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I spent the last week finishing up my land speeders. I'd primed and basecoated these months ago but never had the motivation to start them. Once the paint started to fly though I couldn't stop. I love these little guys.


I've got the tech marine piloting one as my fluff dictates and the shoulder markings show the company they're attached to. This will also be useful if I want to have a squad of 2. I'm going to do the rest of the bikers in the same style and will probably go with blue or yellow on the majority of them. I have 3 squads to do (and a captain) and was thinking of making two squads one colour (1 company) and a 3rd squad another. Maybe matching 1 of the speeders though I am not sure. I'm going to have to redo the fluff to maybe include 5 speeders per company.


The weapons are all magnetized so that I can swap out autocannons or whatever at a later date though I like this pattern the best at the moment. Adding dirt was pretty easy with an airbrush. One spray of scortched brown and another of I think bubonic and done.


I really liked the blue jet exhaust I put on my Mephiston so I copied it here. They're very fast ground cars

Love that bassie mate, your guard army is chock full of characterful conversions. The marines are pretty great too

The models I've ordered for my Custodes haven't come in yet so I'm not sure on their scale. Anyway if they turn out to need a rhino, I have just the thing!
I still have to gap fill quite a bit of it but you ge the idea. I may look around for some rails to mimic the rhino but I'm not sure where I'd find them


A mk1 rhino hull is definately the easiest scratch built vehicle I've done so far.

Thats quite a cool design, did you draw any inspiration from anywhere for it?

Yeah this cool thing!

I don't know how I missed this thread.... but my jaw is on the ground.

I might have to try this model all winter thing, it is getting too cold out!

Here's a WIP of a 'Fellblade' that I am in the progress of making from a shadowsword kit. I'm planning to use the Banehammer rules with the modification that the sponsons are TL lascannons and models cannot shoot from it. It shouldn't change the rules too much as it was treated as open topped for disembarking originally.





The length has been reduced by an entire panel which took quite some time. It is now equal length to a landraider and can be a counts-as landraider in normal games.. Visible in the images above, the cannon is removable. I plan to finish the top so that it can function as a land raider for my space wolves or as a banehammer in apocalypse. I figure reducing the length and giving it a transport capacity of 12 (6 terminators) is quite fair.

Since I don't have room to put the hull mounted TL heavy bolter, I'm going to have two long fangs sitting on the front. The guy above is an oldie but I think to give it some contrast I'll put a current addition heavy bolter guy on the other side.

I still have work to do but I wanted to share my progress so far.

I've moved the longfang over. He looked a bit unsteady where he was and now has someone to talk to without yelling over the vox. I doubt that cannon is loud anyway. I just love the image of soldiers clammoring over the top of the tank riding into battle, or providing covering fire as the terminators inside run out into the battle.


It was a giant pain to cut the hull to match on each side. Since the tracks are made of two panels plus guide bars for the wheels I had to cut every piece and reinforce it all with plasticard. I luckily had purchased some clamps a few months ago that work GREAT for holding drying models where you want the parts to stay. I'd recommend these to everyone and I think the package deal had 8 or so clamps of different sizes for 20 dollars.

In apocalypse I'm going to run this as a banehammer with reduced capacity and BS 4. I used it last weekend and the 6" maximum movement is a huge impairment for an assault vehicle and once you start moving forward it isn't hard to lose the main gun. All in all it is a very balanced unit even though I stole it for my spacewolves instead of IG.


Most importantly, the top can be removed and it is a landraider! I call that winning at GW economics.

I've finished a heavily converted landraider project to count as an achilles. Here's a sneak peak!



More images are avaialble here at my blog:

The Hobby Ambit

It was super fun to put together (tons and tons of resin bits), I did a lot of casting, green stuffing, gluing, painting and I think every technique I know how to do so it was a really great total project.

love the look of those sponsons... do you have a WIP pic of those? how did you do them so rounded?

wow, theres some really neat painting going on here, and your vehicle conversions are great. I love these landspeeders on wheels!

Viktor von Domm wrote:love the look of those sponsons... do you have a WIP pic of those? how did you do them so rounded?

They're a 3rd party bit made by Machinator, he's on Ebay under blood and skull industries I believe. Makes some nice stuff. There's some shots of the tank in white on my blog if you search achilles.

ah ok! thanks mate! will do so!

I sat down, inspired to finish this this weekend. A lot of NCAA basketball to watch also helped . These guys will likely be counts-as thunderhammer/stormshield terminators in most games though they could likely count as whatever I want since they have a bolter (or halbred for GK). The gold was painted on a tan primer using GW shining gold. A few coats of that with an airbrush then a few washes of gryphonne sepia. After that I drybrushed mithril silver over the top.



I'm really happy with how this guy's face turned out. I painted tallarn flesh over the whole head, then devlan mud. After that I overbrushed tallarn flesh again followed by a highlight of elf flesh on all of the highpoints like nose, cheeks and forhead. I follow this up with another devlan wash in recesses of the ears, mouth and under the eyes. The eyes are astronomicon grey and chaos black. I don't like white eyes as they're too bright and look unnatural. The hair used adeptus battlegrey drybrushed on followed by a stipple of chaos black .

More pictures of the complete squad and closeups at my blog (see sig)

really nice stuff you have, only question is how did you make the buggies?

Your gold looks great!

Rogue Wolves wrote:really nice stuff you have, only question is how did you make the buggies?

There's a WIP photo here

http://theambit.blogspot.com/2011/10/argonaught-land-speeder.html

It's basically just a speeder with bike wheel/wheelwells attached to the carved out nose. No major cutting otherwise. Gaps in the old hull were filled with sheets of plasticard.

ahh simple enough, thank you

Here's my last painted mini of 2011. A Contemptor Dreadnought for my Adeptus Custodes army. The gold was GW shining gold with liberal gryphonne wash, then drybrushed with the shining gold, then mythril silver. I think it turned out pretty good for a simple process. I magnetized the arms and have a close combat weapon that I can add later once I paint it. I was a bit worried this guy would turn out too gold but I like it. I don't think I'd ever do an entire vehicle with it (I want to have an accompanying stormraven) so I'll have to figure out a scheme for that down the road.



These shoulderpads are also quite a bit nicer than the originals in my opinion since they're bulkier and will also match my terminators well. I think on a regular sized dread they may be too large but they fit here. This was my first forgeworld kit and I'm quite impressed.
More Pictures Here

i think he looks great, only thing i would do is pick out some of the raised details with a thin line of mithril, just to add more depth

I finished my first space marine bike squad after like 3 weeks of working on it. It was really really slow going and I just wasn't motivated. Not that I don't like how they turned out, there is juts a whole lot of model here to paint. If you think about sheer surface area there must be 2-3 times that of doing just a regular marine so it was pretty daunting. Originally I had 11 bikes on my desk but I dropped down to just doing 6 so that it seemed more manageable.


Sergeant Arkavius is featured here leading his squad into the fray (the guy from my fluff).

More pictures and such here

The gold on that dred looks really nice, but I think you slightly overdid it.... It's lacking secondary colors a little..... but looks good anyway!

The bikers look really good, you applied just the right amount of dust and the edges are very nicely highlighted. Well done!

I actually went back on the dreadnought and added red to the shoulders after similar comments from a friend

Cruorian War Beast (Xenos Minoris)
Standing on four long legs, each ending in thick claws, and with fur as red as fresh-spilled blood, a Cruorian war beast presents a frightening aspect. Short spikes protect the head, neck, and spine, although from what one can only hazard a guess. The forefeet have opposable thumbs, and it’s possible the Cruorians are slightly more intelligent than most think – they’ve been witnessed using crude melee weapons for example. War beasts tend to open their hunts (or a battle) with a chorus of nerve-wracking howls, eventually reaching a crescendo right before they charge. Theye are utterly merciless, and take no prisoners. In fact, some go so far as to eat the slain even before the fighting is over.

I painted this guy up for my Dark Heresy Campaign. A few more pictures and a little backstory from the campaign is on my blog.

So after quite some time I've added another model to this army. Seemed a hole in the army list of available terminators from the codex.

Quite a bit darker than my normal space wolves but still in the same style so he should fit right in. I didn't go with a true black but painted him with Charadon Granite and 3 washes of badab black. The highlights were dulled a lot in the photos but there is adeptus battlegrey on there I assure you The eyes were a pain to get to and I restarted them literally 10 times. I'm not happy with them now but I got tired of repainting them. I really need to buy new paint brushes is the problem. My detail brush is probably four years old at this point (still the blue handled GW one).



More angles here: Hobby Ambit

Here's two WIP shots of the blight drone I'm working on. The armour colour was chosen to blend with my Emerald Fist company so that everything will meld on the table and I can still use the loyalist guys as both CSM and SM. Rust, blood, flesh, lenses, metal - what more can you want from a model Just the base left to go on this guy. Usually models look better and better the more paint you add as you near completion. With nurgle they just look more and more gross

Hover Rhino finished; fluff and more photos at my blog The Hobby Ambit