Warbuggies 1

As there was and still is no new model for the Ork Warbuggy, except for the old Gorkamorka one, I wanted to try something different.

Looking around on the internet at the time, very few people had made Rat Rods out of the Trukk kit as 'Counts As' Warbuggies, so I went ahead and started chopping and building.

This unit has 3 Rat Rod Buggies, but for now here is a look at the first one I started building;

Rat Rod 1:

Sticking with the Deffskulls theme I also started to do the classic Looted Landspeeder to Buggy conversion, but the first build only ever got as far as this;

Landspeeder Buggy:

With some slight trimming the Kromlech Ork Driver fits nicely! 

Battlewagons 1

Following the previous theme of Looted Wagons, I felt I needed a Land Raider Battlewagon, any Ork Deffskull Warband isn't complete without one!

Again this was picked up cheap on eBay badly assembled, in the typical Ork fashion I tore it apart and started rebuilding it.

Land Raider Battlewagon:

Due to already having a couple of Battlewagon kits, I utilised a lot of parts from one of them and came up with this design. 

With the remainder of the kit I wanted to do something different with the next Battlewagon and came up with the idea of a Double Tracked Battlewagon.

Double Tracked Battlewagon:

I chopped the front wheel mount areas of both chassis off and glued both track mounting sections together to form the new chassis. 

I had to lengthen the rear bed slightly due to the new chassis length, so built both rear beds and then chopped them where seemed best and glued them in place. I made the 'ard Case removable and had to lengthen it slightly to match the bed.

There were a few gaps here and there but some plasticard and Orky plating will fix that.

Whilst building the cab I then had the thought of bulding an interior with full 'gubbins and worky bits' so made the roof removable.

The rest of it has been built pretty much as it comes out the box.

Since these pictures I have done a little bit more to it, so look out for the next update!

Looted Wagons/Armoured Krumpany 1

This unit has 3x Leman Russ (pictured) plus 2x Chimera and 1x Basilisk (un-pictured).
I originally bought these on eBay, they were badly assembled, so required completely pulling apart and rebuilding.

These were my first majorly converted vehicles, so drawing my inspiration from a wide collection of other great modellers out there, I came up with these:

Looted Wagon 1 ("Destroya Hunta Killa"):

Looted Wagon 2 ("Da Vanquisha")

Looted Wagon 3:

Group Shots:

Since these pictures were taken they have undergone various changes, as you can see I had started to build a turret for Looted Wagon 2 ("Da Vanquisa") and formed a new rear body shape - which has since changed again! Looted wagon 1 ("Hunta Killa") currently has no Boomgun, as at some point I decided to change it for the Space Marine Vindicator type set up but with a longer barrel.

Big Mek Rekkcrasha's Workshop....

Big Mek Rekkcrasha:

Exiled from a Bad Moons Tribe by the Warboss for spending too many Teef on Fungus Beer and crashing his wagons into everything, (usually already wrecked vehicles), causing huge explosions and total destruction wherever he went earning the name "Rekkcrasha".

With his pockets full with Teef, due to knowing Bad Moon secrets and having the ability to put together battlefield scrap, turning it into fuel guzzling, smoke belching, high speed vehicles and huge, powerful weapons, crashing into everything whilst drunk has become a bit of a sport!

Whilst hopping from settlement to settlement, due to his reputation, Big Mek Rekkcrasha had attracted a huge following of disbanded Boyz, Meks, mobs of Lootas and Burna Boyz. He taught these underlings how to loot and steal everything that wasn’t nailed down.

Being the lucky Big Mek he was he came across an abandoned settlement, here he built his Meks Workshop and started to form his own Deffskulls Warband.

A bit about my hobby history:

I've been in and out of the table top war-games hobbies for about 15 or so years with a 2-3 year break, originally I started out collecting Space Marines and playing Ultramarines! Throughout the years I also collected and played other game formats, (Blood Bowl and Warhammer Fantasy), and other armies such as Necrons, Chaos Space Marines and of course Orks!

Since the release of the Ork Trukk and Battlewagon kits, I usually found myself spending my time building and converting. I have a huge amount of projects on the go and always a new idea for a conversion, in which I find myself acting upon before I've finished the previous project! Now and again I'll paint something, but more often I'm found assembling something.

Currently I still post on The Waaagh!!! but in the past I have posted my works in progress on various forums, often losing my logs due to different technical issues or something or other, hopefully this blog will act as a new and additional home to express my inner Mek!

Keep an eye out for future posts, where I will try to get this blog up to date.....