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This Space Marine Whirlwind with Raptors doors from Forge World was entered into the GamesDay 2006 Golden Demon awards.
I do like the doors from Forge World, a quick and easy way of enhancing the plain plastic kits from GW.
See more photographs of Space Marine Whirlwind models.
Ork Big Trakk in the Forge World display cabinets at GamesDay 2009.
Originally this was to be a conversion of the Ork Trukk kit, however in the end it was decided to make it a full resin kit. Main issue is that it comes with no instructions and it isn’t the easiest kit to put together.
This Damocles Command Rhino won the Forgeworld Best of Show prize in the 2005 UK Golden Demon awards.
The radar dish moved around and as you can see in this shot, the inside included “real” lights (made from LEDs).
It was very well painted and made good use of the Forgeworld Imperial Fists doors. Some very nice weathering as well.
See more photographs of the Damocles Command Rhino.
On display at GamesDay 2009 was this magnificent Chaos Reaver Titan.
Very impressive model. I know some people feel it should be more chaotic, but considering the Vraks background, this slightly less “corrupted” Reaver make some sense in the fluff.
Another view of this Titan.
See more photographs of the Reaver Titan.
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 is, but I know I don’t like it.
On display at GamesDay 2009 was this magnificent Chaos Reaver Titan.
Very impressive model. I know some people feel it should be more chaotic, but considering the Vraks background, this slightly less “corrupted” Reaver make some sense in the fluff.
See more photographs of the Reaver Titan.
A Death Korps of Krieg Shadowsword prepares to launch an attack against the rebels, while infantry wait in the trenches.
This is from the amazing Siege of Vraks diorama by Forge World.
See more photographs of the Imperial Guard Shadowsword Super Heavy Tank.
You can see all my photographs from the Forge World Open Day 2009 in this gallery.
This is the Forge World Ork Kill Krusha on display at GamesDay 2009.
The top of the turret has been removed (and placed on the side). Another view of the Kill Krusha.
Kill Krushas are a heavy Ork tank design, based around the twin Ork loves of speed and extreme violence. These ‘mirakles’ of Orkish mekboy fabrication are alarmingly complex creations, high-sided and heavily armoured, whose internal spaces are filled with a mass of hydraulics, pistons, mechanised loader-gubbins and a very large and extremely temperamental engines. These are all tended by the frantic ministrations of numerous Grots who keep the rattling monster tank going with constant hammer blows, polishing and judicious application of oiler squigs. The tank’s main gun is its Krusha Kannon; a heavy bore, high velocity weapon capable of firing a variety of different shells. As well as standard explosive rounds, the Krusha Kannon can use armour-piecing ‘Tankhammas,’ shrapnel-filled ‘Scrap Kanisters’ able to rip open swathes of enemy infantry and incendiary ‘Blast Burnas’ which can drench fortifications with burning chemicals to roast alive anyone caught inside.
Back in April at the Forge World Open Day I snapped a few concept images of Ork tanks and these show the design process in producing the Kill Krusha model.
I think my favourite model from GamesDay 2008 was Forge World’s Ork Flakk Wagon. One of the highlights of GamesDay 2009 for me was the fantastic Ork Shanty Town display that Forge World did. There were many of the new Forge World models including an Ork Trukk armed with an Ork Flakk Gun. This is what you and I would call an Ork Flakk Wagon. Bizarrely Forge World don’t sell a Flakk Wagon, you would need to use the Ork Trukk with Enclosed Cab and the separate Flakk gun to recreate the model advertised as a Flakk Wagon at GamesDay 2008.
Still this is a nice model.
Back in September 2009 live from GamesDay I posted an image of the then described Elysian FAV. This was the first peek of something new and exciting. I later posted a larger image. We have seen images of the finished model armed with lascannons.
Forge World does say about the model:
…this full resin model comes with the choice to mount either a twin-linked multi-laser or twin-linked lascannon as well as optional hunter-killer missiles.
At the Dutch Frenzy event we did see the variant with the multi-lasers.
Very tempting.
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