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Ok so I have been collecting orks for 7 days now! I am building a speed freeks army inspired by the mad max trilogy. I have had some advice on the army composition and the army list is set. See this thread:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/220787.page

I am going to bore you all with my progress as I build this army

So far I have painted 18 boyz, 4 nobz and 1 bike. Not bad for the first week. Normally it takes me much longer to paint marines.

My most enjoyable model is this trukk that will cart my Big Mek around. It is equipped with armour plating, stikkbomb chuckers and a reinforced ram. This is my first attempt with plasticard and Im really pleased with how it turned out.
As soon as I can (probably within 48 hours) I will paint this sucker up and update this thread.

Road Warrior? You know you now need to make a character like Lord Humungous right?

Haha! That would be a sight! Well Humungous kinda looks like an ork anyway...

Malika2 wrote:Road Warrior? You know you now need to make a character like Lord Humungous right?

ha ha yeah there will be a lord humongous and a master blaster

And of course a little grot with a boomerang!

from this view they look great. one tinyproblem on the trukk is that it looks closed top now. you can say that it is cloth though, not metal

though you can also say that it is armour plating

lmao man thats brilliant! as cheesy as those movies got i still loved them. your minis are looking pretty good so far. i really dig the trukk too nice stuff keep it up!

they are lookin' good. Cannot wait for them to be painted!

nice trukk, I may steal the front bonnet idea.

karlfranz is right that it looks 'closed top' - but as trukks don't get that option in the rules, i don't think it will cause any game confusion - or of course you can simply cut lots of holes in the roof

For just seven days of work that's real good. I never even got my first ten boyz painted when I briefly attempted starting an Ork army. Love the trust, and while it may have a top, I wouldn't really call it a closed top, what with there not much much for sides on it.

The pic of the boys doesn't really give much into about them. They're hard to see. Better pics with better lighting would be great.

That trukk, though. Brilliant! It's really well done.
I like the back half more than the front, but the front is fairly decent, too. It's a good way to hide the engine compartment, so you can use the engine for something different.


Eric

Ok I managed to squirm out of some other commitments and paint the trukk this evening. I am looking forward to painting one of the plain trukks now as it should need less attention to detail. I will post a pic of the boyz as soon as I can get some good lighting. I quite like how they turned out but theyre nothing really special, I will put the extra effort into the characters.

Hope to have another trukk and a squad of bikes done in the next seven days. Although I also have my last uni assignment due in the next seven days as well. I wonder which will win?

looks great painted. The top looks cool. keep it up

Found your Warboss:

http://www.coolminiornot.com/store/product.php?xProd=2746&jssCart=43af5bbe9e1710d88b099332863bf9b4

Eric

"Who run Dakkatown"?

MagickalMemories wrote:Found your Warboss:

http://www.coolminiornot.com/store/product.php?xProd=2746&jssCart=43af5bbe9e1710d88b099332863bf9b4

Eric

Hey thanks man, I have ordered it (will be painted up and used as my Big Mek) and I will do some slight conversion to make it more Orkish.
Says 4-6 week delivery time though :(

I've been contemplating a Road Warrior-esque KoS army, myself, but was planning on having it led by Mad Morx.

MagickalMemories wrote:Found your Warboss:

http://www.coolminiornot.com/store/product.php?xProd=2746&jssCart=43af5bbe9e1710d88b099332863bf9b4

Eric

before you posted this up, I was going to suggest an ogre with a grot/gnoblar on his shoulder.. this model looks awesome..

now, you need to start working on the side-kicks.. like this guy

http://www.gamerevolution.com/images/misc/Image/mad_max.jpg he'd make a great gyrocopter..

you'll need a cybermastif for your maddmaxx boss too.

http://blogs.theage.com.au/screenplay/Mad%20Max.jpg


here's a good page for inspiration..

http://www.madmaxmovies.com/cars/madmax2/index.html

don't forget the biker gang..

Here is the nobz squad (just need to paint the painboy which arrived yesterday, and finish the bases)

And the beginning of the skorcher. Ill update as it gets built. Now Im off to finish the bikes & deffkopter.

This is a very cool thread...i shall be following this.

i love your trukk, its the first trukk i've seen that I think looks cool, but I like this one too...

Looks really good man.

That being said you now need to model Tina Turner in her point bra....

Thr33ifbyair wrote:you now need to model Tina Turner....

or not???

just another option. only joking. besides, orks don't have tina-esque hair...its just not curly enough.

orks as a race must suffer so much stress...its all that fighting. it makes them all bald prematurely!!

yea still thinking this is a really great idea. nicely painted too. keep it up man really!

Cool trukk, it looks more believable than the GW one.