A blog dedicated to my Warhammer 40k Ork army, as well as my other endevours: Dark Angels, Tau, and Orcs & Goblins. Modeling, converting, gaming, tactics and more!
Continuing to expand and plan with the Orcs and Goblins.
This time I built the base of the first Doom Diver Ski Jump. Pretty basic stuff, just traced out a frame on paper, cut the wood to fit and glued together. Had to wet and clamp down the balsa ramp. The goblin turned out perfect. Had to reposition and pin a foot, pin the rocket and fix some missing rope. The skis are just plasticard with green stuff straps. Made a ski pole out of brass rod and plasticard.
Just detail left. Need to add rivets to all the joints in the wood. Some rocks or something on the base, then finally need to come up with crew for it. I might have to break down and buy a goblin regiment so I have enough models for everything I need to do.
I post this in the form of a question because let's face the facts: ork vehicles are not very good. The trukk isn't cheap enough any more (it was fine at 35pts vs a 50pt Rhino) but needs to be cheaper now that other transports are cheaper. Not to mention just how fragile it is. The battlewagon is just over priced as well, despite the AV14 front. If it had more stock wargear for the 90pts, then sure but having a naked box for that price is hard to justify. The only vehicles that are any good are Kans.
Which is why I've been playing without vehicles for a long time.
In fact, I've only played 4 games with Ork vehicles in a year. In fact this battle report was the last time I even played Kans:
The other 3 games were at a tournament, that, to be honest, does not usually have the highest level of players. I figured I would have fun with triple battlewagons and took 2nd, losing by 1 point.
But I figured my painted Jet Battlewagon deserved some table time.
I forgot my list so I had to right it out at game time. Usually I ran one unit of 12 Lootas but somehow came up points short so I added 3 lootas and split them up. Not sure if I like this configuration. With 1 big unit, they can only hit 1 target but can take a whole lot more shooting.
In the tournament the meganobz didn't do anything. Usually if their ride gets popped, they end up pinned and thus sitting ducks. This game however they actually did something, killing a razorback and the dudes inside. Not bad. Of course a missed melta shot sure helped.
I know Adepticon 2nd place was battlewagon spam. Still not convinced of the viability of this army style. It seems to me the basic strategy of this list is not rolling under a 4 for a turn...
Made some progress on the battlewagon. Over the hairspray I sprayed on Vallejo model color Red, followed by highlights of bloody red and light red. With all the various panels and areas sprayed, I have about 4 hours of airbrush work in at this stage.
Really not as much left as it would seem. A few more details like the dashboard and pole on the turret, then lots of paint chipping (but not as much as say the buggy or flakkatrukk) and some other weathering.
But it's pretty low priority now. Need to work on O&G, either paint or assembly but I would like to make some good progress on that army.
Also picked up another project (wtf is wrong with me) joining a group build at the SMA forums. Picked up this great little kit for $11.
I have until February to finish it, so I'm thinking about picking up some photo etched brass for it.
Ya I started on my battlewagon for the Freeboota challenge. The driver is done, and I've done the base coat, rust and hairspray on the model. I have a tourney on Saturday so I'll be just getting it to the minimum for gold..which pretty much I already am.
I am going to be airbrushing red on the whole thing, then highlighting individual panels with lighter colors. I won't be pulling off a lot of paint for the rust, but I did the whole model anyway. The only thing that will be really rusty is the deffrolla.
So not a lot of Orc progress this week because of this project. Hopefully I'll have the chance to make a new Grot painting video in HD this time using the rigger model. Depends on how tired I am Saturday night.
