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!

monkeytroll wrote: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

I think I know *exactly* what you mean

schank23 wrote: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 see you are already in the appropriate spirit!

Killamop wrote:I want in! buy me a trukk!

Orks don't ask - Orks take, bully, loot and scavenge!

Hopefully will start getting my WIP entries up this weekend

Even funnier when someone else posts one of your pics and you go 'Oh yeah, I'd forgotten I was using that part'

schank - The servo-grots have already laid many jam-based snares, which in conjunction with the cyber-pike, sharks with you-know-what's and grot-koptas will ensure that even if you manage to create a pile of spare parts, they'll never get back to your lair

Arakasi, I've done my part of our bargain, time to do your part!

i want in, although i dont think i can compeate with the transformer truck.... that is just too cool

Matt.Kingsley wrote:Arakasi, I've done my part of our bargain, time to do your part!

Done!

bigfish wrote:i want in, although i dont think i can compeate with the transformer truck.... that is just too cool

I think you'll find it's a Battlewagon And currently not being entered (I don't know why not...) - so no holding back!

Now, what this thread really needs is MORE PICTURES OF TRUKKS!


Ready to rumble!


Boarding planks at the ready!


Whack! Whack! Whack!


Da Inna Circul prepares to re-embark their Trukk after dealing with sum peskie 'umies...


Last Ork ta da 'umies iz a snotling luvva!


Gettin' stuck in!


My favourite pic

Nice to see the trukks in action, and love the 'Life and Times ...'

monkeytroll wrote:Even funnier when someone else posts one of your pics and you go 'Oh yeah, I'd forgotten I was using that part'

schank - The servo-grots have already laid many jam-based snares, which in conjunction with the cyber-pike, sharks with you-know-what's and grot-koptas will ensure that even if you manage to create a pile of spare parts, they'll never get back to your lair

Ahhh. But there is one the you fail to realize. Hey whats that over there? (points off in the distance and runs away while monkeytroll looks the other direction.)

Adding to the Trukk Showoff part of this thread - some pics I took at Warhammer World from the 'Eavy Metal display cabinets...

Here's a Truck I build out of a Revel model and some leftover parts:



It's almost bigger than the Battlewagon kit.

Oh I see. Show the pictures of your trukks blowing up my chimera why don't you ;p

@Anung Un Rama: Cool Trukk!

@endtransmission: That just *happened* to be the best picture of my Trukks for the day

Just another generic Trukk.
This one is magnetized like a mofo, so every arnament can be removed.



More pics over at http://amadmodelersblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/ork-trukk.html

Looks like Arakasi is pulling out all the trukks for this one. I mean pulling out all the stops. No pulling out all the trukk stops. Hehe

@oveku: Nice "generic" Trukk. It would be interesting to see it in pieces (mine are also magnetised, but as my first forays into magnetisation, can be a bit fiddly on the game table!)

@ceorron: I *know* you have at least one Trukk - where is it?

Fiddly? Don't you mean holy gazillion parts batman will it ever get on the board.

Arakasi wrote:
@ceorron: I *know* you have at least one Trukk - where is it?

I have a converted trukk to paint, when that is done i'll post my trukks then.

Santobell wrote:Fiddly? Don't you mean holy gazillion parts batman will it ever get on the board.

Actually, that wasn't *quite* what I meant - and has actually been quite useful - how else am I supposed to transport three Trukks in two Trukk slots in my Battlefoam Pack 420? Looking forward to a Pack Air with room to hold all 4 in ready to play form...

@ceorron: Looking forward to it!

Arakasi wrote:

Santobell wrote:Fiddly? Don't you mean holy gazillion parts batman will it ever get on the board.

Actually, that wasn't *quite* what I meant - and has actually been quite useful - how else am I supposed to transport three Trukks in two Trukk slots in my Battlefoam Pack 420? Looking forward to a Pack Air with room to hold all 4 in ready to play form...

Easy get a Tardis... it's bigger on the inside

You know they don't just leave those lying around here right?

To keep it Trukk related, early in my project blog their was a discussion about doing a Drop Pod Trukk. Anyone want to enter a Tardis Drop Pod Trukk? I guess that would have to be a Deathskulls Trukk Even better idea than a Bad Moons Taxi Cab Trukk I'm on a roll! (or not...)

Here are my three completed Trukks!

STOCK!


MODIFIED!


HUMMA!

I rather like that (Humma truck)

I'm subscribing to this, time to work on Trukks for July!

Love the Humma. Much better than mine.

You know Artsoldier35, I must have seen those other two - but had forgotten them waiting for the Humma to grace this humble thread I ripped your front grill idea off for my GMS Trukk for you Is the Ork driver painted?

Dez - get on it!

Your Humma has its own unique charms Anung Un Rama! Is that Wreckin' Ball halves for hubcaps?

Need to get you both to post how-tos

Keep'em coming Big Meks!

do you know how mad this makes me I WAS GONNA MAKE A HUMMER i have a toy one and everyfink

Nope. Plastic Ogre belly plates.

I'm not an Ork player and thus my opinion is not green-tinted, but the one made of random bits of junk by glomscient is my favourite.

prototype_X - don't get mad, get even! Make/loot a better one!

Anung Un Rama - I definitely wouldn't have thought of that!

troy_tempest - Spektatas are always welkome! You are free ta join in later if you change your mind, uvverwise - just mind you stay out ov da Painboyz hutz - no matter what dey tell ya, it *won't* be gud for ya!

Hmm, a drop pod trukk, you say? Why not just eliminate the pod and have a drop trukk? Might not survive the landing too well, but that's why you 'aim' it to land on a nice and squishy cushion, like some guardsmen. Or orks. Works either way, though you'd need a lot of extra plate bitz and some respirators for the crew. And it could also double as a boat... no, a submarine...

So I have two questions.

1. could it just be a rules wise truck, or does it have to look like an ork trukk? I have an idea of what to make for a trukk for when I revive my ork army, but it wouldn't exactly look like the tradditional ork trukks...

2. Where do I sign up?

good luck to everyone in the competition

@Lord Kaesar II: Make it so!

@Blitza da warboy:
1) What *exactly* does an Ork Trukk *look* like - they are supposed to all be unique, ramshackle snowflakes - I'm sure your idea will fit in splendidly!

2) Your post *is* your sign up! Well, your potential intention to sign up anyway - we wouldn't want to scare of da spektatas! I'll be taking "official" entries closer to the deadline. In the meantime - remember your first post in this thread - it will dictate your pole (poll ) position in the voting... (and possibly which "heat" you are in, depending on the number of entries...)

Yep, i know you looted the grill idea. And the driver wasn't painted before but I got crap about it and he's got green skin now. Once I get to Washington, the building of my supa-wagun will begin.

@Arakasi: Awesome, soon im going to buy me some kits and build meh a trukk! (I think this would be the 8th project I have going on at the time...)

I have 3 questions:
1 How game/tourney legal must the trukk be?
2 What are the rough dimensions of the "average" trukk?
3 How close to the official model do entries have to be in size?
The reason being, I don't have a current trukk to compare against or a codex and I would like to find this information out before I get to far on my ex-quad gun tractor with kitchen sink.

I'd think it would need to be explainably wysiwyg. That is, if someone points at something and says "What's that?" you need to be able to tell, and it can't be a Killkannon or something (unless it's a Guntrukk, or from a fandex, or...) You know what? They're Orks. You should probably just go crazy with it.

Trukk- smaller than a Battlewagon, bigger than a Buggy. Which Battlewagon, and which buggy, well, that's up to you.

See above.

Artsoldier35 wrote:And the driver wasn't painted before but I got crap about it and he's got green skin now. Once I get to Washington, the building of my supa-wagun will begin.

So you should and so he should! It's the only thing letting down an otherwise fine Trukk. Looking forward to da supa-wagun!

Blitza da warboy wrote:I think this would be the 8th project I have going on at the time...

Only 8? What kind of Big Mek are you?

@ChaoticMind: The main vote will be put to DakkaDakka - vote for the best Trukk. I would think rule of cool should win out here, but I can't guarantee anything! So, in answer to your specific questions:
1) As game/tourney legal as you like. If there is enough interest in a game/tourney legal category it might matter for that category only - but overall, I imagine not in the slightest - what *are* you thinking of doing?
2) I'll have to measure next week (or perhaps a kindly Dakkanaut will provide) I'll also see about getting the dimensions of Warbuggies and Battlewagons for comparison... (good way to differentiate Anvildude!)
3) See 1) above, substituting "game/tourney legal" with "close to the official model in size"

I think Anvildude (thanks!) explained it as well or better - I'll see about putting up the Codex entries/descriptions along side some dimensions for Trukks - and Warbuggies and Battlewagons for comparison. I can even source IA8 for Gun Trukks, Flak Wagons etc

Hope that helps!

Keep Trukk'n!

Lord Kaesar - Oh yeah, get on that, sounds good

A tiny update on trukk #1



More to come soon

And a teaser for trukk #2



Except that has now become #2 and #3, as I think I really need some valk bits for the original concept

Thanks for the rulings Arakasi makes my life 10X easier , right now I'm thinking Big Shoota, Rokkit Launcha, Red Paint Job, Grot Riggers, Stikkbomb Chukka, Armour Plates, Boarding Plank, Wreckin' Ball, Reinforced Ram and Kitchen Sink. Yes a Kitchen Sink, I will make one come Hades or high water.
Currently I have the Big Shoota, Reinforced Ram, excessively long tow cable and official battle wagon for size.

Now my entry as of 16/7/11.



Update on my entry.


Comparison pics here.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-27140-18312_Trukk%20Entry.html

Hi guys as you probably know my trukks are pretty much built and mostly painted already, I'm hoping to get around to doing some weathering on them and other finishing touches. They are mostly scaled up versions of the old trukk model to almost the size of the current gw trukk.

Arakasi if Imperial Armour trukks are on I might have a go at building some of those.

@monkeytroll & ChaoticMind: Lookin' good!

@Wazzdig Dagga: I had sadly forgotten about your awesome Trukks! They look really nice lined up together like that - a feat I hope to replicate with mine! The competition is open to existing *and* new Trukks - just means you have a head start! The competition is also for anything Trukk related - so Imperial Armour Trukks are most certainly on!

Haven't managed to convince anyone to do a Trukk Stop yet though...

@ Arakasi - haha you read my mind thats sorta what I was thinking of making.

Sign me up boss.

Nice paint job!

you know, I'd join, but I don't really do Trukks. Though... I might have to make a Steampunk Trukk...

And get a camera. dangit.

If you look at the OP, there are loads of thing for those who aren't that much of a trukker

Well, if you needed a reason to do a Trukk, I'd hope this thread might inspire you. Your pole position is held from your first post in this thread should you choose to join in - and with still over 11 months left to run - there is plenty of time to make up your mind! As Matt.Kingsley pointed out above - Trukk related is fine too if you have other strengths or projects that need some focus. Failing that - there is nothing wrong with being a spektata - spurring on the other participants or quietly enjoying whilst drinking squig brew...

@Santobell - I though you were doing a(nother?) transforming Trukk?

Subtle

In all seriousness, I had an idea for all you non-trukkers (if you approve, arakasi, of course)
Ork Vechicles made from wrecked trukks!

Arakasi wrote:Well, if you needed a reason to do a Trukk, I'd hope this thread might inspire you. Your pole position is held from your first post in this thread should you choose to join in - and with still over 11 months left to run - there is plenty of time to make up your mind! As Matt.Kingsley pointed out above - Trukk related is fine too if you have other strengths or projects that need some focus. Failing that - there is nothing wrong with being a spektata - spurring on the other participants or quietly enjoying whilst drinking squig brew...

@Santobell - I though you were doing a(nother?) transforming Trukk?

not sure keeping my options open but I was thinking about a trukk stop after passing one yesterday.

This is a great idea, I may need to buy some ork trukks to build...

Not that I play orks now, or am likely to in the future... but worse case scenario I can donate it to someone who likes it

What's to approve? Sounds "Trukk related" to me Now what we *really* need is for someone to enter a Mega Bomma or Ork Landa converted to transport Trukks like the Rave Guard Thunderhawk Transporter with Rhino into *both* competitions


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@Santobell - Nothin' wrong wiv 'avin options!

@slice'n'dice - Nothin' wrong wiv ownin' a Trukk. How about some 'Nid infested Trukk wreckage terrain/objective?

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"...is broke down inta little bitz, sorta like little chaptas, grot-sized chaptasif you like, hur hur. Each of dese little chaptas is called a 'stands-ere'. Probly coz when der 'umies read dere poetry dey has to stands 'ere to say it.
Now,today wot we's lookin' at is known as der Orks-klaw style. Dis 'as 4 stands-eres, one fer each of ya fingas, and den anovva one fer ya fumm, makes up an ork's klaw see. Each of dese stands-eres is made by an ork-u. You've probly seen ork-us before, dey has 3 lines, and goes 4 silly-bubbles, 4 silly bubbles den lotsa silly-bubbles.Well, der 4 finger...yes, SnotGrub, wot is it?
Wot's a silly-bubble? We did dis last time..oh yeah, so you woz.
Well yousecan catch up from SnagToof after, but really a silly-bubble is der bit of noise we makes when we says somefink. Yes, speakin', but da little bitz of speakin innit. Like, 'ork' is one silly-bubble, and 'Orks is da best' is, err..orks..is..da..best...4 silly-bubbles. Deys called
silly-bubbles coz when 'umies make dose comix dey put da words in silly bubbles ova da top of da pwetty pictures. Got it?
Right den, so we 'as 4 ork-us making da fingas, den a backwardsy ork-u fer da fumm, wherewe goes lotsa silly-bubbles, 4 silly-bubbles, 4 silly-bubbles.Hmm, p'raps an example would be agood idea.
Right, dis is a klassik, probly 'eard some of it before, Rumble-Krump by Warlord Zoo of da Red Sunz klan...


Red ones fasta
Blue ones looted
Bouncin' bouncin' over broken ground

Black n' white checks
Cross-ax or snake
Rockin' n' rumblin' toward da krumpin'

Shiny yella
Shiny yella
Lotza teef movin' at speed

Da charga roars
Wreckin' ball swings
Metal groans across da battered land

Krumpin' done good n' da battle is won
Mekz n' grotz look
For bits, for trukks


Movin' ain't it? Hur, hur, movin'.
Right, well SnagToof, what does ya fink dat...."


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I think you may have stunned everyone - in a good way (hopefully!)

Well I had this convernade laying around that I'd borrowed from Hadouken, thought I'd test it out

Red Onez fasta
Yella onez best
Cuz we got da teef ta make 'em go

Well if nothing else Dez, we seem to have discovered a remarkable method of pausing a thread

I'll try to avoid Ork Poetry 101 for the next bit of fluff, but be warned I fear there's more to come from that search

Ok,Ok, I'll post some WIP piccies if that's what you really want


Trukk #3



Almost had the 'window' section the other way round, facing up, would have given room for some more shenanigans inside the cab, but decided to keep the deformed 'speeder styling.

Trukk #1

I see an AT-ST cockpit.

Yes more pics less poems though a funny example I'm reminded of the Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy and the Vogons when I think about Orks doing peoms.

Vogon Poetry is described as "the third worst poetry in the Universe". The main example used in the story is a short piece composed by Jeltz, which roughly emulates nonsense verse in style. The story relates that listening to it is an experience similar to torture as demonstrated when Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect are forced to listen to the poetry prior to being thrown out of an airlock.

More pics you say? How about a WIP hood ornaork?

Liking the hood ornaork!

'Ere We Go, 'Ere We Go, 'Ere We Go.
'Ere We Go Throo Infinitee!

Dat Dere boyz iza real RollzRoyz

So front wheels just about done. Just needs some GS work on the left axle. Working on different ways to work the boardin' planks mainly. Along with some interesting concepts for trukk #4

And a bit of work on the boarding planks:



Slightly different angles to those on my cyborks thread.

Looking real ramshackle!

Big Meks - only 10.5 months left to run! (I really need to get a move on...)

I know..... Gonna do some work on my trukk tomorrow.

If monkeytroll would send my grots back home I wouldn't have this problem.

Stupid dead lines.

I love the grot peeking out of the hole!

Can I enter the trukk portion of a wagon I'm working on? It's a DAF trukk with a trailer (or it will be), but the trailer is gonna be a lab or workshop or something... it's a mobile mekshop is the idea, I guess.

*edit*
Just got the word from Matt that this was the race to be in... with my DAF trukk at least. As it will be a battle wagon once I make the trailer I wasn't sure which thread to post it in, but I have been far too enticed to not join one of these fantastic "competitions".

It's been a while since I have worked on it, but I'll make it more of a priority. Here's the widest shot of it:


My Bigmek has a Mechanicus/Ordo Xenos theme so his ride has it too... so far only the mechanicus part is there.

Of course! Welcome to the rally! Though I'm sure you could enter it into both - I'm pretty sure Matt doesn't have any restrictions, and I certainly don't.

Looking good!

@ monkeytroll: I'm liking the half track so far and the use of that SM tank commander torso is genius!
@ everyone competing: good job and good luck though I think several are going to blow my entries out of the water.

So now for a quick update.
I hit a small snag, I need to add grots to my kwad gun trakta but i don't have any right now so I did what any good mek would do, start another!
this is an oficial entry however this is my "tame" kwad gun trakta.



How ever now I need to start armor plating it. Big thanks to monkeytroll for the wheel mount idea.

Count me in The wheels rotate to zoom around the table. Optional sports package comes complete with side-kick squig, tow hooks and fog lights. WAAAGH!!!

Nice stuff

Looks like there'll be a whole load of completed trukks before I've finished building the first of mine Probably safe to say the same for Arakasi too

Keep it up guys

ChaoticMind - and the seats on the outside of your trukk have sent several wheels spinning in my head

Just in case you end up doing a Battlewagon contest with this

@ChaoticMind: Looking good - but do you count those itsy bitsy wheels as Orky? Or are they going to be hanging from the rear vision mirror?

@kaiservonhugal: Count yourself as counted in! Now *those* are Orky wheelz - size wise anyway (not enough armour plates/spikes for my liking) - but hey, the Trukk, nay, MONSTER Trukk, is awesome

@monkeytroll: Safe yes. There has been a disturbing lack of updates on my part in both my main threads... (a sort of move, new job and a new puppy - not to mention your meddling grotz....)

@kaiservonhugal: In case I don't, have you entered it into Matt.Kingsley's Ork Vehicle Building Competition!! (Includes Super Heavies!) (Looks good - reminds me of the Empire Marienburg Class Land Ship for some reason...)

My trukk has been extended with a tracked rear section.

Nice Half-Trakk Trukk you have there essia.

Some very cool trukks here. I am working on some trukky terrain, have made some craters for when my trukks blow up- it happens a lot! Also working on a trukk repair/refuelling depot mek shop thingy any way here's some pics


Obviously need to add lots more orky bits detail etc

That is very nice so far. Love where you are going with it.

My birthday is in 2 day so I'll pm you my address so you can send it to me when its done.

Very promising start there Wazzdig Dagga! (Of course, we would expect so having seen your Trukks...) If I ever build a Mek Shop, it will have one of those engine harnesses holding, wait for it, an engine! Possible being dropped into or extracted from a Trukk. And those Trukk lifts that raise the Trukk so you can get to the underside. Any similar (or more inspired plans) for your?

Id love to join this Kompetition. I have a stock trukk im building and then will be making a trukk from sprues bits and mtg cards for this event if im allowed entry.

Entry is open until the closing date - so get Trukk'n! Just under 10 months to go! (I really need to get back to my Trukks!)

TheNewMexicanGeneral wrote:Id love to join this Kompetition. I have a stock trukk im building and then will be making a trukk from sprues bits and mtg cards for this event if im allowed entry.

don't use your mtg cards! cereal box cardboard works so much better, and doesn't involve destroying trading cards! i look forward to seeing your trukks though.

Alright, time for me to get my Supa Battlewagon in on this build. Here's the parts I'll be using in one way or another.



As this is for my new Black TemplOrks, I'll be using some Black Templar bits.







And on to the build.

Intriguing! And, ooh - symmetry - sort of...

? i thought it was just trucks ?

(looking good though )

Is being entered. armor, engines, and more paint to follow! (eventually)

Love the orky hummers!


BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!!!!!!

Big Mek Dattrukk wrote:

Is being entered. armor, engines, and more paint to follow! (eventually)

look at those gunz

very nice indeed

Don't forget the wheels!?

Who needs wheels when you have a rocket engine?

SilverMK2 wrote:Who needs wheels when you have a rocket engine?

Or better yet? 3!

the remains of the droppod's engines, plus the two rounds shown below. a 5hour energy bottle is show for size comparison...

I have no idea how big that bottle is. What calibre are the rounds?

Interesting start, looks fun

Big Mek Dattrukk wrote:Or better yet? 3!

I can't argue with that logic

the remains of the droppod's engines, plus the two rounds shown below. a 5hour energy bottle is show for size comparison...

Your crazy American beverages mean nothing to me

Not really a beverage. More like a 3 inch tall shot of liquid crack. And they dont taste very well.

There we go...3 inches, now we know how big it is.

So a bit more on the trukk ( possibly #1, possibly not)



Mainly extending the top hatch, side details and some riveting. Oh and a dakka tower. With no dakka yet.

Rolling right along.

Who needs four wheels, when one will suffice?









I need to update the other five, I'm just entrenched in terrain right now. I should have more Trukk projects to enter before june of next year, thats for sure. great workin this thread so far!

Big Mek Dattrukk wrote:

.50 cal rounds?

schank23 wrote: And they dont taste very well.

Their ability to taste has been compromised in some way? That's unfortunate.

Jon

Looking good Monkeytroll and Artsoldier35! pox - awesome!

You forgot something in your intro Arakasi:
"You can have your trukk looted by grots"



PIP, obviously. More crew are being painted up.

No, no I didn't Welcome to the rally!

RSJake wrote:

Big Mek Dattrukk wrote:

.50 cal rounds?

Bigger, the aperture is 20 mm in diameter

Big Mek Dattrukk wrote:

RSJake wrote:

Big Mek Dattrukk wrote:

.50 cal rounds?

Bigger, the aperture is 20 mm in diameter

Holy Moley! I'd love a weapon that fired those!

I'll play! I never finished this thing, started it years ago. "Da linky crusha bitz" is a piece from an old GI Joe toy (destro's weird tank) and the body is plasticard and platformer bitz and sprue rollcage.




I think maybe this thread will kick me to try and finish it

*That* would be well worth completing and entering Suggestion - the tracks and sides could use some extra Orkifying...

pox wrote:Who needs four wheels, when one will suffice?









I need to update the other five, I'm just entrenched in terrain right now. I should have more Trukk projects to enter before june of next year, thats for sure. great workin this thread so far!

i really wanna see how did you park it!

Arakasi wrote:*That* would be well worth completing and entering Suggestion - the tracks and sides could use some extra Orkifying...

Oh yeah..... Don't worry about that

And.. mine's finished:







Enjoy!

Very nice CK!

And paint work has commenced on trukk #1:

monkeytroll wrote:Very nice CK!

Ditto! Not that I would expect any less...

Yours is coming along nicely too monkeytroll!

monkeytroll wrote:

LOL@^

That extra armour plat painted like an explosion is awemazing! Great touch.

Moar Progress:

MAR CUTS!


How do I make a Deffrolla?


I think it needs a scraper to get the dead bodies off of it.


What's it all look like?



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Gonna Have a Suppa Kanon. So, I needa suppa Turret:




I think I'll put it in the back/




More updates to come!

Dead Killy! Great work, the deffrolla is certainly unique..and killy!

One big battlewagon. Nice

Looking very impressive - you will need to put some terrain (marine body?) under that front wheel though

Very nice. Love the supa-turret

I like it, but how's that scraper work?

It doesn't need to work, as long as it is loud and killy-looking.

It's obviously for reversing!

Ahh, you're right, of course it is.

I forgot, forwards for squashin', backwards for scrapin', silly me.

That way you can have fun in both directions!

And Plus it looks cool!

That goes without saying

It has been a bit quiet as we approach the halfway mark of this competition...

I finally got my first Finecast miniatures - Venomthropes to go in the back of a couple of my Trukks, Independence Day (the movie) style. Mockup below:


Without tarp


With tarp

Just playing around with the positioning at the moment

Half-way mark is where all the meks are thinking 'that's not right. Pull it apart and start again.' So that probably means a flurry of new stuff soon.

Possibly


Mine's still in that nasty almost-done stage, need to try and kick-start some more p-work on that. Or just build some more

Liking the 'thropes in da back. Tarp will probably look better overall, it's tough to get a feel for it till you start pushing the tissue about a bit.


What's the finecast like to manipulate, tentacle wise?

OOOOpss! I said 4th of July and it was in fact Independencd Day!

Can I join?

Entry is by posting in this thread, so looks like you already have

Awesome, I'll get started

@monkeytroll: Once I've had a go at manipulating the tentacles, I'll let you know There is a little bit of give in them as is, but I need to settle on a position before I break out the hot water

@Artsoldier35:

@Capitansolstice: Welcome ta da Rally - looking forward to see what you mek up!

Allmost have all my parts to start making my trukk how long do we have again?? (I'm trying to work out the arm joints for my trukks standing mode which has taken me a bit longer than I first through it would, thankfully boarding planks have given me my much needed answers).

June 30th 2012 is the deadline - plenty of time yet! (He says, having not made any significant progress on his own in the first six months...)

Done but for some extra gubbins here and there.

Awesome Now... how does that saying go? Just needs a lick of paint!

Vera' nice

Time to resurrect this thread!

Finally got some other stuff out of the way and so can come back to my Trukks. With only four months to go, that's less than a month for each of my Trukks!



How is everyone else's Trukks going? Or have you all stalled too?

Four months? Oh good gork I need to get things moving big style then. The trukk with paint on is having some of the colours re-thought, partly because it was a little too clashy, but mainly becuase I decided I really didn't want a looted ultra-smurf door

The ones being built are.....hmm, well, sem to be in exactly the same state as whenever I last showed something happening with them.

Two competitions, one year, and still it's a massive struggle

^
and they both end at roughly the same time

aren't Arakasi and I so mean

Awesome thread! I'm with!


my first entry (will be adding some more plasticard and a paintjob soon!)

Welkom ta da Rally!

Dere be Trukk's 'ere

Well, here they are, the Long awaited (cough) update pics for my entry... just needs paint now. (and a little more card... maybe some rivets...)





the original passenger platform shattered after being dropped by TFG. and my Rules Lawyer brother commented that the gun placement, While orky, could be considered modeling for advantage. So i put the front end next to the front of my Kit trukk, and positioned the new Kuppola in about the same area as the gunner on the trukk.

Cool - but is it a Trukk if it doesn't have wheels? (joking of course!)

And some of my later WIPs...

LOL- it's Butcher Pete!

Arakasi wrote:

"Welcome ta Earf!"

Sorry, I had to That's too awesome!

The Transformer is wicked sweet.... but seems a bit complex for an ork... prolly built by gretchin... dey iz sneekia!

Hope these vehicles are up to snuff...

Here's my trukk

Battlewagon

@LordWynne: Definitely up to snuff - could use some close up shots though?

@MastaBlasta: Nice Trukk and Battlewagon!

Finally getting the second carcass on board:

I painted mine now:






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These are my favourite entries so far:



AWESOME paintjob man! Love it!



That think looks utterly brutal! Great work!



Awesome in every way!

Nice work MrMerlin, lovely weathering.

Some good builds on here, need to get a move on with mine I guess.

Okay Big Meks, we are into the home straight - less than 4 weeks to go! (Has a year gone by already?)

This thread is now open for final entries - just post them in the thread, making it clear it is your final entry. If you are posting multiple entries in one post, please make it easy for me to spot the separation!

Due to moving back to Oz (and other poor excuses), sadly none of my Trukks will be completing, or maybe in a very limited capacity, I'll see if I can find any half decent photos of them (maybe at Platinum Devil 4...)

Tinker safe!