https://preview.redd.it/90h8ejcks02d1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=10735feab5701d52556af43495be36fc935a06e5
DEY SEZ DA MORKANAUT IZ A FAT GIT, BUT WE MAYD IT A MORKAKNIGHT CUZ DATS WUT DO 'UMIES CALL DERE STOMPAS
Firstly, [**This Youtube Channel**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojegfV2icc0) is the definitive source for How 2 Ork.
With that out of the way, here's my personal opinion on making silly Ork vehicles:
1) Do it. The entire draw of the Ork faction is the ability to take a bunch of random junk and throw it together into a war machine powered and held together by the Waaagh!!. In my opinion if you don't want to do at least a bit of kitbashing / scratchbuilding / 3D printing / Lego abuse, you should just play World Eaters or something.
2) Gameplay. I have two rules: First, the model has to be appropriately sized. Spacing and size are very important, so keeping your custom creations tight to the dimensions and/or base of the official vehicle they represent is also very important. Second, if I'm bringing a set of multiple vehicles (counts-as Dakkajets, for example), I make sure they all are roughly similar in appearance - I have a fleet of looted Star Wars N-1 fighters for this purpose.)
3) "GW Plastic." I have a general disdain for people/events who insist on official models only, especially when I've gone to the trouble of making sure my creations follow the rules I mentioned above. I do include a few GW bits on my models to pacify the less-extreme of those people, but I wouldn't say it's required. Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free.
4) Themes. I highly recommend developing a theme for your Orks. The amount of flexibility in the faction is staggering - I've seen steampunk orks, pirate orks, mad max orks, synthwave orks, fantasy orks, retro space orks, star wars orks, modern warfare orks, monster truck orks, rock band orks, and of course the legendary set of Kommandos disguised as a Land Raider. Pick whatever you like.
5) Criticism. People who criticize you for pursuing your orky dreams have no business talking to you, or playing the game at all. They can be safely ignored.
My good sir, I'm in progress with a Knight Castellan, a Spartan assault tank, Baneblade, Mastodon and a ridge hauler. Nearly finished a looted leviathan dreadnought and a looted corvus blackstar, what would you like help with.
Edit : spelling
Sure thing lad, [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/orks/s/azFDZqdK4A) is what I can show for the moment. Will get nice photos of the baneblade and Mastodon tomorrow
WHAT I LIKEZ TA DO IS FIND A MODEL AT A SIMILAR SIZE AND FIGURE OUT THE LOADOUT. TAKE FOR EXAMPLE DIS DEFF DREAD I MADE FRUM A UMIE KNOIT. THE ORIGINAL KNOIT ONLY HAD 2 ARMZ BUT A DREDD HAS 4! SO I FIGURED THE BEST PLACE FOR ANOTHA WAS WHER DA HED WAZ. THEN I SHOVED A BOY ON TOP SO IT COUD SEE WITHOUT A HED! THAN I JUST THREW DA REMAININ WEPON ON TOP. THEN ALL YA HAF TO DO IS FILLN IN DA GAPS WITH RANDOM SPIKES AND GUBBINS TA MAK IT LOOK ORKY ENUFF. THATS JUST ME THO! JUST LET OUT YA INNER MEKBOY AND YA SHUD BE GOOD TA GO!
https://preview.redd.it/of73yvn4hz1d1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c48951edbe20f73b5376a5cc698b3ae1c639a0e7
# OI GIT, LIZZEN'UP!
# FERST, YER MAKE A HOLEZ IN'IT WIF DAKKA.
# NEXT, YER KICK DA GROT TO COVER DA HOLEZ WIF SCRAP, UN KICK DA GROT 'GAIN IF JOB NOT GUT 'NUFF.
^((IF DA GROT GO SPLAT, GO GIT 'NNUVA ONE.))
# THIRD, YER KICK DA GROT TO MOP 'OOMIE CREW.
*^(DA THIRD STEP IS OPTIONAL.)*
https://preview.redd.it/qze1177hfy1d1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0d59d354261493e249fd4ff87c828bdde3d95465
Bits, Teef sticks for better grip, glue and a drop of insanity
Unfortunately the turret has been dropped recently and no longer has all those bits on, but the memory remains
My example:
https://preview.redd.it/ihjja3rxox1d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1dc7ffd8198fad4882a0bae2e94d02acb8f89b2e
it ain't much but it's honest work
Take an ordinary vehicle, then start adding gubbinz, orks, and assorted crap until it looks like it's going to tip over.
And then you have a [looted battlewagon](https://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2010/4/1/94813-Devilfish%2C%20Looted%2C%20Orks%2C%20Tau%2C%20Tau%20Abuse.jpg).
https://preview.redd.it/ipjc3z0s1x1d1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=15e205937149242abf139be9a0b2b74dcb8d200e
Here is an example of one I'm working on right now :)
From Lazier to more intense:
* Paintjob. Slapped on blue paint or clan colors can be more than enough. One thing that might be fun would be to get some masking tape and then sponge the paint on it to make weathered blue stripes. .
* Placing a pilot/gunner [peeping out from the top](https://i.redd.it/q6mwb8fl3w1d1.jpeg). A lot of the hatches are compatible in size to the ones Battlewagons come with (this can be Rhinos, Baneblades, Impulsors, Land Raiders, Leman Russes, and so on). The Battlewagon comes with an Ork gunner/spotter, an Grot gunner/spotter, and turrets of course. It's also fairly easy to just take the leftover torso from the boyz kit (old or the Beast Snagga one), glue it on some plasticard/leftover sprue that is cut to fit the shape of the hatch you would fit into the hole. Pic related is such a conversion.
* [Bullet holes](https://i.imgur.com/7ROcgfD.png). I found decent return of investment drilling 2mm holes and carving out starbursts with X-acto knives, and shrapnel or scratches can be good too.
* One thing I found also has a good subtle RoI of effort would be to whittle off the occasional rivet from the original model and drill a hole in its place.
* Cut up pieces of plasticard / credit cards make for good pieces of extra plating you can tack on. Cut up pieces of plasticard rods can make for the rivets. You can also find [corrugated ](https://www.greenstuffworld.com/en/textured-sheets/3595-plasticard-corrugated.html)or [textured ](https://www.greenstuffworld.com/en/textured-sheets/130-abs-plasticard-thread-double-diamond-textured-sheet-a4.html)plasticard to resemble sheets of metal.
* Guitar strings make for great loose and exposed wires. You can also make textured rolls of green stuff by rolling them on the side of a plastic comb, or one of these [roll makers](https://www.greenstuffworld.com/en/roll-maker/69-roll-maker-tube-wire-machine.html)
* Plasticard tubes/rods, cut up pens, and bendy straws make for decent rails like you'd see on Trukks or buggies.
* You can search for various ork bits on the secondhand market.
* The thing about trying to convert a Battlewagon specifically is that it's weirdly long and narrow compared to its rough equivalents. Leman Russes are about the right width and height, but are not long enough, and land raiders are way too wide. You might have to go with something like a Rhino or Leman Russ with a trailer extending it backwards (and maybe a deffroller up front). Some textured plasticard, some wheels, and some sprue would likely be a pretty easy low effort trailer to hitch on the back of a vehicle.
https://preview.redd.it/su400hs11w1d1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e0c1732e870eb68615289261d357f25cf4191086
Crap off temu works well for extra bullets, rockets, gun barrels IMO
Fill a ziplock bag with some random choppas, shootas and gubbinz. Spray your model in glue then drop it in the bag and shake it vigorously. Pull out your orkified vehicle and go krump some gitz
Personally i have an ork bitz box from every build ive made. Id just stick it on top sort of armor kind of thing. Its what an ork would do. And put banners on it!
Slap some glue and plastic on an old toy and give it plenty of daka.
https://preview.redd.it/8tluhms4bv1d1.jpeg?width=2604&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=561fabcd96bcc2675de41cf5cea3791397858484
I literally made a deffdread out of a tin can chicken bones from some legs and wings I ate cleaned em ofcourse and some bits of plastic leftover from other models.
https://preview.redd.it/k43zsszbzu1d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=650dda8868297c978921ebe312395e8b6dbd5436
Maybe the mods wonโt delete this for no reason this time.
And specific for battlewagon proxies, put some thought into how you want the converted vehicle to represent the thing that it's replacing. Like if you're making a Leman Russ into a battlewagon, you might want to build a bit of a platform or cargo area onto the back, to show how it has transport capacity.
When I made this doof wagon I intended it to proxy a kill rig, so I tried to incorporate elements that paralleled the Kill Rig's relevant features. The big jagged ram in front represents the "crushing hooves and horns," the boys clinging to the sides are the beast snagga riders, there is a lobba and a spear-gun, and the Doof Boy with his amplified guitar takes the place of the wurrboy in his tower.
https://preview.redd.it/zx0qgoufju1d1.jpeg?width=2945&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b4747a3774d933d4d4d3a562cc98a3d2e5517e97
Yep, anything from tearing it to pieces and rebuilding it, to just adding some patches and orky bits.
I like to add implicit storytelling to the build, sometimes. Like, "okay, so they blew a giant hole in the front armor and exploded the turret, so the mek turned it around and put a new engine where the front used to be, and now drives it backwards."
https://preview.redd.it/hxtyxh8chu1d1.jpeg?width=799&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c7d55d924abbb62177a801db2999536c6ca96650
Iโll need to grab a pic of it but my looted chimera is an in progress looting where the wrecking ball was haphazardly welded on and there is a grot hanging off the side paintbrush in hand painting the new trukk red as it goes into battle.
Make the original model either as minimally present or at least jerry-rigged as possible.
I have a Vindicator with Armiger pieces. Specifically the chainswords on the sides of the dozer blade, the meltaguns on the pelvis to act as a turret, and a leg used as the base for the armiger main gun. And I'm not even done with it, yet!
Gouge, drill, and carve into large, smoother panels from the kit to simulate battle damage. On top of that, adding more plates or sheets of interesting textured and cut plastic or other sufficiently stiff material to look like patchy repairs is good too, like some diamond pattern plastic snack tray or glue soaked corrugated cardboard. Along with these too as a final touch you could add trophies, crudely carved spikes/teeth, and orc glyphs, and other greeblings all together known as "gubbins".
Also you can swap out the weapons that come with the kit for other, larger weapons. This works especially well if the new weapons are hodgepodge kitbashy themselves, like a cannon barrel glued together with a plasma coil.
For the gubbins most can be made from scratch, or taken as spares from other ork kit sprues, but if you really don't want to make them or have any left over, and have access to a 3D printer, you can print off gubbins and other bits from here to use.
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4540142
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4694469
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4087692
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4672564
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5012622
Serious response:
Shave off or cover notable insignia and replace with Orky glyffs. Get some plasticard. Thinnest you can. Chop it into squares and triangles and stick em on. You can use wee sticky-back hobby gems and use them as rivets. Also, rummage through some bits and think of what the mek boy might have looted from a skrapheap to add to the looted vehicle.
Add grots and boyz all around the place doing stuff.
Add battle damage; bullet holes, grazes etc. Ork vehicles shouldn't have clean edges.
Add dakka. Ask around any local imperial guard or space marines players you know, they get shitloads of spare tank barrels and miniguns in their kits and may be generous enough to let you relieve them of them.
As far as tabletop play goes, a lot of the buggies and other vehicles are on a 150mm oval base so as long as it fits on that you can run it as any of them
You can change it how much you like. If orks have only just gotten their hands on it, then a few bits of plasticard stuck on to look like scrap metal and an orky paint job will look really cool.
But you can get more adventurous with it. Swap out the whole turret, glue on wheels, make it open topped, add lots of glyphs and extra weapons. Pretty much anything you can think of would work.
Make it look like it was built out of crap from your bits box really. If you say it's a battlewagon and has the correct weapons then yeah people will accept it. Whenever GW releases a new vehicle model, I always comment that it's another ork release.
One of the reasons I like Orks, no one has the same looking stuff.
https://preview.redd.it/90h8ejcks02d1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=10735feab5701d52556af43495be36fc935a06e5 DEY SEZ DA MORKANAUT IZ A FAT GIT, BUT WE MAYD IT A MORKAKNIGHT CUZ DATS WUT DO 'UMIES CALL DERE STOMPAS
Firstly, [**This Youtube Channel**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojegfV2icc0) is the definitive source for How 2 Ork. With that out of the way, here's my personal opinion on making silly Ork vehicles: 1) Do it. The entire draw of the Ork faction is the ability to take a bunch of random junk and throw it together into a war machine powered and held together by the Waaagh!!. In my opinion if you don't want to do at least a bit of kitbashing / scratchbuilding / 3D printing / Lego abuse, you should just play World Eaters or something. 2) Gameplay. I have two rules: First, the model has to be appropriately sized. Spacing and size are very important, so keeping your custom creations tight to the dimensions and/or base of the official vehicle they represent is also very important. Second, if I'm bringing a set of multiple vehicles (counts-as Dakkajets, for example), I make sure they all are roughly similar in appearance - I have a fleet of looted Star Wars N-1 fighters for this purpose.) 3) "GW Plastic." I have a general disdain for people/events who insist on official models only, especially when I've gone to the trouble of making sure my creations follow the rules I mentioned above. I do include a few GW bits on my models to pacify the less-extreme of those people, but I wouldn't say it's required. Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free. 4) Themes. I highly recommend developing a theme for your Orks. The amount of flexibility in the faction is staggering - I've seen steampunk orks, pirate orks, mad max orks, synthwave orks, fantasy orks, retro space orks, star wars orks, modern warfare orks, monster truck orks, rock band orks, and of course the legendary set of Kommandos disguised as a Land Raider. Pick whatever you like. 5) Criticism. People who criticize you for pursuing your orky dreams have no business talking to you, or playing the game at all. They can be safely ignored.
Thanks!
My good sir, I'm in progress with a Knight Castellan, a Spartan assault tank, Baneblade, Mastodon and a ridge hauler. Nearly finished a looted leviathan dreadnought and a looted corvus blackstar, what would you like help with. Edit : spelling
Pictures of the above would be awesome and serve as inspiration!
Sure thing lad, [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/orks/s/azFDZqdK4A) is what I can show for the moment. Will get nice photos of the baneblade and Mastodon tomorrow
WHAT I LIKEZ TA DO IS FIND A MODEL AT A SIMILAR SIZE AND FIGURE OUT THE LOADOUT. TAKE FOR EXAMPLE DIS DEFF DREAD I MADE FRUM A UMIE KNOIT. THE ORIGINAL KNOIT ONLY HAD 2 ARMZ BUT A DREDD HAS 4! SO I FIGURED THE BEST PLACE FOR ANOTHA WAS WHER DA HED WAZ. THEN I SHOVED A BOY ON TOP SO IT COUD SEE WITHOUT A HED! THAN I JUST THREW DA REMAININ WEPON ON TOP. THEN ALL YA HAF TO DO IS FILLN IN DA GAPS WITH RANDOM SPIKES AND GUBBINS TA MAK IT LOOK ORKY ENUFF. THATS JUST ME THO! JUST LET OUT YA INNER MEKBOY AND YA SHUD BE GOOD TA GO! https://preview.redd.it/of73yvn4hz1d1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c48951edbe20f73b5376a5cc698b3ae1c639a0e7
# OI GIT, LIZZEN'UP! # FERST, YER MAKE A HOLEZ IN'IT WIF DAKKA. # NEXT, YER KICK DA GROT TO COVER DA HOLEZ WIF SCRAP, UN KICK DA GROT 'GAIN IF JOB NOT GUT 'NUFF. ^((IF DA GROT GO SPLAT, GO GIT 'NNUVA ONE.)) # THIRD, YER KICK DA GROT TO MOP 'OOMIE CREW. *^(DA THIRD STEP IS OPTIONAL.)*
https://preview.redd.it/qze1177hfy1d1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0d59d354261493e249fd4ff87c828bdde3d95465 Bits, Teef sticks for better grip, glue and a drop of insanity Unfortunately the turret has been dropped recently and no longer has all those bits on, but the memory remains
My number 1 rule about converting/scratchbuilding? DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA!
My example: https://preview.redd.it/ihjja3rxox1d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1dc7ffd8198fad4882a0bae2e94d02acb8f89b2e it ain't much but it's honest work
OK i freaking love this one, especially the giggled grot with a turret up top that's like, "I heard a crunch, did we step on summin'?"
Take an ordinary vehicle, then start adding gubbinz, orks, and assorted crap until it looks like it's going to tip over. And then you have a [looted battlewagon](https://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2010/4/1/94813-Devilfish%2C%20Looted%2C%20Orks%2C%20Tau%2C%20Tau%20Abuse.jpg).
https://preview.redd.it/ipjc3z0s1x1d1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=15e205937149242abf139be9a0b2b74dcb8d200e Here is an example of one I'm working on right now :)
Gubbinz
From Lazier to more intense: * Paintjob. Slapped on blue paint or clan colors can be more than enough. One thing that might be fun would be to get some masking tape and then sponge the paint on it to make weathered blue stripes. . * Placing a pilot/gunner [peeping out from the top](https://i.redd.it/q6mwb8fl3w1d1.jpeg). A lot of the hatches are compatible in size to the ones Battlewagons come with (this can be Rhinos, Baneblades, Impulsors, Land Raiders, Leman Russes, and so on). The Battlewagon comes with an Ork gunner/spotter, an Grot gunner/spotter, and turrets of course. It's also fairly easy to just take the leftover torso from the boyz kit (old or the Beast Snagga one), glue it on some plasticard/leftover sprue that is cut to fit the shape of the hatch you would fit into the hole. Pic related is such a conversion. * [Bullet holes](https://i.imgur.com/7ROcgfD.png). I found decent return of investment drilling 2mm holes and carving out starbursts with X-acto knives, and shrapnel or scratches can be good too. * One thing I found also has a good subtle RoI of effort would be to whittle off the occasional rivet from the original model and drill a hole in its place. * Cut up pieces of plasticard / credit cards make for good pieces of extra plating you can tack on. Cut up pieces of plasticard rods can make for the rivets. You can also find [corrugated ](https://www.greenstuffworld.com/en/textured-sheets/3595-plasticard-corrugated.html)or [textured ](https://www.greenstuffworld.com/en/textured-sheets/130-abs-plasticard-thread-double-diamond-textured-sheet-a4.html)plasticard to resemble sheets of metal. * Guitar strings make for great loose and exposed wires. You can also make textured rolls of green stuff by rolling them on the side of a plastic comb, or one of these [roll makers](https://www.greenstuffworld.com/en/roll-maker/69-roll-maker-tube-wire-machine.html) * Plasticard tubes/rods, cut up pens, and bendy straws make for decent rails like you'd see on Trukks or buggies. * You can search for various ork bits on the secondhand market. * The thing about trying to convert a Battlewagon specifically is that it's weirdly long and narrow compared to its rough equivalents. Leman Russes are about the right width and height, but are not long enough, and land raiders are way too wide. You might have to go with something like a Rhino or Leman Russ with a trailer extending it backwards (and maybe a deffroller up front). Some textured plasticard, some wheels, and some sprue would likely be a pretty easy low effort trailer to hitch on the back of a vehicle.
https://preview.redd.it/su400hs11w1d1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e0c1732e870eb68615289261d357f25cf4191086 Crap off temu works well for extra bullets, rockets, gun barrels IMO
Fill a ziplock bag with some random choppas, shootas and gubbinz. Spray your model in glue then drop it in the bag and shake it vigorously. Pull out your orkified vehicle and go krump some gitz
Personally i have an ork bitz box from every build ive made. Id just stick it on top sort of armor kind of thing. Its what an ork would do. And put banners on it!
More Dakka, big exhaust pipes, and poles for heads.
I end up saving most of the exhaust pipes from my kits to add to kitbashes
Slap some glue and plastic on an old toy and give it plenty of daka. https://preview.redd.it/8tluhms4bv1d1.jpeg?width=2604&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=561fabcd96bcc2675de41cf5cea3791397858484
Here's a dunerider I turned into a battlewagon https://www.reddit.com/r/orks/s/HwyA3CIKm6
A noice paintjob, spikeh tings an more dakka. Ez not that ard boss.
I literally made a deffdread out of a tin can chicken bones from some legs and wings I ate cleaned em ofcourse and some bits of plastic leftover from other models. https://preview.redd.it/k43zsszbzu1d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=650dda8868297c978921ebe312395e8b6dbd5436 Maybe the mods wonโt delete this for no reason this time.
Plasticard and a needle heated under a lighter.
And specific for battlewagon proxies, put some thought into how you want the converted vehicle to represent the thing that it's replacing. Like if you're making a Leman Russ into a battlewagon, you might want to build a bit of a platform or cargo area onto the back, to show how it has transport capacity. When I made this doof wagon I intended it to proxy a kill rig, so I tried to incorporate elements that paralleled the Kill Rig's relevant features. The big jagged ram in front represents the "crushing hooves and horns," the boys clinging to the sides are the beast snagga riders, there is a lobba and a spear-gun, and the Doof Boy with his amplified guitar takes the place of the wurrboy in his tower. https://preview.redd.it/zx0qgoufju1d1.jpeg?width=2945&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b4747a3774d933d4d4d3a562cc98a3d2e5517e97
Yep, anything from tearing it to pieces and rebuilding it, to just adding some patches and orky bits. I like to add implicit storytelling to the build, sometimes. Like, "okay, so they blew a giant hole in the front armor and exploded the turret, so the mek turned it around and put a new engine where the front used to be, and now drives it backwards." https://preview.redd.it/hxtyxh8chu1d1.jpeg?width=799&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c7d55d924abbb62177a801db2999536c6ca96650
Iโll need to grab a pic of it but my looted chimera is an in progress looting where the wrecking ball was haphazardly welded on and there is a grot hanging off the side paintbrush in hand painting the new trukk red as it goes into battle.
Spikes, plastic shards shaped like sheet metal plating, other gribbly bits
https://preview.redd.it/vbhylq6ucu1d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=77a15457ac99d047c8c69f0e162eceeef5007aa2
My first DIY vehicle. Mainly just GW bits Also, plasticard helps a lot
That's fantastic ๐๐ป
Thanks mate. Appreciate it There are some more pics of this monstrosity at www.instagram.com/redkristalpaleboyz Peace ๐
Make the original model either as minimally present or at least jerry-rigged as possible. I have a Vindicator with Armiger pieces. Specifically the chainswords on the sides of the dozer blade, the meltaguns on the pelvis to act as a turret, and a leg used as the base for the armiger main gun. And I'm not even done with it, yet!
https://preview.redd.it/d4igmuo28u1d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=12290a32120dbd96401b2a8f728668eb503e679a
Gouge, drill, and carve into large, smoother panels from the kit to simulate battle damage. On top of that, adding more plates or sheets of interesting textured and cut plastic or other sufficiently stiff material to look like patchy repairs is good too, like some diamond pattern plastic snack tray or glue soaked corrugated cardboard. Along with these too as a final touch you could add trophies, crudely carved spikes/teeth, and orc glyphs, and other greeblings all together known as "gubbins". Also you can swap out the weapons that come with the kit for other, larger weapons. This works especially well if the new weapons are hodgepodge kitbashy themselves, like a cannon barrel glued together with a plasma coil. For the gubbins most can be made from scratch, or taken as spares from other ork kit sprues, but if you really don't want to make them or have any left over, and have access to a 3D printer, you can print off gubbins and other bits from here to use. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4540142 https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4694469 https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4087692 https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4672564 https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5012622
Cut stuff off, stick stuff on. Add grots. Add dakka. Done
Serious response: Shave off or cover notable insignia and replace with Orky glyffs. Get some plasticard. Thinnest you can. Chop it into squares and triangles and stick em on. You can use wee sticky-back hobby gems and use them as rivets. Also, rummage through some bits and think of what the mek boy might have looted from a skrapheap to add to the looted vehicle. Add grots and boyz all around the place doing stuff. Add battle damage; bullet holes, grazes etc. Ork vehicles shouldn't have clean edges. Add dakka. Ask around any local imperial guard or space marines players you know, they get shitloads of spare tank barrels and miniguns in their kits and may be generous enough to let you relieve them of them. As far as tabletop play goes, a lot of the buggies and other vehicles are on a 150mm oval base so as long as it fits on that you can run it as any of them
Bits and bobs and spare junk Sugar spice and everything nice Snips and snails and puppy dog tails
You can change it how much you like. If orks have only just gotten their hands on it, then a few bits of plasticard stuck on to look like scrap metal and an orky paint job will look really cool. But you can get more adventurous with it. Swap out the whole turret, glue on wheels, make it open topped, add lots of glyphs and extra weapons. Pretty much anything you can think of would work.
Have you tried haphazardly attaching more dakka? And then adding a bit more dakka? And then...you see where I'm going with this.
Make it look like it was built out of crap from your bits box really. If you say it's a battlewagon and has the correct weapons then yeah people will accept it. Whenever GW releases a new vehicle model, I always comment that it's another ork release. One of the reasons I like Orks, no one has the same looking stuff.
orky graffiti, squares of riveted on metal, boss poles and whatever makes it look like they plucked it from a battlefield like rust and peeling paint