Ork Battlefortress, Part 6
Several people have asked how the ork battlefortress is going, so I thought I would throw in a little update. The battle fortress is in that long dark teatime of the modeling process. It is past the part where we can see big changes being made, but not quite to the point where it’s ready for paint. It’s in the detailing phase.
As I have mentioned before, hundreds and hundreds of rivets really drags down the soul. Anyways, the creative juices have started flowing. I got my second wind and started modeling again. It is still mostly rivet work, but I have added a few other bits of detail. The windows in the back of the observation desk have been added and I replaced the colored plastic bubble tops on the zzap turret with metal ones that have hatches from the old rhino sprue.
I have the front, back and top pretty much detailed out, but I am unsure how to detail the sides. It looks a little to clean for an ork vehicle. I’m not fond of the “cover a truck with glue and drive it through a junkyard” look of some ork vehicles, but the current sides are way too clean, even for an imperial vehicle. The large rivets on the top of the side armor definitely have to go. I will be replacing them with a double row of the smaller rivets.
I was thinking about covering it with patched armor plates. I did a mockup of it to see how it looks.
It does look better, but not great. Maybe fewer plates but larger ones? I don’t know. Any advice would be great.
