Year: 2009

Grey Knights Dreadnought Weapons

An excellent birthday present I got, was a Grey Knights Dreadnought from Forgeworld. This is a fantastically detailed model, with lots of engravings, purity seals

The only thing missing are the arms???

Originally I wasn’t sure whether to go for the Grey Knights arms, or make as Mortis version… Yes I know the fluff doesn’t support Grey Knights Mortis pattern dreadnoughts, but when have I ever been one for following fluff to the letter… oh me the heretic!

In the end I decided on a Mortis pattern, with a Psycannon and twin Lascannons.

The Mk IV from Forgeworld is a really nice model, and when you look at the  Venerable Dreadnought from the main Games Workshop, you wonder why they didn’t just copy the Forgeworld model.

The GW model looks clunky and as though the venerable components were just stuck on, whereas with the Forgeworld model the detailing is part of the model.

Not sure why I used a white undercoat!

See the full workbench feature on my Grey Knights Dreadnought.

Ork Battlewagon Upgrade Pack

I have ordered and received an Ork Battlewagon Upgrade Pack.

Ork Battlewagon Upgrade Pack

I have mainly purchased this as I prefer the look of the Deff-Rolla over the included front “prow” on the Battlewagon.

Not sure on what I will use the Killcannon, but may make a base for it and place it in the back of a Trukk or a Battlewagon.

See my full workbench feature on the Ork Battlewagon.




Chimera vs Killa Kan

At GamesDay 2006 there were a fair few demonstration games. One such game featured an Ork settlement under attack from the Imperial Guard. Here an Ork Killa Kan attacks an Imperial Guard Chimera.

Imperial Guard Chimera fighting Orks from a participation game at GamesDay 2006.
Imperial Guard Chimera fighting Orks from a participation game at GamesDay 2006.

More photographs from this game.

More photographs from GamesDay 2006.

Ork Killa Kan

This is the third of my trio of Ork Killa Kans.

Originally I had planned to have a colour body, so the main body of the Killa Kan had a white undercoat as seen in the workbench feature.

Well as I started to paint it I knew that it wasn’t going to work and it wouldn’t look right. Maybe okay if it was a single Killa Kan, but in my squadron of three it was going to look odd. So I stopped painting the colour, let it dry and then went over the area with Chaos Black before drybrushing it.

This stage was to add some more detailing including painting the Ork glyphs.

I have blogged about the base previously.

See the full workbench feature on the Killa Kan.

See more photographs of the Ork Killa Kan.

Epic Imperial Guard AVRE

Here is an Imperial Guard Engineers conversion from Simon’s collection.

Epic Imperial Guard ARV
Epic Imperial Guard ARV

These conversions were made, probably about ten years ago.

It’s the hull from a Deathstrike Missile Launcher with the “claw” from an Ork Battlewagon.

From a fluff perspective, it can be easily imagined that an Ork army overtook an Imperial Guard tank factory and utilised many of the components including cranes on their own tanks and battlewagons.

Of course calling it an AVRE is a bit of a misnomer as I guess the Imperial Guard don’t have Royal Engineers, or do they?

Epic Imperial Guard Leman Russ conversion

Here is an Imperial Guard Leman Russ conversion from Simon’s collection.

These conversions were made, probably about ten years ago.

It’s a Leman Russ but with an Ork turret.

From a fluff perspective, it can be easily imagined that an Ork army overtook an Imperial Guard tank factory and utilised many of the components including the turrets on their own tanks and battlewagons.

If I remember correctly, from Simon’s perspective I think it was because he had all the Ork vehicles from the Epic 40000 boxed set that he decided to use the Ork turrets. I have posted another conversion to the blog before.