An scratchbuilt Ork looted wagon challenge

I have been thinking of adding a  battlewagon or two to my Ork army, but funds are non existent right now, however plastic is at my disposal and my mek heart was pulsating with tinkering energies and from all that and after giving the Ork Tanks at ForgeWorld a nice lovingly look , I couldnt refrain anymore and thus I began:


first the Images to inspire me

   

then I began with a Rhino like hull that I planned to attach a tread system, it would be enclosed as I don't have that many parts to do an open one and that decided the form of the vehicle to be enclosed 

 I modeled a door on the rear part and some exhausts

 then a cabin

 and then went crazy building the treads like 36 ones to be precise

 Then I used some plastic studs and glued them against each other to help me create the frame for the tracks.

 and currently I have finished to glue the basic shape

it is turning into a great looking tank, I just nee to decide If I need a turret for that S8 weapon or a Transport with a slight better armor.

If it turns ok I might decide to do a tracked Battlewagon or two as those would definitively help my Orks to be really mobile just like I like them.

Finished trucks

Ok after working hard last week for about 20hrs  I have finished  my trucks as I mentioned before I build some parts and then painted them. I did that because the model is very intricate and to get a good result the only other way was to paint everything before glueing it all.

not my style but not by much anyway. so here they are in parts.

as you can see here I added a bit of rust with a really watered down orange. it looks good.

First is Kruncha's front I hope at least the flames are not so bad.  then is Blazta's turn

Blazta's side plates here the flames look better, and both turcks have their name painted on their side plates I like it.

And finally my babies, Kruncha is at the left and blazta at the right they have some improvements like extra armor where the wrecking ball used to be and rotating turrets, I used the same heads for the crewz so the spiky ones belong to kruncha (for a better crunch).

they are so belligerent that they are similar but not the same even when used the same kit without additional bitz

My painting recipe is as follows a heavy overbrush of tin bitz followed by boltgun metal, the red areas where drybrushed machrite red then blood red some metal pieces where aplied with dwarf bronze and other colors , then a heavy wash of deblan mud mixed with baadab black toned down the color to what you see, from there it was just a mater of detail  colors like burnished gold in the guns and some dry brush of calthan brown on the wheels to finish it all.


I like the end results lets see hoe the do at next saturday battle and from thereon.