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GamesDay 2010 Thoughts

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So the big news tomorrow at the UK GamesDay will be Warhammer Forge.

Warhammer Forge unveil a veritable horde of work-in-progress resin kits as well as early layout copies of the first in a series of lavish expansion books for the very first time at Games Day UK. You’ll be able to see the staggering range of resin models that have been created over the past year.

In the way that Forge World have transformed how many people play Warhammer 40K, I suspect Games Workshop hopes that Warhammer Forge will do the same.

In the past there have been some Forge World models for Warhammer Fantasy, some scenery and big creatures, however as Forge World move into resin figures, I suspect that this will also happen with Warhammer Forge. This will become the outlet for all those races and creatures we read about, but would never be part of a huge GW release.

I would suspect that at some point we will see a Kislev book and possibly even Cathay.

Another thing we will see for the first time tomorrow is the Grot Mega Tank and Necron Tomb Stalker.

I really like the Grot Mega Tank and hopefully I will be able to pick one up.

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Also we will see the Dark Eldar, wonder if any of them will be for sale?

Ork Runt Bot and Grot – GamesDay 2010

One model that I hope to be able to buy at GamesDay 2010 is the Forge World 2010 Show Only model, an Ork Runt Bot and Grot.

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This fantastic figure, designed by Mark Bedford, is our exclusive Event-Only figure for 2010. Meks are always keen to test their bionik designs on the battlefield, and if no suitable ‘patients’ are available they will build a Runt Bot; a huge, clanking parody of an Ork warrior powered by a rumbling engine and directed into battle by a plucky Grot, who will be provided with a ‘kontrol pad’ for the mechanical warrior. This finely detailed and striking vignette depicts the Grot controller perched precariously on the shoulder of the Runt Bot, wrestling with the joystick in an effort to direct the shearing claws of the monstrosity. This great miniature can be used to represent a Warboss with the Bionic Body upgrade, a Nob in Mega-Armour, or simply as a centrepiece or painting project.

Having seen painted versions I do quite like it and think it would make a nice character piece or even as a robot itself. Time to write some rules.

Inquisitorial Stormtrooper Repressor basecoat

If you have looked at my Grey Knights Landspeeder you will realise that I am attempting to paint a Grey Knights force which goes beyond the listings in the DaemonHunters Codex. What I am trying to do is to create a Grey Knights force (using the Space Marine Codex) and then using a DaemonHunters force as allies.

Having constructed my Repressor and added Inquisitorial iconography I gave the model a black undercoat. The next stage was the basecoat and for that I am using the Tausept Ochre Foundation Paint as a basecoat. So why is it brown? I blogged about this back in 2007.

Slowly getting there.

See the full workbench feature on my Inquisitorial Stormtrooper Repressor.

GamesDay Baltimore 2010

The big news announced at GamesDay Baltimore 2010 is the next Forge World Imperial Armour book will be The Badab War Part I.

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So what’s the Badab War?

From http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Badab_War

The Badab War was one of the more serious rebellions in recent Imperial history, involving several Space Marine Chapters. Badab is a planet in the Ultima Segmentum, close to the border with the Segmentum Solar.

It will be released on September 27th, but I suspect that there will be copies at the UK GamesDay that is the day before.

We also saw pics of a Grot Mega-Tank to complement the already released Grot Tanks and an Eldar Titan.

Forge World Ork Halftrakk

January 2008 saw the release of the new Ork Trukk. I had expected to see some Forge World conversion kits relatively quickly, however though we saw the Flakk Wagon at GamesDay 2008, it wasn’t until July 2009 that we saw the first actual Forge World variant Ork Trukk kit, the Ork Half Trakk.

So this is what you get in the box, a complete shrink wrapped plastic Trukk kit and a bag of resin.

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As you might expect the resin consists of the wheels, tracks and wheels for the tracks. There is also a new engine which replaces the plastic one included with the kit.

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Here is a photo of all the resin pieces.

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One problem though (and you can see this above) is that I only had a single rear sprocket.

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The left one was missing…. A quick phone call to Forge World and a few days later the missing left sprocket had arrived. I have had virtually no issues with Forge World models in the past and this was the first missing part I had in any of the models I had made up to now.

Read the full workbench feature on my Ork Halftrakk.