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I've looked at the Photo's in the UK's white dwarf for a while now and...how did he make it? The turret bits are obviously from the Battlewagon kit, and the Kannon itself is probably an old pipe, but what about the tractor units? are they all built from scratch? any suggestions?

any pics?

Here's a very poor attempt...I couldn't find any pics on google or GW's website

this does not do it justice...

it was at games day, I think just tons of plasticard and bitz, oh and some plastic boxes

I'm gonna have to take a trip to nottingham to find it...and then steal it!!! (if it'll fit in the car!)

ha, you should've seen the dwarf stronghold!
an entire dock with attacking gobbos, dwarf subs, cliffs
and all glued down and painted
mega diorama!!!!

i need to go to warhammer world!

Where are photos of this Dwarf stronghold? I would love to see some.

sorry, I forgot my camera, and gw doesn't seem proud enough to show it....

These might help...

By Gork and Mork! Wez needz ta get dis in da trukk!

That gigantic gun looks a bit like a schwere gustav cannon...

hu hu hu "drool" need one "drool some more"

Great photo's!! Thanks for that. I really should have gone to games day.

it is immense.

There was a mega baneblade vs skullhamma battle too, and a grey knight titan battle, and an airfield bash.
Pity I didn't have time to do any of them
[starts sobbing]

Holy jesus. I think i crapped my pants at this awesomeness.

My photo's really dont do it justice...
Mick

The chassis is most certainly two 1/24 scale "Dragon Wagons" (a US tank transport from WW2) attached end to end...



It appears that he took the cabs off the original models and re-purposed them into the two large turrets up front and back...

The track units are from either 1/24 or 1/35 tanks, maybe a Tiger or Abrams....

Thank you for your outstanding knowledge of information mr ancientsociety.

It's such an original piece, its a relief to know that even the pro's rip off other peoples models and kit bash once in a while!!

ancientsociety wrote:The chassis is most certainly two 1/24 scale "Dragon Wagons" (a US tank transport from WW2) attached end to end...


It appears that he took the cabs off the original models and re-purposed them into the two large turrets up front and back...

The track units are from either 1/24 or 1/35 tanks, maybe a Tiger or Abrams....

The tracks look more like an M-48 or M-60

Sigh...Games Day Canada is pure crap compared to this...

Our 'big display' last year was the world made out of those little Hex Tiles GW made = lame as hell.

he probably used th Battlewagons track uints for the sections

No the battlewagon tracks sag on top those are something different.

Not to mention that the Battlewagon tracks are about 1/4 the size of those massive ones!

If I've learned anything from this thread its that there are other military models out there that aren't GW and they're worth looking into!

Thanks guys for attempting answers at a question only mr grayson can truly answer!

have you tried emailing games workshop to try and find out what aprts were used? they are usually helpfull if a little slow to reply on occasion

The aforementioned diorama was awesome, my favourite two bits were the dwarf fisherman who 'hooked' a greenskin sub, and the slayer leaping off a roof into the ranks of disembarking Orcs!

It just struck me!
Tracks could be from forgeworld ork battlewagon with ram!

Do you think that they'd be that big? I doubt it!

I reckon it was the tracks off some tank in a bigger scale than 40K. Whats really impressive are the details on the track links. Even though they're quite uniform they still look pretty orky!

It is such a beast of a model. It'd be great to play it in a proper game of APOC against titans and waves of thunderbolts. How many litres of paint did it take to give it all coverage?

Maybe from a baneblade.

When I saw it at Games Day I wasn't that impressed. Sure it is huge, but it lacks the amount of detail making it really Orky.