Looted Russ wip

this is my wORK in progress looted Leman Russ.

The thread is here

reprinted in my own blog:

so , i picked up a Leman Russ the other day to convert for my Orks, i was so excited to work on it I muffed up the tracks, but that's ok i play Orks, any i'll orkify them. here's a pic to show my work thus far and my plans (mind the sitck figures)

EDIT: i will be filing off/covering with an ork glyph the imperial symbol behind the hatch on the turret

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started my tracks

they're gonna be in a word, unsubtle. there's plans for rivets for each track pad. still working on what to use for the battlecannon (aka, BIG BOOM!) the big shoota/heavy bolter on the front is a long ways away

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finished the tracks, all that's left are rivets (orks lurve rivets!)

next up, there's a list: the turret needs beefing up. it needs armour plates. i need to decide if I want to add the sponsons. engine, needs to be monstrous, with lots of worky bits. cannon needs to be beefed up (looks a little weedy) heavy bolter needs to be changed to a big shoota. but, what do ya think? those tracks took Spartacus and three episodes of Band of Brothers to complete.

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got the modelling bug tonight after finishng my warboss and special weapons boyz last week. here's some more work on the russ. the engine has worky-bitz, the heavy bolter, well i tried to make a big shoota with two shoota barrels, but the pin between them was too short so i made a flash supressor out of some spare square tube i had lying around. it will look better painted. i *still* need to do something with the cannon barrel and the armour plates...

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still plugging away at the russ... added some detail last night (the turret and cannon are still being pondered, heavily) i think I may completely cut apart the turret and widen it as with the tracks as they are now it looks a little weedy. in any event it will definitely be getting some armour plates to bulk it up a little. as far as additions last night: added dags on the tracks (i thought i wouldn't do this but i had 2 scrap triangles of plasticard laying on my table and when i put them on the tracks i caved. added armour plates to one side, with rivets on one plate, other rivets to be added soon. finished modelling the hull mounted big shoota/heavy bolter. dropped the fuel drum onto the back end made some more orky exhausts (yes i see the mould lines, they'll be filed off soon enough)

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well, decided against widening the turret on this particular model. instead I slapped on super thick armour plates to bulk it up some. still unsure how to bulk up the remaining side of the turret. added remaining armour plates to other side of tank, along with battle damage. added glyph plates to sides as well. need to swing past Home Depot to get a length of PVC pipe in order to beef up that cannon. also have to come up with a way for an Ork to be commanding from the open hatch. here's some new pix: