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[twisted moon]

they were really quite charming before their unfortunate enslavement.
some more giant rats.



four games workshop plastic figures, the rightmost from island of blood, the others from start collecting skaven pestilens, witha citadel metal rat in the middle.



i had some alternative armies, metal, 25mm x 25mm bases so i put them on those for a bit of heft.

 

[twisted moon]

another batch of giant rats.



all gw plastic this time.



the last lot for a while as i only have another couple left at the moment. i'll need another 81 to realise my monstrous horde.

 

[twisted moon]

it took longer than i hoped, and i didn't manage to finish it before the end of skavtember, but here's a bell-tower.



the top is from the start collecting skaven pestilens box, extended with a couple of cork bricks.



it's on top of a bicarbonate of soda tube covered in cork tile bricks.



the second bell is a metal one from an early screaming bell kit in an ice0cream stick and sprue frame. i bought just the bell from ebay several years ago with something like this in mind.



the lower section of tower is a bouillon tube with eggbox card external stonework and more cork tile around the internal rim to give the impression of thickness. the rest of the interior is plastered with pollyfilla mixed with pva, sand, cork dust and talcum powder for texture.



there's a third bell from a packet in the craft section of boyes.
this will eventually be incorporated into another ruin tile, but onto orctober next.

 

[twisted moon]

a quick palette cleanser.



i'm after some more familiars for my necromancers, and with the scroll i thought this chap fit the bill.



a heterodox skin colour hopefully distracts from his goblinness. it took a lot of willpower to stop me going full smurf.



i tried to get gold stripes on his trousers, but without much success.



do you think he still counts for orctober?

 

[Brother Meredith]

do you think he still counts for orctober?

Smurf-tober maybe...

 

[lenihan]

a quick palette cleanser.



do you think he still counts for orctober?

Great job, love the skin colour! Funnily enough when I posted about putting something in my painting queue for Orctober, this was one of the guys I had in mind. Do you remember what the mini is... I got him at BOYL last year iirc?

 

[twisted moon]

Do you remember what the mini is... I got him at BOYL last year iirc?

thank you.
i have no idea, it was given to me at boyl this year.

 

[twisted moon]

finally a start to orctober proper.



the first carriage for my ork land train.



it's a lightly modified bow top gypsy caravan from sarissa precision's gaslamp alley range.



a laser cut mdf and grey board kit.



i've swapped the original wheels out for bottle tops, adjusted the towing mechanism and left off the steps which would have got in the way of the new arrangement.



here it is with the traction engine i prepared earlier.
tow bars will need to be added, but i've got another couple of carriages to work on first. i hope i'll get at least one more done before the end of the month, but we're on holiday next week.

 

[twisted moon]

the second carriage is done.



also lasercut mdf.



this one is from blotz ...



... the 28mm gypsy caravan (b28-wc-004).



same minor conversion work as before, except the towing bar is from the previous sarissa precision kit.



hoping the get the last of these done before the end of the month.

 

[symphonicpoet]

Oh, I'm liking this. It's a land train! Or . . . well . . . most trains are land trains. It's a trackless train!

 

[twisted moon]

Or . . . well . . . most trains are land trains.

yes, i was going to go with road train, but the orks on st. andrews world practice their nomadic way of life in the interior, away from the roads and other infrastructure of the human, and other alien, settled population. trackless train is better, but perhaps i'll go with railless train.

here's the third carriage.



another sarissa precision kit - the ledge type gypsy caravan.



same modifications as previously.



which gives me the benefit of twelve mdf wheels for future projects.



i have an idea to extend the train slghtly, but until then here's where it's got to:



which brings the blue moon caravan to a significant milestone.



although along with extending the train it would be nice to add the less militant members of the community.