Author: Felix

Attaching the Mega Dread thighs

After constructing the legs and thighs, I attached the thighs to the main body.

I also added one of the side Big Shootaz.

There are eight “taps” that they need to be glued onto the rear engine. The exhausts were challenging, in the main due to the superglue I was using, the glue was a little two liquid, so I changed to a gel type super glue.

See the full workbench feature on my Ork Mega Dread.

Necron Tomb Stalker

The Necron Tomb Stalker was announced by Forge World prior to GamesDay 2010 and was on limited sale on the day itself.

The Tomb Stalker is a previously unseen type of Necron construct armed with potent Gauss weaponry and razor-edged talons, which adds a devastating mix of firepower and combat ability to any Necron army. The Tomb Stalker is a huge, un-living machine, a swift and tireless engine of murder built to eternally protect the ancient sepulchres of the Necron Lords. The arcane machinery of the Tomb Stalker detects the pulse of life through hundreds of metres of solid rock, unerringly homing in on its unwitting prey and using a form of phase field to part solid matter like water.

Necron Tomb Stalker
Necron Tomb Stalker

This very nice model was fantastically painted using a basecoat of gloss black and a special metal spray. The base was a crashed Tau Piranha (though the model doesn’t come with this base).

Necron Tomb Stalker
Necron Tomb Stalker

This is a wonderful model and if I was an Imperial Guardsman trying to defend an Imperial city from something like this I would be scared, very scared.

The model itself comes in different sections allowing you to construct the model in and different number of poses.

If I played necrons I would get some of these.

Putting the Mega Dread together

Having washed all the resin components of my Forge World Ork Mega Dread, time to start putting it together. Firstly I put the main body parts together. They comprise the body, waist and engine sections.

I then added one of the exhausts.

This is the rear view. You can see the flat joins for parts of the engine.

See the full workbench feature on my Ork Mega Dread.

Forge World Ork Mega Dread

Back in September 2009, Forge World released the Mega Dread…

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Just what every mekboy wants; an even bigger `Dread! This large new model is a great addition the Ork ranks; a smoke-belching, hydraulic monster able to tear apart enemy tanks and smash a side lesser war machines with contemptuous ease. Designed by Phil Stutcinskas with pilot by Mark Bedford, this is another amazingly detailed model which, standing at over 5” tall, dwarves a Space Marine Dreadnought.

Just as with our Space Marine Dreadnoughts we are selling the main body of the Mega-Dread (which also comes with two ‘Gatling gun style’ big Shootas) and its weapon arms separately. The two arms we are releasing with it are the Mega-Dread Killkannon arm and the Mega-Dread Rippa-Claw arm. Both of these weapon arms are designed to fit on either side of the Mega-Dread’s body allowing you to customise it as you wish.

Ork Mega-Dread Killkannon: The Mega-Dread Killkannon is a large bore cannon which is fed shells revolver-style from a rotary magazine, and allows the Mega-Dread to tote an artillery piece as easily as an Ork Boy would his shoota, blasting the Mega-Dread’s path through the enemy.

Ork Mega-Dread Rippa-Claw: The Mega-Dread Rippa-Claw is a huge mechanical pincer-claw designed to punch through the toughest armour, and it lets the Mega-Dread rip great chunks of wreckage from enemy vehicles and dismantle siege defences and bunkers piece by piece.

I bought mine at GamesDay 2009 and purchased it with two Killkannons as I didn’t think much of the Rippa-Claw, it looked flimsy in comparison to the model as a whole.

Here is a photo of all the resin pieces.

See the full workbench feature on the Forge World Ork Mega Dread.