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Lemmingspawn, you are my hero.

(so is Teek and Migsula)

Your work makes me sad when I start looking at my scratchbuilds.

'sniff'

Very nice work! I really prefer them with two arms, makes them look more active. Also, the guns look great! I second Flachzange, by the time you'll be finsihed they'll be pretty different from each other!

Yeah I have plenty more to do. I'm going to be adding the guns in different places, different types of armouring, crew, damage and hands, so they will end up being fairly individual.

I'm pretty happy with how the twin armed idea is turning out. Glad I took the time to check it out this far...now to work out the rest

thats kickass keep it going

Really great Stompas. I hope you have three titans or baneblades in your group to fight them.

& there was me thinking you couldnt possibly outdo yourself after all that Iron Warriors goodness...

you sir, are a hero, Lemmingspawn.

You fething lunatic!! Superb work - almost too ingenious for orks though, so be sure to really vary the paintwork to individualize them.

Here’s the last update for the year – I’ve got a heap more detailing started on this stompa project. Most of this was done to the metal stylings of…various bands…so that helped me to get into the correct frame of mind whilst I builded these beasties

Anyways – enough of my blather and here are the updates:



This gun is going to be sitting on one of the stompas, but I haven’t decided exactly where – the thought is perhaps on top with a full 360 view but that looks kinda weird, or over and arm or on a forward mounted platform slightly lower but in front of the beast:


I’m not entirely sold on the energy weapon gun arm on this one but *meh* I couldn’t be bothered redesigning it so it’ll do:




And I decided to deliberately make this hand look “weird”:




Hand with concealed flamer thingy:


More detailing to do on this gun mount but I’m pretty happy with how it’s coming along:


RIPPA!

See, told you they wouldnt look anything alike with some gubbinz added on to em.
Seriously looking good so far. I really like the awkwardness of these guys and i think thats how they should be. all sorts of lobsided weirdo looking constructions of destruction and doom.

your attention to detail is, as usual, superb. im a huge fan of your concealed flamers.

Weird and disturbing... Looks good

On( minor) point of criticism though: RIPPA!-boy's left hand looks very civilized. Orkify it! . The gatling kannon looks superb!

lemming...... you are also my hero. everything your orks have, make mine jealous. you totally make my orky brain kick into overdrive when i look at the awesomeness that is your ork horde!

Here's this weeks update. Plenty more done and plenty more detailing - I still haven't gotten to the point of being ready to rivet the buggers yet... I'm almost ready to start stuffing around with pilots and crew, the plan at this stage is to have a main pilot with a pilot running each arm. And then various hangers on - and with the new grot boxes coming I may just throw some of them onto the beasties as well

Anyways - onto the photography!

Group shot with the army in tow:






I love how this bit is working out:














Well I've managed to get past the point I usually get to where I feel like chucking the buggers at the wall. That was somewhere before the platforms were finished and the guns were pretty much done. Now it's all downhill where I just fill in the details because it's mostly dealt with. All that are left to add weapon wise are the big shootas and the supa-rokkits. Everything else is pretty much fitted out.

And I can't find a copy of the new apocalypse book anyway to get a squiz at - trying to find the stats on the Klawstompa and the Stompa mob - but it's not available and it's ticking me off...I thought it was in reloaded but I dont' know for sure and there are none available to me before this weekend so when the boyz come over for a game I can properly stomp em with the 7000pts of WAAARGH!nificence!

Tell next I update!

I don't know about stompa mobs but the klawstompa is in apocalypse reloaded, I will can give you the rules:

450 points

Superheavy walker with 4 structure points, 30 model transport capacity (one rear access point) and three fire points in the hull.

Armed with
-flamebelcha
-twinlinked bigshoota
-2 bigshootas
-3 supa rokkits
(also one rear mounted bigshoota)

Flame belcha: fired as warhound inferno cannon, helstorm template, maximum distance to stompa 12"

Armour
Ws Bs S Front Side Rear I A
4 2 10 13 13 12 1 7

Special rules

-Effigy (as other stompas

-Supercharger
the clawstompa assaults 12"

-Klawfrenzy
The stompas power in close combat grants it the follwing special abilities:

It adds 2 to every result on any damage tables (this includes the 1+ for titan close combat weapons)

If it destroys a vehicle in close combat as if using a lifta droppa

It may re-roll missed stomp attacks in combat against enemy units


Hope that helps

Whatdo you know, they actually look different from each other . Splendid work!

As for the rules:

the Klawstompa is in apocalypse reloaded (I'm not posting stats and stuff since it'll get removed). I can't recall seeing rules for stompa mobs in there.

the Stompa mobs are in with the dread mobs. up to 10 in a unit i think and the lead walker gets a shield of some sort that helps everything within so many inches. its also in the reloaded book but I don't have mine handy

lanman wrote:the Stompa mobs are in with the dread mobs. up to 10 in a unit i think and the lead walker gets a shield of some sort that helps everything within so many inches. its also in the reloaded book but I don't have mine handy

Thanks man - I just found it last night! Lol! I knew I'd read it somewhere - it was too precise and...well...coherent to have been a dream

Thanks to everyone for looking for me, and thanks Paul for the stats on the Klawstompa. I coulda almost used those stats for Da Klaw of Gork! (Except for the transport capacity...where would 30 models hold on??)

LOVE the hunchback types ^_^.

Awesome work so far.

My favourite bit so far is the right hand of no. 2, it just reminds me of the iron giant thing, it just looks so ready ro reach out and grab hold of a leman russ turret and either bend it back round or swing the tank around by it.

Keep up the good work!!!

Here's a pic of the apocalypse army ready to go. The entire army weighs in at 8104pts and covers most of the board set up like this. If I pack it together it obviously takes up a lot less space.



I am insane.

Lemmingspawn wrote:I am insane.

Yes. Yes you are. But in a good way!

Loving the work on this project, makes me really want to get to grips with the conversion I have planned!

We ask only to serve.

Glad to be of help.

Still loking awesome. Number 2 has recently become my favourite. Number 1's right arm is a little odd looking, but his left arm is my favourite individual limb.

Well here's the development form the game... 3 Turns. 6 hours. Only JUST lost by 50pts, but the stompas were still standing and weathering an INSANE!!! amount of firepower. The dread mob rule is the best.

And in the course of battle, no.1 stompa took a hit from an unexpected Imperator titan (my opponent, in other words) when they were gesturing and knocked the beast off the table and onto the floor.

Smashed into 10 pieces...

Woah.

But I fixeded it, thankfully. It could have been MUCH worse .

Example of it being worse: he had a moddelling knife in his hand when he gestured and got your throat.

Yes. Yes that would have been worse...

Well - here is an update after avoiding doing more work on the stompas for a while. The new battlewagons gave me sufficient pause while I prepared myself for the next stage on the stompa production.

The crew have been added, but photos of that later, and rivets have been started. Next after that will be bases, undercoating and then paint. Probably get to the undercoating stage by the end of next week at this current rate...if I can find something suitable to use as the bases...

Here's a couple little pics...over 1000! rivets ready for application:



Doesn't look like it - that's for sure. And here is the first arm completed this afternoon:



And a couple of nifty little distractions that make me want to deviate off and build them...





The last one kinda looks like a goblin shredder out of WoW...

I lo0ve the stompas,it really gives you a sense of wow those gaint hunks of plastic are gina kill me!!!

Too much Shtomping! to handle!
Those Scratchbuilt Shtompas! are wonderful!

Well - 1000+ rivets = 2 arms and one leg done. Damn

I have 3 stompas in total, so that works out at needing somewhere in the vicinity of 7000 rivets.

Damn.

Damn damn damn damn damn.

Well I've been playing around with the rivets and I tried riveting one arm with ... poppy seeds ... dip them in superglue and give them a bit of a squash with my fingernail - you be the judge. I don't mind them and they will probably look pretty cool painted up. And the slightly weird shapes suits orkology anyway.

Let me know what you reckon, anyway.



And here is what over 1000 rivets covered...



And the stompas as they are currently:







Hopefully I'll get to undercoat stage at the end of next week - that's about how long I anticipate the riveting, basing and final details to take. Oh - I just realised I haven't built any supa rokkits yet.... hmm...

Poppy seeds seem to do the job just fine, good idea.

I'm amazed how little those 1000 rivets covered though... And I respect you madness for rivetting with this attention of detail