Collins Does Orktober

I have a number of war trakks that I want to use but I don’t want them all to look the same.

the easiest thing for me to do is add random panels and stuff. a simple classic look would be Schürzen or spaced armour commonly used on armoured vehicles but usually associated with Das Panzers.

In the above Hobby lab Lloyd and John make some terrain out of coffee cup holders and bog rolls. Cheap and easy to find in 2016, valuable commodities in  todays world of lockdown 3.0 2021.

Im not sure if I like it atm. half of me thinks that it is too big and should probably only be on the tracked section of the vehicle. it would leave the driver overly exposed but hey, Orks!

What do you think about the size?

I am yet to wreck it and make it Orky with bolted on bits and bobs etc

I decided that I was happy with the overall size of the spaced armour but I didn’t like the bottom and the lack of detail on them.

I went to town using some leather working equipment (specifically a hole punch) to create some bolt heads, added some bullet holes using a pin drill and then added orkish patch it up strips.

The main material used here is bog roll cardboard tube. not the strongest but when superglued together becomes quite tough. another pleasant side effect is that when it is drilled it gives it the appearance of being melted rather than drilled, the edges burr up. this side effect was captured/preserved by dabbing a little super glue in there. once painted it’ll look like a AP round has tried to drill its way through.

Not just the WarTrakks are getting the custom bitz n bobz treatment.

This evening I’ve done similar to a trukk to turn it into a semi dune buggy type thing crossed with a German ww2 lorry.

This was made with aluminium mesh (used for fixing cars) and strong garden wire bonded with superglue. The armour plates and tailgate were made from toilet roll and corrugated cardboard as the wartrakk was.

The canvas rolls were made from watery PVA and kitchen roll.

The only thing that’s hard with this is the bending of the wire. it takes patience and lots of test fitting. other than that, it is super simple really and currently still removable (to aide painting)

Ive now done the 6 (out of 5!) Nobz from the black reach set and the black reach warboss too.

I found an additional nob body but not enough heads and arms. ive been forced to use normal ork heads and arms to make a dodgy bonus nob. It’s like that weird ‘grab my strong hand’ from scary movie or scream or whatever it was back in the early 00’s

The warboss is the only model that I’ve done additional highlights. I went a shade of green lighter (skarsnik green) and actually did some highlights on the red clothing too rather than leaving it as a beige drybrush.

I think when I’ve done the army I might go back and do lots more highlights like on this warboss on all the other models. It really depends on how much steam I have left in me by the end of the horde.

So that’s 43 models painted out of 88 that I’ve managed to salvage so far. yes sadly there will be wastage. more on that when I get to the end of this army.

Solid 49% completed! whoop!

I got bored of painting so went back to a bit of scratch building. I sadly got carried away and didn’t take step by step photos but I do now have 4 unique trukks and 2 out 4 wartrakks customised.

Im pretty happy with this build result so far.

The WarTrakk seen here was one that was going to end up as wastage. it didn’t have a gunner or a gun but I remember back to the random Russian rocket trucks from WW2 and decided that it was suitably Orky and that the Ork would be mental enough to set it off whilst driving at full pelt towards the enemy… he doesn’t care about burning his face!

It was made using matches in 2 sizes and then the cardboard inner tube from a roll of dog poo bags. it looks a bit stubby and not so aerodynamic but I plan to paint an evil sunz face on the front of it to disguise my lack of ability to make a dome. I may also add random panels and bolts to the rocket too so it looks more ramshackle.

I have been procrastinating from painting more orks. I still have 20 Boyz to do and I am not looking forward to batch painting again… I already did like a million of them.

Anyway, I broke out the cardboard and superglue to add a bit more character to some more wartrakks. I also found a complete set or scorcha metal parts and driver too so managed to recover another vehicle from the wastage pile!