Big Shoota

Tag: Apocalypse

  • More Blasta Bommer Work – Gunna Get It Dome Someday!

    So I’m back in the saddle for a time, we’ll see how long it goes 😉 I’ve actually been working on and off on this monster for about three weeks and the only thing I’ve accomplished has been the metallic weathering. I know, not much to weathering, right? Egggad, I wish. For anyone who saw…

  • Slow Work on Ork Blasta Bomma

    Just proving I’m not sittin’ on my haunches this break… Blocking out the metals by going over them with Badab black first – always base your metals with black, there’s a very good and scientific/optical reason why they look better that way. If you’re curious, let me know and I’ll do a tutorial! 😉 This…

  • Dakkajet Pilots and Blasta Bommer Paint

    Wrapped up the pilots for each of my three dakkajets last night, presented here 🙂 And he doesn’t look too bad nestled in the cockpit. Just need to finish the widscreen and base it. In other news, the blasta bomma, “Moar Dakka!!!” is no longer black and appropriately fasta! And a “Barry” shot for scale,…

  • Completed Canopy on the Ork Blasta Bomma!

    Sometimes you get stuck, you come to a roadblock that you can’t blow through with ease, something that stymies you for a good long time. That was the canopy for the blasta bommer for me. I’ve had time since I primed this beast and each time I looked at the canopy and was just blind…

  • Almost Finished! “Moar Dakka!” Starts Getting Primer!

    Finished everything except the canopy tonight. Because of my schedule I know I won’t be able to finish it before Saturdays game. Oh well, not like they need a windscreen anyway, right? 🙂 I did magnetize the bombs so I can always swap them out later with Grot bombs or other fun ordnance. I’ve got…

  • Ding Bombs are Done!

    Grrrrr. So close. I would be were I wanted to be if I hadn’t had to spend 4 hours in the ER waiting to be seen for my back. (injured it helping my brother move last weekend). Finished all bomb mounts and panels for the underside of the wings. I’ve got them sticky tacked on…

  • Bommer nearly complete!

    2,400+ rivets, and a couple hundred more left to do. Wrapped up the tail section underside and all of the secondary plating and riveting. About 4 hours worth. Here’s where the beastie stands. THe only things left to do is the canopy: and the underside of the main wings with the clusters of bombs. Nearly…

  • Fuselage complete, tail gunner done.

    Got some time last night and forced my self to do what I’ve been putting off for while, the final paneling of the tail section. Because of the amount of compound curves I was at a loss as to how to do it so it looked “proppa” but not too ramshackle as I’ve already established…

  • Tail section completed

    Put some time in on the bommer this week. Spent three hours doing rivets on the tail before doing the final attachment. With this in place, it’s time to finish the tail section, blend in the tail wing and start finishing off the detailing. This marks the finish of the base shaping. I’ll need to…

  • Progress on Blasta Bommer

    Small spurts of progress, doesn’t look like much but wrapping plastic around a fuselage with compound curves is tough! I’ve got more of the transition between body and tail. It needs multiple layers of pcard to get it where I need it so I can put a proppa plating on it for skinning. It’s still…