Artillery pieces

This is a project that has been on the go for a while now. It is a collaboration between Steve, an Ozzie designer, and myself.

This is a new type of kit for LaserCutCard. It combines MDF, card and plastic tubing to create something that no single material could do on its own.

The basic artillery chassis and barrel is the same for all versions: each type has a details sheet that has a custom shield plus some faction-specific details to add to the rest of the gun. The barrels can also be built in various lengths and configurations.

The kit, if assembled carefully, has working mechanisms for raising and lowering the gun and the gun can freely swivel on its base plate. The gun components can be kept separate for ease of storage.

You do not have to glue the gun to the base plate... it can be used to add firepower to your vehicle models too.

The orc version is available here: http://www.lasercutcard.co.za/orc/artillery-orc

The chaos version is available here: http://www.lasercutcard.co.za/artillery-chaos

**EDIT** The standard version is here http://www.lasercutcard.co.za/artillery-standard

Standard version

Orc Version

Chaos Version

Death Guard Land Raider

I was cleaning out the hobby room on the weekend and discovered, as part of an old chaos army I bought ten years ago, a land raider.

It was already made up, everything was glued shut and every single possible piece from the chaos vehicle sprue had been glued on. It had been painted as a khorne vehicle.

The only additions I made was putting some cardboard bio-hazard symbols on the doors

I gave the whole thing two coats of matt black spraypaint, a coat of dark green from the airbrush and then managed to paint the rest of it last night.

In keeping with the blog ethos of "good enough is good enough", the entire paint job took about an hour. It looks great from tabletop distance but obviously won't stand up to close inspection.

But hey... it was "free" and now it is ready to hit the table.

A herd of rhino

My nurgle marines are complaining about having to walk everywhere. The solution was to dig up an old cardboard template, make a few copies and slap on some milliput.

I also used some of the plague base toppers and cut some nurgle sigils from card

The Rhino of Rottenness

"Honour the wargear of the dead" - thus it is written in the Codex Astartes. And so the ruinious powers will take every opportunity to do the opposite.

The Rhino Of Rottenness represents a fallen mechanical beast of the Grey Knights, turned now to the production of noisome and nocent plagues by the followers of Nurgle.

The motor in the drive compartment now pumps liquids in and out of the brew tank (the crew compartment). The still outside brews the secret ingredient that has to be handled with copper buckets on account of it being so dangerous.

The sandbags were added late in the project as the piece was looking a little sparse. They will justify giving anyone inside the area terrain a cover save.

• The rhino is made from cardboard. 
• The base is a piece of expanded polystyrene covered with white glue and then sand. 
• The barrels, buckets and jerry cans are from a Tamiya set. 
• The wooden bucket is scratch built, as is the still (from a Guiness widget). 
• All piping are flexi straws. 
• The valve control wheels are press studs. 
• The sandbags are Milliput.  

The original version

The updated version

I got some feedback on the original version from friends on Terragenesis and so decided to make this a tad more nurgly

Here you can see the extra goo that has been added:

• top left... added resin inside the bucket on the top
• top right... added overflow from both sides of the barrel
• bottom left... tipped over barrel creating a new puddle
• bottom right... spilled bucket creating other puddle

WIP shots

I started with a cardboard rhino that I had never finished and had lost interest in finishing.

I found an old sheet of expanded polystyrene  and hacked an oval into it. I also dug out a shallow hole for the rhino to sit in so that it would look like it had been there for ages.

I then covered the whole piece with watered down white glue and sprinkled it with fine sand and potting soil.

While this was drying I did a Google image search for portable whisky stills and found this image over at

http://www.whisky-pages.com/stories/sma-still.htm

I made my own version from some thin strips of balsa glued to the plastic tub that comes with an aerosol can and wrapped insulation tape around it to represent the copper binding. The still itself was the widget from inside a can of Guiness, plus a drinking straw.

I made a cross brace from some card that I had lying around.

After that, the whole thing was assembled. I used the Tamiya kit for barrels, buckets and jerrycans. All the piping was made from drinking straws.

For detailing, I added rivets made from plastic rod and rust made from superglue and baking soda.

The still was painted up separately as it will not be attached to the model (it will make it easier to store)

The sandbags were made from Milliput. The seams were made with a craft knife and the texture added by pressing a piece of cotton onto it once it was starting to harden.

I think my Nurgle table is just about finished :)

Nurgle Maggot Mounds

Well, I hope everyone got what they wanted from under the Newtonmass tree?

The Maggot Mounds are some pieces of scenery done for my Nurgle table.

The overall construction is very simple: some disks of expanded polystyrene covered in sand, some pillars made from wedding cake columns, some maggots made from painted grains of rice and some bitz.

There are three mounds (normally placed in the shape of the symbol of Nurgle) and each mound has three pits that are disgorging maggots (also in the shape of Nurgle).

I've made these as strong as I can so each piece has been given several coats of matt varnish. The maggots and entrails were also given a final coat of gloss varnish.

In games of 40k, they either provide 5+ cover to models that are on them  (the wussy version) or they provide 4+ cover save but  each model has to take a dangerous terrain test every turn (whether they move or not).