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Love your Orks, even though they're the wrong clan! Great Looted Rhino especially.

Love the grot tanks. The mis-matched armor patches and weathering is spot on. Full of fun and character, just like an ork army should be.

I tried to paint camo on orks once. Didnt work out very well. Yours looks great. They tie in well with your Valhallans too.

Nice looking Grot tanks!

Great work for quick painting! I'm looking forward to building some of these myself, counts as Mek Guns!

Thanks all! I've really enjoyed making these guys as a sort of nemesis for my Valhallans, and hopefully some time I can have the two armies clash!

 Dez wrote:
Great work for quick painting! I'm looking forward to building some of these myself, counts as Mek Guns!

Why not just run them as actual Grot Tanks? Their rules are hilarious and free!
https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/resources/fw_site/fw_pdfs/Warhammer_40000/Ork_Dread_Mob_Army_List_Update.pdf

So even in my old Ork army, I've never run or seen a Battlewagon run as an actual tank - you know, 'Ardcase, lots of big guns, that whole deal. I figured I wanted to try my hand at having one of those, and I wanted a ride for my upcoming Tankbustas. I had a Leman Russ Demolisher kit gathering dust so I took it out and got choppin. I also wanted to make sure it was big enough to count as a Battlewagon and not just be a dinky little Looted Wagon, so this is what I came up with:

Looks great, but maybe needs more dakka! The kannon looks a bit small on that chassis. Do you have a bigger one?

The back deck looks a little too precariously out there, even for an ork tank. I might add another brace, or have it sag/bend a bit. And it needs more Dakka. But what doesn’t?

Overall very cool looking!

Some awesome detail in that tank! I do have to agree, the back looks a bit weedy. Once Da Boyz start piling in, those gitz'll get dumped and miss Da Waaagh!

Thanks for the kind words guys! The back is a bti weedy, but that's where the armor 10 is I get the comments about the platform looking a little precarious, but I really wanted to make sure painting the grot oiler and the worky bitz back there wouldn't be too much of a headache. As for more dakka? EVERYTHING could use more dakka! I think this is a sufficient amount of dakka for the moment, although I wish I could have found a way to stick a big shoota on the hull somehow.

Awesome work on the tank . I love seeing looted Ork vehicles, because no two ever turn out the same

 Brother SRM wrote:
Thanks for the kind words guys! The back is a bti weedy, but that's where the armor 10 is I get the comments about the platform looking a little precarious, but I really wanted to make sure painting the grot oiler and the worky bitz back there wouldn't be too much of a headache. As for more dakka? EVERYTHING could use more dakka! I think this is a sufficient amount of dakka for the moment, although I wish I could have found a way to stick a big shoota on the hull somehow.

I think the concern, Brother, is the fact that after the rivet seam on the trukk bed (in line with the exhaust) you've used for the platform there's no support, so any number of Boyz in there would cause the metal to shear off.

A length of plastic I-beam, or something similar, giving support to the middle of the platform would make it look more stable and, even for Orks, more believable.

 Dysartes wrote:

 Brother SRM wrote:
Thanks for the kind words guys! The back is a bti weedy, but that's where the armor 10 is I get the comments about the platform looking a little precarious, but I really wanted to make sure painting the grot oiler and the worky bitz back there wouldn't be too much of a headache. As for more dakka? EVERYTHING could use more dakka! I think this is a sufficient amount of dakka for the moment, although I wish I could have found a way to stick a big shoota on the hull somehow.

I think the concern, Brother, is the fact that after the rivet seam on the trukk bed (in line with the exhaust) you've used for the platform there's no support, so any number of Boyz in there would cause the metal to shear off.

A length of plastic I-beam, or something similar, giving support to the middle of the platform would make it look more stable and, even for Orks, more believable.

While a diagonal support from the back corners to the body of the tank would work better from a realism POV, I think sicking an I-beam to the underside of the platform to make it look more reinforced would go a long way. And be mostly out of the way of your paintbrush.

All you need is something to show effort for orks, and their reality warping abilities can take over.

"Oi! Mekboy, this shelf ain’t goin to hold all me lads up!”
“Hrmmm. <welds some random scrap on to look good><whacks it with a spanner> ‘Er ya go. All set”
“Right! let’s go crump some ‘umies!” <piles on the groaning platform>

I understand where y'all are coming from - I'll see if I can fit a girder under the bed, but no guarantees since it's kind of a tightly packed model as is right now. It's also primed already so sticking to the paint might be an issue.

Also, I've got the following left to paint/assemble:
- The aforementioned Looted Leman Russ battlewagon
- Stock battlewagon
- 15 Lootas
- 7 Tankbustas
- 5 Mek Gunz
- 30 grot crew for said guns
- Thrakka

I've also got bitz for Kans, Trukks, and Nobz if I feel like building those out. I'd also really like to get a flyer for the army, as well as some goodies from Forgeworld, but I don't know yet. The army's around 2500 points right now, but I haven't totaled it up in a while.

I didn't add more support under the bed because the primer was already down, and plasticard can be finnicky enough to work with as is. Instead I went ahead and painted the thing!

I wasn't really feeling the stock Tankbustas and their limited poses, so I made up my own. I used a bunch of leftover rokkits from my boyz kits, as well as some kustom rokkits I made using the kombi-rokkit bits from the Meganobz kit combined with some cut up burnas from the Burna/Loota kit. I'm really happy with the results, and it also let me use up some of the extra kommando/loota heads I had lying around to make a unique unit! There's only 7 right now since I actually ran out of Ork bodies, but I plan to have the unit go up to 9 strong and have them tool around with a mek in a looted wagon.

I like them, you painted them fast too.

Nice custom tankbustas.

Looks great! I did the same, a mix of leftover parts and a few extra gubbinz. If you run out of rokkits, you might give them a couple of tankbusta bombs and tell them to leg it!

Both the looted wagon and tank busters are looking sweet. Great work.

EDC

Nice looking 'bustas!

Thanks! They may be the last update this blog sees for a while, as my trip to Warhammer World got me absolutely stoked for Heresy, and I may have come back with more Ultramarines than I left with...

 Brother SRM wrote:
Thanks! They may be the last update this blog sees for a while, as my trip to Warhammer World got me absolutely stoked for Heresy, and I may have come back with more Ultramarines than I left with...

As much as I enjoy watching you build orks, I’m never going to be sorry to hear about someone coming back the the fold of the Ultramarines.

It's humid as hell, so I've been turning to models I already had primed. I've had Ghazzy primed for months now, and I just broke him out and painted him up in an evening:

Exactly the same here with humidity. I really like the hazard wires and the different Metallics on him. He looks like he's stomping into battle, always liked the model!