather interesting..
In any event, I have the book and you can figure it out if you ever wanna use it. I\'m also sure the boyz from Palisades center would love to see this thing. You\'ve inspired me to start making my own. Though not as elaborate, i\'m doing my best.
Did you ever show that scratch built battlewagon? You really should if you haven\'t.
IN any event, I hope to run into you again at GW palisades or HiWay Hobby. whichever. And when you get your Ork amy done, I\'ll gladly play you with my own.

 

[tenjuu]

If you\'re still looking for a way to bulk out the shoulder area to give it the more gorrillaesque look, why not try adding a fuel tank w/ some plating or whatnot for the flame thrower? you could mount it length wise across the top , and maybe partially enclose it w/ plasticard and wire mesh. I think a small CO2 catridge would work well for the tank, but i\'m not sure on the size.

For additional bits you could have a railed in platform on the top of the enclosure with a couple oil barrels with chain holding them in place... put an intake valve on the side of the cartridge with a funneled end, maybe have a grot in a harness hanging over the side dumping oil or gas or whatever into it. you could run a hose from the side of the burna to the nozzle of the CO2 Cartridge. (Someone mentioned here in the thread a way to make the end of a hose magnetic) and since the CO2 cartridge is steel you could stick the end of the hose to it (maybe you could add a \"NO SMOKING\" sign onto the tank and have the grot w/ a cigar hanging out of his mouth. It also seems kind of appropriate to me that the tank of highly flamable substances will be sitting atop the engine and susceptable to the exaust from the grot rocket, heh.

edit:

Maybe instead of the grot just hanging over the side in a harness you could build a small crane or somesuch thing w/ the grot hanging from a rope tied around its waist or w/ a hook catching his shirt between his shoulder blades or the seat of his pants?

It kind of breaks away from the sketch but I think it would fit the overall theme, regardless.

I was also thinking that the Snotty grot in the grotpit should maybe be holding a spanner/wrench, to emphesize the fact that he\'s the engineer.

whatever you decide to do I\'m sure it\'ll look great, hell it already looks amazing

 

[chrismisterx]

one word \"WOW\"

I really cant find the words to give credit for one of the best models i have ever seen and its not even finished!

please please please keep up the good work, cant wait to see more updates.

 

[philologus]

Bump

James where are you? I need a fix. I\'m hooked on this project.

 

[Torn blue sky]

Me too!
Theres a distinct echoey sound and theres dust everywhere!

 

[provoke me]

BUMP

any news? im going thru withdraw man...i need a fix...

 

[Ziggi]

For those going through withdrawals, you can get your fix at Here

Ziggi

 

[Avicenna]

erm...

Hate to rain on your parade, but this thread is old. And the general policy around here is: DON\'T post in an old thread to bring it back to the front, ESPECIALLY if all you\'re going to say is \"good work\". Generally, this practice is called \"threadomancy\", and is a big no-no. Except for emergencies, only the person who started the thread is allowed to bring back an old post.

that thread-o-mancy was just 9 days after the previous post! What a hard nosed b\'stard! lol

 

[Link122]

Wow dude....
At first I was a little sceptical if it would fit into 40k...
But the latest pic of the whole model is amazing....
Really really good work, can\'t wait to see final result..

 

[mistamick]

That is so cool. It looks like something designed by Wallace and Gromit, but evil!!!

 

[misterjustin]

Originally posted by mistamick
That is so cool. It looks like something designed by Wallace and Gromit, but evil!!!

\"Wrong Trousers\" indeed

 

[demonherald]

ESPECIALLY if all you\'re going to say is \"good work\".

so to recognise someones awesome effort even if you\'ve just missed it first time is a no no ....?

This project wip should stay at the top of the threads if you ask me it is truly inspiring and hopefully there will be a fix soon...

Avicienna Nail on the head there...HNB

 

[AinuLainour]

I would suggest looking through the forums of other sites that he uses.

 

[Modelling Monkey]

hi all,
this is my first post,
ive been watching this project for a while now and its amazing what this guy can do!:wow:
so whens the next update of the \"mini\"?

 

[hivetrygon]

I just saw this for the first time tonight and love it. I do a lot of sculpting, very little with plastic card but think I might have a go but in a slightly different direction using some of your ideas, such as the springs. This is my favorite scratch built piece EVER! So forgive me when I steal some of your ideas for my nurgle titan.

 

[jamsessionein]

Let\'s get some new momentum going, shall we?

It\'s been an interesting past few months for me. I won\'t bore you with the details, but the important thing is that I have recently been liberated from my obligations towards work and school for the winter, which leaves me with enough time to finally finish this. I\'m deeply saddened that it\'s taken me this long, but I\'ll be happy to get this thing done and painted and stompin\' on da closest fing dat moves!

My general first order of business is to finish the construction and fine details. The gargant now has a ramshackle grot bomb launcher that slots in on the center of the shoulders once the head is attached. The grot bomb has been pinned to the ramp - magnets proved too difficult to use for that application, so instead it slots onto the ramp nicely on a metal post. In the course of the past few months, the captain, who is the one grot in the grotpit that I did not pin in place, has managed to escape from my slaver. This means I will need to make another, which is alright with me because I wasn\'t 100% fond of him due to the ackward way I had him holding the ship wheel.

Here\'s some pictures of the grot bomb ramp:

I apologize for the picture quality, it isn\'t my usual camera.

The new ramp badly evidences the need for some proper shoulder armor, which is the next thing on my list to build after I magnetize the grot bomb properly.

I was originally messing around with a curved and streamlined shape to the shoulders so that they would not impede the motion of the arms.

Then I came to my senses and realized that \'streamlined\' and \'orky\' do not go together. At all. So I am working on making some nice, big, chunky shoulders.

I\'ve only got one shoulder\'s general shape built so far, as I\'m trying to make it out of reasonably thick card so that it\'ll be sturdy. The back is open so that I can properly pose the claw hand aiming backwards in a running position. Also, orks have no need for rear armor! As long as it\'s a walking wall of death, nothing\'ll get behind it. It\'ll get riveted up and a plated a bit, as well.

I\'m thinking I\'m going to put some spears sticking out the top of the shoulder pads - maybe a grot tied to a stick and some beakie heads on a pike.

I\'m glad to be working on this again.

 

[lono]

It\'s about frickin\' time! Glad you are back working on this. Can\'t wait to see it finished. Hope all is well with the work situation.

 

[angus147258]

That is soo koool!!!
Jake

 

[jamsessionein]

Just working on the 2nd shoulder... I found the head is a bit asymmetrical in back, which makes the attachment of that shoulder pad a real pain because it interferes a bit with where the head wants to rest. I\'ve been trying to make up for this by removing a decent impact blast chunk of armor in the corner where it pokes into the back of the head, and I think that took care of it.

I\'m going to rivet around the edges, and probably plate the tops.. I think the gun-arm shoulder pad would look pretty decent with a chain hanging across it and heads tied to it for detail. I was considering those poles as spikes atop the shoulders, so I sketched it up real roughly. I only have two poles I can think of using - one with the grot tied to a spear and the other with the heads, which looks remarkably asymmetrical and a bit unbalanced.

With the poles:

I figured it looks a bit different when it\'s full on posed, so I propped it up using stuff on my desk in the running pose to match the concept art. I may tone the backwards-tilted arm a bit down, since it\'s already leaning forward.

 

[enterfaith]

Holy.... Crap.... Seriously, this thing is so awesome. Very nice battle-scene base aswell, I can almost feel the fear in those fleeing guardsmen. VERY nice work dude.