ork custom vehicle WIP (my first)

[orkblasta]

well I have a friend that runs a 2500pts. ork horde and well to be honest he sucks at conversions. His painting and basing skills aren't bad and over all create an interesting look.

Anyways he asked if I would help him with a conversion so I said that I would do the conversion for fee, $10 to be exact, probably could have charged more.

So he has a space marine rhino that he tried to convert but epicly failed to achieve a truly ork vehicle. So my task is to create a vehicle that could be run in games as either a looted wagon, a battlewagon, or a trukk. So the ideas started rolling.

I have settled on a conversion that distinctly represents none of the 3 but creates a vehicle of it's own simply an armored ork vehicle. I will bulk out the rhino with armor and attach a few guns to the side mounted to platforms and operated by grots. There will be a tower with a zzap gun built straight up from the top of the rhino. Then to make the vehicle represent something that could transport 20 boyz I've started construction on an armored trailer with 2 levels and lots of guns. The 2 vehicles will be attached by the loading door in the rear of the rhino witch will spand the gap between the two vehicles.

Thus far I have built the main body of the trailer and added some detail to it, I haven't gotten the rhino from my friend yet along with some of his extra ork pieces but I will have them in a couple of days. Until such time I will work on the trailer, here are some pics of what I've got so far:







and here are some IG for comparison, my guess is that 16 boyz will be able to squeeze into the rhino and trailer when it's done.


The end the cannon is on is the back of the trailer the other end will be attached to the rhino.

C&C welcome as usual. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Buckshot]

very good

[Major Chrispy]

Very nice. Although the gun looks far to flimsy and, how to put this, not "Daka" enough If you could get..say a big shoota, he could run it as a trukk with an 'ard case. I've made a looted wagon from a rino and if you get an Kanon and angle the Front of it, it's a nice looted wagon with a boom gun.

[orissan]

One, that gun looks more IG then orks, eather convert it to have multibarrles, or find a new one (however i see no reason that gun would not be in a (the) greachin tower section of the viechle
To me it doesn't look, well, orky. mess with the card, maby put a few holes or a few ork runes to make it look more orky (but your friend may be doing this)
As for the rino, a good idea is to make that a attachable/detachable steamrollery thing, and maby all the doors should be ripped off (ive also seen a few go really big as to change the treads to more orky tires.

[orkblasta]

thanks for the input.

I know what you meen about that gun I'll see what I can do about that I could try making it thicker and I have a chain of bullets that could be mounted onto the gun. As for the vehicle itself I will be getting a bunch of ork stuff from my friend in a couple of days so using that I'll be able to add more of an ork feel to the vehicle such as adding rune plates, a grill, big shootas, grots, extra ork weapons, a cannon, and such. In the end this vehicle will be loaded with stuff.

As for adding a deff rola onto the front of the vehicle that's not a bad idea it's just that I had figured that I was going to mount spikes that could be used as a deff rola.

The rhino itself will also have a lot more on it, I'll probably throw on a bunch of missiles and weapons to prove that it's truly. As for the wheels instead of tracks, I"m not sure if that would look good, I've never seen that before.

I probably should have posted in the title that this is a WIP I'll change that, also I have some empty CO2 cartridges and I think they would quite cool on the model to represent fuel tanks or something, what do you guys think I should use them for?

cheers.