The Warforge Miniature Modelling and Conversion

Guntrukk on indefinite hold

My guntrukk project was on hold for a while, and then got sold off. Long story short, I was working on airbrushing it, and the airbrush was behaving tremendously poorly - it ended up spattering all over the vehicle and I couldn't effectively clean it up. It got covered in a poor, runny red, and stipping it didn't seem that good of a time.

Thus, the model got sold off in that state in 2007.

Primed to blow

 

So, it's primed. I went out and found a fantasy boxed set with a few grots I might be able to use.. but I don't have my dremel handy, so I'm going to have to wait on adding them until I can work on them a bit. In the mean time, I'm going to get started painting this.

Tanks side by side

Put in the firing grot on one side of the Zzap gun holding a cable and switch that leads to the gun. I also put a shield and sandbag to help reinforce his position, as he wasn't quite on there that strong, but the entire gun's one solid piece now. I'm going to make some hatches to cover the holes for when the Zzap Gun is off, but other than that and the grot refuelling at the rear, I'm thinking I'm almost done. Maybe I'll still do some sort of track guard on the front, I just can't think of how I want to design it.

I put my battlewagon in the photos so you could get an idea of scale.

I'm probably going to prime it before I put in the refuelling grots in the back as I plan on painting them separately for ease's sake.

 

Whirling dervish

Been messing around with this rocket launcher for the past hour or two and I'm still not done with it but I'm also not sure if it's satisfactory or not. Independantly, it looks fine, but with the Zzap gun it looks a bit cramped onboard.. of course, both will only be present when it's being used as a Guntrukk, which means no boyz onboard, but I'm not sure if I want to work with it further or not.

 

Zzzap gun from scratch

Zzap turret. I think it looks suitably dangerous and electrical - I tried to make it look like they're drawing power from inside with the cabling. The turret still comes off for when I want to switch it into a Trukk - I'm actually going to have to make a Rokkit Launcha for that occasion, too.

Chain smoking

I've been trying to make a turret on and off for it, but I'm just not happy with anything I've made so far. I may take the easy way out and just buy a Zzap gun blister.

 

Bracing for impact

 

Things never seem to quite happen in the order I plan them with this trukk, but so be it. A lot of the newer changes are internal - I've repositioned the 9v sideways, which is practically a perfect fit - it slides in through the side doors after a bit of carving, and it's seated perfectly in there which means I can change it or fix the wiring if it ever comes to it.

I also glued a metal plate down underneath the planking, so now anything with a magnet in it's base'll end up sticking to the floor. Should make fixing the turret in place easier.

I obviously put sandbags all around the edges, which I think looks pretty good. There are some slightly large holes in the rear sandbag area, but I will be able to fix that without much of a problem by adding chains that loop through them to hold it together. These are Tamiya 1/48 scale sandbags, by the way - I think 1/35 would have been excessively large.

I put an engine component hanging out the back of the trukk in order to push the speed aspect of it - this is a Kult of Speed vehicle, after all, and excessive engines are key. It's not very integrated at the moment, but I will be building additional piping/wiring/exhausts leading from it. I think I'm just going to flat-out remove the rear drop-down door.

And, of course, it needs a removable turret. All in due time, though.

Walk the planking

Just a bit of an update before I go to sleep.

Added some more dings and scratches to the overall tank's exterior, and I decided to make a wooden fenced-in area for the top that will either house the turret or the boyz, depending on what role I need the vehicle to play.

 

Gob up front

 

I added an armor plate to the front to try and emulate an 'iron gob' sort of appearance, but I'm not sure if I like it. I can still try and pry it off if popular opinion is against it, I'm not sure either way just yet. I don't see spikes being added to that and still having it look 'gob'-like.

Tried to add a bit to the exhausts. I'm not 100% sure what I'm doing with this stuff yet, just waiting for inspiration to strike.

How I learned to love the bomb

Stuck a rocket in the tracks and cut the door out. I suppose I'll light the interior, too, in the event that I use it as a normal Trukk. I need to clean the job I did up a bit on the door.

I also ripped off the secondary headlights as the ork eyes will be sufficient. This thing is most likely going to get a Zzap cannon. I'm going to make it removable so I can swap it out with any other weapons I decide to put on it. I'm also planning on making it removable so that if I decide to use it as a trukk I can make a wooden planking enclosure that will hold the boyz.