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The Epic Armageddon metal Space Marine characters are released this month.
This is a picture I took at UK GamesDay 2004.
Here are the Space Marine Characters.
It’s a pity that they are based so much on the plastic characters, new designs would have been nice, as they have done with the bikes.
A pity you can’t get the bikes separately, and I am unsure how many bikes you get in the “random” blister.
The Ork characters look interesting, but again most are re-casts of the plastic characters!
Concept Sketches Ork Landa from the Fanatic Stand at UK GamesDay 2004.
This is the original concept sketch of the new Epic Ork Landa.
if you look closely you will see that even with the sketch are the words…
“size about the same as the Thunderhawk”.
I wish they had thought differently and done a much bigger model, in my minds the finished metal casting is on the small side.
I do wonder if Forgeworld will do something…
This model was an entry in the UK Golden Demon awards.
I particularly liked the use of Epic miniatures to show “height”, in all a really nice model.
Forgeworld weapon systems…
I have started putting together my Orks with Forgeworld Twin Big Shootas.
They are very nice resin pieces.
Though they are designed as weapon systems for Forgeworld vehicles, it would be nice if they also allowed you to use them as standalone heavy weapons by including a ground mount.
I may scratchbuild some ground mounts allowing my Orks to have additional heavy weapons on the ground rather than just attached to the vehicles.
What do you mean it is not in the Codex…. it doesn’t matter.
Ork Gargant Weapon, actually a brown coal mining machine…
I use to often look at my Epic ork miniatures and wonder if they could exist for real or was real-world physics going to get in the way of the fantasy of the game.
Then I saw this on the web…
It is a brown coal mining machine, but the resemblance to the buzzsaw of an Ork Gargant (or even Imperial Titan) is rather striking.
it just shows that one day there could be huge fighting machines…
These are my two Orks in Mega-Armour.
They are quite nasty and dangerous individuals and have caused quite a few headaches for my opponent.
You can see more pictures of my Orks and pictures from various shows in the Orks Gallery on my website.
This is a very simple conversion.
Ork Trukk with Krooz Missulz (aka an Orkish version of the Imperial Deathstrike Missile Launcher, but why not use the Krooz Missulz rules for the Mega-Gargent. The model is built using a Flakwagon base, a firing platform from a Pulsa Rokitt and the Krooz Missulz, well it’s a 40k scale Fighta-Bommer Missile.
I have undercoated my Forgeworld Ork Bommerz.
They are in white as I intend to use an orange colour which is not good at covering black.
Finished putting them together…
I have eventually put my Forgeworld Epic Ork Bommerz together.
They were slightly fiddly to put together, but the pieces did fit well there was very little flash or cleaning needed.
I will be giving them a white undercoat and painting them in an orange colour.
Ork Bommerz are slightly fiddly…
I am currently putting together the Forgeworld Epic Ork Bommers.
They are really nice castings and well detailed, but are somewhat fiddly to put together as the kits contain very small parts.
Each Bommer comes with six bombs, I am going to only glue four on as I will use the spares for the ground vehicles that I am converting for use on the airfield.
These ground vehicles will include fuel trucks, crane trucks, weaponload trucks, tow vehicles and other types of vehicles you would expect to see on an Ork airfield.
I also hoping that Forgeworld will release the trailers (especially the tanker trailer) from their 40K scale range in Epic scale – this will give me a lot of conversion material.