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If you stuck some female grots hanging out the window you could combine those into 'da bunk-up'

Bunka-vee Doom-bunka Boss-wagun Grot-star one

All a bit poor, but may set someones thoughts going - dissappointed I couldn't come up with grotty names for Yavin or Ekko-base

'Da Campa Van' (cause it camps on the objective) or 'Da Keepa (cause it keeps the objective safe).

da stuff steala
or
da supa dupa ranger

Da camper but add a pop tent tow behind trailer.

Dis Da Kherry Picka

Dat Mine

Best army/ paintjob/ Background ive seen on Dakka

WOW so many replies, again I thank you guys for your helpful suggestions and feedback and we have a winner.

1-i wrote:Da Kamper

It's what it does and I will add a small tent when I get the time

Bloodhorror wrote:Dat Mine

Made me laugh, I must paint that on the tank somehow, probably on the dozer blade. Anyone know where I can finded a good curved dozer blade like the old Predators compared the anglar shaped ones from GW?

Do you mean the dozer blade with the spikes that slot in?
If so I've got a spare I can send you.

edit: and da kamper is the logical choice

this is the best army ive ever laid eyes on lol really nice work

i really liked Da bunk Up haha.

or even turn it into a little coffeshop/cafe place with grots drinking tea and such maybe even some musicians such as what the rich would do at the start of the civil war. i always wanted to turn a land raider into a starbucks... hehehe (evil grin)

Upcoming Stuff
Here some stuff that I'm working on at the moment while working on the Doom-vees...
First is the Dakka Tank variant turret 'The Mega-Lobba' which I will use to represent a Griffon Mortar, built using an ork big gun base, steam tank cannon, sentinel searchlight (for the cannon hatch) and a few other bits. The grot was going to go on a doom-vee but he suits this tank a lot better.



The second is a special objective marker which is not yet complete but will serve and important role in the army; any guesses?

Mega-lobba looks cool, I'm not going to guess at what you're going to turn that objective into, but it's given me an idea for my mega-nobz

i think the objective is going to be something techmarine like to be the techmarines that trained them, maybe?

Like the mega-lobba. And as for the objective: a mobile shrine/revolutionary preacher or something? With loudspeakers on the arms?

The 'Supa juice' dispenser?
A mobile repair thingy?

"NO MORE WHEEL TROUBLE BOSS, WE'Z GONNA MAKE DEM ARD!"

AT LAST AN END TO THE MOULD LINE PROBLEM! A friend offered to remove the mould lines off the tires for me, but even he was driven crazy due to their rubber texture. So we began discussing alternatives this evening at my gaming club and we eventually came up with a solution!

Since the rubber tires were going to be so much trouble, we thought it might be a better idea to remove them and add plasticard plates to the wheel instead. This idea was inspired by my greenskin rival's scratch built battlewagon wheels. So basically all of the Doom-Vee's we have wheels like the ones on the old ork battlewagons and painted a dark shade of metal. (shown below)



This solves so many problems; drybrushing will be easier on a flat surface, no need to glue the tires into place plus they make the vehicles look even more hard and orky, I mean groty

That'll sort it then
Are you adding the plasticard to the existing rubber tyres, or building new wheels from scratch?

monkeytroll wrote:That'll sort it then
Are you adding the plasticard to the existing rubber tyres, or building new wheels from scratch?

No need just the rubber tires themselves, I'll then add the plasicard tiles to the wheel itself; you can see the plastic wheel part more clearly in the pic. If I use thick plasicard I only lose 1 or 2mm in width.

cant wait to see more

Great idea, and very grotty; I loved that old battlewagon so anything going in that direction can only be a good thing

Really like the lobba. Very nice!

Dez Wheelz R Dead Ard
Well the grot rebellion is still going guys and they’ve had their first piece of action today.

But first as you all know I’ve been having some troubles with the rubber wheels I originally brought for the doom-vees; such as removing the mould lines and dry brushing the dust on them. I eventually came up with a alternative solution which was to replace the rubber wheels with armoured plates, just like the old Ork battlewagons.
Well it took all Sunday afternoon & evening to create all 36 panels and I only just managed to complete the 2 doom-vees at 3 this morning ready for the doubles tournament today.

Here they are modelled on the Command Doom-vee; extra pts for the personal who can tell me what the Ork glyph means?



While they may take longer to build and I’d have to build another 180 ‘shudder’ they do look a lot smoother when drybrushed compared to the rubber wheels were the drybrushing is all over the place due to the shape and texture.

“So what do you think to the new Ard Wheels; are they an improvement or do you prefer the rubber wheels?”

Da Test Drive!
Well I finally got to take the new grots out for a spin today at the Yorkshire Doubles Tournament and apart from forgetting that the Hydra autocannons were twin linked for the first game and a half it went okay.



The first two games were fantastic and very close, we would have won the first one if we hadn’t ran out of time. The third game just had me and my ork ally in a race to see who could kill the most Necrons, it was over by turn 4 and not very interesting. Overall the two units that shined was Gorkil (Marbo) who got stuck into a unit of Long Fangs for an entire game and The GBH (Banewolf) which torn it’s way through the most enemy units in all 3 games.

End result was a Draw, Minor Loss & Massacre Victory and athough we didn’t win best army my comic won me an award for best background.

I would love to go into more detail but I’m absolutely knacked, as always I look forward to your feedback.

The 'Ard Wheels look better than the rubber wheels BUT...

...I personaly think that the 'Ard Wheels are best only on the Command Doom Vee and that you should keep the rubber wheels on the other Doom Vee's.

That's only my opinion.

The grot vehicles look great in the bottom pic and it's great to see more Doom Vee's with paint on them.

FRIKIN' AWESOME!

Lovin the 'ard wheels man!
Grats on the tourney results as well !

Sounds and looks good! Will there be a tourney report?

I'd keep both sets of wheels The 'ard wheelz are great - try a different tread pattern on the next set - maybe as per 'ard wheelz but with a central band, or alternate the side the plates are on (like the Ork Trukk wheels), or even slightly V shaped plates. You could even use Ork glyphs as plates. I like my Ork vehicles unique! (Hence I love your grotz - modelling/painting wise - though my Orks may have to (attempt) to put them in their place - should they ever meet )

Gathering Storm wrote:I personaly think that the 'Ard Wheels are best only on the Command Doom Vee and that you should keep the rubber wheels on the other Doom Vee's.

I put them on the one with the small window, you can see the difference in the left window size in the lower pic which I mentioned before. That way I could either use it as the kommand Doom-vee if I decided to go with the plated wheels, and if not I could use them for the mobile base 'Da Kamper' which will feature a dozer blade and rarely move during games.

The ork glif is zog off gimme a cookie