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hi, I've been collecting orks awhile now, does anyone have tips for converting a battlewagon?

Converting? Or scratch building?

Because converting depends greatly on what your wanting your army and the wagon to look like.

just what would be cool to add on

Orks like lots of bolts. Get some styrene hex rod and styrene round rod of varying size, slice off little sections, and glue them on where bolts would be nice.

Orks also like cutting torches, so filling in empty space with bolted on slabs of metal with roughed, torch cut edges looks nice.

Basically you want to keep it looking very messy and busy, with lots of bolts, irregular edges, weld lines, etc.

Corrugated cardboard makes a nice looking roofing material. Pieces of other vehicles can be used for walls etc. not just the vehicle you are converting. Spikes and big guns, bad red paint job over rust. Like the above poster said, bolts, lots of bolts...the idea is like the coast guard and knots, if you can't tie a knot, tie a lot. As for what vehicle to "loot" depends on how much you work you are putting into it, and what models you have. I have seen a couple really fun IG conversions and a landraider. I always wanted to loot a monolith, have grots carrying it or pulled by squigs.

Oops, I read up further, just an add on you say? Custom made deffrolla? If you don't have one on it, you will. The other vehicle parts for more armor still works for this adding on, see if you can pickup a beat up old something for cheap and use it.

Id say that a scratch built deffrolla would stick out in terms of convertions. Get it? I kill me

Seriously though, if you come up with a cool idea that is different for a rolla counts as (keep in mind you dont have to make it a roller. Im thinking of making mine look like a powered hedge clipper) then itll make your BW stick out in the crowd, but it would be a huge full on conversion, as the deffrolla is a big part of the look of a battlewagon

I made my own deffrolla and it was not too hard. I did not want the big steam roller look, so I made mine out of a pen. I then poked holes in it with a push pin, and then pushed wire into each hole, then cut off the wire to the length I wanted. It is very pointy, and I like it better than the original GW one kinda.

Another idea I had for the Deff rolla was to make it a giant drill coming out of the front.

I would recommend that you start with a kit, either a Leman Russ or a Land Raider would be the easiest.

Take a rhino and leave off the top and back hatch (If you're not using an actual battlewagon). Add lots of random sheet metal looking stuff all over and grots and snotlings if you have some. I took some spare bits from a rhino and made an awesome grot on a machine gun turret that fits right into rhino turret slots. Take the turret slot and the lower torso bits where the commander sticks out of the top of the tank. Cut off the tank commander and replace it with the orc that's driving the rocket in the stormboyz pack and glue him in there with his head facing forward, not up. I then took some spare big shootas ( with the grips cut off) and glued them on to each side and stuck a spotlight on the beam that the heavy bolter would sit on in the normal rhino. My camera's not working so I can't post a picture right now but it looks really good. If you want you can add a spare sight reticle from the lootas pack.