Hello long time, no see.
Finally found some time to do some more models. After the Bikes and Attack Bikes for the Steam Punk Marines, I'm finally back with the Orks.
We're playing a League at the Club and I decided to use my Orks. At the beginning you enter three lists and before each game you can choose the list you want to use. This gives you the opportunity to use lists you normally wouldn't use in a league, because they are not universal enough. The lists are all made public at the start of the league, which adds a bit of "I think he will choose, because he thinks, I will choose ....".
One of my lists uses some Stompas and a Supa Stompa.
I had already designed some Stompas very early on, but the close combat Stompas and Supa Stompas were missing.
The CC Stompa is just like the Shooty Stompa, but replaces an Gun arm with a Chain Saw arm.
That's all Stompas and Supa Stompas I painted, more than I probably ever use.
Here is a shot of Stompas, with some Bikes, Stormboyz and Waggons for scale.
On the very right an ordinary Stompa. On the very left the first Supa Stompa. The idea was to make it the same as an ordinary Stompa, but 10% larger and to give it a belly gun for distinction. A friend suggested to replace the feet with tracks - I liked the idea and did so, but this ate some of the height advantage. I had planned to use an ordinary Stompa head, but when I put on a tank turret, just for laughs, I liked the effect, so this first design came about. The first design was just to get the body right, the arms were designed a tad later.
When I realised that the body will look to small, id resized it to be 20% larger. That led to the red Supa Stompa. The head is a blown up ordinary Stompa head, with two hatches instead of one.
I rated that size wise ok and designed the arms. I wanted a Zap arm and a CC arm. I like my earlier Zap design very much, so I only modified it's mount. That is the Zap on the first Stompa. For the larger Stompa I rescaled it and added a gunner. His position is a bit exposed, "but no risk, no Zap" as they say. I choose a hammer for CC, because it is simple and massive and so would be a good optical counterweight to the Zap gun. The hammer on the later Supa Stompas is a over-proportinally bigger than on the first one.
Very often I print at least two of each model, so I had a second body. I used an very early version of the Predator turret as head. This is a bit larger and higher than the current one, but fits well to the larger Supa Stompa body.
One of the design flaws is that the arms have not much freedom to use. An easy way to correct this, would be to mount each arm to it's own turret and have them rotate independently. That led to the Supa Stompa in the middle. It consists of a stack of rings, with an arm attached to each. The rings getting smaller, creating a distinct shape. The stacked rings would not work so well with the overlapping tiles, so I used more or less regular bolt on tiles. I had to try the idea to clear it from my head. In the end I like the other designs better. I could try to improve on the design, but I have already more Supa Stompas than I will ever need, so I prefer to move on to the next "needed" model and come back later when I do not have "anything better to design".
