WH40K - Ork Trukks inspired by Expendables 2

Here are some pictures from the opening scene of The Expendables 2, showing the modified Land Rovers used by our heroes. (The pictures come from trailers for the movie, and from the company who made the modified vehicles - Portal Rover)

They have inspired my next addition to my Ork forces. I want to convert three Ork Trukk models to represent the three converted Land Rovers seen at the beginning of the movie - two 4x4 and one 6x6.

They'll get plenty of armour plating, and extra 'bits' to cover the engine areas. I'll trim off a lot of the spiky bits and put gun mounts in the appropriate places. I have bought three Trukk models and also a Skyfire Landing Pad (to cut up into armour plate.) I still want the Trukks to look Orky, so they won't be to clean or even.

WH40K - New Trukk

This war trukk is more of a hot rod. It is wider but shorter than the standard model kit, and uses the tracks from the wartrakk. I sort of threw it together - that's why it's got the hotrod 'slope' - it's the only way to make the tracks and the wheels level. Also, it is always going downhill, which saves on fungus fuel.

WH40K - Ork Fighta - WIP3

Added wing extensions, some pipes and bits to the sides of the cockpit, and more bits to shape the nose. Also put too many rivets on the cockpit. It looks like it has been bedazzled! I have trimmed some off; hopefully painting will make them look more subtle.

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 - 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).

WH40K - Ork Battle Barge - Latest project for Warhammer 40K

This vehicle is constructed from a Trumpeter 1/35 scale LCM 3 landing craft - the sort of thing you saw in the opening scenes of "Saving Private Ryan".

Added to that were a large number of items from my bits box, including the track units from a Rhino and a Landraider. The 'crane' is part Sentinel. The work bench is out of a HeroClix accessory pack, with more bits added. There are fuzzy dice in the cabin, and a pot plant on the rear deck, in the vein of "Mister Roberts".

The cabin area comes from a "Market Racer" toy, found in the toy section of a local supermarket. This looks almost ready made for Ork use; the rest went straight to the bits box.















The battle barge was partly inspired by the amazing work of Mekboss Gooba at Scarpia's Warhammer World - specifically his Battlebarge. Check out his website - some very impressive conversions there.

Nice work, Gooba. Keep it up.