Tag Apocalypse

Blasta Bommer Tail Work

Got a little work done tonight – won’t look like much but it’s a bit further along than last night. Did the rolled portion of the wings leading edges. I sliced a styrene tube lengthwise and trimmed it to fit…

Return to the Big Mek Shed

Alright fans, another picture filled post with a ridiculous level of mundane detail. I know you all like it that way Ahhhh the workbench – I missed you so! Has it really been three months?! I promised to start working…

Full throttle to the engines!

Spent an hour working on getting the wing/engine connector worked out. Nothing too complex really. Carefully drilled out a hole big enough to just fit the 1/2 PVC into in each engine housing. Cut some pvc and temporarily hot-glued it…

More Big Mek Engine Work

More bommer work done after the initial spaz about the warbuggies… Here’s some parts in subassembly stage. I’ve gotten the putty rounding the engine cowlings done, although not the best. I should have done a one extra engine that I…

Making Orky Jet Engines

Spent 2 hours last night making the primary engine intakes. Fiddly work but it’ s got to be done! Here’s how I did it. There’s a couple of different ways to do turbine blades. Some of them include math and…

Bommer Fusleage

Spent some time today on the bommer. Got the interior ribbing done. Took a long time and was tedious work to make sure everything went together right the first time. Here are the templates/parts initially cut put. The ribs were…

Scaled Up Bommer Plans

 Scaled up the bommer plans today. This is a full size drawing I’ve included a Barry shot using a few other models for scale. Skullhammer, standard battlewagon, trukk and a few boyz. And I went through my bitz boxes…

On the Big Mek Drawing Board

Took some time during lunch to sketch out and do a scale drawing of the bommer today. I’ve blocked out the basics – enough so I can confidently start transferring it to some full size graphed paper and making patterns…