Category: workbench

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It was rumoured for years, the original Apocalypse release saw pictures of what was at the time referred to as staff scratch-built models, but on the 7th March 2009 saw the release of the plastic Stompa.

When a mere dreadnought just isn’t stompy enough, a Mek feels the urge to build a stompa. As big as a Battle Fortress, a Stompa is a walking, shooting, roaring idol of Gork. It has a crew of several Orks aided by dozens of Grot riggers, runners and assistants. A Stompa usually mounts two or three enormous guns as well as some form of oversized claw or whirring blade for chewing up enemy tanks and titans in close combat.

The Games Workshop website has a great step by step guide to making up your model. They also have a nice gallery of Stompa models too, which is great, as I always like to see how others have painted theirs before I model and paint mine. Though the style and paint job of the GW Stompa above is very likely the way I am going to go.

You do get one BIG box with all the sprues in there.

Lots of nice artwork on the box to inspire you.

Then you open the box and see all that plastic and think “oh that’s a lot of plastic”.

See the full workbench feature on my Stompa.