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Arakasi's Inaugural Trukk Rally 2012 - Trukk Showoff Thread and Long Dated Competition

Welcome Boyz an' Grotz ta Arakasi's Inaugural Trukk Rally 2012! This thread exists to celebrate that ramshackle Ork go to vehicle - the humble Ork Trukk!

Anyway, like I woz sayin', Trukks iz built for speed an' speed alone. Yooze can grease it, turbo-charge it, paint it, paint it red, shoot it, shoot wiv it, boarding plank enemy vehicles from it, armour plate it, tank shock wiv it, ram it, race it, add glyphs and totems to it, grot rigger it, chuk stikkbombz wiv it, wreckin' ball stuff wiv it, reinforce it, steal it, build it, shake it, stun it, disarm it, immobilise it, wreck it, kareen it, explode it, roll it, loot it, ramshackle it. Dere are Bad Moon Trukks, Snakebite Trukks, Blood Axe Trukks, Deathskull Trukks, Goff Trukks, Evil Sunz Trukks an' Trukks looted by Grots. Dat- Dat's about it.

Primarily, this is a competition - but I hope to combine elements of a Trukk Show-off Thread and anything else hobby/Trukk related - fluff, modelling and painting tutorials etc etc - we'll see how it goes!

The competition will be for anything Trukk related (see above). Entries will be in the form of a post to this thread. To start with, there is one single open category, which will be voted on by DakkaDakka. Depending on interest and input (share your ideas!) - there may be additional categories and/or a judged section. Prize will be bragging rights - but I may look into organising sponsorship/prizes. However, there is no need to rush - this competition has been devised specifically for those of us that are... a little slow to progress (for perfectly acceptable reasons! ) The deadline is one year from now - June 30th 2012. Final entries will be taken from June 1st 2012. Your pole (sic) position, however, will be determined by your first entry in this thread - and will be used (in the unlikely event of) to separate ties The poll will run in July, hoping to announce a winner (or winners) 1st August 2012.

If you would like to build a non Trukk Ork Vehicle, you may be better served by Matt.Kingsley's Ork Vehicle Building Competition!! (Includes Super Heavies!)

You may enter as many times as you like.
You may enter existing Trukk related items.
You are encouraged to post WIP to this thread (it is in the P&M section...)
You are encouraged to post entries before June 1st 2012 for feedback and praise - the final entry after June 1st 2012 is just so I don't have to trawl through a year's worth of blog! (You will be required to provide a link to your first post in this thread for your pole position with your final entry)

If you are a Speed Freak (or like a challenge), may I suggest:
Multiple entries (Multiple Trukks)
Multiple types of entries (Trukks, Fluff, Tutorials)
Expanded entries (Trukk plus unit + character)
Trukk related scenery
Trukk related dioramas
Trukk related gaming boards

Any feedback and/or suggestions are welcome and encouraged - I haven't tried something like this before. This is only going to work if people want to participate. I imagine the hardest thing will be keeping interest over a year.

I'll post my current Trukk WIPs up next week - give some other Dakkanaughts a chance for the earlier pole positions

Big Meks! Start your engin'z!

can we enter things that we already started? if so, i'm entering this



also, it has some paint on it, now.

Good start! Is it only Trukks or can we do Looted wagons, Battle wagons?

Damnit now I have to start on one of my trukks.

There goes being lazy.

Arakasi wrote:You may enter existing Trukk related items.

glomscient takes pole position!

Arakasi wrote:The competition will be for anything Trukk related

So if you want to enter Looted Wagons and/or Battle Wagons - you're going to have to be a bit creative... a Trukk transporting Battle Wagon? Mobile Trukk Repair Battle Wagon? A Trukk killing Looted Wagon? Is there a Spearhead or Apocalypse formation that allows you to squadron a Trukk with either? I'm not planning on turning down any entries - but the main competition will be for the best Trukk related entry...

Dat's da plan schank23! Hopefully I have removed "not enough time" from anyone's list of procrastinations

Keep Trukk'n!

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!

Arakasi and company, Let 'da best mekboy win!

Been looking for a reason to buy a Trukk kit... I'm in for sure!

Will you be back in Oz by the time this comp comes to a close matey?

Ok. Got it. Maybe some destroyed Trukk Markers I've been thinking about!

@Ramos Asura: Welcome aboard!

@Santobell: According ta da Boss, yes. According ta da finances... we'll see

@Artsoldier35: Excellent idea (I've been meaning to do some too - but they are a *long* way down my list...) And I know you already have at least one Trukk you could enter as well

do we have to use the trukk kit, or can we scratch build??


either way IM IN!!!!!!!!!

Scratch build is perfectly acceptable

Excellent!
The servo-grots have been despatched on an scavenging sortie.

The meks are hoping for something more than a pile of exotic fungi and a hubcap this time.


edit: I only just grasped what you meant about getting pole position

In which case, for at least one entry the spanna-boys will be dragging this back to the workshop



And I really like the idea of different cartegories opening up as relevant ideas/pics/whatever appears. A full hobby extravaganza focused on trukks

I think I may Join in!
to bad my trukk broke abit...
Meh, I'll fix it!
I am a Big Mek at Heart!

Matt.Kingsley wrote:I think I may Join in!
to bad my trukk broke abit...
Meh, I'll fix it!
I am a Big Mek at Heart!

Broken trukk!... ? That's kinda the idea of it... even broken it can look completely legitimate and intended... a little rivet here, some armour plates there, a little whatzit gubbin over there, and it's good as new!... ignore the use of good, there, as well as new.

Oh, and I might join up in this competition, though at the same time there's always the challenge of actually getting around to it and making it. Will I prove to be incurable when it comes to deadlines? Will I turn in a fully half built trukk by the deadline? Is Hodge Podge Man going to survive to haphazardly fight crime another day? Stay tuned, as some (more likely none) of these questions are answered next time! Same Kaesar channel, same Kaesar time.

Kaesar II, officially sorta getting in on this

Can you enter a Battle Wagon or must it be a trukk?

So I pulled out a trukk I barely got started on a few months ago. (it's the primed black part)

And after I first read this I figure might as well pull it back out and do some work on it.

Haven't done to much yet just some but here is what I have so far.

monkeytroll wrote:edit: I only just grasped what you meant about getting pole position

monkeytroll wrote:And I really like the idea of different cartegories opening up as relevant ideas/pics/whatever appears. A full hobby extravaganza focused on trukks

That's the idea!

Santobell wrote:Can you enter a Battle Wagon or must it be a trukk?

Arakasi wrote:

Arakasi wrote:The competition will be for anything Trukk related

So if you want to enter Looted Wagons and/or Battle Wagons - you're going to have to be a bit creative... a Trukk transporting Battle Wagon? Mobile Trukk Repair Battle Wagon? A Trukk killing Looted Wagon? Is there a Spearhead or Apocalypse formation that allows you to squadron a Trukk with either? I'm not planning on turning down any entries - but the main competition will be for the best Trukk related entry...

Though if enough people enter Looted Wagons and/or Battlewagons I'll have to make a subcategory...

@monkeytroll, Matt.Kingsley, Lord Kaesar II (sorta), schank23: Welcome to the Rally!

Keep Trukk'n!

I'm up for a Battle wagon Sub-category. I've got one ready to get started on when I get to Washington.

Can I make it a transformer (recently inspired by the new film)?



My model but not my entry by the way (honestly thinking of making a new one of these which is why I asked I can kill to modeling birds with one build so to speek).

You can do whatever you like - just stop tempting me! I have 5 Trukks to finish...

You saw the bit about multiple entries and previous works right? (Hint: they are both allowed!)

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Here is it changing (poor video taken from my phone).

http://www.youtube.com/user/Santobell40k?blend=2&ob=5

That Transformer truck is just epic.

Gotta convert a trukk for this competition

Nice transformork Santo.

So a couple of WIP shots to show where that trukk-thing above is heading:



Wheels, track guard and boarding plank are just blu-tac'd at the moment.
As the wheels are outside the cab they'll be getting suspension and steering details, maybe connecting back up to where the side cannons were on the AT-ST.

two things:

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i have been busy! i just need to finish rivits, then paint the rivits.

also:


this is a battlewagon, of course
I am going to rivit it, then give it a (third) paint job

glomscient wrote:two things:i have been busy! i just need to finish rivits, then paint the rivits.

A good mek's never finished riveting. A bit of kit may get driven off/flown off/fired at something, but that's just a temporary break till more riveting is done. Can't rivet everything at once, even with dok ock stylee rivet-gun arms.


Obviously, it's a way off yet, just thinking on the poll, I've heard it can be a real pain setting up a poll with a decent number of choices in it. I have no experience here so don't know how correct that is, but I'd imagine there should be a reasonable amount of items to vote on after a year of rally preparation.

Also, for those who may be tempted down the route of multiple entries, should they make an initial post for each item? Not that I imagine there's a high chance of a draw, more just as a general information post

@monkeytroll: Didn't realise from looking at your thread earlier that that Trukk has a double width track on one side - how appropriately quirky...

@glomscient: That Trukk looks like it has seen some action! Looks like I can't stop the Battlewagons now

@monkeytroll: Da Big Mek will get it done - even if I have to break it down into "heats" and/or subcategories In the interests of my sanity and to avoid sneaky Ork taktiks - I don't think it's necessary to do an initial post per entry - but feel free to if you so wish. If you have several entries and you link them to the same initial post for pole position, you will need to designate the order of your entries. If I end up doing heats, I'll probably split multiple entries up equally between groups... Bit early to be worrying about it *just* yet - and plenty of time for better suggestions and ideas.

Heh, it didn't in the original pic, but was an idea I'd posted when I first put it up, after trying one chimera track and one Leman russ track, which I couldn't get to work well apparently. I wanted a nice asymmetrical look to it, and as different tracks didn't work out I opted for one double width track.

It's great having a blog where I can go and check on what I was supposed to be doing with bits, had to refer to it several times now

It seems to be going quite well so far. Some nice trukks so far. Gonna be slow going for me. But I do have some more done. Not much but some more work.

Lovin monkeytrolls trukk so far. Might have to send a grot raid over there and have them toss a monkeywrench in his meks progress. A few well placed stickbombz should do the job.

Maybe 100 or so. Makes for big badda boom. And then they will steal the scrap and take it back to me. Muhahahahhahaha!!!!

I want in! buy me a trukk!