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This arrived in the post this AM


Required the usual FW hot water treatment to straighten out the effects of warpage. Needed quite a bit of sanding to get the rear ramp working, then a couple of coats of primer.




Also got these to add to an ongoing Ad Mech unit:


and this for the IG:

If your tanks are anything to go by, your Arvus Lighter is going to be awesome, looking forward to your WIP shots on this one...

Subscribed...

Nice marines! Lots of different kits there...

This looks to be a interesting plog...

Had just enough sand colour paint left in the can to do this:

Think I need to paint at least one panel on each wing another colour. Probably go with black.

It's looking great so far, subscribed.

Cheers Scrazza.

Update: stuck the fuselage together - bloody thing has been slowly twisting again!
Added engines, landing gear, ramp and pilot, forgot to take pic of wings, but the panels with the numbers are now black.









Going to add a fair amount of exhaust soot.

It's looking great, you've made some great progress.

The warped beast is finished:















Thinking of changing that decal on the back end . . .

looks great to me.

It looks amazing, with the wings finally on. I like the weathered look.

Came out great, the weathering is real nice. Did you use weathering powders?

Cheers guys, I had to do a bit of a rebuild after the last coat of varnish as I dropped the bloody thing (luckily not to far and I semi caught it), but did knock the wing off one side and the whole wing/engine combo on the other side, plus one landing strutt! Due to the gap at the front I added a bit of plastic 'T' beam and a piece of plastic card to cover the gap at the back end.

@ TheChronoTrigger : I used a bit of MIG 'European dust' on the ramp and landing gear, plus some 'black soot' around the exhausts and behind the engines. Mmm . . . . grubby.

Very nice.

Those look fantastic. Great work!

What started as a bitz box delve (big mistake), turned into this:













I think the gun mount looks a bit odd, but I can disguise it with a load of netting. With hindsight it would have been a good idea to strip the blue crud off first.
Suggestions for making it less fugly (short of hitting it with a hammer) would be appreciated. . . .

It looks great. can't see why it was a 'big mistake'. And you found all those bits in your bitzbox? I wish I had a bitz box like that.

Some excellent work - look forward to seeing more of your work

The demolisher cannon does look a tad out of place, but other than that its a pretty decent looking tank. I'd suggest replacing the cannon or altering it to look a bit more like the one that the Thunderer from Forgeworld (which I'm guessing you were going for with the look of the tank) has, or building up a gun shield about it to so as it isn't just jutting right out from the hull like it is at the moment. Has it got any lights so the driver can see during the night? =)

That's a great weathering effect, with the streaks going along the body, makes the whole model much more dynamic. Good to see a WIP as well, like how you use so many different elements on the model.

Wyrmalla wrote:The demolisher cannon does look a tad out of place, but other than that its a pretty decent looking tank. I'd suggest replacing the cannon or altering it to look a bit more like the one that the Thunderer from Forgeworld (which I'm guessing you were going for with the look of the tank) has, or building up a gun shield about it to so as it isn't just jutting right out from the hull like it is at the moment. Has it got any lights so the driver can see during the night? =)

Only other possible gun I have is the stubby one from a Baneblade kit, but would need to build something for it to attach to . . . . .

I was thinking about possibly sticking a mine plow on the front end, I have a FW one but it's currently pinned to this;



I don't think I can get it off without wrecking the LAV.

I ended up putting a fair amount of extra armour plate at the front end to hide the hideous mess that was the front end.
As a result there is now no room for a dozer blade attachment, although it will make a change as just about everyone of my Guard tanks has a dozer attachment point.

Anyway had a play with some plasticard and made a fairly rough looking shield, which I intend to paint up a raw metal colour whilst the rest of the the tank is camo.







There will also be a fair ammount of cam-net to hide things, and I made up some head lights from bits from a 1/35 kit and some brass rod, will attach prior to primming.

Thanks for the suggestions

You're making some nice progress along the way, ash! Great work.

yeah,
Nice stuff! (subscribed!)

Panic...

Got some primer on:

Done a basic 'rattle can' camo :

Picked up a few bits at Salute including:







Ad Mech bits


Skitarii, attempt at GS hoods.

The new stuff looks promising. The hoods turned out nicely, good work on them.

These Inq28 chaps are nearly finished, although I'm not sure what to do with the sword of the one on the left.


Also got these Brit infantry blokes, off at a tangent a bit, but they were just too nice:

Just finished putting the squad together:

Hat-trick post!

Not had much time to paint lately; bloody real life infringing on my hobby time!!!
Small update, got some paint on these blokes:





Going to do the eyes with a clear green to get a glowing effect - hopefully. The armour with some chips a scrapes, the red hoods with the old cog pattern and poss the skull masks on the respirators.