Author: Felix

Junka Trukk

It’s not uncommon for Feral Ork tribes to capture vehicles left by other forces. These vehicles will have been heavily damaged, and it’s rare that a Feral Ork tribe will either have the mechanical expertise or spare parts needed to get them going. But that does not stop the Tribes from cobbling things together with their boilers and boars to make surprisingly effective war machines.

The Junka Trukk is a model from the Epic Armageddon range.

Having a Trukk model hanging around… I decided that I would see if I could build a 28mm Junka Trukk. It would be more Trukk than the Epic version, but the idea would be the same, cobbling things together with their boilers and boars to make surprisingly effective war machines.

I built the Trukk according to the instructions, but added two extra parts, a Rhino frontal armour plate to the front and a Land Raider top front door to the rear. I had these parts left over from using resin Forge World doors.

I then added a Rhino side door as a roof to the cab of the trukk. I also added the trukk’s frontal armour plate to the Rhino front armour plate I had already stuck into place.

Of course needs more junk!

Full workbench feature on the Junka Trukk with more photos.

Warhound Titan

Back in 2003 saw Forge World release their 40K scale Warhound Titan, this is it on display at GamesDay 2003.

Now with Apocalypse we are seeing Forge World getting inundated with orders for Titans, so much so that they are having trouble coping with the orders…

Now I suspect we will see more Titans on the gaming table, I have considered getting one (if I had the money and more importantly the time to build and paint one), but as an Ork player there is very little choice, ah well.

Epic Tanks

This was an Epic game (one of many) which was happening at GamesDay 2001.

Epic Game

Those are Ork Gunwagons advancing on some Imperial Guard Leman Russ and Hellhound tanks.

Back then there were quite a few games of Epic on show at GamesDay, this year there was (as far as I could see) just the one.

I have quite a large miniatures gallery of Epic miniatures on my website.

Ork Stormboyz Nob

One of my Ork units I do like are my Stormboyz (even despite Simon calling them the Lipstick Boyz) however they are leaderless, until now!

Games Workshop do produce a Stormboyz Nob, however it is only available by mail order and not from their shops. So when I was up in Nottingham recently I did get the Stormboyz Nob when I visited Warhammer World. It is a nice model and will certainly give my Stormboyz mob a bit more punch.

You get a fair few parts. The main body, two arms, a head and the rokkit! The parts went together very easily. The only exception was the model was too heavy for the slottabase (and the tab was on the thin side).

So I decided to use a resin piece from my Urban Basing Kit and use a 40mm round base instead of the supplied 20mm base.

When I painted my Stormboyz I actually painted the rokkit packs separately, partly as I wanted to use light browns. With this model I have already stuck the rokkit pack to the Ork, so it will be black undercoated. However by using Foundation Paints, I am hoping that this will not be an issue.

Full workbench feature on the Stormboyz Nob.

Warlord Titan

With Apocalypse being the buzz expansion of the moment, of course everyone is talking titans…

Using titans in Warhammer games is not a new thing though, the Forge World titans have been around for quite a few years now.

Before them we had the Armorcast models (and if I could find one at a reasonable price I would certainly get an Armorcast Great Gargant, if only so Simon’s new BaneBlade could blow it up!)

At GamesDay 2001 there was this very nice Warlord Titan which was being used more for display than gaming, but was still very impressive.

Warlord Titan

More pictures of Titans.

Warhammer Inn

This is Forge World’s Warhammer Inn which was on display in their cabinets at GamesDay 2004.

Warhammer Inn

I really do like this model and keep meaning to buy one at some point, however as I still need to paint the Warhammer buildings I already have! Once they are painted I may purchase this really nice building… or do I get that Macharius with Vulcan Mega Bolter which is the same price?

Download Dark Future

It was only a couple of weeks back when I mentioned Dark Future, in the main as I posted a photograph I had taken of a couple of the vehicles at Warhammer World.

Dark Future Cars

Well bless my cotton socks, you can now download from Games Workshop, the complete Dark Future game including all the supplements and White Dwarf articles. Warning – this is a very large file, 26.7MB.

Dark Future

Excellent, no excuse for a game now, though as I said before I liked the background and the models, but I much prefer the Car Wars mechanics.

Update 1 – fixed link to Specialist Games download page.

Update 2 – removed link as no longer working

Fire Prism Grav Tank

A very nice Eldar Fire Prism Grav Tank from the ‘Eavy Metal team on display in the cabinets at Warhammer World.

Fire Prism Grav Tank

Unlike the lumpen and unlovely battle tanks of other races, the Fire Prism is graceful and swift. Despite its aesthetic qualities, the Fire Prism sacrifices none of the killing power associated with heavy armour, and its prism cannon is the bane of the heavy battle tanks of the crude races. The main armament of the Fire Prism is an extremely unusual device that uses a two-stage firing process. A medium-magnitude laser is discharged into a massive crystal prism that greatly amplifies the potency of the shot in a fraction of a second. This energy can be discharged in a focused beam capable of blasting through the thickest armour. Or, it can be dispersed to slay entire squads of enemy infantry. Most unusual of all, sophisticated tracking arrays allow this technological wonder to channel its firepower through the prismatic lens of another prism cannon, forming one all-powerful laser blast that can obliterate any target.

More photographs of Eldar.