Author: Flamekebab

I needed an Ork boy with a slugga and choppa for one of my Gorkamorka mobs (Grimlug’z Ladz) and thought it might be fun to use parts from the Create-A-Shoota sprue to do it. I don’t make these just for you guys, as it happens!

I trimmed down one of the barrels and used hot water to bend the pistol-grip arm to be pointed further out.

The sunglasses might seem a bit daft but they’re a throw-back to the old plastic Gorkamorka-era Ork boyz 😀

Hopefully you’ve seen the Goblin Guerrilla Fighters we recently launched but I thought you might like to see what they looked like before they were cast:

The weapons they use come from an unreleased weapon sprue with a variety of Kalashnikov family weapons. On the far left we’ve got an RPK with a drum mag (finished but not released yet), a couple of stockless AK-alikes, and an AKS-74U.

A few weeks ago I posted about our new Sororitas Arcanum line but today we’re firmly back in greenskin country.

More details when we get back from holiday!

There’s been an awful lot happening behind the scenes for what feels like forever and I’ve been doing my best to keep quiet about what we’ve been up to. Well, mostly me, I really don’t like when people say “we” when talking about a project they’re doing on their own. Then again the concept art didn’t draw itself and that wasn’t me so, yes, “we”. Right, that’s sorted out. Concept art? Ah yes:

That should give you a bit of an idea, right?

I’d tease and hint more but I don’t think it’s worth wasting any more time building up to this. Time to get some models out there.

I’d be the first to admit I’m not the best painter but I figure you can get a feel for what’s I’ve been putting together.

They’re multi-part resin models. There’s a choice of three legs, arms, torsos, and heads. Erm, three pairs of arms. Then there’s weapons and backpacks although there’s currently no choice on those. Well, I suppose you could opt not to have either but that doesn’t seem like much of a choice, does it?

It’s actually a pre-production version. I tweaked a few things before making the production ones but it should be enough to get a general idea.

The plan is to follow up this blog post with photos of the models painted by someone much better than me.

If you’d like to buy some of these lovely ladies you can find them here.

Looking at the blog for Fox Box you’d be forgiven for thinking that the site is dead. It isn’t, but I’m not doing a great job of showing it off. The reason it has looked like this is fairly simple – I’ve been unable to keep my head in the game. The reason is pretty simple – I’ve spent the last year moving or getting ready to move. For me that kind of limbo plays havoc with motivation, not to mention the logistical problems of getting stock ordered. I’m sure it wouldn’t have stopped most of you but for whatever reason that’s how my mind works, or doesn’t.

If you’re interested in the details this paragraph should explain a little further:
Fox Box started when I lived in Edinburgh. In my entire time there (2006 – 2013) I only moved twice and one of those times was when I left my student halls. I had been planning to leave the city in 2012 but personal circumstances got in the way. Without anyone else to split a new flat with I was stuck where I was. Luckily in August 2012 I met Fox Box’s resident artist, Jenny Mathiasson, who was finishing her Masters degree in Cardiff at the time. She too was planning to move in the near future – as soon as she got a job. Figuring I might as well make one move rather than two I spent the first half of 2013 expecting to leave Edinburgh within a few weeks. It wasn’t just me looking to leave the city though – my flatmates wanted to move too. By Summer 2013 the wheels were in motion for them to head to Norway and I either needed to find new flatmates or head south. I opted to move down to Cardiff instead and take Jenny’s spare room. Unsurprisingly a short time after that Jenny did indeed find work and we found ourselves packing up once again, this time to Cambridge.

We’ve now been here a little over a month and as you can see, things are getting back on track. I’ve not secured a good place for my sculpts yet and so I’m a few months behind on that, but generally speaking things can at long last get back to normal.

Over the last couple of days I’ve been doing (digital) paperwork and trying to make sure Fox Box’s accounts are ship shape. One of the side effects of this was the compilation of the SKUs of the plastic kits we stock. Using that information and a bit of SQL I was able to hack together a few commands that automatically restock kits. The previous way of doing restocks was to edit each product and update its stock number. The Battlewagon alone has 99 bitz! Now it’s just a matter of logging in and running a single SQL  query for each kit that needs updating. A special thank you to the Twist- from #sql  on Freenode for helping me understand enough to make that happen!