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The Skullhammer is the delight of many a Big Mek, a clanking hissing contraption inviariably made from looted parts.
On display 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.
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.
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.
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 Ork Trukk with Enclosed Cab.
This Trukk model also includes a folding platform at the rear. This in my opinion is much better than the plastic platform included with the plastic kit. This is the same platform which we see on the long awaited Flakk Wagon. Bizarrely Forge World don’t sell a Flakk Wagon, you would need to use this Ork Trukk with Enclosed Cab and the separate Flakk gun.
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 Ork Big Trakk. A turbine powered Ork tracked vehicle with twin Big Shootas. This model though has been given the Supa Kannon.
I really like this model, which combined with Trukks and Halftrakks gives the Orks a variety of vehicles that you would expect to find in their forces.
The weapon choices also add variety, not just for Forge World vehicles, but also for the plastic Trukk and Battlewagons.
Current rumours abound that in 2010 we will see new plastic Ork Dreads, Wartrakks and Buggies.
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 Ork Halftrakk. The model in this photograph is armed with an Ork Kil Kannon.
Our new Ork Halftrakk model, designed by Will Hayes and Owen Branham, is a hybrid kit of the plastic Ork Trukk and resin conversion parts which you can see here. This model uses highly detailed resin components to replace the Trukk`s engine block with a more powerful engine and its standard wheels with some armoured front road wheels and a heavy rear track unit. While you can easily use the Ork Halftrakk to represent a `Kustom` Trukk in your Ork Army, (and makes a great Meganob transporter!)
The Kil Kannon is one of the many new heavy weapons from Forge World.
The Kil Kannon fires either large bore frag rounds to use against enemy infantry, or a solid shell for destroying tanks.
I really like this model, which combined with the “normal” plastic Trukks gives the Orks a variety of vehicles that you would expect to find in their forces.
The more I look at my Ork army, especially the unpainted stuff, I start to realise how unbalanced the force is. I have way too much Heavy Support and much less of everything else.
What only now you realise this?
I have very few HQ and Elite units, though in comparison more Troops and Fast Attack types.
Why is this?
Forge World to be honest.
Can I help it that they make such wonderful Ork vehicles and tanks? The recent new stuff is fantastic.
Not really sure what to do about it. Well I like the models so getting rid of them is not an option. I also don’t want to spend more money building up my other non-Heavy Support units.
Don’t get me wrong the force is ideal for Apocalypse. So it’s also not like that I can’t use the models either.
To be honest I think the only real solution us for my opponent to invest in a ShadowSword.
A couple of Ork Trukks of mine about to move across the battlefield.
The Trukks are quite old and seem to come out in black when photographed, whereas they are quite rusty really. With the Trukks I am intending to use the old Trukks as Warbuggies.
The scenery are my desert boards in an unfinished state.
See more photographs of Ork Trukks.
Back in 2004 at the UK GamesDay, Forge World were showing off some new Epic miniatures, an Ork Battlewagon and a Gargantuan Squiggoth.
At this point lots of new Epic Ork stuff was coming out from Forge World and we expected to see lots and lots…
Little did we know that five years later, it would be 40K Ork stuff that would see the light of day and (Ork aircraft excepted) we would see virtually no new Epic Ork vehicles.
Will Epic rise again? Probably not, which is a pity.
Nice surprise from Games Workshop this morning, sneak peeks of new models including this interesting and exciting Ork Deff Dread.
Wonder what it looks like in its entirety?
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 Ork Big Trakk. A turbine powered Ork tracked vehicle with twin Big Shootas.
I really like this model, which combined with Trukks and Halftrakks gives the Orks a variety of vehicles that you would expect to find in their forces.