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Here's one I finished. This was my first scratch build... well, over 90% scratch build anyway. I only have one set of WIP pics, then the finished product. BTW: This is what gave me confidence to try the Supa Kannons (which, that effort can be found here http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/298092.page )... right, pics...

Here's the finished work, and painted.

Gotta say i like this.
The orks copying what da enemy duz well. i eeee dur lemon rurs

dude that is soooo pimp!! How long did it take you to make? what what did you use? dimensions maybe? share your knowledge!! i must know.. and no im not kidding i really want to know cuz it looks like the guys kanvas on youtube

its cute! love it, nice copy of the FW unit, looks awesome, and some how adorable...

Wow your orky mojo is strong... very nice!

0.o well erm.... can i marry you? >.< joke. I love your work realy talented when it comes to fine detailed work like this 10 out of 10 from me!

Just wondering but what will it count as? Sorry if its a noob question.

very cool! it is the perfect size.

epic paintjob... epic conversion,
You sir, are a genius !

I owe the Kanvas guy on youtube the credit for this inspiration and guidance. I honestly hadn't tried something like this prior. I've been modeling, converting, and painting for as long as I can remember, but this scratch build (or most of it anyway) was the first of it's kind for me. Kanvas's work was my motivation - no question about it. He has approximately 8 or 9 videos on youtube. If you search for Grot Tank on youtube, you can find it. I "strongly" encourage you to start with that if you choose to give this a go. He covers many obvious things that I didn't think about at first.

I took my initial build design from Kanvas's lead even. He has two Grot tanks out there painted in a blue scheme. The first one contains the step by step instruction for doing one of these. When I got comfortable enough with the process, I think branched out. Once you start doing this, you can feel empowered to make the model your own pretty quickly.

As far as what I used, just Styrene (Plasticard). Several local hobby shops sell it. I stick with 1 mm thick stock sheets for the majority of the work (though .5 mm and .75 mm have come in handy). I also like the various shapes I can buy the stuff in. Circular / square / rectangular tubes, L-brackets, I-beams, H-beams, square / rectangle and circular rods as well. I've seen a host of textured stuff, but I tend to stay away from that.

Testers plastic cement, some files, x-acto (hobby knife), cutting board, metal ruler should get you going.

Thanks for all the comps.

Tac

Looks great. Awesome plasticard work.

So caught up in how much I wanted to use one in my army that I forgot to comment on how super double fab this work is.

Regarding how long it took: 4 nights of assembly, 4 nights of painting and a 5th morning to seal it properly. I use mostly valejo paints with the occasional GW paint pot or wash. I seal with gloss then matte testers spray. I worked on it from 4-5 hours a night in both assembly and painting. I had less than two weeks to get it done due to a game with the local group that was timed with the arrival of Imperial Armor 8.

As far as a "count as?", Imperial Armor 8 has a Grot Tank unit in it of 3-6 Grot tanks. I didn't know that when I built this a few weeks ago, but I knew there were Grot tanks in the book... so, now I have to come up with a few more I suppose - LOL. If I do, I will make each one unique so I can field the unit. Until then, I have used it as a Junka (Imperial Armor 8), Tracked Buggy (ork codex), a Big Trakk proxy (IA 8) to test the rules, and a half track (Imperial armor 8). I thought I might make three and use them as "bug gunz" (ork codex) but haven't done that yet.

Cheers,

Tac

cool thanks, mind if i use your pipe exhaust design, quite clver that. i think ill use mine as warbuggys with rokkit launchas cuz i dont know what ia8 is.

IA8 is Imperial Armor 8. Forgeworld's newest book.
Having seen the copy Rob (Tactica) has, I'm convinced that it's an absolute MUST HAVE for all ork players!

Eric

Fiestamonkey wrote:cool thanks, mind if i use your pipe exhaust design, quite clver that. i think ill use mine as warbuggys with rokkit launchas cuz i dont know what ia8 is.

Eric answered the IA8... and sure thing, work your magic with the exhaust. It's a hobby, have fun I say.