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A Forge World Ork Gunwagon with Kannon that was entered into the GamesDay 2005 UK Golden Demon awards. Unfortunately the depth of field in this photograph is quite poor, which is down to having to take photographs without a tripod in many cases badly lit cases. Still you get the general idea behind the image.
See more photographs of Ork Gunwagons. How I made and painted my own Ork Gunwagon.
More photographs from GamesDay 2005.
I have added more of the Repressor basecoat.
The other side.
I used the Citadel Foundation Paint, Tausept Ochre. This is taking much longer than I would like or expected!
At this point the Dozer Blade is not attached and will be glued on once the model has been painted fully.
See the full workbench feature on the Inquisitorial Stormtrooper Repressor.
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 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. Bizarrely Forge World don’t sell a Flakk Wagon, you would need to use this Ork Trukk with Enclosed Cab and the separate Flakk gun.
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 the excellent Ork Big Trakk. A turbine powered Ork tracked vehicle with twin Big Shootas. This model though has been given the Supa Kannon.
I really like this model, which combined with Trukks and Halftrakks gives the Orks a variety of vehicles that you would expect to find in their forces.
The weapon choices also add variety, not just for Forge World vehicles, but also for the plastic Trukk and Battlewagons.
Current rumours abound that in 2010 we will see new plastic Ork Dreads, Wartrakks and Buggies.
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 the excellent Ork Halftrakk. The model in this photograph is armed with an Ork Kil Kannon.
Our new Ork Halftrakk model, designed by Will Hayes and Owen Branham, is a hybrid kit of the plastic Ork Trukk and resin conversion parts which you can see here. This model uses highly detailed resin components to replace the Trukk`s engine block with a more powerful engine and its standard wheels with some armoured front road wheels and a heavy rear track unit. While you can easily use the Ork Halftrakk to represent a `Kustom` Trukk in your Ork Army, (and makes a great Meganob transporter!)
The Kil Kannon is one of the many new heavy weapons from Forge World.
The Kil Kannon fires either large bore frag rounds to use against enemy infantry, or a solid shell for destroying tanks.
I really like this model, which combined with the “normal” plastic Trukks gives the Orks a variety of vehicles that you would expect to find in their forces.
I have been making some of the Forge World models I got at GamesDay 2009. I think I need a different superglue as the one I am using. The Loctite Precision sounds like it should be good, but basically it takes too long to dry… which is not why I use superglue!
Need to find a different glue. Don’t like Games Workshop superglue as when I tried it, after a couple of sessions using it, it became impossible to open!
Back in 2004 at the UK GamesDay, Forge World were showing off some new Epic miniatures, an Ork Battlewagon and a Gargantuan Squiggoth.
At this point lots of new Epic Ork stuff was coming out from Forge World and we expected to see lots and lots…
Little did we know that five years later, it would be 40K Ork stuff that would see the light of day and (Ork aircraft excepted) we would see virtually no new Epic Ork vehicles.
Will Epic rise again? Probably not, which is a pity.
From the new Forge World newsletter, Mek Boss Buzzgob is one of the new special characters from the forthcoming Imperial Armour Volume 8.
As well as the Mek Boss you also get two characterful Grot helpers.
Buzzgob is available for pre-order and will be available from the 25th January 2010.
Yay. Well done Forge World, my copy of Imperial Armour Apocalypse II arrived this afternoon via UPS.
It’s another excellent product from Forge World, superb production quality. Full of great pictures and writing.
Imperial Armour Apocalypse II is a 112 page, full-colour hardback which provides comprehensive and updated descriptions, background and rules for using all of Forge World’s recent models in your games of Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer 40,000 Apocalypse.
The book is packed with over fifty new Apocalypse datasheets accompanied by lavish photographs, ranging from legendary units like the mighty Reaver Battle Titan to the Daemon Lord Aetaos’rau’keres -Tzeentch’s Slayer of Souls. Included are new Forge World units such as the advanced Tau XV-9 Close Support Armour and the Lucius Pattern Dreadnought Drop Pod, new Apocalypse battle formations such as the savage Ork Mega-Rippa Krew and the lethal Eldar Death Web, and a few updated and unpublished datasheets as well. Also featured are an updated Apocalypse rules appendix, a unit index and some new optional Apocalypse rules and five new missions to play!
Was surprised to see in the Ork rules that Gunwagons can use the new Big Trakk rules.
It is available to order.
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 the excellent Ork Big Trakk. A turbine powered Ork tracked vehicle with twin Big Shootas.
I really like this model, which combined with Trukks and Halftrakks gives the Orks a variety of vehicles that you would expect to find in their forces.