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So why oh why am I posting a photograph of a tractor to this blog?
Good question.
However if you are painting engines or power plants or generators this image can be used to ensure that your engine looks realistic. Look at the rust patterns for example.
One of the things I like in the Forge World range are the Ork Heavy Weapons, not just the new ones, but the older ones as well. I ordered an Ork Kannon some time ago and it had been hanging around for a while, so I decided to stick it together.
It goes together really easily.
Once finished I will be able to use it any of my Ork vehicles or a Squiggoth.
I was lucky enough to get some GW vouchers for Christmas. I had considered getting some more models, but as I am still modelling, painting and storing stuff from last Christmas (and a fair few Christmases before that) decided I probably have enough models to be going on with. Though I did quite like the idea of a Tyranid Trygon!
In the end I decided and luckily they had some in stock to get some of the Imperial Armour books published by Forge World. I already have volumes one and two. Though GW Stores don’t carry the Forge World models, some (well most I have been in) do sell the Forge World Imperial Armour Books, especially the Apocalypse ones. I got the GW staffer to check and as well as the Apocalypse books (which I already have) and the Masterclass Modelling Book (that I already have) they also had the first two Siege of Vraks books; Imperial Armour volumes five and six.
So I got them both.
Both really nice books. Unlike volumes one and two, they have much more narrative and background. I’ve not looked at three and four in detail, but I think they are similar.
I do like these books.
Will I complete the set?
Not sure, but the volume eight is about Orks so I will most certainly get that one.
In September 2009 Forge World announced a range of new Ork vehicles including the splendid Kill Krusha ‘Eavy Tank.
Kill Krushas are a heavy Ork tank design, based around the twin Ork loves of speed and extreme violence. These ‘mirakles’ of Orkish mekboy fabrication are alarmingly complex creations, high-sided and heavily armoured, whose internal spaces are filled with a mass of hydraulics, pistons, mechanised loader-gubbins and a very large and extremely temperamental engines. These are all tended by the frantic ministrations of numerous Grots who keep the rattling monster tank going with constant hammer blows, polishing and judicious application of oiler squigs. The tank’s main gun is its Krusha Kannon; a heavy bore, high velocity weapon capable of firing a variety of different shells. As well as standard explosive rounds, the Krusha Kannon can use armour-piecing ‘Tankhammas,’ shrapnel-filled ‘Scrap Kanisters’ able to rip open swathes of enemy infantry and incendiary ‘Blast Burnas’ which can drench fortifications with burning chemicals to roast alive anyone caught inside.
Back in April at the Forge World Open Day I snapped a few concept images of Ork tanks and these show the design process in producing the Kill Krusha model. I do like the resulting model more so than the concept sketches.
They also give you a few ideas if you want to create a new version of the Kill Krusha or convert the model.
It will be interesting to see if we see any variants on the Kill Krusha
See all my photographs from the Forge World Open Day 2009 in this gallery.
One of the highlights of GamesDay 2009 for me was the fantastic Ork Shanty Town display that Forge World did. There were many of the new Forge World models including the excellent Mega Dread. Also in this photograph is a Gunwagon armed with Big Zappa.
I really like the Mega Dread model, which combined with Killa Kans and Dreadnoughts gives the Orks a variety of walkers that you would expect to find in their forces.
This is one of the many Warmaster games which was on show at GamesDay 2001.
Check out the Warmaster section on the main website.
A Forge World Ork Gunwagon with Kannon that was entered into the GamesDay 2005 UK Golden Demon awards. Unfortunately the depth of field in this photograph is quite poor, which is down to having to take photographs without a tripod in many cases badly lit cases. Still you get the general idea behind the image.
See more photographs of Ork Gunwagons. How I made and painted my own Ork Gunwagon.
More photographs from GamesDay 2005.
If you have looked at my Grey Knights Landspeeder you will realise that I am attempting to paint a Grey Knights force which goes beyond the listings in the DaemonHunters Codex. What I am trying to do is to create a Grey Knights force (using the Space Marine Codex) and then using a DaemonHunters force as allies.
Having constructed my Razorback and added Grey Knights iconography I gave the model a black undercoat. The next stage was the basecoat and for that I am using the Tausept Ochre Foundation Paint as a basecoat. So why is it brown? I blogged about this back in 2007.
The next stage will be adding more of the basecoat as you can see this side still needs work.
See the full workbench feature on my Grey Knights Razorback.
Eldar Phoenix from a display game at GamesDay 2006.
The Eldar Phoenix is a heavily armed strike aircraft. Able to effectively engage both infantry and armour on the ground, while its sophisticated energy field protects it from enemy fire.
