HOBBY: Kustom Ork Tank Trakks
I always have a weakness for cool conversions and when I spotted these “kustom konverted” Orky tracks in my local Battle Bunker a few weeks ago I knew I just had to share them with all the great hobbyists out there. The builder of these painstaking link-by-link track conversions was kind enough to share some photos with me for this article as well as an explanation as to how they were built. One photo is shown above and a few more are at the bottom of this article. So, here in “Chrispy’s” own words is an explanation as to how these terrific track conversions came into being:
“Here are the pictures of my Looted Baneblade Custom Orky Tracks. As
you can see, I might have went just a little bit crazy. I have been
out of the hobby for the last four years, and when I started up again,
I pulled out my dusty Baneblade kit to “cut my teef on” as it were. As
soon as I opened the box I noticed that the tracks were covered in
Imperial Eagles. That wouldn’t do one bit for a Propa Big Mek.
The first step I took was to lay a piece of sandpaper down on a flat
surface (this time, my cutting mat) and carefully erase all the
surface details.
Next, I sat down and cut out loads of little squares and triangles out
of plasticard for the checks and dags. The squares were actually the
easiest, since I used tile patterned plasticard, and just divided the
individual tiles into quarters.
After those were glued on, I filled in the remaining track sections
with carefully cut pieces of plasticard glyphs. My favorite are the
shoota glyphs. I took special care to ensure that they would be
showing near the front or back of the tank, even when sitting on the
table.
I understand that most of the track detail will be lost during a
normal fielding of the tank. I might be crazy for spending so much
attention to the bottom! However, I know that there may be just that
one guy who’s a smart git who will ask, “Dur, izit got dem tracks on
da bottom?” I’ll be able to show that, yes, indeed it does.
The total time it took to complete these tracks was about 10 hours
worth of sanding, slicing, chopping and meticulously gluing. Now, I’m
nice and warmed up. Hope you enjoy!”
The custom Ork tracks are only half the story, the converted Baneblade they are going on is equally impressive. Maybe with luck Chrispy will be kind enough to share some pics of that with us when it’s done. If you want to see more of his work, Chrispy has a conversion photo gallery over on the dakkadakka forum.
