As the description says, can anyone give me some advice on what bits I need to make a few Leman Russes, Rhinos, Chimeras and possibly a Baneblade orky? I don`t have access to regular plasticard but I`m using a material thats almost the same but its so much smaller (buscards), but I`d like advice on what bits I could use from other sets. :ph43r:

As we are starting to discover, under the old rules, you could pretty much field the vehicle as is with a few orky glyffs and a few tatty repairs, but now, you have to strip off or at least heavilly modify the weaponry. Further more, looted wagons have very poor armour stats so you realy have to "beat up" your leman russ to make it look like it has no armour! lol

I say put the effort in and find yourself some plasticard, it's wonderful stuff to work with and can be used for structural rebuilding, as well as plating.

I heard once that the first step to looting a vehicle is to build it, then drop it down some stairs.

that way any repairs done on it are geniune.. and gives a lot of direction and authenticity to the piece.

Cut huge holes in a Leman Russes sides and put corrugated cardboard over it with plastic "bolts" as though they have salvaged it and tried to cover the holes with whatever was available.

Lots of rivets and glyph plates.

Also Balsa wood or scored card paneling and corrogated card with the top layer peeled away to look like sheet metal.

Thanks for all the replies and if I am to summarize this its basically, bash the models to heck and then repair them and add glyphs?

Yup thats always a good method.

But not just glyphs, battledamage that is massively severe (like a huge hole covered with a dodgy repair) rivet everything! Add grots, krew members, replace human weapons with prky equivilants (eg Zzaps not lascannons bigshootas not heavy bolters)

And post WIP stuff and get hold of plasticard, order from he internet if neccesary, its wonderful stuff.

To be honest, if its a Leman russ then use Battlewaggon rules from the codex, I refuse to field my russes using that [Not on the floor please] looted waggon entry in the codex.

PM me, i've got quite a few loots.



Tepok

Close, but with balsa wood painted to look like wooden planks...

Aint that a Orkish repair? Might try balsa wood, got alot of it laying a little here and there.

Plasticard is a good bet too!
You can get corrigated or other kinds of detail

wood? wood ain't proppa protection! you want big metal plates rivetted on!

When I looted a rhino I just attacked if with clippers...
Was fun though.

Yeah, do that and just add ork stuff and plasticard to it.

Well you should still be a little conservative on the damage part; consider that in RL anti-tank weapons have little visible effect on a tank aside from a baseball sized hole. Of course 40k has plasma,melta,chainfists yadayada...

Also Ive seen the effect using greenstuff to mimic weld-lines used pretty nicely; along a joint, place a line of greenstuff, and make consistent scores perpendicularily. you might have to look around for an example though

Weld Smeld!

What you want is rivitz! because a)they look cool b)easy c)400 small pieces of plastic makes a man!

Il take some pics of my Battlewagon soon, Im up to 50 rivets now and its not close to done.

Just use a hammer. A really big one. That's what an Ork would do.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Your killing me, I'm doning around 50 rivets a Stealth Mega-nob. Good luck man.

I reckon with a Trukk kit you could make about two or three looted wagons out of a leman russ kit.

Slice it up, replace some track with wheels, add structure where you've lost it...

The fun of this is that you can do it in a lot of ways...
More orky, less Orky... the more junked and ready for scrapyard they look, the orky...
Or more imperial-ish/alienish, with more or less orky-things...here's an example of looted vehicles... they're from the Comic "Blood and Thunder"(enternaining and orky comic, btw)... a company of Looted IG vehicles! ouch :P



The fun with orks is that you can do whatever you want. :)