Orktober: Orky Dice Tower

For this Orktober, I will admit to struggling for ideas. As previously noted, I've done basically all I want to do with orks, and thus my forces are on hiatus. However, I still wanted to do something for Orktober, and I eventually settled on a dice tower. I will also admit that I got the idea from one earthmanbrick, whom made one last year. I looked into the concept, easily finding plans, you can make one out of a Pringles tube for example, and decided that I could trashbash one, doing the mechanisms first, and then dressing it with bits. As to what a dice tower precisely is? Well, its an apparatus for rolling dice. You put the in the top, they bounce off ramps and bollards, before coming to rest at the bottom. Such things are a supposed space saver, as while these can be bulky, at least they keep the dice on the table.

I'd ended up starting this later in the month than I wanted, but it progressed quite smoothly. The actual worky bits were made on a Monday afternoon, using a detergent box, the chipboard I use for scratchbuilds, and hot glue. It went together like one of my old scenery projects or one of my bigger scratchbuilds. This required some trial and error, but it was functional on the day. The remainder of the week saw the visual additions, gap filling, and riveting. This process made it look even more like earthmanbrick's attempt, a face arising almost immediately, although in my defence I always put teef on things. A lot of this process was done in and around work shifts, staggered for the benefit of drying times. Spray painting started on the Saturday morning, afterwhich it was a rummage for the craft paints and such. Drybrushing, sponging, and washes followed.

While this is by no means my most complex or interesting project, it did remind me of why I love making Ork stuff. I knew the sort of thing I wanted, and it just happened. Like going nuts with the pizza toppings, or being some-kind of obnoxious freestyling jazz poet. Mistakes get made, sure. Nothing about this is clever. But it all adds up to something very orky. And very me.

I dunno when I’m going back to Orks, but there’s something there to go back to.