What is the nameplate on the Landraiders ass for?

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**=Angel=**

On the lower left of the Landraider's exhaust armour, there's a little plate held on by two rivets.

It seems like the kind of nameplate you might see on a spacemarine sergeant or officer's pauldron.

Whose name though? Seems like a weird place to put the Landraider's name or the name of its officer. Might be the engineer who oversaw the engines construction/maintenance?
This is keeping me from getting work done

**Voss**

It might specifically be for the name of the _engine's_ machine spirit. [Or what we'd call a model number, for easy reference to its service schedule].
If you're just working on the engine, you don't want to wander around the entire vehicle looking for the designation.

**kirotheavenger**

It's for the machine spirit's [ex-]boyfriend.
Landraiders have class.

**Rob Lee**

So that you know who you've just been run over by.

**Nurglitch**

Imperial Bumper Stickers.

**The_Grim_Angel**

I don't think nobody in the Games Workshop never thought about that.
Anyway, due to its position, which is easily readable, it could be its serial number, the name of its spirit machine or something like that.

**Lord Damocles**

Engines in the real world have makers' plates. It could be the name of the Magos, Forge Master etc., or forge, which produced it.

Alternatively it might literally be the Landraider's name plate.

The power plant on the standard Dreadnought has a similar plate.

**tauist**

a text that reads

MADE IN THE UK
THIS IS NOT A TOY

**Arcanis161**

"How's my driving"?

**Grimtuff**

Mine says "TCB".

No reason...

**The_Grim_Angel**

In my opinion "Stupid who reads" is the best option.

**Octopoid**

Hard to fit "I brake for Wyches" on that little plate...

**123ply**

The_Grim_Angel wrote:
I don't think nobody in the Games Workshop never thought about that.
Anyway, due to its position, which is easily readable, it could be its serial number, the name of its spirit machine or something like that.

Every Space Marine vehicle has a name. That's probably for the name of the vehicle

**=Angel=**

Lord Damocles wrote:
Engines in the real world have makers' plates. It could be the name of the Magos, Forge Master etc., or forge, which produced it.

Alternatively it might literally be the Landraider's name plate.

The power plant on the standard Dreadnought has a similar plate.

The Forgeworld of Origin makes sense, probably a little more so than the magos. 'Made in Tie-1'

The_Grim_Angel wrote:I don't think nobody in the Games Workshop never thought about that.

I assure you they did. Land Raider was designed in the days before computer designed miniatures- there was no 'greeble' or 'more stubbers' button to push. The same guy who set up a small shrine with candles inside the tank and made every 13th tread an eagle (to represent the God Emperor and 12 High lords) thought about why he put a plate on the exhausts.

The powerplant clearly echoes the design language of the dreadnought's, but there was no nameplate on the dread's powerplant at the time.
Maddeningly, the original sketches don't include it

**Inquisitor Lord Katherine**

I'm going to third the idea that it's probably a serial plate for the power pack.

It could also be for use as a bridge rating plate, or for having the vehicle's number marked.

**Cronch**

I assure you they did.

I imagine it went "this looks cool, i wonder what people will write on it"

**morganfreeman**

Probably just looking cool / decoration.

Function wise? Probably pattern / model number / ect. There's supposed to be a large amount of variance in Imperial tech, so knowing this land raider is the model which needs the 12mm instead of the 10mm can save you a lot of time when trying to make repairs.

Especially when those repairs are being made while under fire.

**Horla**

The ‘Eavy Metal team seem to have just left it as a bare metal plate on the pictures where a rear view is available on the various versions of the Land Raider. I reckon it has the “Diesel Only” notice to stop Marines ruining the engine at the petrol station.

**Valkyrie**

Land Raider tramp stamp.

**TinyLegions**

Delete: my snarky comment has already been used above.