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hi everyone.

i had just brought this big toy truck cuz i want to make it an awesome, big battlewagon!

and guess what? it only cost 20 DKK/2,3 £/3,904 Dollars!

i want to give it a deff roller, boarding plank, big shoota and extra armour but i dont really have many idears to how i make it. i think i can make the deff roller out of 2 GW deff rollers, but i dont have more idears.

heres some picktures of the truck:

front


sides




rear


top front


size difference. GW battlewagon and monolith




truck with 30 ork boyz. 10 more orks than transport capacity!



any idears?

oh and by the way, theres some extra bits that followed with the truck


i have an idear about useing the cage to make a mek's workshop. the other bit. well i dont know what im gonna use that for.

Thats not a battlewagon...its a Battlefotress. Its huge.

yeh i see now.

a cheap battlefortress. i like the sound .

can i use it as a battlefortress in normal and planetstrike games?

i should change the name in this forum to battlefortress conversion.

btw. i post some pictures about the mek's workshop when im building it.


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can someone tell me the stats, special rules, weapons and upgrades an battlefortress have?

im finist with the most of the battlewagon/fortress.
i added 2 twin-linked big shootas, 2 twin-linked rokkit launchas and a lobba and a killcannon (battlewagon) or cannon (battlefortress).

heres some pictures:

front


sides




rear


top


with killcannon/cannon



i still need to add some more upgrades and a deff roller


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heres the mek's workshop.

With a good paintjob this will be nice!

did you notice the tellyporta on the workshop?

i can use it then deploying from reserves. then you deep strike or sending units out from reserves (including vehicles but not super-heavy vehicles), they may deploy in base contact or inside the workshop (vehicles cannot deploy inside).

the workshop counts as an AV 12 building

i also want to add 2 twin-linked shootas on one turret crewed by a grot on the workshop.

Kewl. Consider building the battle fortress 'Up' a little, as it is, at the moment, very low-lyng. If you attatch a big gun and a series of small cannons, as well as making it more tank-like, it would make a great Skullhamma.

Can you actually use non-GW models (with GW products stuck to it) in the store? Or is this for games at home?

i actually dont know.

im gonna find out later.

does someone know where i can find stats to a battlefortress?


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hmmm. maybe i can cut the cage down, add some plates on it and put it on the battlefortress so its higher

Im sure the stats are in one of the 2 APOC books. that thing is WAY WAY WAAAAAY to big to be a battlewagon. So throw that idea out now lol.
I have a few smallish ideas to make that look better and more Orky. Firstly, and this is a small one, the triangles you cut and glued along the sides of it, are too uniform. Make random sized and random shaped triangles, and then do that again. You can see what Im talking about in my gallery on the boom gun tank. For some reason that looks more Orky.


Also, and this is just a yea sure type of thing. It seems almost to stubby in height. The massive size of that thing, it looks a bit short. Look at your battlewagon. Its so damn tall, in real life that would tip over every time it turned. Now Im not saying make this Fortress 2 foot tall, but bulk it UPWARDS a little bit. Infact look at your battlewagon for a good 10 minutes. Look how its build and such to get into the mindset of an Ork. I bet youll come up with some ideas.


Other than that, its look pretty decent man.Good luck on it

Shepherd23 wrote:Thats not a battlewagon...its a Battlefotress. Its huge.

"Battlefortress, all that you want."

Ah, Yuri's Revenge.

Anyhoo, I like it! As King said, just patch on random (in all aspects) shapes of plasticard to make it moar orky, the wagon is coming along good as of yet. I'll be watching this!

Rico.

im tryin to make my own battle wagon at the moment id like to see how this goes

thanks for the tips.

how can i make a deff roller to the fortress and what weapons does it have?


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i got an idear for some extra to the fortress.
the STOMPA KILLA CANNON!

RNG S AP type
72" 10 2 ordnance 1, 7" blast,
destroyer

Forget the Battlewagon and go for the Battlefortress. I think you can find the stats in Forgeworld Imperial Armor Apoc. But for sure if needs to be Orkarised more - random plates of various sizes slapped on in random locations to start with.

its actually hard to add random plates on the truck (not on the cage) cuz theres already random bitz on if you check the pictures. i can slap some plates once i get super glue, cuz plastic glue is not good to use here.

I think you would benefit from some additional superstructure in the 'cab' area. The extra piece (I assume it fits over the driver's space) would be a good start.

It just seems too flat.

as i said, i wanna add the cage over the fortress, but i lower the cage so its not too high

You should really go over the top on this

Floor 1: troop carrying and ammo storage.
Floor 2: Main kannon + 2 large bore cannons.
Floor 3: weirdboy tower in center, ork "anti-air" weapons on each corner

add a death roller (with built in skorchas on it) at the front, followed by plent of bolted on big shootas and other weapons and you have a slow moving anti-everything vehicle, which is totally OTT, but veru orky

i always wanted a deff roller on the fortress, but i dont know how to make it! (exept for buying 2 GW battlewagon upgrade kitz)

btw, i love the idear bout extra floors

big mek crazygit wrote:i always wanted a deff roller on the fortress, but i dont know how to make it! (exept for buying 2 GW battlewagon upgrade kitz)

btw, i love the idear bout extra floors

Oversized hair curlers...

i want to buy 2 battlewagon upgrade kits and use that tip about hair curlers and then use those deff roller holding things, and i get 2 lobbas to my collection and 2 killcannons!
i got plans about giveing 1 lobba and killcannon to my battlewagon so its a gunwagon and buy a 2nd battlewagon and arm it with a deff roller. then i mount the last lobba n cannon on the fortress so it got even more dead killy' weapons!

All dat dakka sounds like a roight N proppa wagon ta me!

could make the deff rolla ota toilet roll tube then make plasticard spikes on it

if i manage to this step, the fortress would have:
3 lobbas, 2 zzap guns, 2 cannons, 6 twin-linked big shootas, 3 twin-linked rokkit launchas and deff roller.

its alot of dakka on 1 vehicle!

can i actually put anything i want on the fortress? cuz i want to add a supa gatler.

heres some pics of the fortress:

front


sides




rear


the front weapons

5 twin-linked big shootas, 2 lobbas and 1 twin-linked rokkit launcha. already here is a lot of dakka!

the big gunz

2 zzap gunz for anti-tank and a cannon for anti-tank and anti-infantry. they are turret mounted so they can shoot all the way round.

the rear defence

twin-linked big shoota


twin-linked rokkit launchas




i placed 2 skorchas in the front so they can kill those who come too close.

the 2nd skorcha is on the other flashlight.

heres the supa-gatler



i only put it on the fortress if i can.

i made the fortress a bit "higher" with the cage, but it would be too high if i just put it on. therefore, i cut it down a little as you can see.

well. what do you think?

ps: how many weapons can i mount and how much does a battlefortress cost in points?

Start painting that thing.....

nah, i wait to paint it until it got all the wargear it needs.

it needs:
1 more lobba
2 ack-ack guns (quad gun), if i can mount it on
deff roller
more big shootas!
more zzap gunz!!
more cannons!!!
more lobbas!!!!
more everything!!!!!!

its gonna be the strongest fortress ever!!!!! gaaahahahahaaa!!!!!

man, crazygit took controle of me.

anyway. do you think this is gonna be possible?

alright. its a bit while ago since i posted here, cuz i took a break converting the fortress, but i think im finished!

here's the weapons n upgrade it has (that i know super-heavies can have):
deff roller
supa gatler
looted hammerhead railgun
6 twin-linked big shootas
3 twin-linked rokkit launchas
2 skorchas
2 zzap gunz
and 1 cannon

i phost some pics later cuz im gonna go to school

Damn. That is the most awesome Orkmobile I have ever seen!

Make the fortress taller! It should be like atleast three times taller than that.