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The Big Mek has been hard at work lately and we’ve got a new product ready to ship. But we just can’t think of what to call it. Maybe you can help?

We were going to call them “Goblin Assault Rifles” but that could be a bit misleading.
Here’s the bit that’s getting us in a tizzy:

• They’re not all assault rifles – there’s a support machine gun (RPK), a rocket launcher (RPG-7), and several carbines
• They’re not just suitable for goblins! They’re human scale too. Here’s a GW model holding one:

We briefly considered calling them “Goblin Assault Weapons” but that’s a bit of a politically charged term in the US with a fair bit of controversy attached to it that we’d rather steer well clear of!

So if you’ve got any good ideas, let us know in comments below or on our Facebook page (or tweet at us).

It’s been a good year for my vacuum pump but apparently the anniversary of its arrival was to be the day of its departure. I was in the middle of making a mould of some wheels when it died on me. I’d switched it on to make a quick adjustment to the mould and when I tried to start it again there was a hum followed by permanent silence.

Bugger.

From what I’ve seen under the hood the outer electrical bits are fine so it seems likely it’s something more complex inside and I doubt I have the tools to fix it. It’s going to need to be repaired or replaced and whilst inconvenient it’s within our means to do so immediately. There’s going to be some disruption of course – I can’t exactly cast more Create-a-Shoota sets without my casting rig!

On the plus side the exact same model is still available so it should just be a case of attaching the hoses to the new pump and turning it on. It’s served me very well this past year and an upgrade shouldn’t be needed just yet.

I’ve been working on the armament for the truck and the crew. Once they’re done then it should be easy to continue on structural things. This is the problem with creating multi-part kits – things need to interlock but one can’t glue them together properly during creation.

The truck is going to have a machine gun option and a rocket launcher option. Currently the focus is on creating the machine gun as it’s a very specific design (and whilst the rocket launcher is also its design is significantly simpler). As with other things this is where 28mm “Heroic” scale is tricky – things aren’t proportional. I have to make a judgement call on which bits should remain prominent and which can be safely shrunk down.

So for reference the machine gun is based on the M60:

Here it is on the truck (missing its rear iron sight – it hasn’t been attached yet):

As you can see the gunner is sitting on a stack of boxes. Currently they’re placeholders as they’re going to be replaced by ammo tins:

I’m working on a master at the moment:

Once it’s done I’ll make some copies and use them for a variety of things. Extra boxes and stuff to decorate vehicles 😀
If anyone is wondering the rocket launcher is going to be based on the M202 Flash (you might know it as the Grim Reaper from Call of Duty: Black Ops).

The weekend is coming this way fast and whilst some of you probably already know I’ve not announced it on here:

Fox Box will be at ExiliCon in Cambridge this weekend.

If you’re going to be in the area and would like to pick up your order there get in touch (either via email, Facebook, or Twitter). We’ll have a stand upstairs in the main hall (The Merchants’ Quarter). Hope to see you there!

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 😀