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With most of my collection in pewter or white metal (or even a taste of lead once in a while), I wanted metal trukks too. I had metal deffkoptas, buggies, mekgunz. Why has Citadel never made a metal trukk?

I went the diecast route. 1:35 makes an appropriate scale, although the brainboyz at GW don't constrain their design to follow any scale -- they creep.

Using the base of a diecast F-1 Pick-Up, plastic bitz from the new trukk, old trukk, mek gun, black orcs and night goblins + metal bitz from the RT Dreadnought and Cave Squigs.

Bashing the F-1 wasn't easy, diecast metal will eat your microsaw. I worked with a german made precision tool - The Nibbler, a tool that cuts metal with a 1/8th inch waste, but a massive mechanical advantage; I love this thing.
With the cab open, I could remove the plastic seat parts from the truck and replace them with the cockpit/rollcage from the modern trukk. Gave the driver a Kromlech head with a Cowboy hat, it only seemed fair.

For a while I kept the body of the vehicle, and it got a lot of attention at the club. But with a tourney around the corner, I decided to cover the body with plates and trukk bitz to make it Citadel all over. The Extra Armour on the hood changed the classic ford lines into Ork angles. And things were looking good. With it painted up in yellow and rust, I took it to it's first tournament, an approved model by the TO, with the same dimensions as a trukk to boot.

It's twin the Studebaker Fekk-Up Trukk sold to a US Soldier earlier this year, and now I've given the Squig-Up trukk a red paint job and added back the rust, as this was the favorite aspect of my fleet on parade.