It's been a good few months since my last post and in that time I've actually not completed anything, though I have been building relentlessly for my Chaos Space Marines so I'm hoping to start painting them in the near future.  However one kit I did complete before the end of the year was my old school Ork Stompa which was sculpted and cast by a member of the Oldhammer community.

As soon as I saw this I knew I had to have one as it would fit right in to my army being based off the old Epic Stompa.

I kept the Goff paint scheme I've used on my other Ork vehicles and though some might find it too clean a paint job it looks great as a center piece to my army.

Here's a size comparison with some other miniatures, as you can see he's not as big as the current plastic Stompa (I'll be using it as a Gorkanaught in 8th Edition) but he towers over the 2nd Edition miniatures.

This last weekend was that time of year again when Amy and myself head to Newark for a splendid weekend spent wargaming and socialising with like minded people all there to celebrate some old school miniatures/games.

Alan Merret - Tony Yates - Tony Ackland - John Blanche - Brian Ansell 

Friday was gaming day for us and we had a game of Orks versus the Forces of Nature, the background being that the space hulk the Orks were hitching a lift on had smashed in to a verdant planet which looked rich for the pickings however the planet had other ideas and the very trees themselves started to fight back!

The Orks advance 

Those trees are bloody quick 

The Orks scarpering off with da magic rock  

Game two, not many photos from this as the Orks were soundly squashed far too quickly 

We were using the Dragon Rampant rules with the objective for the Orks to collect the the monolith in the first game (it woz big 'un shiny) and then depending on the outcome we'd set up a follow up game.  As it happened the Orks smashed through the Nature lines and legged it with the Monolith however Da Boss must have gotten a little too cocky as he met a squishy end in the second game thanks to a rather large collection of walking trees.  The rest of the Orks didn't fare any better as they were out manoeuvred and decimated by the Nature reinforcements in short order.

Some outstanding miniatures for a Space Hulk game 

2nd Ed 40k - Necrons vs Eldar 

A fantastic Mordheim game

A big game of Warhammer 

 Harry's awesome Might Empires board

More 2nd Ed 40k 

The Realm Of Chaos game 

Wolf Time (Rogue Trader) 

Brewers Droop 

So here we are, after a surprise find at a Wargames show a couple of years back and several impulse buys on trade groups and eBay that came after, I've finally finished my second edition Ork army (well nearly all second edition, as I'm playing 8th Ed with them a few non 2nd Ed units have found their way into the army).

If you've been following the progress of this army you'll know it's mainly been about taking existing paint jobs and bringing them up to a decent table top standard yet retaining that 2nd Ed feel.  In some cases this has meant that only a small amount of titivation (colour matching and highlights generally) was needed while in other cases a total repaint ended up happening.

First up we have a Mek Boy with Shokk Attack Gun with his Snotling ammo.  I wasn't intending on having one of these but he came in a batch of Orks I picked up and unfortunately he was one of the worse paint jobs I've worked on so he ended up getting a total repaint however I'm quite happy with the end results.

Next we have a Wartrakk which only needed a small amount of work to bring it up to table top standard.

The Warbikes are next, another cheap Wargames show purchase.  they did need quite a bit of work doing on them but I remembered to take a 'before' shot of one of the bikes so you can see the difference.  As they already had blue fuel tanks I decided to keep the blue scheme rather than the normal red, Deffskull bikers right?

Most of the bikes I have picked up had blue tires even though they are form different sources, does any one know what the precedence might be for this? 

Finally we have a modern Ork Bomma which I really like the look of and fits in great with the Ramshackle Deffkoptas.  Very little work was required on this, just some washes on the metal and touching up the white as well as work on the base which was untouched.

A rusted pile of Ork detritus made of spare parts from Ramshackle's Jet Bikes and a tester for me when I come to paint the Death Guard weaponry

So there we have it, a finished project (well for now anyway, we all know a project is never truly finished), so what's next I here you say?  Well I'm going back to my first gaming love, the army that took my soul and offered it up to the gaming gods, Chaos Space Marines.