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Iam working on a big ork fort. I really want to play with it and don’t want to use it as scenery. I decided to break the fort down into 3 pieces and make 3 separate “battle wagons”: The are really big so its hard to move them around on the battlefield. I decided that I don’t want to move them at all, because…. it’s a fort! So I want to fill each part/wagon with 15 lootas and shoot like hell!

The whole fort has to become a scenery with crawling grots and all sorts of things.
I want to build a kitchen, mekshop, cockpit, toilet, armory etc.

I got a plastic (toy) castle and iam covering it with all sorts of plates with bolts.

Front side:




back side:


inside:


top:


Next:

I am making the tank/wheels for every battle wagon and I am working on a kitchen block. More pictures soon!!

(sorry for my English writing )

I think it looks great so far but I am not sure about the part where it is actually moving.... but i'll reserve judgement till you have completed it.

New update:

got the whole thing on wheels now..! damn its big!


front gate:

gate can open (magnets):


second floor got the forcefield generator (discoball thing that really spins around with blue light) at the first floor you can see the "engine" iam making. Its a big hole with a orange-led. It look like their is a fire burning in the hole.


I made a gretchin with a shovel that fill's the burning whole with "fuel" (junk).


also working on the kitchen:

Iam also making an ambulance. Its a small Ork trukk and i will use it as a painboynobbiker. Still got to place the drivergrot and dakkagungrot, and also a painboy in the back (maybe operating).




also made a small trukk with a crane. This thing will drive around on the uper floor. still got to place a grotdriver..

Looking rather excellent

It is far too late for me to comment coherently... but I well be back to marvel at your wonderful creations later!

Looks great! Spinning parts, gates that can open. You should totally write an Apocalypse datasheet for that thing.

The ambulance is pretty cool idea too.

That's a pretty good idea and you are making a really good work, but i'm not sure about if it's good to make a 3 piece wagon. if the wagon are moving alone, the fort is not complete and the interior are vulnarable (to much!).
The gate is good, but don't reach the ground, so i think you need to fix it.

Thanks everybody!

@fantasybob: Yes, I dont like to split up the different Fort parts because that looks weird. But if I want to use it for a normal 40k game then I got to make 3 battlewagons and try to make them look like one big fort if their next to each other.

Its not really a assault vehicle so i dont really want to use the gate, but i think a ork would not mind to jump from the fort gate into an enemy unit!

That is one massive and really cool project. I'm banned from building more terrain (house exploding with half finished projects) or I would so copy this. The details you are adding in are great. Love the mini crane.

shogun wrote:
Its not really a assault vehicle so i dont really want to use the gate, but i think a ork would not mind to jump from the fort gate into an enemy unit!

I see.......anyway, i'm curious to see it completed! keep working, man!

Update on the Ork fort!!!

ork toilet:


stairs to second floor:

Haha - love the toilet. Hope you are going to have lots of graffiti on the walls around it and some water effects around the base where the orks' BS really shows through

shogun wrote:New update:

got the whole thing on wheels now..! damn its big!

By the power of Grey Skull oh sorry wrong Scifi world "Da boyz wud be prowd o dat ard as fort"

Nicely done matey can't wait to see this done and painted!

SilverMK2 wrote:Haha - love the toilet. Hope you are going to have lots of graffiti on the walls around it and some water effects around the base where the orks' BS really shows through

believe me..that toilet is going to be a mess!

Do you know that stompa poster from a white dwarf? It shows a ork toilet with a grot fighting a squiq with a plunger. Iam going to make that.

Very cool, subscribed.

update:

iam really tired of working with all that plastic-card and rivets. I need 45 loota's so i bought a box of them to start with. I want them ALL to look different and iam not a big fan of the whole shoulder mounted loota weapon. I made my own small conversions:

loota's:





also made a runtherd from a old metal ork Nob:


Meantime iam still working on the fort and iam thinking about putting in a ork bar...

This is brilliant utterly insane! Great skills on the plasticard. Your Orks are at the height of Ork technology-Flushing Toilets. Not just a privy hole at the bottom of the fort! Daft question but why use it as 3 Battlewagons not a Battlefortress? Are you planning to add Killcannons?

While good there is a distinct lack of toilet update

Llamahead wrote:This is brilliant utterly insane! Great skills on the plasticard. Your Orks are at the height of Ork technology-Flushing Toilets. Not just a privy hole at the bottom of the fort! Daft question but why use it as 3 Battlewagons not a Battlefortress? Are you planning to add Killcannons?

I want to use it in a normal 40k game. The fort will look like one big machine with the possibility to break down in 3 separate battlewagons. I Thought about adding killcannons but i haven't got the points left. I will still magnetize the big shoota grots at the windows so that i can still remove them and add a killcannon if I want to.

Outstanding, when I first saw the first picture I was like WHERES THE TRACKS?!?!?! Just Ded 'ard man! I love it. You gave me a great idea for a display. Thanks!

Flyin Krooza'!

shogun wrote:Update on the Ork fort!!!

ork toilet:


stairs to second floor:

Any good fortress need a toilet! really funny!

Wow im impressed with the loota conversions, simple but effective~!

ChaplainTed wrote:Wow im impressed with the loota conversions, simple but effective~!

thanks! only got 40 more to go...

update:

new loota with very big gun:


chef:


and a few more plates:

update!

made a new loota. Looks like a big dumb Nob ripped a piece of hull/weapon from a tank and made a grot shoot with it.grot still needs another arm:


I dunno what color to use for my fort but these two guys have to paint the whole damn thing! The will still be painting the right side of the fort:




Iam going to make a ork-barroom. And a good barroom need a good band: " great applause for the Krimson Monks"


Two orks will be fighting in the ork bar. One tries to draw his slugga but gets a punch in the face. Still need to give the puncher a hand with a Beermug.


Next: still working on the fort hull and got the models of my Nob biker painboy.

This is so detailed. I love the ork toilet and the grot painters; they add a lot of character to the piece.

This is going to be epic.

Haha, love the new work.

this is EPIC