I feel I am needlessly repeating myself a bit here. Battlewagons and such were a recurring theme of my "scratchbuild phase" and something I tended to do when I want to build something involved at minimal cost. Why do I keep doing this? Oh right, I hyper-fixated on something. And GW went and changed the unit definition again. Gunwagons are a thing once more, but Dethrollas seem to have vanished. Unless GW is quietly planning to do the Bonecrusha or something as DLC, my most recent of these is not remotely rules legal. Charming. Anyways as a unit, the Battlewagon now is exclusively a heavy transport with space for 22 Orks, and a firing deck for 12 of them. It's quite durable, with a rather useful OC5, surprisingly capable in melee, and has a related detachment. I can easily imagine one happily joining in, or just parking on an objective.
I shouldn't really complain too much about the rules changes that much though. I can throw one of these together from a charity shop find, hoarded materials, and salvaged parts. With the Dethrolla conspicuous by its absence, the greatest technical challenge of such a project is gone. It's just a matter of finding a big enough hull, preparing it, and then orkifying the thing. The hull here is a firetruck from the Paw Patrol franchise, a children's series that's most notable for a meme of a film review. It's slightly smaller and shorter than an actual 'wagon, but that was probably to my benefit as it's very easy for these projects to end up too big. My basic idea here was to build up the front end, put a flatbed out back, and the weapons wherever they fit, feeling things out as a I went. The main difficulty here was the sticker stripe recessed into the flanks, the stickers leaving gluey residue and the trench breaking up the look of the vehicle. I ended up filling these areas will milliput and sanding them out, to some success. In happier news however, an old piece of KillTeam terrain could be attached as a Grabba Klaw almost unmodified. I didn’t even try to strip the old paint of it, it worked too well as is. Plus the recess ended up not mattering, as this became less of a build so much as a katamari of a kitbash, using a variety of materials to armour it up, but still leaving that distinctive front-end peaking out. Maybe the flatbed got a bit lost in the process though.
The painting moved swiftly once I got the three million rivets on. This was a run of basic drybrush sponging, and washing techniques. This is the sort of thing I really enjoy about Orks now I think of it, the rustbucket, shitbox, kitbash vehicles. And I managed to get in done in time for Orktober too, so here we are. It came out OK.
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