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Skyshield Landing Pad

The Skyshield Landing Pad is a very nice piece of scenery for Warhammer 40,000.

Landing pads are launch bases used by flight-capable craft to unload or evacuate troops and vital personnel. The Skyshield landing pad used by the Imperial Navy, though originally purpose-built to accommodate Valkyrie and Vendetta gunships, is robust enough to serve even the Thunderhawks of the Adeptus Astartes, and has field generators that protect the craft and its crew from incoming fire.

A plastic kit, it contains four lots of two sprues. This is the landing pad and side walls.

This is one of the four legs.

This is a very clever piece of design. Reminiscent of the first Land Raider and Rhino.

So the first stage is to stick this altogether.

Blastscape

It came in a plastic bag! They are vac formed plastic.

Blastscape

When I saw this product for Apocalypse on the Games Workshop website, it looked really good.

So I thought I would get a pack.

Alas the original image on the website was of some resin masters, the vac formed final product was nothing like what we saw in the previews. Though GW did revise the product image to what you actually got rather than using resin masters.

It was a pity really that they didn’t make resin versions (like the Urban Barricades and Ork Barricades). Having said all that, they were a splash release and are now no longer available to buy.

They came in a plastic bag.

Ork Stompa Head

Putting together the Ork Stompa, this is the “head”.

There is some nice design in this piece and lots of detail.

See how I am making my Stompa on the full workbench feature.

Ork Stompa Gatling Gun

Putting together the Ork Stompa Secondary Weapon. A Gatling style weapon.

There is some nice design in this piece and lots of detail.

This is of course only part of the main weapon arm, there is the main weapon and rokkits that will be attached to the whole structure.

See how I am making my Stompa on the full workbench feature.

Ork Stompa Main Weapon

Putting together the Ork Stompa Main Weapon.

There is some nice design in this piece and lots of detail.

This is of course only part of the main weapon arm, there are secondary weapons and rokkits that will be attached to it.

See how I am making my Stompa on the full workbench feature.

Ork Stompa Close Combat Weapon

Putting together the Ork Stompa Close Combat Weapon.

There is some nice design in this piece and lots of detail. See how I am making my Stompa on the full workbench feature.

Putting the Stompa together

Putting the Stompa together.

The model does go together quite easily. However unless you let it dry properly, you can find that if the glue has not set then the model falls to bits in your hands. This has happened with previous plastic kits, so I was very careful with this one. However as there are so many parts, you can leave one bit to dry and start on the next sub-assembly. The left hand side of the body.

Right hand side of the body

See how I am making my Stompa on the full workbench feature.

Ork Stompa Sprues

The Ork Stompa is one big plastic kit with lots of sprues.

This is the gubbinz and crew sprue. Some of this of course could be used on other Ork vehicles.

The chainsaw arm. Note all the pipes.

The rear chimmney stacks.

The many rokkits and turret.

The main body and head.

More of the main body and the base.

The feet.

The main weapon.

See how I am putting my Stompa together.

Ork Stompa Sprue

Of the many sprues you get in the Ork Stompa box is this one with the gubbinz and krew.

It allows you to customise your Stompa with lots of bitz. There are lots of (probably) spare bitz that you could use on other Ork vehicles. I would like it if both Games Workshop and Forge World made more of these types of things for conversions and scenery. I know I would appreciate them, and I am sure others would as well.

See the full workbench feature on my Stompa.