Forgeworld Ork Gunwagon

One of the things that surprised me about my new Forgeworld Ork Gunwagon was the sheer number of parts.

For some reason I wasn’t expecting to get a large number of parts. I was expecting the track units to be a single casting.

I was pleasantly surprised though to get an extra twin linked Big Shoota as well as the Kannon which I think is standard.

One of the key things you need to do with virtually all Forgeworld models is to give them a good wash.

When the Forgeworld models are cast, the mould is given a spray (I guess) of some kind of lubricant to allow the cast model to be released from the mould easily.

However the lubricant also acts as a barrier to paint, so as happened with previous models I (and others) have painted is that the paint flecks off.

Washing the model in water with a drop of washing up liquid should remove the lubricant.

Avoid using hot water as this could warp the resin (a useful tip if you need to warped resin back to its original shape).

Once washed the model is then ready for gluing and painting.

Forgeworld Ork Gunwagon

One model I recently purchased having planned to buy one for some time, was a Forgeworld Ork Gunwagon.

I purchased the model with the Kannon.

Before I think about painting I have taken a look at how others have painted their Gunwagons and there are some nice examples around, but not as many as for some other models.

Forgeworld have some nice painted examples on their website. This is the version I have with the Kannon.

I managed to photograph a couple of these at GamesDay at the Forgeworld display. This is the version with the Lobba.

There are some nice touches. This version is the covered version armed only with a twin-linked Big Shoota.

There is a nice model on the Cool Mini Or Not website.

I am intending to paint mine in a similar style to my Epic versions.

You can find out how I painted my Epic models on my workbench feature.

More soon…

Imperial cities have really strong lamps…

One thing that does bother me slightly about the new Cities of Death building sprues is the additional sprue with the lamps on.

Cities of Death building sprue

Why?

Well if these buildings have been bombarded with weapons (as you would have thought by the fact they are ruins) how come the lamps are still intact?

Surely with that sort of punishment, the lamps and the glass would have been broken?

Apart from that, having now seen the actual building sprues in my local Games Workshop store, I was more impressed with them then I was with the pictures in the Dwarf or online. They are certainly more robust than they look in print and might be alright on the tabletop.

Epic Ruined Librarium

I recently purchased the Epic Ruined Librarium from Forgeworld.

Partly as I like the model and partly as it would seem that Forgeworld are deleting their Epic scenery. You can no longer get the Cathedral or the Tank Factory for example.

One of the key things you need to do with virtually all Forgeworld models is to give them a good wash.

When the Forgeworld models are cast, the mould is given a spray (I guess) of some kind of lubricant to allow the cast model to be released from the mould easily.

However the lubricant also acts as a barrier to paint, so as happened with previous models I (and others) have painted is that the paint flecks off.

Washing the model in water with a drop of washing up liquid should remove the lubricant.

Avoid using hot water as this could warp the resin (a useful tip if you need to warped resin back to its original shape).

Once washed the model is then ready for painting.

Forge World Newsletter #145

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It’s been a little while since our last newsletter, over a month to tell the truth. April was a very busy month for Forge World and May is looking pretty much the same. We’ve got another two Games Days and a Conflict event to attend as well as send out all the hundreds of orders we are getting from all you lovely people.

In today’s issue of the Forge World Newsletter we have several new 40K models to show you that will be released in the next few weeks.

Ordo Xenos Inquisitor Solomon Lok


Solomon Lok is a veteran Inquisitor of the Ordo Xenos, the alien hunters. Lok leads the Imperium’s mission to investigate the reason behind the loss of astropathic communications from Beta Anphelion IV and the horrific battles that followed. See the new ‘Imperial Armour Volume 4 – The Anphelion Project’ book for more details. These two models are supremely detailed, even by our standards! Simon Egan, Mark Bedford and Will Hayes designed the models and have done a really great job to create an intensely characterful pair of figures that just beg to be added to everyone’s collection. Solomon Lok and his attendant servo-skull stenographer are available to pre-order right now and will start being shipped out in the order that we receive them from Tuesday May 30th onwards.

Tyranid Winged Rippers

With the imminent release of these little horrors, Tyranid commanders will soon have all the models they need available to them to make their entire armies horrendously fast moving. Now they can have ‘living shields’ of Winged Rippers fast enough to be able to stay in front of the rest of the army, dying to protect and preserve the bigger, nastier Tyranids. Modified from his original Rippers, designer Daniel Cockersell has made these into flying monsters much larger than an eagle and with a heck of a lot more teeth and claws too! The packs of three Winged Rippers are available to pre-order right now and will start being shipped out in the order that we receive them from Tuesday May 30th onwards.

Containment Field Generator and Pylons


Containment fields were used on Beta Anphelion IV to surround the Imperial installations and certain large expanses of the surrounding area. More commonly found behind the Imperial lines of combat, Containment Fields are used throughout the Imperium as high security enclosures and can be encountered almost anywhere there has been an Imperial presence in the last few millennia. Each pack contains one Containment Field Generator and four Pylons. Each Pylon is a little over three inches in height and so a line across a battlefield looks really cool. We have a set of rules that you can get from our ‘Downloads’ section of the Forge World website that will let you introduce the Containment Field Generator and Pylons into your games of Warhammer 40,000. This pack is available to pre-order right now and will start being shipped out in the order that we receive them from Tuesday May 30th onwards.

Tech Servitor

Mark Bedford designed this Tech Servitor with part of the story and one of the playable scenarios from ‘Imperial Armour Volume 4 – The Anphelion Project’ book in mind. Early in the conflict, a Tech Servitor had to jump-start a generator to re-start a containment field in the midst of a fire-fight, otherwise the Imperial forces were in grave danger of being completely overrun. I like how Mark has made this Servitor quite thin and wasted, obviously quite different from the slightly more commonly seen Combat Servitors. Very nice. The Tech Servitor is also available to pre-order right now and will start being shipped out in the order that we receive them from Tuesday May 30th onwards.

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New Forgeworld Epic Thunderhawk and Arvus Lighter

At GamesDay France, amongst a whole lot of new models from Forgeworld, one person managed to capture some new Epic models from Forgeworld.

They are an Epic Thunderhawk and an Epic Aruvs Lighter.

I know I have been one of a few wondering if Forgeworld were giving up on Epic, but these splended new models show that Forgeworld still have Epic models for us.

I am not a fan of the Thunderhawk, so I am hoping that they do an Epic Thunderhawk Transporter which is a model I really do like.