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| Quote (dafrca @ 08 May 2006 (08:21)) | So, any chance of a walk though? I think I can see most of the parts, but it would be fun to read your "Here is how it was done". 
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Shown in the pictures are the results of my May 1st Labour Day holiday. After recovering from beer&bbq the night before at around midday I heated up my glue gun and began constructing the Big Blasta Gargants from bits and pieces I found on my desk.
Ingredients:
Body:
Half the plastic insides from an ?berraschungsei, that?s a german chocolate snack that has a small toy inside a hollow choc eggshell. The toy is contained in a yellow plastic egg slightly smaller then the surrounding chocolate and was just the right size.
The Big Gunz are made hexagonal nut topped with hot glue, into which a barrel cut from an empty biro cartridge was stuck. The Armour plating is plain card (taken from a package of chewing gum) hotglued to the plasitc egg. Launcher supports are regular machine screws, size 4. The circular body base is a 40mm washer disc.
The track sections are made from strips of paper onto which bits from GW plastic spure frames cut into size were hotglued, bend and hotglued around more washer discs on the lower section. This is only possible when the glue on the tracks is still warm.
The lower section itself was cut from the lining of a tool box I converted to carry my minis, basically it is a layer of wood with some foamed stuff glued around and cut into shape, then washers added, tracks and finally some more of the lining to rise above the tracks and accept the body.
The launchers were made from the undersides of 40mm square bases, inspired by a Whirlwind conversion article in an old WD magazine, about #110-130. Two of the holes sufficed ( I built a quad launcher first and it was far too large), they were glued onto more of the gum card, which was reinforced with sprue bits and hot-glued toilet paper (great for filling) and the wrapped around to make rectangular boxes.
The head consists of a 30mm washer disk onto which a bottle cap cut in half and bent into a jawish shape is stuck. Hotglue into the open rear is some more card, froming a half circle opposite to the bottlecap. This is filled with hotglue and toilet paper, and sprue bits and hex nuts are arranged into a face. Another washer (20mm) tops the construction.
The Flak Gunz are made similiar to the Big Gunz, with the barrels made from paper clip wire. Getting them into the same length can be tricky, but when the hotglue has hardened they can be easily cut to the same length with a plier when the gluing was done right.
This was a one-off to field an OGBM last weekend. I had this crazy idea of how it could be done a few days before May 1st and then just spend that afternoon putting it into reality. If I had to improve on the concept, I?d try to put more planning into the armoured plating on the body, try to cut back the size of the tracks a little and maybe take another stab at the lobbas. I thought of something top-magazine fed but didn?t find the necessary parts, so I dropped it. I considered spent tubular fuses but they are slightly too large.
Also showing is my total lack of experience with painting orky stuff, combined with my stores of paints being both limited and dedicated to Khorne, which is why the Blastas have a brass drybrush 
Some checkerboard patterns or flames plus more glyphs sure wouldn?t have hurt. On the other hand, I?m now looking at orkish minis from a new perspective._________________ Visit www.epic-battles.de the ultimate german epic site&forum!
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Very Nice job !!! 
