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So i hade a go at converting the leman russ and after some swearing at GW for not making the turret symmetrical and after my own stupidity of gluing the turret togheter before making the bottom piece of the new turret i came upp with this.







New pic without the weel bolts/axles they are now internal. Thanks for pointing that out Ghost in the Darkness!


What cant be seen on the pic is that the center hull has been lowered a bit to.
The inspiration for the turret came from the King tiger
I originaly planed to change the gunbarrel to something a little bit smaler but i think the bigg barrel fitts the bigger turret as well as keeping the Russ feal to it.

Thinking of putting bolton armor to the sides of the turret as i have done on its topp. (Maby a little difficult to se the details as its al wite.. even the rivets) good or bad or leav it as it is?

C&C are welcom, if i missed something or you think i shuld putt something more on your welcom to comment on it. (exept for crew gear and such as it will be put on later)

Shoot it looks pretty good to me. Seems like more and more people are getting sick of being stuck with the same ol tank design. Ive heard its just goofy from alot of people too. Nice job so far man!

Aint no room for da boyz on dat thing. You need 4 or 5 exhaust pipes stickkin outta da back and....

Wait you aint no ork are yaz.

Looks pretty cool to me. Even if you aint an ork.

Yeah, I like the way the track wheels are visible, it makes it more realistic (even though warhammer is a fake game!!)

Don't forget to put rivets on it. Its gotta have rivets!

I like your attempt to make it more realistic, but the main concern for me is that the bolts/axles/thingys don't line up with the new location of the wheels. Not sure how you would fix that though.

I think it looks cool. I particularly like the turret, its larger while retaining much of the same profile of the original turret.

Will be good to see when its finished and painted =)

Will be good to see when its finished and painted =)

Thanks for pointing that out Ghost in the Darkness! Removed the ones on the lower part were the weels are visible.

Pic of the new side are edited in my top post.

Looks pretty good, better than the original.

I like the look of your conversion, looking forward to the painted pictures.