What does it take to build your own Cogfort? Nothing more than a hobby saw and a can-do attitude¹. The results of our Cogfort Conversion Challenge are in, so today we’ll be showcasing the best and coolest projects and announcing our overall winner. If you missed the launch article for the competition, it’s right here:

Cogfort Hobby Challenge, and General Update

The entries came in two broad categories:

• Scratch-built Cogforts, engineered from the ground up with spare parts and massive blobs of putty.
• Converted Cogforts, centred around smooshing an eye-wateringly expensive GW model together with another eye-wateringly expensive GW model.

Both were eligible for this contest and we’ve got some really cool examples of each. So how about we take a look?

Winner: The Valiant Blade by Chris Riley

Chris had the idea for a looted Cogfort: “The Valiant Blade”, a knightly name suitable to be desecrated.

Chris will be using this across various Destro armies, so he wanted it to be overcrowded and chaotic.

In amongst the cavalcade of Grots, you might notice this old fella from the Rogue Trader days:

We’ve got one Grot desperately running to catch his lift:

As well as the obligatory splatter:

This poor fella met a sticky end too:

Chris had to close the breechloader on the cannon to make sure the Troggs beer-gut would fit.

Chris is a big Gitmob guy, so the overall theme picks up on the Frazzlegit:

This project puts that Frazzlegit imagery front and centre in macro scale:

The end result is a riot of colour, fun and expired Grots.

A true labour of love and a worthy winner. I hope this piece sees many years of gameplay, merrily blasting motherfuckers to oblivion.

Runner-Up: Looted Bossbunka by Maximus

It’s a pretty simple concept: A Waaagh! did some smashin’ and annihilated a Cities of Sigmar detachment, then built their own Cogfort with stolen cannons and scrap metal. Maximus used a 40K Big’ed Bossbunka, removed all of the high tech parts, with Citadel skulls to cover the large electric vent and replace the lightbulbs on the totem pole.

Maximus carved up and drilled one of the included machine guns to make the small cannon, a steam-tank cannon was used for the medium-sized one and the main gun at the front was a converted Old World Empire mortar.

Dirty down rust did the heavy lifting here and was so much fun to use. Once it dried out, Maximus used some water to streak it more and re-activate the rust for differentiation in texture and coverage.

Honourable Mention: The Glottfort by Zain Abdullah

There’s loads of cool Cogforts out there, but one that really caught my eye from outside our competition entries was The Glottfort by Zain Abdullah.

This one came to my attention via Calvin and Kyle (Dadbod), who saw it at an event in the USA and shared the photos. I’m glad they did.

Love your work, Zain.

Best of the Rest from around the interwebz

Let’s close out with a couple of other really cool projects that people have been sharing around. First up, The Doomfort by Rob “Birdman” Hanley, a next-level Skaven project that’s just dripping with rat bling. Vermin lovers will have a great time identifying the various kits involved: at every opportunity, Rob has chosen to add more-more detail and added loads of value.

…But it’s the Doomwheels that really elevate this one for me. Sublime.

And finally this magnificent Helsmiths creastion by u/Andilonius on Reddit:

Love your work 👏

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So that’s a wrap! We went big on the prize this time, and Chris has already received his prize:

Thanks to Dadbod, Calvin, Sean and Andy for sharing the cool projects they’d seen doing the rounds, to everyone who’s been sharing their own Cogfort projects and especially to the people who entered our contest.

I’m still painting up my own Scrapfort so I’ll share the one in a separate article soon:

As for our ongoing Ogor Mawtribes coverage: we’ve published a couple of Patreon articles this week, and we’ll have another piece on the main site next Friday.

Have a good weekend, nerds. Catch you on the other side.

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1. OK, and maybe a bits box containing a couple of thousand dollars of leftover sprue ↩︎