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Thanks guys. I'll update with pics soon.
The custom boltguns are made from the SM scout sniper rifles with the barrel shortened, a standard boltgun mag and the stock from a plasmagun added. the big one is the same but with a stormbolter mag and a lasgun stock.
The rifle on the ''sharpshooter'' is sourced from the sniper rifle from the IG command squad, the front grip and mag from a boltgun, the flashsupressor from a scout sniper rifle and a lasgun stock.

Thanks xx

Oh dear, I am at it again...

Finishing a current project before starting up another one is just plain silly, I don't do that. This do have the side-effect that nothing ever gets finished in time.. oh well.

Now what can this turn out to be? Interesting interesting..

Some Space Hulk/Zone Mortalis action maybe?

Good guess, but it's not terrain.. rather a vehicle.

What you see is the bottom hull.

Well damn. Thunderhawk, or something STC original?

Original design. Not 100% on how it will pan out but I have some rough scetches and a quite solid image in my head.

Oooh, this should be good

Some progress made, interior deck and grating is done and I have made a pile of benches, some has found their place on the interior wall of the side hull.
The front and rear will not maintain their vertical angles though, that's due to the construction being longer than the lenght of the sytrene sheet so I'll have to cut and add those areas separately.




We have also converted this guy from some spare parts to make sure that the benches are mounted on a proper height, after a job well done he and a few others will be lounging about inside as part of the crew. Making sure none of the
squads being transported ''borrows'' the crew's snacks, powertools or guns.

Wow, this thing is going to be huge! I love the fact that your going to so much detail on the insides too

It's a prison transport?

The black ships?

Well, no. It's an assault transport for my Teal Marines.

Not quite decided if I am going to use an existing unit for the rules or make a custom datasheet for it. It will be kind of large so I might have to.
As it looks now the basic hull of the troop-compartment will be almost 40cm long (15 3/4 inch) or twice that of a Landraider, and slightly wider than the widest point on a Rhino APC.

In short there's room enough to cram 4 dreadnoughts into it if you want to and there'd be a little room to spare.

Dreadnoughts need dedicated auuasult-transportation too!

But in short I'd thought I'd build something where the models acctually would fit into the transport-compartment. Now I know that all vehicles are scaled to 75% of the infantry scale so I shoulden't bitch about it (but how on earth do you fit 12 marines into a stormchicken? well, you dont.).

Aaaany way. I'll go chop some styrene sheet so i can update you with pics.

This thing has rules that might be usable, and is around the correct size.
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Imperial_Guard/Imperial_Guard_Super_Heavy_Tanks/CRASSUS-ARMOURED-ASSAULT-TRANSPORT.html

Ah yes, if only it flew.

 STC_LogisEngine wrote:

Ah yes, if only it flew.

It flies if you duct tape the rockets in place and launch them, but your destination better be close cause those fuses aren't that long . Looking good so far

 Theophony wrote:

 STC_LogisEngine wrote:

Ah yes, if only it flew.

It flies if you duct tape the rockets in place and launch them, but your destination better be close cause those fuses aren't that long . Looking good so far

thats the hillbilly way

Yepp, then again, most SM's flying things look like a cargo-container with a couple of rocketboosters and a few slabs of metal welded on as wings. The drag on those things... sheesh.

Who needs aerodynamic design when you can just add more thrust!

For now I am oogling the Caestus Assault Ram for usable rules since they will be roughly the same size (this one a tad bigger) but I am not all that happy with the low transport capacity and the fact that it only has one weapon.
An extremely nasty weapon ( R18" S8 Ap1 Blast 5", Melta, Twl.) but still only one, the ability to ram stuff just as a tank while zooming is just hillarious though.

It has low capacity for Tac marines, but jump pack and termis still just count as 1, so you can fill that bad boy up with bulky dudes.

True, but it can't carry assaultmarines, and it has to enter Hover to be able to disembark the troops inside and that'll make it a gakking fire-magnet.
Still, AV 13 and 5++ in the front and side will keep it safe from a lot of AA, especially the S7 bracket.

I got to get my paws on the new IA:2 and see if they updated the rules from the ones in IA: Aeronautica, while the Ramming is fun, the rules gets a bit scetchy since it flies. Also, I should be able to Ram other fliers and non-vehicles.
Guess they could always update the Ramming to Vector Strike and be done with it.

Updates!

I really devoted a little bit too much effort to the interior but well, it was fun so, no harm done. I guess.


What kind of silly tube is this?!




Let's peek inside!





Now we pop the hood.





I also dived down into the big box o' resin and pulled out some mk IV bits to make this, just for fun. The Legion can always use a ninja-sergeant I guess.

Ninja-marine is looking awesome, and the interior detail on that transport is above and beyond. Great stuff.

Good work on the interior details. Always nice to see.

Nice work on the ninja sarge and the interior. How are you going to be able to see inside when it's all finished? Removable top?

Auuuhmmm... Forward and rear assaultramps?

Look, I said it was excessive ok?

Great work on interior detail I find it slightly amusing that the marine sitting is not locked in for safety, but all the empty seats are. Forward and rear assault ramps will mean the pilot always land sideways .

Great looking interior on that vehicle! Will it be a tank or flyer?

Cheers Guys!

@Theophony: I thought I'd model the interior to represent the vehicle "on the pad" so I don't have to model a full squad sitting strapped in. I'm going to model another one sitting on the seat opposite fiddling with his gear, perhaps one standing about in the rear mucking about with something. And why would he land sideways? Passengers will at least be equipped with power armour so a little incomming fire once the ramp drops won't be an issue. Ps. no like my ninjah?

@Commander Cain: It'll be a flying thingy. A bit unsure wich rules to use but it's probably going to be the Caestus Assault Ram or the Storm Eagle because of the size, feels like less than 4 HP (Storm Raven) is just silly on something that will end up almost twice the size of a Land Raider (not counting the wings and fins).

Also the concept-art for the Caestus is a major inspiration so I guess it's only fitting.

Concept Art

Is there one of the concepts specifically you like? I do like the final product (and own one) but would have loved that last one much more.

Ninja fellow is pretty cool. Feel like he needs a head band, for some reason.

Sorry, I guess my feelings are lost in translation, and on the internet .

= I love ninjas, but that's what his opponent was going to say right before being beheaded.

As for landing sideways. Murphy's law= anything bad that could happen will happen. So every time this would be the ideal assault vehicle, the pilot would accidentally land sideways making the doors less than optimal.

I love your work. I will try to be more blunt next time instead of my usual silliness.