The Mine Layer was a last-minute addition to my trakk. Although a few players had taken one before, no one had really modeled one. The one shown in the old Gubbinz book was basically just a clamp on the back of the vehicle holding some mines, and most other ones I could find were nothing more than a crate of mines bolted to the rear of the vehicle. Actual military minelayers aren't much help either, as they just look like a tank with a bunch of tubes sticking in the air. In the end, I think the closest thing I could find was the caltrop dropper on the back of the Razor Cola in Fury Road, which was sort of a hopper with a big hand crank. I decided that even though it was operated by the driver, I'd add a big manual release wheel to the unit to make it look a bit more mechanical.
Since placing the hopper on the bed of the trakk wasn't an option with my massive shoutas, it had to fit underneath the bed. I was using the big krak bomb from the Ork Boyz sprue as my mines, so the hopper could only be the height of a single mine. A chute coming out the back would hold the next mine ready to be dropped.
The original plan was to have a long tab that went between the bed and the undercarriage to keep it straight and give it some support if it got bumped, then hold it in place with magnets.
In the end, the tab fit so tightly that the thing didn't budge once it was in place, so I didn't bother with the magnets at all.
You can't really tell once it's on the table, but I also put in a little gear box attached to the manual release and a little hinged bit underneath connected to the actual release mechanism. The little prongs holding the mines in place are bayonets from the Ork Boyz sprue.
A few additional details and the mine layer is ready for a coat of paint.
I also made a couple of mine counters to use in the game.
The finished gubbinz look pretty good. Not as big and showy as the shoutas, but still detailed enough as befitting gubbinz that cost ten teef.
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