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Thanks Panda! Glad that you like my work. I was actually up until 6 in the morning working on some DIY Knight Titans. I'll hopefully have some new images up soon.

In my experience, a 1/48 scale Panzer IV would probably be a bit too small to represent a Russ in 40k. You might have better luck with a 1/35 scale model. It may actually come out as being a hair larger than a Russ, but when using Counts-As models, I err on the side of going big so that no one accuses me of modeling for advantage.

Hi Skaer,

Your advise is dully noted (!).

Thank you, and Congratuations again (Hope my army would be as interesting as yours ^^)

Have a good evening.
Panda

I have recently stumbled across your army blog, which is pretty epic by the way, and I must say that I am highly impressed as well as inspired by what I have seen and read so far.

I am kind of curious, though. Are you going to be showing off your idea for sponsons? I am currently doing some WIP with both Tamiya 1:48 King Tigers as well as a pair of Lindberg Tiger Is, and was hoping to see what you had come up with.

I cannot wait to see what you have in store to show us next!

Thanks Galen. I haven't had time to do much work on the army lately, as I'm not playing much 40k at the moment, and don't have a good space in my home to work (I've been here a year, and I feel like I'm still unpacking!).

For my own sponsons, I cut the side skirts on my Tigers, and built small sponsons out of bits. They're static, so I'm not sure if it's what I'm going to do for the whole army or not. My other (and I'd say better) idea was to get a few guys in powered armor (not Space Marines, something lower tech), and have them positioned alongside the tanks. Mechanically, they're sponsons, while visually, they're tank escorts. You would just need to make sure that you had a way to fit them consistently alongside your tank, as regular sponsons can't shift around like free-standing models can!

If I can stop being distracted by shiny objects long enough to get something done, I'll borrow the wife's fancy camera and try to get some shots up of the dozen or so things that I've built but not posted. Thanks for the kind words!