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 Pacific wrote:
Snord, very good guess and you were close with Tamiya! I think it was a Rubicon 1/48 stowage set for WW2 vehicles. Absolutely loads of gubbins to add to vehicles. I really wish GW would do a stowage/accessories sprue for vehicles - its one of the things missing, whenever you see photos of vehicles during war they are always covered in loads of spares, things they are carrying for troops etc.

Yes, I should have realised that Tamiya parts would be bigger.

I’ve always preferred to add stowage to GW vehicles, but I have found it difficult to find items that seem to belong on Heresy vehicles. I don’t think Marines would have bedrolls, knapsacks and duffel bags. I ended up adding sandbags to my SoH tanks.

I am trying to restrict the force to MKII and MKIII only, and have had fun researching what things were more or less common during the Crusade (when compared to the Heresy era). These will hopefully build up to a playable force for HH, which was never really a prospect for the Sons of Horus (as it took me a weekend to do one marine!) I am restricting myself to weapon and head swaps, to cut down on build time.
Hopefully more to come soon (I am putting together some of the brilliant new MKII assault marines at the moment)

These are good colours. Is there something missing from the Sergeant’s volkite weapon?

Today's progress. Much easier than the Dracosan. The tolerances on this kit are insane - too good in fact - there's no room for glue in between the parts!

Saving the mold line cleaning on the tracks for a slow day at work.

I really like the Heresy Leman Russ models, am using them for my 40K Armoured Company which will double up in my Heresy Militia army.

These were a slog, pretty sure it was faster to build the 3 Russes, they are legitimately a deterrent to me recommending an Auxilia army to anyone

+great sculpts
+very very well hidden mold lines for soft-surface infantry
+fairly generous with exotic bits (3 needle pistols, 4 hand flamers, etc... left over from this one unit)

-mislabeled parts
-no alignment pegs anywhere despite only going together one way
-usual issues of arms not reaching around the chest plate properly
-if you put arms just a bit too high, you can't fit in the shoulder pads

A most regrettable switch back to the Legions

This kit is awful. It's all one shell with zero internal bracing, contact points so tiny the parts don't align, outer hull sides are literally held in place by the track links.

The track sprue is a low tier "made in china" type I haven't seen from GW in a long time, with soft detail and massive mold lines, to the point the links don't slot together if you don't shave a significant amount of material in the slits and pegs.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
This kit is awful. It's all one shell with zero internal bracing, contact points so tiny the parts don't align, outer hull sides are literally held in place by the track links.

The track sprue is a low tier "made in china" type I haven't seen from GW in a long time, with soft detail and massive mold lines, to the point the links don't slot together if you don't shave a significant amount of material in the slits and pegs.

Strange - I didn't find the Sicaran kit anything like this bad. I agree that the top of the hull could do with some proper bracing, as I had some trouble getting everything properly aligned, but otherwise it was okay. I haven't done the tracks yet, nor do they have that 'made in China' look.

 Snord wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
This kit is awful. It's all one shell with zero internal bracing, contact points so tiny the parts don't align, outer hull sides are literally held in place by the track links.

The track sprue is a low tier "made in china" type I haven't seen from GW in a long time, with soft detail and massive mold lines, to the point the links don't slot together if you don't shave a significant amount of material in the slits and pegs.

Strange - I didn't find this kit anything like this bad. I agree that the top of the hull could do with some proper bracing, as I had some trouble getting everything properly aligned, but otherwise it was okay. I haven't done the tracks yet, nor do they have that 'made in China' look.

Huh?

out of all my significant tanks i built the sicarian was the one that gave me the least issues tbh? Is it a normal one right? Or is it the venator variant?


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 lord_blackfang wrote:
Today's progress. Much easier than the Dracosan. The tolerances on this kit are insane - too good in fact - there's no room for glue in between the parts!

Saving the mold line cleaning on the tracks for a slow day at work.

Malcador is the most painful one, due to the turret just beeing asinine.
Best tank to build imo was the Basilisk / Medusa.

Been yonks since I built a Sicaran, so please allow for faulty memory. But I don’t recall it giving me any grief?

As with other posts not had any problems building either plastic Sicaran kit and the tracks follow the original Forgeworld resin versions.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Today's progress. Much easier than the Dracosan. The tolerances on this kit are insane - too good in fact - there's no room for glue in between the parts!

Saving the mold line cleaning on the tracks for a slow day at work.

Curious - you do use a "thin poly cement" type of glue, and not the regular kind we still used during the 90s / 00s? Thin poly cements are perfect for tight tolerance kits like this, you just hold the piece and dab the glue onto the join (at the least noticable spot), capillary action pulls the glue right where it needs to go. 5/5. I dont ever want to go back to not using them. Sure enough, for larger contacts you still might prefer the old style cements, but most of my gluing is thin poly cement work these days, especially considering how intricate the builds have become

Just the regular old Revell Contacta with needle applicator, tauist. Thanks for the advice.

No change of opinion after the second Venator, although I had less trouble with the tracks. Don't know if it was a better cast or if I just did a better job cleaning them, knowing ahead of time now that they were too tight.

Leaving the main gun and the top cables off for easier painting I think.

Easter egg in the back for Doc.

Hey! Classic Skellington!

I'm painting up two units: a unit of tactical vets with disintegrators and an assault squad with jump packs. I'm also assembling 3 saturnine terminators.

Got a Sicaran Punisher for Christmas, new and sealed in its box, (know idea how the other half got her hands on it but was a fantastic surprise)

Just made the turret, hull to follow later today, then it’s off to join my VI Legion army

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Just the regular old Revell Contacta with needle applicator, tauist. Thanks for the advice.

No change of opinion after the second Venator, although I had less trouble with the tracks. Don't know if it was a better cast or if I just did a better job cleaning them, knowing ahead of time now that they were too tight.

Leaving the main gun and the top cables off for easier painting I think.

Easter egg in the back for Doc.

If you do decide to give a thin poly cement a try, pro tip - avoid the popular Tamiya Thin Poly Cement and go straight for the GOAT, Mr- Hobby Mr. Cement SP. I swear by it. Best damn poly cement I've ever used. Its also available in black, for folks with OCD who want to avoid any and all glue residues showing on the model

And fully built it
For a Forgeworld Resin model did enjoy building it.

Your gunhole. It goes ratatatatatatatatatataatt!!!

 Shark in Exile wrote:
And fully built it
For a Forgeworld Resin model did enjoy building it.

It looks very well put together - nice job. I can't see any warping or miscast parts either. I wish they'd hurry up and release this variant in plastic - it's one of my favourite HH vehicles.

Happy New Year!

Finally got around to doing some work on my Darkmech.

Shiny!

Nice! Makes me want to get my outstanding Mechanicum units painted.

Ursarax just need a strategic skoosh of black to cover some missed bits and are then good to go.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Shiny!

Soon glowy if all goes to plan. Then it's onwards to a WHFB Estalian / Tilean army to compete against my chaos army for attention.

I do love a good pike and shot formation....

Oh i also have a flame malcador somewhere that i need to do...


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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Nice! Makes me want to get my outstanding Mechanicum units painted.

Ursarax just need a strategic skoosh of black to cover some missed bits and are then good to go.

I dare you. DO IT.
Insert actor meme.

Oh they’re on the slate!

I’m putting this here because it sort of fits (not really though)…in the course of moving apartment, I discovered I had 2 Space Crusade boxes, minus most of the miniatures. The only survivors were a couple of the so-called Chaos Dreadnoughts. I also found that I had replaced all the original miniatures with 3rd Edition-era plastic Marines etc, but that’s another story. So, on a whim, I decided to try and update the Dreadnought. It’s a really lumpy old sculpt; it’s not even symmetrical, and the ‘face’ is very silly. But it has a certain charm, and I had some suitable bits available. I decide to lean into the killer robot look that the original is based on (ED-209 from Robocop), And here is the end result:

Very nice!

But also my inner vintage toy nerd is shedding a small, irrelevant tear for Precious Thing converted.

Space Crusade!

There. I've said it and got it out of my system.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
But also my inner vintage toy nerd is shedding a small, irrelevant tear for Precious Thing converted.

I hear you, Mad Doc. I still have one that’s almost pristine, although I am planning to convert it into an RT-style Deredo to go with my Heresy RTBO1 beakies.

Long Legs from Mission Dreadnought!

Sorry, sorry...doing it again.

I don't usually post here because I prefer to post finished pictures so I don't harvest dopamine before the work is done, but I am having so much fun kitbashing I am making an exception.



Centurions of the 7th and 8th cohorts. Tried to go for some very different personalities!

Neat!