A preview thread, here’s my second ever propper scratchbuild: (three years ago ~ish)

he’s now been ripped appart and is being re-built, better than ever… he’ll likely have a giant Hammer as a close combat weapon, looking agile enough that i can use it as a wrecker ball, then a gatling kannon as his left arm (using the “Deff-arsenal” rules) with his deffkannon as the bellygun. Then I have a gaze of Gork and a SUPER-GATLER to play around with, possibly one on each shoulder…

I very well may make this Stompa into a “Supa Stompa” by making him look even tougher than the others…

Progress coming soon!

The following model is designed to have the looks of a classic Mekboy Gargant yet have the rules of a Mekboy Stompa.

To do this it needed to have the lifta-droppa over the left shoulder, a tital close-combat weapon on the right arm, a Deffkannon on the left arm and a bellygun. The only rules addition needed therefore is the addition of a titan close-combat weapon at +100/150 points {not an official upgrade,} while for the bellygun i decided it was appropriate to have the “gaze of Gork” weapon as this is described generically as a high powered energy weapon, and as it can reach strength D having it as a key weapon seems justified.

Progress so far:

early days so far…

This is a taster thread for a model i am currently in the process of painting.

A few years ago i started the very first serious scratchbuild/kitbash models of my mek “kareer.” This was inspired from Krooza’s guide to budget stompas over at gargant owners: (its right at the bottom of the page, under the awsome scale chart.)

here’s the original link on gargantowners, don’t threadromance!

Suffice to say this “Ruzzbot” has now been beefed up, to the proportions of a weedy “Digga Stompa.” (If you’r unsure what a Digga Stompa is, google “Bell of Lost souls” and check out “Lords of Battle,” you’ll thank me

once i’ve painted this (weedy) beast you’ll be able to see these changes!

Till then…

this ‘ere battlewagon is still W.I.P. the main structure is made from a gunwagon which i bought for a bargain £10 from my friend David, and to which i took appart nd restructured. i made the model much bigger, and encorperated some Chimera tracks to give it some much needed width. i plan to purchase the new ork battlewagon kit and kitbash it with this to individualise both models. i am strongly considering putting the large armoured prow of the kit model onto this one..

here it is so far:

christmas break coming up,  heres a list of models im working on:

-painting the Great Gargant (of course!) – soon il post some of the more recent pics.

-detailing then painting a battle wagon made from a forgeworld gunwagon and chimera tracks (pics soon)

-my big meks stompa. half made atm, should be done soon…

-Supa Stompa – big renovation project. il post up the old pictures soon and then when im finished the new pictures.

-painting new converted deffkoptaz

-painting Digga Stompa

-Painting new big mek with KFF

wish me smelly, unwashed green luck!

this is a forgeworld fighta-bomma which i bought at games day a long time ago (i was 11 :0)

i remember hoarding my money for months to afford this thing. it was one of my life goals to have one you see

so i painted it up in classic red speedy colours, even gave the flames a go!

played with it a few times over the next 5 years or so, mainly just liked the model. apocalipse came out and i decided i really needed to make a base.

i made this by cutting a circle of MDF out with a bandsaw. drilled a hole through the centre (wide enough to fit coat-hanger wire) and glued a circle of plasticard to the base. cut two 6 inch strips of coat hanger wire (incase one got bent/lost) and drilled a hole into the centre point of the fighta-bomma.

done!

well, these guys are a really great unit, and the new models for them are also ace.

rules wise they are brilliant. they can take down almost any vehicle, and are especially good at destroying skimmers like land speeders and falcons. they can still hurt infantry, though marines and the like with 3+ armour are pretty resiliant to them. they arn’t very expensive at just 15pts each. i usually use a squad of 6-8 including a mek.

tactics wise i stick them in iether one corner to dominate half of the board, or on the board edge in the middle. make sure you put them somewhere where they are not blocked by friendly units and terain. keep these guys in lign of sight and they will pay their points often many times over. the best thing about these guys as well as their firepower is that the opponent never shoots them. they always have too many other threats like orks in trucks and battlewagons coming close to them to worry about the 6 guys in the background. but when it comes to the end of the game, you will always have a full scoring unit comfortably sitting out of reach of enemy firepower.

a great unit lootaz.

the squad i photographed here was the box set plus three lootaz i built from normal boys. their dakkaguns were made from lots of other guns from my bitz-box, and i made their harneses from plastic rod and other bitz.

on the right above my catagories section is my first battle report with 1500pts of Blood Drinkers space marines vs my ork Blitz Brigade! make sure you take a look!

here are some photographs of my looted wagons together:

the most vigilant of you will have noticed that i swapped 2 turrets around midway. Don’t believe me? look for yourself!

my third looted wagon with a bomgun. this one was originally a second hand leman russ demolisher . i removed the turret (for another project) and took the turret from a hellhound. removed the heavy flamer, and replaced it with a normal leman russ battle kannon. removed the sponson weapons, then the sponsons themselves. put them both on one side. built up a firing platform. added a magnetised spot on the railing for a big shoota. orkified the lascannon in the hull, changing it to a “gatlin” style big shoota. armour plated and battle damaged the whole thing.  also added a bunker style “vision slit”  next to the front big shoota to break up the profile more. added a killa kan engine i had lying around to the back. added a crate of shootas (not glued on) onto the firing platform (can be removed to put orks on if i want to model orks hitchin’ a ride.)

here are the pics!

side with plasticard skull glyph (fiddly!)

Other side with firing platform (mostly made from two sponsuns and a land rader opening hatch)

the back with the killa kan engine, removable big shoota and crate of shootas

front with firing platform

front with vision slit, 2 big shootas and boomgun