My Imperial guard needs a new shiny super heavy tank... therefore I'm going to build them a Marcharius! And since my ork-playing friend is getting a bit cocky so I'm going to arm it whit a vulcan mega bolter...

I'm using the templates from dwc-archive as a starting point. the material is mostly going to be plastic card.

this is what I've got so far:



sides taking shape


side sponson from a leman russ and lots and lots of rivets...


making rivets is boring... but the hole punch makes it tolerable




the hull is also taking shape

update coming soon

Great start!

Quick question - does that hole punch have a small enough setting to get a size close to what is on the 'official' GW Baneblade model?

How do you cut your plastic? Looks good.

I'm using the templates from dwc-archive as a starting point.

Link? I would like a Macharius as well!

Nurgleboy77 wrote:

I'm using the templates from dwc-archive as a starting point.

Link? I would like a Macharius as well!

http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwc-archive/

you have to be a member... but that should not be a problem

Alpharius wrote:Quick question - does that hole punch have a small enough setting to get a size close to what is on the 'official' GW Baneblade model?

the smallest setting is 2 mm... so I have bought some plasticard rods in smaller diameter as a supplement

ok... its update time

this is what I've done to day

the heavy stubber "nest"

work goes on!





the hull is coming together... used some humbrol model filler to fill up the gaps and cracks. Now its time to let it dry... then its sanding time

Great work nice scratch build and thanks for the link it could be useful indeed.

Looks like you're using car body filler? I sure hope you're gonna sand that down before painting?

This looks awesome. I love scratchbuilds; I will cerainlt be paying attention to this one

I just bought some bondo the other day, anybody ever use that? Tips?

I'm not familiar with humbrol model filler, pretty good?

For bondo you will need body trowels they are made of rubber and the bondo won't stick to it after it dries.
You want to start small if you are using it for modeling read the package for mixing instructions.

Thanks for the tip,

Time for a update!


The turret is starting to take shape


the ammo compartment that is going to be attached to the back of the turret

Putting some of the pieces together...



It actually starts looking a bit like at Marcharius

Lots more to do... sanding, riveting, details...

nice job

That looks awesome! Very convincing, something that many scratch built tanks miss. How will you do the treads?

sA

Ooooh ! This is looking very promising indeed ! I would prefer to buy it haha you'd get the same complexity of build but for a bigger price , my wallet will ache after I get one of them

Thanks guys!

smiling Assassin wrote:How will you do the treads?

I'm going to use two chimera treads glued together. like this...


I have borrowed the idea from fex22763 over on Work In Progress

This is what I did yesterday (while activity not watching the Eurovision song contest...)


put the turret together and started on some detailing. Lots more to do, but at least it looks a bit like the real deal

I love the turret ! Are you workign from a template? if so do you have a lovely link I could follow ?

Wolf-

Nexus 6 wrote:

http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwc-archive/

you have to be a member... but that should not be a problem

Ah cheers for that, god knows how i missed the link

slow progress to day...


some details on the drivers hatch

Anyone who wants Templates membership free should look here...

(Forgot they don't have Macharius Templates, they've got Malcadors though!)

http://www.goldenboltersociety.com/paperhammer40k

The tracks I intended to use did not work... i did not like how it looked and in any case I did not have enough of them... so I built my own, simple but effective in my opinion


the turret is ... a few details left to be done

The rest of the model is also nearing completion...

nice job. alot of plastic card.

Beautiful vehicle ! You make me proud as a Dkok player
will have to look into giving it a bash my self sometime !

Good job


Wolf

This is delicious! Keep at it!

You could probably buy enough plasticard to make 50+ of those for the cost of my Machariuses.

Does look good though. The high turret is interesting. Much higher than the actual kit.

H.B.M.C. wrote:You could probably buy enough plasticard to make 50+ of those for the cost of my Machariuses.

Does look good though. The high turret is interesting. Much higher than the actual kit.

thanks! I think I have spent about the equivalent of 35 USD on plasticard on this build (and a lot of bits and pieces from my bitbox)


what are the dimensions of the original? Mine is 13 centimetres wide and about 20 centimetres long. the turret is roughly 2 centimetres high and 6 centimetres wide (we use the metric system in Sweden so I don't do inch and foots and stuff... ) It would be interesting to see how close to the original I have come

Fantastic scratch building on this project!

The tank looks great, and I also really like the clever solutions like gluing two sets of tracks together...

Interesting!

Gundam-Mecha wrote:Fantastic scratch building on this project!

The tank looks great, and I also really like the clever solutions like gluing two sets of tracks together...

Interesting!

thanks man!
But I have to admit that the track thing it wasn't really my idea... and I didn't even use it...

Thats pretty amazing. I will be checking this thread in the future to make sure that you paint this beast!

That looks totally awesome. Very well done indeed!

Whoops didn't even notice that you didnt use the two track idea!

Doh!

Fantastic finished product, my only crit would be the tracks... Personally I feel they are the only weak link at the moment in an amazing project. I would have gone with some 1/35 scale tracks.

You can get plenty of component sets that are just packs of treads, metal, resin, or plastic that would fit really well.

It looks great...

Wow that looks amazing o_o

if only GW Leman Russ looks that good....

Thanks guys!

Gundam-Mecha wrote:Fantastic finished product, my only crit would be the tracks... Personally I feel they are the only weak link at the moment in an amazing project. I would have gone with some 1/35 scale tracks.

You can get plenty of component sets that are just packs of treads, metal, resin, or plastic that would fit really well.

son of a ! I didn't even think of that! that would have looked much better. Maybe next time...

I'm taking a brake from the macharius project... I just got my imperial guard order from my online flgs and the plan is to put all the new stuff together and give it a coat of colour before I start doing some serious painting

Here is the first stuff I put together and sprayed a coat of paint on so far...






I always wanted rough riders in my army... but did not like the thought of having horse cavalry in my (more or less...) mechanised army. So I ordered some space marine scout bikes and used some guard torsos from my bitbox... and this is the result so far (and yeah I noticed the mould lines... camera puts on 5 pounds...)

I was thinking about what should represent the hunting lances... and so far I have come up with the following: some kind of explosive device that is thrown against the enemy in the first round of cc... or maybe driving a bike with 1 meter wide tires straight in to an enemy unit is enough to represent the S5 power weapon attack.
Any thoughts?

That Macharius looks fantastic ! With the paint you couldn't tell it was sratch built unless it was shuved next to another Forgeworld Macharius.

Great job


Wolf

Wow that all looks really cant wait to see the finished thing.

here is the last two bikes...


some close combat...


and a flamer... not sure about the placement of the flamer, but it will have to do...

after reading the codex I noticed that storm troopers cant use vox casters any more and since I equipped my storm trooper squads with voxes...
like this little fellow (I use these guys as count as storm troopers...)

I decided to cut them of in order to get my army up to codex standard....

then I noticed that my command squad veterans or veteran sergeants can't use plasma- or boltpistols any more and that my missile launchers can't be on separate bases... lot of fine tuning to do!

i ... envy ... you...

If i had the skills too make those , i would spend all my time inside instead of ælaying basketball or some ... like that ...

lol's , but up a tutorial ! ! !

I NEED ANOTHER RHINO !

What imperial guard army would be complete without some psychicpowers? So I went down to my parents basement and dug out my old psyker figure that I had hidden away down there...


meet my future primaris psyker

an to my joy i found this bonus! I thought I lost him a long time ago...

an old old old school GW Astropath

Both models will get a bath in some acetone to get rid of the last paint...

I actually bought that model in my flgs... so now you can figure out how long I played 40K

some WIP pictures...


my master of ordinance


one half of a special weapon squad...


and an other half of a special weapon squad

c&c are welcome

Those heads are great, whose are they? That Macharius looks utterly awesome that turret just reeks of power and a heavy deluge of raining death! The pace you've worked on that scratchbuild is great as well. I really like the Master of Ordnance which sprue has the servo skull on it?

Llamahead wrote:Those heads are great, whose are they? That Macharius looks utterly awesome that turret just reeks of power and a heavy deluge of raining death! The pace you've worked on that scratchbuild is great as well. I really like the Master of Ordnance which sprue has the servo skull on it?

Thanks!

The heads are from west wind productions Secrets of the Third Reich line.

here is some more WIP


some cannon fodder... sorry I mean guards men


my take on Officer of the fleet... tried my hand at some green stuff sculpting... it is supposed to be a belt

Once painted I think the sash will look great. I have similar problems in getting a nice smooth GS finish

Flinty wrote:Once painted I think the sash will look great. I have similar problems in getting a nice smooth GS finish

yeah I hope so! It was kind of a to get smooth and nice

here is a WIP on my version of Colonel Iron hand Starken...


It's parts from the cadian and the catachan command spruces and a shot gun from the space marine scout bike


I used the bionic arm from the cadian command sprue... but I had to "reverse" it to get it to fit whit the scout shotgun arm. There is a bit of fine-tuning left to do...

Nexus 6 wrote:
son of a ! I didn't even think of that! that would have looked much better. Maybe next time...

Next time you scratch build one why not try these?

http://military-precision.com/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=18&products_id=564&osCsid=70ef6d83459a77587afc05d36cb4e733

1:35 scale Churchill tracks. The Design of the British Churchill Heavy Tank is actually quite similar to the Macharius.



You know if you felt so inclined you could always just remove what you currently have and upgrade. Might take a little work but the end result would make a great Tank outstanding.


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Great infantry by the way! I love the conversions. The guy with the Combat Shotgun and Bionics gets my vote! He reminds me of the Lt. in Starship Troopers

Great stuff mate!

(Du råkar inte bo kring sthlm? )

Gundam-Mecha wrote:You know if you felt so inclined you could always just remove what you currently have and upgrade. Might take a little work but the end result would make a great Tank outstanding.

hmm that is an idea... do you know how wide are the Churchill track? they have to be 2 cm to fit the tank...

Müller wrote:Great stuff mate!

(Du råkar inte bo kring sthlm? )

Thanks man! (jag är fullblods skåning! Det är Lund som gäller )


Some more WIP pictures


count as guardsman Marbo...


two body guards to my command squad...

Very nicely done for this guy: Makes a really good Ironhand Straken

Nexus 6 wrote:
hmm that is an idea... do you know how wide are the Churchill track? they have to be 2 cm to fit the tank...

You know actually I'm not sure, however if they were too wide you could always shave them down or sand them down a little. I expect the scale and sizing would be roughly on par with a 1:35 Churchill.

Gah, I was hoping to add you to a person I could play with... but oh no... xD

I found my old epic emperator titan in a box in my parents basement and thought that the weapons on it would look nice on a leman russ...

said and done...



behold my new Punisher Gatling Cannon

I have used magnets to attach it... the Executioner Plasma Cannon is on it's way

And the magnets made it possible to do yet an other variant...


Exterminator Autocannons... but they look a bit puny


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the the Executioner Plasma Cannon is done... but I am not that pleased whit it! it looks a bit to big and bulky. I don't know if it is the small Leman russ turret that makes the cannon look to big or if I went overboard when I made it...

Well what do you say

hmmm no interest in my plasma cannon??

any how... here is some PIP pictures of my missile launcher guys...












and a sneak peak on my latest project...

can anybody guess what it's going to be?

Nexus 6 wrote:
the the Executioner Plasma Cannon is done... but I am not that pleased whit it! it looks a bit to big and bulky. I don't know if it is the small Leman russ turret that makes the cannon look to big or if I went overboard when I made it...

Well what do you say

I think it looks good as a plasma cannon, the problem is it looks like you just stuck the thing on the end of a Russ turret. If you check out the Forgeworld Executioners the plasma cannon has details like control wiring and piping and stuff that runs back into the turret. I guess its a problem if you want to have a magnetised turret, but in order to reduce the "just stuck there" look you need to tie the cannon into the turret more.

Maybe you could look at magnetising the whole weapon/mantlet section, rather than just the weapon? (thats what I'm planning for my Predator turretted russes, I just need an appropriate weapon).

I may have said the same thing several times, but whatever

poor imperitor titan it would have been better to sell it to me.

sonofruss wrote: poor imperitor titan it would have been better to sell it to me.

he is with the emperor now...

cool stuff love the tank

some PIP pictures of my Leman Russ punisher whit magnetised cannon...





I'm working on the plasma cannon to get it to fit the small turret better.

I reckon the main problem with the Executioner turret is that the Cannon is so much bigger than the mantlet. I suspect if you rebuild the mantlet so it surrounds the gun you might get a better look. The Gatling Cannon is pure win however

some more PIP... we are going to play a mini tornament in my gaming club this weekend so I have to paint up some models that I'm going to use...

These are more or less done... some fine tuning left

First out is my count as Guardsman Marbo


count as Colonel Iron Hand Starken


Two bodyguards to "save" col. Starken...


Rough rider sergeant


Oldschool Astropath

Hmm, this stuff is pretty nice. I like the bike pose a lot.

Could your next update include the Swedish version of the female commissar, please? That sounds really hot.

captain.gordino wrote:Could your next update include the Swedish version of the female commissar, please? That sounds really hot.

Yeah I could include the swedish version of the female commissar... but I know how squeamish most of you guys out there are when it comes to full frontal nudity, and I don't want to embarrass anybody out there

Ziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing!!!

But seriously, I think we can take it.

I second Gordino's shout.

two WIP gun servitors for my Enginseer

Heavy Bolter






Melta gun






I have also stated to work on my own take on Gunnery Sergeant Harker... still WIP but I like where it's going

I love the gun servitor and everything about Sgt. Harker, except his left hand. Just the way you have it makes it look like he'd drop it. The heavy bolter just looks too awkward to actually carry like that, but then again, that's just my $.02

Nice use of the epic! land raider!

IAmTheWalrus wrote:I love the gun servitor and everything about Sgt. Harker, except his left hand. Just the way you have it makes it look like he'd drop it. The heavy bolter just looks too awkward to actually carry like that, but then again, that's just my $.02

you're right! the left arm does look a bit awkward... I am remodelling it now. Picture coming soon.

New and improved gunny Harker... changed his left arm so it holds up the heavy bolter... still looks very big and clumsy... but hey its 40K

I needed some objectiv markers for my guards... after rummaging around in my bitz box this is what I came up whith


communication array / teleport homer


No one gets left behind!


Medic!!

Nexus 6 wrote:

Wow - are those oop Epic Land Raiders? What a fantastic (and cost-effective) idea for track legs!

Nice medic!

I love your macharius tank...it's the best scratchbuilt of it that I have ever seen.

I have a question. From where is the head of the commander of your macharius tank?

The scratch-build was great! However, on the painting, if you own an airbrush, even though I really don't know how to use them, maybe adding more shades of green possibly using washes or glazes to add depth to the plating? Maybe even just high-lighting would work but right now, it looks flat and kind of boring which an awesome tank like that shouldn't!

Fantastic work, lovely detailing on the tank. Nice paint job to.

Hmm. I love a army shot of this.

Macharius looks great! Can I pilfer a copy of the schematics?

great job with the macharius; no suggestions there. as for your marbo, i'd add a more obvious knife to complete the model. you might have the standard catachan knife on the backpack but i think marbo deserves a bigger nastier one since it wounds wraithlords on a 2+!!

All of your conversions of the special characters look great. Just one question; what is that bit that you used for marbo's revolver?

Nice conversions! I used exactly the same gun for my Marbo, I think it looks the part as a ripper pistol.

what is that bit that you used for marbo's revolver?

A stub gun from necromunda as far as I can tell. Either from the weapons sprues you could get at the time or from the plastic Orlock gang that came with the original necromunda box.

Awesome work in here! The macharius turned out awesome, and i love the Rough rider conversion, in particular!

Wow, great stuff! Once again my work is made to look like shenanigans. Your work looks so clean and exact, especially on the track assembly side of your Macharius. Again wonderful!

Disjointed Entity wrote:Macharius looks great! Can I pilfer a copy of the schematics?

Nexus 6 wrote:

Nurgleboy77 wrote:

I'm using the templates from dwc-archive as a starting point.

Link? I would like a Macharius as well!

http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwc-archive/

you have to be a member... but that should not be a problem

here you go!

no update this time... I really have to start painting again! Lots of other stuff going on that takes up all my time.

Thanks buddy!

Very nice, keep going

It would be nice to see some pictures of the whole army as it stands

I have to say, when I first looked at this thread, I only saw the last picture of the semi-painted tank. And I couldn't tell it was a scratch build!

Well done.

WOW, that tank is sweet. i swear it is the real thing (apart from the tracks)
i like the punisher, but the plasma cannon dosn't look right.
this may be a little late but for hunting lances i used a mortar as the hunting lance i shaved down the details expect for the imperial eagle and glued it onto the bike where your light is on your models.
also this is too late as well but for sargent harker you could use a scout HB. i have seen it done before on daka, it looked good but cant remeber who did it right now

Summit about that medic objective kinda screams that the injured guy may not make it......

Medic!!