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Heres my first try at a scratch built vehicle. Not really sure what it is. I had made the sides as Armor skirts from my chimera, but didnt like them. However, I had put so much work into them, that I didnt want to waste them..thus I started making this beasty! I suppose its acts as a chimera as a troop transport with a few weapon differences. There is room below the upper floor for troops on a bench. So size wise its on par with the chimera with open areas for a few guardsman to fire out. Anway, here are some pics. If anyone has any thoughts or ideas as what to call it, im open to suggestions.

how about a chupa-thingy?


j/k it looks great, acting as a chimera, i would name it a hippogriff. same stlye name, dont think IG have a tank named that and its just a fun word to say

hippogriff

(eidted for speilling)

its not far off from a Salamander. Maybe call it a Newt?

It almost looks like a centaur.

Yeah I was thinking it looked kinda like the FW stuff, but I believe those really arnt troop carriers? Newt is cool, or I even likda liked the hippogrif. All cool ideas. I might revisit it and try a different track pattern. Seeing as ow the orginal pattern was supposd to be a skirt, I think I could come up with a cooler side profile for the track housing.

I'd just call it a salamander (insert planetary body) variant and call it a day.

Nice paint job though.

I would call it a "Mastiff," myself. It's stocky as hell.


Ghidorah

rules-wise, I think it would work well as an open-topped fast transport vehicle for your IG. Throw in some suicide or insane guys that feel like assualting straight out of the tank.

call it a 'puma'. ha.

definitely a salamander....command vehicle! it can have the heavy bolter and the hull mounted flamer.

Strams wrote:

Personally, I think you should re-do the heavy flamer. As it is, you just have it stuck to a flat surface. It hardly looks useable. There is no traverse, up or down, nor is there any way for a firing mechanism to operate it from the inside.

If you were to make a simple rectangular slit in the hull where it is meant to be mounted, maybe 1.5 - 2 times the width of the weapon base (what you have connecting to the hull now) and attach the weapon to a cylindrical mount housed behind the slot, inside the hull, you would have a perfect-looking, operational weapon mount. it doesn't actually have to move, it just ought to look like it can.

A nice reference photo would be the WWII M-3 Lee/Grant tank. Here is a Hasegawa 1/72 scale model of one. Well, the box art, anyway...




Another (and probably easier) idea may be to do a simple green-stuff "boar's head" mantlet such as the ones on the 38t Hetzer tank destroyer:




I dunno. It's your model. If you like it as is, excellent. It is a nice conversion all the same. Good-looking model. I would just like to see this already great kit taken just that one step further...



Ghidorah

alarmingrick wrote:definitely a salamander....command vehicle! it can have the heavy bolter and the hull mounted flamer.

never heard of it. But it definately looks like a Salamander variant.

And a cool one, too.

You should make a whole army of them .

Excellent suggestion Ghidorah, I think I will do that..it was kinda an fterthought fro the flamer.. something that looked more "intergrated" would certainly look better.

it's open topped anyway, you could hull mount the HB and put the flamer on a turret.

It really reminds me of the WWI tank like the one the Germans used in Indian Jones: The Last Crusade. A bit stockier of course but same overall shape

This is great!

Ok based on input from the lovely members of this board, I decided to give it another try, this time it truly is a Salamander variant. Maybe a Newt? Mudpuppy?

I also took the advise and altered the hippogrif a bit...making the flamer on the front have a more sensible mount. Some lights and a few other details helped it a bit.

That looks great! I love the way that that the Autocannon has its own little recess to move. Are you going to have someone in the turret commanding it or leaving it as it is?

It's looking much better. Keep it up!

Those are great! The new one especially captures the cramped akwardness of old tank designs. I love 'em!!

Are those 1/35th scale Sherman tracks?

"Are those 1/35 scale sherman tracks?"

Yup, I made my own track housing.

I like the paint job, looks like it's seen a crap load of action.