Category: ork

Ork Flakk Wagon

I think my favourite model from GamesDay 2008 was Forge World’s Ork Flakk Wagon.  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 an Ork Trukk armed with an Ork Flakk Gun. This is what you and I would call an Ork Flakk Wagon. Bizarrely Forge World don’t sell a Flakk Wagon, you would need to use the Ork Trukk with Enclosed Cab and the separate Flakk gun to recreate the model advertised as a Flakk Wagon at GamesDay 2008.

Forge World Ork Flakk Wagon taken at GamesDay 2009.
Forge World Ork Flakk Wagon taken at GamesDay 2009

Still this is a nice model.

Check out my Games Day 2009 Gallery.

Kill Bursta – New Forge World Ork Tank

At Dutch Frenzy today, there were some new models on the Forge World stand. As well as the Valkyrie Heavy Lift Variant for the Tauros Venator Rapid Strike Vehicle there was a new Ork tank, that may or may not by called the Kill Bursta.

Kill Bursta - New Forge World Ork Tank

Based in the same chassis as the already released Kill Krusha it though has a much bigger gun! As it won’t have interior detail, it will also be cheaper than the Kill Krusha.

It looks like it will have a crew.

Kill Bursta - New Forge World Ork Tank

Very nice, really like it, especially the plow.

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Orky House

One of the highlights of GamesDay 2009 for me was the fantastic Ork Shanty Town display that Forge World did. They used various models to make the scenery. In this photograph Forge World have used a plastic Battlewagon to make an Ork “house”.

Also in there is a exhaust pipe from an Ork Stompa.

A very clever piece of modelling.

Check out my Games Day 2009 Gallery.

Ork Kill Krusha ‘Eavy Tank Concepts

In September 2009 Forge World announced a range of new Ork vehicles including the splendid Kill Krusha ‘Eavy Tank.

Kill Krushas are a heavy Ork tank design, based around the twin Ork loves of speed and extreme violence. These ‘mirakles’ of Orkish mekboy fabrication are alarmingly complex creations, high-sided and heavily armoured, whose internal spaces are filled with a mass of hydraulics, pistons, mechanised loader-gubbins and a very large and extremely temperamental engines. These are all tended by the frantic ministrations of numerous Grots who keep the rattling monster tank going with constant hammer blows, polishing and judicious application of oiler squigs. The tank’s main gun is its Krusha Kannon; a heavy bore, high velocity weapon capable of firing a variety of different shells. As well as standard explosive rounds, the Krusha Kannon can use armour-piecing ‘Tankhammas,’ shrapnel-filled ‘Scrap Kanisters’ able to rip open swathes of enemy infantry and incendiary ‘Blast Burnas’ which can drench fortifications with burning chemicals to roast alive anyone caught inside.

Back in April at the Forge World Open Day I snapped a few concept images of Ork tanks and these show the design process in producing the Kill Krusha model. I do like the resulting model more so than the concept sketches.

They also give you a few ideas if you want to create a new version of the Kill Krusha or convert the model.

It will be interesting to see if we see any variants on the Kill Krusha

See all my photographs from the Forge World Open Day 2009 in this gallery.

Mega Dread and Gunwagon

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 Mega Dread. Also in this photograph is a Gunwagon armed with Big Zappa.

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I really like the Mega Dread model, which combined with Killa Kans and Dreadnoughts gives the Orks a variety of walkers that you would expect to find in their forces.

Ork Gunwagon with Kannon

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.

Forge World Ork Gunwagon with Lobba
Forge World Ork Gunwagon with Lobba

See more photographs of Ork Gunwagons. How I made and painted my own Ork Gunwagon.

More photographs from GamesDay 2005.

Ork Trukk

The original Ork Trukk model was designed for Gorkamorka, and then became part of Warhammer 40K with Codex Orks. It was really way too small and needed to be updated, and updated it was in January 2008 with the release of the new Ork Trukk.

Trukks are designed to transport mobs of choppa-wielding Boyz into combat as quickly as possible. Each warband and clan will ‘kustomise’ its trukks to reflect their own predilictions. For example, a Goff vehicle will be functional with a large crew compartment, while the Evil Sunz almost always have turbo-charged engines and a red paint job.

I do like this model and think it is very Orky. You get a very thin box with two sprues, transfers and instructions.

The model was constructed as per the instructions, Generally I try and build as much of the model as possible to avoid having to glue painted parts together… The chassis and engine were the first parts I stuck together.

I then put the wheels together.

The wheels were then stuck to the chassis.

See the workbench feature on this Ork Trukk.

You can see how the Trukk was developed by Games Workshop from some of the photographs I took at GamesDay.

Skullhamma Battle Fortress

The Skullhammer is the delight of many a Big Mek, a clanking hissing contraption inviariably made from looted parts.

On display at GamesDay 2007.

Skullhamma Battle Fortress at GamesDay 2007
Skullhamma Battle Fortress at GamesDay 2007

When this model was first shown I did consider buying a BaneBlade to copy the conversion and create my own Skullhamma. However as I wasn’t too sure about how it would turn out, also time and money, decided I would leave the idea as just that an idea. In the end I got a Battlewagon.

More photographs of the Skullhamma Battle Fortress.

Ork Big Mek with Shokk Attack Gun

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I know some people don’t like the humourous aspects of the Orks, personally I do quite like those aspects. The concept behind the Ork Big Mek with Shokk Attack Gun of hoovering up snotlings and flinging them across the battlefield is just like so Orky.

The Shokk Attack Gun is a devastating Ork weapon that hurls Snotlings through the warp, sending them mad in the process. When they reappear, they are frenzied creatures, capable of bringing down the toughest of enemies – especially if they materialise inside an enemy’s armour!

It’s probably why I like the Grot Bomb Launcha so much. The metal Ork Big Mek with Shokk Attack Gun is a very nice model and you get the following metal parts.

Ork Big Mek with Shokk Attack Gun pieces

They fit together quite easily, however it is quite difficult to ensure that all the parts fit.

See the full workbench feature on the Ork Big Mek with Shokk Attack Gun.