The Warforge Miniature Modelling and Conversion

Oy! Wot’s dat up in da sky?

All of the most fun projects start with 'I couldn't help myself...'

This is one of those.

I was reading about the Orky tidbits in Apocalypse: Reloaded and something stuck out to me, big time. The strategic asset, 'Rokk Em, Boyz!'. The strategem involves hurling 1-3 giant asteroids from an orky tractor-beam ship up in space down onto the board. They cause an apoc. template hit, and scatter d6 FEET.

This is what those of us in the business of being orks like to call awesome.

So Ein finds himself with a little bit of time on his hands one morning, and starts thinking to himself. What should he work on? Troops? Bah. Too much work for me to bother with right now, I don't want to desprue all the crap I have. Big things? Squiggoths and baneblades can wait, I'm not feeling it. Oh wait! How about a strategic asset that doesn't even require a model to use!? Bingo.

So, let's think about this for a moment. Asteroids hurtling onto the board from space would probably cause more than just a template hit - it'd probably leave something behind. Well, you could go ahead and model a big giant rock stuck in the ground as a terrain feature I guess... But...

See, the way I sees it, orks wouldn't hurl just random asteroids and meteors down from the skies. Though the orkiness of such a thing is undeniable, I pictured something a bit more... fun.

That's right. Giant rock fists 'N feet rainin' from da skiez like da handz uv gork an' mork 'emselves!

The easiest way to do this was to use the moonscape craters that GW put out as a base. They already have roughly a 10" blast footprint on them, and you can easily just build off of the nice, flat middle crater.

So, off to my garage I went to cut, carve, and generally mangle foam. Since this is a very spur of the moment project, I screwed the foam together. It holds just as well, and glue takes days to dry between sheets of this stuff because it creates an airtight seal, and PVA glue needs air to set. Hot glue tends to destroy this stuff, too.

Anyway, after 10 minutes or so, I emerged from the garage covered in pink insulation foam and carrying a prototype 'rokk'.

 

Of course, you haven't gone truly overboard until you've added a rocket booster to the giant asteroid hurtling down from space, so I felt obliged...

Then it was off to get some cheap Prang DAS clay and cover the whole thing over, so I had some sort of surface I could carve, sand, and shape more reliably. It was a bit unweildy at first because it wouldn't 'stick' very well to the fist, but after a bit of fighting with it I got the whole thing nice and covered.

 

It's a bit lumpy looking, but who cares?   This is supposed to be a quick, fun project, so there's nothing to agonize about, and anyway I figure once it hardens I can sand it smooth(er) and carve at it with the knife a bit. If I dig too deep and hit foam, I'll just cover that area with some PVA glue so the foam doesn't melt.