Monday, November 27, 2023

Open Up and Say WAAAGH!!!

I've spent several weeks putting together this little gem.  It's not quite a custom Ork Waaagh Trukk or even a Snazzwagon.  I'm just going to go with Waaagh Buggy.  


After mulling over design ideas for days, a mental picture of what I wanted developed.  The frame, wheels, side light, and chassis are really the Final Faction Arrow ATV. I began covering the frame with bits of plasticard, parts of sprues, granny grid, and extra dividers for storage bins, and some plastic from an old laundry detergent lid (the Ork skull on the front, metal teeth, and a panel or two were cut from it.)  The rivets are small studs for jewelry/craft.


         


The twin guns in the front and the rocket launcher are also from Final Faction as well as the robotic arms in the back. The smaller guns along the sides of the perch are by BrickArms.  I added oil drums, gas cans, and tarps from Tamiya.  The gas lines are made out of a cord from a computer mouse.  The giant skull on the back I hacked off an old Halloween decoration.  The deck on the back is a door from an old toy truck.  The chain is from a toilet flapper.  The exhausts pipes are cut down pieces of some Crazy Straws.  The piece on the top of the engine was a cap on a battery I recently purchased.  The tanks on the sides are from an Imex model. I bought the Ork driver on eBay and the seat on Etsy.  

 A bunch of superglue, red, silver, black (a few other colors too - copper, green, brown, orange, yellow, gray, and olive) paint later and ....one Ork Buggy.

                           

The Fluff:  A band of Ork Evil Sunz found and attacked an Ogryn Desert Buggy killing its driver and crew in the process.  They towed it  back and began to convert it into a fast attack vehicle.  They added whatever the could scavenge to their new WAAAGH Machine: Big Shootas, Smaller Shootas, a Rokkit Launcha, two Grabbin Claws.  They added lots of shielding and painted it red so that it would go fast.  The finishing touch was the addition of the skull of a dead Ogryn they had killed.  All done, off they rode to find some 'umies to fight. *(I'll update the pics once I add some Ork figures to it.)

I've got some pics of this labor of love.  Don't be an Orka-Dorka, check 'em out.