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Flinty wrote:The tracks and side plates on your Chimera are awesome, great work. I look forward to seeing painted pics

Also the Abrahms are extremely well executed. They look huge though, how do they compare, size wise to Russes? Are they Baneblade sized?

Thanks. The M1A1s are the same width as a russ and about twice as long. Both of them side by side are roughly the footprint of a baneblade to give you an idea of scale.

Frazzled wrote:
Excellent. now do five more and post your army!

Actually I have eight of them already. I have just been off working on other armies. Really should get back and finish this army off though.

Brave Rifles

CommissarKhaine

I would really like to see how you paint those windows/portholes up on that model.

Thanks

ok now i know spending 55 quid on one chimera sounds stupid as its only a troop carryer with perks. but has anyone seen the new warhammer empire steem tank. its £35 and a chimera is £20 put them to gether and i think you have a perfect Mordiam or Vostroyan tank.

forget the steam engien forget the main gun. chimera tanktracks your choice of eithere turet and a few body mods and i think you have one ace looking tank.

any artst out there? get thoes grafics programs running or get that sketch pad out and find your 2b pencel. id love to see anything you can make out of this.

i would not often splach out £55 pounds on somthing that could end up looking like i could of done better using a machete instead of a modeling knife but if some one els can visulise it too then it may not be such a bad idea

I can remember reading somewhere theres a few kits that fit with the chimera which you can use to re do the interior. Anyone got any ideas/previous experience?
the article was in a way old WD- Fred Reeds imperial guard. Had an ogryn with carpace armour made from that plate of the hellhound.

Got to love the low tech guard-very WW2 which is the biggest source i use for modelling. its more gritty as well.

some really nice models today-if only i had money to buy stuff!

dirkthe1 wrote:I can remember reading somewhere theres a few kits that fit with the chimera which you can use to re do the interior. Anyone got any ideas/previous experience?
the article was in a way old WD- Fred Reeds imperial guard. Had an ogryn with carpace armour made from that plate of the hellhound.

Got to love the low tech guard-very WW2 which is the biggest source i use for modelling. its more gritty as well.

some really nice models today-if only i had money to buy stuff!

I have a Cadian guard force (with some steel legion stuff still half finished) But all my vehicles have WWII inspired paint jobs (with the exception of my all black Commissar tank...)

BraveRifles wrote:
Here are some pictures from different angles

Just a thought on the Predator turrets, if you care to modify anything at this point (I realise I'm rather splitting hairs on an extremely nice model ). I notice that you're using the predator TLLC turret bustle, rather than the AC one, while sticking with the AC as main weapon. You can easily replace the Predator turret AC with the Chimera multilaser, to match the "las" style bustle. A couple of my chimeras shown below:

BaronIveagh wrote:

dirkthe1 wrote:I can remember reading somewhere theres a few kits that fit with the chimera which you can use to re do the interior. Anyone got any ideas/previous experience?
the article was in a way old WD- Fred Reeds imperial guard. Had an ogryn with carpace armour made from that plate of the hellhound.

Got to love the low tech guard-very WW2 which is the biggest source i use for modelling. its more gritty as well.

some really nice models today-if only i had money to buy stuff!

I have a Cadian guard force (with some steel legion stuff still half finished) But all my vehicles have WWII inspired paint jobs (with the exception of my all black Commissar tank...)

yeah, its the way to do vehicles-well i think. not to the extreme of russian vehicles covered in riders but the shermans/halftracks/marders etc are all almost directly related to russ/chimera/basilisk.

theres a book called "painting tanks and military vehicles" by shepard paine. great book-so much stuff in there. id recommend any modeller to get it.

is anyone getting the new forgeoworld modelling book?

cool conversion from here
http://www.ordofanaticus.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=14682

The hatches where made from plastic card and the glass was just a smaller piece in the middle of the larger piece .

sweet tie fighter!

broxus wrote:CommissarKhaine

I would really like to see how you paint those windows/portholes up on that model.

Thanks

Here you go. The paint scheme for the windows is pretty basic: regal blue basecoat, then mixing up to ice blue (4 or 5 layers), blue wash, adding in a white highlight in the end.





If I manage to finish the chimera, I'll post a pic of that too so you can see how it looks all done.

Old pics , I will post again tom when I've got pics of these two which are (mostly) finished.

A Leman Russ substitute



Chimera Substitute

JoeyFox wrote:

Not mine, but I have recreated similar for my work in progress manticore.

Great conversions! Do you know maybe whose they are? I wonder, from what model this parts come from.

Here's a couple from my desert guard;

Ebsolom Dhaark, where are those turrets from?

edit: are they Old Crow "Tank turret" with a land raider viewfinder on top?

I'm loving those Old Crow turrets... They may fit onto my Chimera nicely. Speaking of which...

Loving that kicked back turret, Endtransmission!

If I didn't have all mine built I would so snag that idea!

faj3r, those are Tim Rich's awesome models:

http://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y245/Tim_rich/Cadian%20114th%20mechanized%20Taros%202/

Rouch 'Recon' Turret I bashed up. Swapped out the normal gun for a Viewfinder + Autocannon. Look's lighter, and I put some more baggage/rail systems down the sides.

sA

Some really cool Chimeras here

Hey, these are excelent, and Cptnjack, First I'mma call you 'da kandyman' and nice Puma conv.

smiling Assassin wrote:

Rouch 'Recon' Turret I bashed up. Swapped out the normal gun for a Viewfinder + Autocannon. Look's lighter, and I put some more baggage/rail systems down the sides.

sA

like the swap! what is the Viewfinder bit from?