Battlewagon Blues

I got dem Battlewagon Blues, all down dat line. I say I got dem Battlewagon Blues, just all da time.

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Right, so I've been working on them, none of them are exactly finished.

Been working mostly on the finer details of Wagon 2 and the main assembly of Wagon 3, already nicknamed LongHaul. Its strange how the first and 3rd Wagon I seem to get some energy and creativity to put through and I get stalled out on the 2nd.

Anyway, here's some shots of BW 2...
Yea, I'm rather pleased with how that Glyph turned out. The Grim Glyph, its always been my personal favorite glyph design. Something about it just screams Waaaga to me. Now admittedly I didn't get it perfect, but it does look better in person than in the picture. And even though it's a minor detail, its by far one of the coolest details I've ever made and its easily the best Glyph I've ever made.

Oh, there will be the usual top to the front weapon mount, I don't know what happened to it which is why it is missing from the picture in the left, and as for the right, ignore the metal miniature staring through the window, he's just your average Peeping Tom. Actually I'm going to have either a Grot or Ork head peering out of the window, which will make it harder to paint what with final assembly happening post painting, but it'll be worth it in the end.

And on to BW 3, which really exploded from nothing around 2 or 3 last night. Number 3, AKA Long Haul was planned to be a reversed Leman Russ with a chopped off front end and a Kannon centered in the middle of the Hull. Well plans change...
I think its obvious where Battlewagon 3's nickname comes from. This puppy just looks long and sleek like a nice classic caddy. This wagon, along with the first wagon's back carriage is a scrapper, meaning that since my supply of Plasticcard is so low I actually took apart an old naff looking conversion to put this one together.

I see it as a kind of Orky recycling, the krummy konversions of yesterday, powering the new Krumpy Konversions of tommorrow. The Grot spotter is one such example of this, it was originally the main detail of a buggy that I never quite finished that's been sitting in my bitz box for... I don't know how many years. The Grot himself was/is from the now discontinued Fantasy Starter Box of Orcs vs. Dwarfs. I still have to model in a handle for his little door, but its still the best use of a crummy one piece model.

Debating on if I want to put in a Trukk bed type of device or not into the back. I could, it wouldn't be hard, but it also might be nice to instead plop a bunch of worky bits on to the back of the section. These questions and more will be solved after I solve them.

Peace
~OD