Epic Imperial Guard Leman Russ conversion

Here is an Imperial Guard Leman Russ conversion from Simon’s collection.

These conversions were made, probably about ten years ago.

It’s a Leman Russ but with an Ork turret.

From a fluff perspective, it can be easily imagined that an Ork army overtook an Imperial Guard tank factory and utilised many of the components including the turrets on their own tanks and battlewagons.

If I remember correctly, from Simon’s perspective I think it was because he had all the Ork vehicles from the Epic 40000 boxed set that he decided to use the Ork turrets. I have posted another conversion to the blog before.

Ork with Rokkit Launcha

This Ork conversion has had a Rokkit Launcha using a metal grenade and Shoota. This is a work in progress. The base is done, the basecoat for the skin is done. Most of the metal work has been drybrushed with Tin Bitz and Boltgun Metal.

Still to do are the skin highlights and more detailing of the belts and clothing.

See the front view of this model.

Full workbench feature on my Orks with heavy weapons.

New Forge World Transfers

Forge World have announced two new sets of transfers.

The Ork Transfer sheet, designed by Start Witter, is crammed with a profusion of over 1700 individual symbols covering all the major Ork Clans such as the Bad Moons, Bloodaxes and Evil Sunz as you can see here. The sheet is A4 (8.2” by 11.69”) and in colour, it features huge quantities of Ork glyphs, dags, flames, checks and symbols to add lavish Orky detail to your boyz and vehicles.

The Valkyrie & Vulture Transfer sheet, designed by Stuart Witter provides some fantastic decals, kill markings and insignia for the Imperial Valkyrie and Vulture models. You can see the sheet here. This white A4 sheet features skulls, Aquilas, and fuselage decorations of eyes and fanged maws to personalise your aircraft, as well as unit markings and pilot designations. The sheet also features three sets of Imperial wing decals; these will require the use of a modelling blade and are intended for experienced modellers.

Very nice looking and they look useful.

New Forge World Ork Halftrakk

Forge World have announced a new Ork model, an Ork Halftrakk.

New Forge World Ork Halftrakk

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!) it will also be used in conjunction with forthcoming Forge World releases and Imperial Armour rules.

Yay! Really nice model.

You can see it has been derived from the Ork Trukk concepts shown at the Forge World Open Day 2009 however it is not the same and there are some key differences. The implication I am sure is that there will be other Ork Trukk types later.