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Recently, a friend of mine bought two of the Warlord power Claws here:
https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-DE/Warlord-Titan-Arioch-Power-Claw

One of these will be made into terrain, while the other he wanted looted into an "Orky vehicle."

Me: What kind of vehicle do you want it to be?
Him: We'll use it for any damned thing we want to. It's a looted f***ing Warlord Power Claw!
Me: Okay. I'll make it happen.

Because he bought two of them, you'll see that there's a (I don't know? Power cell?) piece on one side that is usually only a singular piece on the actual claw. Since the other claw was going to just be terrain, I did the proppa Orky thing... and looted it. Now, there are matching power cells, one on each side!
Eventually, when it's finally created, I'll get some images of the terrain pieces.

Here are the kits at my disposal:

Ork Trukk
Ork Battlewagon
Space Marine Storm Raven
2x Forgeworld Warlord Titan Arioch Power Claws (only 1 full kit will be used, with the other reserved for terrain, as previously mentioned)

Various plasticard pieces.

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A note on my style of converting...
"Clip, glue, go!"
I don't plan anything. I look at what my need is and what I have available to me. From there, I go with it. I'll find or make what I need.
I do measurements on the fly. They're a combination of actual measurements and eyeballing.
If there's a piece I need that doesn't exist, I'll snip and clip multiple pieces to convert into the piece I'm looking for.
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We get together every Saturday. As such, there is only 2 days of work into this, so far. Last week I put together the fist, itself I added the Trukk frame as an undercarriage, and attached the Battlewagon Tracks in the back.
I honestly didn't even think about keeping a WIP thread at that time, so there are no images from then.
I had somewhere between 4 and 6 hours into it that day.

I worked on it again yesterday.
He'd been looking at it all week, and decided the tracks were too narrow. Either I needed to get another set and add them next to the tracks that were there, or widen the frame.
Frankly, I was glad of it. I thought the bottom was a bit too narrow. In fact, the pieces were tacked together with the barest bit of superglue, just in case (normally, I prefer to use plastic glue on plastic joins, occasionally supplemented by super glue).

My work this week was to build an entire rear end that the Claw could sit on without being too high. Height was the trick, as he/we didn't like it if it sat too high. We'd experimented with a number of heights last week, and the only thing we liked was to have the fist sitting almost exactly on top of the tracks, with VERY little clearance. I also built and added the Grabbing Klaw with Gobbo driver and the front tires. The tire assembly was quite the trick. I didn't want it to look TOO unrealistic (not that it'll be seen when in use), but I wanted to use Ork bits as much as possible. All in all, I'd say I probably have 9 or 10 more hours into it this week, maybe more. Seems like a lot for as little as was added, but like I said, the entire rear end/undercarriage was built from scratch with plasticard, and I built 2 or 3 iterations before I was happy.

I'll have more/better pics last week. These were taken right before leaving, and as an afterthought. So, I just snapped some pics of it as it sits.
Right now, the rear undercarriage is NOT attached (the front wheels are), so I'll be able to get more detailed images next weekend.

I had a view from the front, but wasn't checking the pics as I took them. Apparently, I moved. I got dizzy just trying to LOOK at the image. LOL







The black you see in the image above is because the undercarriage is hollow. Little will be done with it, paint wise. As such, I went ahead and primed the inside black. Since the main body of it's all plasticard sheet, tube, H-beam and I-beam, it was a stark white. I wanted it primed before we got around to gluing it together. This way, there's no risk of any white glaring out at us. The hollow, shadowed areas down in there will be black.




Input and suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Plans for the future:

Add a gunner.
I'm not sure exactly how this will go. Either a small platform/cab will be added behind the Gobbo/driver using the Trukk driver bits , appropriately converted to make it clear that he's operating the guns. I'm working on this, just to see what it'll look like. I'm honestly not sure how happy I'll be with hip, but he's the first option I'm looking at.
Another option is to mount a couple ork gunners with "trigger" hands from the Battlewagon kit, one on each side. As shown in the 3rd pic above, there are nice, flat panels on the rear of each side of the gun. These could easily be Orkied up properly.


Thanks for looking!


Eric

Wow! What a truly Orky idea... I love it! Maybe a few Grot riggers climbing among the hand to fix stuff roight up? Looks like a very fun project!

Wrong forum. You should ask a mod to move it to painting and modelling.

What a crazy, fantastic and suitably Orky thing this is!

Well done!

(And moved to P&M!)

 r3n3g8b0y wrote:
Wow! What a truly Orky idea... I love it! Maybe a few Grot riggers climbing among the hand to fix stuff roight up? Looks like a very fun project!

Thanks.
Grot riggers are a possibility. The most important thing is to get it built with Boyz in place. Once I see what kind of room is available, an Ork or 2 might be included. While I want it orky, I don't want it "too" busy. Ork vehicles are a careful balance of busyness without crossing that line... and it's a FINE LINE. LOL

Here are the possibilities:

 spincr wrote:
Wrong forum. You should ask a mod to move it to painting and modelling.

Done.
Thanks for the input.


Eric

That's insane. That's absolutely insane. I have to do this.

Awesome stuff, I can only suggest lots of plasticard glyphs and armour plates to 'improve on the stupid oomies work', maybe even the gretchin turrets from FW if you can get hold of some cheap ones.

Thanks, guys.

nedsta wrote:
Awesoem stuff, I can only suggest lots of plasticard glyphs and armour plates to 'improve on the stupid oomies work', maybe even the gretchin turrets from FW if you can get hold of some cheap ones.

The Grot turrets are unlikely. Frankly, to add any more turrets to this thing, we'd have to drill out holes in the resin. Not sure it's worth it. There are very few flat areas on the fist where you could simply glue one and model it in such a way that it looks like it's embedded. You know?
I mean, I'm going to have to build one or 2 platforms for the gunner or gunners, depending on how I go about it.

Buy you're definitely right about the glyphs. I intend to have plenty of glyphs and plates added to it: enough that it looks orky, but not so much to distract from the original piece.

That said, I AM limited. My buddy had the vision and has the funds to make it happen. I'm just contributing the skills and joy for converting models. Everything I do, I mock it up, call him over and say, "what do you think?" If he likes it, I attach it.
In the end, it's his baby and his call. LOL

Eric

That's really awesome, excellent idea and project

IMO for grot riggers, I'd go straight to the FW grots:

https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-US/Gretchin-Crew

They're not that much, and they're very unique - much more engineer oriented than most other grots. I got them to go in my army and they're really awesome. Little bit of clean up tho (they are resin).

Incredible. Perfect use for a gigantic claw.

Some how...this works.

The more I look at it, the more I like it. Looking forward to seeing it finished and painted up, real statement piece.

Guildenstern wrote:That's really awesome, excellent idea and project

IMO for grot riggers, I'd go straight to the FW grots:

https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-US/Gretchin-Crew

They're not that much, and they're very unique - much more engineer oriented than most other grots. I got them to go in my army and they're really awesome. Little bit of clean up tho (they are resin).

Thanks for including the link.
There are some good ones in there, for sure.
I'm almost certain that the grot hanging on the bosspole (from the bikes) will be included... at lease, if i have MY say. : )

Desubot wrote:Some how...this works.

Dat's coz da mek finks it will!

Colour Of War wrote:The more I look at it, the more I like it. Looking forward to seeing it finished and painted up, real statement piece.

Yeah. I'm really looking forward to it.
Sadly, we only game on Saturdays, so I'm only working on it one day a week... so, I spend all week thinking about it, wishing I was with it.
Pretty sure my wife's jealous of it.
LOL


Eric

Started reading the post before scrolling down far enough to see the pics, and the first thought I had was a hand walker like a giant metal 'Thing' from 'The Adams Family'

That's way too epic...

And no cheap conversion!
Warlord volcano cannon battle wagons!

Thanks, all.

Got some more work done this weekend. Took tons of pics showing previous and new work, as well as a couple ideas I'd thrown together.

I haven't had the opportunity to download them from my phone and get them uploaded. As soon as i do, though, I'll get them posted.

Eric

Finished this bad boy up the weekend before last. Left it with the owner to ruminate over to see if he wanted any changes.
He confirmed on Saturday: he's happy. It's done.
In the end, we decided against adding any riggers, so as not to make it any busier. I think that, if we'd added anything else, it would cross the line from Ork Looted to "a reason to glue a bunch of crap together." LOL

Front end: shim to lend support. Attached the finger to the frame. This was done semi-purposefully. The Fist was assembled before adding the frame, so as to NOT look specifically posed to fit perfectly. You blow up a Titan, and it's fist is just going to stop working outright. LOL


This shows the tire attachment on the front. The tires are glued to their axle. The plasticard tube was split and a section was removed. An H beam was glued to the top of the axle, and the tube was wrapped around for support. This lent strength and a better attachment point.
Axle is attached to the Trukk frame by one of the front tire pieces from a Battlewagon, cut down, and 2 pintle mounts from pintle-mounted big shootas from the battlewagon kit:


Above from the front underside. Also shows the shim between the finger and frame.


Same thing because... I don't know why. The picture is there, so...



This just shows the H beam added to the frame to give it a larger area to glue to the undercarriage & the tube used as a spacer for frame support.


Side view of above. Also shows where the frame connects directly to the "palm" area of the fist.


Inside of the undercarriage from the rear. Inside is pre-primed. White areas are where the primer was scraped off so that the plastic glue would hold the undercarriage to the trukk frame (shown above).


Same, but from the front. Also shows the gas tank removed from the trukk frame.


Neither of the above images shows it well, but you can tell if you look. Glyphs, etc. were added to the front and rear of the undercarriage.

Underside of the undercarriage from the front. Shows the tube used as frame support.


Front right with added glyph:


Front left with added glyph:


One of the exhausts (right rear):


BOTH right rear exhausts:


Rear exhaust. Orkified!



FINAL PRODUCT IMAGES:

From above read:


Left side:


View from above:


View from the front:


3/4 view from the front:


That's it. What do you think?

Eric