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Stalwart Space Marine





To compliment my home-brew Space marine chapter ” Galactic Knights”, I want to do an imperial guard unit of the Germania system too.

The system consists of three habitable planets and one Death world. The planets are called Ruhr, Germania Prima, Germania Secunda and New Berlin. Ruhr is a forge world, Germania Prima is a death world, Germania Secunda is a agri world and New Berlin is a hive world. Further out from the systems sun are two Gas giants near the Mandeville point. The System was once colonised by the Galactic Knights chapter after destroying an Ork force on Germania Prima. The dialect spoken in the system is German. Of course High Gothic is the language of the Administratum of the System according to Imperial law. The Regiment was raised on Germania Secunda a long time ago.

The vehicles and the equipment of the Soldiers is manufactured locally on the forge world Ruhr. Therefore it differs from the equipment of other worlds imperial guard units quite a lot . The infantry uses different helmets and body armor. The vehicles are build to the so called “Ruhr pattern”. The Ziege ( german for Chimera) is the Ruhr pattern Chimera vehicle.

I used a real world vehicle of the German Bundeswehr as template for the “Ziege”. The vehicle is called Boxer.



The armored transport vehicle, short GTK Boxer is a wheeled armored vehicle. The special feature of the GTK Boxer is the construction of an eight-wheel drive module on which an exchangeable mission module is mounted.


I will build the model with extruded polystyrene and resin parts. I will make a mold for casting the vehicle in Resin later. There will be different mission modules so I can do a stand in for a Basilisk, Hellhound, etc from the same vehicle. I will magnetise the vehicle to make an exchange of modules possible. The main difference will be that it is 6 wheeled instead of the eight wheels of the real world Boxer.

So enough words here is the build of the prototype :

The basic shape. All parts are from extruded polystyrene .



Testing the wheel arrangement:



Adding details like hatches, engine room air-condition etc.:



The finished prototype with rivets etc.



The first cast of the undercarriage:



Many more pictures of the build on https://wargamesgazette.com/2018/07/02/the-atv-ziege-chimera-of-the-1st-germania-imperial-guard-regiment/

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Somewhere near Hamburg

Nice and all but the correct translation for "Ziege" is "Goat"

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United States

Very nicely done! I can sense a Kickstarter campaign for this vehicle- if you were of a mind to. Great little multi-purpose platform.

The US Army had a six wheeled, articulated transport vehicle named the Gamma Goat for a couple of decades- goats are adaptable, tough and can run on any fuel over any terrain!

I look forward to seeing more!

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Thanks for the comments ! Yes Goat is english for Ziege but Chimera is the classic greek for Goat.
As the vehicle in the APC configuration will be run as a Chimera APC, ruleswise, I just wrote Ziege = Chimera , my bad!

There will be more pictures as soon as I made the other moulds.

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Here are the first casts of the Ziege armored vehicle with APC module. This vehicle will be used as a Chimera in Warhammer 40k games.

The driver and commander compartment:



The turret



And the APC module. This can be exchanged against a command module, a medic module, a fire support module,
an artillery module and a anti aircraft module. These modules will be build later .



This is how it looks dry fitted . The parts aren’t sanded or anything! The hatch in the back of the vehicle is missing!



Many more pictures here: https://wargamesgazette.com/2018/07/09/the-first-casts-of-my-ziege-with-apc-module/

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United States

Nice, clean casts- and an excellent dry fit! Very ambitious (and highly workable) plan to make the payload modular and interchangeable. Keep the updates coming!

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thank you

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Only paint missing





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england

That's pretty darn good
   
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Thank you!

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Hyderabad, India

Very impressive project. But the final tank looks a bit unfinished to me, maybe a cow catcher/dozer blade on the front or armored skirts on the side?


 
   
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Kid Kyoto, yes that would be a nice touch indeed haven't thought of it. Will have a look if I have a GW dozer blade lying around.

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Here is the painted APC







next will be the Bär. A vehicle with the same undercarriage but a howitzer on top like the basilisk.

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Penticton BC Canada

Wow, that is fantastic! Looks like a Unimog !!!!

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As you can see above I scratch build the “Ziege” APC for my imperial guard army. As this vehicle is build to be modular I can use the running gear to accommodate other payloads. The next payload is a self propelled howitzer module. It is called “Bär” (bear) in this configuration. It will be used as a stand in for a Basilisk in Warhammer40K games.



Many more pictures of the new payload and the build process on: https://wargamesgazette.com/2018/09/25/the-bar-self-propelled-howitzer/

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China

I am really digging the APC!

If my Cavalry company were to have APC I can picture this aesthetic working really well

   
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Thanks Minigiant

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United Kingdom

Awesome project. Love the alternative chimera. Good to see you’ve broken the mould and used your own Forgeworld.

Can’t wait to see more.

   
 
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