The Eldar Lynx from the Forge World displays from GamesDay 2010.
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Eldar Hornet
This photograph is from the Forge World displays at GamesDay 2010 which is when we first saw the Hornet.
The Hornet is a light tank employed by Eldar armoured forces in a fast reconnaissance and raiding role. Piloted by a single crewman, it can be found in the forefront of Eldar aspect warrior assault waves, speeding ahead of heavier Falcons and Wave Serpents and often operating alongside other high-speed attack craft such as jetbikes and Vypers.
A couple more photographs of the Hornet.
Eldar Hornet
These photographs are from the Forge World displays at GamesDay 2010 which is when we first saw the Hornet.
The Hornet is a light tank employed by Eldar armoured forces in a fast reconnaissance and raiding role. Piloted by a single crewman, it can be found in the forefront of Eldar aspect warrior assault waves, speeding ahead of heavier Falcons and Wave Serpents and often operating alongside other high-speed attack craft such as jetbikes and Vypers.
I do quite like the model and if I had the time, money and inclination for Eldar I would probably get some, but as I don’t, I won’t! I much prefer this over the Falcon.
Grot Mega Tank
At GamesDay 2010 Forge World had on display the Grot Mega Tank. I really do like this model alongside the Grot Tanks. The model is very ship like with battleship style turrets and a prow shaped bow. It is a very ramshackle vehicle and looks like (as it should) if the grots have just thrown it together from parts lying around the battlefield and stuff stolen from a Mek workshop.
The turrets are interchangeable with those of the plastic Ork vehicles and the Grot Tanks allowing you an opportunity to convert the Mega Tank into a different looking model. Useful if you were to get two.
Designed by Stuart Williamson, the Grot Mega Tank represents the pinnacle of Gretchin-built Heavy Tank technology; an overpowering war machine that drives all before it in a storm of scrap and destruction. This full resin kit is festooned with unique details as you can in the images, and Stuart has designed each turret to be fully cross-compatible with Daren Parrwood’s Grot Tanks.
Hammered together out of junk, spare Mekboy know-wotz and unbridled Grot enthusiasm, the Grot Mega Tank adds even more firepower to the battlefield madness that has come to be known as a Grotzkrieg, terrifying Imperial Tacticians, Eldar Farseers and Chaos Warlords alike.
It was also available to buy on the day and I did manage to get one.
Ork Battle Fortress
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.
Ork Big Trakk with Supa Kannon
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.
Mekboy Junka
This marvellous Mekboy Junka conversion was part of the Ork Shanty Town display that Forge World had at GamesDay 2010.
It has an Ork Looted Rhino at the heart of the conversion.
With a Deff Rolla at the front.
The Imperial Moisture Condensor as a fuel tank was an inspired move. This is what it looks like as a condensor!
The rules for the Mekboy Junka are in Volume 8 of Imperial Armour (ie the Orky one).
Ork Stompa with Forge World Bitz
At GamesDay 2010 was another chance to see Forge World’s excellent Ork Shanty Town diorama.
This time though Forge World had added a lot of their new models, including an Ork Stompa, one that had used some of the Forge World conversion kits for the Stompa.
Though I know it will be some time before we see an Ork Gargant from Forge World, it certainly isn’t outside the realms of possibility. Forge World make a BIG model once every two years. Last year, in 2009, we saw the Reaver Titan, next year 2011 we see the Eldar Phantom Titan. Therefore in 2013 we will see another BIG model. I have to admit my money would be on a Warlord Titan, but an Ork Gargant is certainly one possibility and if we do see the Warlord in 2013 then I think we would see a Gargant in 2015… Can I wait that long? Probably.
So what about the size? Well the process that Forge World use is the same one that companies like Rolls Royce use to make full size resin copies of their aircraft engines, so size isn’t really an issue, selling them certainly is though. Forge World only make models under the assumption that they will sell them. Models that don’t sell find themselves resigned to the mould bin of history.
So would I buy one? If I could afford one, then yes I would. Could I afford one? Probably not.
Eldar Cobra
Eldar Cobra on the Forge World display stand at GamesDay 2010.
Necron Tomb Stalker
The Necron Tomb Stalker was announced by Forge World prior to GamesDay 2010 and was on limited sale on the day itself.
The Tomb Stalker is a previously unseen type of Necron construct armed with potent Gauss weaponry and razor-edged talons, which adds a devastating mix of firepower and combat ability to any Necron army. The Tomb Stalker is a huge, un-living machine, a swift and tireless engine of murder built to eternally protect the ancient sepulchres of the Necron Lords. The arcane machinery of the Tomb Stalker detects the pulse of life through hundreds of metres of solid rock, unerringly homing in on its unwitting prey and using a form of phase field to part solid matter like water.
This very nice model was fantastically painted using a basecoat of gloss black and a special metal spray. The base was a crashed Tau Piranha (though the model doesn’t come with this base).
This is a wonderful model and if I was an Imperial Guardsman trying to defend an Imperial city from something like this I would be scared, very scared.
The model itself comes in different sections allowing you to construct the model in and different number of poses.
If I played necrons I would get some of these.