Aaarrr! Da Ship (Pt.1)

Let me rescue an old project, now that I'm travelling abroad and have no chance to paint. I got an Ork Trukk, but of course I was not going to build just the same trukk everybody has! Tha idea of having a ship on wheels had appealed me for a long time. There are a number of them over the internet, in a much larger scale, but I was not able to build (neither to store!) a ship the size of the Titanic. I was aiming for something humble, but different.

I begun with the normal chassis:

Yup, I know, doesn't look like a ship, give me a moment...

Then the quarterdeck:

No? Not a ship yet? Hmmm...

I used the original front part from the kit to build the prow. I cut it into two pieces and re-positioned them this way:

Upside down, it also helps for my purposes

Beginning to look like something?

I needed some cardboard for the body of the forecastle:

 

I always keep my works on a budget...

 

And then some other pieces from the sprues to the quarterdeck:

 

Looks easy (it is), but takes hours and hours

 

Let's get some paint on that!

Orky style! Plenty of dirty colours

Painting some pieces in advance before glueing them allows me to go on; otherwise I cannot reach them later.

 

Aaarrr! Periskop' up!

Nice views...

 

The Helmsork!

Still unfinished here, but you get the idea

The wire was part of the idea of the helm controlling the rudder. Or something

Sooo... This is what this was looking like at this stage:

Now I guess it is looking better

Well, this is it for today. Let me pick up the rest of the pics and I'll show you the final results in a few days ;)