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Can't believe I have not seen this before! Great work on everything, like the maple leaf on the marines BTW

neil101 wrote:like the colour scheme of your army, i might get hold of them colours khemri and the other one! are they foundation paints?
and that SM on a horse ...lol that is funny, it must have a strong back!

Well it's clearly bionic! Both of the colours are foundation paints. Kemri and the Granite.

I bought some "Realistic Water" from Woodland Scenics. I'm hoping this works out. I looked around for some Valejo stuff but couldn't find it and didn't want to order online (I'm impatient now that I'm almost done!).

Here's two more pieces of board done. This is how I painted up the exposed rock bits. In my mind they look like foundations of buildings that are being reclaimed by the land. It will look nifty when GW ruined buildings are placed around them.




I ran out of grass so the last boards will have to wait until I buy more flock from GW.

Well the water effects is drying in the skull ponds as we speak. Man that stuff is a pain to work with.

In the mean-time I've had the urge to build something out of plasticard (I may have also ordered a couple of nifty things for a secret project to work on over Christmas). Anyway the Macharius is a crazy cool looking tank in my opinion and although the use of it will be infrequent, I just had to try to build one.




I'm also a little dizzy from all of the plastic glue. I picked up some Tamiya plastic cement and it is quite volatile.

Anyway pick of one side of the tank for scale and without rivets.

Edit:
I finished one side of tracks. I still have to add a sponson and add some putty to the half round 'thing' on the front-side of IG tanks to round it off.





Next up is the other side and I am going to try out 'bondo' to crack fill the sponson. I will just have to be careful with the vapour and sanding dust.

Now that is impressive. Wow.

That's... wow! Words fail me. Are you using a template for the Macharius, or are you making it up yourself? Either way it's damn impressive!

I'm trying to start making some tanks myself, but keep failing to get anything done on them.

nice scratch building skills, looking really good. cant wait to see how you get the hull sorted

thats looking really good!

Awesome skills mate! It's looking really good, can't wait till it's all done. Is this built on a template?

Sweet work with the ballistic mask! What did you use for the gorget on the armor?

Not to be behind on this but I love that you used a Kroot shoulder pad for the neck armour on one of your Sergeants.

The gorgets are all made with Kroot shoulder pads. I made every sergeant in the army have one. It really helps to make them stand out from the rank and file.

The ballistic mask is a shaved down necron head glued to a cadian head (also shaved down).

The macharius is from a template from an Eli Patrioch (I think that is the correct spelling). He has a lot of helpful templates.

After inhaling too much glue (they do say well ventilated for a reason) my head hurts and my nose burns. The big problem is that the sides needed too much glue to attach well to the main hull. I've started glueing under the rangehood on the stove so that should help a bit.

So all warnings aside here is the current progress:




You can see that I've completed both track sides (technical term anyone?) and attached them to the main hull. I am holding off on the main detailing of the hull until I crack fill all of those glaring holes at a later date. Right now I was just trying to crack out the polygons. They seem to take the most time actually and I've come to the conclusion that I prefer the small details instead of the big shapes; those are somehow actually more tedious. Next up will be finishing off the rear end of the hull with the overhanging turret mount that hangs over the rear tracks.

I also have to do some surgery to scavenge track bits from further back on the tank. I had thought they would be covered by the hull more near the front but now they're just out in the open and I will have to swap them for some of the ones that will be covered later.

Spent some more time on this (a few hours a day) and finally felt an update was in order. I tried out bondo on the cracks. I won't be doing that again. It actually works really well and fast but it's -10C outside here and I'm terrified of using it indoors after reading the warning label. Any spots on the model that require a second lift will be done in GS once my order arrives.

I have yet to fill in the hull mounted gaps around the heavy stubbers but I did adjust the armour plating. Once I get some GS I will finish off the driver's hull area and the stubber.

The engine mount is currently drying before I attach it but the rest of the hull should be fairly near complete. Just a few odds and ends to put on it.

I've finished the hull of the Macharius and willl begin on the turret shortly. I'm going to try to get it all done before my next project arrives in the mail.

Maybe over Christmas I should finish the 20 man IG squad staring at me. . . The inlaws seem so judging of my toys though. . .

Anyway pictures!

The whole hull:


Finished stubber hull mount and drivers area:


Rear view:


Engine compartment hunderside:


I took some creative liberties with the engine so that I could use a couple of bits I had lying around. There's only one main exhaust stack but I think it looks quite fitting and not orky at all for an ork weapon.

No that looks completely fine. Given a proper paintjob, I am sure you will get away with it. What are those two little pieces of grey plastic on top of the engine cover meant to represent?

I would suggest using the Dakka gallery rather than photobucket or Imageshack,a s alot of workplaces filter. I cant see you pics.

THe smoke stack looks good. As does the engine housing. That turret looks awesome, and those treads look great. How long did they take? THe whole thing is pretty awesome, frankly. But why aren't there any rivets on the underside? ;P

Amazing build! Those are the best scratch built tank tracks/tread I have ever seen. Where did you get your materials?

AG09 The grey bits are air intake ports or or something I suppose

wolfshadow I post my stuff on a couple of other forums and I am unfamiliar with Dakka's hosting and if they allow linking from outside sources.

The Good Green The treads were the quickest and easiest part. The real model didn't appear to have much in the way of rivets on the underside so I did not put them on.

Depraved The tracks are evergreen styrene (as is all of it). It is stocked by a local train store here but you can order it online if you google 'Evergreen Styrene'. I used 'C channels' I believe (part 267) and some tubing and rivet pieces I cut out with a leather punch. Hope that helps.

Thats some big Ass rivits!!

Looking good!

Thanks, I ordered some similar materials from hobbylinc.com. I cant wait to see this thing done, looking great.

I took an evening to paint for the first time in a month or two I think - after playing 2 games this week.

I must say that the psyker battle squad is so awesome of a unit and idea. A unit that can truely alter the leadership of enemy units effectively and at range. Maybe something like that exists but I have yet to see it from another codex. I've used this unit in the last handful of games I've played and I have yet to be disapointed. They do not so much make back their points but they save my other units from so many charges and shots. I realize they can shoot a blast but I always save the squad until last to fire and their moral ability is just so much more effective than a few kills. Again, I love this unit for the tactical variation it introduces to 40k.

Anyway I thought I should finally give them a nice ride.


Chimera assigned to <Classified> Psyker Battle Squad

The rest of the vehicles in the army will still end up beige but the psyker's chimera should stand out especially with the innate fear of psychic abilities in the Imperium.

I tried out some blending on the windows. For a first attempt I think it worked and I will definately be trying it out on lenses in the future.

Wow, great paint job! The windows look good, especially for a first attempt. The forward facing one on the infantry compartment, just under the turret on the left hand side, is a nice touch.

How are things coming with the Macharius?

one of the best modeled an painted imperial guard armies I've seen

AG09 It's coming. I took a painting break and an attempt to strip some devastators break. The turret is modelled now. I just have to get some greenstuff on it before detailing. I also primed the base which really ties it all together.

Vulkan_He'stan Wow that is quite the compliment. I don't think I'm anywhere near the best painter or the best modeller but I do try my best to do justice to the models before they hit the table. Thanks again.

TheAmbit wrote:AG09 It's coming. I took a painting break and an attempt to strip some devastators break. The turret is modelled now. I just have to get some greenstuff on it before detailing. I also primed the base which really ties it all together.

Awesome news. Any WIP pix of it atm? Kinda keen to see the underlying shape and proportions is all.

As requested, here is the updated turret.

looking great!

Looking great, Im watching this one till the finish....