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As the title suggests, this is my Devil Dog built from scratch (started off with the top and bottom hull of a Chimera).
All built from plasticard and tube, and a turret stolen from my housemates Baneblade (it has 3 more, he won't notice).
I really enjoyed doing the riveting on this one and painting up the burnt vents and exhausts.

Some of the pictures look a bit blurry, which I apologise for.

Better lighting would do your work service but it's nifty. Though... why is there a Catachan fighter driving a Cadian vehicle?

TheCustomLime wrote:
Better lighting would do your work service but it's nifty. Though... why is there a Catachan fighter driving a Cadian vehicle?

I need to get some lamps sorted out. Any advice on the best type of bulbs to use?

And I have a squad of Catachans as veterans in my army (an excuse to scratch build a Harker and to field 2 heavy and 3 special weapons in a squad), and the main role of this will be some armour hunting support for them.

Rivets, rivets everywhere.

 Mr Nobody wrote:
Rivets, rivets everywhere.

You can never have too many rivets! There's something about the irony of early tanks and the dangers of flying rivets inside the tank, whilst supposedly protecting from all hell outside!

I know I'll likely be branded a heretic and believe me, I never thought I'd say this about a 40k model, but... too many rivets.

Gasp!

I'm joking. Joking! Before y'all break out the power pitchforks and heretic-fueled torches, allow me to suggest that it may instead be the form of the rivets, not the actual number, that I think looks off. The size and height of the flat-topped protrusions, in scale, look more like a series of carefully aligned hockey pucks glued to the hull than the dome- or pan-head rivets one might expect. It looks more... studded, perhaps, than riveted. Rivets can get huge, of course, as they scale to the structure, but even those with heads the size of your fist tend to sit closer to the surface. To bring in a real-world example:



Comparing one of those panels to your dozer blade and frame, the spacing and relative size are both pretty close. With the rounded, lower profile heads, though, the appearance is far more subtle and uniform.

The locations and density of your rivets are largely justifiable, if one assumes every join is made by riveting the abutting plates to internal angle iron (plasteel... whatever). The only potential exception I see is the driver's hatch cover, which appears to be mounted on a hinge, then riveted shut - then again, even that seems oddly appropriate for an Imperial vehicle. It's really just the height (and shape, to a slightly lesser extent) that irks me.

To change topics:

ryanroberts wrote:I need to get some lamps sorted out. Any advice on the best type of bulbs to use?

Daylight, preferably somewhat diffused, is the gold standard for photography. When that's not an option, full-spectrum/daylight bulbs are as close as it gets and, luckily, are pretty widely available and reasonably priced. I (and many others) prefer them for painting, as well, although some like to paint using the same light that they play under (most shops have fluorescent lighting, while most homes use incandescent bulbs), to guarantee that the models will always look the same.

Great build, very nice effect and I do like the rivets a lot!

Catachan manning Cadian tank? Lol!

Great work, mate! Love the weathering.

Well that model is certainly....


Riveting.


*ahem* good miniature all round, I love scratch build tanks! Paintjob is sound too.

RIVETS!!!

I like it, it really looks like some guardsmen and a creative tech priest ("heresy!") converted it from a chimera.