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There's a story behind this particular piece of insanity.

Some weeks ago now, a gentleman came into our FLGS whilst I was playing my Orks, and general chat came around to his collection of die-cast car models. I jokingly interjected something along the lines of "Don't let my ladz anywhere near them, or they'll just loot them and strap guns and armour onto them. But you don't have any lying around, do you?"
"Yeah." says the Gentleman. "I'll drop it in for you."

He left a little later, leaving me to wonder if I had accidentally blagged a model to abuse. It turned out that this was indeed the case.

When I got it the next week, the car was in a sorry state, with one door broken off and damage to the bonnet, but in all honesty it probably could have been salvaged. Instead, I did this. I considered simply plating the windows with armour, but I felt that would make the model seem out-of-scale. To look properly 40k, it needed orks to put the size into perspective, and thus Chukka-Boom was born. (If the name seems familiar, it's based on the name of the Anthill Mob's car from the Perils of Penelope Pitstop. As a car that was far too big for its passengers, it seemed appropriate, and also means the Nob of the shoota boyz in it is now called Killa Clyde.)

I ripped off the other door, and pulled out the seats and (working!) steering wheel. The orks leaning out of the windows were then added, using the access I had to the inside of the car to secure them. Most of these guys are made from bitz, few have legs, and some only have one arm, but it works fairly well. I hit on the idea of the armoured flaps to explain why the other side wasn't open, and added ones to match hinged up above the orks. The closed flaps on the other side are cut to the same pattern, and each has an ork head peeking out of the viewing slot.

The spoiler and extra armour plates are made from thin card, the diagonal strut in the spoiler lending it some strength. Two Big Shootas were added to the front of the car, along with a ram bar, and the top weapons are mounted in turrets made from plastic bottle-caps, a long-standing tradition with my Ork vehicles which makes them removable and swappable if need be. The salvaged Havok launcher represents a Lobba, though it could also be used as a Kannon depending on the rokkit load. When I find a suitable weapon, I'll also make a Killcannon for this hard-point.

The wheels received slotta bases as hub-caps, topped with sheet styrene to which I stuck some blades from ork bikes.

Painting was my usual method, rough reds and yellows over drybrushed metal, though I added some additional scratches after the fact. I'm quite happy with the traditional Bad Moons flames, and it seemed to add a ramshackle feel to have the added armour plates interrupt the pattern. The tyres are a pain, as real rubber they seem to react to paint by becoming a bit tacky and keep sticking to everything. I like to think the odd spots of random colour make them look like they've come from a scrapyard.

Why do my Orks have a giant car? Rumour has it that Big Mek Badnutz found a sweet-looking humie groundcar in a big pile of scrap, which of course Warboss Gargkop immediately wanted. Too lazy to dig it out, Badnutz knocked together a lifta-droppa to yank it out of the pile, but inadvertently created Ork Teknology's only ever 'Growy Ray' and instead made it really big. Since this meant all the other scrap fell off, it was mission accomplished, but the Mek couldn't resist trying out the Growy Ray on a passing Grot who didn't leg it fast enough, resulting in the discovery that the device causes catastrophic trauma to living flesh (i.e., they blow up) before also suffering a resonating cascade failure (i.e., it blows up too).

Needless to say, Badnutz has tried to replicate the Growy Ray several times, but has so far created only a standard Traktor Kannon, a device which when fired immediately shrank itself so much that no-one could find it, and a ray that turns the target into an equal mass of Rebecca Black albums.

This last weapon was deemed to terrible even for Ork warfare, and was promptly launched into a nearby sun.

Photography by me, original parts and concepts (c) Games Workshop et al. Apologies to Rebecca, who's probably a really nice girl. (And also to any Jessica Blacks out there, since I initially got the name wrong!)

Description
There's a story behind this particular piece of insanity.

Some weeks ago now, a gentleman came into our FLGS whilst I was playing my Orks, and general chat came around to his collection of die-cast car models. I jokingly interjected something along the lines of "Don't let my ladz anywhere near them, or they'll just loot them and strap guns and armour onto them. But you don't have any lying around, do you?"
"Yeah." says the Gentleman. "I'll drop it in for you."

He left a little later, leaving me to wonder if I had accidentally blagged a model to abuse. It turned out that this was indeed the case.

When I got it the next week, the car was in a sorry state, with one door broken off and damage to the bonnet, but in all honesty it probably could have been salvaged. Instead, I did this. I considered simply plating the windows with armour, but I felt that would make the model seem out-of-scale. To look properly 40k, it needed orks to put the size into perspective, and thus Chukka-Boom was born. (If the name seems familiar, it's based on the name of the Anthill Mob's car from the Perils of Penelope Pitstop. As a car that was far too big for its passengers, it seemed appropriate, and also means the Nob of the shoota boyz in it is now called Killa Clyde.)

I ripped off the other door, and pulled out the seats and (working!) steering wheel. The orks leaning out of the windows were then added, using the access I had to the inside of the car to secure them. Most of these guys are made from bitz, few have legs, and some only have one arm, but it works fairly well. I hit on the idea of the armoured flaps to explain why the other side wasn't open, and added ones to match hinged up above the orks. The closed flaps on the other side are cut to the same pattern, and each has an ork head peeking out of the viewing slot.

The spoiler and extra armour plates are made from thin card, the diagonal strut in the spoiler lending it some strength. Two Big Shootas were added to the front of the car, along with a ram bar, and the top weapons are mounted in turrets made from plastic bottle-caps, a long-standing tradition with my Ork vehicles which makes them removable and swappable if need be. The salvaged Havok launcher represents a Lobba, though it could also be used as a Kannon depending on the rokkit load. When I find a suitable weapon, I'll also make a Killcannon for this hard-point.

The wheels received slotta bases as hub-caps, topped with sheet styrene to which I stuck some blades from ork bikes.

Painting was my usual method, rough reds and yellows over drybrushed metal, though I added some additional scratches after the fact. I'm quite happy with the traditional Bad Moons flames, and it seemed to add a ramshackle feel to have the added armour plates interrupt the pattern. The tyres are a pain, as real rubber they seem to react to paint by becoming a bit tacky and keep sticking to everything. I like to think the odd spots of random colour make them look like they've come from a scrapyard.

Why do my Orks have a giant car? Rumour has it that Big Mek Badnutz found a sweet-looking humie groundcar in a big pile of scrap, which of course Warboss Gargkop immediately wanted. Too lazy to dig it out, Badnutz knocked together a lifta-droppa to yank it out of the pile, but inadvertently created Ork Teknology's only ever 'Growy Ray' and instead made it really big. Since this meant all the other scrap fell off, it was mission accomplished, but the Mek couldn't resist trying out the Growy Ray on a passing Grot who didn't leg it fast enough, resulting in the discovery that the device causes catastrophic trauma to living flesh (i.e., they blow up) before also suffering a resonating cascade failure (i.e., it blows up too).

Needless to say, Badnutz has tried to replicate the Growy Ray several times, but has so far created only a standard Traktor Kannon, a device which when fired immediately shrank itself so much that no-one could find it, and a ray that turns the target into an equal mass of Rebecca Black albums.

This last weapon was deemed to terrible even for Ork warfare, and was promptly launched into a nearby sun.

Photography by me, original parts and concepts (c) Games Workshop et al. Apologies to Rebecca, who's probably a really nice girl. (And also to any Jessica Blacks out there, since I initially got the name wrong!)