Battle Brougham Assault Car of the Hot-Rod Marauders For One Page Rule (OPR)
This Assault vehicle is inspired by the deceptively large Bugatti Royal type 41 Napoleon Coupe, with some ford model A styling on top
This car may seem too big compared to other One Page Rule vehicles, but I assure you, it is to scale. The inspiration is already an 8 meters long car irl and this one is scaled up a bit more so orks can fit comfortably inside (around 10 meters long) It is jacked up for off-road use and fitted with extra large 2 feet wide fenders that exagerate its proportions even more
Customizable
- 3 main turret options (double cannon/Quad AA guns/ Electric guns)
- 2 melee weapons stowed in fake spare wheel housings (claws or saws, both in 3 variant, stowed or deployed in 2 poses) magnetisable
- 2 heavy machine gun under the hood (may be opened or stowed)
- engine is a 8 carb inline 8 block with room for stowing guns on the sides
- 2 options of offensive radiator grills ( grinder or chainsaw grill) to replace the ugly steamrollers marauders are known to put in front of their vehicles
- rumble-seat that open and close (instead of glue, put a spring or a bit of cushion foam in the hole before putting the pin in, the foam will push the pin in its socket making a moving hinge when installed)
- 2 set of crew ( 2 drivers, 2 passengers, 2 rumble seat gunners)
- 2 option for most parts (A or B) more for the wheels/tracks (different rims/tires in a zip file)
NOTE 1:
the difference between the 2 rear half of the body is that one has 2 rear doors, the other only one, so you can put the triple stack exhaust on the side without it looking like the door cant open
NOTE 2:
The 3d models were updated since the one in the photo was printed, the fenders are now more high-res and smoother
the bare base model for the crew character was designed by "Schonhoff Art" from Fiverr
(@schonhoff on fiverr)
(I have his permission to sale the characters i have made from his base model)
LORE
For those wondering why my ork army isn't equipped with junk, here is the story i made for them:
The Hot-Rod Marrauders Orks are a faction that is strongly influenced by their unlikely interactions with humans, it all started long ago:
The Human planet of P-16-X A.1 was a remote human world used as a huge prison colony because it was so far and unpractical to get to. For the same reason, it was made self-sufficient with multiple cities and its own economy. After a series of unfortunate event, Humanity would lose that world:
First a major undetected glitch would erase multiple worlds from any records, since most have regular contacts with other planet, they would soon be rediscovered, not P-16-X A.1
After a massive rebellion, the prisoners overwhelmed the local forces and uploaded a virus to destroy orbital communications with the rest of human space.
In the middle of this rebellion, a group of Orks Marrauders dropped of hyper space and landed to invade and pillage, steamrolling the already overwhelmed local forces and killing the escapes convicts.
The civilians, having nothing to loose, plead for their life and safety. Lucky for them, the Governor in charge noticed the Orks and their leader Urok Nicrakka were infatuated with the cars of the locals. It so happens that the population had a very important car culture of Hot-Rods and custom vehicles. The Governor conviced the invadors that those would not do good war machines, they were too fragile (kicking a dent in a panel with a small kick), but the humans could make them some strong one just like them, but ready for war. Only not as slaves, being a slave make humans sad and scared, and you cant work well in a bad mood. To do such great machines they needed to be treated well, to be in good spirits! otherwise, humans cant focus, its like running in deep mud, even when you are given an order, you cannot run until you find solid ground.
Urok wanted shiny vehicles of war so much that he agreed to let the humans be safe and to live well, with the old local administration doing the boring work of dealing with salaries and such, so long as the war machines and weapons kept coming.
This is why these Hot-Rod Marrauders have such fancy and clean equipement instead of the usual junk
As a bonus, these Marauders constant contact with human culture influence them to pick up aspects of human life that make them even more distict from other Orks. ( like wearing uniforms, army medals and prayer scrolls)
As a final fun fact, the Ork misunderstood the word "civilian" not as "citizen" but like any word finishing in "-ans" that is the name of a population (like martian or european) and deduced that P-16-X A.1 is actually "Planet Seville", where "Sevillians" live. Seville as therefore been the planet's name ever since.