The "Looted" Panzer WIP

Well as I said I went on a shopping spree at my new favourite Boston retailer of toy soldiers (Hobby Bunker). I picked up a pile of plastic tanks for the Orkingrad Brigade. Here are the beginnings of the panzers... (looted boomgun wagons)

As you can see they fit the scale of GW tanks.

I have removed the fronts of the turrets because I want to replace them with actual GW battle cannon barrels (I wanted big fat barrels). The models themselves have a fair bit of detail that isn't as crisp as GW kits BUT add a few plates and bullet holes and I think they will be perfect for the boyz.

I want to add flags laying on the back as identifiers so "Fighter Bombaz" can not "accidentally" shoot the wagons when they fly by. Something about an ork pilot shooting his mates for giggles makes me laugh...


Back to work...

Book of Grudges Update

Well Book of Grudges is less than three weeks out and there are a few pieces of housekeeping that need to be addressed:


1) We are close to 40 players which is really exciting. I am rapt with the enthusiasm that has been shown by so many members of our community and we are weeks to go before the event! Thanks guys!

2) The scoring for the event is ever so slightly changing:

Originally the overall points for the event looked like this:
Battle: 120 points (6 games of 20)
Sports: 20 points
Painting: 20 points
Composition: 38 points
Theme: 2 points
Total: 200 points

Due to my computer loosing it's hard drive a few months back I have lost the arcane method I came up with those numbers... So the overall totals will change to be what is reflected below which matches the actually wording of the players pack (just not the totals section). I truly hope this does not put anyone out in anyway.
Battle 120 points
Sports 24 points
Painting 20 points
Comp- judge 24 points
peer 18 points
Theme 2 points
Display board 1 point
Total: 209 points

3) ARMY LISTS ARE DUE THIS FRIDAY AT 11:59 PM.... That is the 29th of July. I have about half the lists in at the moment. You should get yours in pronto if you want to come out to play.

Please contact me if you have any questions.

WIP TINBOYZ!!!

So I have been feverishly cutting plasticard tubing and scrounging for bitz to great my (Mega-nob) Tinboyz. What is a Tinboy?

Well in Rogue Trader days there were rules for robots. Tinboyz were the ork equivalent to imperial robots. Ork Meks got jealous and out came the first Tinboyz. They were humanoid in shape and design. Some looked like eldar, squat, or space marines. They were a bit of fun.

I actually really do not like the GW mega-nob models so I thought I would have a go a creating tinboyz of my own from scratch.

The legs are made from plasticard tubes and the feet are layers of cut plasticard stuck together. I used a blob of greenstuff to help stick the legs together until the glue on their ankles dries.




I have used Tamiya barrels as torsos and old ork armour plating for chest plates. The heads are the small wheels off a leman russ (filed down) with thumb tack tips as the ocular sensor.

The models below are only blue tacked together. I need to properly create waists so they can tilt to face the proper direction but this gives you an idea of scale.


Tomorrow... The first look at the panzers...

Til then...

B

The Orkingrad list

Sooooo...

I did get a bunch of work done on the army over the weekend. I just didn't get pictures taken of the work to date.

Here is what I am thinking of taking at 1750 points. I would love input here so please pipe in.


30 boyz with 3 rocket launchas includes nob with power klaw and boss pole (nob with officer cap, rockets modelled as panzerfausts)

26 boyz with 3 rocket launchas includes nob with power klaw and boss pole (nob with officer cap, rockets modelled as panzerfausts)

19 Grots with a Runtherd (Runtherd will be grot officer/ commissar)

3 looted wagons with boom guns (modelled as looted/ rusty panzers)

2 battle wagons with Kannons, Red Paint and Armour plates (one unit of meganobs in each wagon).

10 mega nobz, 4 combi scortchas (broken into two units of five each with two scorchas... Will be modelled as large "tin boyz" for those with long memories of the game).

2 warbosses, Each with Eavy armour and cybork body (thinking about giving them uge choppas, they will be stuck in the battle wagons with the meganobs)

Might have enough points for a scorcha trak (grot tank) or a deffcopta (not sure how to make the theme fit)

So each warboss is with 5 tinboyz in his own battlewagon. I know that meganobs are terrible but they are there for the modelling opportunity AND so that I can take the two extra battle wagons (dedicated transports instead of heavies). In an ideal world I could put killcannons on these but the list does not allow this so I have gone with cannons as the next nearest thing. I laid off additional guns as I want them to move quickly towards the enemy and not stop to shoot (remove the guns... remove the temptation).

The list has the armour, boyz, and grots that I wanted for my theme... What do you all think?

B

So... Orkingrad?

So I have more than a passing interest in WWII. And as I said last time I am pretty enamoured with the Micro Art Studios WWII Ork bitz. So why not combine the two?

As seen elsewhere in this blog, I have been creating a feral ork/ orc army for a while now. All the models are wearing heavy fur cloaks and look suitably thin and by the time I am done... (hopefully) cold!

Now Stalingrad was a major turning point of WWII. Hitler decided it would be a good idea to backstab his "up til this point" ally Stalin and invaded Russia despite fighting Europe on the other side of his growing empire. For a while it looked like it would work. The advance stalled however in the city of Stalingrad. The Russians were desperate not to loose any more ground to the Germans (or risk loosing their oil fields). The weather also began to play into the Russian's favour when winter hit. The Germans were just not prepared. Anyway, the fighting in Stalingrad was fierce and brutal. Tanks/ artillery/ infantry and everything else that could be thrown into the crucible of war was. The life expectancy of a Russian soldier in that battle was averaged to be 24 hours! Despite this the Germans were eventually overrun and surrendered sealing the fate of Germany and the war on that front.



It was a nasty, frozen fight to the death.

Sooooooo.... My orks will be geared for cold and will feature lots of armour and foot troops. (and city fighting/ snow bases)

I am thinking of 2 battle wagons with kannons, 3 looted wagons with boom guns and lots of infantry.

More soon...

Back in the Saddle... Ork ideas...

Soooo I have been checking out the ork and goblin WWII stuff for sale by Micro Arts Studios for a while and mid 37 hour flight to my parent's house in Boston (it was a bastard of a flight). I had an epiphany. Orkingrad!

I have an army of painted orks in furry cloaks... What if I mixed in WWII armour and some of these models...

Meet my Nobz:


I picked up a pack of these guys and matching heads from Hobby Bunker in Malden MA. What a cool shop. Not the best GW selection BUT they had everything I needed for my crazy ork army.

I also picked up a pack of these dudes to be my Runtherds...


Additionally I was able to pick up a pile of really nice plastic WWII tanks.

I got 3 Panzer IV's and two "Buffalo's" to be my battlewagons... Everything fits perfectly.

My Armoured Kompany is well on it's way... All I need to do is figure out how to scratch build 10 Mega Armoured Orks...

Army list and model pictures soon... And a proper explanation of the theme... (Eastcon here I come!)

B

My Inquisitor List and Killcount Results

So on the weekend I took my Grey Knight army with one Grey Knight to Killcount (a 1750 40K tourney here in Melbourne)... It was a blast as always and despite taking a terribly ineffective army I walked away with this....



Here was my list:

Inquisitor Arvis Jebusite
Inquisitor Coteaz (100)

Brother Gabriel of the Order of the Cleansing Flame
Brotherhood Champion (100) with Digital Weapons (5), Empyream Brain Mines (10)


203rd Morinian Iron Guard, Inquisitor Task Force Squad Alpha
11 Warrior Acolyte Henchmen (44) 6 with Hotshot Lasguns (30) 3 with Plasma Guns (30)
In Chimera (55) with Hunter Killer Rocket (10)

203rd Morinian Iron Guard, Inquisitor Task Force Squad Beta
10 Warrior Acolyte Henchmen (40) 6 with Hotshot Lasguns (30) 3 with Melta guns (30)
In Chimera (55) with Hunter Killer Rocket (10)

203rd Morinian Iron Guard, Inquisitor Task Force Squad Delta
10 Warrior Acolyte Henchmen (40) 6 with Hotshot Lasguns (30) 3 with Plasma Guns (30)
In Chimera (55) with Hunter Killer Rocket (10)

203rd Morinian Iron Guard, Inquisitor Task Force Squad Gamma
10 Warrior Acolyte Henchmen (40) 6 with Hotshot Lasguns (30) 3 with Melta guns (30)
In Chimera (55) with Hunter Killer Rocket (10)

203rd Morinian Iron Guard, Inquisitor Task Force Squad Zeta
10 Warrior Acolyte Henchmen (40) 6 with Hotshot Lasguns (30) 3 with Plasma Guns (30)
In Chimera (55) with Hunter Killer Rocket (10)

Inquisitor Jebusite's Personal Retinue
Lotus" 6 Death Cult Assassins (90)"0010" and "0011" 2 Servitors (20)"Rocky" Daemon Host (10) "Blaine" Crusader (15)
(Ran these guys in the Crusader with both characters)

Operative Gargos
Vindicare Assassin

Operative Orchais
Callidus Assassin

Fury of the Pure
Land Raider Crusader (255) with Hunter Killer Rocket (10), Multi-melta (10), and Psybolt Ammo (5)

I will try and get a brief tourney write up shortly. Til then I am bushed and I am off to Boston tomorrow...

B

New on the Forgeworld site...

The "CONTEMPTOR PATTERN DREADNOUGHT"

Or should I say... Forge World's best Pre-heresy dreadnought yet...

Yup I will be buying one of these for my custodes army which arrived in Boston at my parent's house yesterday... Did a major bitz haul tonight from piles of boxes.... Ready for the trip home...

B