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Ork Battlewagon with Supa Kannon from the Forge World displays at their Open Day in 2009.
I got this model as a Christmas present, it combines the plastic Battlewagon kit with a resin Supa Kannon. See the full workbench feature on this model.
At GamesDay 2005 Forge World showed off their fantastic Anphelion Base diorama that used their then new buildings. They also had the scenery on display at their Forge World Open Day.
This Ork Battle Fortress with Supa Kannon was part of the Ork Shanty Town display at GamesDay 2010.
I though much prefer this one to the blue one above.
In the main probably because it isn’t blue! I do like the fact it has an armoured body and lots of turrets.
You can see more photographs of the Forge World Ork Battle Fortress in this gallery.
So after undercoating the model, the next stage was the basecoat.
I sprayed the model with a can of Humbrol dark brown spray paint. The model was purposely not sprayed to catch lower parts that would miss the spray to enable the black undercoat to act as shadow.
See the full workbench feature on the Ork Mega Dread.
So after getting all the parts together the next stage was undercoating the model.
See the full workbench feature on my Ork Mega Dread.
This Ork Big Trakk with Supa Kannon was part of the Ork Shanty Town display at GamesDay 2010.
I have been making my own Big Trakk and it’s a nice if somewhat complicated kit to put together. I am not going to arm it though with the Supa Kannon and will probably use a “normal” Kannon. According to Tony Cottrell at the Forge World seminar at GamesDay 2010, it would appear that Forge World have “finished” with the Orks for a while and will be doing lots of other stuff before they return to the Orks (it at all).
Of course what we still have to see from either Forge World or Games Workshop is a new buggy or wartrakk. There are images in the Forge World Imperial Armour book of a new design of a buggy, but so far no real concrete evidence that any new model is going to be released.
Having fixed most of my Ork Trukk with Enclosed Cab together, I decided to have a look to see how the Big Zzappa looked inside the flatbed.
Works well and as would be expected fits in very nicely.
See the workbench features on the Ork Trukk with Enclosed Cab and the Big Zzappa.
The next stage was adding the tracks. These have been numbered on the sprues and this is the order around the wheels that they go.
The largest pieces of track I had were quite warped, but immersing them in hot water allowed me to get them nice and flat. The key I found in placing the track was to get the largest piece flat attached to the rear cog.
I managed to get the right side track to fit. It was quite a struggle to get the bits underneath the rear flatbed in, but it all came together in the end.
And now the left…
The workbench feature on the Big Trakk may help anyone else putting one of these kits together.
The next stage for my Big Ork Trakk was to add the exhausts. There are two exhausts and it is not immediately apparent where they fit.
They are fitted on either side of the driver’s seat facing out at an angle.
Fitting the right exhaust, with the exhaust highlighted.
Fitting the left exhaust, with the exhaust highlighted.
The workbench feature on the Big Trakk may help anyone else putting one of these kits together.
Having taken the parts our of the bag and washed the resin pieces of the Forge World Ork Trukk with Enclosed Cab the next stage was to start putting it together.
The resin cab is basically one piece to which the smaller parts fit very easily.
I decided to construct the flatbed with the sides up.
The chassis was constructed as per the instructions, though like my other Trukk as I had spare wheels I gave the model all rounded wheels rather than the mix that comes as standard with the kit.
Another view.
I do really like how different this kit (and the wheels) this makes the Ork Trukk look. As a result I won’t have a consistent style of Ork Trukk, just a ramshackle series of vehicles that may have a common heritage, but look all cobbled together from whatever was lying about in the Mek’s workshop.
See the full workbench feature on the Forge World Ork Trukk with Enclosed Cab.
