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This new plastic battlewagon kit was released by Games Workshop on the 3rd January 2009 and I picked mine up on the 4th January. As happens with a fair few of my models it did spend a bit of time on the shelf. The model contains four large sprues.
There are lots of parts and includes Ork krew.
First stage was making the chassis.
See the full workbench feature on the Ork Battlewagon.
See photographs of completed Ork Battlewagons from various shows.
One of the nice Cities of Death models released were the resin Ork Barricades. Six resin barricades (still available) that have a very Orkiness about them.
Orks are adapt at banging together large piles of debris, welding them with burnas and Gretchin for extra stickiness. In dense city-fights, cunning Ork Warbosses use these barricades to funnel enemy troops and prevent their armour from manoeuvring, before their Tankbustas launch a devastating ambush.
These are going to be part of what hopefully will be an Ork city.
This is a nice one that has had Baneblade tracks used within it. Also note the dead Imperial Guardsman.
This one has shells and a jerrycan of fuel (safe place to put it).
I do like these resin models. In my opinion this is the material that should have been used for the Blastscape pack.
One of the things I liked about Cities of Death was the large Ork “town” which was there alongside the ruined Imperial Cities.
I also really liked the Ork Shanty Town which was the new Forge World display at GamesDay 2009. Some great scenery in there too.
I know I will never have the time, space or resources to make something similar, but I did like the concept and thought it would be nice to have some buildings for my Ork Airfield, well at least something that could be used alongside my Ork Bommer.
So I took an old DVD-R spindle tub I had, these are available in various sizes depending on how many disks there are, I used a 25 disk tub. The first thing I did was cut up some plasticard, wooden sticks and Starbucks™ wooden stirrers into similar lengths. I also delved into my bitz box to get some parts, in the main from Imperial vehicles, ie Rhino and Land Raider doors. Then using a hot glue gun I stuck these to the side of the DVD tub. A hot glue gun is perfect for this kind of thing, as both plastic and super glues are unsuitable for this kind of model. When I thought about the floor of the fort, I did initially think about adding a series of wooden planks or metal sheets, however in the end I went with using modelling sand, which I think will look quite effective when painted and somewhat Orky. The next stage was to add rivets using cut plastic rod and plastic sprue. I used both strips of plastic rod and hexagonal rod. Using the hexagonal rod to make nuts and bolts.
Having got far as I wanted to with the scrap, I gave the model a black undercoat, the next stage was a red primer basecoat. At this stage I realised I could use it in a game.
See the full workbench pages for the fort.
Grey Knights can use Land Raiders, when I first started putting this force together I knew that if I was going to get a Land Raider it would have to be the Forge World MkIIB Land Raider.
However I was also lucky enough to receive a second Land Raider as a present. It was the Terminus model, however I decided to build it as a standard Land Raider.
Having made the hull I kept the weapons as separate assemblies, I would also be adding the tracks later too.
I made up two possible variations on the frontal weaponry including Heavy Bolters and Lascannons.
Now I made a mistake when I ordered my Mark IIb Land Raider, you get a set of doors and I (foolishly) asked them to replace the supplied eagle doors with Grey Knights Land Raider doors. Now what I didn’t realise was that the side doors on the sponson are not the same size as the Land Raider doors, but are in fact the same size as Rhino side doors. So the Grey Knight doors are too big! However this meant I could use them on this new Land Raider.
Notice how the doors are at the rear, it never made sense to me to have the main weaponry firing in the way of the side doors… so the main lascannons are at the front and the access doors at the rear.
See the full workbench feature on this Grey Knights Land Raider.
One of the nice Cities of Death models released were the resin Ork Barricades. Six resin barricades (still available) that have a very Orkiness about them.
Orks are adapt at banging together large piles of debris, welding them with burnas and Gretchin for extra stickiness. In dense city-fights, cunning Ork Warbosses use these barricades to funnel enemy troops and prevent their armour from manoeuvring, before their Tankbustas launch a devastating ambush.
These are going to be part of what hopefully will be an Ork city.
Here is one of the barricades.
This is probably my favourite and makes use of an old Ork Trukk.
One of the nice Cities of Death models released were the resin Ork Barricades. Six resin barricades (still available) that have a very Orkiness about them.
Orks are adapt at banging together large piles of debris, welding them with burnas and Gretchin for extra stickiness. In dense city-fights, cunning Ork Warbosses use these barricades to funnel enemy troops and prevent their armour from manoeuvring, before their Tankbustas launch a devastating ambush.
These are going to be part of what hopefully will be an Ork city.
Here is one of the barricades.
And here’s another…
I do like these resin models. In my opinion this is the material that should have been used for the Blastscape pack.
Threw together an Attack Bike for my Grey Knights.
Going to use a metal model for the gunner though.
One of the nice Cities of Death models released were the resin Ork Barricades. Six resin barricades (still available) that have a very Orkiness about them.
Orks are adapt at banging together large piles of debris, welding them with burnas and Gretchin for extra stickiness. In dense city-fights, cunning Ork Warbosses use these barricades to funnel enemy troops and prevent their armour from manoeuvring, before their Tankbustas launch a devastating ambush.
These are going to be part of what hopefully will be an Ork city.
Here is one of the barricades.
When it comes to painting my Ork Trukk, though at the unpainted stage it looks like this….
It isn’t in fact all stuck together.
However, this gives you an indication of how it all fits together.
See the workbench feature on this Ork Trukk.
When it comes to painting my Ork Trukk, though at the unpainted stage it looks like this….
It isn’t in fact all stuck together.
The cab is separate…
As is the cargo bed. I included the ramps and “rollbars” though for future models I probably won’t. Aiming to have a variety of Ork Trukks, not a production line!
The gunner cupola went together pretty easily, though I kept the Ork gunner separate for painting. I have also kept both him…
…and the driver separate from their respective places in the cab.
The reason is that the cab and cargo bed, will be painted a different colour, whilst the chassis and the crew will be undercoated in black and be drybrushed.
See the workbench feature on this Ork Trukk.
