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Found some spare time and started SHT N°3:

The Shadowhammer

This tank fields a Apoc missile launcher and should look fine when it has all "imperial" bitz added.

Chassis + platform + launcher-pod:

brutal! best bane blade conversion ever! Rad times infinity!

ok. now that my jaw is in its correct place again, I have to say its so ridiculous it's amazing. hope it turns out good.

^ What he said. This is sweet.



Ghidorah

use some of the new 40k building frames and decorate the launcher xD

Whoa !!! Moar pics og WIP IMO!!
good job dude

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I think i'll stick with this concept and do this SHT as 3rd Baneblade conversion.


Got the chassis ready and also a few additional bitz on the missile pod.
Front sensors and actual free movement of the platform (360°) seems fine.
Need some hydraulics/mechanics for the adjustment of the pod next.
Should also decide how to close the pod-hatches. :S

Actual state:

I like it.

It looks great, though I would add a few more small details to busy up the missile box. It looks a bit tacked on compared to the high level of detail of the tank.

yeah,
Looks Good.
the platform looks excellent, and the fins made from COD extras are nice.
but i agree the launcher box needs more work,at the moment it looks like a box of crayons!
maybe you should copy and scale up the kind of details that are found on whirlwinds ect.



Panic

wow.... looks intense
really cool

I think to really make it look proffessional, you need to add a small bit of realism to it. It looks fantastic now, but, a little bit more realism will make it look proffessional. Sad I know, but the first think I think of when I look at it, is how does it reload? How about some reloading mechanism on the back, maybe a small crane to pick missiles off a pallet? A sentinal kit would give you to legs to cut up and use as parts of crane arms.

Looks great though, look forward to seeing it finished.

I'm gonna buck the trend here and say that I think it would look better if less tall.

...In fact, scratch that, I think it would look much better with a rounded missile launcher, like the one on the FW Reaver. As it is, it's a cool tank with a cool missile platform with a box.

It's a winner! Mmm, Lieutenant, didn't your report say there were a great mass of gaunts headed this way?
Why yes, Captain, my report did say there were a fat lot of gaunts headed this way.
Mmm, not anymore. Now they're xenos pudding!!!

Thanks.

The Dreadnote wrote:I'm gonna buck the trend here and say that I think it would look better if less tall.

...In fact, scratch that, I think it would look much better with a rounded missile launcher, like the one on the FW Reaver. As it is, it's a cool tank with a cool missile platform with a box.

Rounded missile launchers were unavailable , sorry.

Size of the starter pod came from the amount of missiles.


Added a "lauchpod-door", movable in 90°. Its acceptable flexibility now gives me time to add details.

I think the door seems too big. Instead of one big ol' door, maybe 2 smaller ones that open on the sides.

MAAAN that is the most totaly OD'd baneblade conversion ever AWESOME!!!!!!!

whenever you paint it, the back blast area behind the missiles should most definitely be scorched

and ill second the one door becoming 2. even if it still opened vertically, or horizontally; i think it would make it look just abit better.

either way, the touch you have with SHTs amazes me

because Thats the way we like it.

Brilliant work, best baneblade conversion yet.

Fiendcrackar! wrote:I think the door seems too big. Instead of one big ol' door, maybe 2 smaller ones that open on the sides.

Ensis Ferrae wrote:whenever you paint it, the back blast area behind the missiles should most definitely be scorched

and ill second the one door becoming 2. even if it still opened vertically, or horizontally; i think it would make it look just abit better.

either way, the touch you have with SHTs amazes me

To open sideways gives it a "locker" design, so NO.

I know it looks big.
I could see the Warlords shouldermounted launchers doors as good idea,but there is also restricted space for the mechanics.
So i did chose the "easy" way and get a Big door... :S

Area behind the pod will be blackened .

Ammunition is undecided yet, i thought about rear loading with mags.Maybe some hinges to open the pod?(not movable,sorry).
If i remember correct, some missile launchers did have Mags to load the whole pod at once.
Can't say if it was a LARS or MARS system,but could also be totally wrong.

Good news is, i got the height adjustment done. Added a ,non-functional but nice looking,hydraulic cylinder to the pod.
Now i can change its angle about 80°.

Pic to show available movement of main armament:

Wow...

Whoever has to face that monster is gonna get pwned.

hehe, if the missile pod was about 4x bigger than it is, it would look like the 40k version of the MLRS

again, some more Ace work. i definitely think the elevation hydraulics adds a much better touch to it

thats pretty awesome....yet at the same time for some reason the missile launcher holder looks a bit small. I think tho its because baneblades are FRIGGING HUGE!
anyways nice job man thats gunna be a terror to whoever faces it