I'm sure I swore never to make a Gatling (or similar) weapons again, but after two attempts, I have 6 rods stuck around a central piece. It's thicker than the Tau Burst Cannons, however does seem correct scale for my Terminator. I even managed to wrap a thin piece of plastic around the rods. As I wanted an iron fist, I decided not to do it with green stuff and used plastic instead. Extremely fiddly trying to get the fist shape right without it being just a square piece and the thumb... but I was impressed with the end result that I started thinking if it was possible making one purely out of plastic!
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Using green stuff is taking its toll on me. It's annoying the inconsistency when it is mixed. Sometimes really sticky and sticks all over, other times they refuse to stick together even when they are not dry. It's dominated my table and blog for too long and I haven't even worked on my Chaos Terminator for a while. However I'm at the end, just possibly some minor touch up. The fourth Ork is carrying an angle grinder, the arms are a bit of a blodge and the hand barely sticking to the end of the plastic handle. The last Ork is dragging a large cog and holding a drill with a long thick bit (as I had nothing thinner). Hopefully if I ever get around to painting these, they'll look better.
Not quite the size I wanted the subsequent Ork Krew to be, but unfortunately not something I can correct. It's the face mask that makes the second ork head bigger. I just need to ensure that the arms stay relative to the first one. There is still a fourth ork not standing and I think I may include the fifth plastic in the Krew, almost like a family.
The issue is when making the details, this is probably the smallest I can go, but that means they are still larger than the standard original plastics. The head with the full face mask was my original and the goggle'd was to be the replacement. However they seemed to turn out the same size despite I was trying to reduce the size. So now I have a fourth Ork I could be making. Both frustrated and glad, I have to wait for the green stuff to dry. So I worked on making the tools and they too seemed to have the same issue as my power drill looks more like the size of a rocket launcher!
Even though I was trying to take my time, I ended up doing both the waist and the legs the previous night. I even tried to make the legs less flat with one further forward than the other (ignoring the back for now). Unfortunately the following morning the green stuff had settled back on itself to a flat position. This reminded me a lesson learnt previously as I added the foot to get it the correct height as the previous model. The model would likely sink as the green stuff sets so I was forced to mix plastic to the feet to ensure this didn't happen. Adding plastic is always difficult as the greenstuff doesn't stick so well to it, but luckily as its the feet, the green stuff entirely covered the bit of plastic..
I'm deliberately taking it slow as I know it takes a while for green stuff to set, as I remember even after several hours wait, I still could potentially squish any previous detail I did. A lesson I'm still learning the hard way. The Terminator's head will likely look larger than my previous two I made and I now want to re-do the old ones! The Orks on the other hand is just keeping them smaller than my first model is the important part. The original one with a mask I started a long while ago has been abandoned as it was too large. Talking about too large, as I was waiting for the green stuff to dry, I started on a rifle to place on the table. It looks much too large, but I'm not going to reduce it considering it'll be placed on the table. So hopefully less noticeable and harder to compare.
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