Thanks for saving this model and giving it a second coming. I'm glad to see it served a bigger purpose in it's life and bring joy / entertainment to so many viewers. Had a few customers reach out to us regarding your video after they saw it, did not realize it was going to you for your channel. I agree the price was definitely over inflated but glad we were able to work out the deal. The one thing I thought they did a decent job on was magnetizing the arms for this thing. For some extra background for anyone who might be interested. I purchased this from an individual near Peterborough, ON roughly 3 years ago. He was getting out of the hobby and probably had the largest Orks lot I have ever purchased (I think I paid $3,000 for everything). There were a bunch of other models in the similar green paint scheme, 300 boys, 100 grots, 20 killa kans etc. I'm a bit hazy on the details but when he showed me the model he told me it was scratch built from spare parts he had found, so I guess he didn't have the front plate and came up with the "cannons" to fill in the gap. This stompa actually has a twin brother out there somewhere, but not as gruesome and without the receipt rolls. I think I saw in the comments someone said they bought it so that might be the one they are referring to. When I went to grab this out of the storage one of our customers saw it and freaked out "What is that thing!" haha. Anyways thanks again and keep up the good work!
Thank you for what you guys do for the community! There have been numerous supporters leaving comments on how great you guys are as a store, both digital and especially physical, and that’s amazing to hear! I also very much appreciate the extra background details as I don’t always get more info on most of the models I come across. Thanks again for the excellent model, it’s made a great piece for my own collection and a fun story to share :)
I loved this rescue. However the cluster of guns on the body were a main feature of the original model, and I was hoping you'd carry that across to the rescue. Not with the exact same tubes used on the original of course, but sort of like a new and improved version of the original idea.
Originally I was wanting to go down that road, but when I pulled out the claw tractors I was really sold on trying to make that work. I really liked the idea that the Stompa was like a mobile armory that could open up and let lose some ridiculous machine to snatch people up.
@@eBayMiniatureRescues still cool, but I feel like it removed what made people want you to buy this in the first place. It’s just a normal nice looking stompa now. :/
Kinda wish you would have incorporated the ridiculous amount of forward guns the original artist had went for but again, amazing restore and techniques!
I thought about it for a long time, even tested a few ideas, but once I pulled out those claw tractors I knew I wanted to use one. If I ever get another one of these, and there's a good chance I will, I would like to try for a chest gun upgrade. I know Forgeworld sells a kit for it, not that I would use that, but it's definitely a thing that this model can be equipped with, so someday there might be a receipt roll put into a Stompa surrounded by a massive amount of well-modeled cannons....someday
It's a shame cause it's the real good spark of ingenuity the original had, just a belly full of bristling guns for as much dakka as possible, if it had been done using a gallery of kannons, zzzaps and looted artillery from other races, maybe set up some scaffolding along the sides so numerous orks and grots can man them all, it would've been really unique and cool.
Yeah. This feels like borderline clickbait tbh. It's a great 'save', of the underlying model, but at the cost of that something special that made the original neon monstrosity so interesting in the first place.
I think it is quite nice that you give the creator of this thing some kudos and start from that point with your critique, instead of just completely stomping on him. As someone who is relatively new to miniature painting and diorama making (no tabletop player), I found this quite wholesome and encouraging.
I think the best part about this hobby is that wherever you are in it, or however long you've been in it, you always have something to share! Sometimes it's tough to execute on the ideas we have in our heads, but with good feedback and practice and we can all get there :)
I'm honestly sorry you didn't find a way to use those ridiculous tubes in its final shape. It was horrible but unforgettable. Now it's cool but I won't remember it in ten minutes :/
Me too. I like the over the top guns it looks ugly, but it was creative, unlike the -1000% fier power version. The paint is good, but it just looks like a regular model
The final result doesn’t look bad at all, but I feel the original model lost its soul in the proces. The belly full of guns, the hideous neon green and all the weird random bits really gave the model a lot of character and charm. Now it looks more like a standard model and way less scratch build.
Honestly, despite the total lack of paint other than green primer, I appreciate the original vision the artist was going for. I can definitely see some crazed Big Mek putting together the vision of his dreams. The ultimate dakka platform. With each salvo the stompa would potentially fall over, and so would thousands of its enemies.
I really wish you had kept the billions of mega barrels on the stomps concept and expanded it. I thought that idea was SUPER unique and it’d be cool to see it more properly executed.
One of those things that I couldn't bring myself to do. I thought about using one to extend one of the gun barrels, but the more I sat with them the less I wanted to use one. I kept them all, so they might end up in some project down the line, never know :)
I think its kind of a shame all those gun barrels disappeared, sure it looked like shit but it wouldve been fun to bring back a couple of them/similar pieces as to hold true to the vision of the original builder
Personally speaking i think replacing the barrels with a mix of heavy and vehicle weapons of ork and imperial origin with some bits to fill the gaps could have kept the whole "walking wall of guns" theme. like a battlecannon here, a lascannon there, some heavy bolters and some autocannons and maybe a couple of flamers at the bottom.
Tistaminis is my LGS in Hamilton, Ontario. Legendary store and staff, and they just got a sweet new location. These guys deserve a ton of love for helping me and tons of others getting back into the hobby! Awesome seeing these two “collab” on this video haha
Just made a similar comment without seeing this one first. They're truly awesome. Super knowledgeable and friendly, and always crazy fast at getting their online orders out too
That's awesome! They have been great every time I've purchased from them, never any complaints, and that's hard to do on eBay. I'm glad they are doing well and helping people get into the hobby!
I could never resist using the template's sprue-runners: Orks' aesthetics would be complimented by the addition of the stock-frame repurposed as toughened barbs and superficial reinforcement.
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@@viciousyeen6644 sorry, that’s definitely a scam that’s been going around. I got his with about 50 fake comments last night before I could clean it all up. I honestly wish I was doing a ps5 giveaway lol.
If they weren't so recognizable as receipt rolls I probably would have used at least a few. I still have them though, so who knows where they will end up!
@@eBayMiniatureRescues what if you trimmed the outer diameter into a cone shape and bolstered the back end with a larger bit of tubing? I think with a little disruption to the silhouette and integrating them into the body (having an area that says "this is where the orcs load and aim the gun" instead of them just being hotglued to nothing) could really sell it.
Every kit is an Ork kit? I like that. It reminds me of a phrase my wife uses, "everything is a dildo if you're brave enough". That's a very Orkish philosophy.
I feel like the seller watched too many videos on model magnetization and was like “I guess you’re supposed to put magnets everywhere” I’m guessing they saw the damage they had done to it and just gave up and quit Warhammer 40K entirely.
lol I've heard magnets are the way to go! Interesting though, I got more info on this model recently in the comment section from Tistaminis. I guess the guy who sold this to them also sold a massive lot of orks along with it. He found this model somewhere and used stuff he had laying around to try and make it playable. He sold everything to them though and said he was done with the hobby, so who knows, this model could have broken him and he bowed out entirely lol.
I'm not a war gamer and have never painted a mini. I don't why the Almighty Algorithm brought me here, but holy shit is that an impressive job. Casey, you are an artist.
Great rescue, putting the little crane...grasper...thing... in there added so much personality to it. Personally I'd have tried to keep the idea and slapped as many belly cannons in there as possible, I kind of love the idea of a 40k mekboy just going "wait... if dakka is good.. and big dakka is big good... what... what if... what if MORE big dakka?"
Dang it's really something to see the Ork army now expand given how I remember when this channel started, years ago, those little fly boyz where one of the first few things painted. Well done sir.
It's been a long time in the making for sure! And pretty much only worked on in Orktober, save for 4 or 5 minis. Crazy how time flies though, seems like only yesterday I was painting my first ork.
It's crazy how many people are saying that Tistaminis is their lgs, I didn't even know they had a physical location! Super cool to see how much they are involved with the hobby, and it makes me feel better that buying from them is helping keep the lights on, literally! :)
$50 plus free advertising was a great deal for the guy! I've got my own eBay store selling painted warhammer and the kind of traffic having your store featured on your channel is worth way more than his $150 price so worked out well for you both 👍 some of my stuff on my eBay needs rescuing 😜
Very great work! Though I will say that if the inner magnets were set slightly into the stompa: both so that them and the outer magnets were hidden when the arms and neck were attached yet also for increased stability/slightly less movement; I think the idea of having magnets wouldn't be so bad. An alternative method might be to have the upper torso just lift entirely off starting below the 'shoulders'; that way there's a little ridge covering the magnet(s) holding the upper torso onto the lower body. That way the size of the figurine can be reduced for transport, but it's still stable and looks good where it matters. The upper and lower portions could have slightly interlocking pieces, almost like a puzzle but more of a drop it down and it fits together type thing, stopping it from jiggling side to side to much when being moved around the battlefield. Although, a top section that can literally spin a full 365 degrees might also be pretty awesome enough to try it without the interlocking pieces. That's a lot of firing arc to dakka dakka.
I appreciate how you didn't just insult the person who did the model in the first place you at least tried to understand they were trying to make the stompa their own.
I've found that it's much easier to strip paint from a model after spraying it with some oven cleaner. Softens the paint AND makes superglue more b4ittle and easier to chip away.
It seems everyone is agreement that they're disappointed you didn't carry over the "spirit" of the original model. The guns in the center were very Orky
That's fair, but I like how it ended up and I enjoy the claw tractor bursting out of the front. Maybe another Stompa will come my way and I can give it the old forgeworldesque chest gun upgrade, but with more dakka. Never know what will happen :)
Just watching you pull that caulk(or whatever it was) off it just made my skin crawl like I stepped over a not so dead ork!!!! Great video, love the channel, keep up the awesome work!!!
This is my favourite video of yours yet. I live the idea of repurpising other models or 3d printing extras to add on. Brilliant video thank you so much for taking the time to share it with us all. Can't wait for more!
Were those register tape rolls glued to the front of the initial model. Oh well we're are all guilty of "it seemed like a good idea at the time." Glad you were able to salvage this one.
After watching this video more and more, I’m starting to come to the conclusion that this was actually a very deliberate and thought-out meme of a model, and the original creator has succeeded in that his model is on RU-vid
It's totally possible that was the creator's intention all along. I've gotten a model in a similar shape to this before that was on eBay where I for sure thought I was being called out, like 99% sure it was a listing directed at me. And honestly, if that's the case for this stompa, I'd love to shake that guy's hand lol.
I mean, making sure you're talking about american dollars is actually kind of a smart thing to do if they don't wanna be scammed, looking at how there's quite a lot of countries using dollars. I'm actually always getting a mild shock when I visit the the Games Workshop website to check something, just to have the website be set to Australia for some weird reason and the prices are double or triple the price, just because the australian dollar isn't the strongest currency.
@@kenupton4084 Yeah, for some reason GW cranks prices to the stratosphere in countries other than the UK or Europe. I know shipping costs and customs fees are a thing but still. Even in America, probably it's most massive market, there's like a 30% price increase.
Also, the consumers have to cover the cost of shipping nearly every single thing sold in this country. Shipping/import tax are real fun killers, I tell you.
@@brianhall4182 my roommate had a friend visit for NZ. I told him to hit up the game store and bring a bunch of models home to sell for big profit. He stared at me confused. My New England accent may have been too much for him to handle.
Tistaminis is my local LGS for all things Warhammer and I am happy to see the stompa freed from its greenscreen lookin' misery and made propa orky and ready to krump some gitz! WAAAGH!
I've dealt with many drekked and questionably built model kits that I've gotten from eBay (including ones covered in mode podge and went through super glue hell) , but THIS one was...different....in it's own special way............
This was one of the more unique ones that I've gotten from eBay, to say the least! I've been eyeballing it for the last year too trying to make up my mind lol
@@eBayMiniatureRescues And I bought a few misprinted resin 3d, 1/60th scale Battletech figures from Etsy, so that's gonna be a weird event for me since I normally work with plastic.
RU-vid suggested this video while I was looking up fundamentals kitbashing. When I want to remove paint from a used model I find spraying Easy-Off oven cleaner on a piece then placing it in a plastic container with its top very helpful. The paint easily peels off as one skin. Also depends on the type of paint you want to remove, too. Before doing so take all the necessary precautions you would with any model [spray] painting project only being extra careful being that it’s oven cleaning spray.
Thanks! I started it before the last video was uploaded 2 weeks ago and pretty much spent every spare moment I had working on it to get it out by the end of this month. Lost a good amount of sleep, but it was worth it :)
Honestly, I was kinda hoping you'd find a way to keep some of the receipt rolls in the design to give it a stronger air of its "original" self since the model had such an air of majesty in how eyecatchingly janky it was. But overall it's a really nicely-done piece! The idea of the orks either building a Stompa around a crane or finding a way to pry it open and shove the crane inside because it had a really good pinchy bit is a fun environmental story, especially with the pearl-eyed grot peeking out through the back like he's proud of how they got it all to work.
As neat as the recipt rolls are for some kind of scary Shock Weapon or Laser Cannon, those are probably best used on a something greater than a Stompa. A Gargant. Though definitely in fewer numbers, like 3 or 4 at most.
Orks and death guard models are so fun to me as well as the most appealing in different ways. Orks are literally kit bashing 101 it’s just take whatever looks fun and use some creative liberties to do whatever you want especially when it involves more dakka. Death guard involves decay and bloated flesh so when I see these plague burst crawlers using eyes and lots of green stuff to make such unique monstrosities of flesh and or metal it’s always impressive to me.
I have a life long love of modeling second on to my lifelong hatred of Warhammer and it's atheistic. I only bring that up to drive home my compliment of your exceptional skills. I can't stress strongly enough how impressed I am with what you've so brilliantly done here to a thing I want to dislike, but can't.
My one problem with the little crane thing inside is that it makes it look like the entire thing is one big hollowed out space. So it makes me think, where are all the mechanisms required to run this thing? Where's the engine? It just makes it feel like it couldn't actually be a functioning machine.
I don't know if anyone has ever mentioned this to you or if you've tried it. But brake fluid and brake clean are relatively cheap and do a good job at stripping paint. Brake fluid can be washed completely away with water as it is hydroscopic as from what I've seen with cars does little to no damage to plastic (tho I would test it on a smaller part first)
Wow! You did an amazing job with this rescue. From making a great deal when purchasing the model all the way to your free hand painting at the end. You have such a cool channel and it is great to see these models get a second life after all the hard work you put in.
Amazing job! I had to watch this as soon as I saw it pop up. I remember seeing this model on eBay and laughed at the price, glad you managed another spectacular save!
I love how wobbly the thing is moving, exoecially the head. Really looking like a wjore pile of scrap put together in a dangerous fortress that moves on sore really dry land
This is awesome mate. I recently bought for the first time some really terrible condition minis to see if I could rescue them. Nothing this extreme but a good clean incluing getting rid of enamel paint and scraping out crevices etc then doing a basic paint job to bring them back to life. Really satisfying and because the minis are so cheap you don't mind if they are a bit rough.
As someone relatively new to the hobby of miniature painting, may I ask how one does remove enamel painting? Never used enamel, but someone gave quite the set of those to me recently, so this might become handy in the future.
Whoaaaa!! As someone who is just getting into the hobby of Warhammer painting, I loved watching the amount of detail and time you put into your project. Super inspiring and definitely where I want to be at some point in the future
I'm sorry man, you kind of ruined what made that model unique. I hope you go back to it , and reimagine the original idea instead of just removing it all together.
Gonna outright nitpick. The whole point of this video was almost instantly lost when THE most defining trait of the figure, which were the ridiculous amounts of front facing cannons were just completely removed and just replaced with a wall and some smaller figures. Was invested in the beginning portion but was hugely disappointed that you went with the "safe" route...
lol, yeah, I was gonna try and change the backdrop so it was all black but then I was like, no, this thing is big and seeing the whole picture puts it right into scale!
