Saturday, February 1, 2014

Orks - Deff Korps uv Krieg Half-Trakks built

The ork army continues apace - while we're been suffering through some surprisingly heavy snowfall, I've spent the time building a pair of transports for the shoota boyz squads.


I wanted to keep the quasi Germanic feel with the Trukks, and picked up a couple resin kits from Forge World and ended up combining them, making what proved to be my least cost effective dollars-to-points-value models of all time! Quite pleased with how they look, though!


Of course, the two models would have ended up exactly the same if I followed the directions in their entirety, so I tried to deviate from the norm a bit on both of them with some varying decorative bits.


Some extra armor plates and a tow chain on the back breaks up the look a bit. I'll definitely need to paint various armor plates in different colors when the time comes as well.


Overall I quite like 'em! The halftracks tie in well with the Battlewagon, hopefully giving the whole force a cohesive (yet ramshackle) look! ...Now if it would only warm up enough to primer 'em!

11 comments:

  1. Those are gnarly!

    Stick some MG42 looking guns over the driver's cabs and they'll be even more 251-ish!

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  2. Looking good! Adding some extra, different damage to each can help vary the look up as well.

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  3. Definitely makes me want to buy some myself

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  4. Maybe you should mount a plow on one of those halftracks instead, to help you clear the snow or at least as an homage to pacify mother nature o_O

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  5. Wow those kits are insanely cool! I was thinking to myself "I have never seen them before!?" So I popped on to the FW site and realised which two kits you combined. OMG that makes for a very expensive conversion!! Still, really cool!

    I'm sending you some of our Ausy heat. I'm tired of 45 degree weather!

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  6. @Dai: Indeed, that would be sweet!

    @Sonsoftaurus: Thanks! Aye, going to do a fair bit of varying painted-on battle damage, I'm a little leery of carving into the resin though.

    @Zzzzzz: Hah! Nice.

    @uniteallaction: The kits are definitely interesting, you can tell they're some of the oldest ones FW has done. Definitely a struggle to build.

    @Zab: Yeah, that's a good idea, something more drastically different on the front of one of them would help differentiate them.

    @Col. Ackland: Yeaaaah, it wasn't the soundest financial decision I've ever made. They look neat though! :) I'll definitely take some heat, it's been fridgid here for the last week, and more to come for the foreseeable future as well. Brr!

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  7. Man so much resin! These are gnarly. I love them!

    So pointy and dangerous looking. Like I need tetanus shot just from reading this post.

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  8. @The Eye of Error: I'll tell ya, they were extremely pointy and jabby while I was painting 'em that's for sure! Pics to follow soon!

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  9. @Jugger: Indeed! I feel bad not painting 'em red. :)

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