Archive For The “The Ork Warship” Category
The ship’s furnace which I built back in January, has received a lick of paint. I’m very pleased with the metal finish and the verdigris effects. Since the photos were taken, I’ve added rivets to the small patch at the top… a little oversight.
I’ve spent most evenings this week sketching and sticking various bits of card on trying to work out what I’ll be adding to the deck. These sketches give an idea of how I want to extend the original wheelhouse. The wheelhouse will have two tiers, the bottom tier will extend forward on to the deck. [...]
I’ve reached the point where I have as much of the original kit built as I want and I’m no longer referring to the Our Lass II instructions. So I thought now would be a good time for an overview shot before I start the conversion from fishing trawler to warship.
This weekend I built the basic structure of the wheel house. I’m planning on adding some kind of walkway around the sides about halfway up, so that it will become a two tier structure. Some of the windows will be opened up as doors leading on to the walkway, others maybe blocked off etc. The [...]
I mentioned last week my ideas for having a boiler room at the rear of the ship. I’ve now taken this a step further and have scratch built a furnace and some pipework. There will most likely be additional pipework and other boiler/engine room related gubbins but as a starting point I’m very pleased with [...]
Yet more holes in the hull have been made over the course of this past week. Side Ladders I finally got the side ladders fitted after sometime spent getting the hull level so I could mark the cut-outs vertical (90 degrees to the waterline). The ladders, which were built a while a go, were then [...]
I have been starting to think seriously about what I’m going to do to the outside of the hull to “Ork it up” a bit. A main part of this will be in the colour scheme, but I’m also thinking it would be good to add some typical Ork armour plating, particularly on the stern [...]
Decks
By Darren | January 9, 2011
This weekend’s major task has been to make some progress with the decks. First up was a trip to the local glass shop, where I was able to get a nice thick piece of mirror to use a flat surface on which to build my main deck. Seems to be a slight error with the [...]
My first attempt at a bit of scratch building. As I mentioned in a previous post it is my intention to re-purpose the crane as something you would more likely find on an Ork warship. So far I have the basic claw, I still need to add some more detailing and devise a method of [...]
Here is shot of the crane fully assembled. Once its painted, there will be more tubing to connect the various pipes and hydraulic rams together. So far my only addition from the original kit are the circular plates which cap the joints. I feel this gives a nicer finish than seeing the ends of the tubes and [...]