Resuming work on the long lost Ork Fighta

 

After more than a year after committing to the challenge I finally resumed work on my Ork Fighta, What I did this week was to add some guitar strings  a cockpit and reimagined the wings.

 

As you can see time  has taken its toll since one of the rear wings is missing

the missing vertical control surface will see a serious revamping once I decided on the general shape, for the cockpit I went simple and just glued an space marine console and a Ork torso with arms, posed everything together  and glued the cockpit to the main fuselage.

 

here is the work I did on the wings, so far is just 3 plastic sheets sandwiched to get a more robust surface that sadly it still needs some pieces to make it work.

here is the underside where you can see the area I reserved for the landing gear

one last overview picture

What do you think?

Organizing my workspace

So yesterday after doing some cleanup on my workspace and after watching this massive voodo post, I decided that I needed a paint rack, since I am a bit short on many but there where a bit of wood laying around  I grabbed some cut a bit here and there added some glue and screws and voila now I have a really handy rack that it is useful as an organization tool, here are the pictures.

 

 

the last couple of pics show another perspective on my desk now that it is clean on organized.

How do you organize your workspace?

Keeping on the gaming

 

After seeing the enthusiasm generated by the last tournament I’ve been thinking about sponsoring another one this year, mostly to incentivize the new players, and since I found the original prize for the last tournament plus some few other things I want to hear if you would like it , if yes what ideas would you do like to add to have a new and improved tournament.

Here are my ideas so far

this round maybe for a nominal fee so we can purchase some things from pactare to include as prizes.

I would like to use stratagems and spearhead rules, what do you think?

we can have one tournament with prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place or 2 tournament with prize for the first prize in each.

 

in the event of 2 tournaments we can go for a lower nominal fee in each or a higher one for a better prize in the second round.

 

those are my current musings, what would you put on the table.

A vision made reality.

A few months ago I dreamed of a system where a campaign could be played. back then I mentioned a new undiscovered planet near the tau space, now after following the excellent tutorial on planet creation on gimp that you can find at: http://mygimptutorial.com/the-ultimate-gimp-planet-tutorial
Back story:
The system PL3-40 was hidden in or near a recently closed warp storm that was close to what now is know as the Tau empire space.  But it was not unknown to the empire because In the sector a few millennia ago  two empire fleets where dispatched and after a few confusing reports were never heard off again. Since further expeditions only encountered a raging war storm that blockaded travel to the system it was left to linger and be forgotten.
Forgotten but not unrecorded because now that a rogue trader by the name of rifeju wejo  found the system and detected some possible valuables there in the main planet the Administratum has decreed that the system must be reclaimed in the name of the empire.
Already some space marines have send units there to help enforce the decree, but they might be too late because the imperial Tarot has prophesized that a space hulk will appear near the same moment the mightiest of humanity will arrive to secure the planet. And being too close the tau empire it will definitely do something about the system.
what will be of the system, only time will tell.

The brewing of a MAD plan.

OK this one is for you Flekzzo this is a mad plan I so we can finally  do something with the fact that we are separated  by a great distance and both want to face each other.

What I want to do is simple try to setup a small common table with elements that we have in common for a Space Marine vs Space Marine 500pts battle. Do you think is your internet connection capable of doing something of a modern version of play by mail Warhammer.