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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.


Scout car Complete!

Carnodons Complete!

Some new projects!

Firstly: My take on a Destroyer Tank Hunter, I see this vehicle as more like a hellcat than a stug/jadgepanzer. Albeit a hellcat that is packing a laser destroyer! So I have a 3d printed IFV chassis from Nefyma, with open sides and exsposed suspension, I wanted the vehicle to look rather lightweight and speedy. Lore wise the vehicle is literally an IFV with a bigger engine slapped in the back, and therefore I have put the track units on backwards, (IFVs usually have their drive sprockets on the front, and this is the case in this vehicle) and a large, relatively lightly armoured turret with a laser destoyer. The painted turret here is from my models and minis 6x6 armoured car, but I have ordered the same turret for these vehicles, this time armed with a large laser cannon rather than a vanquisher cannon.


Secondly: White scout cars for my mounted up motor rifles! Troopers and crews in various states of assembly. The vehicles are from Golden Dragon Games, although I made them into scout cars rather than half tracks and added armoured shutters, and skirting.

And last, but far from least! My second baneblade... or rather Nonablade!

Those Scout cares look really cool. Nice work!

So 2 updates
Work slowly continues on the Nonablade, I am waiting on plasticard, parts from Elrik's hobbies (new proprietor of blood and skulls industry parts), and some extra bits from bits and kits (need to swoop in when they get baneblade bits in stock.) Chopped the turret plate out as I have a blood and skulls centralised replacement. And am bilking the hull out, and modifying it in line with Tyrant, my first baneblade. I also committed extra heresy, in that fluff wise Tyrant is basically the top dog in 82nd Klomn Cuirassiers regiment when it comes prestige, the tank is the oldest and longest serving tank currently in the regiment, it is the first Karsk pattern Baneblade, it is THE Karsk Pattern baneblade and whilst others are made in prestigious forges across the industrial mega hive that is half of the planet of Karsk, Tyrant was forged in the Dragon Forge itself... so reflecting all this and the vehicle's long and storied career, I kinda desecrated the shrine on the back of the other baneblade out of existence. This is a more regular line tank. Even if it is a fricking baneblade. The vehicle only has the Mechanicus symbol at the top of where the shrine was.

But enough of that heresy! So the Karsk Pattern does away with all the tiny turrets(So that I can steal them and put them on IFVs). In the hull the small limited traverse turret is replaced by a pair of heavy bolters, (or a heavy bolter and a heavy heavy bolter?(am taking design cues here from things like the Vickers Mk VIB which paired a 303 vickers with a .50cal vickers MG, rather than just having 2x 303 vickers)) in a more heavily armoured looking embrasure. Which still has the same amount of traverse. I also needed to bulk out the hull considerably to fit a huge turret as seen on 'tyrant.' This was done with patience and plasticard. Will pretty it up with milliput later. As it stands the Baneblade superstructure is completely removable, should I want any of the other 7 variants! Also added a splattering of puttey around the driver's hatch. Because that ain't a hatch any more. Changes thus far to the giant self propelled gun and battle fortress variants only pertain thus far to the superstructure being shifted forwards permently. I have been toying with the idea of making a mantle, to bring the giant self propelled gun variants into the Stug life.


I also sprayed my turreted malcadors/malcadorns. I decided to include a few rogal dorn armaments, or at least my approximation of them, case in point my tank firing it's oppressor cannon, and the other seen here with double battle cannons. Turrets are from Mortian, guns from Victoria minatures, and models and minis(this was meant to be a battle cannon, but it was like twice as round as most of my battle cannons, so I think it makes a damn fine opressor cannon!). Sprayed them kharki and dark olive drab (British). Phone camera makes them oddly ochre in colour. The green is more green and less brown, and the kharki is more brown and less yellow then you see here LOL. First time free handing with airbrush. Pretty happy.

Nice work! Very cool that you customize your Baneblades and put thought into it like with the shrine in the back. Curious to see how that smaller heavy bolter turret turns out in the end.

@ Malcadors: I really like those. The twin cannon is slightly my favorite. The gunblast on the other looks amazing. Did you do it yourself?

Wonder no more! Here is one I prepared earlier.


Blast effect is from deadly print studios. I think it is fantastic, and it easily makes that tank my favorite, for it's ridiclousness. I mean I had to fill the thing's turret with milliput, sinkers and bullets(lead) to act as a counterweight for the massive resin effect(it also has a chunky big shell from Mortian on the end, speeding on a trail of fire and smoke!) as seen in this picture (barrel is pointing slightly away so the whole scale of the effect is somewhat reduced unfortunately).

Okay, so I am holding off doing anything durasstic with the nonablade casemate, until I fit the plasma blast gun. It however has not arrived yet.
Regardless: Nonablade project progress!
So Banesword pics, Super Stug time!

Karsk Pattern Baneblade updates


And some more work on my destroyer tank hunters!

Nice Work! And interesting approach to personalize your Baneblade variants. I like the lore of the Havael pattern as compromise solution to fill up the ranks.

The elongated Hellhammer looks good, but personally I think it would look even better, if the first cannon segment had a larger diameter than the second, so it looks like they slide inside each other during firing to reduce recoil. The protective gun mantlet looks alre pretty cool, might even get a bit longer if you want to go for the "Saukopfblende" look of the StuG III

Cheers!
I kinda wanted the Hellhammer to still look a noticeably larger calibre to the huge cannon on the regular Karsk Pattern Baneblade.

I did not want to extend the mantle too far as some variants, the banehammer, doomhammer and stormsword have really short barrels, and I kinda did not want them to be nearly completely swallowed by the milliput. I may still extend it to as far as it can go.

A small update for the nonablade project.
The Havael pattern Baneblade and Hellhammer!

A small update on the nonablade project!
Finished milliput work on the karsk pattern baneblade turret and hull. And I decided to try a realistic cast armour technique, I made a mixture of Tamiya modeling putty and Mr Cement S and stippled that over the smooth milliput to make a course cast texture. I did not apply this to my first baneblade, Tyrant, but lorewise Tyrant was created in the most reputed forge in the Commonwealth sub-sector, so there will be quality and texture differences in this 2nd Karsk pattern baneblade that was created in another plant. Much like there was differences between M4 Shermans or T34s that were made in different plants in WW2. I did not go full Soviet, (in otherwords I did not take a dremel engraving bit to the milliput turret to really roughen it up before I started apply the texture, but I did stipple pretty aggressively). I also applied the texture to the completely milliputted parts of the giant SPG.
My plasma blast gun seems to be stuck in NZ post as it has not left that country.