Tuesday, January 5, 2010

New toy for Epic Orks

It's always nice to dig through the hoard of unpainted minis in my basement (known euphemistically as "pending projects") and find a nice surprise, still in its box. Many, many years ago I purchased an Ork Gargant for Epic 40k from the shelf at Campaign Outfitters. It cost approx $20 Canadian.

Who knows how long it had been sitting there? It then sat more years in my basement. During my Epic re-basing project, I found it in the basement, put it together and painted it. So, better late than never, I guess.




Here is a pic of the model next to the larger, scarier "Great Gargant", which I acquired from Fawcett member Sean M. years ago. It gives a sense of the relative size - I think the Gargant fits into the line at about the same position as the Imperial Reaver Titan - scary, but not the scariest thing.



Now to stomp some humiez! Should make for a good dust-up with the Imperial Guard and a few Titans.

For fun, I checked the GW site for how much it would cost to acquire one today. Only $42 US for a Gargant! Needless to say, much better to find one in the basement.

While I was visiting the GW Web site, I thought I would check the other Epic 40k models, and was floored by just how much the Epic 40k stuff is starting to cost. The Gargant is a great deal compared to the criminal price of $23.75 US for TWO, count em', that's TWO, Wave Serpents. So putting your detachment of eight Eldar units into Wave Serpents for Epic 40k can be done for just about $50 US! What a GREAT DEAL.

It is actually cheaper to order the resin Epic models from Forge World!!

No wonder nobody plays Epic anymore...

4 comments:

DaveV said...

Great job on the Gargant!

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Awhile ago I costed out an Epic Eldar force: a couple of scout titans, skimmers and some Aspects. Very pricey. I'll look into the cost of the resin vehicles...

Greg B said...

Dave - you can also check "Chaos Orc's Superstore" - they tend to have repositories of used stuff, including resin epic Wave Serpents.

I have ordered from there, but the results were mixed...so proceed with caution if you do.

The Epic models seem to be disappearing from Forgeworld at the same time (perhaps a logical business decision, given that GW appears to want to price Epic out of existence).

Dallas said...

Great looking Gargant!! Would be an awesome ground target in an Aeronautica Imperialis game!

Greg B said...

Hey - yeah...cool idea. In one of the Epic rule books, there is a picture of a gargant "under construction" - maybe we could do some kind of "Gargant Repair Yard" (or more likely - "da big git yard") that Imperial bombers are taking out...