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Im building the suits as we speak.
As well as a second Multi Turret.



Some general ideas on what next for the Section 9 troopers.
I think ill get some Rhinos or Razorbacks. General idea for my "Space Marines" is for them to support the infantry and heavy armor of my IG. Like if some enemy troops want to attack my tanks in close combat i would use my Space Marines as a buffer and my "Terminators" would be used to keep other Termi style units busy. Like say a bunch of annoying GK Palidans are out on the field, my termis 2+ armor can keep them busy while my tanks and other troops get into position to hammer them into oblivion! That or use them as an advanced strike force ahead of my IG troops.

Anyways. before i even begin on a Rhino or anything like that ill finish my newer models like the Challenger 1. I got myself some Baneblade Sponson parts so the Challenger is preety much set and just needs to have everything built upon it.

edit: ill get pictures and such of the New turret and suits as soon as they finish. Just be ready to look for them at 3 to 2 am! lol


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Multi Turret 2!



Section 9 Section squad given suits and armor!


Ill get them painted up soon.
Then its on to the Super Heavys.

All the troopers are now based and ready for paint! even the Multi Turrets are based black.

The Challenger StormBlade is underway. right now the hull and turret are intact and i wedged a plastic tube for a barrel for the plasma cannon. the plasma components will be built around the tube and the end will have a similar slit barrel or it will probly be more square then rounded.
Even have some baneblade sponsons ready for the Challenger, only the lascannon turrets are not built which should take no time at all.

The front TL Heavy Bolters will be where the drivers hatch is located on the front hull of the Challenger (center of the front, under the cannon.) but i've decided to still allow the turret to spin on the challenger dispite the Stormblade having a fixed casemate. this is merely to allow me to remove the turret when i see fit to allow transport or matinence on the hull.

THe Sponsons will be bolted towards the rear of the vehicale, any additional weapons like say a Hunter killer will be on the turret, i've already found a spot for the missile. Stubber will of course be mounted on the coupala.

No pictures of the Troopers (only thing is they are now all black)
But i have a picture of the Challenger.



kinda blurry but thats cause of the  y iphone camera im stuck using until i can get myself another wire for my proper camera.

Section 9 Infantry completed!





Personal Log: Lieutenat Eric Driggs, 272nd Cadian light infantry "Wind Runners"
Planet: Septal 4
Combat against Renegade forces approaching check point Delta, en route to Hive City.

"I wouldn't have belive it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes. Mere men clad in heavy mechanical suits and armor like Space Marines smashing their way through the flank of a rebel platoon. Their guns sounded like that of a electrical discharge matched with a heavy stubber and their muzzle flashes where that of hot blue plasma. They had not arrived with us like that of the Space Marines. Falling from the skys like angels of death but instead smashed into the enemy head on in war machines as complex and mysterious as the suits they wore. I had heard from the chain of command they were attached to the mechenized regiment were we alongside, The 91st Schrott Experimental, and only then did I see where the name of "experimental" comes from. The Machines they commanded in battle weilded the strangest weapons I've ever seen, and the Mechanical Men were only a small part of it all. As we pushed through the renegade infantry my men were pinned down by a bunker riddled with stubbers and heavy bolters. No sooner had my men dived into a trench to avoid certin death did a huge machine rumble over us at full throttle, only to slam into the bunker silencing the nearest bolter. Peering over the lip of my shelter i saw the machine reverse away from the bunkers rockcrete facing leaving a large hole and unload a squad of soldiers in suits even larger and more heavily plated then the smaller ones. Rebels rushed out to meet these machine clad men and in a flurry of hydrolics and steel the rengades were slaughtered to a man and one of the Soldiers in the heavy suits unleashed a heavy flamer into the open hole and the bunker erupted in flames. The battle ended soon after and as I watch from my tent I saw the Mechanical Men shed their armor and retire like the rest of us, awaiting the next battle.

A wee bit of fluff. take it as you will. Im just having fun lol






including the 2 Multi Turrets.
Which i seem to have dilibratly painted very bland
Idea being is these were cobbled together from spare scrap metal and lasguns that have aged. no little color on them. but i might go back over them. They are practically Terrain anyways.

I got a crazy idea in my head (admittantly not its not a rare occourace).
The short RA2 bit with the MCV style bastion is now stuck in my head and I looked at a Bastion on the GW site and suddenly could see a design to allow the vehicle to fold down into a tank-like vehicale.
Sure its akin to the transformations of the Transformer toys but the concept is sound (atleast in my head).

the design is more akin to the MCV's of Red Alert 3 in that the vehicale doesn't magically turn into a large building like the MCV's of RA2. The MCV of RA3 is a VERY hefty machine on all factions and due to their sheer size are actually capable of steamrolling over smaller vehicales like tanks! Equally large vehicales like an Apocolypse tank/another MCV or others cannot be run over. the RA3 MCV's size translates into what they deploy into a full fleged structure (the Construction Yard), the vehicale doesn't seem to gain or loose mass magically like the RA2 versions, (yes i know its a fictional game but the animation make the concept seem reltivly sound)

With th same of the Basiton. If the structure of the bastion can be divided into sections that move on hindges or some sort of internal movibale framework then vehicale sections like tracks could be concealed inside.
External projections liek the heavy bolters would be kept. The top tower section with the lascannon or quad gun could be lowered down vertically (keeping it flat) when the bastion unfolds which would work as the primary weapon. Any Heavy bolters that remain in the horizontal position could be used as secondary defensive weapons.

From the current concept i've thought up it would divide unfold in the shape of a cross with the long end being the front of the vehicale and the center of the cross being the location of the main weapon with the outer extentions being where the other sections would fold out too.


using the standard bastion stats for when deployed into the building and slightl different stats when unfolded into the Mobile version.

I've seen Bastions mounted to Baneblade hulls which are used as Levthiathans often, which are neat but a fully mobile Bastion would be cool.

name it The Mobile Defense Vehicale or something.

Major Victorys for the Imperium! And a Sucessful test of the Exo Suits! I don't remember the points off hand but I belive it was 1500 per for them all.

3 battles.
1st
1 vs 1 vs 1
Space Wolves/Chaos/IG (me) with SM allies.

While all in all the Space Wolves won due to long fang lascannon spam. My Terminators (MAX-97 troopers) and the Invader Land Raider attacked a group of Chaos Havocs head on and the Termi's smashed them apart in CQC. The Invader also blasted away a number of plauge marines.

My "Space Marine Tactical Squads" managed to blow through a squad of Space Wolf scouts and blast a vindicator to peices. But my tanks were destroyed by the Long Fangs and I didn't have enough to keep going.


2nd
2 vs2
Grey Knights with Tau allies / IG vs Chaos/Chaos

Relic battle. the table was length wise which spelled doom for the Chaos. My tanks and basilisks such blasted anything that could threaten them (a group of Lascannon havocs) and crushed a pair of rhinos packed with troops, also killing many from a biker squad. The GK/Tau pushed towards the relic with a Devilfish and Dragio and company, while the broadsides fired at the Forgefiend (giant dog with wth autocannons), the fiend lived but only managed to kill a pair of guardsmen with its shots. I had Creed Tactical genius a pair of demolishers behind the mass of Rhino-less troops and they blasted them to peices and any further carnage was stopped by the chaos submitting defeat at such tactical genius (CREEEEEEEEEED!!)


3rd
2 vs 3
GK + Tau allies and IG (me again) vs Chaos/Chaos/Orks

Rolled a 4 for mission. (where both sides get a objective to hold onto)
Rolled forwards with 6 tanks and 2 hydras with plenty of barebones guardsmen ( 10men with just lasguns) and the Command squads (platoon and company) having the only special weapons.

First turn my Battle tanks smash apart a battlewagon and cause it to explode 6 inchs killing 2 orks inside, glancing the trukk next to it and killing 2 plauge marines nearby. my other squadron with 1 Demolisher (the Shatterer) and 2 Executioners (the Tesla tank and Solar Infernus) blast away at las cannon havocs in a building on the opposite side of the table. killing a few of them. but not all of them. Also killing a pair of cultists infront of the building. The Tau broadsides blast away a Chaos Defiler from their building on my side of the table while dragio and company spray storm bolters at the appraoching Orks and chaos marines. over the next 2 turns my tanks evict everyone from inside the building containing the Chaos havocs and the Batlte tanks blast away parts of the approaching orks and chaos.

FInnaly the chaos bring out that new dragon-like flyer and my hydras only manage to get 1 hull point on it. and it manages to walk away with only 2 hull points even after a railgun hits it! my command squad is order to fire the plasma gun and melta gun at the attacking Demon engine and Lieutenant Drax (melta gun) and Sergent Elis (plasma gun) blast the beast out of the sky!! Even the brave guardsmen protecting the objective scored major kills! a hail of lasgun shots in overwatch stop a Chaos Sergent (or whatever they are called) from charging into melee with them. Same squad scared away a mob of ork boys after killing the Nob and even downed the Chaos Lord that had witstood the barrage of Battle cannon and heavy bolter fire from my tanks!

In the End even a great Demon price thought it wise to stay in the warp and not assault such a determined force (foe rolled a 1 on reserves for him) and even those new Raptors never entered combat!. The Orks in a last gasp of defiance at defeat managed to get 1 Dakka jet into combat which fired 18 shots at Draigo and his Terminators. Which Draigo only took a single wound too. My hydras immediatly vaporized the aircraft and the battle ended.


Test Sucessful!
I would do a "Battle Report" proper for it all but i don't remember everything that happened outright except for choice moments. either way VICTORY FOR THE IMPERIUM!!


Construction wise. I got myself a Bastion and its much smaller then i thought.. Either way im sure with some careful tinkering i can build a vehicale that can fold up inside the bastion and then the bastion can collapse and the tracks can emerge from inside the bastion to give it mobility.
Also I think I've started on my "Dreadnought" and the Plasma Challenger is still WIP, it needs its front heavy bolters and to get the plasma cannon built.

The "Plasma Challenger" is now a Chrono Tank.
tried several times but never managed the origional plasma cannon look. Instead i got the Chrono Legionaire's weapon. A powerful weapon that is capable of removing anything from the time stream.

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the ST 10 super blast of the plasma cannon baneblade would be equivilent if the cannon fired a time distortion blast that warped the fabric of reality and time/space and everything caught in the huge blast ceases to exist, like they never did in the first place! The difference here between that hand held weapon adn this current one (dispite the size.) is insead of 4 prongs its 3 and the flared cooling fins are not installed yet, and theres alot more wires and powerlines.

added large power cells to the rear of the turret (which limits turret rotation. the Stormblade is a turretless design anyways). pair of missile tubes on the right side of the turret (Hunter Killer missile) and plenty of bolted on armor...

I like it *shrug*
probly will add a few more things. but otherwise the Chrono Cannon weilding "Time Lord" is nearly ready. If you get the joke of the tank being a British design and a certin doctor... cookies to you.


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here we are....



Oh. and according to Steve the tech preist. the Time Lords systems cannot be used as a time machine. Even if you somehow make the tank go 88 mph it won't work.
In all liklyhood the systems will make the current star system the Time Lord occupies exit the time stream possibly forever if you break something...

Nice thing about modern 1/35 scale tanks, they make nice superheavy chassis.

Nice work on the suits.

Case in point. T-61A5 "Vasily" with soldiers of the 1024th hitching a ride on the monster heavy hunter
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Most 1/35th scale tanks i've found are unless they are TINY light tanks (like say a Renault or a Locust or something). Then they are at the very least a Malcador Heavy tank (which is the smallest of the "super heavy" vehicles.) the biggest like Main Battle Tanks or Super Heavy Tanks IRL work as Baneblades. Something inbetween like a Tiger Tank or a M60 work as Macharius Tanks.

Heck speaking of a Tiger tank. Its up next to be a twin Vanquisher carrying Macharius Tank. (Strangly I can't get myself to finish the little Valdor tank hunter Malcador that is the hull of the Flakpanzer! i don't know why! its got tracks and the front hull attached. I just can't bring myself to bolt on a gun and upper superstructure just to finish the blasted thing!!)

Also I love that Gundam Tank of yours. The onyl thing that bugs me about it is that link between the main cannons! it would be more efficent to fire the cannons independantly instead of at the same time. And if the recoil was different per cannon even by a tiny bit the center section could start to warp and possibly cause severe damage to the cannons!

If i ever buy one of those ill make myself cut off that peice. Otherwise it would drive me mad! I know its a Fictional tank design but my imagination seems to always want to construct the blue prints of the tanks i see.

Oh, i merely added that piece so the barrels would look all off synch(one was drooping where the other wasn't, it is merely me keeping them at an angle I can avoid being bothered by. I may remove it and repaint the barrels, after some sanding, but the way that tank works is either firing the long range vaquisher-ultra cannons independently, or as one mighty D weapon for special targets.

okay.. Cause its kinda weird and severe design flaw otherwise.

the Time Lord is based black now.
The "Valdor" tank hunter is coming along (surprisingly) but i've already hit a wall. The way it looks now (for lack of a better term all call it "Clean") it lookslike it would be perfect to bolt on a a Demolisher Cannon and build a Malcador Defender. Defender carries a Demolisher up front and has 5 independant heavy bolters in the upper box super structure. on top of that there are sponsons that can take anything from a Lascannon or Auto Cannon to a Heavy stubber or bolter.

I know i don't have 5 or even 7 heavy bolters, but im sure i can figure something out.... if onyl simple tubes would work for heavy bolters! Bolters don't have a long barrel! (least not those I know of)


I wonder how big a Zepplin model would be...... a Kirov sounds good right now...

Anyways. the Tiger is up next. should make a good Macharius tank.

I had painted it so it would be little noticed. But I suppose I can live with one cannon pointing one way from the other. (Aspergers make you fixate on such things. )

I made a Malcador defender from the Tamiya Char-1b Bis model. glue bottle top cut down to make the demolisher cannon, armed with sponson las cannons, if you do not have HB's mak rectangles, add a iron sight, and glue a short tube on them. Bolts, from the .50cal pistol to the 37mm HB all are propelled by a mini rocket motor in them, hence the short barrel. Bolter weapons are essentially Gyro-Jet weapons in other sci-fi settings. Where they get nasty is armor piercing, moisture/het sensing that then explode in bodies, or the armor penetrators for vehicles or the fragmenting ones for area of effect, etc.

At the risk of dredging up what's on the first page that I'm sure has already been commented upon by someone else by now, Tesla weapons (as in the coil) are pretty insolvent as far as being practical weapons. You'd need an AC generator specifically for the weapons array, and then you'd need either a grounding pad under the victim (difficult for a mobile gun) or some sort of ion ray gun to bombard the enemy with polar ions such that you could hit them with a high voltage arc.

Mind you, Tesla was an amazing man, and claimed he could just create devices that would siphon off free energy from wherever magically. If he was given the funding, who knows what he could have accomplished. I'm just operating on we've been able to replicate when I say all this.

And having all of that been said, I've liked the tanks you had on your first page, including the Tesla one. I'll likely review the other pages in the future.

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At the risk of dredging up what's on the first page that I'm sure has already been commented upon by someone else by now, Tesla weapons (as in the coil) are pretty insolvent as far as being practical weapons. You'd need an AC generator specifically for the weapons array, and then you'd need either a grounding pad under the victim (difficult for a mobile gun) or some sort of ion ray gun to bombard the enemy with polar ions such that you could hit them with a high voltage arc.

Mind you, Tesla was an amazing man, and claimed he could just create devices that would siphon off free energy from wherever magically. If he was given the funding, who knows what he could have accomplished. I'm just operating on we've been able to replicate when I say all this.

And having all of that been said, I've liked the tanks you had on your first page, including the Tesla one. I'll likely review the other pages in the future.

I understand the science behind the "Tesla Cannon" wouldn't really work. It was a tribute to the Red Alert Series Soviet tank. The Tesla Tank
most video games throw science out of the window. but if you think that the primary target of the Tesla Tank (which is played as an Executioner Plasma tank) are Space Marines and their equivilent or tanks are often armored and standing on the ground they would be grounded. plus the 3 small blast shots of the executioner I've always imagined would equate to the randomness of a lightning strike with the blast arcing to the 3 points of the guns attack.

Tesla was a genius of which there is no dout. Almost all modern tech would not exist if it wasn't for him. Also, Genius is only a bit away from insanity (he was quirky to say the least)

Anyways. Most of my stuff the science is not all there. I will admit it. Most are inspired by video games, which like i said, often disregard science. Heck... the newest creation. the "Time Lord" has a weapon that is again. taken from a video game. A weapon that can erase something from the timeline? Its probly breaking more laws of physics or science then i would care to count!!

Either way. Ty and i hope you enjoy the rest of the gallery.

" Kirov reporting"

*insert stereotypical russian accent here"
I see you're contemplating building a Kirov, I have thought of ingenious way to complete such task.

1. Buy lots of those 18" red rods that were in the dark vengeance set about 8 or 16 will do.

2. bend/warp them into the basic shape of the kirovs nose. (use 8 rods)
so the tips of the rods are touching in the middle.

3. Papier-mache (is that how it's spelt) the outside of the rods until they are all covered. After all there is no such thing as being to old for paper-mache(unless that's the spelling).

4. repeat steps 2&3, so you have two halves. And then connect both open ends to eachother.

5. Well be creative and layer the paper-mache untile it's relatively strong.

6. Smooth it

8. Attach tail/fins whatever you call them.

7. Paint job

8. Once finished lift it into the air slowly and in a russian accent repeat "Kirov Reporting"

Or
http://www.amazon.com/Lindberg-70816-Graf-Zeppelin/dp/B000MQ7640
(^ cheating)

The time lord looks good by the way. I assume you like the doctor and his many wonderful adventures in time and space.

You have plasticard so the tail will be rather easy.

Edited for spelling.

Regarding your comment about genius and insanity, let us not mince words: Tesla was flying rodent gak insane. Utterly, and completely crazy. Sometimes that's what it takes though, and I don't think it's always a bad thing, even if it was unfavorable for him. I appreciate the reference to Red Alert, being a favorite game of mine, and if I had to pick a tank for your Tesla tank to represent, it would probably be the Executioner, though I picture power armor and terminator armor being better insulated that that.

And yes, ultimately, when you have overglorified chainsaws destroying tanks and one man chasing down thirty, you have to have some suspension of disbelief. Again, I think you've done well, and I don't disagree with you. I just wished to speak my mind. Thank you for the response.

The Good doctor probly would not enjoy the existance of such a war machine

Anyways. Speaking ones mind I have no issue with. As long as it isn't blatant insults or something like it, there is a few in here. I ignored them after reading them. I respect peoples opinions. but just going "YOU SUCK! Stop painting/building/whatever" that way or the equivilent I do not respect.

And Ty for the Kirov "How To" I origionally thought of some simple "short cut" like getting a Hindenburg model (but i can't find one big enough...)

Enjoy the blog gents. After this episode of South Park ends im off to bed. Ill see you in the mean time.

No problem.
My how to should be about 38-40" long
The amazon model is 38" long.

te Amazon model should be best.
I would need to add the peices parts that make a kirov what it is, like the tail fins, loads of heavy engines and propellers, giant bomb rack, outer reinforcing super structure, and of course its famous sharks mouth!!

I might add a few guns to it for AA work and maybe a small turret on the gondala with a pair of battle cannons. BUt its main weapon would of course be its endless suppy of giant heavy bombs!!!

Kirov War Zepplin:
14/14/13
BS3
SP 7
Special rules/abilitys:
Gigantic: dispite it flying. it does not get the saves of a flyer or the requirements of needing sky fire.
Lumbering aircraft: can only go 12 inches maximum in movement phase.
High Altitude: Melee attacks CANNOT affect the Kirov, Nor can templates.
Self Sealing Hull: Can regen hull points. roll D6 and on 4 it regens 1 hull point. 5 = 2 hull points. 6 = 3 hull points

Weapons: Heavy Bombs (unlimited number). Carpet bombing: drop 5 at a time over anything the Kirov flys over.
4 TL Auto cannon turrets with skyfire and interceptor
1 TL battle cannon turret attached to the front of the gondala.

Points.... 1000... maybe....

Edit: forgot 1 thing!
Cataclysmic Crash!: If the Kirov is destroyed it comes crashing to the ground in a massive fireball!! measure the hull of the Kirov and measure a 10inch blast around its impact site. ST Ap2 D6 hits to anything underneath it! freind or foe!!


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Heres what I have so far.


its just a Panzer 4 Hull (a Jagdpanzer 4 hull to be exact. i made a mistake with the image discribtion) with some side skirts from the previous Challenger 1 tank (it came with 2 sets). and plasticard on the top with GW Russ tracks inplace of the "Magic tracks" which are some absurd tracks which you assemble track link per track link!!.

Anyways. the Tank hull has a blocky almost "clean" look to it like it could turn into ANYTHING. This is the subject that might be turned into the Malcador Defender. It was origionally going to be a Valdor tank hunter (Malcador with giant neutron laser cannon of tank killing!) but for the life of myself I cannot decide the design of how the upper super structure shall be build. For a time I had visuallized using it like the Ferdinand/Elephant Tank destroyer which was a Tiger (Porsche designed Hull) with a steel box bolted to the top with an 88mm in it.


Now im debating if i could turn it into a Malcador Defender

(forgeworld picture)

I've figured I could build the box super structure using plasticard and a few parts from my Baneblade sponsons sprues. Ill dig for a bunch of heavy bolters (i doubt i have 5 of all the same kind, but ill figure something out.) and use plasticard tubing for the Lascannons and the front Demolisher Cannon.

The Time Lord, Chrono Tank (Aka Stormblade Plasma Annialator Tank) is based like i said. the picture is avaiible but its just the same tank as the other pictures just all black!! Ill probly paint it when I get at least the Malcador done. Or the Tiger Macharius when i get around to that.


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The Malcador Defender is progressing now. the center box structure is being built (it has all 4 sides but the roof), the Front has the Demolisher Cannon, and the rear is getting a Heavy Bolter. Ill get a picture up soon. My middle finger is kinda sore form using the scissors (plastic is tough...), plus my hand are covering in blakc marks form the marker i used to measure the peices. The other bolters will be added. I put a post on my local stores site so hopefully someone will have a bunch of heavy bolters for tanks or something sitting around. heck at this point ill take a bunch of HWT bolters.

Pictures!
tank has not progressed much from the last post.

The only new addition is the gas tanks on its rear and the dozer blade.. I was going to build sponsons and even cut out the plasticard peices for them. but they were kinda boxy and much too different from the Malcador sponsons for me. Im going over a new design right now for them. I won't bother with the upper super structure until i get some additional heavy bolters. And i already said I asked on my local store site so hopefully ill get an offer.

I swear....
If GW would offer to sell bitz by themselves like heads,guns, track peices, armor and whatnot much like a few other sites i won't bother to name. they would make a killing from that alone.
What would be an easier way to get the specific heavy bolters I need besides ordering them direct from the manufacturer? but enough ranting.

Here are the pics.





trying to think of a name...
Iron Redoubt or something. preferably with a forticication name in it. like citadel/fortress/Redoubt/castle because the Malcador Defender is a little fort on tracks.

The turret on the Chrono Tank is super-wicked awesome.

I love your crazy conversions, always a joy to stop by and see what's cooking.

D

Ty cheese.

Im trying to totally figure out what the next Panzer 4 hull could be.
I think the Malcador with a Battle Cannon would be good. the Bulldog tank could be turned into the Infernus Malcador with a giant inferno cannon mounted to it.

but those will come after the Tiger is given twin cannons, additional armor, sponsons, and more to become a Macharius Super Heavy tank

course. its always akward to get few and far between comments. i know peeps are watching but they are not saying anything (which can be creepy)


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Further construction.

Malcador Defender has its drivers compartment built, a heavy front armored grill and armored windows will let it wade into weapons fire without loosing sight of its mission.
One of the sponsons is built, a simple plasticard tube with thing and fings and tings on it to build a lascannon. Ill get the opposite sponson one soon.
The extra fuel tanks on the rear have tubes on them to let the fuel siphon into the main fuel tank, the Malcador design being as old as it is (fluff wise) there is likly to be a few design flaws!.
The crew have bolted on steel plates infront of the tanks to try and prevent fire from damaging the tanks.

The Citadel of Vengence.



CHARGE!!!

The Defender Malcador, Citadel of Vengence is more or less on hold until i get the heavy bolters i need. If i don't get some thursday ill try to make some using Shasol's suggestion.
Both Sponsons are attached! Lascannon sponsons, which are simply a heavy tube with barrel covers and such like a lascannon.
The upper "castle" will be simple... like the origional malcador design. a recangular box with 4 cylindars holding it up on each corner (one for each bolter) with plates of armor between them... a hatch on the top (taken from a Chimera hatch) will be on the top of it with a stubber on a little pintle(want more guns, if only i could get a duel stubber...).

Id post a picture but the only thing different on the Defender is the sponsons built on the other side. (woopie!

After all that. Painting... of course...

As i wait for bolters, ill start up construction of the Tiger Macharius. I'll call it the KreigTiger (cause there is already a Sturm Tiger, King Tiger, etc.)
The Macharius can have stubbers or Heavy bolters for sponsons. If only it could have autocannons or lascannons.... I might just not give it any sponsons

I wanted to put a picture of the famous Tiger tank.. but trying to find a good one without that symbol (which isn't allowed on the site) so...
You can imagine it. Giant Tiger Tank with 2 bow mounted machine guns and a pair of giant cannons mounted in its turret. extra armor bolted in places like the front and sides. larger exaust pipes and the lot as well.

The Tiger doesn't have anything really assmebled right now. the turret was actually in 2 seperate peices on the sprue (which was weird). but they are together now.
The suspension should be all together on the chassis soon. The Cannons should be easy to install... with the origional gunsheild removed and a thick plasticard on in its place the cannons will be slotted side by side.

Sunday i might have an Apoc match (maybe, im waiting on confermation). and the 17th of Nov there will be a games day at my local hobbytown which should be fun.
As soon as significant construction on the Tiger is done ill get some pictures.

Victory against Orks! 2000 points game.
my flyers list vs his 2000 points. Venddettas maanged to do damage and my tanks tore apart many of his troops.
game actually progressed until there were 0 orks left.


also picked up a HWT box for the bolters. one of the 4 bolters may not match the rest. but ill have all 4 bolters in place so the Malcador defender will be ready for basing and painting.

Otherwise no other real news.


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Citadel of Vengence construction completed. Now it just needs basing and painting!!

The Citadel of Vengence was once a simple mode of conveance for a family that lived on Schrott. the machine crawling from place to place searching for spare parts or other valuables they could trade for Bolts (the currency on Schrott). The family did rather well for itself until it ran into a horde of marauders who attacked the vehicle and killed the mother. The Father and the rest of the family in rage bolted on salavaged weapons and tore off after the horde that killed their loved one. The Machine and its vengful operators tore into the horde and killed every savage maurader in the group, either grinding them under its treads or blasting them with its guns. The family was inducted into the Imperial Guard shortly after and stay together with their machine. IN Battle the old war machine unleashes a barrage of fire from its numerous heavy bolters and its mighty Demolisher cannon. Anything that survives is ground to paste under its tracks!





next like i said is the Tiger Macharius. the KreigTiger.

I've been side tracked (not surprising).
I've begun working on a little walker bulldog. starting with the hull to build a Malcador of some sort. Maybe the Infernus (giant mega flamethrower tank) but using chemical weapons instead.



Its turret might be bolted onto something else in the future.

The WarTiger (KreigTiger), only has a turret semi built, the tubes for the barrels cut, and a few other things.

I may add that sometimes i hate the "Appending next post thing" more often then not I have a full update to put and it squishes it in with my last post. eh well.

The Citadel of Vengence is not based yet but ill get around to that soon. and due to the Tiger not being completed any time soon ill get to painting the Time Lord and Citadel.

Citadel of Vengence, Malcador Defender based (like i said)


Ill get started painting it Thursday.


KreigTiger has come a ways.
Tracks and suspension attached and the hull stubbers in place. Its main guns are bolted into the turret (they are stuck at a high angle but It doesn't matter to me). Its shorter then i expected (length wise) but that should be easily fiex with a big dozer blade and a large exaust system. the Macharius is shorter then a baneblade if only by a little so i think it will be fine as the tiger barely reaches the top of a standard baneblade for hieght.

The hatches, exaust and such will be added soon.


I found a few fuel tanks for the infernus maclador (the Bulldog hull). I keep a few of my spent paint pots and they can be glued down to the hull for gas tanks. just like the Toxin Tractor. The big "Citadel" words will be covered over by plastic plates. plumping and such will conenct them to the main weapon. and a little gas trailor will be built along with it.

I want some comments... getting bored (posting anyways) lol

that is a very 40k looking tank and I love it!

holy emprahs golden toilet paper a comment.....

Im guessing its refering to the Citadel of Vengence. the bulky, boxy tank with guns sticking out at all angles. aka the Malcador Defender. The Tiger isn't finished enough to warrent such a comment (i think).

Thank you

It, along with the Time Lord will get thier first coat of paint tommorow. so stay tuned.

I used the tamiya Char-1B bis for my Malcador defender, always nice to convert WW-II kits

Malcador Infernus coming along.
The flamer thrower (the Inferno Cannon) is modeled after the Team Fortres 2 Pyros flame thrower with a round nozzle (made from a used and hollowed out Paint pot), with large gas tanks made from additional used paint pots. The trailer will be built later when the tank itself is completed.


I keep envisioning the tank in the "Meet the Pyro" video in place of the Pyro himself. the utter insanity behind it all

Fluff before itse even finished.

The Infernus that recently has been found has no name besides The Pyro (ill get a batter name for it later) which came from those who have seen it. recent interviews only seem to indicate those around it are in fear of it. The Inquisition is investigating currently.

Witness interviews.

"I fear no machine... but that thing... it scares me." Veteran Valhallen Tank commander, after witnessing the tank in question

"No, I.. I ain't talking about that freakish machine! its not here is it?!" Guardsmen Private of the 91st.

"One shudders to imagine what inhuman thoughts lie behind that armor..... What dreams of chronic and sustained cruelty?, I thank the Emperor its killing our foes." *Guardsmen Lieutenant after witnessing the machine in question in action*

The mystery only deepens as no crew has ever been seen exiting the machine... and only the muffled song "Do you belive in magic?" seems to constantly play inside the tank, it can only be heard when the inferno cannon is not blasting or the screams of its foes are finnaly ended. Outside of combat. It is docile and allows tech preists to tend to it. but none of them can open the hatchs no matter how hard they try.



The Citadel of Vengence and the Time lord have their first bits of paint on, but are no where near finished.
I got a neat picture(or 2) of the Citadel climbing a ruined building otherwise.



Ill get the rest done soon!

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