Feenix Rising - Vehicles & Boyz, Big Mek Rating Options

[Penguin of Death]

…in summary the forces of Chaos were driven off without too great a loss to the Tigers, admittedly the Arctic Wolves flanking manoeuvre was decisive in this sucess. We have their main army being tracked while we regroup and await orders
On a side note we have seen yet more evidence of Orks on the planet, though, in this case it wasn’t for long – one of their ‘mobs’ got itself caught in the crossfire. A few of it’s survivors managed to escape in a couple of their vehicles, but hardly enough to be a problem…

Riff looked around at the various groups of Boyz and Grots as they worked to build up the walls and fit big shootas over the gate – taking one 'umie Promethium mine wasn’t going to be a memorable victory for the mob, but after their near destruction the boyz needed something to restore morale.
Taking on bunch of grey 'umies had seemed like an easy task, but then it turned out they had a load of furry beakies helping them, and then spiky beakies coming from the other direction. It had been a massacre. The Boss was gone, so was the Big Mek and the nobs and boyz were down to less than half their numbers. They’d travelled for a day before finding this outpost and surprised it’s defenders, now they were working to set and rebuild. As the previous Big Mek’s assistant Riff found himself in charge of seeing what they could loot while the remaining Nobs had a fight to see who’d be the next boss.
The outpost had turned out to pretty much abandoned, there was still promethium, but not much and all the working vehicles and equipment seemed to have gone – the umie guards we unprepared for an attack so it looked like this place had been forgotten.
Abandoned or not the guards still had a small armoury which would would make up for the lost weapons and Riff’s eyes had lit up when he found the scrapyard of equipment and vehicles that hadn’t been taken – it would take some time but they could restore the mob, or even start a new one. Riff had heard about a umie story about a bird that got destroyed and then made itself again – just like looting a tank! – Feenix, or something like that, maybe he could suggest it to the new Boss…

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I bought a Trukk a while back with the intention of making a halftrack out of it (which evolved into my battlefortress which uses no trukk parts) and then using the spare wheels to increase the size of another Trukk

I want to save the smaller wheels for another project and use the rest to build something more like a pickup Trukk that looks more like a looted vehicle than something Orkbuilt

The current Trukk chassis and axels all have bends in them so I started off by cutting and regluing them to straighten them out and removing the rear sets of springs. From these I could then assemble something more like a standard vehicle




and with some tacked on extras - the truck bed will have cutouts for the wheels, the engine will probably be as standard and the Trukk doors have been split to make more normal sized ones

[gubnutz]

I liked the story and the truck chassis is not bad either. Are you building a new army up or adding to an existing one?

Keep em coming.

Gub

[Penguin of Death]

New army - I have the Black Reach set minus the Boyz, the Battlefortress I'm building and this Trukk.

I wanted to try out Orks, but to have a reason why I could mix and match anything I wanted because I'm foremost a modeller and wanted a wide selection of vehicles and conversions - hence a mob reforming itself and collecting Orks from all over with a Mek being in charge

Other plans include:

Deffcopter to Bike
Deffcopter to Biplane
Some Buggies
Some construction vehicle based vehicles
Maybe a looted Valk
Maybe a Mega Dredd

[Ronin]

It will be interesting to see where this goes. I haven't seen any lowered builds based on the wartrukk kit before.

[Penguin of Death]

It will be interesting to see where this goes. I haven't seen any lowered builds based on the wartrukk kit before.

I've always liked this one, though it's more extreme than iI'm going for

http://www.the-waaagh.com/forums/?showtopic=42193

[Aslomov]

I said this on Work In Progress, but I prefer this site!

I like!

I'm working on a Trukk just now too! It will only have four wheels like yours and will be a truck/van sort of thing. I did the same thing with the doors, but adding the two smaller ones to the back. I've made a whole new front bit for it out of plsticard and gonna do the same with the rest of it biggrin.gif

I never even thought about doing that with the axles! I've already glued them and made all the bits needed to make it "worky" sad.gif (Driveshaft I believe it's called) etc.

That is all such ace ideas! I will have to loot for my next one tongue.gif I can't wait to see how this turns out!!

[gubnutz]

Sounds like some solid things in the pipeline. Looking forward to seeing where you go with this new army.

Gub

[GeNrul GroTamuNg...]

i likethe fluff (may be looted in future)

the link to the warboss on custom bike and the hotrod truck looks nice

more pics

following this one

[uberdark]

http://www.the-waaagh.com/forums/?showtopic=35954&st=60

my thread has a rat rod and i also have some other builds that might help you penguin. just something to consider.

i started up my second trukk on page 4 but the rat rod begins on page 3 i think. its a very hard build at the beginning with the chassis. but once you get it..... your in like flint.

[Penguin of Death]

Cheers Uber, I knew I'd seen a 4 wheeled Trukk with an enclosed cab somewhere - I'd even commented on it!

[big'ead]

nice fluff
how did you come by it?
novels, WD magazine?

[Penguin of Death]

From the depths of my brain.

I wanted more realistic vehicles as I prefer building them so giving the Mob a scrapyard and an abandoned Imperial outpost seemd a good way. I wanted a Mek in charge to begin with so I could have a leaning towards vehicles and because I wanted to build a Battlefortress first. The rebuilding of a nearly wiped out group gives me the chance to have Orks from all the factions coming together and try out lots of different things

It also echos my Puppies, who have an ex Iron Priest leading them

[Penguin of Death]

Bit more, basic structure for the wheel arches and straightened out the front bulkhead

[swampy]

This is coming together nicely the chassis and the wheel arches look really good! recently i have been looking at using your template to make some rocket buggies for my ork recon force. iam looking forward to seeing how this progresses

cheers

[Penguin of Death]

Truckbed



and beginnings of the front

[Penguin of Death]

So more on the cab and a choice for the bumper:

Chunky beam bumper



or speedy boyz racer

[Couillu]

Oh God! The second one is awesome ! Really like where this is going! Will follow this thread!

[swampy]

Yeah the cab looks really cool especially the front mud guards and grill, but i reckon some sort of bull bars would look good on the front high up so the head lights shine through them i think having them too low will hide the nice detail of the springs

keep up the good work

cheers

[YoungWolf7]

I like the I-beam bumper. It just screams "Hick truck" to me.

[Warboss Waaazag]

I gotta agree with the YoungWolf, I like the chunky beam bumper. To me it seems more orkish and brutal. Not slick like the other one.