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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 and glued it to the open edges. Then I went after the rear engine assembly.…

  • 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 on the bommer again so here it is. Tonights goal was to get the forward…

  • 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 in place. I then used a snake of plumbers putty and sealed it up good.…

  • 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 tested everything out on first. Could have been helpful with the bad shaping job on…

  • 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 geometry. Mine include neither! I completely guessed (as any good mek does) on the number…

  • 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 made from the same templatw and I wasn’t too worried about them being absolutely, perfectly,…

  • Scaled Up Bommer Plans

     Scaled up the bommer plans today. This is a full size drawing/outline. 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 to see what I could use so I wouldn’t have to scratch build. I got…

  • 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 for the interior ribbing. I went back through both of pox’s threads on this beasts…

  • Orky Designs of Madness

    More about the blasta bommer.

  • Finished Apocalypse Models!

    OK, back in the saddle again… Finished up the Apoc models I was working on, wrapping up the paintjob on the second Pulsa Rokkit. Nice to have them finished. Too big to fit all of them on my workbench at the same time so took over the kitchen table for a group shot. Fun to…