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Or something resembling a Landraider Achilles?.....or even a landraider alpha pattern Achilles? Would really like to see how someone handled this if its been done before. I ask cause I got a busted Thunderfire cannon, bits, a landraider crusader coming in a couple weeks that I got on clearance, some monies for styrene, and most importantly time on my hands. My skills are very raw, but I also wouldn't mind trying to do something different to it. Like making the cannon look more unique.

Best option I've seen is ChapterHouse's Heresy-Era Iconoclast Conversion Kit. Has an Achilles-Alpha look to it.

This is pretty cool, may have to pick this up. Anyone else have a suggestion, link, or comment to add? Thanks!

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I built a Land Raider Ares conversion using a Land Raider Crusader and parts of a Vindicator. Unlike most people I left off the dozer blade (I thought it looked silly on a Land Raider). You can easily adapt this to make an Achilles by swapping out the Demolisher Cannon with bits from the Knight Warden's Avenger Gatling Cannon or make your own from styrene rods.

I don't have a pic of mine so here's a shot of another so you can see what I'm talking about. A little styrene on the tracks is all you really need that you can't get from the kits.

This is pretty cool, may have to pick this up. Anyone else have a suggestion, link, or comment to add? Thanks!

Well to me what makes the Achilles distinctive is the front hull, particularly the extended track guards and the lack of assault ramp. I'm not sure if there's a quick fix for those, it seems like something that would require some cardstock and work.

Getting rid of the assault ramp is easy. Here are a couple of pics of my Ares. You'll notice how tightly things fit together. The front ramp is "replaced" by spinning the plastic ramp bit around to make it a solid piece instead of a ramp.

All you need to do for it to be an Achilles is to replace the Demolisher Cannon and put some plastic card on the front of the tracks. Alternatively you can put the Crusader's assault grenade launchers on the tracks and convert them to be track guards instead.

This is great, thanks! I'm gonna start ordering styrene since my local hobbystore closed down. Guess I'll begin with 1mm, 2mm, 3mm sheets. Brass rods for the cannon.....any suggestions for the rivets?

Easiest rivets is getting polystyrene rod of the thickness you desire and cut slices for your rivets. If your rivets are really tiny, use the smallest bit of green stuff you can make and place it where you want the rivet to be.

Some people actually glue the rod onto the vehicle and then clip it off...leaving the "rivet" in place.

There are also people who use small beads in lightly-drilled recesses to do rivets.

For large rivets I use the heads of brass tacks, since they're rounded and drill slightly into the mini to set it flush. I like the technique because with it being anchored in the mini it's less likely to snap off.

Of course it only works for large rivets since there's no way to find tacks small enough to do say rivets on infantry armor.