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The lego is 'riveting'.

I love the fact that lego is still lego even after all these years.

And you've fulfilled by quota for awesome for the day, and I thank you.

LOL at the eyebrows, it are perfukt! Also I am glad I am not the only ork nut who despite getting a new vehicle that looks so very very fantastic has an overwhelming need to "improve" it once I get my grubby mits on it. I dont think we will ever see a standard ork trukk any time soon.

the front's looking good (even if impossible to paint! ), although I don't like the 'eyebrows' over the lights - makes it look too much like a cute kids toy with anamorphic eyes. I'd lose them unless you can make them look much nastier

I'll definitely be stealing your engine grill idea - I want all my trukks to look 'hand built'

And viola!



That was a little easier than I thought, actually. I got a nice new soldering iron for Christmas that behaves much better.







I left myself a lot of excess wire to work with which I simply tucked away under there. The switch is placed fairly simply - it's in a spot where it won't get toggled to 'on' by accident underneath the trukk's body, meaning the lights should not turn on in my transport case and burn themselves out. It's still accessible enough to toggle at will, though.

The batteries are located between the tracks and held into a tiny enclosure I made by scotch tape, so if they ever burn out I can grab 'em and replace 'em. The lights run off a pair of hearing aid batteries - you can get something like 10 for $5 at Radio Shack, and I think they're something like 1.3v each. I never really pay attention to voltages, I just stack batteries until it works and resistors be damned. I never have the lights on for long periods of time anyway, just enough to show the occasional viewer.

Now I suppose I'll work on the cockpit.

Clang: I know the eyebrows make it look a bit silly, but I think they really help make the face on the front of the vehicle.

They remind me of that cat from one of those motivational posters.

Anyway-fething ace work Ein. I really admire your handy work- my only comment is that you should probably put as much time into painting your orky monstrosities as you do modeling them

Dude, don't cover up the legos! ROFL that's so damn orky it works!

Hi mate, sorry if you've already answered this - what are you going to do with the tracks? Paint them normally? (I have a vehicle with those rubber tracks, I'm not sure if I should paint them or change them).

jamsessionein wrote:And viola!

Is that you, Christine? I missed ya, baby!

I love this. Now make 6 more for your Speed Freeks.

Hey, got an idea for the battery housing, I'm quite sure you could house the batteries in the bit made of lego, i mean if your gonna cover it up might as well hide the batteries there if there is room.

oops, didnt see the second page before i posted, nevermind. Trukk is looking sweet I must say

Ahhhhhhah great stuff Ein, nice looking track guards and great orky face for the trukk. I personally like the look of the lights sans eyebrows, but straight on (and particularly with the headlights on) I agree they help it look more like a face.

- Salvage

I don't mind the 'face on the front' concept - so long as you're happy to make individual faces for each and every vehicle in the army - but there's something about those eyebrows that make it look like it's a new evil addition to 'Bob the Builder', which I _presume_ isn't what you're aiming for

This reminds me of the truck in The Dirty Dozen.

Looks cool. Not really careing much for the face effect, but still cool.

Breotan wrote:Looks cool. Not really careing much for the face effect, but still cool.

That's the cat I'm talking about. Right there.

So I've been messing around a bit today and I thought I might put it up for feedback.

I didn't like the standard boy in the cupola design, so I decided I wanted to put a turret in that spot with a grot gunner inside. This is what I've banged together, but it's not detailed in any way simply because I'm not sure if I like it.





Do you guys think this is good or not? It's basically a large tank wheel with a couple armor plates and some baneblade-shell-rockets on the front. I get the impression it's too tall, but anything shorter and it snags on the engine and its pipes.

I should probably mention the turret rotates in the hole and the rokkits are removable with the expectation that I might make a big shoota to fix to the magnet there for when I want to change the trukk's armament.



I detailed the track wheels a teeny tiny bit, also.





What do you guys think? This turret thing working for you? I'm just a tiny bit on the fence, though detailing the turret would probably make me feel better about it.

I thought gw's motto was to cover all the options a model can have now, how did they overlook the huge necessity of adding a rokkit launcha to the sprue, its the only good option available. I like it myself, the turret that is. Btw how do you get plasticard to go around a circle, or fold it over to hang that sign from the side? Is it just really thin plasticard I have never seen before?

The lack of a rocket launcher on the trukk sprue broke my heart, too. I figured they'd give the ork standing in the cupola the choice between holding a big shoota or one of the new design rokkit-stick things, but sadly that's not available. I really haven't even figured out a good source for rockets yet - these baneblade shells were the closest thing I could find to the shape I wanted.

The carding hanging that door from the side is just very thin, like a few sheets of paper stacked atop eachother, so it's nice and easily bendable.

For other circles like the lid on the turret, I've still not figured out a good system for cutting proper circles. For that particular lid I glued a penny to some styrene and carved around the rim of it with an xacto a couple times, then popped the penny off with the blade and filed the glue residue off. Complicated, but I can't figure out a better way to do it with thicker card.

Use a set of dividers to scribe plasticard in a circle?

Vis a vi the turret? I'm not feeling it. On a platform that small, there just isn't anywhere for all the gubbins needed to make a turret work really well, at least, not with a gunner inside.

So, either a pintle mount, or a remote controlled turret maybe?

And I'm with those who say that the rear sidewalls of the Trukk would look pretty darned good pushed out well onto the track guards.

Detailed the turret up and I think I'm more comfortable with it now.









Gotta make a Big Shoota to fit it. I'll probably do a double-barrel design with that as well just so that it fits the width of the area that the gun can magnetize onto. Then I have to add the driver in, who I think will be an ork because fitting a grot into there is more hassle than I care to go through in my current mood.

I've been considering taking the back walls and moving them out to the track edge, but I don't think I'll go with it simply because there's a lot already secured and pinned in place back there and I don't know how I would reconcile the edge's height difference between the track guard and the trukk bed. Instead, I'll make sure I add some hand-holds on the outer walls for the orks to hang from.

Also gotta make some nice big exhausts!

Man, this project is taking a lot longer and becoming a lot more involved than I initially pictured. I like the possibilities of this kit a lot, though - I already have an idea for 'theming' the trukks I next make for the squads that will use them. This is something of a generic all-purpose boyz trukk, but I think the next one I make will have a 'loota' theme to it and use a lot of rhino parts.

turret and wheels looking good

I say the turret looks fine. Also a great source is bits ordering killa kan missiles. You could have a rack on either side of that turret and really look like you got missles to spare.

looks like Herbie gone feral.
Awsome

this is a great looking conversion! keep up the great work.

That's come together very nice indeed.

I think the back walls are fine where they are. Accentuates the beefiness of the tracks.

It was a little bizarre working through this thread... I kept coming up with suggestions that you had already covered in the next post... Love the way the track guards turned out, the turret rocks, and the eyebrows are brilliant (although I was going to suggest a bit of a cover running over the top of the engine (under the supercharger) in the same style as the track guards, with the eyebrows attached to the sides... but I'm not convinced it would look better than what you've already done.

The track wheels still look a little odd, but that's possibly just because they're orange. I suspect they'll look fine once they're painted.


But that's enough pre-morning-coffee rambling from me... Looking forward to seeing how this turns out.

I've had a fairly busy morning, but I managed to get a little bit done so I thought I'd post it up before I moved on to the next part of the vehicle.

I produced a turret front that will hopefully work as a decent Big Shoota. It's pretty simple - just a couple styrene tubes and some sheet cut to size, but it gets the point across.





I wanted to show off an extra little detail that I was not planning on, but am happy with. Usually when I come up with modularized weapons for things, they tend to get lost or misplaced or I end up having trouble figuring how out to transport them from home to game and back again. Instead, I've managed to mount the extra turret weapon discreetly on the underside of the trukk for storage until I decide to change the trukk's weapons.



I figured the detail on the underside was already a lost cause because of the wiring and switch and battery compartment, so I decided the underside would also be a decent spot for extra turret weapon stowage. The left half of the last image shows the magnet that sticks out on a thick strip of styrene - the weapon slips right onto that spot and does not stick out too far, meaning I can flip the trukk over and set it down on it's tires without any trouble. It hardly even shows from the side!



Both weapon variations (rocket and big shoota) fit discreetly to the point and help keep all the parts for the vehicle together.

Now I'm going to make the driver.

The driver was blissfully simple compared to the rest of the model. I hacked the rollbar off his seat that comes on the stock truck because I did not like the way it looked, and I replaced his head. Rather than the head that comes with the trukk sprue, I decided to use one of the Burna Boy heads from the new Spearhead - I think this one's really got a good, Mad Max-esque look to him. I'm not going to put a windshield up on him either in the thought that he would probably wear all that stuff on his head instead. He's removable so I can paint him and the things around him easier.





After a bit of digging, I've found that I don't have the right diameter styrene tubing handy to make two big vertical exhaust pipes by the cab like I would want, so I'm going to have to wait till the shop is open tomorrow to grab the stuff I need. I thought I might work a bit on the bed area, but... I can't think of anything. All I've done is stick one tiny gun on a rack back there.



I need to conceal the lego svisible in the back there and I'm thinking maybe one hanging armor plate off the back might take care of it. I've messed around with the idea of using one of the trukk's boading planks in the back, but I just don't like the way it looks when it's folded up, and the planks no longer fit on the sides because of the track guards.

There's a second rollbar on the sprue that I can put up in the back, too, but I'm not sure if I want to do that just yet simply because I kind've like how open it is right now.

I'm totally open to ideas, but I don't think I want to move the outer rear walls any.

Add a License plate !!

D4KK4

Messing around with a couple rough concepts for the back. It'll obviously need some form of exhaust pipe, but I'm sort've thinking I want to put some sort of support for orks to board it. I was just testing out a Cities of Death ladder to start with, and I kind've like it but I'm not sure.



Could probably hack it just below the 3rd rung... I don't know, though. I also thought of using one of the boarding ramps on the back, but I really don't like the way it looks when it's folded up - it throws off the vehicle's profile a bit.







I need some more ideas.

Alright, so I shortened the ramp up and attached it with a pair of pins just to see how I like it. I guess it's not bad?









I could shorten it up so it hangs vertically, but I think this length isn't bad. It's not exactly practical for boarding other vehicles unless the orks decide to periodically drive the thing 'round in reverse, but I suppose that's a possibility. Actually, I can picture them skidding up next to a vehicle and swinging the rear around to throw the plank down, I suppose.

Is this good?

Piece of armour plate angled downwards with handholds in it maybe?

Then you could save the boarding ramps to stick them on the outside edges of the trackguards... (Why not? They're sturdy and flat! (the track guards))

I love the way this Trukk has evolved. It's almost Orky...