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Or rather, the start of 'em. Wow its been a long time since I posted on Dakka.... Anyway, here are the first two pieces of my "I'm not starting and Ork army" Ork army.... I modeled up "Da Hot Rod" about a year ago and finally got around to painting it. The army is based on hot rod/kustom car culture, psychobilly, punk rock, etc. Its basically going to be a Goff Kult of Speed, or at least and outcast retinue of Goffs, haven't really worked up any fluff.

First up we have the Da Hot Rod itself. This is a basic Ork Trukk kit with some major conversion. This model follows the traditional hot rod look with flat black paint, white-wall tires, red wheels, red motor and a lot of bare metal. I've seen a few real rods with a checkered firewall and have always wanted to do it..so it finally happened. The suspension has been dropped and converted to a 4 wheel vehicle from 6. This was done by cutting the leaf-spring suspension off of it and turning the axles upside down. The rear armor plates cut to make perfect "chopped" doors. The bed has been narrowed and shortened along with the gas tank being moved back there. The motor is the trukk engine with some old rhino exhaust pipes for valve covers and plastic rod for sparkplug wires. The blower is off a 1/24th scale kit I nabbed from my fathers extensive collection of model car whatnots.









Second up is the warboss himself. I've yet to name him but suppose it will have "Grim" in it somewhere since thats the glyph I painted on his backplate. This is a plastic ork warbike as base. I wedged an old warbuggy tire on the rear and used one of the front spiky bits to make a fender. A little bit of greenstuff and some other orky whatnots serves to hide the join. I set it up with dual exhaust partially for looks, and again partially to hide the merge of the huge tire. The front tire is another buggy tire only I cut it down the middle to narrow it. I turned the fork so it had a bit more dynamic pose. Yea, it doesn't have the dakkaguns because I think they look silly, and the bike is suppose to fit my "stripped down, go fasta" look. Its basically a "bobber" cycle. The rider is the nob from the bike kit with one of the plastic nob power klaws. The head is an older metal nob head (far better detail than the plastic ones) that has a new daemonette mohawk grafted onto it (since he's punk rock like that...). Painting was done just like Da Hot Rod with black/red/whitewalls. I had some issues with the sealer on this but have salvaged it best I can.

Wow, fantastic painting.

Looking forward to whatever else you have in store! Maybe a bit clean for my taste, but that's still very nice.

sA

These guys are freakin' ace! I need to see mooooooore!!

If I didn't have a couple of thousand points of other stuff to paint, I'd be starting an Ork Mob and Stealing your Ideas.
Great work mate!

Really great orks here! Fantastic painting!

Cheers,

Jack.

I love it!

That is so Cool!

boo. pikturs are broken for me. I wanna see.

Fierce! I love the rod mate. Well done

Now that's my kind of KoS! I've done my army in a similar style, with lots of flames, apehangers, and bobber styled bikes.

Your execution is great, and the attention to hot rod style is ace. I love the whitewalls on red rims. How much of a pain was it to narrow the front wheel for your bike boss? I've contemplated doing exactly that (can't stand the new wheels, personally) but I'm worried about fit and finish.

Keep going! Post more!

Holy crap, that Rod is awesome!

Dude awesome! Goff Street racers!

I'm glad to see people try new things with the trukk model.

You sir, are my hero.

Teek wrote:Now that's my kind of KoS! I've done my army in a similar style, with lots of flames, apehangers, and bobber styled bikes.

Your execution is great, and the attention to hot rod style is ace. I love the whitewalls on red rims. How much of a pain was it to narrow the front wheel for your bike boss? I've contemplated doing exactly that (can't stand the new wheels, personally) but I'm worried about fit and finish.

Keep going! Post more!

Originally the warboss bike was going to have apehangers. I had them mocked up along with the arms, but it just didn't have "the look". The bike is shaped oddly, and so are orks. In the end I scrapped the idea. The only way it looked right to me was if I angled the bars up instead of straight along the fork, which looked goofy from the side.

The wheel was a lot easier than I thought it would be honestly. The old buggy wheel is 2 pieces, and each piece has a recessed area for the other side to fit in (50/50). I cut that portion out as it provided me a straight edge to follow when trying to make it work. The tread matched good, but the area under (ie: hidden) isn't perfect. I used a oval file to help smooth things, there is no putty at all, just superglue and filing.

I really wanted the FW nob biker parts (the wheels are fantastic) but the cost just isn't possibly right now for me, and I figure I could get "close enough" to what I was going for with stuff I already had.

Thanks!

ork hotrod, damn that is hot. What i like the most about it is that it is still looks like the truck just made ALOT better

Ive been wanting to do a muscle car themed ork army for years myself just never gotten around to it.

The bike is ok, but the rod... is awesome. I'm not happy with the actual truck, but the redesign you have done is great.

That maybe a couple of the coolest ork vehicles ive seen ina long time, howd you do the hot rod? Both thumbs are up, looking forward to seeing more!

The Ork Warboss with Mohawk (Moh-ork?) is just brilliant.

Great!!!

Tease

Awesome biker warboss. Almost makes me wanna give it a go myself...

Fantastic, can't wait to see more. As soon as I saw the blower on the original trukk model I was thinking of a hot rod ork army, but time, money, and patience are not on my side. Bike is excellent, looks like something that Exile Cycles would produce...

I think the proper term for that particular style is 'rat rod', but who cares. Awesome. I'd love to see you mod in parts from an old pickup truck on one, then nice curved fenders, flareside bed. Very cool...

Damn there very well painted, I love the Orky Hot rod style you have going on there! great work can't wait to see more

Holy crap, that's top-notch.

Wow, that rod is crazy. I think that may be the first time I've ever found a model sexy. Do you think it would call the cops if I got caught stalking it?

Nice- I really like your extreme highlights on the metals.

I love them! Just so incredibly cool!

You've sparked an idea, which I will put into effect in a trukk kit I recently bought, but not yet opened.

I'd love to see more of these goodfernuffin rockabillies!

Fantastic conversions !!! The whitewalls look so cool.

I must say that I agree. Awesome!! But as some have said they seem clean for Orks. You could model (its obviously within your skills) one of the boyz combing his hair in the rearview of his speeding bike, or a guy polishing an engine block, both very in tune with your theme I would think and they would make great fluffy accents. Great theme and great work!

YEEAH! Goffs, rock on!

These models are amazing, great hot rod conversion!