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The ignore button is for pansees who can't deal with their own problems.

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BigToof wrote:

BrookM wrote:You just need to get used to things around here I guess. After a while you'll just smile politely, nod in agreement and slowly back away.

There's also the ever helpful "Ignore" button. You'd be surprised how useless some people's comments truely are.

And miss out on the potential fun?

Anyway, slightly back onto topic, I am kinda wondering what variants can be built straight out of the box when it comes out. Maybe just the regular version, maybe the Mek Gant, but then again the variants are easy to build.

I hope the extra choppy one from reloaded is possible with the kit. I like that one because it's absurd and so Orky.

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Personally I'm looking forward to some Mek parts along with a big enough head for a flashing lazor eye. Maybe cut down a GW markerlight and put that in that metal noggin.

Looking at the sprues for the Battlewagon, and having taken a second look at the one in my local GW, it appears to come with a full compliment of crew - at least two full Orks to act as Big Shoota gunners, and several Orks to have popping out of hatches.

I would hope that the Stompa would come with a similar amount of crew - maybe even a special Mek that commands it.

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It is tempting to get a Trukk, Battlewagon and Stompa kit at the same time and just mix and match everything for an afternoon to see what can be cranked out. Badrukk would make a good Gant Kaptinn, just give him a raised pulpit with shouty tubes and levers, maybe a grot runner.

Brimstone wrote:

oomiestompa wrote:It's compatible with the Battlewagon?

Now I'm going to have to get one more of each than I was planning just to mess around with that.

If you mean can I mix and match the kits the answer is yes.

lol Are you serious? We are talking about Orks. The new Stegadons is compatible with Orks. Hell, my daughters Polly Pocket cars, with enough Plasticard and empty spurs, could be made into Ork trukks. But, I don't know which would be worse: the ridicule from the people you play against w/ said Orky Pocket trukk or the screaming from the daughters when they see Polly's head on the grill of the trukk.

Can't wait to see the model in person.

BrookM wrote:It is tempting to get a Trukk, Battlewagon and Stompa kit at the same time and just mix and match everything for an afternoon to see what can be cranked out. Badrukk would make a good Gant Kaptinn, just give him a raised pulpit with shouty tubes and levers, maybe a grot runner.

1 box of Bikes.
1 Trukk.
1 Battlewagon.

Get that and I'm sure you could make a unit of Wartrakks/Buggies. Add a Stompa to the above list, and you can make an Orky repair garage for them as well.

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JohnHwangDD wrote:@Flachzange:

IMO, GW is selling huge kits because:
- they have the technical capability to make them,
- no other gaming company can compete with similarly large kits
- we buy them

Apoc is selling well, so go for a 3rd round!
- Guard & Baneblade are selling, so the Shadowsword is avanced to plastic.
- Orks are selling well, so the Stompa is advanced to plastic.
- Marines always sell well, but their only big kit is the Thawk, which is too expensive to sell right now - save it or the Warhound for 2010+, when Apoc might need more of a jump

If I had to guess who gets Apoc stuff next, I'd guess for Eldar Scorpion superheavy (which then allows Cobra, and other Engines of Vaul), but that's probably 2011 or later.

i quote this from some one in gw design team

"THER WILL BE NO PLASTIC THUNDERHALK!!!!!!!!!!!!"

And when have you ever known GW to stick to what they say?

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They said they were getting rid of the archive service, didn't they?

Gargants?

*PLASTIC* gargants?!

It's a good day for a WAAAUGH!!, boys!

pcon426 wrote: i quote this from some one in gw design team

"THER WILL BE NO PLASTIC THUNDERHALK!!!!!!!!!!!!"

but what about the ThunderhaWk


sorry for being so picky

i quote this from some one in gw design team

"THER WILL BE NO PLASTIC THUNDERHALK!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Thunderhalk Is that some sort of Hulk with lighting abilites?

I still have the body from the force-field Big Mek. He would look great standing on an enterprise-like bridge in the stompas torso.

pcon426 wrote:"THER WILL BE NO PLASTIC THUNDERHALK!!!!!!!!!!!!"

I think even GW's trained monkeys can type more coherently than that...

I'm taking the Thunderhawk speculation to Discussions...

H.B.M.C. wrote:The ignore button is for pansees who can't deal with their own problems.

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sigged for truthiness.

ender502

Awwwww maaaaan, I hope I get a job soon. I've a lot of orks at this point, and a forgeworld squiggoth. I owe Da Boss's Boyz a Stompa. Or two.
(Cos you know you really need a big mek stompa with a lifta droppa. Anything else is just...panzee.)

Bell of Lost Souls has a pic up!

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4nzgPbHlNo4/SVKSHnpFozI/AAAAAAAADns/CC1--vi5-3E/s1600-h/Stompa-01.jpg

It actually looks quite good as a faithful render of the Epic model. The Grot riggers really sell it.

Wow, major letdown. Just another upturned flower pot covered in plasticard.

lord_blackfang wrote:Wow, major letdown. Just another upturned flower pot covered in plasticard.

What do you want, another Mr. Potato head?

i like it

I like the top half of it - though I'm not a fan of the GIANT METAL SKIRT method of stompa design.

Preface: With experience in injection molding and manufacturing design, I can understand how challenging it would be to produce a kit of such a large, dynamic model.

That being said, what a let down. I'll admit I'm not a fan of the flowerpot style to begin with, so there's that bias. But those arms are weedy, the feet are weedy. To be a soldier of the Imperium and see a stompa trundle up the horizon should cause terror. This model just seems... awkward.

Of course this is one picture, of one model, from one angle, with one paint job. Many weren't sold on the battlewagon until more pictures surfaced. But really, as an initial knee-jerk reaction to a first look: meh.

Overall the model doesn't feel menacing. It doesn't look brutal. Here's hoping future publicity shots showcase the model in a better light.

That being said, I'll gladly pick one up and use various parts as ingredients in a greater recipe.

Weedy arms and the eye slots are all wrong, but that's an easy fix. I love it. Now is the time to see just how modular the ork kits really are.

The head looks like gak. At least it has a kaptinn riding on the head.

There's more to like than to dislike, IMHO.

More - and larger - pictures are required, methinks.

I'm a fan of the old bell shape, but absolutely despise the "junky" look.

They always were upturned flower pots. I think it looks like a more realistic, updated and Orky adhoc version of the originals. These were never designed to be graceful. I imagine them trudging along spewing black smoke and shedding loose parts and rust by the bucket loads.

Junkwaffle at the-waaaagh just posted these, new paint job. Mods if this is stepping on toes, don't hesitate to nuke them.