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Wartrakk Gunner for a Trukk or Squiggoth…
If you get an Ork Skorcha or Grot Bomb Launcha, you also get as a result a spare Gunner.
This is one I am in the process of painting up.
I am going to use it on either a Trukk or my Squiggoth.
It is a pity that the rules/codex don’t allow you to use more twin-linked Big Shootas.
Here is the concept sketch for the Feral Ork Steam Gargant from the Fanatic Display at UK GamesDay 2004.
You can see the resin of the actual model in this picture.
I do like this model (and I suspect we may get a Forgeworld version one day).
Having undercoated the Ork Bommerz with white paint, the next stage is to paint the metal bitz with black paint.
Imperial Guard Salamander surrounded by Orks and about to be destroyed…
…well it is quite hard for infantry to destroy a tank, but the BurnaBoyz gave a good effort…
…especially as they has just been Tank Shocked!
Probably down to the flash and camera, this picture of my Ork Trukk and Wartrakk are darker than they really are.
They do have a black undercoat, but the drybrushing seems to be washed out by the flash. They look partially painted rather than finished…
I suppose I could drybrush the wheels with mud and stuff.
This is an overhead shot of my Orks from a recent game.
They did okay, but they still lost.
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.