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Incredible build, and with the truescale marine next to it you can really appreciate it's size. Nice job!

wow really great idea may have to try something like that for my truescale Terminators!
Next task for you. . . truescale Thunderhawk!

Looks great dude keep it up

Wow that is amazing, it actually looks like it can physically carry ten marines or 5 terminators now. Wow. I want to see what this will look like painted.

medabee wrote:I want to see what this will look like painted.

We wait eagerly with bated breath.

Edit: Haha! Nice catch and right enough. Being a fellow word nazi I can't believe I did that.

"bated" means held.
"baited" means you have a worm hanging out, waiting for a fish.

[/word nazi]

Painted pics would be awesome, though.

and "Baithead" means someone has the brains of a chum bucket

Apologies for the trivial OT on such a good thread

MASSIVE!
Really love it.

if your marines and guard are anything to go by this tank will rock.

Going by what he has painted, it will be amazing looking when finsihed.

Well isn’t it surprising how quickly real life can overtake the best laid plans?

Just when everyone (me included) thought that the truescale land raider was going to go the way of so many of my other projects, life gives me a day off with nothing going on (a first for about the last 4 weeks!)
So with several headaches and a major family crisis now under control I can turn my attention back to the behemoth.

Some more detailing work has been done, along with fully hinging the rear doors, and a crewman for the open top hatch has been built.

Now onto the pictures!
Firstly 3-d world eater logo’s applied to each of the doors (the lighting doesn’t show it to well, but there are 12 raised rivets on each ring)

Front view of assault ramp

Close up

Side door (note the lower hinge detail-have to thank a user by the name of Winterdyne over on the relic forums for the idea)

Now for the crewman. Made from Veteran Sergeant Haas’ body (thickened the same way as my world eaters, using a 1.5mm plasticard spacer), terminator legs and arms, a metal right hand form my bits box, a GS left hand holding the hatch and a maxmini head. The backpack is from the devastator sergeant with the servo arm coming from the techmarine servo harness.



And finally some paint (well undercoat at least!) The sponsons have all been left separate so the painting should go a lot easier.
Going for the classic white and blue scheme. Main hull will be white, with the rear quarter blue (diagonally striped) and the assault ramp and details in blue. Then some fairly heavy weathering and “wear and tear”


C&C welcome as usual!
-Binary

I wonder how that Tech Marine climbed out of the Land Raider with his shoulderpads on...

Looking great btw!

What thickness plasticard are you using?

making my own giant land raider with this as inspiration to transport my paladins!

Its cool but shouldn't a true scale model be able to fit 10-16 marines in it?

I know that no-one has posted here in several weeks, but i just thought i'd give my 2 cents (hopefully it won't be construed as necromancy).

WOW. This is absolutely amazing. One of the coolest 40k models I have ever seen. Period.

I just love the idea of truescale models, & you really have taken this aspect of the hobby to the next level. I would love to give it a go sometime, & make a truescale SM army (GK maybe). How legal are models like this? I would imagine that tourneys wouldn't allow them due to the size discrepancies between these & their normal counterparts and/or claims of modelling for advantage. What's the general feeling about truescale models in relatively casual games/competitive games down at the FLGSs?