Ork Squig Capturing Vehicles

I have often used the gunners from Ork Buggies in many conversions.

This is an Ork Flagwagon with Gunners.

Ork Flagwagon with Gunners

This is an Ork Battlefortress with Gunners.

Ork Battlefortress with Gunners

This of course leaves the warbuggies…

One conversion I started was based on the vehicles from Jurassic Park II which were used to capture dinosaurs. I saw these vehicles as squig capturing buggies, the squigs would then be used either in small packs, to grow into Squiggoths or for food.

Ork Squig Capturing Vehicle

The conversion used the arm from an Ork Dreadnought which was snipped off to make a Killa Kan.

Sleazy Rider

This limited edition from Citadel in the 1980s became very rare as they withdrew it very quickly from sale.

Sleazy Rider

I painted the fuel tank in Soviet colours as the painted model in White Dwarf at the time had its fuel tank painted with the stars and stripes and I didn’t think I could get the lines straight.

Sleazy Rider

It is probably now one of my favourite models of all time and I now wish I had not sold it on eBay a few years back…

It should be noted that this was in fact a fantasy model and pre Warhammer 40K…hence the wooden wheel, though the back wheel was from a Judge Dredd model.

Epic Forgeworld Ork Gunwagons

The beauty of Orks is that there is no need for consistency and sometimes a mistake turns out really well.

I painted one of the Gunwagons in Bleached Bone, expecting the dark wash to add a nice touch, however it contained too much Chestnut ink so it looked awful wet. However when it dried it just looked great, really rusty.

Epic Forgeworld Ork Gunwagons

It’s the one on the left…

Epic Ork Bommerz

With a final drybrush to tone down the wash and accentuate the detail…

Epic Ork Bommerz

I have finished my Forgeworld Epic Ork Bommerz.

Epic Ork Bommerz

I did think about adding some more detail and glyphs, but thought at this small scale it may not work well, and I was pleased with the models as is. I have some metal conversions hanging around which I may try some yellow flames on.

I probably will get some more of these models.