Big Shoota

Category: Apocalypse

  • Deff Arsenal Kannons Done

    Three hours and two large barrels – it’s all I got tonight, but it’s a start. I didn’t have the room I thought I did when I was sketching things out away from the model so I don’t thing I’ll have room for the belt feed, oh well. Here’s the pics! Later!

  • Weapons Research

    OK, did some research and found a gun that gives me the look I want in the nose. It’s a short barreled, drum fed M2 .50 machine gun. I did some sketching to see how it would fit within the space of the nose and decided against the drum feed and go with a belt…

  • Cockpit Finished

    Cockpit is done for now. I almost put this aside earlier this week as I ran out of steam. Painting the cockpit made me want to do more painting and not more building. Thankfully for all of you ( 😉 ) I pushed through and started dabbling with the Deff Arsenal. I wasn’t too enthused…

  • Paint!

    Spent some time slapping paint inside the cockpit of the blasta bommer last night. Figure I’m about half finished. I’m not going to rush things and want to make sure I spent enough time to make each part of this thing right. The pilot and comm-grot is nearly finished and some of the reds have…

  • Blasta Bommer Cockpit Details

    I’m back from vacation and started it off right by whipping those parts grots inta shape! Started work on the cockpit today. Put some gubbins in the back, a pilot, a control yoke and a commo-grot. Various plates, planks and rivets round out the detail. Here’s the parts pulled out so I can prime and…

  • Ork Blasta Bommer – Main Construction Done

    Tiny update tonight. Model-wise I did the bridge of the nose and glued it to the rest of the fuselage. Dat’s about it. I spent the rest of the time cleaning up my work area and sorting through bits for details for the wings, cockpit and engines. That means the main body and shape is…

  • Lots and Lots of Rokkits!!!

    I guess the grots were let loose tonight so we got a bunch of little stuff done tonight! I fumbled around in my head all day during work, trying to figure out how I was going to do the rokkets in the nose. I wanted them to kinda stair step, creating an angle that matched…

  • Snotling Steps!

    Putzin’ around with a few small things over the last few days. Built the front nose intake. The top/bottom plate and vertical posts/vanes are glued together but poster tacked into place to hold them until the glue dries. I did this so I can remove it from the main nose plate and have access to…

  • Working my tail off – Part 2

    I’m working my tail off here! I’ve now paneled up the entire tail wings. I created smaller plates using the original struts and wing panels as templates. Then I trimmed them a bit smaller and cut them into interesting shapes, sanded them a little and glued them in place. Here’s a support and the upper…

  • Working my tail off here!

    That also means…. updates! I wanted to get the vertical stabilizers done today and that meant doing some of the detailing/paneling on the rear wing section to accomplish this. Here’s how I put it together. I superglued the engines in place and sanded all the edges on the wing panels. Then I used H-Beams to…