++ Orky looted Leman Russ tanks:

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**Stump**

Garvil_Loken wrote:Just seeing this conversion. A question popped in my head that might be answered here. What model materials do you have to have to make an ork tank? Do you have to use warhammer 40k models and skillfully put them into a war machine or can you use any kind of model laying around like a world war tank not even related to warhamer?

As an ork I grab whatever I can to make my models. Some things I have used existing parts of 40k stuff but some I have just build from the ground up from plasticard.

I am making a stormraven for my brother atm and it has 40k stuff in it, parts from a MiG model, parts from a snow speeder model and parts from a battlestar gallactica model.

My skills as a loota are fairly good sometimes.

Some are winners but most are losers. (speaking of my own stuff here)

I think I even saw someone building something orky our of cereal boxes once.

I have both scratch and kitbashed stuff in my gallery if you want to take a gander at em.

**CT GAMER**

Stump wrote:

I have both scratch and kitbashed stuff in my gallery if you want to take a gander at em.

I'm pretty sure I remember seeing and commenting on your builds at some point in the past. I really like BW2: the one that looks sort of like an orky superheavy tank.

If you ever decide to get rid of that model, let me know, I'd like to get my hands on it...

**Solorg**

YEAH! Every tank looks better with an ORK driving it! Nice rust effect, and I love all the gubbinz you attached.

**Sharpasaspoon**

CT GAMER wrote:

Garvil_Loken wrote:Just seeing this conversion. A question popped in my head that might be answered here. What model materials do you have to have to make an ork tank? Do you have to use warhammer 40k models and skillfully put them into a war machine or can you use any kind of model laying around like a world war tank not even related to warhamer?

I have seen some really skillful conversions of non-40K models into awesome ork tank conversions.

I have also seen lots of really gak/fail models that end up looking like toys with a bunch of random crap glued onto them.

Some people also have the skill/motivation to completely scratch-build a cool model from raw components (plasticard, etc.).

I consider myself mostly a "kit-basher" not a s"scratch-builder": I like to take kits and play around with them, modify them and add some things. I'm no master, but i try to give some attention to detail all the while attempting to be faithful to the army in question's established aesthetic.

In the end it all comes down to the skill/motivation of the builder I guess...

Agreed.

I asked this question in a GW store and the answer I got was if you can execute it to a good standard and look in the spirt of a GW model then that is aceptable.