Category: ork

New iBooks from Games Workshop

Today Games Workshop released some new digital books in the Apple iBookstore. A couple caught my eye as an Ork player.

Chapter Approved: Ork Bommer

Some Orks become so obsessed by speed that no conventional land-based vehicle can satisfy them. These Speed Freeks, known to other Orks as ‘Flyboyz’, take to the skies aboard crude fighter planes and bombers to rain fire upon their enemies. Here are the official, updated rules for fielding the Ork Dakkajet, Burna-bommer and Blitza-bommer as Flyers in your Warhammer 40,000 battles.

Get Chapter Approved: Ork Bommer in the iBookstore.

How to Paint Citadel Miniatures: Evil Sunz Orks

The Orks of the Evil Sunz Clan are identified by their love of fast vehicles and red paint jobs. In this Army Workshop, army painter Duncan Rhodes explains how he collected and painted his force of Evil Sunz Orks and their prized red Dakkajet.

Get How to Paint Citadel Miniatures: Evil Sunz Orks in the iBookstore.

Ork Warboss

Here’s the Ork Warboss from the Assault on Black Reach boxed set.

There are very few parts and the clip nature of the kit means it went together very easily.

This is how GW painted their Warboss.

Quite sure that I can’t get close to that quality of painting.

Next stage will be an undercoat, pretty sure if I will go with my traditional black for Orks.

New Ork Bommer

Oh yes…

https://youtu.be/Ir1uXjErq9k

The 2nd of June sees the release of the new plastic Ork Bommer.

Ever since an Ork aircraft first took flight and achieved supersonic speed, prospective flyboyz have been trying to outdo each other with their invenshuns. The most popular configurations of the Ork Bommer are the Dakkajet, the Burna-Bommer and the Blitza-Bommer.

It looks like a really nice plastic kit and you can make one of three variants. My favourite is this one.

It reminds me both of the Boulton Paul Defiant and one of the original Epic Ork Flyers.

With the price of Forge World kits as they are, it seems quite cheap at £27.50. Sometimes I need to remember that this is a plastic kit and Airfix usually sell something like this for £10!

Really nice concept and pleased to see it as a plastic kit. Time to rekindle that Ork Airfield idea that I had a few years back. Back then I bought the Ork Aircraft Traktor and Launch Trolley and repainted my Ork Fighter Bomma from Forge World.

Ork Deffkopta

Within the Warhammer 40K boxed set are three very nice Ork Deffkoptaz.

I think that they look better in the flesh than in a photograph, are they are very much a three dimensional model.

They don’t look like they should be able to fly, but remember these are Orkish, if Orks believe that they will fly, then they will fly!

"Ork Buildings" – Airfix Preview 2012

So there I was looking through the Airfix preview for 2012 when I saw two models of desert buildings and immediately thought they would make for really nice scenery for Warhammer 40K.

As they are 1/48th scale they would fit very well with the 25/28mm size of models for Warhammer 40K.

Of course with some ramshackle additions they would make for some really nice Ork buildings, though I think they would also work as Tallarn style desert buildings.

Knowing Airfix, we probably won’t see these in the flesh until the latter part of 2012, but they do have potential.

"Imperial Guard Vehicles" – Airfix Preview 2012

So there I was looking through the Airfix preview for 2012 when I saw two models and immediately thought they would make for really nice Imperial Guard armoured vehicles.

They were the Supacat HMT600 Coyote.

Airfix Supacat HMT600 Coyote

And the Supacar HMT400 Jackal.

Airfix Supacar HMT400 Jackal

As they are 1/48th scale they would fit very well with the 25/28mm size of the Imperial Guard.

Of course with some ramshackle additions they would also make for some really nice Ork vehicles too.

Knowing Airfix, we probably won’t see these in the flesh until the latter part of 2012, but they do have potential.