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Everything you build and paint looks great! Always exciting to see this thread updated!

Outstanding work.

Subbed!

Mother of Tanks! Your building skills are insanely good. Where do you get the little bits of scaffolding and stuff from?

I frakkin' love the muted colors you use! Very military sci-fi.

~Tim?

Thanks for all the kind comments, much appreciated.


@ killykavekommando: The stuff on the turret is some etched brass 'bedspring' armour from a 1/72 scale T-34/85. It sort of fits this turret, so good to see it not go to waste.
The rest of that kit is here:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/30/491112.page

Dude. This stuff is awesome.

Love your tanks. It great to see moar of them

Ash, what scale is that LAV-R? It looks pretty appropriate, and I have been thinking about getting some regular models, and 40K-ing them up to look like IG vics. Thanks in advance.

@ Styrofoam: Thanks. Not got any more 40k tanks to do at the moment, but I'm working on a small collection of old Soviet kit in 20mm (1/72). see sig.

@ Firehead: the LAV-R is a 1/35 scale kit, I think it was by Trumpeter. Scale wise, I think the mine plow works quite well.

Don't suppose I could get a side by side of the LAV to a Chimera? I'm wanting to use Strykers for counts-as chimeras, and I'm wanting to see the size difference. Granted, I think strykers are slightly smaller than LAVs. I'm concerned 1/48th would be too small, since 1/35th seems to be a little too big for an infantry carrier. Thanks.

I love checking out these models, great work! Could you give any advice on how you've done the chipping on the edges of the vehicles, is it a layer of silver and then brown/black over that?

I tend to do chipping by painting on some black/brown to represent the oxodised metal. A thin line of sand coloured paint around the bottom of the chip, a thin line of black around the top, to give the felling of some sort of depth & then a very faint amount of dark metallic across any sharp edges. Rust streaking to taste . . .

Beautiful work. I especially like the dark gun barrels, they look very authentic.

Okay thanks! I will have to give that a try