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I magnetized the hull weapons and i'm not sure it was worth it to be honest. It was a bit fiddly and they still don't line up as smoothly as if glued straight on, although the magnets do their job and they stick on quite nicely.
It's a bit of a toss up to me. If you plan on using more then just one weapon option, then i'd say take the time to magnetise them properly. I probably should have just glued the lascannons on though as i'm probably never going to take the flamers and would only use the heavy bolters if I didn't have the points available for the lascannons.

YMMV of course.

 Nevelon wrote:
Cleaning and building a Spartan myself. Trying to decide how much I want to fiddle with magnets. The 4xLCs will probably just get glued to their mounts, although the whole sponson pops off. Is it worth it for the hull guns? or just glue the HBs on and call it a day?

And then the question about if I should paint the tracks separately.

Fun kit to build, although I’d recommend dry fitting the hull parts to the tread sides while assembling. Some of the connections are basically glueing 2 plates edge-on without good guides. If it’s a few degrees off, it’s not going to line up when you try to put the whole thing together.

I am doing the same. I was going to save my Spartan for my next (Ultramarine) army, but one night I found myself building and painting the interior and now it's joined my SoH.

I'm going to just stick the lascannons onto the hull mount and call it done. But then I've never been a fan of having removable guns etc - I'd just lose them.

It is a pretty good build, although it has a lot of strange angles. It's certainly fiddly, for the reason you mention, but actually goes together much better than the WH40k Land Raider. If you push the hull onto one of the track sponsons as soon as you assemble it, it will ensure that everything is at the correct angle. I left the tracks until last as well, so I could make sure the model was straight and sat flat, but I will assemble them all before I paint the model. One small tip - don't forget to paint the forward section of the interior ceiling before you put it all together. There is interior detail on the underside of the hull superstructure piece, and it's easy to miss.

Well, basecoated my SA and working in my AL pile of shame.

So although I got the upper part of my Spartan mostly gap-free, I ended up with these annoying gaps in the underside. And I’m an experienced modeller.

On the other hand, the troop compartment went together well:

Was working on a sicarian.

Now i am venting about sides being without treads more parts than absolutly necessary.

Neeeeeed to get back to it.

3 Contemptors, and 80 odd MkVI to go. Oh, and a Rhino.

April is the beginning of a new Financial Year work wise, so gonna take the first week off and aim to blitz paint enough to make an army.

I'm kitbashing a new HQ model for my IXth. Any suggestions as on how to get more in-scale arms/hands versions for these bits? The left inferno pistol arm can be swapped for a 2022 MKVI spare arm (just cutting off the gun itself), but how could I get a smaller, "artified" looking Powerfist for the right arm?

 tauist wrote:
I'm kitbashing a new HQ model for my IXth. Any suggestions as on how to get more in-scale arms/hands versions for these bits? The left inferno pistol arm can be swapped for a 2022 MKVI spare arm (just cutting off the gun itself), but how could I get a smaller, "artified" looking Powerfist for the right arm?

The arms certainly look too long, although it might partly be the pose of the base figure - he seems to be squatting. The power fist itself may not be the issue; you probably just need to shorten the upper arm. As a rule, the elbow armour will normally be touching the bottom edge of the pauldron.

 Snord wrote:

 tauist wrote:
I'm kitbashing a new HQ model for my IXth. Any suggestions as on how to get more in-scale arms/hands versions for these bits? The left inferno pistol arm can be swapped for a 2022 MKVI spare arm (just cutting off the gun itself), but how could I get a smaller, "artified" looking Powerfist for the right arm?

The arms certainly look too long, although it might partly be the pose of the base figure - he seems to be squatting. The power fist itself may not be the issue; you probably just need to shorten the upper arm. As a rule, the elbow armour will normally be touching the bottom edge of the pauldron.

Thanks! Yeah, agreed, the elbow should be almost touching the pauldron, at the very least. I also started thinking that Custodes model range might have appropriate looking artificed Powerfist bits in some kit, I'll look into it. The torso is from the EC Praetor kit, I don't think he is crouching, just leaning a bit.

 tauist wrote:
Thanks! Yeah, agreed, the elbow should be almost touching the pauldron, at the very least. I also started thinking that Custodes model range might have appropriate looking artificed Powerfist bits in some kit, I'll look into it. The torso is from the EC Praetor kit, I don't think he is crouching, just leaning a bit.

It's an unfortunate pose, as it lowers the model quite a lot. Perhaps he needs a nice tactical rock, so he looks more commanding. The power fist itself actually looks fine - I would just deal with the upper arm.

 Snord wrote:

 tauist wrote:
Thanks! Yeah, agreed, the elbow should be almost touching the pauldron, at the very least. I also started thinking that Custodes model range might have appropriate looking artificed Powerfist bits in some kit, I'll look into it. The torso is from the EC Praetor kit, I don't think he is crouching, just leaning a bit.

It's an unfortunate pose, as it lowers the model quite a lot. Perhaps he needs a nice tactical rock, so he looks more commanding. The power fist itself actually looks fine - I would just deal with the upper arm.

A more elaborate base sounds like a great idea, will look into it!

I'll try repositioning the arm before going too far with a suitable replacement bit

Well the hull was a bit of a struggle, but the Spartan ended up looking pretty good. The tracks are really nice - I actually enjoyed assembling them. Here it is, with only the guns to assemble, next to my Predator.

 Snord wrote:
Well the hull was a bit of a struggle, but the Spartan ended up looking pretty good. The tracks are really nice - I actually enjoyed assembling them.

Agreed on both counts. The hull was a pain in the arse. Not the worst thing i've ever assembled by far, but just annoying. The tracks however were great, and once you had them where they needed to go just plopped in nicely.

Slapping some paint on my cheapo DIY Justaerin Terminators.

1 done, 4 to go.

Working on some more Iron Hands despite having 7 other projects on the go. Slowly getting close to a 1k list as well so I'm quite happy with the progress.

 Snrub wrote:
I magnetized the hull weapons and i'm not sure it was worth it to be honest. It was a bit fiddly and they still don't line up as smoothly as if glued straight on, although the magnets do their job and they stick on quite nicely.
It's a bit of a toss up to me. If you plan on using more then just one weapon option, then i'd say take the time to magnetise them properly. I probably should have just glued the lascannons on though as i'm probably never going to take the flamers and would only use the heavy bolters if I didn't have the points available for the lascannons.

YMMV of course.

I modeled a new "turret" piece for the Spartan that takes 6x2 mm magnets. You have to put two in the turret piece, one in the roof piece (which does well with extra magnets to keep it against the vehicle body, but it's workable with only the 6x2 mm) and one inside the vehicle, so it's a bit late for you unfortunately. So you print three turrets and swap the entire thing instead of the weapons which I felt was very difficult to magnetise as well.

https://ufile.io/9gt8a9p3 (stl, unsupported)

Well only one more proteus to go and then the 10 Tartaros terminators.


After that time to paint, and wait until gw finaly admits it's time for a combiweapons kit including krakenboltguns to allow me to field seekers.

Since i have to paint over 100 SA count as anyways and the tanks i think i got enough time.

Not Online!!! wrote:
Well only one more proteus to go and then the 10 Tartaros terminators.

That's a nice collection of tanks. While we would all prefer some more plastic infantry, the HH tanks look great. It also looks as though the Land Raider goes together a bit more neatly than the Spartan.

Did you find that the rear panels of the Scorpius launcher a bit troublesome? There is a join that goes straight down the middle of the vents, and they didn't end up entirely level. Overall, their HH vehicle kits don't seem to be as well designed (in terms of assembly) as the latest WH40K kits.

I notice a lot of comments about tank construction

My spartan was a NIGHTMARE I had to glue and re glue parts and my Rhino went together like a pile of soggy cardboard...

Lots of cutting and re-positioning I have a theory I think its Forgeworld designs being re made for plastics... So I am going to take it slow next time dry fit and double dry fit...

I think Spartans need Elastic bands as it suffers from extreme sag...

Snord wrote:

Not Online!!! wrote:
Well only one more proteus to go and then the 10 Tartaros terminators.

That's a nice collection of tanks. While we would all prefer some more plastic infantry, the HH tanks look great. It also looks as though the Land Raider goes together a bit more neatly than the Spartan.

Did you find that the rear panels of the Scorpius launcher a bit troublesome? There is a join that goes straight down the middle of the vents, and they didn't end up entirely level. Overall, their HH vehicle kits don't seem to be as well designed (in terms of assembly) as the latest WH40K kits.

Fun fact, the only thing that i have to say that is bad about the Scorpius is the fact that half the parts for the turret merely exist for GW to save plastic instead of ease of accessability, but beyond that no, i had not had any issues at all on it beyond getting agry at the turret.

Same can't be said about the sicarian frontal plate....

The proteus is basically LIKE the spartan BUT it has a singular floorplate and that makes it infinetly easier to build. Also i disagree, despite being often more parts in regards to turrets f.e. they are FAR easier to magnetise than 40k tanks.

BalerionTheBlackDread wrote:I notice a lot of comments about tank construction

My spartan was a NIGHTMARE I had to glue and re glue parts and my Rhino went together like a pile of soggy cardboard...

Lots of cutting and re-positioning I have a theory I think its Forgeworld designs being re made for plastics... So I am going to take it slow next time dry fit and double dry fit...

I think Spartans need Elastic bands as it suffers from extreme sag...

The spartan has the issue of having a split bottom plate, which basically makes the whole body , that is reliant on the bottom plate for statics and has the same issue with the top plate, one annoying tank.

Also in some cases it's better to change the steps around, f.e. the assault ramp, your' better off at starting it ONTOP of the ground plate.

Also in regards to the forge world designs... nope, if it were forgeworld then they'd chare you 100+$ for not even removing massive resin blocks.
This one is solely gw.

I often wonder how the forgeworld one went together? yeah it would be £100+ pray for not warped resin lol

I am definately going to attack the Spartan differently when I build my Typhon and Cerberus in regards to the bottom of the tank.

I wonder if GW ever even looked at the translation from resin designs to plastic in the frenzy to get Age of Darkness out?

 BalerionTheBlackDread wrote:
I often wonder how the forgeworld one went together? yeah it would be £100+ pray for not warped resin lol

I am definately going to attack the Spartan differently when I build my Typhon and Cerberus in regards to the bottom of the tank.

I wonder if GW ever even looked at the translation from resin designs to plastic in the frenzy to get Age of Darkness out?

Honestly i rekon if it were Resin, then it would be a singular Bottom plate, as it was AFAIK.

But GW isn't particular custommer friendly if they can save some pence on plastic.

Another random two week ban well spent

Rapier


Recon


Scorpius


Hobbit pattern Land Raider

 BalerionTheBlackDread wrote:
I notice a lot of comments about tank construction

My spartan was a NIGHTMARE I had to glue and re glue parts and my Rhino went together like a pile of soggy cardboard...

Lots of cutting and re-positioning I have a theory I think its Forgeworld designs being re made for plastics... So I am going to take it slow next time dry fit and double dry fit...

I think Spartans need Elastic bands as it suffers from extreme sag...

Funny I had no problems at all with the plastic Spartan, absolute dream compared to both the resin versions.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Another random two week ban well spent

There are some very good concepts amongst your designs. I'm not convinced that Mk III armour is well suited to the recon role, however.

 Snord wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Another random two week ban well spent

There are some very good concepts amongst your designs. I'm not convinced that Mk III armour is well suited to the recon role, however.

That's Mk2

Most legions only have Mk2 and Mk3 (which is just the same suit with extra armour bolted on to the front).

Mk2 was the most flexible and easy to move in army I believe at some point in the fluff. So definitely fits for recon roles.

Those look really cool. Have you tried printing any yet?

Not yet, it's still too cold here. Slowly chipping away at supporting them.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
That's Mk2

Looks like Mk III to me. But I’m not that bothered. The point is that this heavier armoured look doesn’t seem well suited to a recon role.