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Tankbustas live for the really big kill. Ork Boyz who have experienced the undeniable thrill of scoring a direct hit upon an enemy tank and seeing the vehicle explode in flames.
This is the metal you get in the box.
I do recall buying some more Bomb Squigs, but not sure where they are…
I will start off with a black undercoat and then do all the metallic bitz with a drybrush of tin bitz and chainmail. Skin tones are done in the same manner as my other Orks.
The Ork Battlewagon comes with lots of parts and bitz including these two turrets.
I have decided to use neither on my Battlewagon, but will use them instead on my Looted Rhino.
Having made the chassis, the next stage was adding more to the superstructure. Various details were added from the kit to the model. These included exhausts, doors, mudguards and other bitz.
Still kept the model separate for painting purposes.
See the full workbench feature on the Ork Battlewagon.
See photographs of completed Ork Battlewagons from various shows.
I have made and painted some Boar Boyz for a Feral Ork force already and you can see how I made and painted those here.
Having decided to make some more, unlike my other three Boars, for these models I also ordered some metal Cyboar heads from the old Snakebitez bitz range – this was before Games Workshop rationalised their online bitz store. So the Boars went together pretty easily. Though I had no tails! On the plastic boars, the tails are on the head sprue and I only ordered plastic boar bodies. Ah well out with the Green Stuff!
The models were given a white undercoat.
This is my favourite which has a lot of armour plates and cybernetics.
See the full workbench feature on these Boar Boyz.
One of my Ork units I do like are my Stormboyz (even despite Simon calling them the Lipstick Boyz) however they are leaderless, until now!
Games Workshop do produce a Stormboyz Nob, however it is only available by mail order and not from their shops. So when I was up in Nottingham I did get the Stormboyz Nob when I visited Warhammer World. It is a nice model and will certainly give my Stormboyz mob a bit more punch.
Now I just need to start painting him to match my Stormboyz mob.
Full workbench feature on the Stormboyz Nob.
One of the things I like in the Forge World range are the Ork Heavy Weapons, not just the new ones, but the older ones as well. I ordered an Ork Kannon some time ago and it had been hanging around for a while, so I decided to stick it together. It goes together really easily.
I then gave the model a black undercoat.
Once finished I will be able to use it any of my Ork vehicles or a Squiggoth
I was lucky enough to get for one Christmas a few years back two packs of Foundry Old West Outlaws (thank you Simon).
Here are three more of the Outlaws based and undercoated with a white undercoat.
Have a look at my Old West miniatures Gallery.
The greatest threat to the Imperium of Man is, and has always been, the followers of Chaos and the foul daemons of the Warp. The Inquisitors of the Ordo Malleus, the Daemonhunters, are at war with forces too terrible to comprehend and, together with the holy warriors of the Grey Knights, they must take the light of the Emperor into the darkness. The threat of the daemonic is so great that only these heroic warriors have the necessary skills and knowledge to stand against such diabolical foes.
When the Dark Angels were released I really liked the Master of the Ravenwing on the “last” remaining Imperial Jetbike.
Master Sammael of the Ravenwing is a true Angel of Death. From the saddle of his jetbike he cuts down any foolish enough to stand in his path with the infamous Raven Sword, its blade cut from the same meteorite as the Sword of Secrets. A highly accomplished hunter of The Fallen, Sammael is rightly honoured by his brethren and he is feared by his foes as few other holders of his rank have ever been.
So much so I knew I had to get one for my Grey Knights army, possibly maybe more than one! If anyone other than the Master of the Ravenwing was going to have arcane technology it would be the Grey Knights!
This is as far as I have got putting the jetbike together.
My Ork Trukk was undercoated, in the main black but with some components in white.
This is how the undercoated model is looking.
See the workbench feature on this Ork Trukk.
I was lucky enough to get for one Christmas a few years back two packs of Foundry Old West Outlaws (thank you Simon).
Here are three more of the Outlaws based and undercoated with a white undercoat.
Have a look at my Old West miniatures Gallery.