Parts of the kit are quite nice - there are some interesting engineering greeblies (or as we Mekboyz call them, 'orky do-wotz'). Even the underneath has a bunch of detail that is unlikely to be seen (unless my Trukk flips over of course... I meant, unlikely to be seen on the original model).
This brings me to my first dilemma - which way up should I put my chassis?
The nicely-detailed surface is the underside (and yes, that exhaust pipe lying in the front does go down the middle); the much-less-interesting side that's all angles is the surface that what I will call 'the cab' rests in.
I feel I have three options.
The first is to flip the chassis right over, use the underneath as my new floor (maybe with granny-grating over the top), build a cab to stick over on the left on the (now) 'dropped' section, bang some sides on, bosh, we have a Wartrukk. Main disadvantage - can't really use the wheel-arches very easily as they're configured to be the wrong way up, but could maybe hack them up until they fit.
Option two is use it the 'proper' way up (and using the wheel-arches without modification), put a cab between the 'real' front wheels (over on the right in the photo), and build up the mid-section so it matches the raised section. I can't see the point of trying to make it up anything like properly, as it won't be anything like the right size for a Trukk, which is why I'd move the cab from the centre. Main disadvantage - would probably need to do a lot of greeblying to make it look OK (or OrKay).
Option three - and I'm just throwing it out there - is to build the Mini more or less 'as is', then cut the front off, and set the driver and gunner in the back, which would now be the front, then build up the new 'back' as a flatbed... sort of makes me think of an old Bedford van actually. Main disadvantage - I'd have to build up the back in the same way as option two, and it's arguably more work, basically for the joke of having the cab of the Trukk look like an over-sized Mini back-end.
So, that's what I'm thinking at the moment...