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Rebel Grot Big Lugga

Managed to win an auction for one of these.

The Rebel Grot Lugga from Gorkamorka was (and is) one of my favourite Gorkamorka vehicles. I have been trying to get one for some time now, but have been very unlucky or outbid.

They usually go for about £25, but I managed to get one (still sealed) for a lot less than that.

Photographic Terrain

In a previous entry I mentioned how I was making some photographic terrain. Here are some pictures of the other board.

When taking photographs I use to create the scenery which took time to setup and time to break down.

Having less time means I don’t have time to setup the scenery. I have decided to build up some mini-scenery boards for photographic sessions. I got a cheap piece of MDF for 25pence which I cut into two pieces to make two lots of scenery boards.

The first thing I did was add some small stones to the board, you should be able to see an Ork battlewagon for scale purposes. I also glued some sand (from my son’s sandpit) to see how it looked.

Some large pieces of cork bark were added as cliffs.

…and as with all great movie props, held up by small bits of polystyrene.

This terrain board may be covered in snow or have a river.

Photographic Terrain

When taking photographs I use to create the scenery which took time to setup and time to break down.

The first thing I did was add some small stones to the board, you should be able to see an Ork battlewagon for scale purposes.

A close up of the battlewagon.

The next stage was to add some expanded polystyrene (taken from an iPod box) to act as a backplate.

Then I glued in some cork bark.

The next stage is to put down some filler.

Scenery Tiles

Having had the polystyrene sheets for some time hanging around in the garage.

I have decided to take the time to build the scenery I always meant to.

I have eight of these sheets (four to a pack) the first four were covered in a GW grass mat and pictures can be seen on the battle reports on the website.

With the remaining four, two will be a desert terrain usable with both Epic and 28mm and the other will be an Epic half-destroyed Imperial City.

The first thing I did was seal the sides using gaffer tape (sometimes known as duct tape).

Each sheet got two strips of black tape, this has two jobs, one to protect the scenery from everyday knocks and two to have the *gap* between the sheets to be black and not glaring white.

The next stage is to put on the basic scenery, ruins, rocks etc…

Epic Skorchaz

I have always liked the Epic Skorcha model. In the past I have painted them black, drybrushed and added some detail.

These ones will be painted in the desert colours to match the forces already painted.

Epic Bowelburnaz

As well as the Lungburstas I am also painting some Bowelburnaz.

Some of these have been converted as I wanted to use the smaller turrets on other conversions.

These have turrets from Battlefortresses.

They will also be in the desert camouflage scheme.

Epic Ork Lungbursta

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.

Flakbuggies

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.

Ork Squig Capturing Vehicles

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.