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my uncle has an old model T ford that he's been working on (read:letting or and rust) at the farm, this reminds me so much of that.....only much cooler....and more progress.......and has Dakka......and tracks......so you see how that's so much cooler

This is a fantastic build!!

Thank you gentlemen, high praise from such great guy's.

Ok just to show I am back on the case, here are some WIP shots, still a fair bit to do, but painting has commenced.





Dr H's boxes look magnificent. Absolutely over the moon with them.


And unloaded.


Your thoughts as always are most welcome, please bare in mind painting is very WIP, so not very neat at this stage.

Cam outdoes himself again , even his WIP pain job kicks my . Needs a bumper sticker saying I break for fun or I brake for squigs with a cute little paw print

That's truly excellent work Cam. Smashing job on the canvas side... what did you use for it?

Looking good, Cam.

Good use of the sprue pieces. Including the T-junction blob (that I never thought would be used).

I like the piece of fabric on there as well, looks like it's really flapping in the wind.

Thank you.

@ Theo...Watch this space.

@ Gits The canvas is very thin PC very briefly touched with a blow torch. I use one of those chef ones for rapidly heating plastic, used it to help me form the fenders. Obviously you must take great care. You do tend to burn your fingers occasionally.

@ Dr H Indeed yes even used your sprue. I will paint that corner like it's leather should be fine by the time I am done. And canvas see above.

Thank you for your comments, keep it coming.

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@ Dr H Indeed yes even used your sprue. I will paint that corner like it's leather should be fine by the time I am done. And canvas see above.

Well the sprue was intended to be used, as you know, in order to encourage people to make use of their sprue.
After all it was the use of sprue that led to the design of the wood for the boxes and so they wouldn't have even existed without that...

But that corner was just a lump of plasticine that was only there to join up the lengths of sprue in the mould and give an efficient flow of the resin. I had no further thoughts on their use. So a really good idea and it really does look like padding on a sharp corner. Your Orks will not get hurt by banging their heads now...

Cam, I will say that when first met, you had a lot of doubt of your skills, May I say that you have shown that you got the right stuff!

That canvas method is fantastic! Hold it with some pliers, and you've got a whole new terrain-making method on your hands!

Problem is that plastics can give off dangerous fumes when exposed to flame. You might see if you can get a heat gun... kind of a hair dryer on steroids. I don't think it's quite as likely to volatilize the chemicals in the plastic as a torch.

I would think that you only get the harmful gasses off plastic if it decomposes.
So long as you don't singe it (or actually burn or set it on fire), you should be fine.

Although proper ventilation is good advice as it may still give off some trapped VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds) which may or may not be harmful.

That said, a heat gun would be more controllable...

I might try and make a wee vid, would not know where to start on posting it mind you.

You guys are probably right about using a heat gun, but...

My method, in detail.

Kit:
Forceps. Preferably long ones. Used because they give solid grip.
Kitchen blowtorch, £10 widely available.
Plasticard, paper thin stuff.

Grip PC in forceps. Light blowtorch, and literally flash it over surface of PC, 2 seconds at most, and it crinkles up, does not burn . You now have maybe 5 seconds to "adjust" the PC to a disirable shape.

On the trukk I glued the PC sheet in place then blow torched it, giving that tout feel and again, no visible fumes or danger if done with care and quickly, in a well ventilated area, not a corner of the front room, with piles of dust and plastic and glue and other flamable substances lying around like me.

Forceps and PC.


Blowtorch I use.


In process. I can not stress enough because its a torch it is only 2 seconds at most. And you are done. Heatgun would take longer and be a more directed approach I guess.


Hope this helps and does not get some health and safety executive banging on my door in 5 minutes.

Trukk is really looking good and I'll add my voice of approval for the plasticard canvas.

Great tutorial - although you may want a disclaimer "don't try this at home kids" or "I'm a trained professional (honest)" otherwise H&S may hunt you down

Loving everything I see here and some great inspiration for my Grot army. I really enjoyed my almost two hours going through this blog, and am subscribed!

Excellent stuff, sir!

@ Ruglud Thanks much appreciated.

@ Low_K Thank you, wow you actually did that!! And thank you for the vote, every one of those is precious to me. Welcome to the mad house.

Well here you go, nearly there I think, couple tweeks, maybe. All your input is greatly appreciated, and your thoughts are really welcome.

So pics......







Cheers

That wouldn't be an ammunition truck would it by any chance? Just get that impression from it...

Good job Cam.
The wood came out nicely.
lol at the teddy.

Only thing that jumps out is that the tires look a lot cleaner than the rest of it. Could do with making them a little dusty looking and you're golden.

Great stuff on the trukk! Love all the signs stating it's ammo, very well done!

Very enjotable and please don't stop, just post more!

Fantastic ammo trukk! Fire method is ..well fire (as opposed to cool)

Love that ammo trukk! really love Dr's boxes too.

Thank you guys, really glad you like.

Ok so what next, well still got some bits from that kit, and I have a beautiful V8 block from Zinge Industries. And I fancy making a trukk carrying a KFF Generator. But no idea if it counts for anything in game (not that i care ) Or do I do an Anti-air gun trukk? Quad gun type thing, that would definately need a big engine. MMMMM.

Thoughts or votes very much appreciated.


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Well here we go engine and chassis started.





Thanks

Should paint the teddy purple and call him Lotso


And another build starts. Excellent

So KFF trukks are a thing, Forge world rules for a mek wagon will let you have a KFF on it. I think it is a big mek track, in the book raid on kavistan 8 or something like that. The big trakk is a great vech to make anything with. It has almost all ork upgrades from supa killa kannon to a half dozen big shootas. And it still carries orks.

Nice v8, good start, though the heat burns on it could use just a touch of purple and yellow to really sell the effect.

Good engine. Gotta make that the star of the piece.

Excellent, thank you guys.

Will try Panda, and Purple Ruglud! really? LOL

So here is a little update.

Made the chassis...


Painted some nice clean rust on it.



More soon. Got it going on now.


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Thoughts?

You're a madman Cam. "underframe" indeed...

Ah, anuvva Trukk! Da Waaagh!!! grows!

Haha! Excellent! I started something similar, but yours is going to kick ass! Cuz REAL Boyz have rear-wheel drives!

Thank you.

@ Gits, Well have to be mad to work here.

@ Shas One day I might even have enough to chalenge your Parade of Power, but I seriously doubt it.

@ Dave Thank you, I bow to the master, got to be rear wheel drive, got to be Hot rod!!!

At the moment my head has a picture of a dune buggy hot rod, gangster style. Think of wacky races, massive engine, with a 30's style cab trukk on the back.

However still trying for a use for this. Panda pointed out the Mekboy Junka, I have kinda two. They are way bigger than this, though I could make this a Grotty version.!!! Only thing with that would be, the amount of kit it is supposed to carry. 3 Pintel big shootas, turbo charger, ram of some kind, riggers, carry 10 Orks and have a KFF?

In my head I had a vision of the old epic days when I had a horde of Dragstaz with guns and crazy contraptions everywhere, a massive group of these wee trukks tearing across a battlefield, each having a relatively single purpose, several gun trukks, an ammo trukk and a force field genie to keep them SAFE!!! I guess that's not in the rules, so will try and comply, but I am struggling with myself. Think I may give up the KFF idea and go with a gun that way I can "counts as" it into a buggy or something. Your thought would be very helpful on this.

Cheers

Do what makes you happy, but the big trakk is a great unit to use for "any conversion" the purple blue on the engine pipes sold me. Well done.