WH40K - Orkspendables Trukks

After a long gap, here are the Ork Trukks inspired by the vehicles in Expendables 2, or as I call them:
Da Orkspendables.

They started with the Trukk chassis plus resin wheels from Kromlech. The 4 x 4 chassis were cut down, and all of them were slightly rebuilt to keep all the wheels level (theoreticaly. The trukks wobble a bit on the ground.) The bodies are mostly bits out of the bits box. I added the Ork Warbikes to give the trukks that 'Long Range Recon' look, and to make the 4 x 4 variants a bit longer, so they are about the same size as a standard Trukk in the game. The bikes are stock, with some bits trimmed off to make them a bit lighter. These are sneaky Blood Axe Orks, not yahoos like the rest of them.

I haven't decided whether to paint them maroon to match the rest of the army, or sandy coloured to make them look like the movie. Either way, the paintwork will be very 'bashed up'. I know that I have left the drivers in which will make them harder to paint, but I wanted to see what the whole vehicles looked like rather than build sub-assemblies and glue them together later. Either way, I will paint to tabletop standard, not GD winner so it won't be that much of a hassle. Also, it looks like it would be hard to fit 12 boyz (or 6 Mega Armoured Nobz) in those trukks, but they just hang on as best they can.

WH40K - Kaptin, Kannon and Krew - Painted

Here they are, painted and sprayed with 'Purity Seal' (matt varnish - hides a multitude of sins).

WH40K - Giant Killer Robots...

... Ork style.

This is supposed to be an Ork Dreadnought, but it is a little too big. Made from an old metal Space Marine Dreadnought torso and spare vehicle bits. The arms are Ghazkull's, with legs from an old plastic epic scale Titan as the upper arms. The gun is from a Heroclix Mechwarrior, so it can swivel.

Looted Sentinel. Not in the Codex but could be used as a Killer Kan. Just a regular sentinel, with armour plates and an old minigun type weapon, with a tank wheel as an ammo bin.

WH40K - More Orks and Dinosaurs

Every jungle world needs dinosaurs. This feller counts as a squiggoth for a feral ork army.


Optional extras include this nifty BFG.

Jungle worlds also need booby traps and the ubiquitous Lesser Catachan Barking Toad.

WH40K - Da Krew

^Mekboss Stingy* - the evil genius behind most of these conversions

^Vince (the Painter)

^Doc (note the drill bit, making an old laspistol into a hurty needle)

^Tink ... Who you calling a fairy?

Some of Grabba's cronies, henchman and hangers-on. The colourful fellow with the goggles is Vince, a mekboy carrying a 'paint thrower' (counts as a burna, once he ignites it) used to give everything that particular combination of camouflage and showiness that Grabba, a dedicated Bloodaxe, prefers. It is possible that paint fumes have aided Stingy's creative processes somewhat.

*Stingy, as in Sting-y, he's got a sting, not Stinge-y, he is thrifty or miserly. Named in honour of Arj Barker's joke about running out of names for bees: Buzzy, Stingy, Stripey, Stingy 2 - The Stingening. I know what you're thinking. No! A bee can't be a sequel!

WH40K - Da Boss, Hisself

Meet Handy McGrab, also known as Warboss Grabba. This model is Grabba Mk II. The original is below:



The original Grabba - winner of a conversion contest at the Canberra branch of GW in 2000. First prize - The coveted Golden Squig (picture soon).