It's a little dusty but it's still good

Deep in the dark mists of time, when I still working in a rather geeky job and didn't have to go to work dressed up as a grown up or worry about the real world good ole GW released Apocolypse.

Finally a way to use all of your collection on the tabletop in one go. You could play massed battles like you had only dreamed of and most people did.... and then got bored and went back to regular games.

In the midst of these heady days I decided to add a couple of apocolypse units to my Ork Army. Well a stompa was pretty much a given but what else?

After much umming and arring I settle on going for a battle fortress using the new Shadowsword kit.

So after a bit of work in the Meks workshop we get....
I was initially stuck on how to create the main gun for the fortress as there were lots of gun pieces in the shadowsword kit. I finally decided to go for the easy option. I used all of them in one go! Of course such a big gun would have need a lot of bracing as I'm sure you can see from the picture.

The exhausts at the back were a mix of plasti rod and the exhausts vents from the adeptus mechanicum city fight building.

The two "inside" track guards at the front of the fortress are the wheel coverings from the Ork warbuggy. The Turret well that's obivously from the Ork battlewagon sprue. To attach it to the top of the tank I used the mounting from the Ork battle wagon sprue as well although it did require a little bit of filing to get the perfect fit.

I used the two side pieces from the Ork Battlewagon sprue to mount the two gunnars and to finish the crew off I added a Mekboy to keep an eye to make sure the engine was running perfectly and some grots pulling ammo crates back and forth.

It didn't turn out too badly if I do say so myself. I just need to play an apocolype game at some point so I can actually use it in a fight!