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I have put together my third Grot Bomb Launcha.
You can see how I put together and painted my first on this section of my website and how far I have got with the second here.
This casting was so much better than my second model. There was virtually no flash and no warpage (is that a word) either. It fitted together really nicely.
This is probably my favourite model of all time, so I will be pleased when I have finished all three and I have a barrage of them.
Details of the pre-release Ork Army Box is now available on the GW site. It will be available to get on the 22nd December, whilst the general Ork range will not be on sale until January.
It contains a fair few new miniatures.
The Ork Spearhead contains a selection of the new Ork releases and is available in hobby centres of from Games Workshop Direct before the official release date. These sets are available in strictly limited numbers, so get ’em while you can! This box set contains: 10 Ork Boyz, 5 Ork Lootas or Burna Boyz, 5 Tankbusters, 2 Bomb Squigs, 3 Ork Warbikerz, 1 Ork Trukk, 1 Ork Big Mek with Shokk Attack Gun and 1 Ork Weirdboy.
However unlike other army deals it does not contain the new Ork Codex. I was considering getting the box, partly to save money and partly to get the Codex early. Now I am not so sure.
Here are some pictures of the Forgeworld Epic scale Ork Bommer for Aeronautica Imperialis.
Though these were announced a few months ago, it was nice to see them for real at GamesDay 2007.
They are really nicely done models with a lot of character.
They’re not quite as I envisaged what Ork heavy bommerz would look like, these seem to be just more bulbous Ork fighters, whereas I imagined something along the lines of a spindly Marauder, maybe a little like a RAF Lancaster or Short Stirling from World War Two.
I have always felt that if I pay £25 for a ticket into GamesDay I should get at least one miniature free.
Back in the good old days I do remember getting a goody bag, one which sticks in my mind contained a free Kroot sprue.
Now I know I could queue for (what seems like an age) and try one of the modelling stands and get some free plastic miniatures, but this year the queues were horrendous, last year I made a tree stand.
Every year (for a fair few years now) Games Workshop have released a limited edition Games Day miniature which is an additional cost to the price of the ticket.
By the way does it count as a limited edition if you can buy last years limited edition at this year’s show at a discount!
This year’s limited edition was an orc and a goblin, and yes I did buy it.
I am intending to use it with my feral orks, looks like a nice model.
Today I was at GamesDay 2007, and yes I did take a load of pictures (over 200) and yes I am uploading them as I speak.
Next year I think I will use a mobile phone and Shozu so that they are uploaded as I take them… that will be different.
I did enjoy the show, much more than last year. I suspect this may have been because there were lots of new Orks on show. Last year (for me anyway) I had already seen all the preview stuff, this year there was loads I hadn’t seen.
Here is the new Ork Trukk which will be out on the 7th January (in the UK).
Forgeworld had some nice displays, but didn’t seem to have as much new and unknown stuff as they use to have in previous years (maybe they are just getting it out faster).
They did though have the Reaver Titan.
Eventually you will be able to find all my photographs on the site.
One of my Ork units I do like are my Stormboyz (even despite Simon calling them the Lipstick Boyz) however they are leaderless, until now!
Games Workshop do produce a Stormboyz Nob, however it is only available by mail order and not from their shops.
So when I was up in Nottingham recently I did get the Stormboyz Nob when I visited Warhammer World.
It is a nice model and will certainly give my Stormboyz mob a bit more punch.
Ork Speed Freeks Mob.
On the move through the ruins of an Imperial city.
An Epic Ork Gargant.
Walking through the ruins of an Imperial city.
Not very happy with the paint job of this model, don’t really like the model that much either.
An Ork Killa Kan from my collection.
Armed with Rokkit Launchas.
Here is my Forgeworld Ork Squiggoth advancing as seen in a recent game.
There are some Ork Burna Boyz in the howdah. This is not strictly legal from a rules perspective, but I do now and again bend rules to make for a different or more enjoyable game (and my usual opponent usually agrees to these).