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I love this Thread!

How did you pull off the needle gun? is it anvil industries?

I'd be interested in replicating it for an Inquisimunda Assassin.

Thanks dude! It is indeed Anvil or at least most of it. The body of the gun the the Melta and the las bit is from the sniper. It also has a panzerschrek from Dreamforge as the bottom barrel but really any tube would do.

Keep an eye out as I may try to whip up a web gun soon, those things are just too cool..

 Commander Cain wrote:
Thanks dude! It is indeed Anvil or at least most of it. The body of the gun the the Melta and the las bit is from the sniper. It also has a panzerschrek from Dreamforge as the bottom barrel but really any tube would do.

Keep an eye out as I may try to whip up a web gun soon, those things are just too cool..

Awesome. I gotta stop putting off my order and get that stuff i need from anvil! The products look great.

Yeah, Anvil is damn good.

Their parts have always been amazing.

Wicked decent job on those conversions. Every one of them look ready to do some damage!

Thanks guys! Pretty pleased with them myself as well.

So I've had this Banebade sitting around for years now with no real idea of what to do with it. After seeing a couple of awesome super heavy models recently I decided to take the plunge and actually finish building the beast. While I still have some work to do on it I figure a few WIP shots were needed.







Not sure why I chose to have an all LC tank but I had a lot of the guns in my bits box and decided to put them to good use. I also converted the demolisher cannon into a mortar/thunderfire cannon type thing.

Any suggestions on what else I can add? Atm it is still looking very Imperial Guard'ish so I may try to smooth off some surfaces (which means cutting off rivets, gasp!) but apart from that I am open to ideas. While it is not technically a Fellblade I may draw some design features from it to make it more space mariney.

Anyway, that's all for now. I have painted a basic squad of marines but have yet to add the fine details so I will wait till that is done before I post pics.

Cain

ps. I need a name for the tank! Ideas?

KILL THE RIVETS!

It seemed like a good idea at the time but I am still chopping an hour later...

And here we have it. A fully de-riveted Baneblade. I think I may just add a few more accessories to the hull and call it a job well done.


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Hmm, just noticed that the wing of the scarab on the front has fallen off, probably should fix that before I lose it.

De-riveting???

Burn the heretik, burn him with burny stuff....



What about filling a few panel lines to make it appear more in line with the marine aesthetic? Possibly add an extra layer of plasticard in a few spots?

Hmm, that's a good idea mate. I'm all out of plasticard at the moment but I may have to get some just for this project now...

I know this sounds like an intensive alteration, but what if you were to extend the track cover to just at or a little beyond the front wheel, as well as changing out the lights for Rhino lights? Both might make it seem a little more "armored battle tank for the Marines" rather than "ornate battle tank for veneration"

It's beautiful without the rivets.

Name wise how about "king scarab" or "iron scarb" or for a different note "beast of eternity"

Hello again folks. Just wanted to check in to assure you that I am still around! Apologies for the tardiness of my replies, they completely skipped my mind..

Lord Kaesar II wrote:I know this sounds like an intensive alteration, but what if you were to extend the track cover to just at or a little beyond the front wheel, as well as changing out the lights for Rhino lights? Both might make it seem a little more "armored battle tank for the Marines" rather than "ornate battle tank for veneration"

Hmm, I like those ideas! Rhino lights are a definite possibility, I think I may have some lying around actually. .

the shrouded lord wrote:It's beautiful without the rivets.

Shh, not too loudly the league of extraordinary riveters might hear us!

Theophony wrote:Name wise how about "king scarab" or "iron scarab" or for a different note "beast of eternity"

Well King Scarab sounds a bit too much like an exotic food dish but the other two are sure contenders, thanks!


I have been mainly focused on Deadzone stuff as of late but I did manage to partially (my superglue stash was drained dry) assemble some FW kits I bought a few weeks ago.

First off the landspeeder. Quite a beast I have to say as it's far bigger than the plastic version, should be very fun to paint up.






I also started on the Whirlwind but this is the spot where I ran out of glue as I went to put the tracks and exhausts on...
What a tricky thing this was to assemble. Lots of the parts were warped and still don't fit perfectly despite pinning and soaking where needed. Still, the finished product is well worth it!







Seeing as I am back at uni now I will be posting less but I managed to fit all my courses into two days of the week (!) so I still have a decent amount of free time in which to hunker down and paint some stuff.

Cain

Just a quick bit of progress to keep this blog going. I have a squad of 6 bikers and finished the first test model to see how it would look. Pretty happy with the finished product!







I may try to finish the rest of the gang off or go back to some other half-finished projects next. Only time will tell...

Cain

ho did you make those helmets?!
are you going to cast/sell them!?

As much as I would like to take credit for the helmets they are actually sculpted by Maxmini! You can pick some up here if you were interested. http://www.thewarstore.com/product73913.html

I like that jackal head , not something I would have even though of, great idea.

 Theophony wrote:
I like that jackal head , not something I would have even though of, great idea.

Very pleased that I bought multiples of those helmets, they are brilliant!


I promised more paint and here it is. Finally finished the MK1 squad I built ages ago. These guys were a joy to paint, unfortunately I don't think Anvil Industry stocks them any more due to them focusing on their own range instead (which I am most displeased about! )

Anyway, here are the marines in question. Might add some purity seals to them at some point but apart from that I think they are all finished..







In other news I finally bought some more superglue so I can rebuild the dreadknight who I have also been tweaking to give hime some hieroglyphs in place of the writing on the feet and pauldrons, still too wip for pics though.

Looking very cool!

Cain, I'm honking of starting a chapter called "survivors of III" they will be made up of loyalist elements of the world eaters (who no longer get the nails), thousand sons, emperors children, and most importantly the hounds of loken my space marine chapter. This thread has given me heaps of inspiration for the thousand son part, thanks much.

Sageheart wrote:Looking very cool!

Thanks Sage!

the shrouded lord wrote:Cain, I'm honking of starting a chapter called "survivors of III" they will be made up of loyalist elements of the world eaters (who no longer get the nails), thousand sons, emperors children, and most importantly the hounds of loken my space marine chapter. This thread has given me heaps of inspiration for the thousand son part, thanks much.

Glad to be of use. Perhaps we can team up once your project is underway, we could come up with some fluff that fits both armies and make a proper narrative out of it.

 Commander Cain wrote:

Sageheart wrote:Looking very cool!

Thanks Sage!

the shrouded lord wrote:Cain, I'm honking of starting a chapter called "survivors of III" they will be made up of loyalist elements of the world eaters (who no longer get the nails), thousand sons, emperors children, and most importantly the hounds of loken my space marine chapter. This thread has given me heaps of inspiration for the thousand son part, thanks much.

Glad to be of use. Perhaps we can team up once your project is underway, we could come up with some fluff that fits both armies and make a proper narrative out of it.

I'd be honoured.

Well once I have some solid fluff worked out for my chapter I shall PM it to you. I already have a mass of ideas whizzing around but all these university papers really suck up a lot of my time...

tell me about it, altough mine are more math homework papers. so many of them...
it would be great to hear your fluff.

I shall write it all up sometime next week as that is our mid-semester break. Can't wait.

heres the fluff of the main, they are luna wolf survivors:
--++//BEGIN TRANSMISSION//++---

Name: hounds of loken. Note- common name: Luna wolves.
Founding: Founding: after the istvaan massacre, dosens of space marines ramained alive, many of these would later turn to chaos in desperation, and join their original legions, but a small group of luna wolves, led by an un-named hero, refused to bowl to corruption. seizing a landing ship left behind by the world eaters, they made flight to terra. they greived when they discovered the fate of the emperor, and voweled vengeance on the arch-traitor, after a decade of purity tests, it was decided they would be allowed their own chapter of space marine, for the high lords saw potential for a distraction, a chapter so consumed by the desire to kill chaos that all chaos forces in vescinity would have to use resources just to not be over-whelmed.
it was not for a century that the flaw showed itself, on the battle field of derviss VIII
Gene-seed: Horus. -note: cursed by the chaos gods, see "the flaw" below.
Homeworld: Archerin betaris.
Homeworld details: archerin betaris' surface is a barren wasteland, a mysterious virus having killed all things living well before the imperium arrived. But, many species of fauna and flora have developed in the cavernous tunnels below the surface, and this is where the hounds of loken make their home.
Organization: unlike most chapters, the chaplains of the hounds of loken disperse among the chapter, acting as sergeants, comand squad veterans and even (in the case of the high-chaplain) a captain. An unusual number of terminator armour are found within the armouries of thehounds of loken. By the same leaf, very few bikes are there, leading to the belief of a trade between the hounds of loken and the White scars. Besides this, they primarily stick to the codex astartes (even though I'm using the chaos codex )
Combat doctrine: the hounds of loken display a unique love of close combat, but at the same time, will hold a gun line as rigourously as they will charge the enemy.
Beliefs: the hounds of loken believe that the only way to honour the original luna wolves, those purged in the istvaan III incident, is to completely eliminate all remnants of a chaos warband before moving to a new target, they currently have their eye set on a small black legion warband "the suns of the stone"
Colours and heraldry: white with silver or black lining. Black wolf head, often against a crescent moon.
Battlecry: for them! For the emperor!

"From the arch-traitor, from Horace, we were created, and from Horus, the arch-traitor, come our foes. We are the avengers of our name-sake, the honourable dead that would not bow to Horace, to them, we owe our lives, for them, we will crush the arch-traitor's pawn, for them, for the emperor!" chapter master solace.

Recruitment: The hounds of loken recruit from the hardened tribes of their world, whom construct huge underground cities.

Notable members of the hounds of loken:
Chapter Master: Solace.
Chief Librarian: +++error+++
Captain of the 1st company: torgaddon. Named for the ancient hero.

Notable engagements:
:current:
The battle of mortals:
Hive fleet kraken threatens the forsaken knights chapter planet, and thehounds of loken first, second and third companies rush to their aid, lead by solace himself.
Relationship with the forsaken knights:
The forsaken knights share a deep found bond with the hounds of loken, even lending forces on long term scales to each other, the chapter masters of the luna wolves and forsaken knights, solace and the shrouded lord respectively, are close friends.

The mournival: solace keeps a council of: the high chaplain, chief librarian, first captain, and second captain, known as the mournival.

The flaw:
The hounds of loken gene seed is cursed. Some space marines of the chapter slowly devolve into rambling monsters, mutant things of hordes appearance. Their like ness to chaos spawn could spell the doom of the chapter, and any brother afflicted is immediately placed in stasis, the current total being 142 afflicted, they are hidden at the core of the hounds of loken fortress, and a closely guarded secret, solace has voweled to save his chapter from this affliction, but unlike the thousand sons, who were afflicted similarly, solace has set a line in the sand between what he will, and won't, do.
The dark on the horizon:
Known only to solace and his mournival, solace bears the first signs of the flaw. It seems ha has henceforce held it back by pure force of will, but even that is failing. Unless a cure can be found soon, he will almost certainly fall...
+++ END TRANSMISSION+++

do you reckon that would fits in descently with what you have in mind?
im thinking that with my world eaters/thousand sons they will be loyalists who escaped the respective purges and decided to join the chapter, the emperors children will be istvaan III survivors. will post pics when i get round to doing a thousand son.

Nice stuff! I am actually planning on having the entire TS legion on the side of the Imperium. In my alternate universe they never fell to Chaos, instead the Space Wolves were the ones who turned. Lost of thinking still needed to be done though, I gotta create a whole new universe here!

Oh I love Anvil Industries