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Made to Order Classic Deff Dread

Up on the Warhammer site you can order some classic ork miniatures. You can get the classic Ghazghkull Thraka, a model I already have in my collection.

There are a few miniatures they are making available which I am thinking of ordering, one is the pack of Goff Rockers, which I never bought the first time around. The other is one I thought I already had, which is the classic Deff Dread.

Checking my collection I realise I have three of the smaller metal Killa Kan models from the same era, but I never got the larger Deff Dread. Well that went straight into the basket.

GMC CCKW 2½-ton 6×6 truck

The GMC CCKW, also known as “Jimmy” was a highly successful series of off-road capable, 21⁄2-ton, 6×6 trucks, built in large numbers to a standardised design (from 1941 to 1945) for the U.S. Army, that saw heavy service, predominantly as cargo trucks, in both World War II and the Korean War.

Dark Angels Primaris Repulsor

The Repulsor is an Imperial anti-gravitic main battle tank intended to provide armoured support for the Primaris Space Marines of many different Chapters.

The Repulsor armoured transport is a deadly combination of manoeuvrability and raw brute force. Due to the turbine array at its rear, it has tremendous motive power, held aloft by powerful anti-gravitic generators. The Repulsor is so heavily armed and armoured that is doesn’t skim over the landscape but instead crushes the ground below it. The tank grinds forward with a deep bass thrum, reducing rock to gravel and fallen bodies to smears of gore and powdered bone.

More photographs of the Primaris Repulsor.

Australian Army Leopard AS1 Tank

The Tank Museum’s Australian Army Leopard AS1 Tank was on display at Talkfest 26.

The Leopard AS1 was a custom-modified variant of the West German-designed Leopard 1 main battle tank, brought into Australian Army service in 1977 to replace the aging Centurion fleet. First entering original service in 1965, the brilliantly engineered Leopard marked a fundamental shift away from WWII-era heavy armour, prioritising cross-country speed, agility, and high mobility alongside a powerful 105mm L7 rifled gun—a combination that made it an immense success on the international export market. Australia’s bespoke version, designated AS1 (using the NATO country code ‘AS’ for Australia), incorporated localised adaptations, including advanced SABCA fire-control systems, tropicalisation kits for heat management, tailored air filtration, and specialised storage for long-range operations in harsh environments. Although the Leopard AS1 never saw active combat during its three decades of operation, it served as the core armoured punch of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps until its official retirement in 2007, when it was succeeded by the American-built M1A1 Abrams.

Militarum Tempestu Taurox Prime at Warhammer World

When the Militarum Tempestu need to transport their soldiers into the heart of battle, they use the Taurox Prime. It is a well armed and armoured infantry assault vehicle. It is usually armed with an array of heavy weapons. It is the ideal support vehicle for the Militarum Tempestus on the battlefield.

The Forge World Ork Shanty Town diorama was changed to have the Militarum Tempestu driving in to the town in their Taurox Prime armoured vehicles to rescue a downed Valkyrie flyer.

More photographs of the Militarum Tempestu Taurox Prime.

Jeep

The Willys MB and the Ford GPW, both formally called the U.S. Army Truck, 1⁄4-ton, 4×4, Command Reconnaissance, commonly known as the Jeep. This one was at Tankfest26.

Dark Angels Primaris Redemptor Dreadnought

Standing as towering avatars of destruction among the Adeptus Astartes, Redemptor Dreadnoughts represent a significant mechanical leap over traditional Space Marine sarcophagus-hybrids.

Larger, more heavily armoured, and wielding vast arrays of advanced technology, these hulking war machines allow entombed hero-pilots to move with astonishing speed and fluid dexterity despite their massive bulk. Housing a fallen battle-brother within a life-sustaining cybernetic core, the Redemptor transforms a mortally wounded warrior into a relentless, high-calibre engine of war capable of crushing enemy ranks with overwhelming force.

Vehicle Conservation Centre

The Vehicle Conservation Centre at The Tank Museum in Bovington is a purpose-built, 4,000-square-metre facility designed to preserve, restore, and house the museum’s reserve collection of armoured fighting vehicles.

I was pleased to be able to view the Vehicle Conservation Centre during Tankfest 26

Opened in 2009, the climate-controlled building moved over a hundred historically significant tanks and armoured cars indoors, protecting rare prototypes, secondary variants, and unrestored machinery from environmental deterioration. Beyond serving as a state-of-the-art workshop where skilled engineers and conservation specialists undertake painstaking repair and maintenance work, the Vehicle Conservation Centre features a public viewing balcony that allows visitors an overview of the reserve fleet and active restoration projects below, offering a rare glimpse into the behind-the-scenes engineering required to maintain the world’s finest collection of military armour.

Dark Angels Death Wing Primaris Repulsor Executioner

The Repulsor Executioner is the most heavily armed battle tank available to the Adeptus Astartes, with a choice of murderously powerful, primary turret-mounted weapon, a macro plasma incinerator or heavy laser destructor, supported by a coaxial heavy onslaught gatling cannon. Add to that two krakstorm grenade launchers, two storm bolters, a twin Icarus ironhail heavy stubber, an ironhail heavy stubber as well as a hull-mounted twin heavy bolter and your Repulsor Executioner certainly won’t be lacking for firepower!

Though some Chapters use Repulsor Executioners as armoured escorts for their dedicated troop-carrying tanks, many favour them as transports for Hellblasters and other specialist Primaris squads. In this capacity, the tanks thrum across the battlefield with guns blazing. Whether armed with macro plasma incinerators or heavy laser destroyers, the Executioners unleash fusillade after punishing fusillade, their primary armaments combining with a wealth of secondary weapons to blast the enemy into ruin.

Panzerkampfwagen III

This Panzer III was in the arena at Tankfest 26 at Bovington.

The Panzerkampfwagen III, commonly known as the Panzer III, was a medium tank developed in the 1930s by Germany, and was used extensively in World War II. The official German ordnance designation was Sd.Kfz. 141. It was intended to fight other armoured fighting vehicles and serve alongside and support similar Panzer IV which was originally designed for infantry support.

However, as the Germans faced the formidable T-34, more powerful anti-tank guns were needed, and since the Panzer IV had more development potential with a larger turret ring, it was redesigned to mount the long-barrelled 7.5 cm KwK 40 gun.

The Panzer III effectively swapped roles with the Panzer IV, as from 1942 the last version of Panzer III mounted the 7.5 cm KwK 37 L/24 that was better suited for infantry support.

Production of the Panzer III ceased in 1943. Nevertheless, the Panzer III’s capable chassis provided hulls for the Sturmgeschütz III assault gun until the end of the war.