Undercoating the Stompa

I decided that I would before any black undercoating, I would give my Stompa a light white undercoat. This would then enable the black to adhere properly.

Before the black undercoat I gave both arms a white undercoat.

The head was then given a light white undercoat.

The rokkits were also given a light white undercoat.

As was the Shoota Turret.

The main body was also given a light white undercoat.

Drybrushing the Deff Rolla

I did buy the Ork Battlewagon Upgrade Pack and decided to add the Deff Rolla to my Ork Battlewagon. Having given it a black undercoat, I drybrushed it with Tin Bitz.

The next stage was then to drybrush with Boltgun Metal.

See the full workbench feature on the Ork Battlewagon.

See photographs of completed Ork Battlewagons from various shows.

Forge World Ork Halftrakk

January 2008 saw the release of the new Ork Trukk. I had expected to see some Forge World conversion kits relatively quickly, however though we saw the Flakk Wagon at GamesDay 2008, it wasn’t until July 2009 that we saw the first actual Forge World variant Ork Trukk kit, the Ork Half Trakk. What you get in the box, a complete shrink wrapped plastic Trukk kit and a bag of resin. As you might expect the resin consists of the wheels, tracks and wheels for the tracks. There is also a new engine which replaces the plastic one included with the kit.

So the model goes together quite well with the plastic Trukk components. You could of course not use the provided resin front wheels and use the plastic ones you get with the Ork Trukk. What is nice is that as you get the whole Trukk kit, so as a result, you get lots of spare wheels to use with other models or for conversions.

I had very little warpage with this model, though as you can see there is a gap in the tracks.

The only problem that was (probably) shrinkage with the tracks, so I used some plastic rod to cover the gap in the tracks.

I do like the resin engine provided, much better than the plastic one. You kind of wish Forge World would make some Ork conversion packs with engines and the like.

Read the full workbench feature on my Ork Halftrakk.

Taking the masking tape off

Having undercoated the Battlewagon, leaving the mask on, I gave the model a basecoat of brown paint, using a Humbrol spray. I then removed the masking tape.

I then put the model together with the wheels and tracks to see how it would look.

See the full workbench feature on the Ork Battlewagon.

See photographs of completed Ork Battlewagons from various shows.