Showing posts with label stompa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stompa. Show all posts
Armies on Parade - Silver for my Orks!
I managed to jump over to my local Games Workshop with a pile of Orks on Saturday for the armies on parade competition. Even better, I managed to pull of a Silver medal! I was beaten by an impressive dwarf army that had an amazing display board. I just crammed as many cool models as I could on a Realm of Battle board piece and hoped for the best... and it worked out. More pictures after the break, and the other entries can be found on the Appleby Village Games Workshop facebook page.
Gorkanaut Size Comparison
**Update** I've added some painted pics at the bottom of this post, but a whole lot more can be found on the painting tutorial page http://itslikewatchingpaintdry.blogspot.ca/2014/06/gorkanaut-finished-and-tutorial.html
As with any new model from GW, its always interesting to see how its size compares to existing ones. There seems to be a trend to larger kits (probably to charge more), so lets see how the Gorkanaut stacks up to other things.
A few items to note, the base is the new large oval base that was first seen with the Knight. Also, I haven't glued the legs yet, so it will stand slightly taller, but that said you can't really make them straight, so its hard to make it look like its mid step.
From my eyeball (ie, not measured), its about half the size of a stompa, double the deff dread. Its slightly bigger than the forgeworld mega dread but bulkier. Compared to the Knight, its shorter but blikier... so a similar feel on the tabletop.
As for transport capacity, 6 orks is pushing it, but that's normal for GW transports. 3 meganobs would be cozy (pic at bottom). I really hope its an assault vehicle, otherwise the transport capacity isn't very useful.
More pics after the break.
As with any new model from GW, its always interesting to see how its size compares to existing ones. There seems to be a trend to larger kits (probably to charge more), so lets see how the Gorkanaut stacks up to other things.
A few items to note, the base is the new large oval base that was first seen with the Knight. Also, I haven't glued the legs yet, so it will stand slightly taller, but that said you can't really make them straight, so its hard to make it look like its mid step.
From my eyeball (ie, not measured), its about half the size of a stompa, double the deff dread. Its slightly bigger than the forgeworld mega dread but bulkier. Compared to the Knight, its shorter but blikier... so a similar feel on the tabletop.
As for transport capacity, 6 orks is pushing it, but that's normal for GW transports. 3 meganobs would be cozy (pic at bottom). I really hope its an assault vehicle, otherwise the transport capacity isn't very useful.
More pics after the break.
Imperial Knight Assembly Video
Wow... that took much longer than I expected. I embarked on an assembly and magnetization tutorial, and ended up with a video almost an hour long. It turns out there isn't much magnetization needed on this. There are some shared parts for the gun, and you can do a sort of hybrid version that lets you swap out the main bits. I had intended to make a short and concise video showing how to swap them out, but in the end I'll have to do a blog post with some screen shots.
Anyway, this is an impressive kit when assembled. Its 6" tall, and as you can see below, not as tall as a stompa, but still quite large. I've also compared it to a land raider and mega-dread below.
The assembly video goes through the whole process, start to finish, showing which parts I left off for better access during painting. There are some tips along the way, so if this is the sort of thing that interests you, you can watch it while you assemble yours (pausing between steps to catch up).
I hope to have it painted soon, but this thing is large, so I'm not sure how long that will take...
Apocalypse game Cont'd
Here's a couple more pictures I took at Saturday's Apocalypse game. The general scenario was 10,000 points a side, with 2,000 being separated in a city scenario. On the ork side we had over 300 ork boyz, 2 stompas, 5 battle wagons, 2 looted wagons, 7 trukks, a Skullhamma, 15 deff koptas, some nobs, storm boyz, kommandos and lots of special charactors. I can't give away too many details, as that will be saved for the video series at miniwargaming.com
Paint a Stompa part 5
Here's what the head of my stompa is looking like these days. I decided to do it green since the stompa is meant to be an effigy to either Gork or Mork. The base was black with bolt gun highlights. Ork Hide Shade was stippled/dry brushed, then Snot Green, Goblin Green and Scorpion Green. The horns aren't done yet, but they'll be a bone colour.
Paint a stompa part 4
Some more progress on my Stompa. I've added some highlights to the checkers, covered the over spray and painted some other checkers free hand.
Paint a stompa part 2
Here's a few more pictures of the progress I've made.
Masking out a checker pattern:
I made the squares by laying out the tape on a cutting mat then transfering the squares over to the model.
Masking out the other area:
Remove the tape:
Masking out a checker pattern:
I made the squares by laying out the tape on a cutting mat then transfering the squares over to the model.
Masking out the other area:
Remove the tape:
Paint a stompa part 1
I've been getting my stompa ready for up an upcoming apocalypse game, and last night started airbrushing some details. Here's a couple pictures:
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