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Hm, that looks pretty 'ard, I wonder what the parts breakdown is.

Nope, still not looking any better than the average bucket-based scratchbuild.

I can't believe they wasted sprue space with two belly armour variants (skull/no skull)

Like its been said, a true Ork Mek will buy one kit and build two Stompa's out of it.

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

Those're from the GW-UK newsletter.

It's very useful!

As an old Ork player, I think that any Warboss worth his salt should be using only parts of the Trukk, Battlewagon and Stompa for his own creation rather than simply building the kits by-the-numbers.

All true that this (along with the new Trukk & Battlewagon) is only good as the basis for conversion, but what a basis!

Especially as the hardest part of making a Stompa has always been the basic chassis. This shell speeds the process immensely.

It's styrene, so it's a lot easier to work with than anything before, and there are loads of interchangeable, optional bitz to make stuff with.

This really is the high point in

I think it looks great. The old versions were hideous, this is a nice fat junky remake on what used to be a bad clay sculpture.

Of course as with any ork vehicle it should be at least a little bit converted, but out of the box it still looks great.

Honey! Where's ma boomgun? Jus got word from Morkville we be ekspectin' them Imperial Revenuers to show up any minute to shut down the Orkbilly still.

It's not bad, but what is this nonsense about these kits only being a basis for conversion? A kit's a kit. You convert it if you want, or you leave it stock. Since when does your cred as an ork player hinge on mutilating the stock kits with $50 worth of sheet styrene?

Most of the ork "conversions" I've seen look like crap anyway. We should be grateful that so many of the new ork plastics look so good when built "correctly".

ShumaGorath wrote:I think it looks great.

Here I will be 100% in agreement with you. You of course, Shummy, must now change your point of view to argue with me.

ShumaGorath wrote:The old versions were hideous, this is a nice fat junky remake on what used to be a bad clay sculpture.

I agree. They took the junky look of the new Ork stuff and combined with with the Humpty Dumpty look of old to make a machine that looks like it might work. I especially like the giant chainsaw arm. Unlike the old ones where it looked about as manoeuvrable as a bus sinking in a lake, this one looks like it could actually be swung at things in order to kill them.

ShumaGorath wrote:Of course as with any ork vehicle it should be at least a little bit converted, but out of the box it still looks great.

Out of the box it looks like a conversion, and that's an impressive feat. It's achieved, I think, by the fact that it's not symmetrical. Look at the exhaust assembly at the back. It's random. It's an impressive kit because they've gone and made a Stompa, not half a stompa and then mirror-imaged it.

BYE

dumbuket wrote:It's not bad, but what is this nonsense about these kits only being a basis for conversion? A kit's a kit. You convert it if you want, or you leave it stock. Since when does your cred as an ork player hinge on mutilating the stock kits with $50 worth of sheet styrene?

Most of the ork "conversions" I've seen look like crap anyway. We should be grateful that so many of the new ork plastics look so good when built "correctly".

Right on! The part of it that has always stopped me short of getting one right is the spindly hydraulic pistons on the arms. It will most likely take long enough to put together as a kit, but actually making those from scratch would surely be maddening. Now converting it some just to personalize it, that will be easy and more fun that I personally deserve.
Right now I'm wishing for some bigger Orkmoticons to express the scale of my joy!!!

InquisitorFabius wrote:Like its been said, a true Ork Mek will buy one kit and build two Stompa's out of it.

Incorrect. As I've said, any real Mek would buy two kits and build a single Stompa.

If 1998 taught me anything, it's that size does matter.

*So ****ing happy right now*

Merry Christmas everyone. GW brought us the gift of Stompyness.

Stompy Stomp Stomp Stomp...

HBMC and ShumaGorath in agreement. It's a Festivus miracle!

I love everything but the basic body shape, the nasal, and the horns on the head. I've never been much of a fan of the "Aunt Gertrude in a moo-moo" look that the stompa have. Though if it was painted up in plaid...

The grot-rokkit and the chainsaw arm are especially impressive, though I agree the arm for the chainsay looks a little spindly. I will probably add another hydraulic cylinder or two, or perhaps reinforce the ones that are on it will heavier looking tubes.

Merry Christmas!

Thalor

Thalor

Thalor wrote:I love everything but the basic body shape, the nasal, and the horns on the head. I've never been much of a fan of the "Aunt Gertrude in a moo-moo" look that the stompa have. Though if it was painted up in plaid...

Aye! MacGork and MacMork!

Well my only complaint is - now people aren't going to pay as much for mine (the ones I'm building atm) when I sell them... :( Why pay good money for an awesome scratchbuild when you can buy the kit for much less...although they still have to build and paint them and all that will be done on mine...

Oh well - I'll just have to find another way to pay for my modelling...lol

Here I will be 100% in agreement with you. You of course, Shummy, must now change your point of view to argue with me.

I would but you didn't somehow link it to the overpowering of the stompa in relation to the new model release.




ALSO I HATE YOU AND YOU'RE WRONG. RAAAAAAARGH!

Hmm...

BoLS has the release date as Mar. 7th,

along with the Shadowsword / Stormlord.

Nice.

ShumaGorath wrote:I would but you didn't somehow link it to the overpowering of the stompa in relation to the new model release.

The rules are already out. They can't change them after the fact... or can they???

ShumaGorath wrote:ALSO I HATE YOU AND YOU'RE WRONG. RAAAAAAARGH!

That's more like it.



BYE

And isn't Jonny-boy just like our own personal little BoLS RSS Feed?


Good news though is the price of the Stompa. Same as the Baneblade, not more.

BYE

So all we're missing is a breakdown of the parts.

Should be interesting to see how compatible it is with the Trukk and the Battlewagon.

How compatible could it be, really?

The neck is probably a standard turret ring and on the top of the head is a standard hatch. Maybe the shoulders are also standard turret rings, like on the Defiler, but I doubt it given the weight of the arms.

I find it unlikely that there would be any other bitz deliberately designed to be swappable with other kits.

lord_blackfang wrote:How compatible could it be, really?

The neck is probably a standard turret ring and on the top of the head is a standard hatch. Maybe the shoulders are also standard turret rings, like on the Defiler, but I doubt it given the weight of the arms.

I find it unlikely that there would be any other bitz deliberately designed to be swappable with other kits.

The rumour mill has already churned out plenty of GW quotes that say the Trukk, Battlewaggon and Stompa are all designed for mish mash kitbashes and the many parts are meant to be interchangeable. GW and it's designers have finally cottoned on to the fact that, especially with Orks, the kits don't need to be true standalone one off pieces and are now designing them to be intermixed more and more. Take the Lootas and Burnas box set which needs an arm from the Boyz boxset. The turrets and ring mount items will be interchangeable between Stompa and Battlewagon, weapons, wheels, tracks etc are swappable between Trukk and BW, armour plates and glyphs are common to all three...

The people moaning and groaning about how plain this new Stompa looks are missing the point. This isn't meant to be a finished product. This is a blank canvas for all of your inner Meks to work from. No two Stompas should ever look the same. GW are giving you the oppurtunity to make sure yours doesn't end up looking like anyone elses.

With all due respect, the rumor mill said that ork trukks would be easily broken down into two warbuggies but this didn't turn out to be the case. Dave Taylor (formerly with GW) and the GW website said that the new nobz come with the parts to make a painboy, but having seen the sprue this is not true (yes, there are some arms that might be good conversions for painboyz, but there's no dirty syringe or doc tools).

I really don't get the people who moan about this stuff, we're talking about Orks here, right? You can scratchbuild pretty much anything, that's half the fun! What is it with everyone wanting to be spoonfed all the time? If you can't make a Painboy from the Nobs Box or two Buggies from the Trukk kit, then you might want to try collecting Team Ultramarines rather than Orks, as you clearly haven't got the hang of it yet!

Converting ork products should be a bonus, not a requirement.

I love converting minis, that's one of the best part's of this hobby for me, but releasing a kit that requires converting is a horrible business decision, especially for the prices that GW charges for its products.

"This isn't meant to be a finished product"

Then it shouldn't be released until it is.

If you don't like converting....why you play Orks?

They are simply made for conversions! Be it simple stuff like head swaps to almighty kitbashes from 4 kits and 9 manufacturers, it doesn't matter. Everything about the models screams out CONVERT ME! And not in the bad way. Well. Maybe the bad way for Trakks and Buggies, which are arse by comparisson.

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:If you don't like converting....why you play Orks?

Because they look fun to play?

I don't get the complaints.

After more than a decade, GW finally has a full family of Ork vehicles (including superheavy Stompa) with broadly interchangeable parts that are componentized to support conversion and kitbashing, and we're *still* not happy?

If that isn't enough for you, perhaps "the Hobby" isn't for you...

:S