I like armored fighting vehicles, and I like to see what projects and ideas other people have. It's always a good source of inspiration looking on the forum at other people's projects but there does not seem to be a dedicated thread.
As the name suggests, if it floats, flies, skims or drives and it has a weapon mounted on it, this thread can be it's home! If you are working on a project (or perhaps want to post up a previous project you are quite proud of,) or plan to start you're welcome to post ideas etc here.

As I intend for this to be a image heavy thread I'd ask that images be put in spoilers boxes. Just hit the spoiler button, then image button, paste image address and then image button then spoiler again. It's easy and looks neat. Other than that feel very welcome to write as much about your vehicle, it's purpose, history etc as you want. I want this thread to be a creative space, which won't work if you hold back on your awesome ideas and of course your imagination.

Cheers


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My surveillance car for my Commonwealth forces (40k Guard)- Pending name and designation
The vehicle itself is a converted ramshackle games degu scout car and is inspired by real life vehicles such as the German/Dutch Fennec recon car.
It's a simple and rugged 4x4 design, armed with a pintle mounted weapon(in this case a grenade machinegun) for self defence. The vehicle carries an extending mast camera system which can be placed on a tri-pod mount and operated remotely feeding information back via a 50m field telephone cable. This means the vehicle can take up a position out of line of sight, while still performing it's surveillance and recon role. It also has a large multi-spectral camera/optic on the front right hand part of the hull and a short range RADAR positioned behind that. The vehicle's purpose is to carry out surveillance on enemy units and detect concealed enemy units (using it's advanced systems). It is capable of auspex sweeps and also carries a long range vox set.


Some much newer pictures vehicle is still WIP, will put decals on it and then weather it.


Surveillance car named 'Mongoose', a name I thought particularly fitting as it goes ahead of/accompanies the main body and flushes out treacherous concealed enemies. Marked as a specialist vehicle. Fluff wise decided it should have a geophone, which can be lowered through a hatch on the underside of the vehicle and is used to detect sub terranian movement. The Commonwealth will not be caught flat footed with this thing around.

24/05
Vehicle project completed, have to base tripod at some point

it kinda reminds me of the British Ferret.

That is what I thought. I have 2x 6x6 armoured cars on the same chassis, I put an angled glacis plate on all three vehicles, then I was looking at a picture of the 6x6 Saladin armoured car, my 6x6 armoured cars were quite similar!


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Another project:
MBT turrets. I intend on getting some Mortian medium chassis to put these on (as they are sold separately to the turrets) I have 2x types of turrets I intend to use on this chassis. I have 2 of these chassis coming from Germany, so ahead of that I am going to prepare 2x vehicle turrets (and crews!). These tanks are representing a veteran unit that has seen a lot of combat recently, they will be covered in stowage and random looted items.

Victoria miniatures turrets:


Mortian Medium tank turrets:


So my Mortian chassis returned to the warehouse becasue of the Corona virus, just got to wait till German Post clears it with Australia Post and they'll come.
New Update: My tanks are being posted! Again!

Some Decals I like to use by Rubicon models:


They arrived today!!

Have 2x old(read OOP) Kromlech 7TP turrets that are armed with some seriously beefy gatling cannons, they make a standard sized punisher cannon look weak.

I have since ordered 2x of these Valentine tanks form Blitzkrig miniatures, these vehicles are from their 1/48 scale range and I want to measure up the pieces to see if they're spot on 1/48th as Blitzkrig has a 1/56 28mm range and a 1/48th 28mm range. I will then order a few more things later on if I'm happy with the level of detail and scale.



The intention is to have a medium tank perhaps armed with an avenger bolt cannon, and for this vehicle to have an extremely low profile. The idea is it is a suppression vehicle that can go hull down anywhere and is basically a colossal pain to any advancing infantry, light and medium armour.

Some links if you're interested.
http://www.blitzkriegminiatures.com/index.html

https://bitsofwar.com/

Okay, so my valentines arrived today, and my crusaders(which I also ordered from Blitzkreig some time after the valentines, but you know coronovirus and all ) on Friday, Progress on those projects were fast, just made some adapters to fit the turrets with plasticard, crusader MK1 hull MG clips with turret so I'll magnetise that with the MK2 hatch and replace the besa with a GW heavy stubber or 3d printed 30cal heavy stubber, so I can outfit the crusader turrets with guns and have the choice of a light recon tank and a AA tank.


Valentines were easy, turret require a little modification(namely trimming some detail from the underside of the turret back) and some plasticard disks to fit the turret recess. The valentine turrets have about the same internal capacity as the chimera turrets so they'll look great kitted with an auto cannon or similar and mounted on a degu scout car.

Decided I'll likely arm the crusader turrets, with the option of having twin auto cannons, twin las cannons and a heavy stubber and conqueror cannon, will outfit the hull turret with options of: Grenade machinegun, heavy stubber, twin melta guns, twin plasma guns, twin flamers. To give it a bit of firepower.

Valentine stowage! One has an ATGM to defend itself and a big plastic box with another couple missiles in there.


5/7/20
Primed and sprayed the valentines today, require a little clean-up.


12/7/20
More work on valentine details. I've decided I want to get alternative turrets for these vehicles to give the option of using them as gun tanks, because they are just so cool.


19/07/20
Mostly finished them, they need a little bit of dust and they're good for battle. On those alternate weapons and turrets. I've put an order with blood and skulls.


I can imagine this vehicle being a supreme pain in the backside on the battlefield, it's armoured enough to warrant AT weapons to neutralise it, it's tiny and can hide easily becasue of it's low profile, so it can ambush very effectively and it's going to be annoying to knock out from combat distances, while suppressing the battlefield with short bursts from it's avenger gatling cannon. Which, if you're short of being in a heavy tank is more than a substantial threat.
Valentines as armed with gatling cannons are effectively finished as of today, will post pics.

25/07/20
Valentine chassis and supression turrets are completed.

Hey OldMate, I've got a vehicle project that might suit your interests, or at least your thread. I have two shamefully old, partly built Imperial tanks that I need to push through and get finished... if for no other reason that they'll be easier to store and I won't lose all their bits.

The Chimera is one I disassembled, cleaned up, repainted and started to work on a turret conversion before getting sidelined by a rules change. It is destined to hold three Bullgryns plus a Preacher, Psyker, and Inquisitor in my mostly-hypothetical Inquisition-themed Astra Militarum army.

The Rhino was a poorly built Sisters of Battle Exorcist the I sold the upgrade parts from, rebuilt, and sprayed black to be either an Inquisition transport or, more likely, a Repentia/Arcoflagellant bomb to race across the battlefield with my Sororitas force.

Both are an optimistic summer project, a secret shame, and a now-or-never... I have a lot of unfinished projects and these take up more than their share of space. Here we go!



Whoops, almost forgot the fun part: I ordered a $5 MDF Rhino upgrade kit from Promethium Forge (from the really cool laser-cut MDF clearning house www.everylittlewar.com) called the "Buffalo"... for five bucks, it was worth a shot! I think I'll try building it separately, painting it red, and sliding it onto the black Rhino for some contrast and an armored look.

Are you planning on painting the chimera in a inquistion style scheme?

Nice MacPhail, that rhino should look pretty nice between the extra armour and the ornate hedge cutter on the front!

Neat project, looking forwards to seeing it progress!

As it belongs here, I'm currently working on a heavily kitbashed conglomerate of various guard vehicles, the hyppogryph. The WIP threat is here:
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/786984.page

and here is some impression of the current state of the project:



It has been pretty fun so far.

And to the other posters here: those are some nice projects. Looking forward to see more Inspiration in this topic.

That's looking pretty wild Pyro!

Couple of slightly spiky chaos projects going on.

Couple of salamander scouts - one based on the actual model, one a variant using the ever-popular bonekorpus tracks



Extra armoured been added to the standard version. Could not find any of my wire, so whip aerial used thin plastic rod - we'll see how well that holds up. Both will get plenty of extra stowage, equipment hanging off the struts, spare treads etc.


And an ancient tank destroyer variant, based on the bonekropus tank.

Nice Monkeytroll
I like the bars for a canvas cover, I mean who actually likes getting rained on?
I like to put mudguards on my chimeras from drive to sprocket wheel(well where they'd be) and then you will have about 50% of the treads in the kit for decorating your tank with!

Nice to see renegades too. Always get the sense that 90% of the Imerpium's enemies are orks and other humans.

That tank hunter has a pretty gnarly gun!

Yeah, tread guards are great for saving treads, but then I also use up some by doing stuff like this



Also still in paint progress, goes with an affiliated renegade faction.

Could have save twice as many
Nurgle cult?

Counts as Griffon assault gun WIP, is a case in point for treads!
Yeah, decided I didn't like that scheme as soon as I finished it!

Dusted off my poor Ramshacle games Rheboks today and gave them some love with bluetack and some spray cans(GW Zandari dust and Army painter fur brown). Well I ran out of spray can on the second vehicle's turret, I still love them though. They are so brutish and have their own charm, in my veiw, I can totally understand if you think they look horrid. Both of these will be legacy vehicles that were brought home from some campaign(Who'd think that the armies Oldmate's fluff horde all kinds of AFVs like they're going out of fashion?) or other and mothballed till the 132nd Commonwealth Combined Rifles required rearmament during the current conflict on Ardus. Both vehicles have the option of a twin auto cannon turret and a smaller turret armed with either an auto cannon or an assault cannon.



18/05
Some more progress on the Rheboks, and a mock up for a new project, airbrushed the 2nd vehicle and Zandari dust is an exact colour match for Humbrol 94 desert brown.

23/05
Decals on, 1st vehicle(brown, tan and green) named Mammon, second Mammoth(brown and tan). Keeping with troop names starting with same letter, vehicles are numbered and marked for Bravo company 2nd Platoon 1st Btln 132n Commonwealth Combined Rifles.
24/05 Finished weathering process, just have to put some cotes on the vehicles.

Apologies for the gak photo quality.

17/06/20
So my 2nd wave of Rheboks arrived today! They are nearly priming stage, just a bit more work, little bit of clean up, some more camo nettinfg, maybe a tarp or 2 and got to magnetise the guns for the fire support vehicle. Fire support(russ weapons) vehicle and flamer vehicle(hellhound with heavy flamer in hull).
The work so far:


Applied tarps to these vehicles, and more camo netting on the fire support vehicle, and added a block of putty to the tank on the rear of the flamethrower vehicle so that I can mgnetise a sign there denoting just what kind of hazard is contained in the tanks, whether it's flammable or corrosive...

04/7/20
Primed and started painting fire support Rhebok.


5/7/20
Sprayed flamethrower rhebok today.


Put decals on my rheboks.

Nice ones. I saw those last year and thought they are not really my style, but revisiting them I might get one in the future. The definitly look very robust

Might get another 2 eventually. There is a flamethrower vehicle with big fuel tanks on the back instead of the infantry compartment, which would make a nice hellhound, and I might make a more fire support orientated IFV. Maybe with a Victoria Miniatures Matilda Boss (cromwell) turret.


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Very happy with the wheels and bullbar, I mean it's a pretty unique look, so all of them will be configured this way.

Started painting my Victoria Miniatures Kangaroos today, some pics of the earlier in the project.
About sums up all the weapons options I included.
Weapons as mounted from the top down.
Pintle:
Heavy Stubber
Storm Bolter
Automatic Grenade Launcher
Turret Side:
Hunter Killer
5x 3Inch Rockets
Turret:
Conqueror Cannon & Heavy Stubber
Twin Auto-Cannons
Auto- Cannon & Heavy Stubber
Twin Heavy Bolters
Multi-Laser & Heavy Stubber
Hull
Heavy Bolter
What you were expecting more?
As you can see changes from stock are not that big, located exhaust pipe on the engine opposite the big air intake, because I didn't want it venting out the back. Also added an infantry telephone to the rear. And puttied the rear slot of the turret.

Undecided as to the lore of these vehicles and where they fit into my force, the troop compartment under that turret is pretty small, reminds me of a bradley, especially now I've put so many weapons on it. Perhaps it could fulfill the cavalry role of the Bradleys. I like the idea that the rocket pods(sentinel missile pod) were meant to go to another unit (I'd purchased them as ATGM but was unimpressed by the tiny size, especially as I was already using spacemarine hunter killers and havoc launchers as Anti-tank missile systems, which well a bigger missile, more punch innit?) so fluff wise someone makes a bungle and this unit ends up with a few launchers and a tonnage of rockets, and decide to just slap them on, becasue the vehicle has a mounting there anyway. Or perhaps they were serving with/against sentinels and salvaged some pods and slapped them on the side for extra firepower. However the case stranger things have happened at sea.

Twist is the multi-laser is not a multi-laser, it's an imperial knight heavy stubber, because it's the same size as a multi-laser and the rest of my army(with a few noble exceptions) are rocking ballistic weapons rather than lasers. So here I figure the multi-laser is about equal to a ww2 era Besa 15mm or more modern Soviet 14.5mm machine gun. A heavy suppression weapon, that is really really good for mulching light targets with.


Vehicles will be done in an approximation of the Cauter Scheme used by the British during the start of the desert war in WW2, as the vehicles really look like they want to be painted that way.

Sprayed vehicles, contrast between the slate grey and dark slate grey was actually pretty minimal on the first vehicle, so thinking of spraying a thin pale stone wedge between them. Silver grey was all chunky, not putting that through the air brush so used administrtum grey instead, came out a little glossy and I thined it down a bit too much, but let it dry between coats and dull coat will fix the glossynes.

Some progress pics:

Another Progress pic on vehicle 02, wanted to make one grey and one the slate grey-green colours that were used in ww2 (these were British Naval colours from the Mediterranean fleet HQ in Egypt) Am happy with the results of mixing Tamiya JA grey 2/3 to 1/3 Humbrol 31 -slate grey (which I sprayed on orignally and did not have the contrast with the Humbrol 242 -dark slate grey).


Some more progress pics:
Decals on, mostly detailed and weathered. Weapons want a little paint, and will dust them lightly with pastels. Might do a tutorial on that. Vehicles 501 and 502 of HQ recon troop of the 5th tank company of the 76 armoured division, haven't come up with a regimental name yet, but these will be from the same unit as my main battle tanks earlier in the thread.


Both vehicles are finished, 501 named 'Valiant' and 502 named 'Archer' commanders need painting, and I think I'll magnetise the pintle weapons at some point.
With that dust I was talking about earlier:


25/0 7/20
Magnetised the pintle weapons and painted the commanders, glued commanders in and waiting for putty to set on pintle mounting so I can paint over it.

Should really have posted this here:

Pretty cool weapons options. I like the Sentinel missile launcher in the side. I imagine with some bigger rivets it would fit even better

Edit: I could also currently use some recommendations on my Hyppogryph project, as I'm looking for a way to fix the missiles and am a bit lost at the moment.
To spare a double post, its here:
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/786984.page#10815703

I think B and C look the best personally.

Found out the other day between coats on the stripes that If I put the HK on the sentinel pod can attach itself on top of that, doesn't look overly ridiculous, so that is another potential load-out.

Pretty cool. I think the tanks look a lot better than the armoured jeep looking vehicle. Solid work though, takes a lot of skill to make these things

Thanks for the kind words A.D. maybe more enthusiasm than skill .

Crusader hull weapons.

As you can see, the guy has that big D shaped hatch to the left of the gun, he sits in there, eye to that shielded sight, he'll have to put his arms out of the hatch to get their shoulders out, like the tiny hatches on a churchill/cromwell. But an unarmoured soldier should be able to get in and out.

Crusader magnetisation so far:

It's a good sized tank. Not a heavy tank, not going to put a lot of hurt out, but it'll put out enough hurt. And it'll look great alongside by bigger(and smaller) vehicles.
Also needs a coaxle heavy stubber and will have some kind of AA mount.

The twin meltagun/plasmagun look really good that way. Where did you get that heavy stubber in the lower right corner from?

Mcaffery miniatures on shapeways, it's basically the chaos cultist browning 30cal, de-culted. I find it as a good vehicle armament, I put them on my kangaroos.
https://www.shapeways.com/shops/mccafferty-miniature-s?section=Van+Saar+Gang&s=0

My Mortian medium tanks mocked up with their turrets and crew.

Nice, is the second turret from Victoria?

Also how is the quality on Mortians stuff? Looks pretty good in the pics.

2nd turret is the Victoria miniatures matilda fury(churchill mk 1/2) turret.
Personally I like this turret a bit more, becasue I've always been fan of the churchill, and those smooth cast turrets.

Mortian resin is really nice, it's much like Victoria's to work with but he makes use of finer detail.
I've encountered a few solid blobs but they were mainly on the inside of the pieces and are not an issue.

Both vehicles look really cool together, especially lined up with their vanquisher cannons.

More work on my crusader tanks.

Crusader light battle tank
Turret is armed with a co-axle heavy machinegun.
Primary weapons options:
Twin Las cannons
Conqueror cannon
Twin Hydra auto cannons - Ran out of plastic tube for the 2nd model so ordering some more :(
Hull weapons compliment, can be configured without hull weapons:
Twin linked Flamethrowers
Twin linked Plasma guns
Twin linked Melta guns
Medium machinegun
Grenade machinegun

Crusader Stalker AA tank

Twin tribarrel Stalker AA cannons
4x flak rocket pods

Traditionally the hydra cannon is not seen outside the flack role on the hydra flck tank, but here it is used in ground fire role by this tank to carry out suppression fire on enemy vehicles at longer ranges than regular auto cannons. Whilst the dustbin turret is tiny I expect that you could fit a particulary small crewman/woman in there, and failing that jamb a ratling in there.

I´m looking every picture on this thread.

I love it. Very very very cool!!!

Currently, I've gotten this far on a Griffon. Will post more as she goes. The hull is an ebay salvage Chimera, the entire top had been stove in, (maybe someone dropped something on it?) but there's still some stowage on the sides. I'm basically rebuilding it as a Griffon with part from the bit box.

Cheers El Antiguo Guardian.
Thanks for sharing BaronIveagh,looking forwards to progress, what are you planning on using for the mortar?


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This one has been sitting on the desk for a while.
Dusted off an assault tank based on a chimera chassis and a blood and skulls kollosus turret.
Today I made some sandbags from putty and put them over the front hull and attached some track links(as you can see I am watering down my hoard with 3d printed product) on the lower front hull, also made some HEAT skirts for the vehicle's sides that are magnetised. I'll put putty over the magnets and smooth it off, and it'll be really nice after its painted. I don't want to pile the sandbags too high as I intend to put some periscopes in for the driver and hull gunner. I also have started working on the commander.

 OldMate wrote:
Cheers El Antiguo Guardian.
Thanks for sharing BaronIveagh,looking forwards to progress, what are you planning on using for the mortar?

Probably that grey resin mortar sitting next to it in the picture. Barrel is away from the camera.

Wasn't sure what that was. Cool.

Sorry folks, internet connection has been gak of late.

Here is my final result for the Hyppogryph kitbash:


as well as another truck:

New turrets for my valentines. Includes the following options, conqueror cannon to put ordinance on targets, twin las-cannons to breach heavy armour, twin auto-cannons to suppress and kill troops and light to mid armoured vehicles, volkite culverin because they found it lying around in an old warehouse... and plasma cannon, closer range specialist vehicle. Pintle mounted heavy bolter to boost firepower and coaxle heavy stubber to kill infantry. Turrets are blood and skulls, the rear section is not a back bin, it is meant to be part of the turret I've yet to add aerials. I like the layout of the smoke dischargers and will use this configuration more often from now on.
Don't mind the guys in the background.



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Very cool vehicles Pyro, that Hyppogryph turned out wild. The array of AA weapons looks great. I like the grenade launcher mounts on the desert truck as well.

Those pintle bolters on the cuppulas look massive. The gunshield is a cool idea. I might copy that in the future

I know, and they're the small(devastator) heavy bolters. If I put a guard one on it'd be twice as long!

Is it just me or do these turrets look really a lot like Panzer VI Tigers?
But appart from that, it looks like the quality of Blood and Skulls parts was again very good. The guns look awesome

Yeah they're little chimera sized tiger turrets.

A bit of progress on the baneblade and 3rd kangaroo
This represents a more refined 'tank hunter version of the vehicle, rather than just having the aluncher for self defence, it's likely this vehicle carries more munitions and less scouting equipment. Large mounting arm boasts a full sized folding fin aerial rocket pod, or a 2X3 HK pod.

And the baneblade. This is the most revered and valuable vehicle of my army, it is the center of gravity and the center of the guard's trust in the holy firepower, it is an ancient vehicle with a reputation earned on many a battlefield. This is no regular baneblade. This is a unique vehicle commissioned from the Dragonforge of Karsk, pride of the Klomn 81st Cuirassiers. I also pimped out the little shrine on the back to make it more suiting to a tank of such honoured pedigree. I can imagine this vehicle dominating other baneblades(as the gun is much bigger the turret much more armoured and much more sophisticated targeting) and going toe to toe with other super heavies.


Here are some modifications to the original form.
Blood and skulls
Extended fuel tanks
centralised turret plate
really big gun (albeit two kingslayers cut and glued together, I guess that's like an emperor slayer? )
sponsons with a single las-cannon and a single heavy bolter on each side

My additions
Hydra Auto cannon co-axle
IR spot light on gun mantle
chaff discharger mounted on barrel
bore evacuator sleeve
targeter on barrel (also acts a a reference for the gunner/commander,
Remote weapons staions with addiotional optics, smoke dischargers and grenade machineguns
Spare wheels and tracks
Stowage(done since the photos were taken)
Hull extension
Imperial Knight heavy stubber(multi-laser proxy) Loud speaker on commander's cupola
Twin heavy bolter on loader's cupola
Perescopic gunsight for gunner
fully traversing commander's sight, can tag and track targets for hunter killer(rapid target aquisition so that the main gun can be traversed onto the next targets as identified by the loader and commander as soon as a kill is confirmed, no messing around trying to find it) capability.

2nd turret for baneblade

Blood and skulls heavy tank turret, I could not help myself and gave it plenty of weapons options
This turret is obviously more versitile, although not as ergonomic, I think this will represent another baneblade of the 81st of lesser pedigree but also manufactured in the Dragonforge, probably afterwards, using the design of the first vehicle's hull and a more versitile but less armoured turret.
2X massive las cannons
massive plasma cannon
2x automatic battle cannons
2x mega-bolters/massive punishers
2xrailguns
2x laser destroyers

I think you forgot the pictures, but I was them in your gallery. Looks really good so far. I would be quite interested to get a better look at the Baneblade sponsons

Yeah internet has been pretty bad lately.

More work on baneblade, made/scrambled together some coms equipment.
Baneblade shrine, coms array, crew and sponsons hull stowage.



Berets of course.

So it's been a while but a bit of an update here!


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I have completed the valentine battle tanks. They are named Beetle and Betty.


Stinger. A little robot to support my pig iron troops. I had the pieces there from other projects so it made sense to throw them together and it made sense to add a support platform to the team.


Progress on WIPS
Crusader Stalker flak tanks.
Require a bit more weathering and details on stowage but I haven't posted in an age so what the hell?

Crusader Battle tanks
Much the same. Knight is being crewed by a pretty accomplished bunch. She has 5 kills against enemy tanks.


Personally I like the look of the crusaders, they're really sleek and low. They look like cheetahs to the leman russ's rhino.

I like those Valentines, the turrets especially fit that blocky, 40k aesthetic. Although, a little small for those pintle mounts.

Cheers. I think they'd make a good PDF tank with their own rules. The heavy bolters are massive, I wanted to add that level of firepower to them to make up for the lightness of overall firepower(as undoubtedly the crew might).
I mean the crusaders have the choice of packing a hull turret with a heavy stubbers, or double flamer/plasmagun/meltagun in the hull turrets. So they're probably pretty useful in the context of 40k's long list of heavily armed vehicles.

Really cool additions Oldmate! I like the elegant lines of the Crusader turrets. And the heavy bolters give the Valentines an interesting touch. Your Stingers are also pretty cool. Looks like you have been busy over Christmas

Another one from me I'm pretty proud of:

Nice work as always Pyro. Really cool little vehicle, is that turret 3d printed or forgeworld? the multi-laser looks good

I'm pretty satisfied with that multilaser too. I found it when I searched for Multilaser parts. Here are the source files (free for download):

Centaur complete and vehicle Multilaser:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3963999
"crewbased" multilaser (for pintle mounts and heavy weapons teams) as well as another freaky IG vehicle from an old White dwarf
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3956786
Gryphonne pattern Chimera turret (including parts for Heavy Bolter with stormbolter, twin-HB, autocannen)
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3588762

I merged the Gryphonne turret with the Multilaser from the Centaur to get that turret. Regarding the FW question: They are definitly heavily inspired by those.
The big Antenna is from the Tank upgrade sprue. I'm still puzzling around what stats to give this thingy. It looks fast and should be with the strong Leman Russ engine working on wheels instead of tracks and a hull that should be lighter than either a Chimera or a Leman Russ. And I imagine it as having quite a good radio equipment.
So I would guess:

Centaur L.R.V
M14'', WS6+, BS 4+, S6, T7, W10, Ld7, 3+
Multilaser + hull Heavy Bolter/Heavy Flamer
can take vehicle equipment except track guards
Abilities:
Scout Vehicle (9'' move before the first turn)
Vox relais: The Centaur can act as a relais for Vox orders. Characters with the "Voice of Command" ability can order infantry units with a voxcaster within 18'' of the centaur as long as they are either within 3'' of the Centaur or within 3'' of a vox caster that is within 18'' of the Centaur*
Expanded Vox net (10 Points): The centaur can access multiple Vox channels simultanously. Characters within range can use their voice of command ability on non-regimental orders without constraints regarding regiment**

* The wording sounds complicated. I meant: as Long as the commanders Vox can reach the Centaur, it can transmit the signal further to an infantry unit. So up to 36'' orders
** again, the wording is suboptimal. I mean you can "translate" orders from for example a Catachan Commander to Scions and Cadians

Pyro, not to rain on your parade, but a later WD (White Dwarf #270) renamed that the Pegasus. This is probably due to causing confusion among two FW kits.

The original Pegasus being a bridging vehicle for IG from Citadel Journal, just fyi.

I made this Angel Infernus, started off as a Terminus Ultra (no troop compartment hence the dozer blade/ hedge trimmer)



Also this Vinidicator using a mix of orriginal metal parts and new chassis


Coolest loadout for a razorback

Some nice work Rybrook, I like the razorback, that turret is mean , and the big old fashion recoil compensators on the vindicator are cool and it fits well into the front of the modern rhino. That's also a very very burny land raider, really cool.

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Pyro, not to rain on your parade, but a later WD (White Dwarf #270) renamed that the Pegasus. This is probably due to causing confusion among two FW kits.

The original Pegasus being a bridging vehicle for IG from Citadel Journal, just fyi.

Thanks for the info Baronlveagh. That makes sense as I found the name a bit misleading too. So lets call it Pegasus then.

@Rybrook: looks great!

Okay, so I got on and finished the Crusaders, they have markings of the 121st Ardus tank regiment and are of the same regiment as the valentine tanks above. Again these vehicles have an extremely low profile when compared to something like a Russ, so they'd have much the advantage when finding cover and hull down positions to fire from. The Crusader certainly has more of a cavalry feel to it. I like the idea that it is a fast and lighter armoured vehicle, having higher endurance and speed than most other guard vehicles.

Both vehicles sport a co-axle heavy machiegun and a roof mounted machinegun for the commander.
Both vehicles are armed with the following options:
Conqueror cannon: Pretty standard tank armament, albeit to fit inside a smaller tank.
Twin las-cannon: For a tank hunter version, I can't see this design taking a large calibre high velocity cannon, so lasers are where its at.

When configured as a battle tank(it impedes the rotation of the stalker turret to an unacceptable(especially on an AA vehicle) degree) each vehicle can be upgraded with a little dustbin turret in the hull with the following armarments
machinegun (the most common armament for this type of vehicle)
grenade machinegun, for when the normal machinegun does not cut it.

Twin Flamethrowers- mounted side by side, the dustbin turret is too small to mount a heavy flamer, but mounting two regular flamers side by side offers the ability to put out more volume of flame. A specialist vehicle and probably pretty unpopular with the crews as everything is internally mounted.

Twin plasma guns- Mounted side-by side a more specialised, and rarer upgrade, this lets the vehicle hit hard against heavy infantry, the vehicle offers more speed and protection than that is available to foot weapons specialists, and can lay down considerable fire with other weapons.

Twin Melta guns- Mounted sude-by side, this vehicle is again a more specialised and rarer upgrade, the tank can offer speed to close with the enemy and protection against lighter weapons, in close in environments it has the advantage over regular tanks for its small size.

Additionally one vehicle has twin Hydra Auto cannons
This is not configured for AA use, these are mounted in the battle tank turret, and are meant to be used against enemy infantry and lighter/medium vehicles at long ranges.



Both tanks have a 'stalker AA' turret armed with a twin tribarrel revolving cannon, and 2 sets of light AA rocket pods(for dealing with pesky things like jump troops, gargoyles and any similarly 'flying infantry' without having to waste a burst of 25mm shells on them).
This turret is designed for more close in air defence than that of a Hydra AA vehicle as larger weapons and targeting systems would be unsuitably large for the chassis.

I'm currently working on a Scylla tankette:

Okay another Project: Scout tank based on Blitzkreig Miniatures soviet T70
Conversion is straight forwards, I replaced the front of the mantle with a taurox battle cannon and a white metal laser weapon barrel from the top of a sci-fi Khursan Miniatures 28mm T55 analogue. And gave it a 40k aerial.
Tank is a recon vehicle, that is armed with a conqueror cannon and co-axle multi-laser, it is intended to be employed in mechanised and armoured formations, its able to lay down pretty heavy and sustained fire with the multi-laser, and the cannon offers versitility in marking targets, anti-tank, beast, fortification or infantry roles. The regiment is the remnant of an Imperial Regiment that was dispatched to be retired on Ardus and landed in the middle of the conflict.
Pics for scale and conversion, it is accompaniedn by a command team from the same regiment for scale (all units WIP at the moment):

The T70 looks nice. In my opinion the clear and "simple" lines are very fitting for a light guard tank.

Yeah, its a simple design and I think it'd make a really neat sentinel proxy in many guard forces.

This thread desperately needs some Orks!

Some of my projects from the dim dark and distant past:

Battlewagons:


Buggy

Some really nice vehicles Gordy, those looted amphtracks are great!

I think the Neubaufahrzeug makes an excellent Leman Russ.


This is 1/35, similar height and width (not including sponsons), (although about 50% longer).
Not cheaper though as a 1/35 Neubaufahrzeug alone is about the same price as a Leman Russ from GW.
The two turrets match the two sponsons, and make more logical sense imo.

 kirotheavenger wrote:
I think the Neubaufahrzeug makes an excellent Leman Russ.

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This is 1/35, similar height and width (not including sponsons), (although about 50% longer).
Not cheaper though as a 1/35 Neubaufahrzeug alone is about the same price as a Leman Russ from GW.
The two turrets match the two sponsons, and make more logical sense imo.

Too bad those dust figures are sold out atm.

Nice work, nice looking vehicle and crew, it seems to scale pretty well, especially for a heavy battle tank.

Yeah they're great models. I bought 3 sets, one was limited edition "display only" and another two were regular, although Paulo seems to have a lot of issues with stock.

I just use them as set dressing though

Okay, so finally some nice weather for air brushing, I got kangaroo no 3 out, primed it and put the first coat on then pulled out vehicle number 2 to use as reference for masking after it dried, and then I realised my mistake Didn't put smoke launchers, spotlight or infantry telephone on. So that has been remedied now, vehicle is up to standard. Gotta prime and paint those details though.

The missile launcher looks pretty awesome. Would you mind taking a photo from a different angle?
And as usual: great work on those details. The Kangaroo certainly is a very cool vehicle.

Thanks mate, I really like the look of it too, I think I'll use that same light slate green colour and then the same dark green as on the other vehicle in the first picture. Although with a modified pattern.

Finished the last Kangaroo. This is a cavalry reconnasance vehicle that is part of a recon troop in a tank regiment. It is similar in role to a modern CRV such as a cavalry bradleys, this particular vehicle has a large arm mounting either a box of 6 anti tank missiles or a Folding Fin Aerial rocket pod. The commander is brandishing a sabre, becasue you should expect such eccentricities in any unit with strong cavalry traditions, (it is actually inspired by one of the NCOs in the mortar pits in the Danish war documentary Armadilo, although he was also wearing no shirt and a shako). Vehicle is named 'Draco'. The vehicle has 4 dismounts that can carry out recon on foot or should the need arise, fight from inside the vehicle.

I love the eyes on the upper hull. Also very nice camo scheme and weathering. The rocket pod looks very intimidating.

I have started working on a 3D printed minethrower, bridgelayer and another Tauros proxy, but it will take a while until I have some pics worth sharing

Cheers, the eyes are from the greenstuff world tactical numbers etc decal sheet I would recommend it.
I am looking forwards to seeing your work on the 3d models.

I'm currently stuck on holiday thanks to an outbreak of a certain virus. But before i left i finished my T70 light tank conversion for my converted Cadians. I settled on an orange tan amd dark grey scheme like the troops in their auumn gear and also placed on the vehicle branches from greenstuff world's tall realistic shrubbery- dry(which i also used to decorate the infantry bases) to act as additional camoflague. If you are thinking about buying these for basing i would heartily recommend, the also look great on vehicles.

Also airbrushed 3x Gryphons/cockatrice (armed with a heavy mortar or light howitzer(indirect fire battle cannon)) mobile artiller pieces. And 2x vickers light tanks. One C with a heavy stubber and auto cannon and One model B with two heavy bolters.


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Just realised i had a photo of said vehicles on my phone. So here they are:

So the vickers light tanks are essentially as they seem. Light, small recon tanks that do have a bit of punch if they need it. They are lilely going to be paired with one of my tank formations a a recon force.
The Gryphons are going to be part of a supporting battalion attached to the 132nd commonwealth combined rifles and are going to also be a commonwealth combined regiment. They will also have the option of being armed with a light howitzer, woth equal stats to a battle cannon but with indirect fire capability amd longer range in this mode. The idea is its a lighter and less cumbersome piece than a basilisk and it can carry a heap of ammo within its hull. Can also be used for firect fire.

Those Griffons look great. How did you build that casemat structure in the back?

Also love the Vickers tanks, light tanks are always awesome to see.

Casemate is from mastercrafted miniatures although it seems to be OOP now.
Yeah they're nifty little vehicles those tanks.

I still haven't finished the Scylla tankette as well as a Bridgelayer and Minethrower as it is still too cold to spray and airbrush over here... nonetheless I will use my hobby time during the cold to start on three projects I got from models and minis:


A wheeled Salamander Command tank, a Manticore Proxy and an Atlas Recovery tank. I'm still hunting for a pair of Chimera tracks, but I guess with some patience I will get them evenrually

Told myself, no modelling, till i finish painting all the vehicles on my desk.
Okay, so progressing on my vehicles, painted details and put decals on, next up weathering etc Wiating on some muzzle breaks for the light howitzers on the self propelled guns.



Also finished another project.
Vehicle is the personal taxi and command post for the commander of my little battle group, hence all the coms equipment and the flag. Its pretty lightly armed as if the command vehicle is having to put lead down range, well things have gone badly wrong.


Ooops LOL

As usual great additions Oldmate. I like the look of the wheeled IFV. Somehow I could very well see it with a remote controlled heavy stubber/light autocannon weapon station. Something like the 20mm autocannon on the Wiesel.

The self propelled artillery looks great. I love the low profile superstructure. It looks as if the gun is ducking into a foxhole right there.

Compare to the Crew I'm surprise about the Vickers tanks size. I would have thought it to be smaller. Was it 1/56, 1/48 or 1/35?

Thanks Pyroalchi I reckon a remote weapons station would look pretty good up there too, I guess the vehicle has a bit of a modern look about it.

Yeah the self propelled gun casemates are pretty good, its a real shame master crafted miniatures isn't making them anymore(pretty sure they are still making marine parts).

vickers light tanks are 1/48th from Blitzkrieg miniatures, I really like them, they just are perfectly sized, I mean look at it next to my militia Vic miniatures matilda and some milita infantry(the matilda is the only thing I have that holds a pretty close leman russ footprint)

Yeah, the scale is cool. The size comparison is quite useful as I considered getting Vickers tanks sometimes. They also look fittingly Imperial Guard like with all those rivets. By the way:Love the dude with the beard on the left. His head looks excellent

Thanks that head is from anvil, its always nice to mix in some from a few places, especially with milita soldiers!

Some more work on the IFV with different place holder turret as well


Okay more work on the wheeled IFV

I think the vickers light tank turret does work a charm

Chimera with pintle mounted flamers, inspired by the WW2 Sdkfz 251/16



and a Chimera Command Post Vehicle based on the US M577



Another WW2 inspired Chimera conversion, carrying an assault bridge, like the 251/6 Pioneer.



A Samaritan Medical Evacuation Vehicle

Some really nice conversions SentinelIV i really like the two flamer mounts on the first chimera(looks just about to be the bane of melee combatants,) and the command vehicle. Its always nice to see bridging vehicles and ambulances too.

A few more from the Koloth 51st.

Another Chimera, this one is a repair and maintenance vehicle and a ride for an Engineseer and his servitors.



Next up, a pair of armoured observation vehicles from my Artillery company, one Chimera based, the other inspired by the West German Beobachtungspanzer, itself a real world conversion from the Jagdpanzer Kanone.

Hey Sentinel: some really great vehicles. Do you have some more pics from the chimera Command Post Vehicle structure from different angles? I might try to build me something similar in the future and your approach looks excellent.

Thanks Pyroalchi

Here you go. Front and left views.

Thanks a lot. And as I said before: pretty cool idea and execution

I saw in your gallery that you also have an armored car not dissimilar to the Pegasus I build a while ago. In general: nice force you build there!

A counts as Salamander Reconnaissance vehicle, originally built back in 1996 when Citadel Journal 16 came out with the plans. My original, rather bright, paint scheme, was redone and toned down.



The Chimera AVLB is a more recent build and it is a proper bridging vehicle, unlike the Chimera with assault bridge I put up earlier. Work in progress shots...

That bridging vehicle is incredible. Nice job. The armoured car is a classic, i like the auto cannon turret its packing; a decent amount of firepower. Also spy some missile/rocket vehicles in the background. A neat force, thanks for sharing and look forwards to seeing more.

That bridge layer is the business!

You've merged the bridge equipment onto the Chimera really well.

Thanks Oldmate and Flinty for your comments on the AVLB.

A few more mutilated Chimeras for you. My first ever Chimera conversions the Chimerax, Chimedon and Chimerro, copied from the Citadel Journal and based on the Epic Chimera variants released for Titan Legions.



I only ever took the Chimerax in one game, way back in 2nd edition. It fired once and then jammed for the rest of the game. The Chimedon looks really clunky with the small turret and the battlecannon, if I was building it today I'd use the Taurox battlecannon in the slightly larger current Chimera turret.

WH40K didn't have many vehicles with missiles as their main weapons until relatively recently. The Whirlwind was the first, the Guard didn't get anything until the Manticore in Epic. I sought to change that.
First is a setback Chimera with a turret mounted heavy stubber and several missile racks, based on a conversion done by the blogger Admiral Drax.



Next is a Chimera inspired by the British Army FV438 Swingfire antitank missile carrier. I didn't build this myself,I commisioned it's construction and the painting is mine.



This last missile launcher is a counts as Hydra. A Chimera with the lasgun ports filed down, a Razorback turret mounting plate integrated into the Chimera roof, a cut down commanders cupola replacing the Chimera turret and a Forgeworld Space Marine Hyperios missile launcher. Again this was copied from a blog. In this case Corbania Prime.

@ Sentinel: all very cool vehicles. I have a bridgelayer waiting to get sprayed (much to cold here at the moment and I have to spray outside), but it has admitedly much to filigrane bridge... thingies. Yours looks much more functional.

By the way: As often mentioned I haven't had the opportunity to play yet and only collect, but should this ever change I hope to find a group with some people like those posting in this topic here. The conversions are great and there's so much thought and love going into these tanks. Would be great to see a bunch of them together on the tabletop and battling it out...

Some really cool missile vehicles, i particularly like the swingfire inspired conversion, some pretty big big missiles there, can imagne them packing a punch. Nice work on the chimerax, chimerro and chimedon, a neat set of fire support options! I was aware of the vehicles, I used them as some of the inspiration for some of my conversions and loadouts, but its really cool to see them converted and painted!


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Finished the light tanks, they might just need a bit of dusting up! Named Nemesis(2xHbolters), Duke(ATGM) and Dauntless(acannon and Hstubber) because why should baneblades have the monoply on badass names?

Okay so 2 projects ready for painting:

First off the Kapros (boar in Greek) 6x6 wheeled IFV.

Okay so this is a mainline wheeled alternative to the chimera. It'd have similar armour, a higher speed but worse ability in crossing terrain. The vehicle is intended to cross large distance at rapid speed and be able to fight, its a 4x2/6x6 wheel drive with central locking, the wheels feature run flat tires, and a spare is mounted on the rear roof of the vehicle. They can be filled with an expanding foam to further their durability at the cost of cross country performance. The vehicle has its engine placed on the front left hand side next to the driver and is acsessible by a large armoured hatch on the front. The turret is usually equipted with a heavy bolter and additionally either a multi-laser, heavy bolter, or auto cannon, or 15mm machinegun(my very ballistic army's multilaser equivalent from the imperial knight kit). The vehicle has 2x clam-shell style doors at the front of the passenger compartment and a large ramp at the rear, on the roof of the passenger compartment is 4 large hatches to allow troops to fire from, whilst down each side of it are 4 sets of firing ports and vision blocks for the infantry to be able to fire from. Two additional firing ports could be added to the frontal plate, as seen with Soviet vehicles like the BMP 3 or BTR, i could imagine this improving the firepower on the frontal arc dramatically if a special weapons team was mou ted in the vehicle.

Secondly my baneblade variant, the vehicle in question is named Tyrant, and it is not actually a baneblade, as it has sorta grown into something else. It can do some things better than a vanilla blade, it can't do other things the vanilla blade does, so I find it hard to reconcile as the same thing.

Okay so Tyrant, has a bit of the lore behind it.
When the vehicle was commissioned it was the first baneblade line super heavy comissioned from the Dragonforge on Karsk and has served with the 81st Klomn Cuirassier regiment for hundreds of years at this point and has been recovered from wreckage twice, it is the pride and joy of the 81st Klomn Cuirassier regiment and their oldest and most storied vehicle as such the small imperial chrine on the back off the vehicle is bedecked with honours and tokens of gratitude acknowledgments of assistance from other imperial forces. The vehicle commands A platoon 1st company of the 4th assault battalion. From the start the vehicle was designed to dominate the battlefield as a super heavy tank and the centrepiece of a squadron of smaller vehicles. The Karsk pattern chassis is of cast construction and Tyrant, being a commision from the Dragonforge itself boasts adamantium fronted hull and turret making it considerably heavier than either the Mars Pattern or Lucius Pattern vehicles, it mounts a colossal cast turret and its primary weapon is a massive high velocity cannon and coaxle hydra auto cannon, on top of the gun mantle a heavy machinegun is mounted and it is zeroed to hit in the same place as the primary up to a kilometer past that distance you might be using the auto cannon. The chassis boasts standard smoke, optical and grenade launching pylon turrets on the front hull and twin heavy bolters recessed into the hull armour. A pair of remotely controlled sponsons on the side of the vehicle are mounted with a las cannon and a heavy bolter each to counter both armoured and unarmoured threats.

So unlike a regular baneblade it was never intended to be used as a command or observation platform, it was never intended for a commander to command a tank regiment from, or for forward observers to operate from, it was never intended to have space for an inquisitor to come on a ride along, the huge turret basket and stocks of high velocity shells in its hull and propellant charges has never allowed such, the vehicle is an exceptional super heavy tank but in order for greater protection on the frontal arc all vision ports in the upper hull of a regular baneblade were not even considered in the Karsk pattern chassis. Tyrant has never been commanded by anyone over the rank of Captain, and is regularly crewed by a veteran NCO or junior officer, and it has always gone into battle alongside a squadron of the 81st Klomn Cuirassiers or in more dire circumstances allied heavy and super heavy tanks.

As mentioned elsewhere: great projects Oldmate. Amazing to see all the thought and work you put into your models.

To not spam everything twice, here is a link zu a couple of fighting vehicles I just finished:
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/777465/11367927.page#11367927

Okay I have finished my Kapros IFV photos! The vehicle is part of 1st platoon Bravo Company of the 132nd Commonwealth Combined Rifles


I also had a spare baneblade turret sitting around (because of course I do) and I decided to see what they looked like on my Macharius tank chassis as an additional option. Its not really much a conversion, but i personally think it would be an interesting model of tank. I did not put the back bin on the baneblade turret, as for some unfathomable reason I actually like the look of a rear facing machinegun mount, its going to be extremely situational but I like the look of it.

I see it as a good example of making the macharius a more versitile super heavy tank, such as mounting the collosal laser cannon(the blood and skull's sunfire laser cannon) for engaging heavy armour at long range; hellhammer cannon for urban warfare and busting bunkers; giant punisher cannon(Blood and skulls long rotary cannon) for MOAR BIGGA dakka; or just as a more harder hitting gun tank with a baneblade battle cannon rather than two regular battle cannons. I imagine the macharius to be a cheaper and quicker manufacture than a baneblade and would likely require nearly half the crew, all up it would be a good choice for imperial commanders, there is no reason why the turrets should be incompatible, but that is me the tank tinkering tech heretic here speaking.

Okay so a few weeks back I got another macharius vanquisher, (I already have one 1st hand from forgeworld and it was pretty good, anyway, back to the main article) it was 2nd hand and relatively cheap. Someone had genuinely enthusiastically had a go at converting it. I can sorta see why they lost enthusiasm, this is an example of one of those 'forgeworld nightmares' you occasionally hear of, many details were not properly filled with resin and many edges were pinched outwards, nothing fit right, and large amounts of material had to be removed for the sides of the hull could actually fit together, edges and tracks were thin and brittle and broken/ragged. The hull gun mounting had not been modified and it straight out was way too small and did not fit. Not sure what the guy did with the hull gun but it would have just keep falling out how the hull was and there was something weird going on with the front of the driver's compartment.



So the conversion already on the vehicle, as you can see seems to be some heavy suppression platform, it carries a single HK missile to protect itself from enemy tanks and mounts 2 auto cannons in the hull, 2 sponson mounted heavy bolters and a pair of punisher cannons in the turret(mounted to what would seem to have been the macharius's battle cannon', so it was the base model tank). Additionally there was a small baneblade turret with twin heavy bolters mounted where the driver's hatch was. The vehicle also mouted a large ammo hopper mounted behind the back bins on the turret for additional ammo for the primary weapons and the some kind of engine shields/flaps(mudflaps).

So I wanted, by comparision a rather standard vehicle, but most of the work as going to be fixing the base kit so it was not a forgeworld nightmare.
So I needed to put some milliput down and line that hull mounting and line it up, and make a new machinegun mounting, which was made from 2x victoria miniatures heavy weapons wheels, a machinegun from Mortian and miliput and styrene sheet and dowl. I glued the housing back into place and then filled all the gaps with putty, this is pre clean up. I also made e new driver's hatch with a chimera one and glued some perescopes to it. Syrene strips and sheet and dowl I glue the dowls on and trimmed them off to make rivet heads and filled the sides of the hull in after in fitting the hull sides I found some pretty substantial gaps so miliput was used to fill them. I also used the strips to restore the bars that come along the hull on each side of the turret mounting, on the kit these were more like T shaped bars and were brittle and fragile. I also used some small pieces of plasticard and putty to make the engine plate mounting and to build some hinges on the matle plate on the top of the turret. I also cut some doodads off and positioned a loader's hatch onto the vehicle an as you can see I could not resist giving it a big ole spot light next to the gun mantle and some smoke launchers. I also hacked some Victooria miniature vanquisher cannons from their mounts and fitted them to the battle cannon stubs i managed to part the punisher cannons from.

No doubt it still needs a tankie commanding from the hatch and more stowage and machineguns. But essentially the working up process is complete to my satisfaction. The gun mantle is magnetised and I have a vulcan mega bolter in the post for this vehicle in addition.

Wow.
i know exactly what you're dealing with there; i had the same thing with a storm eagle gunship kit.

The original owner bought a kit from forgeryworld.
They tried to build it despite the obvious shoddyness, but took the L for whatever reason.

It's so much effort to 'fix' that stuff and i see your pain here.

big up the home-brand rivet posse etc...

That storm eagle must have been a fair project to fix then? I can see a lot of room for, mischance, At least mine was a giant block with some other big blocks LOL.

Yeah, my first macharius(that I brought 1st hand) was perfect. asside from a few minor breakages from small components being packed floating free with some big chunky chassis parts. So I had that for reference which was a massive help.

I really enjoy tinkering with my little(and not so little...) tanks and came into this from a modeling background so its not so much an issue to me, I just feel sorry for the poor guy who got it originally.

Vulcan Megabolter on the macharius. For Bbbrrrrrrrrrt.
I do like the look of the weapon mounted in the front of the vehicle over the mounting on the sides of the turret on the official model. It also gives me the option of it being a vanquisher and vulcan and it gives me room for loader's hatch. Which is extremely important.

OK so a mortian tank ARV crane project, all the recovery equipment here is magnetised so I can run it as a gun tank as well and the 3rd armour pannel on the side is magnetised for a sponson. Recovery kit includes 2x cable drums, 2x ridgid towing bars an oxy-aesceteline cylinder on the back and the big ole crane turret, it is armed only with a hull gun and a single medium machinegun in the 2nd turret hatch. For cable I have used waxed nylon thread for leather working so it should be interesting. I just want a pair of towing hooks and they will be mounted on the rear just behind the cable drums.

Ok so another completed project. This is a pretty simple and small conversion for my Praetorians, a Rolls Royce armoured car from Empress miniatures. The conversion and project was very much inspired by the Palestine campaign in WW1, where the Rolls Royce was in a class of its own, enough strength and power to run down any enemy car, let alone horsemen, whilst being completely bulletproof to small arms fire and shell fragments, and in an age where artillery was not expected to have to hit a car sized target with direct fire.

The Royce pattern armoured car is part of the the Praetorian 82nd Long range reconnaissance group, the reconnaissance vehicle akin to an armoured sentinel in role and armour. The Royce pattern armoured car is armed with a single heavy stubber and a melta gun, the vehicle is much faster than a sentinel and excels at long range strikes and fighting reconnaissance on less rugged terrain. The vehicle has a tray and running boards to enable it to carry additional supplies such as fuel in jerry cans, or food and water(also in jerry cans) to somewhat support its own crew or other units in long range operations, when commencing operations the running boards can also be used to carry a squad of infantry to the battle area. The Royce pattern armoured car is held in high regard with Imperial forces for its rugged reliability, hauling power, and versitility.
When it deployed to the surface of Ardus in support of the defence of the planet the experienced desert fighting 293rd Praetorian Division was equipped with many of these tried and tested vehicles.

I got a Killdozer and painted/weathered it today. Note: it came base painted (yellow body and blade, grey superstructure, black tracks).

I'll post more pictures here: https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/806501.page#11452047

For your consideration my Ork Kill Rig, very much still a work in progress, and still have to populate it with a suitable crew.

Really cool killdozer Cpt Jake. Nice job weathering on it.

Is that dinosaur a chop and change job or is it a and impressively inaccurate?
Really cool conversion. A fearsome beast!

I'm not sure if this counts as an AFV, but I saw this TMNT Turtle Van toy at a local thrift store, and decided it needed to become something else. Something... greater. Something... GOFF.

A battlebus that is excellent. I like the crane and the side gun and housing looks cool.

 OldMate wrote:
Really cool killdozer Cpt Jake. Nice job weathering on it.

Thanks, got it on Etsy and am very glad I did. I doubt I'll use it in an accurate Killdozer scenario (too political and depressing ending), but it will make a great breach vehicle or assault vehicle for insurgents in some modern gaming. 'Fluck your hesco barriers Yankee!'

Yeah, an interesting piece for wargaming, and it'd certainly fit for any modern, post apocalypic, or any kind of civil upheaval style scenarios.


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Okay so 2 new WIP projects for y'all
The Primus Pattern Leman Russ
The first and the best. She's a bit dirty folks so apologies.


The Crocodile Assault tank
For reasons that will become apparent really quite quickly.
Also I really like crocodiles. They are badass animals, giant planks of jaw and muscle bound in heavy armour. Deceptively sophisticated and prehistoric at once. Make of these random ramblings what you will.

This thread has been going on and off since 2020 (often with gaps of several months between posts), so I hope no one minds my addition.
But I finally found something to contribute here!


Yes, the whole army is done in classic 'stealer colors so that includes the camo patterns on the vehicles.

 KidCthulhu wrote:
This thread has been going on and off since 2020 (often with gaps of several months between posts), so I hope no one minds my addition.
But I finally found something to contribute here!

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Yes, the whole army is done in classic 'stealer colors so that includes the camo patterns on the vehicles.

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Very cool!

Great work, very vivid.

Okay some more new WIP projects:
Wheeled assault gun

Russ based self propelled gun.

Completed the militia self propelled gun
.This vehicle is a tank destroyer based on a leman russ chassis, more robust and less sophisticated stabilization equipment can more easily be fit in the hull of the leman russ making this vehicle cheaper and easier to produce and arm than a leman russ vanquisher. The weapon is effective and versatile. It is much cheaper and easier to maintain than the laser destroyer and is more effective against armoured vehicles and targets at long ranges than the Thunderer. This vehicle itself has been pulled from a local PDF storage facility on Ardus and was palmed off to a local defence unit(militia) as the local regiments believed they had no use for the vehicle. The vehicle itself named Faithful bears some battle damage to the front of the hull and the gun mantle and it bears a lot of untreated corrosion from improper treatment prior to going into storage. The vehicle has been mothballed for fifteen years having previously served to defend Ardus from an Ork incursion.

Not super well armored, but my latest vehicle:

Technicals are pretty classic though so that is a pass.

Okay so I have a new project. And a update on an old one from here.

Firstly: Tanks from A Squadron 7/29th Armoured/cavalry!
Firstly, all vehicles have excessive stowage and excessive machineguns. All the gun tanks have a twin of heavy stubbers on the commander's hatch, These are from Mortian and look super nice, they're quite similar to some cold war AA mounts the US army and marines slapped on their patton tanks. Next every normal gun tank turret has been given a loader's hatch, where they might not have had one and this is equiped with a medium machinegun(this is inspired by the real world practice imlemented on IDF tanks), the idea being lorewise, that if the tank needs to be abandoned and the crew finds itself in a hairy situation the gun can be dismounted, and they are at least a fireteam with a machinegun rather than a few chaps with only with carbines.
Dakka tanks, BMPTs, suppression tanks,- call them what you will heavy vehicles for fighting infantry with.
I got these turrets from Mortian, but already had a flak tank turret with higher velocity auto cannons and SAMs, so these were a bit puny in comparison. But I do like the idea of the Russian BMPT in real life, it is of questionable utility in a modern army where combined arms are employed but I think the idea has real potentical in 40k, where many targets get hammered by auto cannons, and they want to get in close, so having a fully armoured battle tank or two in your troop that can lay down a hailstorm of shot at close range, and against jump troops/ slower flyers/flyer blobs and enemy units higher up in buildings. I slapped a pair of HK missiles on each ball turret so the vehicle can defend itself against heavy enemy armour.

I really love the cast look of victoria's matlida boss(churchill mk1/2) turret so slapping them on a Mortain chassis was a pretty easy plan. Especially when Mortian went to selling the medium turrets and chassis separately. The mineplow was a must have. Used a drill to make a grid of holes out of the loader's hatch and made the hatches up out of platticard as faithfully as I could, so I could have the loader above the hatch too(because I did not already have enough tank commanders to paint) Slapped some milliput in the mangled hole to smooth it out a bit.

I really like Mortian's turrets as well, so I got a bit of a mix, his medium and battle tank only come with the commander's cupola, so some detail was sacrificed, and hatches were added with plasticard and rod for the hinges. Again I wanted a loader above the hatch, so I drilled a grid in the top of the turret and made the hatches up with plasticard and slapped some milliput on top of the mangled mess of resin.





Some squadron support vehicles. The repair vehicle's equipment is all magnetised. The Hydra turret is from Maximin, although the guns that came with the turret originally were huge, they were almost battle cannon calibre, so I made new barrels out of tubing and some muzzlebrakes from blood and skulls industry quad autocannons(which I had turned into quad mortars for another project), I also slapped some SAMs on it from blood and skulls industry, figuring that the simple way that SPAAGs have been upgraded in real life is to slap more SAMs on them so I'd do that here, give it some longer range punch. I used a massively oversized mushroom shaped turret from blood and skulls industry (which came with a turret I purchased from them) as a RADAR, and the ever useful arm from the goliath truck kit to mount a big ole spacemarine vehicle command upgrade satellite dish on as another RADAR.

So that is the outgoing project, and the incoming one?
Well I was looking at the Iserali Nagamachon and the WW1 German A7V, The Nagamachon is a heavy IFV, it hosts a box full of machineguns that somehow 10 soldiers can cram into. The A7V, reportedly had a crew of 18, but this is somewhat misleading as 8 of the 'crew' had a flamethrower and happened to be stormtroopers. In today's language they're dismounts and the A7V was essentially a heavy IFV.


And I was also thinking that my 84th Karsk Assault Grenadier contingent is an elite assault formation, they want transports that can take a beating, punch through the enemy defences, maybe obliterate a strong point or two, lay down a heap of dakka on approach, and drop the big(as lorewise they're all big guys I use spacers to make them half a head taller than regular guardsmen) boys in flak coats and carapace armour into the enemy lines to rip and tear, secure the objective till less important troops arrive to consolidate it and then remount to rinse and repeat. And I thought to myself the Malcador Defender and the the old Dracosan do not fill these roles. But if one were to aquire Dracosan sides, and slap them on a Defender, then you have the ultimate murder bus for the angry dragon boys. I have also got regular malcador tank hull weapons on the way, so the vehicles don't need to be toting a demolisher around (the force already has a pair of vindicators, so they're pretty good on bunker busting guns at the moment.) and lore wise can probably carry a few more troopers.
So today the Defenders have arrived, they're in temporary storage for a little bit. But super excited for this project. It's better than I thought, as I will likely not use the sponson weapons, I can magnetise them to the superstructure weapon points, so I can then have a rolling hedgehog of auto cannons or rather excessively; las cannons).
The vehicles will carry around half a platoon of Assault Grenadiers, a pretty vanilla Dracosan (ableit with standard malcador battle tank guns magnetised to it) will round out the platoon carrying another 2 sections of stormtroopers(it has not arrived yet, so when it does I'll play around with the filter and see if it'll fit onto the Defenders, if so I can get one 3d printed, I'll post pics of a mockup Malcador when it arrives too.).
I'll have to come up with a name for the vehicle, although I do like the ring of Malcador Dauntless Heavy IFV, alternatively something dragon related is definitely a winner too as culturally they are significant to the world.

Oh and I totally forgot to post this. Finished with Butch the FW nightmare, half converted Macharius!
Now Macharius Vanquisher/Vulcan with optional baneblade turret and so many weapons options! Apologies if the photos are a bit gloomy. The only real things I have changed on both tanks from the vanilla kit, is that I added a loader's hatch to the thank, and I chopped the vision ports off the front upper hull. I figure that this is a battle tank, not a cottage in the contryside, no-one in the middle of the tank(the loader/loaders) has any reason to want to see out of it. I swapped the punisher cannons on the tank for victoria miniatures vanquisher cannons. Because macharius vanquishers are probably my favorite 40k tank.

So before shots

Okay, so the malcs and drac arrived, still waiting on a boat load of 3d parts(although they are being printed in queensland so a whole trainload?) as I do not have a printer. Anyways, some mock up picks. Bear in mind the side of the hull is like a centimetre from the centre of the hull as they were never meant to fit together and a large resin block would need to be removed(but it won't be becasue my defenders are getting 3d printed track sides)



As I suspected the solar auxilia life support system is not really compatible with the defender, but that's not an issue. I just won't give the Dracosan the filter either.

My Enemy Spotted Studio Kamaz MRAP painted up. Very cool little vehicle.







Not the best painting I've done, but happy with the dust in the tire treads.


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And a few years old, but this is a (I think Solido) Diecast VAB converted and then painted as a SWAT armored car.

Some nice looking vehicles. Is the pole on the front of the VAB for breaching with?

 OldMate wrote:
Some nice looking vehicles. Is the pole on the front of the VAB for breaching with?

Yes, I based it off a picture of an LAPD vehicle. I can't find the exact picture anymore (it had the smiley face) but similar to this:




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and I found it...

And people say the police have no sense of humor...

The smiley face is a good touch, I mean you don't want to come off as unapproachable or something

So the differences between the Malcador and Dracosan sides and the work done to mate the dracosan sides to my Malcador defenders. They also needed a spacer on the top, thankfully the space needed matched the off-cut section exactly.
These sides are 3d printed resin.

And the mockup money shot after I have glued the sides on. And the platoon partly assembled. The two auto cannons in the front make it look like a bug LOL.

Currently doing a restoration on the old Lemand Russ MBT, which I got 2nd hand years ago with one being heavily soaked in primer (that needed to be removed with a knife) and the others already partly converted

Main goal is to make them more modern and be a squadron of 3 (so 3 times the same vehicle)

the start:

some cutting and experimenting:




And now the big question, Classic Tank configuration:


or SciFi Vehicle configuration:

Really cool project Kodos, sorry for the long time to reply.
Not sure what would look better, the sci-fi vehicle look might suit. I caught aglimpse of miniature scenery's MDF APC, with a similar wheel layout.
If you're giving the russes an unmanned weapon station on the turret I think it'd really suit. I'd look a lot more like a spacemarine sicaron in layout, and I think that would really suit a more advanced imperial guard unit..

Okay, so rolling with the FW theme, my Carnosaur project!
The Carnosaur is a carnodon/predator/leman russ proxy from tiny panzer studios. I really like the A9 cruiser style dustbin turrets in the front.
Fitstly the base model with my carnodon for comparison.

And my modifications!

An additional turret, the flame cannon turret from Solwye Studios's Nyoma battle tank (a leman russ proxy with similar design and layout to the FW carnodon. I really like the long flame cannon so I purchased a pair of these turrets figuring I'd likely find something to slap them on.

So I have added periscope sights to all the weapons in addition to the aperture sights that are already present on the model, the idea being a wider field of view at lesser magnification from the periscope would make up for the aperture's limited field of view. I have added a loader's hatch to the top of the turret, for safer evacuation) smoke dischargers (a standard upgrade for all my models) a new cupola which was printed from Mkhand Industries (I really like getting my cupolas 3d printed now, as I can scale them down to a more 'guardsman' size. I have added large perescopes to the cupola. I also gave it a(not 2nd hand!) toilet brush bristle antenna.

I could not help myself and went for a predator destructor auto cannon as one of the weapon options, being a rather conservative in my armament preferences it has to be my favorite weapon option, I decided that unlike spacemarines the guard does not need fancy targeting equipment, or 'thermal and night vision optics', so I cut the co-axle optics from the mantle, and glued a watercooled machinegun there instead. More dakka = more betta.

Looks really cool Oldmate. I also like the Bren gun (?) At the cuppola.

Yeah bren from Victoria Miniatures.

Could you maybe take a pic of its backside? I would be interested to see how it looks.

Can do better, I'll take a few pics of it's backside.
;D

Okay so exposed engine/reactor details.

comparison with carnodon

And the optional grill Tiny Panzer Studios provides.

Finished up an enemy Spotted Studios MATV and Hummer.











with another of their MATVs I previously painted:

Some nice armoured vehicles, nice minis too.

Perhaps you'll like my entry for the current challenge thread, its a razorback re-outfitted for the Orky's.
Also still have another vehicle boxed for a future Orky project; but forgot wether it was an annihalator or a repulsor (not at home atm)

Here's a repost of the challenge thread's images, I'll spoiler them to avoid the thread-load.

 OldMate wrote:
Some nice armoured vehicles, nice minis too.

Thanks! I enjoyed painting them.

really nice orky razorback Leopold! I like the rocket launcher, I can imagine they ran out of heavy bolter ammo and just slapped the launcher to that figuring they can aim with it.

Okay, so the turreted malcador project!
I decided that on top of the leman russ options I got with the kit, I'd do some Dorn armament options, so my take on the oppressor cannon, and the twin battle cannons! For the Oppressor I went for this really chunky barrel by models and minis, I have used their thinner T55 style barrel a few times for vanquisher cannons, and I think this looks great for the oppressor, look how chunky it is: I butchered Mortian's demolisher cannon, and auto cannons to make these, each vehicle can have a hull mounted demolisher(2x demolishers of different styles on the same tank would not look so good IMHO) I also had 2x ATGMs sitting around from my Carnosaurs, and thought they'd look great as a twin mount, on a certain grimdark heavy battle tank.
Twin Battle Cannons

Oppressor cannon. -Coaxle autocannon brings the total up to to 4x auto cannons.


And the other weapons, spacered up some Victoria Miniatues weapons to also fit along with the Mortian weapons.
Castigator bolt cannon,- the same bolt cannon on the cerastus castigator knight. Because this is clearly modeled as a bolt cannon and that one fits well enough in size.

Vanquisher cannon

Executioner Cannon

Annihilator

Exterminator

Okay, I hear you say, where is the regular battle cannon tank?
I haven't made that option yet! it's still a WIP!

Definitly some nice combinations. And the overall Impression looks really good. Even if I still live that weird casemat turret of the original Malcador

Yeah, the look of the original malcador is definitely growing on me.

I decided to revisit an old project and change it up some, a few years ago I got a degu scout car from ramshackle games and converted it a bit.
So I have been working on the following:
From the 132nd Commonwealth Combined Rifles (which makes up the bulk of the troops in my battlegroup) A base model scout car, whilst my older vehicle was a specialised surveillance car this one is more general duty. So this vehicle is defending itself with a medium machingun and a heavy one, two heavy stubbers is a fair bit of gunfire as it's mainly going to be used against other humans.


From my Klomn 7/29 Tank/Cavalry regiment, (the core armoured force of my battlegroup) A cavalry car. This is the more fighty end of the scout car spectrum, it at it's heart is to perform reconnaissance, but it has enough protection and firepower to act in a more combative role, to be used as a fast mobile reserve unit or to take tactical advantage where it presents itself. So the vehicle commander has a fully enclosed turret with his machinegun, and with bullet proof glass for all round vision. The vehicle is also armed with an anti tank rifle. Quite frankly because they are awesome. Functionally it's an auto cannon. I imagine it's a squeeze bore, with hardened core and a small charge on the back, smaller projectile but at close range it hits just as hard as a bigger lower velocity autocannon might, but in a man portable package and with some sophisticated recoil compensation.