The Ork Landa is a Ballistic Entry Vehicle that in many ways is similar to the Space Marine's Thunderhawk Gunship, which is most likely where Ghazghkull got the idea. The Landa may not be as attractive as the Thunderhawk, or as well equipped, however it is not to be underestimated. Like most Ork craft the Landa's armour is thick and the hull is studded with heavy guns and rokkits making it a very capable Landing Craft and a critical part of Ghazghkull's invasion plans.

Landing Craft

The Ork Landa was introduced specifically for Epic Armageddon and is one of a number of new Ork models released to celebrate the games re-launch. Although it does rather tongue-in-cheek resemble Thunderbird Two, the Landa is a great looking model and is very easy to assemble. The lower jaw is in fact the exit ramp and slides down a track either side of the main cargo hold allowing the Orks within to disembark through the jaws so to speak, a rather nice touch. The Landa's on the right are the first pair from a squadron of three I have added to my main Ork force. Slightly larger and bulkier than the Thunderhawk Gunship, the Ork Landa comes with a set of extra gun turrets which can be added to the fuselage making it a veritable gunboat. In this instance I have left most of them off as I felt they rather spoiled it's simple but striking shape.

Painting the Landa

As the Landa is a Ballistic Entry Vehicle I felt the paintwork should look even more worn and distressed than usual (even for Orks!) and based the scheme on a cross between my more recent Battle Fortresses and the Landa seen in the rulebook. To create the worn paintwork I started by dry brushing the entire model with a mix of tin bitz and boltgun metal. Ove this I then lightly dry brushed chainmail silver and gave the entire model a wash of black ink mixed with terracotta red. Once the ink wash had completely dried, I then began the red by painting a thin mix of scab red and terracotta red over a few of the panels. To create the chipped and weathered look the trick is to paint only small areas of armour leaving the metal colours showing around any edges or rivets. I then added blood red to the mix and over painted the armour I picked out initially leaving some of the darker colour showing around the edges. I continued to add red to the mix each time painting a smaller and smaller area of the armour to create the worn paintwork seen above. The second Landa was painted using the same palette of colours with the exception of adding a few patches of green to help keep the two looking different.

For detail I simply picked out a few panels to paint either brass, such as around the cockpit, or black and white check pattern. As a final touch I painted the cockpit glass dark green with a scorpion green highlight and the 'teeth' ghostly grey with a skull white highlight. To finish the Landa's were then mounted onto a flying stand made from a 40K round base and heavy brass rod.

I may add a few more glyphs and details yet, but only once the final Landa has been completed, so watch this space for the rest of the force.

Oddboy Soopa Gun Fortresses

An interesting, but surprisingly little know fact is that the Oddboy Soopa Gunz shown as part of the Big Gunz Mob are actually designed to additionally fit straight onto the Gun Fortress upgrading it to an Oddboy Character (or Soopa Gun to the rest of us). No converting is required, it simply fits straight onto the hull where the main tower/gun would normally sit. The two shown above were very quickly put together from some spare Gun Fortress chassis I had in the bits box and a blister of the new Soopa Gunz. A few more Battle Fortresses and Ghazghkull's Horde is starting to fill out nicely. Now that the Landa's are mostly completed it's time to move onto some Stormboyz and Kommandos.

Until next time, happy gaming.

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