Ork Battlewagon

Alright folks, a little time ago, I was lucky enough to win a scratchbuilt ork engine from Da Green One, I'll have to confess I couldn't exactly tell what this was but I knew it was excuting and I knew that my ork force (totally not an army, I will never get there) needed some vehicles so I threw my name into the hat and TADA ! I was lucky enough to win (with some help from nice people).
Here was the teaser :

Now the eagle eyed amongst you will have recognised the old Gunwagon (now OOP) minus the gun, making it some sort of heavy armoured battle wagon I guess ?

 The idea was that I should do a little tutorial to go along the build so I tried to take pics at every major step of the process !

First part was obviously to prepare all the parts (there were quite a few) :

I sanded most of the parts to ensure a good surface for the glue to work on (little tip here : put your sand paper flat on the desk and move the parts across it always in the same direction, resist the temptation to go back and forth, it helps achieve a real flat surface where the back and forth motion tends to curve both ends)

A little glue work with added weight to let the tracks set real flat :

I also sanded the bottom of the whole thing to ensure the tracks were fully in contact with the ground at all points and avoid anyirritating wobbling. (Skeletons just having a laugh for scale purposes)

The wagon didn't have wheels so my good friend Papa Bear Mc Diddy Crooks came to the rescue and provided me with the perfect pair of wheels !

Now the dreaded moment of the undercoat revealing any problems !

I then loosely sprayed a ix of brown, orange and kakhi paints around the vehicle for a rusted base (I strongly got inspired by my my friend Shoeba9 O'Paulface for the rust part )

And drybrushed the whole thing with leadbelcher

Then it was just a (long and tiresome but necessary) matter of blocking in the base colours :

 

The rest of it was just :
- washes (brown and black mostly with some blue and orange to provide more variations)
- foam weathering with a dark neutral brown and leadbelcher
- rust streaks with skrag brown then cadmium red
- a bit of typhuis corrosion at the lowest parts
- silver lining on some edges

As you can see the wagon fits with the rest of the ar... FORCE and will be a great asset for some fast support !

A good portion of my orks are in suitcases but the one in my cabinet is slowly growing and it is a pleasant thing to see, there's plenty more of them to join ! I'm torn between epic and orks atm (not epic orks though for some reason... YET).

f I don't get the chance before, I wish you a very happy time for winter celebrations !