This photograph was taken at Games Day 2008 and uploaded live to the blog during the event.
Category: ork
Orks
Three-up Orks in the display cabinets at Games Day 2008.
These photographs were taken at Games Day 2008 and uploaded live to the blog during the event.
New Forge World Ork Stuff – Flakwagon
It has been rumoured and now we have a picture of the Ork Flakk Wagon or Flakwagon from Forge World.
It is based on the plastic Trukk model, I did think it may be based on the (now rather old) Forge World Gunwagon as the Forge World Epic Flakwagons are.
Looks very Orky. Looks like the back and the guns are resin, whilst the front is still plastic.
A trio of Forge World Ork Nob Bikers
I am expecting to see the Ork Nob Bikers tomorrow, hey I may even buy them I thought!
Hmmm
Then I saw this.
Now I am thinking, don’t like the other two.
So maybe not!
Forge World Ork Nob Bikers
Only yesterday on my blog I said:
Now if we could see more innovative Ork stuff and slightly less Imperial Guard I think I would be happier!
Well I suspect that Forge World may have been reading!!!
In their latest newsletter before GamesDay 2008 they have provided a sneak peek of some new Ork Nob bikers which will be available soon and they may even have a few at the show itself!
Looking very nice.
Though at three times the price of the plastic bikers (they are £52 for three), I am thinking slightly over-priced, or are they value for money?
Also am I the only one who doesn’t like the new plastic bike bases?
Funky Ork Trukk
George Dellapina’s funky Speed Freeks Ork army on display at Bristol Conflict 2004 included some very nice converted trukks.
He used some toy vehicles as the basis.
See more of George’s funky Ork army.
Imperial Guard Heavy Tanks
Here are a pair of Imperial Guard Heavy Tanks from Simon’s collection.
These conversions were made, probably about ten years ago, so way before the Death Korps of Krieg models found their way into Epic Armageddon and Forge World.
I am pretty sure that these are Hydra hulls, as for the turret, well if you look at this picture of one of my Ork tanks from the same era, I think you will be able to guess!
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.
Ork Fighter Bommer
George Dellapina’s funky Speed Freeks Ork army on display at Bristol Conflict 2004 included some very nice converted trukks and this superb Ork Fighter-Bommer.
See more of George’s funky Ork army.
See how I have painted my Ork Fighter Bommer.
Metal Deffkoptaz
Though I am growing to like the new plastic Deffkoptaz, I still prefer the metal ones.
I have a flight of three of them and though they never seem to last very long in the games I play, if they do get in range open fire with all those twin-linked Big Shootaz, then they can make a very nasty mess of Simon’s Imperal Guard infantry units.
I even modelled them with bombz, before they were included in the rules in the new codex.
Oh, plastic Deffkoptaz!
Okay so I said earlier on my blog that
I have to admit I am not that impressed. They look a lot smaller than the original metal variants, and more like the (new’ish) Epic Armageddon version.
I was basing that on this picture.
I have since seen a side profile in Apocalypse Reload and today I saw them in the flesh (well in the plastic) at my local GW store.
I am now really growing to like them. They are really nice models.
They are much bigger than they appear in the photograph, a similar size to the current metal model. The detail is excellent and with a good paint job look like they could be really nice. Main challenge appears to be painting them, especially the pilot.