Building the Junka

OK, so it's not the top of my to-do list, but I needed to get my Mek Junka assembled in time to game with it, so I started in on it yesterday. 

The base is a Razorback.  I have assembled the sides/tracks, and joined them to the bottom hull plate with the rear door and the 'crew compartment divider' in place.  I did consider removing or replacing the crew compartment divider detail - a bolter hung on the wall is just not Orky, but in the end I left it, as odds are it will never be seen.

I have a spare old Forge World Deffrolla that I purchased before the plastic sprue came out.  This is very big and heavy, but should make for a very intimidating sight on the battlefield.

To make it fit, it needed to be widened a bit.  I achieve this but using two 40mm bases, with holes in the middle to allow them to fit in between the sections of the rollas.

Having had all kinds of  mounting and gluing trouble with this type of Deffrolla on Battle Wagons in the past, mostly due to the weight, I decided to magnetize the whole thing.

One of the simply awesome qualities of the Junka is the range of weapon options.  To allow me to equip it a variety of ways, I decided everything would be modular and magnetised when possible.  I thought about using the Battlewagon grot turrets for the big shootas, but they are a bit too large for the front turrets on the Razorback.  To overcome this I build a new turret mount that could clip over the other mounts to hold bigger guns when needed.

I'm not 100% happy with it yet, so may keep tinkering.

This is my progress so far, after about two hours of work.  More to come soon, as I need to model a drivers compartment, elevate the large rear turret, and add guns, guns and more guns.  I want to build a custom Shokk Attack turret with a 'snotling hopper' feeding it, and also a Kustom Force Field antenna stack.  In the mean time, here is the 'assembled' build in progress.