Recalcitrant Daze – Seven Months and Still Alive, Da Plan, Blogs to Visit.

Has seven months really gone by since Post One?

Well last month was almost a wash out when it came to modelling. Thankfully my kitchen building duties are now complete and the three Wagons I am building for the BoLS article are very nearly finished (sneak peek below) so I should be back to doing regular updates on RD very soon.

So I hope (that’s hope, I’m not making promises) to do the following in the coming month (in no particular order):

1. Write BoLS Lootin’ article and then get the Looted Wagons up on eBay.

Sneak Peek of Wagons 1, 2 and 3

2. Finish Building the Killa Kans.
3. Undercoat the Deffstrike Launcha and start the painting of it.
4. Do something that isn’t to do with Orks, just for a change, probably Chaos related

IPMS Scale Model Show

Next weekend is the IPMS Model Show which I will be going along to as normal. Forge World are in attendance and hopefully showing off something we haven’t seen before. Either way I expect to do at least one post on the event next weekend. It does feel weird not to of put in an order from them though, feels kinda wrong.

Blog Spotlight

To finish I thought I would do a quick shout out to some blogs I regularly visit which have either only recently been started or I have only recently discovered. I posted up some links previously when the Stylish Blogger Award were doing the rounds but I thought it about time I do some more

Forlorn Hope – From the man known as Sheep. For someone with hooves I grudgingly accept he ain’t half bad.

Small-scale Ramblings - The Hoff, another modeller from ‘down under’ and almost certainly someone you have seen on one forum or another over the years.

Legion of Plastic - Migsula. Anyone who has ever visited the Dakka modelling area will have come across his work before and the awesome Inq28 figures he produces.

Warpaint – Warpaintguy. Nice place to see some Orks in a lovely yellow.

Mordian 7th Regiment – Mordian7th. Guard, Admech and a bit of Thousand Sons.

Oinks Overambitious Terrain Project(s) – Oink. Not as much terrain as you would expect from the name…plenty of nice tanks though so I’m not going to complain.

Elotsip's Warhammer Blog – Elotsip. With it heavily leaned towards chaos and orks it is a place after my own heart.

Looted Wagon / Mekboy Junka

As I've got nothing new to put up I thought it was a perfect time to do another 'catch up post'.

This time it is another Ork vehicle I did for someone else.

The tank can be used in two ways, the first as a Looted Wagon with a Boomgun, but by swapping out the main weapon (it just slots in place), changing the turret (magnetised) and adding the optional Deffrolla (again magnetised) it can also be used as a Mekbuy Junka.

First off the Looted Wagon:

Really don't like the front exhausts on this side...

And with changing a few pieces we have the Mekboy Junka:

Close up of the Junka turret.

Zzap Cannon, quite happy how it came out

Recalcitrant Daze - Unusually Quiet Recently

Things have been a bit quiet when it comes to getting updates up, this is down to a few reasons which I will now lay out in front of you…

1. I have been busy helping to put in a new kitchen so any modelling time has come down to just an hour or two each day.
2. I am working on a few Looted Wagons for an article for Bell of Lost Souls, which unfortunately means they won’t show up on RD till after the article goes up and there is a couple of weeks work at least before then.

Sneak look at the first Looted Wagon.

3. I have been reading the last part of the ‘Malazan Book of the Fallen’ series by Steven Erikson …which I finally finished this evening…

That was a lot of pages to get through. After all these years following the series I feel a bit lost...

...but these turned up today so I’ve got something to read:

I should have some time free soon to get some work done on the Kans. The bases have been done and as I have already built the legs I should be able to get the bits done so far all assembled in an evening:

And on another note...

As I mentioned earlier I am working on another article for Bell of Lost Souls, however I did put together an article about building Da Choppa - you can have a read of it here.

Ork Dread Mob 5

I was away over the weekend so unsurprisingly no work was done on anything.

But this evening I put the legs together for the Kans, roughed up the plastic and replaced 90% of the rivets. Removed some odd looking spikes and a few plates got added. Not much really but it is time consuming.

The legs and feet are just blu-tac'd together. The next job (already started) will be to do the bases so I can then glue the legs and feet together in the pose I want. Once they are done I can crack on with the engine blocks then the arms.

Ork Dread Mob 4

Well as expected the 'plan' didn't hold up well.

Started building some Killa Kans...

As with the Dreads the Kans need to be modified to fit in with my converted tanks, as such they take a lot longer than simply out of the box. Need to distress all the plates, replace rivets and make them more individual.

Quite a lot left to do obviously, will probably tackle the legs and feet next.

Defstrike Rokkit Launcha 3

The Rokkit is almost done. Still need to do a few details, especially on the Grot and his controls. I won't be adding much in the way of rust or oils as unlike the tanks the rokkit won't have been knocking around for long, it is afterall built to just blow up as soon as possible (preferably after it has been launched).

The exhaust and the direction thrusters will get some oils to darken them as I am sure the Meks would of done some test firings, just for a laugh and to cook some squig.

Recalcitrant Daze - Six Months and Counting...

Six months gone; how time seems to pass us by.

The past month was something of a mixed bag, perfectly summed up by Games Day UK. 

Games Day had a few good points but many bad ones as well. As I said in the post here I doubt I will be going next year.

On the good side the deadline of Games Day meant I got Da Choppa finished. Combined with making a start on the Deffstrike Rokkit Launcha last month was a very productive one. On the other hand since Games Day I have done almost nothing due to illness. The BFG ships I picked up on the day have been started but instead of being all finished by this weekend as I expected I haven’t even finished building them, let alone got paint on them.

The article I was going to do for Bell of Lost Souls has remained on the drawing board only as well.

So the hope is next month the production level will rise...

Plan (which will with 100% certainty change a lot over the month to the point that it is almost worthless):

1.    Finish Renegade Marine Ships for BFG.

2.    Finish Rokkit & start working on the Launcha vehicle

3.    Loot vehicle for Bell Of Lost Souls article

Unfortunately one weekend will be a wash out due to being away and I have also made commitments to help put a new kitchen in...as such model time will be limited...

Fingers crossed at least one thing on that plan gets done.