#wartrakk

[crippledgiraff]

[khornedog]

Does this look like a big shoota boy to you?

I think he's off the old Wartrakk kit, but he seems happy on foot.

Yeah, he's holding the gun a little awkward. But hey, you look at the enthusiasm on his face and tell him no.

[squirmydads-creations]

Ork Dredds-scale creep Back in my day things were smaller….Back in the late 1980’s when I started collecting and painting 40K minis the Space Ork Dredds looked like the little guy on the right. You could get an expansion kit to bigg-ify them like the guy on the left, but they seemed hard to come by. The hulking brute Deff Dredd in the center is an all plastic kit where the other two are lead/pewter.

Sometimes the army lists provided by GW listed options for the forces that weren’t readily available on the models. This was back when they encouraged scratch-building and modifying minis to get to WYSIWYG. The ork lists said you could get a Dredd with power claws and a flamer, so I made this little fella out of bits from a Skorcha wartrakk.

In the new plastic box there is every option you could ever need and you end up with a pile of very nice extra bits. I’m very impressed with GW’s improvements to quality.

[deffdread]

When you decide to finally paint some models you’ve owned for 16 years even though they’ll be outdated next month. #ork #orks #warbuggy #wartrakk #waaagh #bloodaxes #warhammer #warhammer40k #40k #paintingwarhammer (at Lexington, Kentucky) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoVgvsgne77/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1lu2tzd4pceoi

[ork-vox-frequences]

Speed waaagh!

So just to prove I am doing things even if it has been quite quiet here.

So these are about a week old I’ve done some work since but I haven’t taken any pics since these.

I’m show these as I wanted to talk about the quirk that I am doing for the vehicles in my Speed Waaagh! Now I know some of you might be car guys and have seen this before, but I was watching an episode of engine masters a while back and they dyno’d this engine to the point where the down pipe on the exhaust headers were glowing red. Sort of like this:

Do you understand what that is? The engine is producing so much heat that the metal is glowing. Tell me that is not the most ork thing you have seen.

Now I had forgot which buggy was which so I did the Shokkjump first so I need to go back and add some blue glow to the orbs on the back still. The Burnablasta with all its pipes is currently more yellow then red at this moment as I just started on it.

So speaking of the Speed Waaagh. I did a battle scribe on what I currently have for it. I haven’t counted boyz yet as I need to strip and repaint them so they don’t count yet.

I have my for HQ Big Mek in mega armor, I just bought a Dethkilla Trike.

No troops yet.

12 deth kopters with kopta rockets

6 bikers

2 wartrakks

1 shokkjump

1 burna blasta

and technically one Stompa though since I don’t actually know if I have the ork codex as I can’t find it if I do so I am not sure if I want to use that yet.

[waaaaghgrukk]

Kustom Rokkit Wartrakk so for months I didn't know what to do with the turret part of the dunecrawler I used to make my crab deff dread... that's until, whilst endlessly trawling youtube, I came across a video on how to make tank tracks out of plasticard. (lightbulb on!) and behold my first warbuggy. Enjoy.

[bprinny]

These new vehicle rules for 9th edition make me want to run warbuggies or wartrakks and use them as flanking chariots, running them into enemy units from the side while blasting at them with rokkits. Rokkits are pretty pricey but now that I can use them even when I’m locked in (meaning their points aren’t wasted) makes them much more attractive. The only downside is that 61 points for something that I expect to die is fairly expensive, but I have to measure that against the effect of disrupting the enemy battle line and drawing attention away from any footslogging units of boyz, which I would of course be running. Perhaps something in conjunction with kommandos...

[adystarkey75]

Ork Wartrakk for the Battle of Vedros, #warhammer40k #warhammer #battleforvedros #orks #spaceorks #gamesworkshop #orkwartrakk

[ork-vox-frequences]

What to do with Eldar? (ooc)

So I have this on again off again project to try and get anything I can actually use out of my bitz box and only have actual bitz in there not just a pile of OOP figures taking up space. I am doing this mainly to get all the orks out so that I can use them as my collection has orks ranging from the old old static pose orks and gretchin of second edition, the starter supplies from GorkaMorka, and a bunch from the 3rd edition starter sets. I have never actually bought any ork boxes all my stuff has either come from boxed games or from The Warstore and their old Mega bitz bags (and one time the GW Canada warehouse fell over) so it is all old stuff (I have an Ork Scorcha wartrakk that is all metal and barely bigger then a space marine biker).

However in addition to various ork bitz and a few squads of Imperial Guard (I could probably build two more squads from lose bitz) I found my old Eldar Army from my trip to Edinburgh. Now I don’t want to go out and get the Eldar Codex just yet I just mostly want to know if I have a solid core to an army to work with.

Sitting here right now I have:

2 farseers

3 warlocks

15 guardians (didn’t these come in boxes of 16?)

24 eldar ranger/pathfinders (are these still used in units of 3-6?)

2 dark reapers

1.5 swooping hawks (I seem to be missing the wings for one of them.

Morgan Ra

5 Harlequins

1 shadowseer

1 death jester (I know I have at least one more) 

1 harlequin troop leader (great harlequin?)

I also have for reasons I don’t understand Vect’s raiding barge.

I know at one point I wanted to have a force of Alatoic Rangers as I was on a working holiday to the UK and wanted a small powerful army that was made up of figures that would not break when carried in a backpack as I was living at a hostel at the time and didn’t want the hassle of vehicles on top of the too much stuff I already had. I don’t have that problem now so I just need to know if I need anything else to field a patrol/battalion.