Thursday, April 28, 2011

The beginning of an Ork Gargant

I have not posted for a while...I have been remiss.  I want to bash together an Ork Scout Gargant and have been thinking about the pieces necessary to build it.  Understand that this will be a kit bash and not a scratchbuild so that I will not be working much with raw materials, but will instead work with parts from different items which I have acquired through the years.

Inspiration
The inspiration for the scout gargant is from about White Dwarf #112.  It may not be the correct issue, but the one I am remembering had two Imperial scout Titans in it.  I have most of the parts to build the Imperial scouts, so wanted to look for parts to build an Ork Gargant because it had not been done.  Yes, I have seen Gargants built from scratch before, but I wanted to make mine to be of the level of the Scout Titans from years ago.  Clearly, I have been collecting the parts for this project for years (maybe since the late 1980s) and now am undertaking the building.  Unlike previous projects which normally take 15 or 20 minutes for me to complete, I expect that this project will take a number of posts to complete.

Tools
The tools necessary to complete this project will probably run the board for me, meaning that I will most likely be using every tool which is in my toolbox.  Each post will have the tools for that part of the project listed separately.

Materials
I find that this project will be very exciting because I will be using some plastic Easter eggs which I have been saving for years.  Included with the Easter eggs will be a number of other plastic items gathered through the years.  Each post will have materials for that part of the project listed separately.