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A Tank, a heavy one, 40k-fied and thus mostly resin but partially plastic.

Its not spraygunned, or nicely painted in a camo scheme. This time, its drybrushed.
So, grey as it is ( and may stay ), decals were added and IMO this vehicle is ready.
Some of the weapons are my own doing, some are provided in the kit and thus maybe different to their GW counterparts.
Sponsons weapons are old Leman russ heavy bolters, crewman and details from accessory sprues.

The Tank upfront without a turret-weapon:


All sides and rear of it:




Following the trend of magnetizing, it has several options:

some sort of Demolisher:


twinlinked autocannons:


a Vanquisher style long barreled main gun and a coax autocannon:


a VMB borrowed from a Stormlord kit:


either a nova-cannon or a hellhammer type cannon:


Sadly screwed the pic of the plasma-cannon, which is nearly similar to the GW design but a bit smaller.

I know there is no "real" weathering
but I am curious if the drybrushing in a darker than the basic color works for you.

( basic = codex grey, brushed = granite grey ).

I think it looks good to rock it all depends on the army it goes with. The only thing I would add for "realism" is some rust in certain spots and then maybe some exhaust fume grime at smoke stacks and such. Also around some of the doors/hatches I would do a black wash in order to make them pop a bit more.

I think it looks great!

like it, I would add a little chipped paint and some washes as MadMaverick76 suggested, but it also looks great as it is

The pics suffer a bit from lack of daylight but I did care for the muzzles/exausts...
had to admit its rather in a "rolled out of the camp after technical service" state, so it is not that dirty/rusty as people may expect.
Generally none of the vehicles I painted ever got any Theatre of war related effects ( mud, dust, ...) and I am not convinced to make that link to 1 campaign.

Seems there is much love for the "in the field look" and washes.

The structured surface of resin made drybrushing an option, which may not work as well with flat plastic surfaces.
I take it this worked well, so I can now try out the suggestions made.

Thanks.

I agree with my fellow madmen above, some extra weathering will make it even better. You can also use some graphite (a soft pencil) on the edges of some plates and edges, that gives a brilliant metallic finish.

I LOVE the different weapon options, the best looking imo are the long barreled cannon and the stubby hellhammer thingy.

Where's the original tank from, that thing looks ace!

Meph wrote:

Where's the original tank from, that thing looks ace!

Review. http://www.brueckenkopf-online.com/?p=3679\%22
Made by: http://www.heavy-support.com/

A small company. As a fan-made template, it isn't so easy to build and sadly mine missed a few parts...

Agreed. Looks good, and will look even better with some weathering.

i love the numbering on iy. where did you get the decals for that?

Black Bear wrote:i love the numbering on iy. where did you get the decals for that?

N° at turret : baneblade/shadowsword decalsheet.
Other decals from IG tank decal sheet (actual one and its tank specific predeccessor ).

Nothing wrong with that tank or the technique chosen. Great work! Drybrushing your vehicles automatically gives it a weathered look with minimal effort. This is how I will eventually do all of my IG tanks. Again, great work

1hadhq wrote:

Black Bear wrote:i love the numbering on iy. where did you get the decals for that?

N° at turret : baneblade/shadowsword decalsheet.
Other decals from IG tank decal sheet (actual one and its tank specific predeccessor ).

ah thanks