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In May 2009 I posted the following photograph that I had taken at GamesDay 2007.
Back then I said:
I really like this and still wonder why a resin version wasn’t made available either by GW or Forge World.
Why?
Well…
It is going to be released as part of a three piece plastic kit including a ruin and a Space Marine statue.
From the Forge World displays at GamesDay 2009 a plastic Ork Trukk with Big Zzappa.
This new plastic battlewagon kit was released by Games Workshop on the 3rd January 2009 and I picked mine up on the 4th January. As happens with a fair few of my models it did spend a bit of time on the shelf. The model contains four large sprues.
There are lots of parts and includes Ork krew.
First stage was making the chassis.
See the full workbench feature on the Ork Battlewagon.
See photographs of completed Ork Battlewagons from various shows.
On display at the Forge World Open Day 2009 was a Reaver Titan.
Very impressive model.
See more photographs of the Reaver Titan.
You can see all my photographs from the Forge World Open Day 2009 in this gallery.
This Tau Devilfish APC was entered into the GamesDay 2006 Golden Demon awards.
This is one of the Warmaster games which was on show at GamesDay 2007.
Walled city under siege.
Check out the Warmaster section on the main website.
More photographs from GamesDay 2007.
One of the nice Cities of Death models released were the resin Ork Barricades. Six resin barricades (still available) that have a very Orkiness about them.
Orks are adapt at banging together large piles of debris, welding them with burnas and Gretchin for extra stickiness. In dense city-fights, cunning Ork Warbosses use these barricades to funnel enemy troops and prevent their armour from manoeuvring, before their Tankbustas launch a devastating ambush.
These are going to be part of what hopefully will be an Ork city.
This is a nice one that has had Baneblade tracks used within it. Also note the dead Imperial Guardsman.
This one has shells and a jerrycan of fuel (safe place to put it).
I do like these resin models. In my opinion this is the material that should have been used for the Blastscape pack.
There were many of the new Forge World models on display at GamesDay 2009 including the excellent Ork Trukk with Enclosed Cab.
This Trukk model also includes a folding platform at the rear. This in my opinion is much better than the plastic platform included with the plastic kit. This is the same platform which we see on the long awaited Flakk Wagon.
This model is shown with the new Big Lobba. Now I don’t really like this weapon that much. Not sure what it does, but I know I don’t like it.
This is from the amazing Siege of Vraks diorama by Forge World.
You can see all my photographs from the Forge World Open Day 2009 in this gallery.
One of the things I liked about Cities of Death was the large Ork “town” which was there alongside the ruined Imperial Cities.
I also really liked the Ork Shanty Town which was the new Forge World display at GamesDay 2009. Some great scenery in there too.
I know I will never have the time, space or resources to make something similar, but I did like the concept and thought it would be nice to have some buildings for my Ork Airfield, well at least something that could be used alongside my Ork Bommer.
So I took an old DVD-R spindle tub I had, these are available in various sizes depending on how many disks there are, I used a 25 disk tub. The first thing I did was cut up some plasticard, wooden sticks and Starbucks™ wooden stirrers into similar lengths. I also delved into my bitz box to get some parts, in the main from Imperial vehicles, ie Rhino and Land Raider doors. Then using a hot glue gun I stuck these to the side of the DVD tub. A hot glue gun is perfect for this kind of thing, as both plastic and super glues are unsuitable for this kind of model. When I thought about the floor of the fort, I did initially think about adding a series of wooden planks or metal sheets, however in the end I went with using modelling sand, which I think will look quite effective when painted and somewhat Orky. The next stage was to add rivets using cut plastic rod and plastic sprue. I used both strips of plastic rod and hexagonal rod. Using the hexagonal rod to make nuts and bolts.
Having got far as I wanted to with the scrap, I gave the model a black undercoat, the next stage was a red primer basecoat. At this stage I realised I could use it in a game.
See the full workbench pages for the fort.
