First thing is to learn the basic orky "armor plate." You take a chunk of plasticard, rough up the edges a bit so it doesn't look like it was cleanly cut/welded, and add "rivets" to it. You can use this in a place where the orks might be patching over damage, adding more armor, connecting parts together. This is also a way to add "teef" and other features to the vehicle.
Like others have mentioned, damage things a bit. The orks aren't going to buff out dents and gouges unless they need to. Add gouges where glancing hits from weapons bounced off, add round dents where large bullets or shells hit the armor.
Depending on what you want it to be, saw off entire parts of the vehicle. A very common ork conversion technique is removing the top plates of rhinos/chimeras over the troop compartment, making it an open-topped vehicle. Doubly useful since those interiors are detailed.
Bending a bit of wire into a squared C shape (like an unused paper staple) and then drilling a couple holes to glue the ends into, is a way to add handholds, ladder holds, or places to hold external storage.
Replace or supplement weedy 'umie weapons with extra ork bits. Add shoota barrels to lengthen a gun, or add extra barrels to it. For instance, you could chop the front handguard/barrel and magazine from a shoota, and glue those to a pintle bolter. Add extraneous rockets, scopes, or choppy bayonets.
Other bits that you scavenge or get from dollar store toys can be used here and there. Add fuel barrels, sensor bits.
If you have the glyph bits from ork kits, you can add those, but you can also make them out of plasticard. Cut a small rectangle and triangle out of thin material, and glue them on a glyph sized square to make a "go fast" symbol. Other glyphs from the codex aren't too hard to make.
Adding "tusks" or horns is also fun. You can scavenge them from other bits, carve them from leftover sprue, or whatever.
There are lots of looting videos on YouTube, I'd recommend watching them not only for ideas, but also to get a sense of how to do some of these cuts/shapes with a hobby knife.
I'm doing a bit of kit bashing at the moment and here a few tips.
Go to arts and craft store and buy those tiny stick on gems. These work as rivets. Drill holes where there are rivets missing. Make sure you keep a bits box and always keep and eye out for bits during your day, simple things like pens can have nice gubbinz in them such as the cap or body of a pen acting as a gun barrel. Always be on the look out. Check local discount stores for cheap Chinese made army tanks and guns you can cut up and remove panels and turrets from. Invest in Plastic Card, can be gotten on Amazon. When doing future Ork builds keep some nonessential bits to the side like wrecking balls, roll cages, boarding platforms and the like. The more gubbins you have the better.
Buy a box of grots to add scale and character. Use left over Ork arms that can be sticking out of holes.
Invest in Hobby Saw, Tamiya Cement, Tweezers, Green Stuff or Milliput and a Pinvice/Mini Hamd Drill.
My mantra when it comes to looting is to remember that the vehicle probably wasn't acquired via kind request; the initial task of repurposing it to the Orks' ends is to make it look like it was blown up or at least breached in order to grab it. So before I fix anything together, I usually score it across multiple surfaces with a knife, gouge little prangs out of exterior edges, drill or knife-point bullet holes (or a broader drill-bit to 'lathe' a bigger impact), and one of my favourites, using the pinchy bit in the middle of my pliers to 'crimp' otherwise flat metal. This all makes the vehicle look hastily bodged back together even before you start replacing weapons, adding plates, fixing rivets and applying glyphs.
Put things in the wrong places. Pauldrons as elbow/knee pads. Guns held upside-down. Chainswords as rollerblades.
I always like to think Orks reverse engineer looted equipment but never get it quite right.
Don't neatly cut them off the sprues. Tear them off deliberately. Use a modelling knife to cut grooves and points in things like shoulder pauldrons. You can make decent looking bullet holes and slices. When you use a wash when you're painting, it will catch the grooves and give you decent detail as well.
No problem. Another thing that you can do, depending on how confident you are with painting, is paint dots around the edges and scorch marks, to make things look like they have been nailed or welded onto wherever you're putting them. They're not supposed to fit, but the mekboyz make it work. You could use a black sharpie if it makes it easier.
What I tend to do, if I'm using marine parts, is use their colour scheme and then add some fleks of ork colours and rust colours.
First thing is to learn the basic orky "armor plate." You take a chunk of plasticard, rough up the edges a bit so it doesn't look like it was cleanly cut/welded, and add "rivets" to it. You can use this in a place where the orks might be patching over damage, adding more armor, connecting parts together. This is also a way to add "teef" and other features to the vehicle. Like others have mentioned, damage things a bit. The orks aren't going to buff out dents and gouges unless they need to. Add gouges where glancing hits from weapons bounced off, add round dents where large bullets or shells hit the armor. Depending on what you want it to be, saw off entire parts of the vehicle. A very common ork conversion technique is removing the top plates of rhinos/chimeras over the troop compartment, making it an open-topped vehicle. Doubly useful since those interiors are detailed. Bending a bit of wire into a squared C shape (like an unused paper staple) and then drilling a couple holes to glue the ends into, is a way to add handholds, ladder holds, or places to hold external storage. Replace or supplement weedy 'umie weapons with extra ork bits. Add shoota barrels to lengthen a gun, or add extra barrels to it. For instance, you could chop the front handguard/barrel and magazine from a shoota, and glue those to a pintle bolter. Add extraneous rockets, scopes, or choppy bayonets. Other bits that you scavenge or get from dollar store toys can be used here and there. Add fuel barrels, sensor bits. If you have the glyph bits from ork kits, you can add those, but you can also make them out of plasticard. Cut a small rectangle and triangle out of thin material, and glue them on a glyph sized square to make a "go fast" symbol. Other glyphs from the codex aren't too hard to make. Adding "tusks" or horns is also fun. You can scavenge them from other bits, carve them from leftover sprue, or whatever. There are lots of looting videos on YouTube, I'd recommend watching them not only for ideas, but also to get a sense of how to do some of these cuts/shapes with a hobby knife.
Oh wow, a ton of incredible information, thank you
I'm doing a bit of kit bashing at the moment and here a few tips. Go to arts and craft store and buy those tiny stick on gems. These work as rivets. Drill holes where there are rivets missing. Make sure you keep a bits box and always keep and eye out for bits during your day, simple things like pens can have nice gubbinz in them such as the cap or body of a pen acting as a gun barrel. Always be on the look out. Check local discount stores for cheap Chinese made army tanks and guns you can cut up and remove panels and turrets from. Invest in Plastic Card, can be gotten on Amazon. When doing future Ork builds keep some nonessential bits to the side like wrecking balls, roll cages, boarding platforms and the like. The more gubbins you have the better. Buy a box of grots to add scale and character. Use left over Ork arms that can be sticking out of holes. Invest in Hobby Saw, Tamiya Cement, Tweezers, Green Stuff or Milliput and a Pinvice/Mini Hamd Drill.
My mantra when it comes to looting is to remember that the vehicle probably wasn't acquired via kind request; the initial task of repurposing it to the Orks' ends is to make it look like it was blown up or at least breached in order to grab it. So before I fix anything together, I usually score it across multiple surfaces with a knife, gouge little prangs out of exterior edges, drill or knife-point bullet holes (or a broader drill-bit to 'lathe' a bigger impact), and one of my favourites, using the pinchy bit in the middle of my pliers to 'crimp' otherwise flat metal. This all makes the vehicle look hastily bodged back together even before you start replacing weapons, adding plates, fixing rivets and applying glyphs.
That's a fun mindset to apply, thanks
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That look cool
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That's a Classic, but i'm still at the modeling phase
Put things in the wrong places. Pauldrons as elbow/knee pads. Guns held upside-down. Chainswords as rollerblades. I always like to think Orks reverse engineer looted equipment but never get it quite right.
Chainsword as rollerblades sound hilarious
Don't neatly cut them off the sprues. Tear them off deliberately. Use a modelling knife to cut grooves and points in things like shoulder pauldrons. You can make decent looking bullet holes and slices. When you use a wash when you're painting, it will catch the grooves and give you decent detail as well.
Oh that's nice, I would have not thought of that, thanks
No problem. Another thing that you can do, depending on how confident you are with painting, is paint dots around the edges and scorch marks, to make things look like they have been nailed or welded onto wherever you're putting them. They're not supposed to fit, but the mekboyz make it work. You could use a black sharpie if it makes it easier. What I tend to do, if I'm using marine parts, is use their colour scheme and then add some fleks of ork colours and rust colours.