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I picked up a 1/32 scale M3 Lee ww2 tank for about 25$ at the local hobby shop, figuered it would make a decent count as malcador. I outfitted this one with sponson lascannons and a hull mounted autocannon. The lascannons are multilasers but whatever, they look like lascannons from a distance. I had a leftover conqueror canon so it's a "battle cannon" now. I was gonna use gw treads but they were just too small to fit. I'll probably have it primed by tomorrow, painted by the weekend.















Next up we got some at-43 kolossus models converted to be sentinels, I've added some chainsaws to make the look badass (mad props to neal at the war store). I also added some magnets so I can arm them however I want. I also re-based them, they're not on the actual sentinel bases because that would look gakky. These models are wicked awesome and hella cheap, got all 3 for 12$ (mad props to the war store).













And finally something a littlee absurd but I'm happy with it. My previous version of colonel iron hand straken just wasn't doing it for me so I decided to make something even more ridiculous. To offset the size of the space marine powerfist I used a normal powerfist for the other arm, the guy's half machine after all. Made sure to give him a shotgun too. The head is from the new hellhound box, I find it works well to give him a machine look.



Anyway, any questions feel free to ask.

I really like the "sentinels". they kind of look a bit tau-ish imo, but i like them.
good work

Gorechild wrote:I really like the "sentinels". they kind of look a bit tau-ish imo, but i like them.
good work

fluff wise I view them as old demiurg technology with imperial weaponry retrofitted to them.

I love that Lee, it's just crazy enough to work. (I can only imagine how much cooler it would be looted-style) Is it comparable to a Malcador in terms of physical size?

Napalm wrote:I love that Lee, it's just crazy enough to work. (I can only imagine how much cooler it would be looted-style) Is it comparable to a Malcador in terms of physical size?

I think it's pretty close

Nice use of (what I assume are) reasonably priced AT-43 stuff!

That "Malcador" is the bomb, I love it.
I'm convinced I need one now.

Hmm, also that Straken's head looks cool. I might buy a hellhound kit just for the head ;-)

Tek wrote:That "Malcador" is the bomb, I love it.
I'm convinced I need one now.

Hmm, also that Straken's head looks cool. I might buy a hellhound kit just for the head ;-)

It's pretty much the highlight of the kit. I like the new hellhound kit but it's almost too efficient, you get like one or two leftover bits.

What size is the base of your sentinels?

poipo32 wrote:What size is the base of your sentinels?

I believe they're 40mm, same as a terminator.

Crablezworth wrote:

I like this a lot. Paint it at once.

Where did you get the at-43 models?

Wow this is great, can't wait to see them all painted up

dufflebag wrote:Where did you get the at-43 models?

the war store

Love how you IG-ified the tank - great stuff!

Ok so finally got around to taking some pix of the progress. The malcador is done and so is straken. I'm about 90% on the count as sentinel things, just gotta finish basing them and add some decals.

Beautiful.

Thanks guy

The tank looks fine to me, didn't expect it to turn out like that.

The magic of having a lot of bitz to play with

Did you prime over the AT-43 mini paint jobs or just paint right over them?

That looks like my old SW Russ

Alpharius wrote:Did you prime over the AT-43 mini paint jobs or just paint right over them?

Primed over'm with krylon flat black spray.

The 40K bits blend in surprisingly well with that tank kit. Nice work!

insaniak wrote:The 40K bits blend in surprisingly well with that tank kit. Nice work!

I think it's the rivets that really sell it.

That is possibly the best 'real tank' to 40K tank conversion I've seen. Great stuff.

That Straken is a really top conversion, the proportions seem more than acceptable, and the Malcador is a grand example of putting in a random set, and bringing it into the 40k universe.

This work should be held up as a prime example of great vision and equally good implementation.

bigadley wrote:That Straken is a really top conversion, the proportions seem more than acceptable, and the Malcador is a grand example of putting in a random set, and bringing it into the 40k universe.

This work should be held up as a prime example of great vision and equally good implementation.

thanks mang, much love

got them based and I put some decals on'm

I like them all a lot, especially the use of a historical tank as a base for your malcador, and nice paint scheme!