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Forge World have released the next part of their Christmas jigsaw.
Combine it with the first part and we have this.
So defintely not Orky, very much an Imperial Guard piece of technology. Looking like a Malcador variant, something like the Valdor Tank Hunter?
After putting the main body parts together, the next stage was getting the legs and thighs constructed.
The legs go together quite easily and have pistons.
The thighs would join the legs to the body.
See the full workbench feature on my Ork Mega Dread.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Ultramarines’ Land Speeders getting assaulted by nasty Tyranids.
From a display at GamesDay 2005.
Back in September 2009, Forge World released the Mega Dread…
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.
A dwarf from the Warhammer Fantasy boxed set (the one prior to the current boxed set) on display at GamesDay 2006.
More photographs of Fantasy Dwarves.
Photographs of Dwarf terrain and scenery.
As we enter December, Forge World have released the first of their regular festive jigsaw puzzle.
My first thoughts was that, yay, a new Ork Skorcha….
However after closer inspection the lines are much too clean and tidy for any Ork vehcile and one would suspect that this is an Imperial Crocodile style tank. It may be a Chaos, but I think it’s probably Imperium.
Simon a few years ago converted a Chimera into a Hellhound variant using the Skorcha trailer.
So after a few more weeks we’ll have a better idea of what Forge World have designed.
From the display at Warhammer World was this fantastic Eldar Avatar.
Every craftworld is home to an Eldar Avatar who sits motionless until the call to arms begins. He is the embodiment of an ancient God, molten iron flowing through his veins. In his right he carries the Wailing Doom, the weapon of the bloodstained God which cries for the taste of mortal flesh.
The painter has created a wonderful fire energy effect beneath the armour, the Avatar looks like it is brimming with plasma or something equally powerful.
The US Army has released details of their new infantry weapon the XM-25. It is a very futuristic looking weapon.
Once you take of the camo, it still looks very futuristic. Something out of ALIENS
One of the interesting features of the gun is that you can program the rounds and they can explode “over” a target, meaning that cover is a thing of the past!
The system launches 25mm programmable rounds which can explode over a target.
If the Soldier “wants to get that round in the window … what’s he’s able to do with the high explosive round is he’s able to laser designate the building and the round will then fly through the window and explode inside the room,” Lehner said.
Aboard the XM25 is a laser rangefinder that can measure the distance to the target and place an adjusted aim point on a targeting screen. The system then allows Soldiers to choose to over-shoot the measured distance so the round will explode inside the building. The targeting computer programs the round to explode at the designated distance. The system allows Soldiers to hit targets they cannot see, because they are hiding behind walls, inside buildings or behind natural obstructions.