Putting together the Ork Stompa Close Combat Weapon.
There is some nice design in this piece and lots of detail. See how I am making my Stompa on the full workbench feature.
Category: ork
Putting the Stompa together
Putting the Stompa together.
The model does go together quite easily. However unless you let it dry properly, you can find that if the glue has not set then the model falls to bits in your hands. This has happened with previous plastic kits, so I was very careful with this one. However as there are so many parts, you can leave one bit to dry and start on the next sub-assembly. The left hand side of the body.
Right hand side of the body
See how I am making my Stompa on the full workbench feature.
Ork Stompa Sprues
The Ork Stompa is one big plastic kit with lots of sprues.
This is the gubbinz and crew sprue. Some of this of course could be used on other Ork vehicles.
The chainsaw arm. Note all the pipes.
The rear chimmney stacks.
The many rokkits and turret.
The main body and head.
More of the main body and the base.
The feet.
The main weapon.
See how I am putting my Stompa together.
Orks versus Imperial Guard
Ork Boyz attack a pair of Imperial Guard Chimera tanks.
From a demonstration game at GamesDay 2007.
Ork Stompa Sprue
Of the many sprues you get in the Ork Stompa box is this one with the gubbinz and krew.
It allows you to customise your Stompa with lots of bitz. There are lots of (probably) spare bitz that you could use on other Ork vehicles. I would like it if both Games Workshop and Forge World made more of these types of things for conversions and scenery. I know I would appreciate them, and I am sure others would as well.
See the full workbench feature on my Stompa.
Ork Stompa on the workbench
It was rumoured for years, the original Apocalypse release saw pictures of what was at the time referred to as staff scratch-built models, but on the 7th March 2009 saw the release of the plastic Stompa.
When a mere dreadnought just isn’t stompy enough, a Mek feels the urge to build a stompa. As big as a Battle Fortress, a Stompa is a walking, shooting, roaring idol of Gork. It has a crew of several Orks aided by dozens of Grot riggers, runners and assistants. A Stompa usually mounts two or three enormous guns as well as some form of oversized claw or whirring blade for chewing up enemy tanks and titans in close combat.
The Games Workshop website has a great step by step guide to making up your model. They also have a nice gallery of Stompa models too, which is great, as I always like to see how others have painted theirs before I model and paint mine. Though the style and paint job of the GW Stompa above is very likely the way I am going to go.
You do get one BIG box with all the sprues in there.
Lots of nice artwork on the box to inspire you.
Then you open the box and see all that plastic and think “oh that’s a lot of plastic”.
See the full workbench feature on my Stompa.
Ork Tankbustas
Tankbustas live for the really big kill. Ork Boyz who have experienced the undeniable thrill of scoring a direct hit upon an enemy tank and seeing the vehicle explode in flames.
This is the metal you get in the box.
I do recall buying some more Bomb Squigs, but not sure where they are…
I will start off with a black undercoat and then do all the metallic bitz with a drybrush of tin bitz and chainmail. Skin tones are done in the same manner as my other Orks.
Battlewagon Turrets
The Ork Battlewagon comes with lots of parts and bitz including these two turrets.
I have decided to use neither on my Battlewagon, but will use them instead on my Looted Rhino.
Ork Chinork
Forge World have now got the Ork ‘Chinork’ available to pre-order at £60.
These intricate and more than slightly crazed flying machines are designed for one thing only; getting a mob of boyz into combat as fast as possible, with the added bonus of being able to shout insults at the footsloggers down below as they fly over their heads. The Warkopta is a full resin model and looks hugely Orkish as you can see Here, with twin chain-driven whirling blades, engines, rattler guns and lots of added detail, it even comes with a set of arms to enable you to model Games Workshop’s plastic Orks clinging on for dear life!
We originally saw the Chinork (or War Kopta) back in March at the Forge World Open Day.
I remember thinking that as it was challenging to see what it was and how it was put together whether I did in fact like it.
I really like the concept of a large Ork Kopta, I am not sure if the Chinork meets my expectations for such a vehicle.
I have two main concerns, one is a modelling concern, the other is the actual design.
I do like Forge World models and I have a lot of them, but as anyone who has ever made one will know, these are not plastic kits, these are resin masterpieces that don’t always go together as simple and easily as you like. I have had issues (shrinkage and gaps) with the Repressor and the Ork Halftrakk for example. I don’t mind as I expect to get these with these excellent models.
The thing with the Chinork is that I can foresee a problem with the chain joining the two rotars. However I should say I don’t have one therefore this is conjecture, but the thought has put me off slightly…
So what about the actual design? Well…. the design is very open plan, so I think it will only work with lots of Orks on board (well Forge World know that they are providing resin arms with the kit for the passengers). I think I would have preferred a more closed design (aka the Valkyrie) over the open platform of the Chinork. I do like the fact it is BIG though.
So will I be getting one?
Probably not.
More on the Ork Battlewagon
Having made the chassis, the next stage was adding more to the superstructure. Various details were added from the kit to the model. These included exhausts, doors, mudguards and other bitz.
Still kept the model separate for painting purposes.
See the full workbench feature on the Ork Battlewagon.
See photographs of completed Ork Battlewagons from various shows.