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This is a conversion I have done of an Ork with Rokkit Launcha.
It is a plastic Ork Boyz model, then using a Shoota and sticking a metal grenade (from the Stormboyz set) in the end, making it look very much like a panzerfaust. The head is also from the Stormboyz set.
Forge World have announced a new piece of scenery, a downed Valkyrie flyer.
This large scenery piece would make a great objective to fight over in games of 40K, or perhaps even in a scenario where the surviviors of the crash-landing have to avoid capture and fight their way out of enemy held territory! (Yes, I get excited by new models. Did you not know that by now?) This Valkyrie has certainly taken quite a pounding, with the fuselage riddled with bullet holes and several huge holes in the remains of the port wing. The interior is still fully detailed but half-filled with dirt after the forced landing.
I really like the downed Valkyrie, though I would have thought the front of the craft would have been more damaged in the “crash”.
I also like the fact at £36 it is half the price of an undamaged flyer.
I finally got round to undercoating the underneath of my Forgeworld Gunwagons.
After finding out that acrylic paint would not adhere to the raw resin I knew I needed to undercoat them.
As you can see my Feral Ork Boar Boyz are nearly finished.
Though I think I am going to need more than two…
I have done the metallic parts of the vehicles in black.
I am using the same basing structure as my Epic Feral Orks to allow the models to be used with either army.
* I know a more Orkish name would be more in keeping with the fluff…
You can now advance order GW’s 10mm Battle of the Five Armies game, to be released 8th March 2005…
The Battle of the Five Armies is from JRR Tokien’s superb story, The Hobbit, and is a large mass battle between goblins and wargs, versus the armies of dwarves, elves and man, with Eagles, a dragon, and some hobbits…
This boxed game contains everything you need to get started with the The Battle of Five Armies game system. A full colour 96 page Rules Manual, 9 characters & Beorn, 24 stands of Goblin infantry, 12 stands of Goblin Wolf Riders, 12 stands of Wargs, 3 stands of Men with bows, 3 stands of Men with spears, 6 stands of Dwarves, 6 stands of Elves with spears, 6 stands of Elves with bows, 3 stands of Eagles, 2 plastic hill sections, plastic ruins, card river sections and assorted dice & templates.
It will cost £50 which is about what you would expect from GW.
I do like these Big Gunz models.
They are very quick and easy to paint. I start off with black, then drybrush Tin Bitz, then a lighter drybrush with Boltgun Metal. Details are then picked out with yellow and red paint.
They recently took part in a game.
And they didn’t do too well… even with a 36″ range I was too often out of range. Also as an ordnance weapon I couldn’t fire at the Valkyrie which flew onto the table.
The Soviet attack on Germany in 1945 did result in the end of the war, and this book does not hide any of the nasty and gruesome details of that part of the war.
The advance on Berlin – it was to be the largest battle in history – began at exactly 4am on 16 April, 1945. Along the Oder Neisse front, two and a half million Soviet troops attacked one million Germans. The panic this induced in the German civilian population is easy to imagine. Hitler had sworn that Germany would never be invaded, yet now overwhelming Soviet armies were advancing on Berlin. Hitler, ensconced deep in his concrete bunker, could only scream at his military staff, denouncing the cowardice of the Wehrmacht. He had become convinced that Germany’s defeat proved that its people were not worthy of him – that they deserved to die. With many a score to settle from the German invasion of Russia in 1941, the battle was one of the most terrifying examples of fire and sword recorded, with mass rape, murder, pillage and destruction. Men, women and children suffered to the end from folly, cruelty and the naked exercise of power on a massive scale.
As with Stalingrad this book certainly evokes the horror of the time.
In a previous post some time ago, I posted how I was building an Ork objective for Epic Armageddon.
I haven’t got much further, but here is a photo of how far I have got.
Still some way to go and I think it will look better once it is painted.
…possibly the 12th…
The new series of Dr Who may air in March with the first episode being broadcast on the 12th March.
This is just a rumour and there is currently no info on the BBC website about a possible airdate.