The Warforge Miniature Modelling and Conversion

Paintin’ da Shootaz

I am just starting on the small stuff, as it's been a really long time since I've touched a paintbrush. I'm worried my paint on these things is going to be a little too bland.

Back in Black

I think I'm just going to start painting. I have some other ideas for the vehicle, but I'll save them for when I scratchbuild my army's trukks and buggies.

 

Aaand primed. The first thing that's going to get painted is the turret and removable bits, since they're the easiest. I'm thinking of painting the wagon red with checkered strips covering it since it's supposed to be a Kult of Speed wagon, and the red ones do go fasta after all.

Sorry about the crappy lighting in some of these pictures, but I do live in a basement apartment (a.k.a. 'dungeon') and I don't want to take it outside for photographs right now. I don't have any nice flat brushes, mostly just detail brushes, so I'm going to work on the turret and bolt-ons until I'll be able to buy the brushes I need for the wagon.

Rivets! Needs more rivets!

Riveted a lot of stuff up and worked on adding a few extra details! I need to make another turret for the back wooden box. It's got a magnet hooked up already. For normal game purposes, though, I think I'm going to remove the bolt-ons and just use the wooden areas as extra room for the boyz on top.

 

Grots, grots, everywhere!

I hung a grot off the side and disguised the LED switch as a valve (or tried). I just don't have any clear-cut ideas for the back here, but you can't go wrong with a grot. It'll get a rivet job tomorrow. I added a bucket by the grot upfront just because I can and added some armor plating after.

 

Oy! Hit da lightz!

Alright. Wired the LEDs in. There's two headlights and one internal cabin light by the driver so he'll have a chance of being seen behind the wire mesh once it's put in. These pictures were taken with the wire mesh just slid into place but not attached (it won't be glued down until after the whole thing's been primed). Push-button on the back left side turns the light on while the button's held down (since I didn't intend for the lights to be on all the time).

 

I think it came out looking alright for my first time ever messing with LEDs. The front end needs a little cleaning up as I was a touch messy gluing them in, but it's nothing I can't file down a bit. I'm going to hide the button on the back inside bitz and gubbins and such, but I'm happy with it overall.

Two shootaz iz betta than one!

Both gun emplacements are done on the forward side of the bed, with both guns removable via simple magnetism, but strong enough to hold on if I tipped the vehicle upside-down. I have a lot of work to catch up on for school, so I probably won't pick back up on this until Monday (Meaning Sunday, knowing how much I want to get this finished). I keep thinking about putting a large engine on the back, but it may not be the best idea.

 

Wagon’s got some Dakka Dakka!

Threw together a bolt-on big shoota. Part of the reason the whole underside wasn't hugely supported was that I had to get a magnet bar under there, which is now in place. The bolt-on big shoota has a magnet as it's base, so I can pull it off or attach it depending upon what the game requires.

 

Rickety Sponsons

Some stuff I've been doing today. Couldn't come up with a good way for fencing the bed off, and I liked the idea of placing a gun box built by wooden planking off both sides of the bed... so here's the first one. I need to make one for the other side.

 

Zzap Gunz iz da best!

Put a shield up on the front of the turret, chained the zzap gun down to the turret base, put barbed wire up on the top, put a little hatch in the right side of the front. I don't know if the barbed wire is excessive. It might make the front a little too noisy. I do like putting barbed wire on the thing and the top was just a large blank area...

 

I've resolved to NOT DO ANYTHING ELSE TO THE FRONT OF THIS THING UNTIL I GET A LOT OF WORK DONE ON THE REAR since I'm starting to go overboard up front. I'll be putting a rope around the poking grot to keep him in place while the vehicle's moving once I move back up to the front.

Bug on the Windshield

Still working on it, but I couldn't resist doing a bug on the windshield (or Tyranid Spore Mine, as the case may be). There's also a grot standing on the rocket launcher near it trying to get it off with a stick.