Ork Gargant
To most people, this looks like an ordinary stack of upside-down bowls. But to an ork Big mek, this is something very dangerous. With all the work BigRed has been doing on his reaver titan, I didn’t want the orks to feel left out, so I spent the weekend wandering the aisles of Wal-mart and Home Depot looking for misplaced gargant bits. I know what you are thinking, “Why start another big project, when you haven’t even finished the battle fortress yet?” Well, for no other reason than I felt inspired to do it.
I like the look of the old school armorcast gargant, the ones with the rounded bodies. The newer squared off ones just look like the mek wasn’t trying hard enough.
Originally, my bowls stacked up to over 16 inches. Much too tall for your average gargant. I did some work removing the lips of the bowls and brought it down to a respectable 11” tall. When I add the feet, it should be just over 12”. Perfect.
The first major hurdle was creating a convincing looking gun at the 40k scale. From the start I decided to keep the level of detail lower than I did for the battle fortress, else I never get it completed. PVC pipe is a great foundation for scaled up titans, but you have to make sure it doesn’t look like you just glued a bunch of plumbing pipes together.
Liberal use of plasticard, or in this case, For Sale signs, helped a lot. I got lucky and found a 2” pipe adaptor that had an octagonal end on it to make the tower turret with. A 2” pipe coupling also makes a great drum magazine.
Don’t ask me how that guardsman got in this picture. 
For the armor plates, I used the thinnest garage sale signs I could find. This stuff was nearly as thin as a sheet of paper. It bent very well over the rounded form of the bowls. As you can see, I am still in the process of armoring up the gargant. At this stage it looks like a cross between a Dalek and Aunt Jemima. I hope to have the rest of the armor done in the next few days and then start on the soopa-zzap-gun arm.
