Trakked Wartrukk from the new sprues

[jamsessionein]

Bit of an interesting question for you guys.

I have dug through my LED supplies and I\'ve come up with two choices - a large yellow LED, or a smaller red one.

What do you guys think works best? I\'m leaning towards the yellow one simply because I\'m not sure I like the idea of red headlights. Whichever gets picked will have a small enclosure built around the threaded area to conceal it properly and attach it to the base.

 

[squig hunter]

Yellow all the way, it\'s also bigger and orkier

squig

 

[Cleezy]

The trukks look cool, its making me want 40k orks again keep up the good work

 

[jamsessionein]

I don\'t think this looks all that bad.

The lights are big, but I think they fit the model. I\'ve not wired them in, though, or decorated the light casings yet - I want to put rivets around the white plastic part. I think leaving the wiring leads for the LEDs exposed in the back might not be all that bad.

The bumper I put on the front there is just a placeholder. Maybe. I think. I could just keep it and put big orky teeth on it pointing up, maybe add to the image of a \'face\' on the front, but I don\'t know.

 

[Shawn R. L.]

Some spokes on the drive wheels and detail on the road wheels would be cool. It\'s comming along real well though.

 

[jamsessionein]

The front end of this thing is looking a lot better after a bit more work today, and I hope you guys agree!

I took the LEDs I wanted and decorated them up with dags and rivets, then secured them to the top of the wheel guards. The nice thing is that the way they are set up right now, I can actually change the LEDs in the event they ever burn out, as they\'re simply held in the assembly with a rubber gasket.

The front end needed some love badly, so I started adding orky teeth to the spiked ram front. It wasn\'t much later till I realized I didn\'t like the look of just the bottom row of teeth, so I did my best to come up with a grill to protect the engine and add a top row of teeth.

Pictures!

The LEDs aren\'t live yet, as I\'m still working on how I want to wire the underside together.

I like the way it looks all put together, but I\'m starting to regret actually assembling some parts of it because painting this will be mostly impossible. It would have been really smart of me to leave bits like the engine out, but it\'s already securely glued down and into the frame. Stuff like the front grill as well, I can tell, will be a source of pain if I ever decide to pick up a brush for this thing. Same goes for the track undersides and the side walls on the rear of the truck.

Still, no sense worrying about it for now. Honestly, when do I paint anyway?

I hope to get the wiring all set soon.. maybe even later tonight, before I move on to the driver area. I will certainly leave the driver out until later painting, for what it\'s worth.

 

[jamsessionein]

Just a little addendum:

Thought the eyebrows were necessary.

 

[Jericho]

Wow it\'s like Herbie from Hell

I think the thing would be absolutely perfect with the eyebrow on the right side of the image being bigger/raised/cocked like on most of the Ork Glyphs. The faces always look like they\'re squinting or winking or something

All in all this is a fabulous looking Trukk, and definitely shows off the new sprues nicely. Well done! Now please paint something, you\'re almost as bad as me for moving on before finishing projects. However, no one is as bad as me for that.

 

[jamsessionein]

And viola!

That was a little easier than I thought, actually. I got a nice new soldering iron for Christmas that behaves much better.

I left myself a lot of excess wire to work with which I simply tucked away under there. The switch is placed fairly simply - it\'s in a spot where it won\'t get toggled to \'on\' by accident underneath the trukk\'s body, meaning the lights should not turn on in my transport case and burn themselves out. It\'s still accessible enough to toggle at will, though.

The batteries are located between the tracks and held into a tiny enclosure I made by scotch tape, so if they ever burn out I can grab \'em and replace \'em. The lights run off a pair of hearing aid batteries - you can get something like 10 for $5 at Radio Shack, and I think they\'re something like 1.3v each. I never really pay attention to voltages, I just stack batteries until it works and resistors be damned. I never have the lights on for long periods of time anyway, just enough to show the occasional viewer.

Now I suppose I\'ll work on the cockpit.

 

[Jericho]

So bloody cool

 

[Phesmic]

wow dude. wow. Im not sure if i can leave my ork trukk plain and retain my manhood after seeing this.

 

[usurpator]

PPPPPPPLEEEEEEAAAAASE - for those like me who are electronically challenged: please do a tutorial on how to make live lights like these!
ppppppplease!

 

[snowball99]

You, sir, are a green-skinned genius!

 

[squig hunter]

Looks great, but I think that you should make the \"canines\" on the front point in a little bit, right now it\'s alsmost as if it has had braces they\'re so straightlol

Squig

 

[jamsessionein]

So I\'ve been messing around a bit today and I thought I might put it up for feedback.

I didn\'t like the standard boy in the cupola design, so I decided I wanted to put a turret in that spot with a grot gunner inside. This is what I\'ve banged together, but it\'s not detailed in any way simply because I\'m not sure if I like it.

Do you guys think this is good or not? It\'s basically a large tank wheel with a couple armor plates and some baneblade-shell-rockets on the front. I get the impression it\'s too tall, but anything shorter and it snags on the engine and its pipes.


I should probably mention the turret rotates in the hole and the rokkits are removable with the expectation that I might make a big shoota to fix to the magnet there for when I want to change the trukk\'s armament.

I detailed the track wheels a teeny tiny bit, also.

What do you guys think? This turret thing working for you? I\'m just a tiny bit on the fence, though detailing the turret would probably make me feel better about it.

 

[revmatt]

Heres the deal, I hate orcs. I hate the messiness, the ramshackleness. You sir have made me look at orc stuff in a brand new light. Gorgeous.

 

[snowball99]

the turret? Yea...like it.

 

[jamsessionein]

Detailed the turret up and I think I\'m more comfortable with it now.

Gotta make a Big Shoota to fit it. I\'ll probably do a double-barrel design with that as well just so that it fits the width of the area that the gun can magnetize onto. Then I have to add the driver in, who I think will be an ork because fitting a grot into there is more hassle than I care to go through in my current mood.

I\'ve been considering taking the back walls and moving them out to the track edge, but I don\'t think I\'ll go with it simply because there\'s a lot already secured and pinned in place back there and I don\'t know how I would reconcile the edge\'s height difference between the track guard and the trukk bed. Instead, I\'ll make sure I add some hand-holds on the outer walls for the orks to hang from.

Also gotta make some nice big exhausts!

Man, this project is taking a lot longer and becoming a lot more involved than I initially pictured. I like the possibilities of this kit a lot, though - I already have an idea for \'theming\' the trukks I next make for the squads that will use them. This is something of a generic all-purpose boyz trukk, but I think the next one I make will have a \'loota\' theme to it and use a lot of rhino parts.

 

[GobboTeef]

Fanspastically awesomely amazing!! You are ridiculously inventive and truly a god with Plasticard!!
I am gonna buy a box of bikes when they come out and do them up in true orky fashion....
Here have a :beer: for your troubles

Toby

 

[jamsessionein]

I\'ve had a fairly busy morning, but I managed to get a little bit done so I thought I\'d post it up before I moved on to the next part of the vehicle.

I produced a turret front that will hopefully work as a decent Big Shoota. It\'s pretty simple - just a couple styrene tubes and some sheet cut to size, but it gets the point across.

I wanted to show off an extra little detail that I was not planning on, but am happy with. Usually when I come up with modularized weapons for things, they tend to get lost or misplaced or I end up having trouble figuring how out to transport them from home to game and back again. Instead, I\'ve managed to mount the extra turret weapon discreetly on the underside of the trukk for storage until I decide to change the trukk\'s weapons.

I figured the detail on the underside was already a lost cause because of the wiring and switch and battery compartment, so I decided the underside would also be a decent spot for extra turret weapon stowage. The left half of the last image shows the magnet that sticks out on a thick strip of styrene - the weapon slips right onto that spot and does not stick out too far, meaning I can flip the trukk over and set it down on it\'s tires without any trouble. It hardly even shows from the side!

Both weapon variations (rocket and big shoota) fit discreetly to the point and help keep all the parts for the vehicle together.

Now I\'m going to make the driver.