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For three whole weeks the Ash Dragons chapter had slammed themselves against the walls of the arch traitor bastion. For eight weeks they had spilled their blood upon the cursed world of Angiath, and for what?
The entire population seemed to resist them as they hunted down the champions of chaos, until they finally retreated back to their stronghold and closed its gates.
With the Dragon Fire, their company Strike Cruiser, out of com-range, stalking the cursed ships of the enemy through the system there was no option but to thrust forward.

The Ash Dragons had come to this world to liberate yet their hands were forced to purify instead as the world turned its face from the Emperors light.
For every brother lost there were a hundred heretics slain, yet there was no end to the flood. And as the population of a whole world came to die at their blades the traitors laughed behind their walls.
Shells and fire was poured at these walls, yet they resisted, aided by the dark sorceries of the warp. By the death of every soldier the spirits of his battle-brothers fell further, as they were denied the retribution they sought again and again.
Chaplain Keroch E'ras decided that the only thing that would lift his company out of the darkness of their minds was the utter and complete annihilation of the enemy, so he sought out the company techmarines.

On the eve of the fourth week of siege there came a howling through the air, an impact upon the daemon-gate and as the smoke cleared the sons of Vulkan saw what they had longed for, a breach.
Out of the darkness came an apparition that threw terror into the hearts of the enemy. It's hull black as night with the skulls of the damned burning in its holy fires, and next to it strode Chaplain Keroch, his crozius held high, his voice booming from his vox-unit.
The cannon and each shell fired had been inscribed with prayers by Keroch himself, so that the protective powers of the daemon-magic became naught before its fury.
Upon its roof hung a sheet of parchment onto which the litany of destruction had been written, and it's hull was etched with holy wards and prayers of purity.
No weapon that the enemy could bring to bear could scratch its armour, nor harm the Chaplain as he chanted the litanies of purification.

As the gates fell before the cannons holy fire the Ash Dragons surged forward, their fury unleashed at last. In a storm of violence and death they cleansed the bastion, every inch purged with fire and every traitor brought low.
The sun rose into the sky yet again as the Ash Dragons strode from the ruins and set forth to bring back the light of the Emperor to the masses of Angriath, by bolter, blade and fire if they had to.
With their dark masters obliterated, the cultists lost the fervor that had driven them before, and with no sorcerers to summon aid from the warp they were quickly defeated.

Here is a tank I converted and painted a few years ago. To this day it's my pride and joy, my little baby. It has suffered through the most epic battles ( survived a 38.000pts game against orks unharmed!) Took me about a week to build, and as long to paint. I'm currently working on a sister tank to it (Salvation), that I will be posting in the blog section of the forum.

Ash Dragons Land Raider Ares, "Redemption"











C&C greatly appreciated!
Alex

Looks really nice you can really tell the amount of work that went into this model. Well done sir

So many skulls

Pretty good job on the tank though

Impressive

One of the best LRs I've E V E R seen!

I want it! My god it is awesome

Damn....this is awesome.

Simply crazy.

That's how a space marine should ride. Not in the toned down FW style.

That dozer blade looks absolutely fantastic.

Emerett wrote:That dozer blade looks absolutely fantastic.

THIS.

It is really neat with crisp painting. The dozer blade is a bit overwhelming for my taste - kinda of busy. Don't get me wrong it looks really cool, and I like the fire on the sides of the LR too. Its just too busy for my taste. The only real complaint is the modeling of the fire...seems to small kinda fur like to me.

over all good job.

Outstanding job with the conversion and paint job! Nicely done.

I love the green you added. It helps so much when breaking up all the black on this model. The work done to the model (Conversion wise) is Great, But the paint really makes it stand out. Good job.

That is BOSS! Love the skulls!

That is a very intimidating looking tank! Great work! Yes it's very buy, but it's very well done!

This is really good. Nice work.

sick conversion!! that thing is rolling death

are the fire parts green stuff?

My brain: HO-LY TURD

That is a stunning Land Raider. Did you sculpt all the extra details yourself? If so, then

Thanks a lot guys! Really appreciate it

There is a LOT of GS on this model, all flames are GS, the banners on top, the chains and the purity seals.
The skulls are from CoD walls (there is one that is all skulls), I cut the skulls out in small pieces and fitted them together like a puzzle.
The two statues and the sword on top are from anoter CoD wall (as is the skeleton on the assault cannon).

Kar-El: No worries mate, it IS busy! But that's my take on 40k, there is no such thing as too many skulls.

Some WIP pics to show what's what and how it's built (hopefully it's not against Showcase rules to have WIP pics?)





Cheers!

I am totally lost for words. I cannot anything other than that I am in total awe of you.

Very nice.

That is an awesome tank. I love the shield on front!

That land raider is a very fine piece of work. May I ask where you get the flamer bits?

Peed a lil

10/10

Thanks a lot gents!

Leohart: The flamers are from the baneblade/stormlord box, the sponson heavy flamers, fitted on a normal LR sponson.

Cheers!

Very nice use of the CoD pieces on the hull, and the GS work is top notch!

So glad you put the WIP shots in there so I didn't have to beg for them.

I would want to be inside that monster rather than facing it

I don't know... I think it needs more skulls.

jk awesome work man!

Its almost good, but I just don't think there's enough fire

I’m lovin it !!!!
I have an extra LR I bought that’s missing some bits + I’ve been working on and off on my Legion of the Damned…. Put those two together and I may have to build something similar.
Great work……