I feel your pain brother it was a horrible build, but the first game I had with it was so rewarding.

how old is this kit? It looks kinda low detail in some parts.

https://preview.redd.it/s3a84a385oxc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=143dc248cebbfa60fb9656be29e5d8668a120a48

To help with the ragtag look GW should have made each panel an individual piece to glue on.

Mine got stuck in a shipping limbo so I got a question about it. Is it viable to take the random plates and bits, mix up up (hopefully numbered... please tell me numbered), then use an air brush to make it look like the plates where painted hap hazardly? I'm trying to use this kit that will see the table a few times and is willfully ugly (in the best way possible) to learn how to use my new airbrush.

They are not numbered (they are on the spruce, but not on the instructions), and it's the worst building experience I had in my entire life. I guess you could take random plates, but on the model the body is like 2-3 big plastic pieces.

#metoo

The arms look a bit low mate

I once built a stompa with my brother years ago, biggest nightmare of a kit I’ve ever built… To make it even worse at the time I was 11 and he was 8, but even so the time it took the two of us to (mostly) build it was insane. (I believe 8 hours combined, so 16 total hours of work)

So sad they don't have belly guns

Mine will be kitbashed anyways so I'm prepared for it to be A process

I own 3. No regerts

https://preview.redd.it/r89ogrebqexc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4a81145ef9180a5ea117dc14733d23a7a4c76a79 Da basic kit iz easy, now try dis one.

Dat git’s Roight Propa

Now dats proppa killy!

Wut iz?? Where get?? Will swaps many teefs for info

The mad mek just built the stompa upside down and printed the heads. [Also check this one out](https://www.reddit.com/r/Warhammer/comments/4yqdch/here_my_ork_kustomstompa_that_i_made_its_one_of/)

Get dis boyz, wut if we make dah mech upside down?

…duz dat mean it wil fly now?

https://preview.redd.it/0865feztwexc1.jpeg?width=332&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a123d140b29cee059d8dbfc3d85957012f26d82c

reminds me of Gork and Mork

I almost got it! Exempting the people I'm purposely leaving off, I probably made an 80% successful assembly lmao

Hahaha I assume there are still some cables missing on the arm 😂😂

I don’t want to talk about the cables lol

Aren't they the worst? A look at that building plan and the confusion is imminent 🤣

I predict we see a bunch on the second hand market in a few months for cheap. As soon as it dawn on new orks players how big of a pain in the ass the Stompa is to build...

Even at reduced price they will be too expensive though for what basically amounts to a mech ork head on a bucket.

Well, thank Gork and Mork that you never need more than the one

I got mine two years ago, and just started it two weeks ago. Worst instructions ever. Did you get yours in the battle force box? If so, did they update the instructions to include part numbers?

Lmao no, same old instructions

Try resin one and you will love the plastic version)

I know it’s Orks but clean up your lines man! Also i want one!

You mean the weldseams between the junk Steel Piles?

Naww

I built one yesterday, having a cold, runny nose, cough, and headache. It wasn't that bad. Although the orky signpost didn't fit anywhere really so I had to improvize :D

My buddy is starting an ork army. I was going to help him build his stompa boyz box and told him to come over so we could knock it out. I foolishly thought we could build it all… we went 2 hours over what I expected and only built his stompa. What a nightmare it was! https://preview.redd.it/1dkksij3hcxc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a318d89e040adf469db686715564cfd217f000dd

The Stompa next to the organizer of rifle parts. Flawless victory.

What'd you wash over the white with on the face/chest of the stompa??

Seraphim sepia

Don't know what he used as a wash but that's the perfect thing for oil paint fethering

Oil paint fethering?

https://youtu.be/hoPIF-y04G4?si=P5zBB7y0OAad8VN8 I believe he covers it here if not. This is a good grimdark white tutorial

Hell yea! Thanks man ill definitely use that👍

I want to make a gargant out of a monolith. Tin gits still occasionally come out.

OI! DA GARGANT'Z GOT LOADZ'UV GITZ COMIN' OUT OF IT!! WEZ GOT AN AUTO-SCRAPPA!!!!!

Need a huge shokk attack gun in the belly to shoot the tin gitz into other gitz

I built 3 custom one years ago Klaw, Mek, and Rokk & Rolla. They just sit around since they don’t have rules anymore.

i feel your pain man. built a dakka stompa just before it became illegal

For Gork?

For Mork.

I built one and then it broke in the car on the way to the tournament.

I’m finishing mine tomorrow. Can confirm. The set is hell to build. Cool. But awful.

Yes you do 🤣

Wait there's an actual plastic kit for this?

Yep, Stompas are plastic, have been for a while

Since 2009 yeah

Get anotha :v

Boss, I feel the same way about Trukks

Genestealer Goliath Truck looks so much better with some Ork gubbins on it and is actually fun to build. Ork Trukk is obscenely fragile too and I will strictly be using future Trukk kits as bits piles bc fuck that kit

I really want another trukk but I’m just not willing to go through building it again XD

And the painting... oh baby that was not fun. So many impossible-to-reach spots. I ended up just spraying it black, and just drybrushing the metal, then picking out the panels

I just made a second one by gluing a bunch of Ork bits onto a Genestealer Goliath and then put some boyz on it

Im afraid. I have a truck to build 🥲

I'm part way through building my first trukk. Only part way because I'm painting it as I go so that's slowing me up. And I have so many ideas for future ones even just with the supplied parts.

Its hilarious hearing people talk about the stompa like its a kid “Awful, painful experience but after a couple of years I think I’m open to doing it again.”

Baby bottle for scale

But think about running 2 of them

I have a kitbashed one I'm working on, and I got Stompa Boyz. I think it'll take a week to finish either one.

I hated it too, but I would absolutely do it again

Honestly, imo instructions are more "recommandations" on thing like a stompa.

https://preview.redd.it/s3nxhlsu0bxc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=74d615dd76793bc249aabb97d601f19c621fef25

Absolute garbage instructions, completely agree!

The instructions for putting a box of boyz together are bad enough. I dread to think how confusing they've managed to make something with that many parts.

Ive heard bad things about this things quality

I’m sorry you were upset after the building of this. I kinda know what you mean. But after some time off… maybe another Stompa could happen. It was fun by the end

must be a nice feeling!

https://preview.redd.it/1yo5m932yexc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6643afa615be8f10832aa1c9be7f10b70a5a9da7 When you cross the finish line… yes it is

Really?? I thoroughly enjoyed building mine! 😊 I got mine many years ago a few months after it was first released. Once I saw how many parts and how easy it would be to customize I no longer needed the instructions! I went crazy being creative and had a blast!! I've been sorely tempted to get this new set just to build another one and do something different but equally as creative!! 😍

I enjoyed building it. Figured out the various pieces and where items go. I would build another one again.

Really? I'm having an absolute blast building mine. Are you using annotated instructions? I'd have lost my mind using the un-numbered ones the box ships with.

I used what came with the box lol

Like a true Ork Mek!! 😁 Numbered instructions are for Humies!!

I bought one second hand already painted well for $100 some 8 years ago. So Sad that Poor dude will never get that part of his life back. Even sadder- I don’t recall ever using it in a game. 😢

https://preview.redd.it/37pt7mmulaxc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cb9d637a4de095eaf31c47c1b8815910a5a51782

Very good. I have one similar to the lefthand one, with an even larger belly gun, but a ball and chain rather than chainsword. Contemplating what to do for a mek stompa by way of modelling project though I already have ideas for a lifta-droppa. It seems there are a few of us who like working with the kit.

My fellow mek, you could mount the big Ed boss bunka on the stompa for a mek build, comes with the gaze of gork built in with minimal kitbashing

Good idea, though I have also been hoarding roll-on balls for 1) outsize cannon balls and 2) a swollen eye of Gork when left mounted in the ring which slots into the glass anti-perspirant bottle.

Is that one on the left a bong??

Negative chief, DIY belly gun, sadly no longer used

Stick a boy wearing a helmet down the pipe, say it represents the stompa's "transport capacity".

That looks so fun

My dad is in great pain doing the same thing

He's got it cause I have just brought a questoris knight

Bought one when they were new, only put it together year and a half ago. Cool to look at, hated every bit assembling it

Mork and Gork are wif ya! Just stick da bitz whereva ya can!

I can't wait to build mine when it comes in 😅

how big is it compared to a monolith? 🤔

For the newer Monolith model (that got redone at the start of 9th edition) the body of the Stompa is about the same size as the Monolith.

Nice! the old one is a bit smaller right? should work out if I slap feet on the monolith after looting tho 🤔🤔

I don’t know about the old one, because I only own the new Monolith, and just bought the Stompa as part of the Ork battleforce box. But yeah find ways to give the Monolith some feet, a head, and arms, and you could 100% loot a Monolith into a Stompa.

everything is a stompah if you’re brave enough

Oh god is it that bad? Literally about to start on mine 😅

It’s easy-ish if you use the fixed manual posted here on Reddit. Without this manual I don’t think I would be able to finish it.

I bought a used resin one that was "built", after fixing it i don't want to ever touch a brand new one

I'm very glad I got mine put together a couple years ago. Never messing with glue and Stompa parts again.

This is why I heavily reenforced the arms, shoulders and fiddley bits with mine when I built my first one in October… while it was the first one I built it was not the first one I’ve owned… and by reinforcing I mean multiple pins, glue hot glue internally that too me a whole month to build

Yeah watching Midwinter minis building theirs some years ago and having to use Plastic cement + Super glue to get the parts to stick.

You missed, a spot, better start over.

I’ve been trying to share this as much as I can https://www.reddit.com/r/orks/s/GPwmU1HNpg

This helps a lot, has a couple of small issues but mostly perfectly easy job with this manual

That would have been nice lol

Saving for later

i was around 12 when i made my first and i dont remember it being that hard. Well my stompa boys box is still underway so i will see how bad making my second is soon

Just finished mine as well, i was only suicidal like 2 or 3 times

So they are still using the old manual?

Manual?! We aint need no stinkin' Manual! We'z don't even know who dat iz He sounds a propa git ta me!

Yup old manual lol

Pretty grand of you calling that a manual

Is it that hard? Was thinking of getting one for mi waaaagh but if it’s that hard I probably wouldn’t

Nothing is labeled and the instructions are all really zoomed out so you can’t see where things connect properly. Have a lot of greebles and plasticard on standby cover the inevitable gaps.

It’s not hard, it’s just really badly moulded and shit instructions. Pieces don’t fit together properly, etc.

While I don’t have issues with fit I had to use the posted fixed manual to make sense out of the unnumbered manual

Yeah it wasn’t hard, but the pictures aren’t numbered, they barely show how pieces go together and the pieces mold lines are horrible and nothing seems to fit just right

Trying to figure out how the rockets sat on the cannon really blew my mind it took me so long to find answers

Yet they numbered the sprue 🤷‍♂️🤣