New Project - Morkanaut

Started building a Morkanaut for my Ork army.
I've done the basic construction and laid down the base color.
I'm going to paint it in several sub-assemblies and then assemble it all at the end.

Deff Speederz DONE!

Phew!  Long project that I have been picking away at for months.
The speeders themselves were done about 3 weeks ago, but it took longer than I thought to receive the bases from Dragonforge.  Dragonforge is a great copany and does great work but essentially there is only so much he can do in a day.

Here are the finished Deff Speederz!
There are 6 different speederz, each one has it's own custom markings and identifying glyph.

Mek Speeder

King Speeder

 Double Down Speeder

Big Blast Speeder

Lightning Speeder

Dagger Speeder

The Whole Mob

Deff Speederz compared to GW AoBR Deff Koptas

The Deff Speederz are a little big but... I like the way they came out.

A little Update

Progress on the "Deff Skimmaz"

I primed the models black and then did some masking.  I wanted to give each skimmer a personalized look, as if each pilot had taken the time to mark his skimmer.  I masked out different patterns of black stripes along the fuselage and wings of each skimmer and a circle near the front.

Once the masking was done I painted the skimmers with a base coat of Averland Sunset.  I'm just looking for coverage here, it's a first step in.  After the base coat had dried I peeled off the masks and painted the personal glyphs and the front engine intakes on each skimmer in Khorne Red and then washed the entire model with Agrax Earthshade.

This establishes a good base color with shade.  I then starting layering a watered down Averland Sunset on the existing yellow portions, this will be my "mid-tone".

You can see I've started to block out a mid-tone color in the front of this skimmer.  The paint color looks fairly consistent here, but it's not and I prefer it that way.  Because I have watered down the Averland Sunset there are spots that are obviously thinner than others.  I encourage this.  These are Ork vehicles after all and I am trying to convey the idea of "used".    

More updates soon... I hope. 

I recently polished off the Grots I've been working on... here are some work table shots.  I'm pretty happy with the way they turned out.  This brings my total Grot count to 42... actually I have more Grots than slugga boys (24) or shoota boys (36), which is a little shameful.

Back to working on the "Deff Koptas".

Merry Ho Ho!

First of all Merry Christmas!
I've done a little work on the Deff Skimmers and some grots I have kicking around on my work bench, nothing really to post.

Today I received Zombicide as a gift!  I may have to derail my grots and Deff Skimmers to work on zombies and heros!  They look awesome.

Pics when I have significant progress.

I had a little bit of time and I was able to finish construction of the 'Koptas and got them all primed.  

I am now beginning 'masking' off parts of the 'Koptas for the final paint job.  There will be some areas that maintain the black.  The circular masks I am planning / hoping to make individual icons for each of the 'Koptas.

I'm not sure how useful the Kill Saw will be in game terms ... I tend to think the 'Koptas will be best as a medium distance 'pick and move' type of unit.

Slow progress

My bitz arrived from France and Germany.. damn GW and their US bitz policy.
I've been picking away at the models when I have time, but with school back in session my progress is slow.  I'll post more pics when I have something worth showing.