Stompa Gargant W.I.P.
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OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG that is brilliant it just gets better and better i a so jelous you should defenatly win GD
maybe get the slayer sword
oh yeah comments on the model,i really like it lol
no really i think it would be cool to have a guardsman hiding on the beast
like behind a spar or something
james
maybe get the slayer sword
oh yeah comments on the model,i really like it lol
no really i think it would be cool to have a guardsman hiding on the beast
like behind a spar or somethingjames
jamsessionein
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Got the basic head frame attached. It\'s going to get a lot more cabling/wires/detailing in the next few hours. Also, please remember that there\'s a grot bomb going on the thing\'s back - it looks hunched over right now and a bit odd, but aesthetically I think the extra weapon on the back will help balance it out.
The jaw\'s also fixed in place. I wanted to make a hinged one, but it just proved too awkward - occasionally opening too much and covering the grots completely, which looked silly. I just stuck it in a halfway pose, so that when I make the flamer and put it in the head it\'ll look alright. Battery\'s still removable - I cut the toggle switch down a bit as well, and I\'ll be concealing it somehow once I figure out what\'s going on the back of the head. Probably make it look like a valve or something. The lights are on and off in the pictures just because I would walk away in the middle of taking photos to take care of something around the house and turn the eyes off so the batteries didn\'t die, but forget to turn them back on when I come back to finish picture-taking.
The head\'s a bit of a mess - the new glue I got, since I ran out of my old kind, seems to give off odd vapors that harden and make the surrounding area crusty. -_- I\'ll clean it up with the dremel and an xacto later. I actually had the suggestion to give it lightning-bolt shaped eyebrows to give it a bit more character and imply that the eyes are, in fact, zzap guns (aside from the extensive cabling). I might give that a go.
The jaw\'s also fixed in place. I wanted to make a hinged one, but it just proved too awkward - occasionally opening too much and covering the grots completely, which looked silly. I just stuck it in a halfway pose, so that when I make the flamer and put it in the head it\'ll look alright. Battery\'s still removable - I cut the toggle switch down a bit as well, and I\'ll be concealing it somehow once I figure out what\'s going on the back of the head. Probably make it look like a valve or something. The lights are on and off in the pictures just because I would walk away in the middle of taking photos to take care of something around the house and turn the eyes off so the batteries didn\'t die, but forget to turn them back on when I come back to finish picture-taking.
The head\'s a bit of a mess - the new glue I got, since I ran out of my old kind, seems to give off odd vapors that harden and make the surrounding area crusty. -_- I\'ll clean it up with the dremel and an xacto later. I actually had the suggestion to give it lightning-bolt shaped eyebrows to give it a bit more character and imply that the eyes are, in fact, zzap guns (aside from the extensive cabling). I might give that a go.
jamsessionein
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Well, aside from actually attaching the head this morning I\'ve had a surprisingly unproductive day as I\'ve been tied up in family matters for most of the afternoon and evening. I did get a chance to add that dangly-chain-glyph thing from the illustration - the chain is reinforced by superglue.
I\'m having trouble with two parts in particular - the flamethrower in the mouth and the back of the head.
The flamethrower is proving to be a problem as I need to find a spot to fix it inside the head where it does not obstruct the batteries, as I\'ve designed them to be removable when they die out.. I could put the flamer in the way if I made that removable as well with magnets or some such, but I\'m just having trouble picturing a good burna design in my head. Obviously, I\'d like for there to be some \'pilot light\' sort of thing at the top of it, so that a flame is visible behind the teeth and inside the mouth..
As for the back of the head, I just don\'t know what to fill that area in with. Maybe cabling of some sort, but remember, the head has to be detachable for painting and grotpit display purposes (and the battery changes), which prevents me from just running cables into the torso. Whatever I add needs to be capable of having a sort of U-shaped scaffolding built on it for the grot bomb / earthshaker cannon concept I have for the back.. just can\'t visualize anything right now.
I\'m also considering adding some sort of shoulder armor (picture a super-enlarged ork shoulder armor bit) to flesh the arm joints out a little bit, as they look a bit fragile right now. Or at least, vulnerable to attack. Then again, it\'s not all that vital.
I\'m honestly thinking of leaving the eyebrows off this thing. They make it look silly in the same way the \'ears\' on the original did.
In any case, I\'d love some suggestions.
I\'m having trouble with two parts in particular - the flamethrower in the mouth and the back of the head.
The flamethrower is proving to be a problem as I need to find a spot to fix it inside the head where it does not obstruct the batteries, as I\'ve designed them to be removable when they die out.. I could put the flamer in the way if I made that removable as well with magnets or some such, but I\'m just having trouble picturing a good burna design in my head. Obviously, I\'d like for there to be some \'pilot light\' sort of thing at the top of it, so that a flame is visible behind the teeth and inside the mouth..
As for the back of the head, I just don\'t know what to fill that area in with. Maybe cabling of some sort, but remember, the head has to be detachable for painting and grotpit display purposes (and the battery changes), which prevents me from just running cables into the torso. Whatever I add needs to be capable of having a sort of U-shaped scaffolding built on it for the grot bomb / earthshaker cannon concept I have for the back.. just can\'t visualize anything right now.
I\'m also considering adding some sort of shoulder armor (picture a super-enlarged ork shoulder armor bit) to flesh the arm joints out a little bit, as they look a bit fragile right now. Or at least, vulnerable to attack. Then again, it\'s not all that vital.
I\'m honestly thinking of leaving the eyebrows off this thing. They make it look silly in the same way the \'ears\' on the original did.
In any case, I\'d love some suggestions.
markstorch
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You could try one of those recordable cards. I know I got a Circuit City gift cars that would let you record a message up to like 20 seconds and I saw an ad for greeting cards that let you do somehting similar.
MathewBaich
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have you considered covering the back of the head like you did with the \"skirt\" of the model?
squig hunter
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I suggest that you make him a cuban-cigar-flametrower like redsevenblue suggested a while back. that would look really cool, not that it isn\'t aready. Good luck
Greets Squig
Greets Squig
vincegamer
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I disagree with DaN and if you follow me it means less work for you!
I see no reason why he can\'t look angry. He looks like officer material to me, and he has the headset on. He\'s just lost his position, which would piss him off, and he appears to be shouting orders into his headset telling others possibly to start shelling his position. Running for your life can be quite a sensible thing to do and I don\'t see the need to make the guy look panicked.
I disagree with DaN and if you follow me it means less work for you!
I see no reason why he can\'t look angry. He looks like officer material to me, and he has the headset on. He\'s just lost his position, which would piss him off, and he appears to be shouting orders into his headset telling others possibly to start shelling his position. Running for your life can be quite a sensible thing to do and I don\'t see the need to make the guy look panicked. [/quote]
i wonder if those basilisk guys got the rightcoordinatees......whooo!!!...bugger!
but yea id be more angry than terrified if a giant orky machine of death walked through my city.
...those stupid rocket launcher teams havent taken it down yet!! not that they can
I see no reason why he can\'t look angry. He looks like officer material to me, and he has the headset on. He\'s just lost his position, which would piss him off, and he appears to be shouting orders into his headset telling others possibly to start shelling his position. Running for your life can be quite a sensible thing to do and I don\'t see the need to make the guy look panicked. [/quote]
i wonder if those basilisk guys got the rightcoordinatees......whooo!!!...bugger!
but yea id be more angry than terrified if a giant orky machine of death walked through my city.
...those stupid rocket launcher teams havent taken it down yet!! not that they can
AinuLainour
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I hope you paint as well as you sculpt - erm, build. If so
jamsessionein
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I did finally get the flamethrower part done.. things have been crazy around here recently.
The flamer actually attaches to the torso instead of the head so that I can still easily get at the batteries inside the head for when they need changing.
Looks a bit silly like that, but let\'s fit the head in over it..
There. Not bad?
I was tempted to add more cabling/wires, and I still might, but I think it works pretty well right now as well - any extra cabling would become complicated in the interest of removing it. I could fix it in place, too, but I may as well make it removable as it\'s got the magnets there already.. it gets to a point where I think any additional detail will be missed anyway, so now I move on to closing off the back of the head.
I\'m probably going to carry the cylindrical look around to the back of the head, close it off with some extra armor plating, then add scaffolding atop the shoulders that buttresses up against the back of the head for the grot bomb/earthshaker mount.
I was thinking about rules for this thing, aside from VDR.. There\'s one or two particularly fun special rules that I\'d love to play with this thing, assuming my opponent would be open to it. For example, the following special rule actually cuts 50 points off the final VDR\'d cost of the gargant:
Dis way! No, da uvva way!
The gargant is piloted by a team of grots usually work together to keep the stompa moving, shooting, and generally on a rampage. However, the grots will occasionally have a disagreement about what levers to pull or buttons to push, and occasionally begin fighting in the grotpit due to lack of slaver supervision. At the beginning of gargant\'s moving phase, roll a D6 - on a roll of one, the grots erupt in grotpit brawl, sending the gargant spiraling out of control as levers are hit inadvertently. Roll a scatter die until a directional arrow is apparent - the gargant wildly lumbers 6\" in that direction. Any units in it\'s path, both friendly and hostile, take a wound with a 4+ save. Any units that fail can be assumed to be crushed beneath the unexpected heavings of the war machine. (Additional cityfight rule: As I\'ll be giving the gargant the \'wrecker\' upgrade from the VDR rules - if the gargant\'s 6\" random movement causes it to walk into a building, the gargant takes a strength 10 front armor hit and that building is removed from the terrain).
That seem fair?
The flamer actually attaches to the torso instead of the head so that I can still easily get at the batteries inside the head for when they need changing.
Looks a bit silly like that, but let\'s fit the head in over it..
There. Not bad?
I was tempted to add more cabling/wires, and I still might, but I think it works pretty well right now as well - any extra cabling would become complicated in the interest of removing it. I could fix it in place, too, but I may as well make it removable as it\'s got the magnets there already.. it gets to a point where I think any additional detail will be missed anyway, so now I move on to closing off the back of the head.
I\'m probably going to carry the cylindrical look around to the back of the head, close it off with some extra armor plating, then add scaffolding atop the shoulders that buttresses up against the back of the head for the grot bomb/earthshaker mount.
I was thinking about rules for this thing, aside from VDR.. There\'s one or two particularly fun special rules that I\'d love to play with this thing, assuming my opponent would be open to it. For example, the following special rule actually cuts 50 points off the final VDR\'d cost of the gargant:
Dis way! No, da uvva way!
The gargant is piloted by a team of grots usually work together to keep the stompa moving, shooting, and generally on a rampage. However, the grots will occasionally have a disagreement about what levers to pull or buttons to push, and occasionally begin fighting in the grotpit due to lack of slaver supervision. At the beginning of gargant\'s moving phase, roll a D6 - on a roll of one, the grots erupt in grotpit brawl, sending the gargant spiraling out of control as levers are hit inadvertently. Roll a scatter die until a directional arrow is apparent - the gargant wildly lumbers 6\" in that direction. Any units in it\'s path, both friendly and hostile, take a wound with a 4+ save. Any units that fail can be assumed to be crushed beneath the unexpected heavings of the war machine. (Additional cityfight rule: As I\'ll be giving the gargant the \'wrecker\' upgrade from the VDR rules - if the gargant\'s 6\" random movement causes it to walk into a building, the gargant takes a strength 10 front armor hit and that building is removed from the terrain).
That seem fair?
vincegamer
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don\'t play, so I know nothing about the rules. Sounds nice though.
With the flamer, perhaps we could get an above shot? It looks a bit short. I think you would want the edge of the barrel to reach where the teeth are. The pilot flame would then stick out slightly from the upper jaw but still be behind the mandible.
With the flamer, perhaps we could get an above shot? It looks a bit short. I think you would want the edge of the barrel to reach where the teeth are. The pilot flame would then stick out slightly from the upper jaw but still be behind the mandible.
MathewBaich
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looks great. can\'t wait to see it painted
Brandlin
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You can attach the cabling with tiny magnets. I\'ve used heat shrink tubing (available from a good electrical store and which shrinkys inder a hair drier) to connect small magnets to the end of guitar strings. Then you just snap fit the magnet ends to magnets you recess into the surface where you want them connected.
Sorry i dont have pictures of my models, but as an example...
I got my magnets here(and they are amazingly strong for the size - even just 1mm thick!
And the heat shrink tubing here
This is very interresting that you went for a body cockpit instead of the usual head cockpit.
Most titans have the crew in the head. The revenant, the warhound etc the reason for the head being there is to house the crew.
The head would have been completely redundant if it wasn\'t for the addition of the flamer. You\'ve thus given the head a reason. Its now a turret.
Top work this project. Can\'t wait to see it painted... i\'m hoping its going to be red.
Most titans have the crew in the head. The revenant, the warhound etc the reason for the head being there is to house the crew.
The head would have been completely redundant if it wasn\'t for the addition of the flamer. You\'ve thus given the head a reason. Its now a turret.
Top work this project. Can\'t wait to see it painted... i\'m hoping its going to be red.
@Vincegamer - I guess you\'re right about that guardsman could be angry, I just thought it was something he\'d missed
Maybe though, have his hand pressed against his earpiece/headset if he is shouting orders?
Has any decision been made with regards to the recordable card option...?
It should be quite simple to find a suitable sound file to record, but I just wonder whether the quality would be good enough - after all the GREAT work and design that has gone into this model, it would be a shame to bring it down with a hissing, crackly mono recording :/
Maybe though, have his hand pressed against his earpiece/headset if he is shouting orders?
Has any decision been made with regards to the recordable card option...?
It should be quite simple to find a suitable sound file to record, but I just wonder whether the quality would be good enough - after all the GREAT work and design that has gone into this model, it would be a shame to bring it down with a hissing, crackly mono recording :/
vincegamer
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If you want to go crazy with sound you could always do a raised wood platform base, hollowed, and include inside a portable CD player or Ipod with mini speakers and a recording of Ride of the Valkyrie or the Carmina Barrana or William Tell Overture other suitably powerful piece.
We could go on....
We could go on....
I hadn\'t though about MP3 players - that\'s a good idea - after all - you needn\'t actually have the PLAYER inside the garg or the base - only the speakers - which could even be wireless!
By the way - I like the flamer - I see lascannon batteries and the flamer tanks from the tank sprue... What other parts did you use?
By the way - I like the flamer - I see lascannon batteries and the flamer tanks from the tank sprue... What other parts did you use?
RedSevenBlue
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I would like to know this too, this could be a wicked flamer for terrain or otherwise.
jamsessionein
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Okay. I closed the back of the head off with a bit of plating - three, to be precise. The head\'s still removable - all that\'s left to be done up there is to build two \'U\' shaped \'clamps\' for the grot bomb or earthshaker cannon to rest in.
The eyes need some new batteries, I think. Watch batteries run down fast, and I\'ve had it on a lot the past few days just to enjoy. Thankfully, I\'ve made them removable and easy to replace.
The grot bomb needs some work. I made one a while back but I don\'t think I like it, as my sculpting is generally garbage and it\'s a little.. rough. It\'s an impossible shape to plasticard, though. >_>
The eyes need some new batteries, I think.
Watch batteries run down fast, and I\'ve had it on a lot the past few days just to enjoy. Thankfully, I\'ve made them removable and easy to replace. The grot bomb needs some work. I made one a while back but I don\'t think I like it, as my sculpting is generally garbage and it\'s a little.. rough. It\'s an impossible shape to plasticard, though. >_>
