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Hello Dakka. I've missed it here. I've been working on a few nightly projects as bits have been coming in, and today, with pride, I can say everything is at full steam again. Discovered awesome lil thing called earth magnets too. Well, on with the Update:

Warboss Balcony/Waagh Inspiration: This new scaffolding platform will rest on the remote fifth level near the Ork flag. A super ork chamber door will lead from the center rock to this platform. It obviously could be some form of trukkish, Kult of Speed type Bossyness, but I will definitely show the Goffs. I think of Wazdakka and Nob Bikerz, or even a Warboss on da bike, but then there's Gazghkull. I want this Rok to have been potential home to great leaders. This would be where they met, or perhaps a boss would come for reflection and inspiration of Mork and Gork. For beneath him, churns the beatiful sound of Dakka.

Killy Cannon (ie Vulcan dakkagun thing): Attached beath the small fifth level Rok platform is well-ramshackled metalwork connected to a big gun. Magnetized even. I discovered earth magnets in my effort to make this gun movable. It worked, and its lovely. I love the mobility. Maybe I can finally paint it now I got a proper home. This thing will see down field and rotate 270 to the front of the Rok. Also, a warboss standng above this cannon is blessed with major Waagh vibes!

Lastly, the favorite (of mine)...

The Garage Siege-gate: So the bottom of this tall bastich needed some structuring and some love. I wanted a ramp, or gate, to make things assaultish with the Rok. They crashed, there coming to give you hell. Started with a few sets of ramps from a Truk kit, and well, you see. Its massive. Its awesome. It full moves, and the garage space now has room, with the ramp for a full squad of 10 Nob Bikerz. Lol. Or possibly a Wagon?

Back to the grind!

Level 4 is turning out nicely. Im happy with the way the gun turned out and the magentizing process. I built another contraption to cover the hanging gun platform... and it's a platform. Well, more so one of a Big Mek's creations primarly defending the area atm, but it does ramp to the fifth level Warboss area.

Back to the grind. Im experiencing a persoal Waagh vision!

Jolly good terrain , well done lad !

Thank you for the kind words. I now have all the initial metal coats on the last three big contraptions. I will actually finish the garage, big mek guardian, and Grabba Support Klaw tonight!

Shots from the first photo shoot. I'm having a waaghgasm just posting these. This Rok owns my soul. It is really starting to come together. Enjoy the first round. More on the way!

Absolutely, simply, beautiful. I am totally road-tripping to play on your Rok Table!

--Brian

Thank you so much. The appreciation totally motivates. Bring it! I'm a Blood Angel player by default though....

I cant wait to do an optional datasheet for this monster!

As my plog may reveal, I'm IG at the moment. Your BA can come try and dislodge my Admech Magos, digging through the Rok ruins. DISLODGE WITH FIRE.

Typical fanatical imperial commander marooned on his garrison in the armageddon system... all crazy and mad with mecha power. Yep, I'll box with that!

Unfortunately, your admech would prolly rock my DoA or Mech Hybrid. But, itd make for a good fight throuigh an apocolyptic wasteland.

Speaking of IG.... I definitely want to include some guard bits on this thing. Definitely some fallen corpses or destroyed vehicles. Any ideas? Ive been thinking of just getting a box of cadians and chopping em up!

Corpse-wise, grab some bitz and go. Posting them dead is a challenge, but not TOO hard.

Vehicles are a bit harder. Look for some beat-up stuff on eBay, but people tend to snap that up to salvage, or make terrain out of.

I don't have a full admech force, just an adviser stand-in for my Primaris Psyker.

--B.

Just read over your recent battle report. It would be a good match. I prefer a half mech/half jumpy hybrid with a lil Sanguinor and Mephiston. It'd be a slug fest.

I just visited the Rok in the workshop. Its freakishly hard not to stare at. You could spend an entire game battling around and through its levels. Kinda want to write a few missions involving it..... Hrmm, I might hafta take it on a road trip to Sci-fi city Orlando.

I did some searching. Looks like I'll pick up a cadian command squad to hack up. Decent bits there.

Any thoughts/feelings/comments about the direction this is taking? I think I've finally mustered the courage to paint the Waagh banner, and I still have 3 or 4 trukk beds and a slew of parts. Started piecing together a large rectangular boarding ramp/wall to connect from level 3 to the raised highway. I'll be getting some more Dakka bits, possibly a FW supa killcannon to mount on this bizzle. Cant wait to get those battlewagon parts for the top floor....

My only comment is to continue the path. You have an interesting table, with Roks that have been converted to an Ork Fortress. Consider some large bridges between Rok towers, debris piles (with some ded Orks), and maybe a scavenger pile, where the Meks go to find bitz, and random loot is dropped off. Great use for any leftover/dead vehicle bits.

Also, go to bed.

Are you sure your not an Ork Player? cause you have one of the strongest Big Mek streaks i have ever come across.

That Rok makes me want to have your kids.

as for the KFF thing you mentioned. If enough of da boyz think it will work, than by gork it works! (and trust me on this one, every last greenskin on that rok believes the KFFs keep the air in.)

Good stuff here.

That is crazy looking! I like it alot.

All looks good, but it's the path/scaffolding that makes it for me

Build another and you can play boarding actions between them

these are some really fantastic scenery pieces. Can't wait to see what you get up to next

The kind words go a long way to vitalize my inspiration. My Waagh grows exponentially! I have never painted an Ork, nor field an Ork army. Ive fought them consistently for the last few years, and have always appreciated their style/fluff.

My next big piece for this is a Monastery fortress


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It should be noted that the bulk of their "technology" is so incredibly crude that its ability to function would apparently contravene not only common sense but the laws of physics as well; a given shoota is, more than likely, literally slapped together out of scrap metal, leaving it by rights incapable of firing. That it works at all is testament to the power of the Ork Waaagh!, as it's peculiar psychic field allows them to bypass the physical impossibilities that would ordinarily render their gear useless or broken, simply via belief. Within limits, if an Ork believes a particular gun is working and pulls the trigger, it will fire. Although this doesn't mean that anything will do, and Mekboys create what conceptually might be relatively close to their intended weapon or wargear. The power of the Waaagh! gives the item that extra push it needs to operate. Mekboys are therefore critical to the maintenance of Ork technology not only physically, but psychically as well, as they can instill sufficient credibility in the Waaaagh! regarding a given device to get it actually working.

A related version of this system is why "da red wunz go fasta".

Taken from Lexicanum.com...

Seems you were right on the money there. If they believe the KFF works, it friggin works. I'm falling for these whacky lil greenskins...

Okay, I got my next platforming door built, and a slew of other bits I wanna throw some colors on. Heres a shot of whats in the painting que including: the dreaded waagh banner, a mess of tires, grabba klaw, and the level 3 Nob boarding hatch!

Notice the wip Furioso with real-life magna grapple. One day my BA will get a lil attention, but first... the Dakka Rok!!

Hello Dakka! I'm very happy with the Rok progress this weekend. I'm nearly done painting about half of my bits in que including the boarding ramp/wall panel for Level 3. It is looking super awesome!

I have a few ideas up in the air for some dakka. The Rok is coming along nicely, but it definitely needs LOADS of firepower. I'm currently considering the three pieces below from Forgeworld. The Flakgun and Supa cannon are just beefy Dakka, but the grot bomb I have special ideas in mind. I imagine two or three grabba claws on coming off the engine rocks, and hanging from each clawi? Yep grot bombs.

Talk to me community. Give me direction, online gaming community!

SUPER KANNONS FOR THE WIN!!!!!

i have been craving those super kannon models for months now, they are just so awesome!

that said i think a mixture of super kannons and flakka gunz would be epic, beecause flakkagunz are good anti infantary and anti air but against tanks are rubbish where as super kannons are great against tanks but are terrible with anti air power so ????

if you only get to choose 1 take the flakkagun, if you can have more then one then get ones of each.

hope this helps

So, before I can answer, let me ask you something.

Is this Rok a "just 'landed'" scenario, or a 'it has been a few months, and this is now a fortress' scenario? It matters.

At first I thought you were going to have the dread hanging off of the rok, like it grabbed on in the last fight and has just been hanging on for dear life. I'm still hoping that's what you'll do... great work.

I will be picking up one of each then! What about the grot bombs?

Now, the Rok will have APOC deepstrike rules, so Id like to think its more recently than that!

These guns will be extremely sweet.

hmmm grot bomms held by grabbers could be cool but make sure you have at least one grabber that has sqweezed too tight and destroyed the grot bomm in its claw and is now burnt and broke?

(not a super fan of those grot bomm models though tbh)

Lol thanks Bigfish. I do appreciate you swinging by here too. I've checked out your Orkish WIPs and I am a fan. I'll quit being such a noob and head that way to give my praise.

You too, Silver! Exceptional work!

I'm going to go put the finishing touches on those bits now that I'm home for work. I'll upload some shots of the new Rok, along with my idea for the Dakka.

I'll definitely be getting both guns. And will probably do magnetized fire platforms on the top on each side of the waagh banner. That'll leave the pieces interchangeable and in a fluffy firing position ( ie an AA weapon shouldnt be blocked out by a asteroid ceiling). That's a go.

Grot bombs in the klaws. I do like the damaged idea, but I also think the model will be weak as far as FW goes. I mean, its costing me like 12.00 dollars. I can alot of different dakkas for that (like more battlewagon gunners!)

Hmm, def getting the supa cannon and flak gone ordered tommorrow. I got the battlewagon bits on the way to hold me over!


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Lol @ Good Green. Hah. I'm thinking about going on ebay and just typing in "40k broken" so I can do things like that. The crashed landspeeder was just from having a Ravenwing army ten years ago!

UPDATES: Defensive/Siege ramp complete! Now with more Orky bits included!

Waaaaagh!

Ok, so the siege ramp/armor for level 3 is complete! I painted a few other Orky bits along the way to push through this sea of GW plastics that need to hit this Rok. The more I put into, the more I wanna do. It is truly a vaccuum in my life lol.

More to come, but I'll take your opinions now!

Great work. It looks awsome and on top of that one of my favorite thread titles ever. Big things are happening at the Ork fashion show

Thank you, sir! I definitely am experiencing some major waagh visiions here. The title is whacky, but i thought the Rok deserved an official photo shoot when I attached all the new meky goodness.