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Post subject: Feral Ork Junkatrukks & Ork objectives... Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 11:59 pm

Brood Brother Joined: Fri Feb 14, 2003 11:01 pm Posts: 3495 Location: Wessex

Quote (MaksimSmelchak @ 06 2004 Mar.,15:26) I'd like to build a Feral Ork army as well. I have an idea to combine the two makes of plastic Ork vehicles. I've seen it before but I had the idea many years ago. Essentially the idea is to build half-tracks from the armored TL/E-40k chassis and the wheels from the AT-I/SM-II chassis. Sounds like a good idea and should look good. Personally I seem to have a feeling that Junkatrukks should be very truck-like, wheels and no tracks. I did watch a programme once which said that making a tracked vehicles was much much more difficult than making a wheeled vehicle. Do you have any ideas for the Mega-Squiggoth AKA Orkeosaurus? I have been ?thinking of a large dinosaur style creature, stegosaurus or similar. In WD #100 there is a nice dinosaur model which I have always liked. I remember that you were working on a Bio-Gargant at one time. Did this idea ever come to fruition? ?

It's still a work in progress (and I may add it to my Workbench at some point). Just to remind people, it is based on the WEG 25mm Star Wars Rancor from Return of the Jedi. Here is a link in case you can't remember what it looks like. In 25mm scale it is about the size of an Ork Gargant.

So far I have stuck the beast together, undercoated, and painted the base colour... and then the arm fell off (again). I am hoping to return to it at some time.

Weapons will be attached to the arms, and a howdah will be fixed to the back.

How about Steam Gargantz?

I bought some Armorcast steam automatons and have looked at Deadlands automatons as well. I haven't converted my Armorcast robots yet. I bought them on a whim at a convention because I wanted to spend some money.
Hmm, I still can't get my head round a Steam Gargant as I thought they were already driven by steam!!!

As we are talking about Feral Orks I guess we are talking about a very primitive Gargant which is *less" sophisticated than your atypical Ork Gargant.

I think I may use my original Ork Gargants (the round ones) as I have a*spare* one and they have a coal bunker at the back... I will add a bigger chimney and possibly some steam pistons as well.

I'm having problems coming up with ideas for Ork objectives.

What have you been brainstorming?
Most of my inspiration is coming from Gorkmorka, I am looking in old White Dwarfs. All mine are going to be on 60mm bases.

My ideas are:

Ork watchtower

Crashed spaceship

Large Krooz Missile

Junk heap

Gargant (half-made or semi-destroyed - is there a difference ;-))