I was recently guilty of watching mad max and love the 30's and 40's era cars they had used.
Naturally this led me to want to build such things so why not orks. In progress 2 warbuggies and 1 nob on bike.
Photos aren't great but I shall do more later







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Better quality photos. I'm also pondering colour scheme any help would be awesome
Red one jobs- add details to front wheels, paint, small details
Black jobs- add fuel lines, paint, details. Details to front wheels. No tread is no beuno
Biker nob needs something but not sure what.

Haha nice! Anything Mad Max is good by me

Cheers.
Apparently buying the right scale and right model of car is a challenge. A bit stuck right now as I'm waiting for a mass of wheels and plasticard to arrive. However more work in progress stuff. I'll probably do more dark elder stuff for a few days

Some interesting models, following with interest .

Next one to be broken down to bits

Also more progress.


Any ideas for good models for the drivers?

Do you think you could model one grot sitting on the shoulders of another to reach the steering wheel? I think I may be easier to fit them in than an ork driver, but I don't know for sure.

That's a killer idea. Time to find some grots

Been a while took a break from building to paint these.




New car work in progress



New shell to build off

Nearly finished the warbuggies time to think about trukks

More building. Warbuggies are assembled now just to add details. Time to crack onot with biker nobs pain boy and Warboss on bike. Also looking for models to get some trukks built


Image of all 5

ha! great idea, and one that I feared I'd want to do when watching Fury Road the other day.

Tell me you've got a Goff Rocker to stick on the front of an amplifier laden Battlewagon?!

Nice. You found some good cars as starting points there!

Great start and some clever converting, what scale cars you using for this then 1/43 or 1/32 ?

I need to get a Goff rocker!

It's taken ages to cruise eBay to find them. They are between 1/32 and1/35. I got one 1/43 but it was way too small.

Awesome. Loving the buggies.

EDC

Cheers

Great models, needs better picks.

Slightly better photos

Long time with no update. Basically I couldn't figure out how to best to paint rust I finally did so started painting and more building.

Slowly getting through these.



I also got more biker nobs made. The goal is mob of 5, 2 more for the warbiker squads 1 mekboy and 1 pain boy.










Currently out of some major parts, guns, bodies etc so more I'll come when so figure out what parts I want to get.

Looking nice! Have you considered adding rust last with weathering powders?

I gave powders a go but always found them a pain to work with. The new stuff gw released is pretty good, that's what is on the painted buggies

Finilly coming to an end painting these 2. Pretty happy so time to crack on with the other three. Any feedback on the painting or ideas let me know!

Nice work loving the bike conversions especially the one using Lego wheels at the back, I imagine bending the plastic tube was a pain mind.

The cars have come together got that racer rod vibe to them, love the shooters on the side of the cab that’s very orkish

Hey what happens to the 1/43 car you got and didn’t use ? Was it a plastic kit ?

So the 1/43 car and a couple of other that were too small, the hit and miss of eBay buying, are diecast. However they are still cool so I'm currently pondering an idea of a bunch of grots driving it to be another buggy.

Bending the tubing isn't too bad, sharp bends I do using a candle and more curved ones hot water. Bend until happy then plunge in cold water. Took me a while, a few attempts and some burns before I got it somewhat how I wanted mind.

Drazaruk wrote:
I gave powders a go but always found them a pain to work with. The new stuff gw released is pretty good, that's what is on the painted buggies

Duly noted . I love how you aged your models, really makes them come alive!

Thanks . Kinda feel like you have to weather ork stuff. More progress photos

Love the work so far. Orks fall into the MadMax universe so well. Great conversions. It’s gonna be a great looking army on the table. But if your like me my orks get more shelf time than table time.

I agree orks need some weathering. You're doing great, love dropping in here!

Cheers. I'm hoping to keep on this project for a while. One more is done.


One thing that's frustrating me at the moment is doing heat scarring on the gun barrels and exhausts. It's a mix of yellow purple and blue washes however I'm struggling to get it how I want so it's still trial and error.

And damn getting the drivers in place is to fiddlely

Starting on the next one. Basic bodywork painted before weathering.


After weathering. All the needs doing for the bodywork is fresh paint chips.

This is quickly turning into one of my favourite threads for ork verhicles . Excellent on the weathering, it really brings the model to life.

Time to finish the squadron

Get goin' ya git! Nice work

Image sucks but meh.

All five together. Just need to cobble one more driver together.

Finally got some paint on the nob bikers

Looks like you're off to a good start on the bikers

It's taken way longer than expected to get these guys almost done. Still some scratch highlights to do and to add snow to the base. Pretty happy but still need to practice more on orks. The weathering and damage comes out alright though.

I've got 4 more nobs to make and the brainstorm and mek and pain boy on bike.

I'll take better photos when I finish these probably Friday night

Looks like you're off to a good start

2 more builds getting there.

And another one.
Just to drill the barrel and get my paint on for the next three.

I love orky conversions, and your speed freaks are looking great so far. Keep up the good work!

Cheers.

I'm a hitting a wall with building a pain boy on bike. Anyone got any ideas or inspiration?

Really like how inventive you are being with the Orks.

would a painboy in an ambulance work?

Hmm interesting idea. Time to hunt through my bits

Also in world war 2 they used jeeps with stretchers which could be easier to model something similar

Off to a good start. Thanks for the ideas I'very been cruising ebay to try get some good parts

Don’t forget to drybrush some mouths with chrome spray!

Awesome models, I just hope it doesn’t inspire me to start collecting orks again!

Very nice. Love the conversion work and your paint jobs are great as well. You can take anything and make it work with orks as long as you do it well. And you did it well.


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Very nice. Love the conversion work and your paint jobs are great as well. You can take anything and make it work with orks as long as you do it well. And you did it well.

3 more nob bikers complete. To build still is 1 more nob a painboy a big mek and the Warboss all on bikes. I've started a few bits for the Warboss and it's looking to be a big model.





I'm really happy with how these larger bases make them look really bis especially when they are next to the normal warbiker models.
Also thanks for all the positive feedback and ideas it's really keeping me motivated. More parts are on the way so should be able to build more soon, however 16ish warbikers need painting



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New things to play with.

Group shot with warbiker for size

 carlos13th wrote:
Really like how inventive you are being with the Orks.

would a painboy in an ambulance work?

I was totally inspired and had a spare truck knocking around. It was too small for a buggy or a truck but may be perfect for this with a grot orderly driving.







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This afternoons progress. Need to get my hands on a few gretchin now. Next is to finish the exhausts then build some doc oc style arms, workbench and various tools.


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More progress from today. Changed the painboys hand out for one with a handle so it looks like he's hanging on the back of the ride.
I need to add a couple of rivet and try find a painboy glyph to add somewhere and if I'm happy I'll get painting. Still need to get one gretchin to make it pretty much done



One for scale. I was hoping to base this but it's too big to bother. One day I may take some decent photos

I like where you're going with this . Nice work!

Finally decided to sort myself out and get some better photos taken. Here is the first one testing how it would come out. Pretty happy so I'll photograph most the things I've done so far again and upload them here.

More to follow


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Drill yo barrels!

Those are freakin awesome =D

Pun Intended

Great work as always. Love the conversions and the paint jobs.

Thanks for the comments always keeps the motor running. Also I'll drill my barrels when I get my drill bits from my parents!

Tonight's progress on the painboy and his ride

Bits that size cost, like, a buck each.

Also, don't know if you have Harbour Freight on that side of the pond, but they have little tiny end mill/drill bit sets for like, $5 over here. Get 20 of them for that.

Those vehicles looks so cool!

Looking good! I like the skin tone difference between the ork and the grot, nice touch

Cheers. I've never painted a grot before but it's going alright.

Tonight's progress. If I get my butt in gear should be pretty much done tomorrow

The mini ambulance is looking great, I really like the weathering. What's left to work on?

Cheers . So theres a fair bit of finer detail stuff, tyres, rust, wires to detail and highlight, clothes to highlights and various other highlights, scratches glyphs and probably some freehand stuff but unsure as to what yetc. This is all I can think of without actually looking at the model


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Painboy complete. Never really sure how to do wires on these kinda models. Time to complete his ride.

Painboy is looking good!

Thanks his ride is now (almost) finished. Got some white highlights to do but can't be bothered tonight.



Lighting kind of sucks I'll get some better ones this weekend.
Thanks for whoever posted the ambulance idea! This was really fun to put together. Now for the mekboy I think.

That's some lovely weathering on the cab... Nice work!

This is jawdropping. Could you post links of the car models used in the conversions and sizes (length and wide) of the buggies as i plan doing something similar in the future


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Cheers
So model wise it's hard to say as I just cruised eBay till I found ones that I thought I could work with. One is a majorette excaliber which are fairly easy to find.

http://www.diecastlovers.com/collectable/majorette-excalibur-ss-378/

Another was a chevrolet coupe model I found
http://www.modeltoycars.com/for_sale/pc/1939-Chevy-Coupe-Black-Motor-Max-73247AC-1-24-Scale-Diecast-Model-Toy-Car-p4838.htm

The others were just other cool model I found online. The best scales were 1/35 to 1/32. My original plan was to use model kits in this range such as revell or airfix but I found them to be more expensive than I wanted as the main bits I was after was the shells.

Ex ample storage of size would be 8cm width and 12cm length. Mine all vary in size they are bigger than the gw buggies but not as big as the trukk. Most are partly metal so can be a bit of a pain to work with.

My advise have a look on eBay for inspiration or if you got the cash look into airfix and revell stuff.


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Spent he last few time on some normal models
Managed to get 15 bikes on eBay for £20 so I don't mind the gak build they received from the seller. I should have filled in the gaps before but I guess I'll have to do that later. Bugger

Ploughing through the warbikers.

Nice addition to the warband Once they're all done, you should put up an army shot, it should look pretty good.

3 more warbikers done. 5 more to go. However I got bored again and wanted to build so here goes bigmek on bike.

Idea is the generator at the back to show the custom forcefield.

Also here are all the bits I've amassed since I started thinking about this project.




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Big mek is looking good. Think I'm happy just can't tell if something is missing. Feedback is always a gift.


Whole idea for below is its the generator for the force field. I wanted to add tesla coils but could not figure out how to make then on the small enough scale so I found found ikea fastings instead. Plan is the paint the wire to look like some lightning.


The idea for this was totally stolen from commissar kaine

Nicely done! I'd consider beefing up the arms a tad more: some cable, an armour plate,... Just to bring them in ljne with the rest of the model. Nice find on the ikea fastings

That's not actually a bad idea. I'm currently trying to finish painting the last of the bikes so I'll give that a go later this week. Thanks for the idea again.

Haha! Painboy riding a Mad Max ambulance. Wonderful stuff

So here goes. Finally finished all the warbikers, the extra nob iker and the big mek. Pretty happy but I'm blown out now with painting. I get tired painting big squads I'm dreading the 30 or 40 boys I'll do.
First up big mek. I loved the idea of armor plates but it just looked really odd.


Now group shots.

Storm boy still need heir bases painting



I'm really impressed with how the oval bases make the nobs look so much bigger than the warbikers. Next on the list is to build probably 3 trucks, 2 of which I have the base models for, finished gathering slash building bits for the Warboss. This one I'm apprehensive about as I've seen many others that I'm not keen on. Getting the proportions right will be a challenge. Also build at least 1 battlewagon.
Any feedback or ideas let me know. I'm pondering adding some snow to the bases as it looks ace on my dark eldar force.

Some spectacular group shots . And if the armour plates on the mechanical arms don't work out for you: they're your minis, not mine, do whatever you want

Finally got around to painting a grot orderly for the pain boy

Love the group shots and the little grot orderly - my fave models

Does you bigmek's face bionics has its own exhaust pipe? I love that! Also I agree with Guildenstern, I really like the group shots you took too. Good luck painting all those squads.

More grots is always a good thing . Nice work!

Cheers. Been trying to find tracks and extra bits for my trucks but eBay is failing me at the moment. Instead I built some tankbustas from bits I had lying around. Yeah the big mek has the awesome head from the nob sprue works really well.

Progress is slow. More bits are inbound to have a crack at trucks

Nice work on the conversions! Speed Creeks used to be my favorite army back in 3rd edition (and the reason for my username here).

Stop making me want to model more Orks. I'm trying to convince myself to sell my army off, dangit!

Finally had a crack at makig a trukk. Wanted to properly rivet so I've been waiting for the tubes to arrive. Love the ram on the battlewagon so figured I'd make one out of copper sheets. Also wanted a crack at fiddley stuff so made a crows nest for a grot. Overall pretty happy. Glueing the bigger wheels in place was a pain!

Some lovely work there drazaruk! The ram looks a tad big to me though; it may be the perspective?

Wow! Really changed the feel of that truck for the better.

Its a tad longer than the gw trukk probably about the size of a battlewagon but all gw stuff is wider than actual vehicles anyway.

Got bored of putting doing rivets so I built a huge harpoon for a grot to fire. I'll figure out what it counts as after I've built some wartrakk

That's awesome...

Lootin' that idea. That's.. awesome. All kinds of awesome, even

Finally powered through and painted the first trukk. Now waitig for 3 sets of tracks to arrive. ..

3 sets of tracks eh? Colour me interested . Lovely work on the truck too. I felt like the dozer blade might be a tad too big, but your colour choices make it fit right in.

First of 3 big trakk or trukks not sure what they be yet.

Getting the tracks to fit it a pain but it's pretty solid when done


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Wow, that's a solid conversion. A least I think it's a conversion, I'm not too up on current vehicle kits. Would you go over your process and what that big trakk is made from?

That thing is looking pretty cool! I must second Syro_'s request for a parts rundown - those tracks looka wesome!

. Honestly most of this is plasticard. The ram is copper sheets hammered to shape with plasticard. The weapons are mainly ork and imperial parts from various places.
The wheels for the tracks are resin ones from somewhere. The tracks were the hardest to track down. I brought 3 sets and sent them all back cause theyou weren't beefy enough. I eventually found some the perfect size from Japan and amazingly they arrived in 5 days.



Excuse the gakky photos my flat is dark I'll get better ones tomorrow.


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. Honestly most of this is plasticard. The ram is copper sheets hammered to shape with plasticard. The weapons are mainly ork and imperial parts from various places.
The wheels for the tracks are resin ones from somewhere. The tracks were the hardest to track down. I brought 3 sets and sent them all back cause theyou weren't beefy enough. I eventually found some the perfect size from Japan and amazingly they arrived in 5 days.



Excuse the gakky photos my flat is dark I'll get better ones tomorrow.


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2nd one tracks done. I've got a load of spare lengoths of track now.......

Ohh nice! Love the rat-rod buggies, and these wagons in particular

Ok thanks, was most interested int he tracks and track wheels (their manufacturer and model, to be more specific). This trakk's dozer blad eis lookingnasty! I'd consider bringing it slightly closer to the model itself though, there's lof of lost space there.

Great work, nice trukk! the grot looks awesome

I share your pain on tracks. It can be ridiculously hard to find some, and they hardly ever give measurements.

Are those made from a sort of plastic rubber?

''Ok thanks, was most interested int he tracks and track wheels (their manufacturer and model, to be more specific). This trakk's dozer blad eis lookingnasty! I'd consider bringing it slightly closer to the model itself though, there's lof of lost space there''

Yeah I agree with the dozer blade needing bringing back, I just oculdnt face changing last night as i got most of the glue from the tracks on my fingers.

The tracks are from this ebay shop.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HENG-LONG-for-1-24-3808-3809-3816-RC-TANK-Replacement-Plastic-Track-x-1-PAIR/142653500430?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160727114228%26meid%3D4b32864c61714adf8ffed82338327bfe%26pid%3D100290%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D4%26sd%3D142653500430%26itm%3D142653500430&_trksid=p2060778.c100290.m3507

For the Material they are rubber and to be honest it kind of makes it easier to faff around with the shape, i dont have the patience for dealing with individual links.
As for the wheels i couldnt say, try searching for spares for tank models on ebay.

Great, thanks! I'll have a look around for the wheels, something 'll surely come up.

Third one is on the way. I have loads of track left so now pondering a monster battlewagon

The tracks were the hardest to track down.

I see what you did there. Thanks for the parts run down, that's some impressive plasticard work.

Final one is done. These where such fun to sort out. The battlewagon is going to probably end up being a monster....

Wow well that was a long break. Apparently painting 40 boys makes me sick of pajnting. Anyway the first trakk is done.

Absolutely incredible. I'm in awe of your weathering skills.

Wow! What a beauty!

Second one is getting there.
I'm not so happy with this one may have another go

I personally love it, what about it do you think is holding it back?

I cannot put my finger on it. I'm going to finish painting the last one over te next few days and try figure it out. I want to get it all 3 finished so I can start building a battlewagon!!!!!

I think it llooks great! If I compare it to the previous one, this ones dozerblade has les blue on it, making it look less like a part of the whole (if that makes any sense). Might be what's bothering you?

I've been busy. Finishing painting started to drag but now I'm back to building a project I've been practicing a lot for. Battle wagon!
First off the big trakks / trucks are done
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Battlewagons base is a lorry toy I found for £1 in a charity shop months ago. Been pondering how to build
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The base of the model is now down but I still have a lot of plasticard work to do.

This is so monstrously amazing! Makes me want to go back to my 4th edition Ork army and redo everything~

We have surely WITNESSED

Things are coming on nicely. Probably needs more dakka......

Rivets make everything look better.


May look at selling this army soon. Let me know if you're interested

For a second I thought your grot was a little Master Chief rodeoing the gun.

OMG I'm totally doing a grot rodeoing a gun now

More details coming on. It's getting pretty heavy now.

Some killer Ork trucks here man, kinda makes me want to get back onit. Amazing weathering skills aswell.

Nice use of those autocannons! I still have a bunch lying around as well... Might need to whip something up

Absolutely love these trukks! Just having a look at the rubber tracks you've used, how did you find painting them? I've always found them a bit of a faff to paint without the paint cracking in the process.

Cheers guys. I'm gonna spray paint the battlewagon today and hopefully Chuck wom base colours down but it will take a while.

The rubber tyres weren't actually too bad to paint, they are some hard rubber as I think they are for rc cars. I just chucked down 2 layers of spray paint but they have come out a bit sticky so I'm pondering some Matt varnish.

I've got my hands on some mdf bases for the buggies. Probably going to use them as the snazzwagons

Drazaruk wrote:
Cheers guys. I'm gonna spray paint the battlewagon today and hopefully Chuck wom base colours down but it will take a while.

The rubber tyres weren't actually too bad to paint, they are some hard rubber as I think they are for rc cars. I just chucked down 2 layers of spray paint but they have come out a bit sticky so I'm pondering some Matt varnish.

I've got my hands on some mdf bases for the buggies. Probably going to use them as the snazzwagons

Ah, the 'What should I use all those buggies I already have as?" conundrum. Feels familiar ...Good luck on the rubber, I haven't risked it yet.

Battlewagon has a basecoat..... time to get the brushes out again