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Question: I intend to convert 10 Ork Boyz into Tank Bustas. I've been looking around online for parts (such as GW rokkit launchas) but seem to be finding very little those that are available seem to be selling at £3 each which just isn't worth it.

Has anyone experience kit-bashing / making rokkit launchas and if so, how did you go about doing it?


Many thanks in advance

cut the barrel off of a slugga and stick a plasticard "metal" plate with a rocket on the end. simple RPG!

Orks are looters - there are plenty of plastic and metal bits options outside of the ork range. If procuring alternative missile bits is still too pricey/difficult, it's time to make them yourself. The complexity of scratchbuilding a rokkit is entirely dependent on the level of detail you want.

At their simplest, they're just a cylinder with a nose cone at one end and some fins at the other. You could easily make passable versions by sticking a bit of plastic rod or wooden dowel in a pencil sharpener to form the one-piece body and cone, cutting the back end flat, and gluing on a few cardboard triangles.

If the angle of your sharpener is too shallow, you can use epoxy putty to form the cone, instead. Simply attach a small ball of putty to the tip (may be easier to seat on tube than solid rod) and roll it against a flat surface, holding the body at the desired angle. With a bit of careful manipulation of the angle, you can get a bullet-shaped cone, as well as a simple, straight-sided one.

Cap the nose with a small press-on conical clothing stud, instead, and you can create something a little more comical, like the old ACME rockets/fireworks from cartoons.

For added freedom of design - and added complexity of manufacture - chuck up a bit of solid plastic (will give cleaner results than wood, at this scale) in a powered drill and break out the files, sandpaper, and knife to do some crude lathe work. Using the tools against the turning rod, you can make a tapered body, either with smooth curves or sharper facets, like a modern RPG. Careful (!) use of the knife or a scriber will let you add fine panel lines. Sliced rod (very narrow diameter, at this scale) or countersunk microbeads work for rivets.

However you manufacture them, adding the rokkits to models is as simple as f74 suggests. Lop off the barrel of a shoota (for larger rokkits) or a slugga (for smaller ones), add a blast shield (a flat plate works, or you can get fancy, cutting out an orky design like that included with the rokkit bit in the boys kit), and stick a rokkit (or rokkits) on the end.

This is what I did, but I have a large custom bits collection.

You could do something similar with 1/4" tube. and pencil sharpened 1/8'" or 3/16" rod. Or make a version similar to Imperial shoulder mount rocket launchers by adding a bit of card stock.

I'm in the exact same process right now. I ended up using some of the normal two-handed rokkits from the boyz kit, then some of the "2-handed" rokkit lanuchas from the loota burna kit (the one with the missing left arm). Like others I just cut off the hand on the rokkit and used another left arm), then I got some Burna Bombs from ebay (they are cheap) and glued them onto sluggas. For the nob, I made scratchbuilt rockets and glued them to a big shoota. I don't have pics yet but I hope to put them up when I finish painting.

Buy a model aeroplane or heli with missile and rocket pods

Ork up a bunch

You are an ork player

you dont look for Rokkit launchers

you look for anything that remotely resembles a missile or projectile and strap it onto things and call it a day.

(aka look for hunter killer missiles, missiles from any army like tau missile pods, havok launchers, IG missile launchers etc. anything tube shaped with a cone. then glue it together and tie it with some green stuff straps)

Use the tips from cheap ink pens. I used to do that all the time on my ork rockets. Hell i even have some pics of that in my gallery somewhere.

Bitz order some IG missiles & hunter killers. There's no reason orks wouldn't grab them from a captured ammo dump & find a way to jury rig a launcher.

 Red_Starrise wrote:
Bitz order some IG missiles & hunter killers. There's no reason orks wouldn't grab them from a captured ammo dump & find a way to jury rig a launcher.

Or marine hunter killer missiles - so few marine players ever use them that they're fairly easy to come by, and the launcher end with the missile fits nicely on the end of an ork shoota.

You're forgetting that in an ork army there would be a bunch of rockets in there and buying bits would get pricey in a hurry. I'm telling you, making them yourself would be incredibly cheap and easy. Ink pens. You're welcome

Pull a Dukes of Hazzard and use WFB Orc Arrer Boys with some greenstuffed dynamite on the arrows.

It's ranged. It blows up. Good enough for orks!

My Tankbustas used a bunch of different bits scavenged from other kits...



I'm particularly fond of the Nob's Rokkit Crossbow

Ooooo thats a cool x-bow launcher

So many awesome ideas and conversions guys - you've inspired me!

I'm rummaging through my bitz box and eyeing up every bit of stationary I come across (the missus is wondering why I keep asking if she wants bits from her stationary/arts and crafts box)


I'll post up some pics once I've made a start on the physical construction.