Side project: 28mm Black Pyramid of Angelis

 Hello there!

My good friend Sergio (Mahouman) from Club Dragón in Madrid always says: "Ric, you are a mad man. All your projects are pharaonic!"

And, honestly, he is right...

While I was building the Great Gargant, and with so many little orks on my desk, I remember that old great game called Gorkamorka, and a picture on its pages:

What if I make a black pyramid like the ones at Angelis? A piece of scenery large, complex and... Pharaonic for sure!!!

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Some cardboard boxes to the main structure... and drawing one of the 'faces'

Drawing also each of the stone blocks

One face is finished!

It is a Pyramid, so 3 more faces needed...

Some masking tape to join them, and a big square of cardboard to keep the shape

Et voilà! Now we have a necron pyramid, with 69 cm on its base... (make your own calculations for the height, little orks...)

Two surprised (and blurry) diggas are scouting around there...

Let's do some basing, using MDF

Each corner is reinforced to ensure the shape of the base

Glued with the hotgun, section by section...

And now the thing has its own rigid base!

The diggas are happier now, I do not know why...

Now we need stone blocks, made with cereal box cardboard:

The tricky part are the corners, you know, but step by step we advance, row after row...

We will add some scaffolding, to let diggas and orks to explore the thing, and also a necron symbol on top, of course!

And, why not? a secret entrance on one of the sides...

And now the necron black (not yet black) pyramid is completed, except for the top (the "Pyramidion"):

Keep in touch, I will finish it soon (I promise). Hope you like it!!!

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QUICK UPDATE (Ork Great Gargant 28mm wip)

 Hello there!

Too much busy these days... but the project is still going on!

Attached, pic of "Gorksbite", my new Great Gargant...

Soon (I hope) new updates...

Waaargh!😋

DA'RIGHTARM (28 mm Ork Great Gargant wip)

 Hello there, little orks...!

So, our dear Mek Emilke has decided that, okay, we now have da'boots, to stomp and move and so, but... what about dakka? We really need dakka!!!

Two different teams of gretchin and grot asTeks are now working on the arms of our Great Gargant, each group following their own technical drawings and philosophy...

Let's see what are they doing!!!

THE PLANS OF TEAM "RRR" (DA'RIGHTARM TEAM)

So this arm will have a very big and nasty "gatling-gun", with a square shoulder and a dual-barrelled rotating turret, with periscopes at the end... Easy, right?

Let's start with the Gatling, we need to arrange the six barrels muzzels and reinforce all that section.

Then we just need to add all to a "Pringles" can, it just will fit perfectly into our Gargant!

Obviusly we need this thing to rotate, so a marker will do the job

Inside the can, a plastic tube will be guide for the rotation device...

On the other side, we design an elbow and the inner rotation rod of the arm itself:

And all together looks like this:

This white "spacer" will help us to avoid nasty problems with the turning arm of the Beast...

So now is time for the shoulder, with a square section made with foamboard and a transparent plastic tube that, once, was the blade of a LudoSport fencing lightsaber...

We need to reinforce the interior

Now we just add the "balcony" for the ork observers!

Looks pretty, don't you think so?

So, apart from the balcony, we need to add also a "pulpit" for another ork observer/gunner

And finnally we create a nice dual-barreled turret for the top of the shoulder

As you can see, the little gretchins added even a full set of periscopes to the thing.

And now all the main sections of DA'RIGHTARM are completed!

Let me introduce to you Gluck and Plick, two BadMoon ork orservers assigned to this Great Gargant. They are always fighting each other to find the best target...

Ok, now we need to scratch build a hatch to access to the shoulder, so we "copy" a GW official one, more or less...

And we reach da big moment... riveting time!!! We use different types of rivets to add more 'flavour' to the thing:

The rear access hatch finished and in place:

The ork gunner on the pulpit:

And our friends on the armoured observation balcony!

And, after 431 rivets, DA'RIGHTARM is ready to be painted...

Next week we will see what the hell is doing the other team with the left arm...

Hope you enjoyed! See you soon!

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