Looted Wagon part 3

I'm still having a lot of fun with my Looted Chimera. I have started work on the tracks and although they're not finished yet I thought I might show you where things are going with this project.I took the original tracks off because I think they are to flimsey and clean for an Ork Tank. That did mean however that I would have to make my own.

As you can see in the picture I did some bodywork on the inside and I like how it looks so I will probably keep that going for the rest of the interior.I glued a piece of fly netting on the floor so After I paint that it will look pretty cool.
 But I also started on the tracks. It's quite a tedious job cutting all those tracks and then scarring them but I think I'm heading in the right direction. I want to make them more Orky by adding some sort of spikes to them but I'm not sure how to do that yet.I'll have to think about it for a bit. I will go and bend some corners of some tracks. They're scratched and scarred but I think they should look even more damaged.

The front of the Chimera saw some work too. I made a hull mounted machine gun from an old Sentinel exhaust and made my own vision slits for the driver. I want to make it so the driver pops his head out on top so the vision slit is just for show and to break up the clean front.

Related articles:
Looted Wagon part 1: taking the original painted Chimera apart
Looted Wagon part 2: working on the Reinforced Ram

Seb

Looted Wagon part 2

After taking my Imperial Guard Chimera apart it's now time to start building my looted wagon.


One of the things that I want to make is a Reinforced Ram. The IG Chimera comes with a nice straight dozer blade that I want to use. Of course this doesn't look Orky enough as it is so I got my hobby knife out and cut a "v"shape out of the middle and when I put the two bits back together the dozer blade is no longer straight but it's shaped in a point.(see pic) a bit like a snow plow or like the front bit on an old locomotive

I also added a lot of scratches and bullet holes to it and when that was done I added some sharpened "I"beams and some extra plates to it as if it was repaired a bit. I will add some razor wire to it when I have painted it. It's to hard to add that now and then paint it. It now looks "proppa"

Related articles: Looted Wagon part 1
Seb

Looted Wagon part 1

One of the reasons to start an Ork force is that you can loot stuff and make it all Orky. There really are no rules and you are only bound by your own imagination. The more wacky it looks the more people will say it's a "proppa" Ork build.

It was certainly one of the things that made me want to do an Ork army!

So what does one need for a looted wagon build? -well, any vehicle you can get your hands on, 40k or any other brand then a lot of plastic card and green stuff and you're good to go.

So what do I have to "Loot"? I have a small collection of Imperial Guard models from when I started painting GW stuff some 3 years ago. My very first vehicle was a chimera and I really went to town on it painting a lot of rust and battle damage. When I look at the Chimera now I can only think of two things, 1> my painting has improved a bit, and 2> that would make a great Looted wagon.

So some quick pictures before I get my hobby knife and hack saw out:



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And then "Start lootin them Bitz boss!!!"

Consider this looted!

 I guess there's no way back now....

Seb