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Alright I'm starting a small ork army (small being the oprative word as it will revolve entirely around gretchins). I am starting with AoBR because I already have plans for the warboss to be converted into a gretchin "kommanda Karrier" and I'm using the marines to bolster my other army. I was Wondering does anyone know of any easy way of completley removing the pilot from the deffkopta (to replace him with a bunch of gretchins)? It may be easier than expected but I haven't bought the set yet so I don't know how difficult it will be. Obviously if it will be easy then you can just say that. Thanks in advance.

- Spam

Unfortunately you can't easily do it. One leg, half the torso and half the copta are all molded together with only one hollow cavity. to cut the legs out would leave a leg shaped gap in the sides. Lots of greenstuffing to fill that in.

I think there was a guy who's doing a grot army, and converted grot deffkoptas. Look around the plog forum, it should be there.

Or cover the legs with a plasticard cockpit, have the grots peeping out the top? But yeah, it's gonna take a bit of work...

That would be very difficult to do. to make a grot deffkopta I would make the body of it from scratch using plasticard and then cut off and add bits from the actual deffkopta. It might tike time but will probably look better than if you cut out the pilot.

ZoomDakkaDakka wrote:I think there was a guy who's doing a grot army, and converted grot deffkoptas. Look around the plog forum, it should be there.

found it! http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/266318.page there are a few grot deffkoptas there to help you

Thanks guys a lot of help.

Blitza da warboy wrote:

ZoomDakkaDakka wrote:I think there was a guy who's doing a grot army, and converted grot deffkoptas. Look around the plog forum, it should be there.

found it! http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/266318.page there are a few grot deffkoptas there to help you

Those would be mine
If you want to remove the orks, the body comes off easily if you cut straight down next to the seat and right above the middle, you just need to touch up the back seat. The legs are a bit more of a pain, and require grinding down and cutting off, then some fixing. It' s not particularly hard, you just have to mak sure you don't damage too much detail. Good luck with the grots!

Just this weekend I was cutting the riders out of a Deff Kopta. As everyone above has said getting the torso off is easy. I just used a dremel and chopped the torso out. I left the legs in mine as I was putting a Warboss in there but from looking at the legs it might not be that bad. It depends if you want a real clean looking model or not.

I'm not the best at modeling but I'll give it a go. Thanks again guys.

Just plan ahead and go at a slow pace and everything will turn out fine. Its when you get going to fast and not really planning is when you screw things up. Good luck

Thanks again.