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Forge World Ork Halftrakk

Here is the Halftrakk with the plastic flatbed and crew area added to the model to see how it would look.

Read the full workbench feature on my Ork Halftrakk.

January 2008 saw the release of the new Ork Trukk. I had expected to see some Forge World conversion kits relatively quickly, however though we saw the Flakk Wagon at GamesDay 2008, it wasn’t until July 2009 that we saw the first actual Forge World variant Ork Trukk kit, the Ork Half Trakk. What you get in the box, a complete shrink wrapped plastic Trukk kit and a bag of resin. As you might expect the resin consists of the wheels, tracks and wheels for the tracks. There is also a new engine which replaces the plastic one included with the kit.

So the model goes together quite well with the plastic Trukk components. You could of course not use the provided resin front wheels and use the plastic ones you get with the Ork Trukk. What is nice is that as you get the whole Trukk kit, so as a result, you get lots of spare wheels to use with other models or for conversions.

I had very little warpage with this model, though as you can see there is a gap in the tracks.

The only problem that was (probably) shrinkage with the tracks, so I used some plastic rod to cover the gap in the tracks.

I do like the resin engine provided, much better than the plastic one. You kind of wish Forge World would make some Ork conversion packs with engines and the like.

Read the full workbench feature on my Ork Halftrakk.

Taking the masking tape off

Having undercoated the Battlewagon, leaving the mask on, I gave the model a basecoat of brown paint, using a Humbrol spray. I then removed the masking tape.

I then put the model together with the wheels and tracks to see how it would look.

See the full workbench feature on the Ork Battlewagon.

See photographs of completed Ork Battlewagons from various shows.

Battlewagon Basecoat

Having undercoated the Battlewagon, leaving the mask on, I have the model a basecoat of brown paint, using a Humbrol spray.

See the full workbench feature on the Ork Battlewagon.

See photographs of completed Ork Battlewagons from various shows.

White undercoat for the Battlewagon

Having masked the black undercoated parts of the Battlewagon I gave the Battlewagon a white undercoat, before adding a basecoat.

See the full workbench feature on the Ork Battlewagon.

See photographs of completed Ork Battlewagons from various shows.

Undercoating the turret

Having give the turret a part black undercoat, the next stage was to mask the black and undercoat the rest of the turret with a white undercoat.

This is how it looks on top of the Looted Ork Rhino.

It will be painted in the same manner as the Rhino itself.

See the full workbench feature on the Ork Looted Rhino.

Re-Masking the Battlewagon

Having constructed the Battlewagon the next stage was to undercoat the model. I decided that I would use two undercoats, a black undercoat for some of the model and a brown undercoat (or basecoat) for the main bodywork. In order to achieve this I masked off the areas of the model that would be brown. I then sprayed the model black. I then removed the masking tape and masked the black areas.

I also masked the areas that I would need to use glue on later.

See the full workbench feature on the Ork Battlewagon.

See photographs of completed Ork Battlewagons from various shows.

Undercoating the Deff Rolla

I did buy the Ork Battlewagon Upgrade Pack and decided to add the Deff Rolla to my Ork Battlewagon.

The Deff Rolla was undercoated black.

Maybe…

Having thought about how the Battlewagon turrets would look on my Ork Looted Rhino I thought it would only be fair to see how they looked on the Ork Battlewagon itself.