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Work continues upon the XLR-82 Invader







Just needs the standard additions and its ready to go.

Love the Invader, pretty wicked design.

D

I was going to finish painting the Invader today and even do the new "Terminator" but one of my cats decided
"oh hey! i should totally sleep or sit in the area where hes going to paint and put a stop to it! all so i can get some attention!"

So the littel twit has slept on my painting spot infront of my paints tray so i can't paint! gaah!

If i throw him off he comes right back so It won't work. ill have to do it tommorow

the XLR-82 Invader is ready to roll.






I think i may have to go back over the giant 09 on the front doors. But otherwise the Panther tank turned Land Raider is done.


My birthday is coming up. so ill have a large influx of stuff to build with. plus I still need to figure out what to do with the Panzer 4 flak panzer hull and the Jagdpanzer 4 as well. Im holding off building anythign with them as the tracks are very hard to assemble. i swear every track link is seperate and it would be a nightmare to put them all together!! unless i get creative.

I also still have a Maus Super heavy tank in peices as well so i could potentially bring out another Baneblade varient. Probly a Stormblade or whatever the name is of the plasma cannon wielding one.

Invader looks good. Nice work.

Your cat really didn't look impressed about you wanting to paint.

D

I just may have figured out a solution to the Jagdpanzer 4 and Flakpanzer track problem!
Instead of pain stakingly putting together every single track link like the origional kit wants me to. Ill use a lot of spare left over Leman Russ tracks to fill in!!


Its highly likly I don't have enough track peices to cover both tanks all the way around the tracks. no less get one.
So i might have to cheat and only have the tracks see on the bottom and downward sections of the suspension.

Ill assemble the suspension and get back.

Tommorow is my birthday yet i still can't belive it.
since this is still about the models im going to brain storm some possible ideas for models i might get. Im not exactly sure what im gonan get but I did mention a few models and things to family and friends.

besides a few more guardsmen and maybe a leman russ or chimera.

I mentioned something about a churchill or Challenger 1 tank. the Challenger I might turn into a Stormblade if its large enough. the Churchill would gain the super structure of the malcador defender or be turned into a macharius depending on its length.

I think i also talked about a 1/35th scale Tiger tank But im not 100% what I would do with one. Maybe another Macharius. the Vanquisher Macharius would work with a Tiger tank considering its leniage.

but i can't remember what else i talked about. So ill see what I get but be happy no matter what though. Ill be spending time with family and friends.

Happy early Birthday!

Im now 21 and i got myself a bunch of new little tanks adn things to build. Along with some really nice games and things.

a Challenger 1 british MBT, a Tiger 1 german heavy tank, and a M41 Walker Bulldog US light tank. (i remembered 2 of the 3) alongside a 10 man box of cadian troopers.

I will probly turn the guardsmen into a Section 9 "Space Marine" squad but first I need to nail down their design.

The Challenger 1 and tiger see above for ideas.

the Bulldog will probly be a Leman Russ if its small enough. Most likly the standard Battle Tank with GW parts in place of the 90mm gun and such. Ill get to building soon! after i complete the Valdor Tank hunter Jagdpanzer 4 at the very least!


Edit: I checked how big they are.

Challenger 1: StormSword (or whatever the one with the huge plasma cannon is)

Tiger 1: Macharius. Possibly another Vanquisher Macharius. but a macharius tank none the less

Bulldog: Malcador. Battle Tank version.

To get myself up and running i've aquired one of those "CHimera + 10 Guardsmen" boxes and built a Hydra out of the Chimera using plasticard, the turret of a Armored Car and the punisher cannon that came off of the Tornado Heli Venddetta to give the chimera hull a high angle AA gatling gun turret.
but my Cameras wire has been busted and it can't extract the picture from my camera to the computor (unless you want some iphone camera stuff...)
This has prompted me to start on the "Space Marine" allies i've been making. The Termi's are done (minus the one guy without paint and proper base), along with their "Land Raider" the Invader. I also have an HQ, made from that guy i put together to have terminator arms, plays as a captain.

Now i need the Infantry and i've started on one using the 2 boxes of guardsmen I got. (one from the Chimera +Guardsmen box, and another infantry box from my birthday)

The suit design is similar to the real "iron man suit" with external motors and things but with armor plate and a new gun in place of the "rare" bolter.
The gun is based on the PLanetside 2 weapons known as "gauss guns". unlike the fantasy Necron guns that "strip atoms from targets" or something , a gauss weapon uses magnetic coils to accerate projectiles (they are a variant of rail guns in reality and are also known as "Coil Guns"). the increased power of the gauss gun would give the killing power it need to be similar to a Bolter.

Instead of a explosive rocket projectile, the shell uses its heavy kinetic impact to cause severe trama and cause similar damage (such as the exploding bodies)

I think ill have to use my phone to get to pictures. as much as i hate using it due to the quality. brb with pictures.


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The pictures here.
And on the spot insperational fluff
91st fluff recap. A Marauder is a insane human that wanders the wastes of the 91sts home planet of Schrott. they terroize civilians and band together loosly to cause further problems for the locals. planetary forces often cull them when problems arise and captured ones are used as target practice or for weapons testing purposes.

"Combat Test Simulation." the speakers blared in their mechanical female voice.
Jack tensed and the machine around his body came alive and all its weight vanished, the heavy Gauss Gun in his hands became light as the toy las pistol he once had as a child.
"In, 5....4...3...2...1... Start"
Jack burst through the opening metal door at a speed a normal man could not dream of moving. A sihllouette flashed at the edge of his vision and he spun around to see a test target, a captured Marauder, snarling and yelling at him like a rabid ork. A blow to the chest with the butt of his Gauss gun caved the insane human's torso in, in what would normally be a blow that would simply knock the man back, killing him instantly as his organs were turned to paste. Moving on through the course, another Maraurader leaped over the remaines of an overturned autocar, clad in crude armor plates that would be only slightly more effective then a Orks "armor" and would have a chance to stop a lasgun blast. A burst from the Gauss Gun reduced the armored Marauder to a bloody mass of gore and metal scraps. A roar heralded several more Marauders to leap from the debris that simulated the ruins of an imperial city, several more bursts of his Gauss Gun put these mad men down. A dull beeping told Jack the gun was low on ammo but as jack dropped the clip out of the weapon a Marauder branding a shoddy stubber opened up upon Jack in his armor. jack braced for the end but the armor held and the shell richocheted off the armor harmlessly. The Marauder seeing this threw his gun aside and charged screaming madly in jibberish. A punch to the face amplifyed by Jack's armor crushed the skull of the assaulting marauder.

"Simulation End".





The gun barrel may change in the others that will be built. but i like it....


The Shredder AA hydra. I can't think of fluff immediatly with the above Section 9 Trooper fluff.






If someone mistakes it for a Punisher then something is wrong with them. Its on a Chimera Chassis and the gun it pointed skyward! Not to mention the turret is to small for a Russ or there is a severe lack of armor!


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Managed to get a second Trooper built.
Their construction allows them to be built reletivly easy (in my eyes). The only problems i see is a possibility of running out of vox packs which after having handles, antennas and such removed act as the control and power pack of the suit. but im sure someone at my local store has a bunch of them should i run out.

the "Gauss Guns" or Gauss Rifle's used are the backend of a lasgun (magazine and back) with (currently) a peice of round sprue with a hole bored into it for a barrel. plastic bitz and pozzibly an additional round sprue bit can act as a scope (soon as its painted). larger palstic tubeing works are the armor plates on the shoulders and legs.
the guardsmen heads im planning on using are more the technical oriented ones like the vox head or even a pilots head if i can scrounge one up. the prototypes head is that of a tank commander (has these googles on his head), if i can't find any more of these for the rest of the squad ill search for heads with visors or some sort of "closed helmet" look. The standard guardsmen head is to "open" to play the part of an armored and highly trained soldier. the only "open" head ill posisbly use would be for the Sergents when i get to them.



Weapons such as plasma, rocket launchers, or whatever may be implimented later. All with the exo skeleton armor but with the weapon system in question being used. Im not familiar with what a standard squad of space marines can have in terms of special weapons (i don't have the codex, im working on getting it, or at least copying down what im going to use from a freind with a codex). but for plasma weapons or even melta weapons. I will try and construct Tesla Troopers from Red Alert 3. Decio is going to attempt to build some Tesla Troopers and i seem to have caught the same bug and want to try and build some. Even some Desolator Troopers (Can there be chemical sprayers on infantry?)

In this thread
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/477915.page

anyways. Ill get to building some more of my Section 9 troopers later.
And after that the super heavys.

Additional Troopers built.
about 3 more now. A Sergent and 2 standard troopers. 2 of the troopers even have bayonets now.



If i actually manage to sit down and concentrate on them whole heartedly i should be able to get a squad of 10 soon. I should have enough by Thursday to get a game with them included

I've got now 8 of my Exo Suit Troopers. Im going to make 2 Special Weapons guys now to make a complete squad of 10 for my "Space Marine" Allies. a Rocket Launcher and a Plasma Gun or something maybe.

 Engine of War wrote:
Im now 21 and i got myself a bunch of new little tanks adn things to build. Along with some really nice games and things.

a Challenger 1 british MBT, a Tiger 1 german heavy tank, and a M41 Walker Bulldog US light tank. (i remembered 2 of the 3) alongside a 10 man box of cadian troopers.

I will probly turn the guardsmen into a Section 9 "Space Marine" squad but first I need to nail down their design.

The Challenger 1 and tiger see above for ideas.

the Bulldog will probly be a Leman Russ if its small enough. Most likely the standard Battle Tank with GW parts in place of the 90mm gun and such. Ill get to building soon! after i complete the Valdor Tank hunter Jagdpanzer 4 at the very least!


Edit: I checked how big they are.

Challenger 1: StormSword (or whatever the one with the huge plasma cannon is)

Tiger 1: Macharius. Possibly another Vanquisher Macharius. but a macharius tank none the less

Bulldog: Malcador. Battle Tank version.

OOOOO Most definitely looking forward to seeing the chally 1 conversion.
Also if I may ask to what scale is the challenger?

Sir Bushwookie

 Sir Bushwookie wrote:

 Engine of War wrote:
Im now 21 and i got myself a bunch of new little tanks adn things to build. Along with some really nice games and things.

a Challenger 1 british MBT, a Tiger 1 german heavy tank, and a M41 Walker Bulldog US light tank. (i remembered 2 of the 3) alongside a 10 man box of cadian troopers.

I will probly turn the guardsmen into a Section 9 "Space Marine" squad but first I need to nail down their design.

The Challenger 1 and tiger see above for ideas.

the Bulldog will probly be a Leman Russ if its small enough. Most likely the standard Battle Tank with GW parts in place of the 90mm gun and such. Ill get to building soon! after i complete the Valdor Tank hunter Jagdpanzer 4 at the very least!


Edit: I checked how big they are.

Challenger 1: StormSword (or whatever the one with the huge plasma cannon is)

Tiger 1: Macharius. Possibly another Vanquisher Macharius. but a macharius tank none the less

Bulldog: Malcador. Battle Tank version.

OOOOO Most definitely looking forward to seeing the chally 1 conversion.
Also if I may ask to what scale is the challenger?

Sir Bushwookie

All of them are 1/35th scale. the Challenger 1 is just as long as a Baneblade (give or take a few MM) and slightly thinner which will be fixed via some added sponsons.

Thank you.

I've run out of Vox casters that I use as the power/control packs of the exo suits.
but i've gotten a Lascannon trooper with the last one.



The Lascannon itself is a combonation of a Lascannon cut from a vehicale mounted lascannon (it was cut a long time ago, i think it was once a hull lascannon from a russ someone chopped the rear off of), a HWT Missile Launcher (including the arm that holds it), a tau shoulder pad (with the xeno symbol removed completly), sprue, and a lascannon battery, along with the plasticard parts.


Until i get some more vox packs I think ill start on the super heavys. first will be the Challenger 1 turned Stormblade.
I think ill use the traditional "plasma weapon" look instead of the previous Tesla weapon I used on my Leman Russ executioner. it will probly be custom made but I belive I have a good plan for a large plasma blast gun, plus a purchase of some Baneblade sponsons could eb done easily. But i will say last time i order baneblade sponsons it took like 3 + weeks for the things to arrive. Either way ill get to work soon.

 Engine of War wrote:

Love these guys. Brilliant work, I've been a bit slack on my dakka subs, but this thread never fails to offer some sweet models.

Keep it up.

D

Troopers are based along with the "Shredder" AA hydra.
Ill get them with their first coat of paint tonight and get the pics up after that.

Also. the 6th Terminator guy has a proper Termi base now. borrowed from a Tyranid warrior that had everything above his waist vaporized (damaged and removed). the legs were removed from the base and the Termi was given the base.
So he will get some paint as well.

I also managed to get in contact with someone from my local store who has a set of vox casters. More catachan ones tehn cadian but ill take all the cadian ones hes got (about 8 or 10 or so) but ill take a few catachan ones to experiment with. So i should have those tonight so i can continue building the Exo Suit Troopers squads.

really like these exosuit things on your troops!

Thank You.
The "Terminators" are based on the MAX units in Planetside 1/2, and the famous power loader from Alien




The Infantry troopers being built are inspired by the real "Iron Man Suit" being developed by DARPA. the design is different obviously but the concept is the same. Which allows my men to fight like Space Marines minus the genetic and cybernetic enhancement, but obviously only the Best of the Best get to wear these suits.




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Heres a picture of them all.
I managed to get a few coats of paint on the troopers tonight but got stuck chatting with another IG player (Who has Kreig and Sisters, which was interesting as i've never seen Sisters or know anyone to play them)

Its low quality iphone stuff until i can get a new cord for my camera. but I promised pictures and this is the best i can get



The Termis, Infantry and the Captain all together.
the termis Land Raider is not in the picture but the hull of the Challenger 1 is in the back. Ill get these guys fully done soon as i can.

Squad one complete (minus 1 special weapons guy). But here they are.

Excellent. Liking the blue colour scheme.

D

Section 9 has a Cobalt Blue color with a big red 9 alongside the bronze (aka what used to be known as Tin Bitz) and Leadbeltcher (boltgun metal).

If anyone think its Ultramarine blue then something is seriously wrong with them. The INvader "LandRaider" doesn't have the Section 9 blue colors... Because i forgot

back to work.


got 2 standard troopers that need their exo suits built.
And i have a plasma/melta gunner and a missile launcher



Origionally i wanted a Tesla Trooper like red alert 2/3 and was leaning to a mark 2.5 (an inbetween version of the 2 versions) but i abandoned that when i couldn't get the helmet right and now he has what is akin to an arm cannon like Samus. But honestly it was inspired by the arm cannon in Starcraft 2 that a character had installed after he was force to have his arm amputated after a zerg attack.



Either way it seems to work well enough. the backpack is the only remnant of the Tesla trooper idea. with some altered flamer tanks on his back where were to be the batterys or small reactors to power it. now it would obviously serve to power the suit and the arm cannon.

The missile Launcher is built just like a SM missile launcher trooper. in that a single person is loading and operating this launcher due to the increased strength afforded by the suit. with 1 in the tube and 3 on his back on a special mount hes ready to rock. a pair of spare missiles are at his feet.

hmmm Ra2 conversions, well once you're finished with the tesla trooper you could always do tanya as marbo or a sniper as a ratling equivalent(British sniper-unlocked after you build an airfield, assuming you still have the game).
If you're feeling creative a Kirov would be a beautiful centerpiece to your army. Although it may be a bit costly.

On a not so creative note I love your exo-suits.

Sir Bushwookie

If you've seen the RA2 Tesla Trooper its more or less a very brave individual wearing an armored suit, the RA3 version is more fully armored and mechanized exoskeleton, I wanted a inbetween version of this. With large tesla projectors on each arm and bulky torso armor with the helmet of RA2 with the outer exo skeleton systems like that of my current ideas of the exo suits.

Ill try again with another special weapons trooper
a Kirov would be one heck of a center peice. my only issue would be how big would i want to make it? At least twice as long as a baneblade and twixe as tall as a one would work in terms of dimensions.

a Battle Fortress would be cool. Would basically be a Baneblade chassis that carries troops and all of them can fire out of it without having to be open topped.

I have RA2 but cannot find it. i know its around here somewhere! I just need to reload it after i find it and hope it doesn't need a code or something, as i know i've long since long anything liek that, but i can't remember if it does need it.
RA3/Uprising i do have on hand though.

Of course other Command and Conquer units would be very fun to construct and feild.
Ill have to go back through my C&C games to get some ideas.

Exo-suits looking good!

 Engine of War wrote:
If you've seen the RA2 Tesla Trooper its more or less a very brave individual wearing an armored suit, the RA3 version is more fully armored and mechanized exoskeleton, I wanted a inbetween version of this. With large tesla projectors on each arm and bulky torso armor with the helmet of RA2 with the outer exo skeleton systems like that of my current ideas of the exo suits.

Ill try again with another special weapons trooper
a Kirov would be one heck of a center peice. my only issue would be how big would i want to make it? At least twice as long as a baneblade and twixe as tall as a one would work in terms of dimensions.

a Battle Fortress would be cool. Would basically be a Baneblade chassis that carries troops and all of them can fire out of it without having to be open topped.

I have RA2 but cannot find it. i know its around here somewhere! I just need to reload it after i find it and hope it doesn't need a code or something, as i know i've long since long anything liek that, but i can't remember if it does need it.
RA3/Uprising i do have on hand though.

Of course other Command and Conquer units would be very fun to construct and feild.
I'll have to go back through my C&C games to get some ideas.

It does require a code.
Is uprising the expansion to RA2?
Any way when you find RA2 a few units to look at would be:
Mirage tank( A tank with a tree sticking out of it maybe?)
MCV
Yuri would make a good Primaris.
Apocalypse tank (Tiger tank maybe?)
Terror drone? (<--- )
Scorpion tank(C&C generals)
Paladin tank(also generals)
Crusader(Generals again)
Overlord(Hint... Generals)
Tsunami tank(RA3)
Hammer Tank(RA3. After all it's Hammer Time!!!! )
And maybe a mammoth tank from Tiberium sun (1/2/3 take your pick)

All of the above are rather cool ideas... well to me they are.
Sorry if I went off topic, I have a habit of getting carried away.

Sir Bushwookie

I actually found RA2 right after i talked about it but I only found the CD's. the box/cd case or whatever has long since been lost so I can't load it (need crying ork face).
Uprising is the RA3 expansion. gives a bunch of new units and such. including the Future Tank X-1 and even the Reaper walker for the Soviets which the 4 legged tank i have was origionally inspired by.

another Uprising unit that would be interesting would be the Pacficyer. a hover tank with twin galting guns that can deploy and fire 2 giant partical cannon bomblets.

The Mirage tank I could do. But i would do something silly with it.
I would build the tank and give it something like either the Laser Destroyer tank hunter laser cannon or a Vanquisher cannon (laser destroyer i prefer) but give it funny rules. like I could place a tree or secretly desegnate a peice of terrain to hide the tank then when i choose it reemerges and fires!.


Im sure i could figure out something to build from Generals. what exactly im not sure.

If I built an MCV i would probly attempt something stupid like having it be able to be disaseembled into a base struture (like a bastion) then rebuilt into the vehicale. which would be insanely complicated and difficult. But i bet with a Bastion set, tons of work. and alot of tank parts i could get something like that.

And it doesn't matter if you go off topic to me. I like brainstorming and imaganing things like units from other games interated into the 91st in their own ways.

Edit: a few more troopers built and a "Multi Turret" inspired by the turret of the same name in Gears 3 (ill be perfectly honest. I never played it. Little brother beat it then i never had initiative to play it as i know how it ends)
will get pictures up shortly.


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Second squad under construction.
I going kinda slow latly. But im first putting the soldiers together (with Gauss Rifles and backpacks) then building the suits on them.



also.
Multi Turret, multi lasgun emplacement!
Emplacement stats
See rulebook for "physical" stats like toughness and such.



Fires lasgun shots of course... but like 10 of them. (and before you go OMG THERES ONLY 4 LASGUNS ON IT, i know. i just decided to round it out. besides their lasguns! not bolters! or emperor forbid plasma guns!)

okay!
i've got all the little troopers on their feet and armed.
They only need their suits built around them now. (minus the MIssile Launcher Guy, he's fully suited up)



Also i went a different route on the RA2 infantry and built a Chrono Trooper instead. Will play as a melta gunner as i think being able to teleport around would be a bit much. the gun still erases things from the time stream but its more instant and either with a lucky shot it can totally erase a vehicale (in which the resulting time disruption causes a explosion of sorts while ejecting any vehicale occupants) or it needs a heavily damaged vehicale to allow the erasing to go more smoothly.

or it goes something like that lol.



ill get back with the troopers fully suited up soon.