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So Ive been doing ALOT of work lately on my Orks, adding new units, building big ass vehicles and such, so I figured, rather then fill the painting and modeling section with all my WIPs I should join the band wagon and do a blog. So this blog will hopefully keep me on track and help me to remember to do steady work on my boyz, Im one of those guys that starts about a million things and finish maybe 12 of them

Da Burna Buggy
So first Ill post something I threw together here about 20 minutes ago. Dunno if Im going to add anything else to it, but Im sure I will. Its what I call a burna buggy (skorcha upgrade) I have 2 land speeders that Ive had sitting around in a junk pile for years, and figured what the hell, lets add some skorchas to my already heavy vehicle selection. So to start things off, I present to you the current Burna Buggy numba one

Ok so I threw together another BurnaBuggy yesterday, so I could use 2 plus a squadron of rokkit buggies against some nids. Ill say, against squishy targets, these buggies are great for supporting a trukk mobs assault. Then later that night I used them against some Chaos, and they didnt fair so well, they burned up about half a squad and then the Champs plasma pistol took them both down. But they looked good anyways. But I did change the tube placement on the first buggy, it looked weird sticking out the side so far, so some new cuts and an adjustment and it looks better.





Also heres an update on my trukks Ive built out of old ass rhinos. I wanted them to look like they were rhinos at one point, but I didnt want to do the typical *heres rhino, now it has ork things on it, now its trukk* I still need to paint some of the plates yellow so it matches the battlewagons and my overall color scheme.



to this

cool stuffs, what are the wheels on the burna wagons from?

The fronts are from a dollar store toy that was like an offroad truck thingy. You pull back on it and it races across the floor. Sadly, I havnt been able to find that anywhere for about 6 months, which sucks because the wheel size was PERFECT for 40k. The bigger ones in back are another dollar store find, I can still find those, but as you can tell, they are rather large and only really appropriate on a buggy, as buggies tend to have larger wheels on the back.

So Im now set on trying to find a replacement of the front wheels, I used them from bikes, to cannons to these. Oh well

Neat conversions, its amazing how good dollar store stuff can look

Nice conversions. I really like the landspeeder buggies. I think the tank could use some more armour plates though, in between the cockpit and the tread casing.

Consider those looted. They are fantastic! I have been looking for a way to make good looking buggies and you have done it, great work.

Nice stuff.

Like the burna buggies - but they're both too similar

Also like what you did with the rhino, but think it needs something more at floor level between the cab and back.

Yea I could put some plates in between the cab and the tracks, at least on the others as they arnt even painted yet. That one will just stay that way. The buggies, will look a tad different once I add some personal Orkyness to them. The way I see it, if an Ork can afford a buggy/bike/trukk whatever, they are going to add stuff to them that says "Dis iz me, an dis iz howz I krump fings" So yea right now, they are similar, but thats because its landspeeders with tires and Orks in the pilot seat, not to much to make them different currently


Thanks for the comments so far

Ok so I decided Im going to be an Ork Nob for Halloween, and was sick of working on the typical Ork stuff, so the other day I built a full sized Power Klaw. Im going to add some "rivets" and paint it up eventually, but heres some pics so far. The first one, my daughter took it as I was being stupid with my son, so thats why the weird ANGRY face






Ok so till next time, enjoy the pics!

Hehe, awesome Klaw KC, will be following this thread for sure.

That is absolutely brilliant!

What'd you use for it, foamcore?

Does it work?

lol No it doesnt work. Sadly, I wish it did though.

Foam core, hot glue, a gak load of measuring and a little Ork nob for inspiration

lovely work KC.

PK for the win!!!

nice buggies too.

Has anyone gotten to make any saves against it yet?

Ok its been awhile since Ive done anything. Family, get togethers, Health junk, you name. BUT Last weekend I went over to the giants house, he has a range set up over there and blew the gak out of some stuff. So I was staring at the pile of shell casings and whatnot, and had a thought, 12 gauge shells would make a great platform for some killa kans. Its perfect too, because for some reason Im a big fan of the old school Kans that looked like they were made from a trash can or a big ol water pipe.

So anyways, I spent the week throwing ideas around on how I should build them. I looked all over at $ stores and the like for legs and bits and whatsits. I couldnt find legs at all.....so I looked for wheels, I have a perfect set, but its the only set and I want to cast them so I wont ever run out, and Im making 9 Kans so that was a dead end. Then I remembered seeing someone on DAKKA make some Kans with crab looking legs, so I gave it a shot and thought, hell some armor and itll look great.

So, I gots da Meks ta'geva an banged sum metal scraps ta'geva and had maself a great time!

Im planning on magnetizing the DCCW as well as the guns I build. That way when my opponent scores a weapon destroyed, I can just pop the arm/weapon off AND be able to use different guns as well. Versatility folks! So the first pick Im just holding the DCCW up so you can get an idea of it, still think I might put some cables going from the body to the legs, but I dunno yet, that might make them too busy looking






And a size comp of my round Dread and my BigChoppa Warboss.



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Cutthroatcure wrote:Has anyone gotten to make any saves against it yet?

You kidding? Inv saves dont exist yet

Looks good + cheap = win

I'd say some cabling for the legs would be good, shouldn't be too busy and will help to break up the shape a little.

Yea now that Im looking at the pictures, it doesnt look so bad, I bet the cables would look great on there, sides I have to wire in the rokkits on it anyways. So now that Ive got the base idea down, time to pump out 8 more

OOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooook well the misses wanted to watch some chick flick she got for herself, which left me with 2 decisions, force myself through another chick flick, or get off my ass an GET TA BUILD'N!!!!!

So dats wut I did.

Mashed some more scraps together to get the 2nd of 9 built. Im wanting to make sure every Kan is very individualized, so stretching that over 9 Kans will be tough, but this is the start, so its easy. I gave this lil fella a wrecking ball. Still plan on magnetizing the weapons but for right now, Im just using the pin method minus glue to hold these on. I have to say, this one Im really digging, it was also much easier/faster to build, as Ive got the concept down, so the guess work is pretty much gone.
Anywho, enjoy and C&C as always.





If you look hard on this close up, youll see some rivets, most of mine are from some clear container, so they are HARD to see unless its painted


And lastly, its a bit blurry but you can at least tell the weapons are off, so I wont be forgetting any weapon destroyed on these

Im reely liking dat kan.
U shood enta it inta u-no-wat

*scratches 'ead* Wez kan put KANZ in dere? *grins*

Wez kan poot anyting verkle related dere!
Dem buggys an' battle wagons too!

Well kount dis BigMek in den! Mes'aged on ya writey fing

Hah. Stelf rivets. Not even Snikrot has dose.

I'm diggin the kanz. The spider like legs are a fun looking idea. Nice stuff so far.

Thanks for the compliments folks. Ive decided that once I build the 3rd kan, completing my first Squadron, then Ill paint them all 3 to completion. That way we can all see the detail and what not.




I still hate this moticon I figured it would of grew on me by now but nope.....and Im seeing it everywhere

Well Ive been busy once again, building the last of the first squadron of kans. I had an idea of doing one with a spy scope kindda deally, and since Im an Ork and build like one....well why have one, when I can have three. So that was the premise anyways. I just turned on some Misfits (fething LOVE this band. Just got into em, so check em out) and banged some more metal plates ta'geva!




I think the engine housing looks a bit tiny, so Ill add some junk later before I base these fellas.



AND the trio.

The first one, my daughter took it as I was being stupid with my son, so thats why the weird ANGRY face

Yeah it does look like you're getting into character a little early...I didn't realise Halloween called for Method Acting

Great to see dollar store randomness - this is why you have to love Orks - you couldn't do this kind of thing with any other army and get away with it. Sadly I don't have anything like a random dollar store near me Anyway, great conversions, can't wait to see them with a lick o' paint - subscribed