WH40K - STOMP-E

Ideas for Ork Stompa based on WALL-E toy:

- it should be armed in accordance with codex/Apocalypse rules, and WYSIWYG.

- it should be look more heavily armoured around the weapons and vital areas.

- guns and CCW will come from the GI Joe Sigma 6 walker.

- STOMP-E could stand for "Supa Tuff 'Orrible Machine for Poundin' Everyfink".

WH40K - Battlewagon Barmy

I have gone a bit Battlewagon Barmy and bought a third one, as well as an additional Trukk, to add to my first (unbuilt).
Here's the plan. It involves a bit of the old 'cut and shunt' (vehicle halves being welded together. Very unsafe to do, or indeed say after about a dozen squig ales.)

Battlewagon 1 to lose tracks and be given extra wheels to become wheely battlewagon. Probably an eight wheeler, like an ASLAV or Stryker. Bits from the modular movement tray pack will help restore the chassis here.

Trukk 1 to lose four wheels, and gain tracks from first battlewagon. Add a big gun and it becomes a Flak Trukk. The grot riggers will be falling over themselves to get on board that one.

Trukk 2 and Battlewagon 2 to be built pretty much normal. That way you can see what havoc I have wreaked on the other ones.

Battlewagon 3 to become bitz for STOMP-E (that's the new name for my WALL-E based Stompa. Expansion of the acronym to follow)

I will definitely use the 'jaw' pieces from a battlewagon on the head of STOMP-E, and I might buy the deff rolla sprue from GW direct if and when it comes out.

WH40K - Anticipating the Battlewagon

I am buying two battlewagons. One will fall victim to my Mekboss genetic imperative and form the outer details of the WALL-E Stompa. The other will be built pretty much normal - although some kustomization is mandatory.

Ideas: Lowering? Biiig exhaust pipes, hot rod style? I am thinking of leaving the 'jaw' piece off and building a death roller (or waiting until the direct-only death roller sprue becomes available from GW)

I have seen the early pictures of the GW plastic Stompa and I am very impressed - but it's not what I want in a Stompa. So, like any Mekboss worth his bolts, I will be going ahead with my own (the WALL-E Stompa). It will have the weapons and gubbinz described in the Apocalypse books, but will be more angular than the 'production' model.

My main critique of the GW Stompa design is that while the body looks well armoured (in an appropriately ramshackle way), the weapons are very exposed. I imagine that a Stompa would be a fire magnet on the battlefield and even the dimmest grotrigger wouldn't want the crucial mechanisms (ie: honking big guns) to fail because of a stray bolter round.

WH40K - found a body for an Ork Stompa

I have been collecting bitz like a true Mekboss, just in case one day I have a project that requires some special part I have been saving. Case in point: I have plenty of weapons and bits that would suit an Ork Stompa - but haven't seen anything to make into the body that is more inspiring than a flowerpot. Until now that is.








I found this in Toyworld, for about $40 (Australian dollars). The body is roughly cubical, black and metal details painted on yellow plastic, and the head, arms and tracks pop out. The tracks I will probably keep, the rest of the stuff will have to make room for guns, armour and gubbinz. When? I don't know... but it's in the bitz pile now, ready for the Next Great Project.


Incidentally, while searching for pics of the WALL-E toy on the web I found this. If it isn't a battlewagon, I'm a Squig.

WH40K and GI JOE = Titan Weapons!

I found this beastie in a toy store.

It is a walker for the GI Joe Sigma 6 line of small figures (the human figures are about 6 cm tall).

The machine comes as a bipedal walker, with four attachable weapons. The weapons are surprisingly functional - a push-button makes the claws grab, the mace pops forward, and the gatling gun launches safe plastic darts.

The proportions are more heroic action figure than WH40K, but there is serious potential for development into Ork Stompa or Imperial Titan here.

Here's link to the product at the Hasbro website.