Category: ork

"ruin the surprise"

When I was at GamesDay I had a chat with the White Dwarf crew about future issues. They only had the October and November issues available to preview. The October issue was in fact on sale at GamesDay, though the November issue did have a picture of the Ork Battlewagon. I was told by the WD crew that the December issue wasn’t at GamesDay as that would “ruin the surprise”.

Now what was that “surprise”?

I wondered at the time if it was going to be the Ork Stompa, now I think looking at the Warhammer Fantasy Battle Tabletop Gaming blog was the “surprise” a plastic Lizardman Stegadon?

I don’t have the issue of White Dwarf to hand so I can’t check to see what else is in it, but it wouldn’t surprise me.

There may be a few ways I think I could use a plastic Stegadon in my Warhammer 40K games.

Grot Bomb Launcha

I am in the process of painting my third Grot Bomb Launcha. This will take me to a battery of three of them. So far one is fully painted, the other on it’s way.

With the third one I have given the model an undercoat. Some parts were given a black undercoat and the remaining a white undercoat.

The black undercoated parts will be drybrushed with Tin Bitz and Boltgun Metal, whilst the white parts will be painted with a sand colour.

See the full workbench feature on this the third Grot Bomb Launcha.

More pictures of the Ork Battlewagon

Well after the pictures from White Dwarf appearing online, more pictures of the Ork Battlewagon are appearing.
The Bell of Lost Souls has had a nice spread of pictures of the model.

EDIT: Post removed from BoLS… See all the pictures on Warseer.

More pictures of the Ork Battlewagon

These give a much better idea of what the model is like.

It does look like that a Deff Roller could be fitted onto the front and there is the potential for a range of turrets as well.

Ork Battlewagon – First Pic

At GamesDay I managed to have a look at the November issue of White Dwarf which had a picture of the forthcoming Ork Battlewagon. I wrote the following back in September.

In the November issue of (the UK) White Dwarf you will be able to see a picture of the finished Ork Battlewagon which is been used as part of the Tale of Four Gamers.

I was going to take a photograph from the pre-production copy at GamesDay but the White Dwarf team were very insistent that I didn’t.

The model comprises (the already seen) tracks with two Trukk style wheels on each side at the front.

It looks nothing like the Forge World model.

The cab is similar to the original wheeled Battlewagon (from what 15 years ago now and used on the FW Gunwagon).

Well some now have that issue and now I can blog a picture of the Battlewagon.

Ork Battlewagon - First Pic

So what do you think?

I do like it and will certainly be getting one (or two) for my Ork army.

Picture source Warseer.