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If fired upon, i get to ignore a glance or pen shot, even with an Apocalyptic "D" class weapon, "D"= Destroyer! terrain goes poof, so you get no hiding behind something benefits as the shot get's both your tank and the terrain!

The field is also back on if you roll a 6+

Shrike, that explanation was darkly written!

MdM, I say nice work! Looks like it has seen plenty of action so far! I would count it as a Salamander(closed top) and have fun with it! If it is a IG tank.

Camo time! for that little beast.

oh...aha ... thanks shrike...sounds useful^^ how does it get modeled on a super heavy? are there bitz to show that in wysiwyg?

Not really, the big quantifier is it is attached to either a Warmachine like a Superheavy, or a titan

shasolenzabi wrote:
MdM, I say nice work! Looks like it has seen plenty of action so far! I would count it as a Salamander(closed top) and have fun with it! If it is a IG tank.

Camo time! for that little beast.

Thanks, fluff wise is supposed to be a tank built by an enginseer from salvaging parts during an hard battle against the orks (maybe Armageddon?), as for the rules i wanted to use it as a scout/infiltrator/fast transport, something like the land speeder storm

Ah, Salamander is a fast vehicle as is the Centaur and they are tracked fast vehicles too!

at MDM :
your fast attack tank looks very good, will he stay all metalic? love the turret, gatlingstyle all the way^^

at shaso:

Not really, the big quantifier is it is attached to either a Warmachine like a Superheavy, or a titan

so it is a not seeable built in device...meh...would have been a nice opertunity to go ballistic on scratchbuilding^^

I might do it5 one day if I get the money for the tesla coils from Zinge.

shipping would be the only thing ...but then you just order till the free postage sum and your good to go^^

My tanks will have accessories added on one of these days!

Viktor von Domm wrote:at MDM :
your fast attack tank looks very good, will he stay all metalic? love the turret, gatlingstyle all the way^^

I'm planning to paint it with an urban camo pattern (maybe blue or black) but first i have to improve the hull with greenstuff and more spare parts

sounds good... mind telling what toytank you used? or maybe showing some wip pics you still have?

Yes, this thread is for oddballs of the tank family! Go ahead and post wip!

any new pics of your allegedly cold perun?

Sadly, the project today is one that I was paid for, daemons to be painted first today, but i did upgrade Magnotz da Warlord! But he is not a tank.


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Perun next to Ork Warboss, dwarfing even the alien beast!
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Not even as tall as the sponson top!
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Even out front, he still can't outsize the Perun!
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But even the Perun must be careful of the mighty power klaw!
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Viktor von Domm wrote:sounds good... mind telling what toytank you used? or maybe showing some wip pics you still have?

The base of the tank is made from an Abrams model: length and width were pertty good compared to rhinos, but it was way too short, so i grabbed some spare pieces from the Predator Baals kits and built a structure on the main hull, and now i'm adding more details on it: will post more pictures soon.

nahh the perun just has to run him down... good riddance and be gone ye foul mouth^^

demons on comission? sounds interesting... pics?

Here is more picture of my APC, feel free to suggest a name for it

so you made interchangeable turrets? nice idea...this makes your apc very adjustable...

as for the name... you said the tank was made from desperatly cobbled together parts from the battlefield...so i suggest: the Prowler...

sounds good?


vik

Hey guys! Im Loving this thread! I love seeing custom or scratch built tanks!

The Perun is Absolutely Fantastic! I commend your skills, Far beyond anything im capable of!

Anyways, onto my tanks!
I have this vehicle, its my Leman Russ converted out of a Rhino. i was bored, and had a good few rhinos laying around wasting space.
I think that this model looks similar to a Bradley fighting vehicle.




Now onto my custom Atlus Recovery and Support Tank!
This is converted out of Guess What? more Rhinos. i had a bunch of random vehicle weapons laying around and spare tank tracks. I put them all over the model, along with ammo, some camo nets, and various supplies to signify that these guys will do combat resupplies, and combat tows/tank recoveries.

nice tanks firecancer! how did you do the rust effects on your counts as leman russ? looks nice! i also thought for a bit modern feel a rhino chassis could do very well! and the second tank looks very good too! specially the platfrom in the rear, this gives a nice feeling of a resupply vehicle.


cheers, vik

Thanks Victor!!!

The rust effect was pretty simple though time consuming. Its a decently heavy drybrush with Bestial Brown with a little Dwarven Bronze, a heavy wash of Badab Black, a wash with Devlin Mud, then a light drybrush of Snakebite Leather, than a Heavy wash of Ogyrn Flesh. All of this over top the two drybrushes of Boltgun Metal, then Mithril Silver.

I also did the Mud effect with elmers glue and sand, painted Bestial Brown with a drybruch of Snakebite Leather.

For the Atlus, i plan on picking up the Tank Crew blister in the Bitz section on GW's site. and have them sitting in the back area.

Both are still WIP, i have a bunch of putty work to fill gaps. Along with finding Bunch more rhino thread to finish the models up. As you can see they're missing a Lot of threads.

tankstreads for GW tanks are often found on ebay for good value... also i think i´ve meant the sand pva mix that gave the nice rusty feel to the mentioned points... something i have to keep in mind!

facepalm...i mistook the mudeffect with rust...ups^^

Yeah i havent been to my GW store in a while, and they have a big bitz box that i plan on looking through to find tank treads in.

Yeah, the mud effect kinda Does look like rust and all now that im looking at it. The rust effect i described was what i did to the dozer blade.

And seeing it in photos i kinda feel like i need to redo the aquila i freehanded on the dozer blade, seems lopsided to me haha.

i would let the aquilla stay as it is, looks really nice and you did even some shadeing effect there to make it look a bit 3D so this is a cool addition.
hmmm the two GW stores i visited so long never had a bitz box... if they had i would be a regular customer i guess...

a good and quick weathering effect you can achieve by simply making a black spot and then not completly filling it with metalpaint... also if you want scratched metalics i also suggest to only drybrush mithril or boltgunmetal on a black basecoat... thus you get nice scratches all over and then later on you can get some nice effects with just washes... helped me a lot...

@Vik: That all depends of who gets to move first, the Perun(Tank-shock/Deathg or glory for Magnotz) or Magnotz move, Waaagh!, assault, Tank shock uses the front armor value, assault uses the more tender back armor.

@MdM: Hmm Prowler does sound nice, as Vik suggested.

@Firecancer: Lovely models! I started the same way, build the normal stuff, then bash a couple of kits together, and now scratch build, so I would say that you are on your way to what Vik and I have been doing. (Yeah, it does help that there are so many tanks laying about for you to work with!) Great work!

Yeah, im kinda of a perfectionist. I'm gonna fight my urge to redo it haha. Yeah the aquila was done with three seperate shades of Codex grey, either mixed with white or black, then i high lighted it with a mix of codex and mithrill silver. Which i am satisfied with the way it looks. I plan on doing free-hand on the valyrie/vendettas i am planning on picking exactly liek that.

And thanks, i've heard people use the black spot method, but i have yet to try it out. I will be trying it on my tanks shortly!

Half the reason i am a regular at my GW store is the Bitz Box.

Thanks a lot Shasolenzabi! I just sold most of my CSM Infantry and i was left with a few rhinos and predators to toy around with. I am working on another conversion, a Nearly scratch built "Duece and a Half" truck for my IG. I have that thread posted up here, so take a look and let me know what you think! i won't post pics here cause its not Technically a tank.

FireCancer wrote:Thanks a lot Shasolenzabi! I just sold most of my CSM Infantry and i was left with a few rhinos and predators to toy around with. I am working on another conversion, a Nearly scratch built "Duece and a Half" truck for my IG. I have that thread posted up here, so take a look and let me know what you think! i won't post pics here cause its not Technically a tank.

No worries, the purpose of this thread is for the odd tanks, and those include scratch/bashed/and just plain odd out of the box! I would have loved getting one of the original Gamilon 3-barreled battle tank kits for use as well, but the were never made, HMMMMM< a potential challenging attempt for a scratch-built-tank project!


Hope to see more work from you here as well guys!

Hahah, That would be a fun build!

Well, Ill post up this pic of the truck, its still WIP. Made from an Ork Trukk cab, frame and bed. It will be used as a stand-in for a chimera when it comes game time.
I have sanding and some extras i still haven't put on yet. waiting on a GW order for some bitz!

Cool! you even have the Aquila on the front!

So, having seen the size comparison between Viks, Vik-torian tank and a predator, I took a similarly sized chimera and comparison pics came for the Perun and the Chimera and a Leman Russ to better appreciate the Peruns' size(Although not as massive as Vik's Steam powered monster!) Apparently I am addicted to lower slung tank concepts.

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side by side, for the length comparison.
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