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The Lungbursta is one of my favourite Epic Ork vehicles.
There is something very *normal* about it which I like compared to other Ork vehicles.
I found I had some spare models and I am painting them up in desert colours to match my current Epic painting.
The first stage is painting the metal parts in black.
The next stage will be painting the basecoat.
These are FlakBuggies or Ack Ack Buggies.
They use Flakwagon weapons (which I had used as Trukks in other conversions). Though the one on the end is using a Big Gunz instead.
I have often used the gunners from Ork Buggies in many conversions.
This is an Ork Flagwagon with Gunners.
This is an 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.
The conversion used the arm from an Ork Dreadnought which was snipped off to make a Killa Kan.
This is a conversion I did some time ago for an Imperial Guard Recovery Tank.
It starts off as a Basilisk (from the Space Marine era), some green stuff, a dozer blade and a Gutrippa arm.
I am currently painting a few of my older Imperial Guard miniatures.
This Hellhound was undercoated white, before being given a green base coat and other details added with Bestial Brown and Camo Green.
I have painted another couple of my Epic Forgeworld Ork Gunwagons.
I am not too sure about these. Checks are something I have not tried before. The gunner is from a metal Ork buggy.
I have finished my Ork Skorcha.
I still want to add some more detailing and I will probably add another couple of grot riggers (using fantasy snotlings).
I think the armour skirts are slightly too low, but they still work.
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.
It’s the one on the left…
With a future model I may paint the armour panels in a similar style to my Junkatrukks but with this model I am going down the dirty rusty armour style.
The black painted armour was drybrushed with Tin Bitz and then a lighter drybrush of Boltgun Metal.
Next stage is to do the skin of the Squiggoth.
With a final drybrush to tone down the wash and accentuate the detail…
I have finished my Forgeworld 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.