I've just finished rescuing an old shape chimera that had seen better days. It was bought from ebay for a few ££ and was badly put together, the turret and gunner was glued solid, flash and mold lines everywhere, it had horrible gloopy paint, glue melts, a few bits missing, plastic showing and was in a generally sorry state.
What it DID have though, was a really good price and room to convert without worrying about messing the model up, hurrah \0/
This is a before shot
Pretty rough...
Anyway, I decided the glued-up turret had to go, so I ordered a few turrets and bits from Old Crow Miniatures, they do some really good stuff, and I also bought a 1/35 vehicle stowage set really cheap.
I already had a few scale metal gun barrels I had ordered in previously, so I decided to use one of these to make an autocannon variant chimera. The gatling gun in the hull is a 'counts as' heavy bolter.
Colours are to match the rest of my regiment in progress, and I wanted a worn and slightly dusty desert look.
Finished it today, I'm sure you will agree its a huge improvement, apologies for my poor quality camera shots (as always), but I hope you like.