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This looks really good, Ive been thinking of trying to do this for a while. Think we could get a tutorial on how you did this?

You have to stack them like in Tetris, When you complete rows they disapear and you get more room!

Those are some pretty,pimped out rhinos, I like!

The problem is that a true scale rhino would be the size of a landraider while a true scale landraider would be the size of the super heavies. Obviously to big for the standard gaming table.

It also doesnt help that since all of the men are heroic scale they are really over sized and out of scale.

OK...

Slightly off topic but this had to be posted again It's just too epic not to be.
Hopeully this works


But yeah I'd love to see a True Scale Rhino...would probs be at least the size of the land raider!


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Btw I too love the skeleton archers on the front, a really nice touch

A while ago I was contemplating buying some WW2 scale models as replacements for some of the uglier of the 40k tanks and made some scale comparisons. Basicallly, I took an M113, a BMP-1 (or 2?) and the Chimera and tried to find length, width and heigth of these three, judging from a Catachan guardsmen model for the Chimera measurements.

Turned out - and you might agree when you look at real world APCs and people close to it - the Chimera is pretty big, certainly not undersized for its troop carrying capacity. Now, the thing is, the infantry models in 40k take up a lot of space in their heroic poses - if you could squeeze them together like real, squishy people inside a crammed transport, I'm pretty sure it would work. The FW Death Korps of Krieg troops for the Gorgon are a nice example, by the way.

Space Marines though...yeah, their armor is rigid, can't squish them together like real-world soldiers or lightly armored guardsmen. The Rhino is probably too small for what it's supposed to be doing.

How the feth did they get TEN Marines in that Rhi- CREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED!

I think guard vehicles are pretty reasonably scaled, like witz said.
Forgeworld has shown that 10 guys fit pretty comfortably in the back of a Valkyrie.

FW guard is realistically scaled for 1/48, so 10 Elysians in a Valk is somewhat realistic. GW guard are "heroic 1/48 scale," and have bigger proportions. Compare a FW Elysian or DKK infantryman with a Cadian (especially the feet, hands, weapons) and you'll see what I mean.

lol, I share your opinion that it's too small!