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I have been thinking about more Ork scenery for some time. When recently my son broke his toy crane I was inspired to take the broken section and use it as part of a Stompa Gantry. I have also used parts from an Ork Trukk, an Ork Battlewagon and Imperial Accessories.
I have used foamcard for the base and the majority of the model was stuck together with a hot glue gun.
After putting the main weaponry and turret together, the next stage was to construct the hull of the Kil Krusha.
There was a fair bit of sprue and extraneous resin on the parts and it was a challenge to remove these without damaging or destroying the resin pieces. There was a fair bit of flash to clean off the parts especially the casting sprues which were in many cases quite thick. I did make one mistake in cutting of the waste sprue on the bottom plate I did manage to cut off the ridges where some of the suspension would be attached. Oops
Once cleaned though the parts did go together quite easily. The hull went together well, though I had a little warpage that I did manage to correct without too much trouble or effort.
Top view showing internal detail.
See the full workbench feature on the Ork Kil Krusha.
This was of the first Forge World ork models when I went “wow”.
Rolling onto the battlefields of the 41st millennium for the first time is our new Kill Krusha ‘Eavy Tank for the Orks. This fearsome model is a huge full resin super-heavy tank kit for the Orks, and is designed by Daren Parrwood with crew by Mark Bedford. The intricate detail on this model really has to be seen to be believed, and it includes some incredible interior work as you can see Here as well as one Ork tank ‘Kommanda’ three Grots (and a Squig!) as crew. This giant tank is a combination of the Ork`s love of speed and violence, with overcharged engines to launch it across the battlefield (well most of the time), and a main ‘Kannon’ able to fire a number of different shell types to rain carnage down on their enemies.
The model is a realisation of the many different concept images that Forge World produced for Ork tanks.
I realised that I hadn’t taken a picture of the huge box of resin you get for this kit… I started, following the instructions, constructed the main armament and turret.
I didn’t though glue in the gun crew as I decided to paint them separately.
There is lots of lovely detail in this turret assembly, alas most of it won’t be seen as it will be covered by the top of the turret and the rear of the superstructure.
See the full workbench feature on the Ork Kil Krusha.
I started painting the base coat on the Battlewagon turrets that I intend to use with the Looted Rhino.
I started painting the base coat on the Battlewagon turrets that I intend to use with the Looted Rhino.
Though the paint, Snakebite Leather, has left a streaky finish, this is the basecoat and the subsequent washes and drybrushes should hide that.
So after basecoating the model, the next stage was giving the model a wash. For this I used GW’s Devlan Mud and Badab Black.
See the full workbench feature on the Ork Mega Dread.
One of the nice things about talking to the Forge World designers, whether it be at GamesDay or the Forge World Open Days is seeing how they move models from ideas and drawings to concepts to finished product.
This Ork concept vehicle based on the Ork Trukk eventually became the Big Trakk.
The other side was more of a half-trakk opposed to the full tracked side here.
If you compare it to the Big Trakk model you can see how the model evolved.
Remembering that as well as the extra turrets I do need to finish this model, I painted the front spiked prow with black paint.
See the full workbench feature on my Looted Ork Rhino.
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.
One of my Ork Deffkoptaz.
So after undercoating the model, the next stage was the basecoat.
I sprayed the model with a can of Humbrol dark brown spray paint. The model was purposely not sprayed to catch lower parts that would miss the spray to enable the black undercoat to act as shadow.
See the full workbench feature on the Ork Mega Dread.