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The T-34-85 turret with a long barrel attached to the rear of a Chimera that was once a Hydra that someone butchered (before I got it) but gluing down a HWT base to its turret ring is getting painted.

Sasha (meaning Defender of Humanity, look it up!) is getting its soviet green like the Sickle, based on a T-80 Light Tank before it. Complete with Red Stars with gold outlines.



The other half of the reason for naming the Tank Sasha was besides the fact its mainly a Russian name (and the T-34-85 was a Russian tank). Sasha is the name of the Minigun used by Heavy Weapons Guy in TF2. So I thought it would be a bit funny, even though its not a Punisher Cannon. I guess Sasha could kill big baby tanks, make them cry.




Back to painting.

Sasha is done.



There wasn't a lot to add after the WIP picture.



Still painting. I think ill do the Rhino Manticore next. Get him done.

The greenskins just kept coming. Pvt. Abraham had been poring everything his heavy bolter had into the green tide and they just continued to charge forward. The 34th Macon-5 PDF regiment had been stuck on this rock for hours holding back the orks. The concentrated fire had managed to halt the xenos at a distant line where bodies only continued to pile up only for more Orks to just leap over their dead and keep trying, yelling and waving their oversized blades and guns as they went, firing wild shots in the general direction of the 34th troops. God Emperor had thankfully only had the green skins coming on foot. But the Ork soon had trukks and what could be described as "tanks" rumbling forward. The 34th had little that could pierce the heavier armor. The vox trooper hunched over behind Abe was busy yelling incoherently into his vox only to have his head explode all over abes back from a stray ork shell. Abe fumbled with the Vox and pleaded into the vox for anyone to help. "Hello friend, you need help yes?" a uncharacteristically calm voice on the vox responded to Abe's pleas. "For Feths sake we need anything!". By then the xenos had hit the first defensive line and were tearing through the men all while Abe could only imagine was laughing in demented glee. "Alright friend, Lil Andryusha will sing the xenos a song. Hold tight friend" the calm voice told Abe. "WHAT!? WE NEED ARMOR!! ANYTHING!!". Abe didn't get an answer and could only turn around as one of the Orks was getting closer to him, swinging its axe toward him. Both froze when an ear splitting howling came from above. Only to be replaced by earth shattering explosions as the world around abe turned into a whirlwind of fire, dust, blood and unspeakable parts of someone or something.

The dust slowly settled and Abe could only stare out onto the scorched and decimated area around him. Dead Orks, wrecked ork vehicles and what was left of his comrades was everywhere. The crackle of the vox behind him snapped Abe out of his awe.
"How did you like Lil Andryusha's song?"


My Rhino turned Manticore is done.


Its name comes from a nickname for the heavier rocket artillery of WW2.




I think I still have the "Salamander Light Tank" to paint. I think I'm using the "Soviet Tank Green" (I can't recall its actual name off hand right now). Mainly due to the fact that the Sasha, Lil Andryusha, and later the Salamander are based on Soviet WW2 designs, such as the T-34-85 turret and so on. Might as well get some use out of the paint! Otherwise it was only used for the Sickle!

Back to work.

The Gecko, Light Recon Vehicle is all set to go.



A Salamander scout tank in play. It should do fine. I doubt it will ever see action outside of "Bring everything you got" battles which I haven't seen for a long time now. I suppose it doesn't help I have a veritable legion of tanks, troops and more at my command. Not to mention 3 Super Weapons as well.

I had a vision (ok not a vision, that sounds silly). But I grabbed a Stormwolf/fang when one went on sale for like half off or whatever it was I can't recall. I had no idea what I would do with it. But I had a revelation or insert "eureka moment word here" recently.

The Engines could be built into Land Speeder sized craft to fill out the two slots in the Tempest Squadron. The whole of the Stormwolf/fang fuselage just might be big enough to be a Macharius tank. Maybe not wide enough but that can be fixed.
Was considering bolting additional armor, removing the Helfrost weapon system and replacing it with a large plasma blastgun. The transport capacity will be filled with the cooling system and the hover systems. The vehicle will hover like any other tank (of course no hover rules or any of them rule funkiness.) only a few feet off the ground. armed with sponson autocannons and with lighter weapon (its a hover tank after all), works as open topped. Ill get back if I try to cut plastic on the idea. I also have Knight to finally work on too. Ill get back when things start to take shape.

Smashing together a Knight with tank treads.

Its by no means any where near done. It still needs the elevated joint that connects it to the tracked chassis. Not to mention its cockpit, weapons and more.

heck the chassis needs the third track system for stabilization and additional armor plating.



Its going to be the crusader variant with a Cannon and Gatling cannon. Ill also strap some missiles to its shoulders somewhere for its torso weapon system. Not sure if to plug the Stubber into the Tank Hull or under the cockpit (taken from a Stormtalon long ago) in a gunship fashion ala Apache helicopter or something.

Will keep smashing plastic bitz together tomorrow.

The Knight-Tank (a homage to the Guntank or gundam.) is now 7.1 inches tall. GW site says a Knight is 8. but all over the interwebs I see. "No its 6 inches" "No its 7" "No its 8" and it jumps between them.

Personally I think the model might be about 6.5 or maybe 7 inches tall but reaches 8 inches when its equipped with the hull mounted missile launcher/AA turret. Now... I haven't measured a complete stock GW knight. But I'm sure I could if someone brought one to the FLGS, of which there are plenty of them in the group.

Anywho.



It only needs arms and a cockpit/head with some missile pods on its back and then some. Not sure how to bolt a third stabilizing track, but the entire contraption would be glued straight down to the giant Knight Base anyways, so its not gonna fall over on its own account (besides backwards. but the base prevents that for the physical model at least.)

I was thinking of keeping the shoulder plates off of the Knight-Tank, keep them for another knight. Ill find some sort of armor plate for them somewhere. But its main weapons will be the normal GW ones.



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Knight Tank is standing tall with its guns in place. It just needs details, armor, and its back mounted missiles.

Now I got to go.

I have two Experimental Knights (Wooo!)



The Knight Tank is almost done build wise.



I scrapped the third track system and instead had a simple trench tail (or essentially two metal beams that act like a wheely bar).



It has a pair of Rocket Pods from a Valk on its top and its got enough armor bolted on to hold up to anything it should go up against. That and its gatling cannon, rapid fire battle cannon, heavy stubbers, flamers, and rocket pods can purge everything in its way.

I don't know what the other two knights will be. I have a pair of legs with no Torso that hopefully will get a body (a more humanoid one) and the other Knight... Not sure....

I have begun contruction on the "Humanoid" Knight.

Instead of ths slouched over and head in the torso style knight. The Head is actually on top of the machine with a giant chest plate on its front. Its supposed to be a reference to Reinhardt of Overwatch. It will end up a Knight Gallant with its giant Hammer.



The side to side swings of the hammer would be the faster "chainsword" strikes (The gallant has both the chainsword and fist). with the slower fist attacks being an overhead smash with the hammer (hammer down).



Of course with a free hand (as the hammer isn't physically a part of the knight itself) it could pick up and throw things like the Fist can.



I'm not sure if I want to mount a Melta to the machine or the Stubber. But I know the shoulder plates will house rockets like the Knight Tank does so it won't be totally unable to strike at range.

The third knight after this beast.... Still not sure what to do with him. I originally wanted a quad legged monster but those legs were built into a Tank. I might be able to craft legs from scratch (a pain, but possible). I might just go normal knight with it with normal legs. But some armor plate will be missing as a lot of armor plates are going into the Humanoid Knight.

JUSTICE WILL BE DONE, IN THE EMPEROR'S NAME!!

I have started building the mighty hammer that will crush the Knights foes. Its an homage to Reinhardt's Rocket hammer with engines on its rear and all. Of course before it can even be wielded The mighty Knight needs arms and hands of course. not to mention armor plate to cover the torso structural components.




The hammer is at least 10 inches long from end to the furthest tip of the hammer head. At the moment it more looks like a giant rocket powered stamp. But I'm hoping to forge the hammer head to a better shape with several layers of plastic that or find a base that could work..



When I get the torso finished with armor plate. Ill glue it to the legs proper. IM really hoping I can finish it before Friday so I can show it off at my FLGS and blow some minds. They havn't seen the Tank Knight yet, but IM thinking of bring both (and the Mark 1) to blow some minds.
Out of everyone at the Hobbytown I go to. I convert and customize more than anyone I've seen. I'm sure they could, possibly even better but that's not important. Its more fun to show and compare creations.

Back to work! Justice will not dispense itself!

-+Test Footage File:4634+-
-+ Knight-Titan Battle Hammer XT-61+-

A close up of a rather short tech adept fiddling with the camera of the Servo skull pops on screen. The view turns a few degrees to the left and flickers before the Adept backs away and nods to himself in satisfaction. Behind him is a control console with runes lit up and blinking across it and multiple screens wired too it with images of graphs and numbers flickering across them. Beyond that a massive hammer rests on its head, with its extremely long handle attached to a device beyond the cameras view. The Hammer utterly dwarfs the Tech adept as he begins to mumble litanies and other prayers under his breath.
The Adept turned to the camera and with a burst of static spoke to the Camera. "This is Adept Jamie, beginning XT-61 test in 10.0235 seconds. May the machine spirit will it to be successful". The adept holds up a hand as he speaks seeming to cross his digits in a imitation of "crossing your fingers for luck". Turning back to the control panel he chirps "Here we go!". As the Adept activates runes on the panel, the hammer roars to life with rocket engines lighting up the rockcrete walls surrounding the device.
"Test in 3.....2....1.." The adept slams one of the larger crimson runes and the Hammer blasts from its position skyward instantly, before a loud thundering bang followed by the sound of crumbling masonry is heard as the camera is knocked off its perch only to look at the now prone adept behind his console.

The adept soon gets up and his upper body vanishes from view as he inspects the damage. "Holy fek!" is heard before the robed feet of the adept quick runs over to the camera on the ground only for the view to be jerked upwards and brought into the remains of the testing chamber. The scene showed a hole in the solid rockcrete wall and the hammer beyond it sitting on what remained of what could have been a tank at one point, its engines smoking but the entire weapons intact and undamaged by its flight and impact. "I think its a success... Omnissiah help me... DeSat is gonna kill me...". A crowd of people begin to gather around the wrecked tank with the massive hammer crushed into it. "Uh oh..."

The Camera feed cuts out.

-+Vid feed terminated+-

I was so excited as I built the hammer I put the above together.



Not sure its its done. But I love the way its coming out. . I can just imagine it being swung around and crushing tanks, xenos and heretics and more.



Its sheer size also helps too. I think its just cool! the hammer head itself is taller then a Sentinal (or nearly is). Back to work!!


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The Lionheart Knight Titan is coming along. It still requires additional armor plate in places like the shoulders and select places in the torso. The arms of course are needed. I'm going to have to build it well enough to physically HOLD UP THE HAMMER. by themselves.
I know its 40k and all and technology and designs are inherently sdarwkcab (<-READ IT). But I think a Knight with a Head on its top (like a Human in appearance) seems much cooler. No gundam stuff, but more a giant hydrolically powered Knight like that of the Renaissance and such. Seriously! Oh well, I suppose it has something silly like copyright and legal stuff made it that way. Bleh





I'm not done. But I hope to at the very least have the structural component of the arms on it before I go to the FLGS Friday night thing so it can hold up the Hammer and look all awesome and such. Of course the Tank Knight will come along as well with the Mark 1 at the head.

I doubt Ill get a game in. There are not a lot of tables. (like at best 5 sometimes.)

The green xenos kept coming. Sally was among the civilians still scrambling to flee the xenos horde as it flooded their town. The PDF were holding back, but only barely. Legions of clanking and grinding machines had been unleashed by the Xenos and they began to cut through the PDF to a man. She threw the rest of her belongings into her autocar and scrambled to drive away with the other fleeing civilians. The road out of town was packed with autocars and larger vehicles all speeding in the direction of safety so they hoped.
Screaming and tires screeching came out of the noise of battle, the civilian cars turning and piling on top of each other. Sally's car was fish tailed and spun into a shop on the side of the road, its rear end smashing through the shopfront leaving her to watch the rest of the cars crash infront of her. Sally was pinned inside her autocar and couldn't move. Only listen to the rhythmic thumping of the Xenos machines approaching through the haze and broken glass. A form burst from the side of one of the buses that once held people of Sally's town, it hobbled around with a clanking and hissing, slaming its claws into any car that still showed a hint of life. A man in a red autocar wasn't very lucky as the hobbling metal machine smashed his car with his screams getting snuffed out on impact. The sound of what sally could only imagine to be laugher seemed to wheeze from within the metal monster. The machine slowly turn around to Sallys car and began to slowly hobble toward her car. So this is how it ends huh Emperor?.
The xenos machine slowly razed its claw for the death blow, but a series of footsteps that dwarfed the foul xeno machine cause it to hesitate and turn slightly to Sally's left, before a tremendous roar and something massive and heavy slammed into the machine, smashing it to pieces and showering Sally's car's hood in metal bits and sparks. The evil machine lay in ruins and Sally in shock, had the Emperor come to save her himself or what?

A massive hammer came down near her car jolted her awake, before the kneeling form of a massive metal man at least 3 stories tall leaned down into view.
"Madam Civilian? Are you alright?", it bellowed at her.
Sally couldn't even answer. Her metal savior turned slightly addressing someone behind him "We have another! Come quickly!" before turning back to Sally "Can you move?"
"N-n-no I can't, I'm stuck" Sally managed to stammer. The Metal Man's head looked over her car and he gave a "Hmph" before extending a giant arm to her car, dragging it out from the shop front like a child would drag a toy before peeling the roof of her car away with a delicate motion Sally didn't think possible of something so powerful. Sally fell unceremoniously out of the wreckage of her autocar, she could barely feel her left arm, but it was still there and she was covered in blood and glass. With a hydrolic hiss and whir, the giant metal man stood back upright and picked up his hammer with a free hand, throwing it over his shoulder.
"W-What are you? Who are you?" Sally asked her giant savior.
"I am Anduin Lionhardt." The metal man announced proudly, bringing a metal fist to his chest in salute. "I am a Knight of the Emperor and Omnissiah, I bring their justice to all."
Sally still couldn't believe it, was she dead? The grinding of treads and footsteps the size of Lionhardt's fortold the arrival of more. A Knight with a giant tank chassis in place of legs ground its way over empty auto cars toward his ally with another machine, that more resembled a walking tank with arms holding a rifle beside it. Beyond them were Tanks and men, all ready to fight and purge the xenos.
Bullets and rockets whizzed past Lionhardt, making him spin around to face the other end of the street, where countless more of those clunky xenos machines stomped their way forward, claws snapping in anticipation of combat.
"Get Behind me! Go to my friends! They will see you to safety!" Lionhardt roared. Sally ran towards the army coming toward her, looking back as she went to see Lionhardt swing his rocket hammer hard, sending a xenos machine flying into the air to smash into a ball of flame, turning to swing again and smash another machine. "HAHAHAH! I LIVE FOR THIS!!" Lionhardt bellowed, a heavy overhead swing utterly flattened one of the larger xenos machine, vomiting flames as it was crushed under the mighty blow.

A hand reached out and grabbed Sally, turning to see a trooper in bronze armor pulling her to a waiting Chimera that seemed to lack tracks, its insides held more disheveled civilians like her in various states of shock and awe. Sally, pushed her way in and opened the top hatch of the Chimera, standing on her toes and a crate inside the tank. Over a small jet engine attached to the top of the APC she could see the backs of the mighty knights with Lionhardt at the front, missiles and rounds flew in all directions, but Lionhardt's jovial laugher rang out over the battle. "We gotta go! closing hatch door!" a voice below yelled inside the APC. The hatch closed automatically and pushed Sally down into the inside of the Chimera. She sat down between a man covered in bandages and a woman that clung to her baby.
"What did you see?" the man stuttered through his wounds.

"...The Emperor's Justice...".



The humanoid Knight Titan, armed with a massive Rocket Hammer is for the most part done construction wise, except perhaps a few tiny bitz like purity seals and stuff.

I know the story was kinda sappy, but I wanted a sort of awestuck kind of thing as a giant Knight defends the people of the Imperium. He is based on Reinhardt from Overwatch so he was going to have a larger than life personality, much like Reinhardt does, even using a few lines he has in Overwatch.



The Hammer actually weighs a good deal (for nothing but plastic), so I am oh so proud that I was able to build the knight that it can actually physically hold up the hammer and himself without things like wires and pins. While sure, pins would help it structurally, I didn't have anything on hand. But either way. Lionhardt stands tall with his mighty rocket hammer.


I think I figured out what the 3rd knight will be the Knight Magaera. The one armed with a Lightning Cannon, Phased Plasma Pusili, Seige Claw and Rad Cleanser.
Due to it being the shorter knight version (like the paladin or Errant) as opposed to the taller ones, it shouldn't be too hard to craft its weapons like the Lightning Cannon or claw. Might make it a Tesla Cannon (thing Red Alert Tesla Weapons, not necron green stuff) and all that. Ill of course need to add armor plate myself as a lot of it was taken for Lionhardt, such as the shoulder pads and leg armor.

Should be too hard. Ill get back when I can.

The RTX-71 Sentry "Knight-Tank" Is getting painted slowly. There are so many small bitz and nooks and cranies to get into that is a paint. That and a lot of my paint isn't cooperating.



Anyways, Ill keep at it. The Lionhardt Knight Gallant will be next after the Sentry.

The street had Kans and Deffdreads from one end to the other. Target Practice.
With small hand motion, Aiden's mighty machine aimed its weapons. A flick of his left hand and the gatling cannon tore through ork machines, filling with them molten lead. A flick of the right and the battlecannon boomed beneath him and a Deffdread was turned inside out.
Aiden continued his assault of the Ork lines, beside him Andy and his Mark 1 Knight blasted another group of xenos into dust with his cannon, only to swing the chainsaw bayonet attached to the Mark 1's weapon into the still flaining body of a Deffdread turned turtle on its back.
"We have another! Come quickly!" The voice of Aiden's fellow knight bellowed over the vox, a very "enthusiastic" pilot named Andiun who took being a Knight very seriously, but more in a "Noble Warrior" sense.
"Knights, move and cover the civilians, crush those greenskins" The calm voice of Arch Magos DeSat downed out the noise of battle only to be followed by the fire filled voice of Lord Commisar Burgo as she ordered the Artillery to flatten the Ork backlines and bottle them in against the Knights and armor.
The tiny figure of an injured woman fled from beneath the feet of Lionhardt's Knight as he bellowed at her to flee to the advancing troops behind Aiden and Andy. "Come my friends! We have Xenos to slay!" Lionhardt's bravado was infectious, even through the vox circuits and armor plate that separated them. Aiden grinned wickedly and unleashed both guns on the approaching xenos, the thunder of guns beneath him made him feel alive like no other. "We got foot sloggers on the left!" Andy voiced "They got Rokkits!"
"ALL MINE!" Aiden heaved his Knight-Tank to the left and let loose his own rockets, watching them come crashing down on the greenskin's heads and turn them into red mist and gore, anything that still moved was ground into paste by the gatling cannon.

"We have all the civilian's we can locate in this sector, move them to the forward base for processing. Knights.... Press the attack, The Omnissiah wills these xenos die.."
The bellowing laugher of Lionhardt followed the orders from command "I LIVE FOR THIS!!" with a mighty swing a Deffdread was flattened and crushed beneath his hammer. Aiden drove his behemoth forward and opened fire once more, all guns blazing.




The RTX-71 Sentry "Knight-Tank" is done.

Across it I have written a few things, but mainly due to not wanting to screw up a giant emblem or something I wrote stuff instead.

On its front shield is "Scientia potentia est per" or "Power through Science". Apparently its really important if things are capitalized in Latin, as it can mean there are words missing or added and thensome.
The left shoulder plate reads "experimentalis bellatorum" or "Experimental Warriors"
Finally the right plate has its designation "RTX-71" with "crucesignatis" on it or "Crusader" due to the fact it plays as a Knight Crusader.



Now to paint the Knight Gallant


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A few hours of putting paint on Lionhardt, and before you say anything, Its not Ultramarines! I only got the Silver, Blue and Gold on at the moment. I'm going to have to find places for the Mechanicus Red, but I already have places in mind for the Bronze.

I got this layer blue to go with the base blue (their names escape me at the moment), not to mention some base gold to go with the Layer gold that I started with (again, GW names are stupid unnecessarily long because I suppose they can't trademark "Blue" or "Gold" and stuff).

So I'm actually pleased with the Base->layer thing. I know its probably how its "supposed" to be done, but I'm not made of money to get every kind of paint needed to paint like an uber pro. I'm painting a plastic "giant" robot, not the mona lisa (no disrespect to the many who are far better than me).



As for the story, I figured at least one would have "continuity" or some such. Except told from different points of few (being which models are finished or closely associated with them in the story).

I want to eventually include a Imperial Fist marine to join my guys (Mostly due to the fact my Marine in Eternal Crusade is an Imperial Fist and I've been wrecking Xenos and Heretics in it.) That and the Waagh! being fought against in the Story has been given a name "Boss Mek DeffDakka" after my Ork from Eternal crusade as well. More story for that later.

Anywho. I got one layer of Gold, Blue and Silver on Lionhardt.

Lionhardt is complete!



I have a big battle coming up, a big siege battle (myself and allies on defense) so I'm prepping for that. Gonna be bringing all my fortifications to hold back the Tyranids, Traitors, Orks and more.



Lionhardt has several things written upon his armored shell. The front right shield on his chest is the big 91 with the left having the number 25 in Roman Numerals (for kicks) with "Eques Fortis" as well meaning "Knight Gallant" in latin (or high gothic)
His name "Lionhardt" is squeezed onto the top chestplate as best I can with a sharpie and a giant hammer handle in the way.


His left pauldron (BECAUSE SHOULDERS ARE VULNERABLE), has "militis apparatus" on it meaning "Machine Soldier" with a little Hammer and Sword crossed beneath it (because emblems).

The Right pauldron has "Imperium iustitia fieri", google translated its "Empire justice will be done" with a little Shield emblem underneath Imperium.

Now to paint that spider tank and a few other things


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Also got a pic with all 3 current Knights.



Lionhardt, RTX-71 Sentry and the Mark 1

Massive Seige Battle!
4 vs 5 with my Ad Mech Tanks, Knight and Skitarii, DeathWatch Marines, Tau (a reasonable threat that is not of concern considering!) and Dark Angels + Knights

Vs Nurgle CSM + Demons with a Knight, Nids, Chaos Knights with Brass Scorpion, Khrone Bezerkers, Orks.



WE have a massive citadel in the middle of the map with armies on either side, their objective was to capture and hold the Aquila Strong point (or the ruin under it later) for a full turn. NEVER HAPPENED HERETICS!



There was a rule for the attackers that let them bring back troops. The Chaos Knight guy decided to pull true and made his Knights Troops (it was agreed that if there was another match, it would be NON-VEHCILE troops to prevent such )





The Mighty Shadowsword "Engine of War" scored 3 Knight kills, and 1 Land Raider kill. My Skitarii held even against the stacked odds. The Brass Scorpion barreled through the fortress and crushed a Bastion and the Aquila Strong point. But The Gladiator Quad tank managed to flank behind it and unleash its arsenal and killed it utterly after it was weakened by countless shots from all sides.



Even with the Brass Scorpion dead, the heretics and xenos kept coming. Kharn the Betrayer himself (or perhaps someone that looked like him) appeared and attempted to kill a large group of DeathWatch marines, my Vanquisher Sasha killed him with an instant death Beast Hunter shell in a single shot. Skitarii on the ground report the shell tearing through his torso before detonating and utterly vaporizing him from existence.

A War boss later disabled the Gladiator but before the War boss could make a few more steps toward the objective before he was killed by another Beast Hunter Shell from "Sasha"



The Hammer Cannon Vanquisher dueled a Great Unclean one and nearly managed to kill it, but it charged through a fortress of redemption bunker it had destroyed before charging the Engine of War. Its blows damaged the mighty Shadowsword but the tank held and fired its cannon one last time, gutting a Knight that tried to approach its objective.

A lone Skitarii that had survived the insanity around him ran to the objective and held it but in the end it was a draw (khorne guys were there, and it was contested)

A great battle that I surprisingly survived and so did my tanks which did epic things.

The Gladiator survived the explosion from the Brass scorpion without a scratch, Sasha killed a WarBoss and Kharne with its Beast Hunter shells, Lionhardt killed a Chaos Knight (even though it disabled him at the same time). My guys did a lot. Tau and Deathwatch held back a lot of stuff too, Tau held by the Nids for the whole match and its Storm surges still did a lot of damage to anything they could see. It was a good battle.






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Ill get to painting or building in the morning. I first gotta get the guys back inside the house. then Ill start back up

The giant toy aircraft carrier has arrived. A giant hunk of nearly 3 foot long plastic with working spring loaded launch ramps, lights, and more.

Its smaller than I remember it, then again, I was a kid when I had it and the original one I had didn't have lights (I don't remember them anyways). Either way, testing (read: just placing objects on top of it) shows that the itty bitty Land Speeder Tempets "Proto Flyer" fits perfectly on the flat top, and I can imagine that a smaller StormTalon could fit as well, if a bit snugly on the flight deck.

Thankfully, GW had the foresight (I think) to have practically every single aircraft in the Imperial Navy (if all of 40k) have VTOL capabilities (except maybe Orks, but you never know with orks...)

The list of additions to turn this childs toy into a giant weapons of destruction in the Omnissiah's name is extensive including but not limited too.

1. Large sets of tracks for it to run on. I mean like Crawler/super sized tank treads.



2. armor plate (duh)

3. Heavy defensive armament. Plenty of Quad lascannons, AA Missile launchers, Vertical Launch tubes (using the Preator missile stats, only a lot more shots), perhaps even quake cannon turrets. Maybe could build the equivalent of the CWIS... Like a super long range punisher cannon with higher ST and a Ork waaaghs worth of shots to shred aircraft.

4. slightly enlarge the flight deck. The toy currently has little edges on the tarmack that is supposed to be the gantry the crews run around on, expecially on the foredeck where they launch the aircraft.



The flight deck could be slightly extended from these points, if only to accommodate the far larger imperial aircraft. I think the obvious limit in terms of aircraft size would be Valkyries who woulc have to sit sideways on the port side of the flight deck. The whole of the Starboard will be other things.

5. New Conning Tower, built more like a Bastion that anything, lots of heavy dakka all over it and then some.

6. Build its rules. (fun....)

It will be done, for the Omnissiah!

Picture for scale.




its preety big compared to a little Leman Russ tank, or even Baneblades.

I got a shipment of bitz that includes parts of a SM command squad and two Land Speeders. Ill work the Speeders into Tempests for the Land Carrier and the SM parts will be built into a close-as-I-can-get version of my character from Eternal Crusade.



An Imperial fist marine who has been toping the charts more often than not (at the very least, I believe my average is 4th, of course there are bad days/matchs but what are you gonna do?). Not sure what Ill arm him with, but I want to give him his own rules and such for fun.

I'm drawing up plans for the chassis of the Land Carrier. Due to its hull shape its gonna be impossible to just sit down and glue stuff on, that and I don't believe the plastic the ship itself is made of will work with the plasticard or plastic from GW parts (I think its got something to do with the chemical formulation of the plastics). I'm gonna try an experiment where Ill drill a hole into a sheet of plasticard and into the ship itself (creating a "foundation" of sorts). The plasticard would be screwed into place on the ship with other plasticard bitz and GW bits glued to the plasticard foundation.






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An hour or two of work. 90% of that used looking for bitz and getting distracted by the TV I put on.

When I ordered the Space Marine bitz, I had forgotten that all the legs in the bitz site were out of stock, so sheepishly I scoured my bitz to try and find some Space Marine legs.... The only two I could find have more parchement on them than a priest who couldn't correct the mistakes made by his ink quill. I searched through my brothers stuff as well, he used to run Dark Angels (now runs chaos, hes gone through a ton of different armies) and he still has a bunch of sprues of Dark Angels/SM stuff, including arms and weapons... But no legs (uggh!) The only legs I found were from a Tactical Dreadnought armor (Terminator) which of course doesn't fit a standard space marine at all. Ill have to spend the extra $ to get a single box of normal SM from GW (aka at the hobbystore down the street) just for some legs!

But the Land Speeders had all the parts I need. I glued them together enough to get the basic chassis. Now I just need to modify them with an assault cannon and missiles to get them into Tempests.




But in my digging I found a Termiantor body with no head or arms and I cannot recall where it came from. I wanted to build a character of some sort so I bolted in a Vanguard Skitarii head and a lot of guns onto the armored suit.
I call him Beta-213-Neit. A giant Skitarii in a heavily armored body with more than enough weapons and armor to protect his charge (my main characters) from anything the galaxy might try to throw at them.



He is armed with an Assault cannon, Power Sword, Autoloading Missile launcher and Melta gun to practically anything that he could face. I would give him a profile, but not at 1am in the morning.

Ill also go get a box of legs at some point.

Currently in England for Christmas, planning on going to Warhammer World on Tuesday After Christmas, aka "Mecca" as I and several others I know refer to it as if your a 40k player/fan.

NOt sure what I'm gonna get while I'm there. Hoping to find something cool! Will take a lot of pictures of all the cool stuff.

After I get back to the States, I have to move to Orlando for going to Valencia then UCF. After I get settled and move over 90 plus plastic tanks, countless infantry, Super Weapons, and a massive set of fortifications to my new place Ill resume construction on projects. Ill try to draw up further construction plans for the Land Carrier. I want to name it the Habakkuk, after the crazy British project to build a massive aircraft carrier from Ice. Obviously, this massive machine is not made of Ice. But I like the references.



Ill get back after settling down and whatnot. Perhaps with blueprints or plans scribbled on paper.

I got a bunch of 40k related stuff from Christmas and on the trip in England after visiting Warhammer World.

First off, why on earth do they leave the door open!? the game hall is freakin cold! But beyond that it was a lot of fun. lots of new stuff since I was there last (like 2 and 1/2 years ago) and all that.

I got an exclusive Knight head and the SM Command Tanks (also exclusive) while I was there as well as 3 boxes of Skitarii. Also the Imperial Armor book for Space Marine war machines for Christmas too.

On top of it all is a little 3d printer (it is smaller than I thought It would be). either way, its a neat little device and I'm already testing it. I printed out a little tank turret (that is a bit too small on a 40k tank, but might work on a Chimera, either way). its a bit bendy but I think it might have to do with the settings I used.

I'm gonna have to keep testing to get the balance between time and quality.
I know that the printer won't be making a tank exactly like the injection molded plastic of the GW (or other kit) models.
But I should be able to use it to supplement projects such as extra parts or weapons.


As I type my second test (a Tiger tank hull) is projected to take like 9+ hours to finish (full time, not as of now). I might end up sticking to smaller single parts / units as opposed to larger things like Tank hulls. Heck that test turret was like 4 hours as is.
anyways. I have to arrange to move to Orlando and a bunch of other stuff. projects are slowed at the moment. Ill keep testing the 3d printer as I can just turn it on, give it a project and let it go all day by itself (long as It doesn't run out of material or something.)

I have acquired a truly massive machine. A 1/72 P-1000 Ratte model. A gigantic tank.



The behemoth is longer than 2 baneblades end to end, is only slightly thinner than a Baneblade is long, and its taller than a Baneblade with its turret in place.


I intend to build a massive battleship tank, a big brother to a Baneblade and a massive Titan on treads. Lots of Dakka is planned. main turret Mori Quake cannons, a giant hullmounted gun, coaxial Vulcan mega bolter, and many, many more secondary and tertiary guns.
Foes of the Omnissiah will be crushed under its massive treads, even the mighty Titans will have a God machine to challenge them.


I hope to start on the monster suspension this weekend. I will need to scavenge all the extra dakka, but I cannot wait until this behemoth is done. Even if it never gets into battle (i doubt there will be many who would dare fight such a monster without using alot of or Titans of their own)

The P-1000 suspension is underway. The instructions on the 1/72 P-1000 isn't actually that complex. But the pieces are numerous and require a lot of assembly.




The pic only has half of them on there, but the other side is almost done. I am still surprised how cheap the monster is, especially given its size. It was less than a GW baneblade even after tax and shipping yet it utterly dwarfs a Baneblade.

If this works out, Ill try to save up and get another one and use its hull for the Land Carrier.

Quick update. The suspension is in and now I must assemble the tracks of the mighty tank/Landship.

The plastic bag contains all of the individual track links. To protect my fractured sanity, I'll only do half of the tracks (the bottom of it, and a little up the sprocket wheels and the idler wheels. ) I hope to be adding vast amounts of dakka soon.


Tanks for the Tank God, Armor for the Armored Throne!

Giant Titan sized tank continues.

The tracks are on, but they are made of a different plastic so they don't cooperate with my plastic glue (its not GW glue, I couldn't remember the brand if I tried, its a red tube). So I need to get some super glue to attach the tracks to the suspension.

The turret and main guns are in. The crazy part about the kit is while the instructions and picture show two guns in the turret, the kit comes with 4! Not to mention other duplicate parts.




The main guns the model has don't feel like the barrel diameter wasn't wide enough, so I want to add plastic pipes one inside the other for a larger bore. They are not glued on until I get the other pipes. Gonna be a ton of dakka all over the tank when done.

The P-1000 continues slowly.



Tracks are glued on properly with super glue, main cannons are built, and rear turrets are ready (still need hatches, copulas and stuff).

Trying to craft a giant bow cannon for the hull along with sponsons with plenty of dakka. I am hoping to find room for a Vertical Launch system. I might cover over 4 of the rear engine vents to get the space for the launch tube hatchs.



All the Skitarii and Space Marine for scale.

Vertical Missile System in progress.



The Missile in the tube is from a kit that displays a series of Cold War missiles of different sizes, including the Titan 2, SS-18, Peacekeeper and more, even down to tiny (compared to the others) Tomahawk (a missile the length of a car..),
Which missile it is specifically Im not sure. Its either a Polaris A-3 missile or a Poseidon Missile. Minus a small peg it would sit on in the display the kit comes with, the missile is unaltered, so its a short-stocky missile (best guess it would be used on a Submarine due to its compact nature, so I guess its fitting...)

The real design of most VLS is to divert the exhaust into a seperate tube or something. But an idea came to me that it would just feel 40k to divert the VLS missile exhaust into the large exhaust of the main tank so its huge pipes erupt flames when a missile is fired. Im hoping to find a way to simulate this effect. If not, the current visible missile is simply raised into a firing position, so I don't have to tear it off and fiddle with the hatch.

 kestral wrote:
I always love to see good tank conversions - and I've always wanted to do a tracked carrier like the one described in Double Eagle.


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Hats off to you!

The model of the P-1000 is surprisingly cheap for its massive size. I got it for about $110 with tax and shipping (your results may vary, but from googling they generally hover around the $100 mark). A single model by itself would be able to hold smaller craft such as Land Speeder Tempests in the same manner a proper carrier could (having some of them stored internally or even on deck.)

A larger craft such as a Thunderbolt, Lightning or Valkyrie, can fit. but will be really snug and maybe get 1 or two on board unless a large flight deck is built, even then the larger size would be awkward.

A truly mad idea would be to have 4 of these kits and their hulls welded together to give enough space for a gigantic flight deck to support the larger Aircraft. Considering though that 4 of these monsters are cheaper than even a single Warhound titan (plus, weapons,shipping, etc).
Oh boy....


If you decide to build a Massive Land Carrier, Good Luck! I hope to do so at some point should time and funds allow.

The giant continues. Kinda.



I got out the photo box? booth? whatever its called and got another size comparison with the P-1000 mostly assembled. Still crazy it dwarfs Baneblades with ease yet is cheaper than them $ wise.
A bit of ADD hit me and a never-built CHar 2C and Galvanic ServoHaulers looked like they would fit together. So I thought, Why not a big Repair/Recovery/Crane Tank to follow around the really big tank?

The front 75mm main turret on the Char 2C is a bit too small for the Crane to fit into, but some tinkering might get it to work. I want it to turn and spin, so I might need to modify the base of the crane to make a flat turret ring or something.



The Char 2C would probably have a few defensive guns, Such as the rear turret being fitted with an auto cannon, not to mention other guns like the hull machine guns being changed to bolters or something. Will need plenty of Tech priests to man the Char.

P-1000 Continues, after having to deal with class work and stuff.



Added a few pipes and pieces to the rear of the tank. Hoping to get some big exhausts on the rear or have a series of vents on the rear and out of the way of the turrets.

Frontally a Volcano Cannon has been mounted in the bow of the tank. I wanted a Plasma Annihilator, but I got lazy and used a smoke stack from another model (its name escapes me). The smoke stack is perfect for a large bore energy weapon. Plenty of vents and things to look the part.





I am considering a big pair of sponsons with multiple weapons inside and turrets on top. Autocannons, heavy Bolters, battlecannons and the like. Possibly even Earthshakers facing fowards.


IM hoping to get a second one of these monsters for my birthday in September. Adding a flight deck and conning tower to build a Land Carrier, able to launch smaller craft like Tempests. Assembling the hull itself is just annoying with the sheer number of parts in the suspension system, not to mention the tracks. But a giant Land Carrier would be glorious.

Giant sponsons for a giant tank.




Repurposed Earthshaker cannon for frontal attacks. The range is lowered if only as the Earthshakers cannot angle upwards enough.
Beyond that, Twin Lascannons and Im not sure what Ill have on the rear of the sponson. But I know on top I want short, squat battle cannons turrets (so the main turret doesn't hit them) and a Heavy bolter turret or two somewhere.