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Work in progress, my first effort of this sort (I painted miniatures "back in the day" some 2+ decades ago, but I was never very good).

Base vehicle dimensions match up to what I've read on here, ~3x5 for the trukk and ~4x7 for the Grotz' Battle Wagon (not counting the plow or rolla).

I started with some 'farm vehicles' and a couple construction vehicles (for the bulldozer nose on the trukk and the tracks on the wagon) from the local Dollar General. Constructive criticism and feedback is welcome!

Da Trukk!


Da Grotz' Battlewagon!


Da Bitz of Both


Planning to mount the Big Shoota or Rokkit Launcher on the roof of Da Truk, and it's cab will be closed off with metal slabs that have viewing slits (The cab inside is backwards for the trukk's orientation!). I have the lid to the Wagon's cab, and may re-mount it once I've painted the inside of the cab and put a grot driver in there so that I can put a weapon up top. I'm thinking about doing magnetized shoota/rokkit pintles in the bed of the wagon though.

With these two vehicles, my 10 boyz, and the 20 gretchins that I special-ordered at the LFS, all I need is a warboss and I've got myself a 500 pt army! WAAAAAGH!!!!

Have any of you guys magnetized pieces of the vehicle so you can take them off when it progresses through the various stages of deterioration? I think that might be a little much for my first effort, but the gears are turning...

These look like a great start. I would recommend adding more random pieces of scrap metal and lots of rivets. Rivets are important.
The deff roller would look great with some spikes and bits on it.
To amp the orkiness up even further adding glyphes and trophies.
I don't know about using magnets, I've never used them before, but I don't see why it wouldn't work.
Good luck, these look really good so far.

Thanks, Vallhund. I cut up a plastic "for sale" sign and spent a bit of time last night making the trukk's cab look more mad-max and less old mcDonald. I'm going to either cut down the depth of the trukk bed and do random armor plates like wagon or cut it off at more jaggedy angles... i put some orks in the trukk and they can't see out!

On the rivet front I've seen alot of folks suggest slicing styrene rod, and I've seen a grene-stuff mold for rivets (i like that idea!) but was contemplating something easier... Has anyone tried puff paint for making rivets? Dab, Dab, Dab... it would certainly be quicker/easier, but i fear it may just end up looking like blobs of puff paint.

Those are good starting vehicles. I always suggest to get that ramshakle look you need to eyeball a section of vehicle and just with out thinking chop it off. After that get creative on how to put it back together OR if youre really feeling inspired how to build a replacement with random bits and bobs. Youre off to a good start though

Tried the puff paint. Results are...ok...I guess. Was way more impressed with nail gems. Come in packs of 50 for like 2 bucks. Smallest ones on the rack. The "gem" shape really sells the rivet look. Drop of super glue and place, repeat ad nauseum.

Yeah, I picked up a little thing of puff paint today and tried it on an index card, didn't work well. I'll have to look for nail gems -- I ended up rolling some jb waterweld (closest I could find to green stuff at the WalMart) into little snakes and slicing rivets off that. I also embedded some magnets in the truck's roof and glued matching magnets into a spare plate from the wagon. It seems pretty secure, so I'm goinging to build swappable rockit and big shoota platforms that will go on the trukk's roof.

So the wagon's bed plates and the trukk's cab armor plates are riveted now, and the rolla is more deff than before (spikey spikes). I'm kind of hoping to find some little skulls cheap and use them to amp up the decorations, I'll definately grab the little hanging head thing from the boyz box though and hang it out of the trukk cab. Gonna put some teef on the trukk's plow too, just debating between painted or 3D.

My two teeth.
Rework the engine exhaust, it's not big enough and it's blowing into the boyz faces, how do you expect them to hit anything if they can't see. Ok, yes I know.....
I'd say reventing it to the side or up higher with more tubing would be the way to go.

With the grot wagon, I look at going with a turret were you are planing to mount the driver and build an enclosed drivers seat down and in front of the turret but behind the mounts for the deathroller.

On the passenger bay of the Grot wagon add an inside layer of siding to the sides. What you have does look nice, but also 'weedy'. There isn't enough visual connection between the pieces that you have to give the idea that it would stop a good sneeze without falling off, let alone a battle cannon shell. And with Orks it seem to me that things just have to look the part to work, and not necessarily make scence.

On the Truk, the lines are to straight? Maybe it just looks to plain at the moment. I think that some detail, bolts, rivets, glifs etc. and she's going to pop. The one thing that I do see is that you need to build/ infer and hatch on the side/bottom where the ladder is, as it just to prefect.

Thanks Mud Duck. The Truck is definitely too "clean" in the original pictures. I'm hoping it's better now, I'll grab some new pics when I can borrow my wife's phone.

On the wagon, I was hoping to leave gaps for the grots to shoot out since they're short, but I see what you're saying. I'll have to think about how to bulk that up... maybe add shooting platforms on the inside to raise them up. I thought about adding some railings to tie the armor plates together, or even just running behind the plates to give them another attachment point, but leave openings for the grots to shoot.

I wasn't planning to do a turret on the wagon, but that's a good idea. I was thinking of building some little 'towers' (sort of oil derrick looking) inside the wagon part and mount the guns up on those.



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Updated pics of the Trukk (still in progress):


Side plates rivetted on, tried to make messy welds with the puff paint on the front plating. These Orks are trying to channel B.A. Barracus...



That last one is a platform that's magnetized to snap onto the trukk's roof. I'm planning to add those triangular bits as metal shielding for the roof gunner. I was thinking of just sticking an 'eavy weapons boy up there to represent the big shoota or rockit launcha, but I think I'd rather build up a mounted gun and crew it rather than just a boy-with-big-gun. (mostly it was impatience leading me down the boy path, since i have the pieces to do that already, but i don't have anything to build a mounted gun with yet)

Plates over the line where the two halves of the tractor join will push this from "converted toy" to " wicked Ork model".

Slow Progress is still progress, right? Worked some on the trukk, stuck a slugga boy in the gunner's nest for scale (at the very least he'll be replaced with a rockit or big shoota orc, but hopefully with a mounted gun (still manned by a boy probably)



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I don't know what that circular thing is but it came in the box of boyz. I'm assuming it's some sort of explosive device, but it looks kinda like a hatch so I stole it to cover where the smokestack used to be. I added some exhaust pipes on the side, but they interfered with the trukk's bed so i took them off. I'll have to rethink that (or just leave them off).

Once the bed is permanently mounted to the trukk I'll add some struts around the hatch. Thankfully the bed and the roof-plate cover most of the mold lines.

It's going to be really hard not to paint it black/grey with a swooping red stripe... if you can find them, maybe you can hire the B-Team! (or G-team if you want the Grotz instead of the Boyz, but they come in a wagon rather than a trukk)

Looking good so far! Keep up the good work! Remember to pay attention to the wheels as well, they can be properly orkified for maximum attack! That round "hatch" is a tankbusta bomb, btw.

For exhaust pipes, maybe add some cut up straws or other thin pipes to both sides (or just one side) of the engine. Would look cool with 3+3 or 4+4 pipes for some V8 goodness! Let's pretend it has a Chevy V8 rumbling in there. :-)

Coming along innit?

How about a glyph on the grille area?

https://fox-box.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/periscope-skull-shield-front.jpg

I dunno why but the crows nest looks off for some reason. I think maybe more plates to make a solid wall around it might be nice.


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Tbh I think it looks better without the crowsnest...

And the glyph on the front could maybe incorporate the teef into the dozer blade

I kind of agree with you, Zmoney. I made another attempt at a gunner's nest :






Not sure I'm pleased with this one either, but it's probably better than the first. I'm thinking I do want a hatch though, and a guy sticking halfway out to man the gun.


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On the glyph front -- I think I know what you're talking about, but what's the fluff behind them? Are they clan indicators? Do they indicate something about the crew's accomplishment? Enemies defeated? Or are they just cool bling that Orks happen to like? Nose-art, if you will.

That is looking much better. An ork sticking out of that hatch would be really cool.
I think that glyphs are used as signs that display messages such as the clan, how tough they are, how much dakka they have etc. They also use glyphs as a sort of written language. Here is a sort of dictionary/ alphabet for glyphs:
http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/File:Ork_Glyphs.png

'Ere we go!

I like the new hatch. Stick a big shoota on there and I bet it'd tie it together nicely.

That link from Vallhund is awesome.
Do your boyz have a klan affiliation? Looks like deathskullz to me...

In terms of the front Ive just noticed they seem to like putting faces on their equipment. You can put some meaning behind it and you can also use it like noseart.

Here are examples of each:

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/27/3f/17/273f1737c3c009f4f51f49455c1a4a0f--war-hammer-kustom.jpg
http://www.cold-moon.com/40k/Miniatures/DeffKorpsUvKrieg/Halftrakks/HalfTrakksPtd%20(1).JPG

No klan affiliation yet, though i suppose i should choose one before i paint too many.

Greenstuff should arrive today, but i'm not sure I'll have a chance to play with it until the weekend. I've got a grot modified to hold a rokkit for the new hatch (I green-tac'd a big shoota ork together and wasn't pleased with how he'd fit in there, and I don't have any tubular styrene yet to manufacture a mounted big shoota).

In the meanwhile, I started on a buggy... except somewhere along the way it turned into a trike, so now I'm wondering if anyone has the dimensions of a warbike handy?

They fit rather snugly on a base that is 70mm x 25mm.

very nice start

My first green-stuff 'sculpting' attempt...


That hand will glue onto the goblin about like so...


He'll sit up on top of the truck like so holding the rokkit, and there will be a wick coming out the back of the rokkit for another grot to light...


And because I have a short attention span, I started working on a buggy, which may have accidently turned into a warbike...


This is the other buggy base (slightly different style, but same series)

Slow progress -- got a vague basecoat of barn red on the trukk, need to hit some areas that have no paint still in the wheels and do some touchup, then i think highlight with a brighter red then start detailing maybe? Forgive the awful pic.


Also working on some gunz... Lobba (held in place with a temporary toothpick) and the start to a KMK and it's carriage. 3-D printed wheels, going to paint them before I glue them on in case they look awful when painted. Not entirely sure what I'm going to do with the rest of the KMK but I'm planning to follow the circular/tubular vs square theme for this one (it's a *kustom* mega kannon after all, right?). I've got a wire to feed the electrode out front, and I'm thinking slipping it into a bit of PVC and embedding little spheres all over it with only half of each exposed.

That lobba looks great! Glad to see more of this thread.

Thanks, Valhund. I need to finish out the KMK then build more of both.

In the meanwhile, though, the Ork-ADD continues... got some primer on the gun carriage and the lobba, and started building a thing...

Inspired by the squeaky waaaagh!, I haven't decided what exactly it is yet. I've stuck the body of the grot pilot on it (he'll get arms and a head) and held an AOBR nob next to it for scale.

The 'shoulders' for mechanical arms will ride just outside the hip joints. It could be a big mek, maybe a MAN if i armor up the pilot's cage... thought about making a platform on top for Makari and making it a warboss. If I don't stick makari on top then I'll probably make that hip/shoulder joint the "top" of the model so it doesn't get excessively tall compared to whatever model it's going to steal stats from. (leave the whole thing spindly, put some little stubby rokkit-pods on the shoulders and call it a tankbuster?))

Right now I'm envisioning a pilot's cage that looks sort of like a toothed mechanical face.

It's very WIP, and hopefully I'll get better at these things but it's fun to build .

P.S. the left foot is super fat because the left leg needed to be a smidge taller to line up with the hip tube, and i just glued it to a piece of plasticard. It will get trimmed back a bit to match the outline of the rest of the foot. I started to do a completely different sort of three-toed foot, but it wasn't working out like I wanted and decided to go simpler for the first one.

Looking good there, Coh Magnussen! I'd suggest angling the front shields for the gunz a bit, but you're off to a verny good start. I like the basic shap of the exo-suit as well, curious to see where you'll take it

Thanks, Commissar. Your blog is amazing -- so inspiring to us rebel grot wannabes!

I worked a little this evening, built a cage for the pilot and put some battery packs and a backpack mount behind the pilot's cage. I've decided it's going to be a Big Mek, since it looked more "construction" than "combat" to me.





The backpack mount will be magnetized so I can swap out a KFF pack and a more generic powerpack. I'm planning to magnetize the arm mounts too, though I think I'll need some bigger magnets, I fear the weight of the arms will rotate them with the tiny magnets I have now.

I'll probably start with KFF pack, a generic construction arm, and some sort of weapon arm -- not sure whether the Artillery Mek should run a Shooty weapon so he can consistently add some small bit of damage, or a choppy weapon so he's scarier to deepstrikers. I'm thinking I want two of these guys with the same basic design (different legs/feet and pilot cage, but built to accept the same arms and backpacks) so I can run 2 Meks if I want, but share the magnetized bits.

Thanks, Commissar. Your blog is amazing -- so inspiring to us rebel grot wannabes!

Yes! Spreading the fire of the revolution,!

I like the basic structure you came up with, just make sure it remains balanced (center of gravity matters on models, as I've found out to my detriment). If you don't want thee arm will roatte, simply add a pin as well as a magnet, or build a slot where the arm well, slots into.

Hadn't thought about slotting the arms, I'll have to look at that when I get that far. So far it stands on it's own legs, I was only holding up the cage because it wants to rotate down -- it will be glued to the legs in the end.

I'm hoping the backpack will balance out the arms, but i'll definitely keep an eye on the center of gravity.

The pilot fit and leg alignment are going to be a bit tricky, but I think I need to get some paint on the pilot before I glue him in there, so the Mek is in the paint shop (hit it with vallejo primer from the airbrush this morning). In the meanwhile, I've still got a few hours of build time (can't use the plastic glue when my wife is in the house), and the madness continues...

Forgive the awful photos, the kindle camera leaves something to be desired (and noone is home to borrow an iphone from). I'm thinking this will be a Killa Kan -- the footprint will probably be more deff dreadish, but the torso is only ~1.75" x 2". I'm using this as a hydraulics learning experience... haven't decided if I want to run hoses or just leave it with the pistons. There will be some sort of foot on the bottom, but I figure that can wait till later.






Just now when I was looking at the photos I realized that the lower leg piston should have had a much longer outer-sleeve in order for the leg to actually function, but... the grots believe it works, so it works. right? I'll watch that for the rest (and may end up re-doing this one, but I'm going to make 3 more legs before I worry about fixing this one, and then see how i feel about it)

Some day I'll actually finish something. Maybe.

The kan put a smile on my face and reminded me of mine

Hehe .I'd add some angry eyebrows to make him look less afraid. lookin' good!

Red solo shot walker? nice