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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.