Author: Felix

Ork Stompa Sprue

Of the many sprues you get in the Ork Stompa box is this one with the gubbinz and krew.

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It allows you to customise your Stompa with lots of bitz. There are lots of (probably) spare bitz that you could use on other Ork vehicles. I would like it if both Games Workshop and Forge World made more of these types of things for conversions and scenery. I know I would appreciate them, and I am sure others would as well.

See the full workbench feature on my Stompa.

Ork Stompa on the workbench




It was rumoured for years, the original Apocalypse release saw pictures of what was at the time referred to as staff scratch-built models, but on the 7th March 2009 saw the release of the plastic Stompa.

When a mere dreadnought just isn’t stompy enough, a Mek feels the urge to build a stompa. As big as a Battle Fortress, a Stompa is a walking, shooting, roaring idol of Gork. It has a crew of several Orks aided by dozens of Grot riggers, runners and assistants. A Stompa usually mounts two or three enormous guns as well as some form of oversized claw or whirring blade for chewing up enemy tanks and titans in close combat.

The Games Workshop website has a great step by step guide to making up your model. They also have a nice gallery of Stompa models too, which is great, as I always like to see how others have painted theirs before I model and paint mine. Though the style and paint job of the GW Stompa above is very likely the way I am going to go.

You do get one BIG box with all the sprues in there.

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Lots of nice artwork on the box to inspire you.

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Then you open the box and see all that plastic and think “oh that’s a lot of plastic”.

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See the full workbench feature on my Stompa.

Prometheus Command Land Raider

Ultramarines Prometheus Command Land Raider from the Forge World displays at GamesDay 2009.

Prometheus Command Land Raider
Prometheus Command Land Raider

The Prometheus is an extremely rare variant of the famous Space Marine Land Raider. The few Chapters that have access to the Prometheus use it as a command vehicle due to additional sensor and communication equipment it contains. This allows Force Commanders to liaise with squads out of direct range and so better co-ordinate attacks and force actions.

Ork Tankbustas

Tankbustas live for the really big kill. Ork Boyz who have experienced the undeniable thrill of scoring a direct hit upon an enemy tank and seeing the vehicle explode in flames.

This is the metal you get in the box.

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I do recall buying some more Bomb Squigs, but not sure where they are…

I will start off with a black undercoat and then do all the metallic bitz with a drybrush of tin bitz and chainmail. Skin tones are done in the same manner as my other Orks.