Blade or cutter on Baneblade?

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**Mad_Max**

I'm in the final stages of my scratchbuilt baneblade and naturally begins to think "what more can i do with it?" besides large amount of kit the obvious answer is some sort of front attachment, either cutter or blade (i have looked at other designs to, but i find neither mine rollers or flails interesting)

the cutter would be made from the 4 pronged tank trap from the Barricades spruce and the dozer blade would be a much bigger copy of the dozerblade from the new guard vehicle accessory spruce

My army is themed on urban/ash-waste war and is painted in codex grey, chaos black and shadow grey.

what do people think?

(if you dont know what a cutter is follow this link http://www.robertsarmory.com/hedge.htm)

**Symbio Joe**

I've never seen much plants in urban ash wastes... "Bring in the dozer !"

**Rygoth**

I vote for dozer as well.

**SirNotInThisFilm**

I gotta say cutter, it just makes the tank look meaner.

**tinfoil**

I'd kind of lean toward cutter too. A dozer blade might make more logical sense, but a baneblade-scale dozer blade seems likely to look kind of silly, and to obscure the menace of the tank itself.

**MattBaby**

Tentacles.

What could be cooler than a Chaos-infested Baneblade?

**Bogulous**

somehow i dont think hedges are much of a problem with baneblades. dozerblade all the way...

**nyarlathotep667**

On one hand, I'd say the cutter would indeed look good (historically, they were also used to knock down walls in addition to busting through bocage, which was basically old stone wals overgrown with thick, dense shrubs). But with the ash wastes bit, bulldozer blade all the way. You could even use something like the DML/Dragon kit of the track width mine plow. Either way, if done right, it will look most excellent. Look at historical examples for inspiration, bulldozers and bulldozer attachments have seen combat use in just about every major armed conflict (and a whole lot of smaller urban ones) from WW1 and on.

**Bloodsbane**

I vote for tentacles too. Or dozer blade. Either way, I'm looking forward to see the result

**malfred**

Whichever one you choose, I want to see crushed or sliced
bodies at the business end of it.

**chris_valera**

My vote is for a dozer blade, but in a wedge like the cutter. Looks mean.

--Chris

www.chrisvalera.com

**Construct**

Posted By chris_valera on 02/26/2006 8:05 PM
My vote is for a dozer blade, but in a wedge like the cutter.

Do you mean a solid cow-catcher, like this?

Mad_Max: The 'battering ram' always looked odd to me; now I know why.

**xenite**

With a nick like 'mad max' you even need to ask?

Get some cyclone fence wrapped in razorwire mounted on the front of your BB. Then weld on some steel posts that you have some bairly alive troopers from one of your opponants armies tied to.

Whatever you do (like there is any choice after reading my excellent post) please put some pics up.

**Mad_Max**

Thanks to the inputs both here and on warseer i have decided on the following, no attachment on Baneblade, massive dozerblade on Stormsword(together with recovery equipment for a combined AEV-ARV)

Thanks to everyone for the input!