Lord Tothe
10-23-2013, 10:25 PM
Starting on some conversions and scratch-builds for my Ork army. I'm still petty new to this, and all pics are WIP.
The large tan tire is a Beywheels toy that I bought to find out whether it could be used to make an absurdly oversized monocycle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocycle) for an Ork Nob Biker. If anyone else thinks about doing such a conversion, note that the wheel is made of a fairly soft rubber compound, and cutting out the hub means cutting through a more rigid plastic skeleton hidden inside. A dremel-type tool with a sanding wheel is most useful for carefully smoothing out the rough chop job necessary to get it all cleared out.
Also note that the deffcopta has had the blade removed. Earlier pictures shown below have my earlier attachment system. I'm not sure how I want it to look, but that wasn't right yet?
Two of the zzap guns are made from cannibalized Bionicle tie-in Happy meal toys. Wheels are from broken cars and toy motorcycles, along with some insulin vial caps I got from a diabetic family member. The drop tank racer will eventually get a gun platform behind the engine. I think I'll just glue in a regular ork torso for the driver instead of trying to find a surplus gunner grot from someone's fighta-bomma kit.
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh141/lordtothe/Picture025_zps9e2becd7.jpg
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh141/lordtothe/Picture022_zps0e3a84ad.jpg
Here is the older deffcopta pic, along with a cybork Nob. You can see more clearly here how the kopta is made from a 1:72 F-15 (green), a 1:48 F16 (light gray) and sprue segments along with some Ork bitz. The Nob's arm is made with gears from broken Happy Meal wind-up toys, Ork bitz, and a rod from the F-16 kit
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh141/lordtothe/Picture008_zps6360b0bf.jpg
And here's a close-up of the cybork arm
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh141/lordtothe/Picture007_zpsf51fdb72.jpg
Ideas for things I may want to build later on: a deffkopta resembling a Borderlands 2 Buzzard, a Nob Biker on something like a Brute Chopper from Halo, and a scratch-built trukk
The large tan tire is a Beywheels toy that I bought to find out whether it could be used to make an absurdly oversized monocycle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocycle) for an Ork Nob Biker. If anyone else thinks about doing such a conversion, note that the wheel is made of a fairly soft rubber compound, and cutting out the hub means cutting through a more rigid plastic skeleton hidden inside. A dremel-type tool with a sanding wheel is most useful for carefully smoothing out the rough chop job necessary to get it all cleared out.
Also note that the deffcopta has had the blade removed. Earlier pictures shown below have my earlier attachment system. I'm not sure how I want it to look, but that wasn't right yet?
Two of the zzap guns are made from cannibalized Bionicle tie-in Happy meal toys. Wheels are from broken cars and toy motorcycles, along with some insulin vial caps I got from a diabetic family member. The drop tank racer will eventually get a gun platform behind the engine. I think I'll just glue in a regular ork torso for the driver instead of trying to find a surplus gunner grot from someone's fighta-bomma kit.
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh141/lordtothe/Picture025_zps9e2becd7.jpg
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh141/lordtothe/Picture022_zps0e3a84ad.jpg
Here is the older deffcopta pic, along with a cybork Nob. You can see more clearly here how the kopta is made from a 1:72 F-15 (green), a 1:48 F16 (light gray) and sprue segments along with some Ork bitz. The Nob's arm is made with gears from broken Happy Meal wind-up toys, Ork bitz, and a rod from the F-16 kit
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh141/lordtothe/Picture008_zps6360b0bf.jpg
And here's a close-up of the cybork arm
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh141/lordtothe/Picture007_zpsf51fdb72.jpg
Ideas for things I may want to build later on: a deffkopta resembling a Borderlands 2 Buzzard, a Nob Biker on something like a Brute Chopper from Halo, and a scratch-built trukk