It has been a while since I posted anything here, which i apologize for. Things have been more hectic than what would considered to be "optimal." To break up the monotony, here is a quickly terrain project: super heavy scale tank traps! While dinning at one of our regular buffet restaurants, I became a bit curious about the shape of a desert cup that they were using for serving their presumed "strawberry cheesecake" pudding out of.



After much obsessing over, I made a quick mold of it, added some Aquila symbols to it and ta-da! A tank trap big enough to give a Baneblade a headache! And large enough to provide some cover for even a terminator.



The first mold attempt had problems with distortion, but was good enough to be made usable with some sanding and shaping. Second mold attempt came out much better, but the resin began to behave a bit funny with the last three runs. Got around twenty made before I finally ran out of resin. This should be more than enough for a 4' x 6' table, you can't keep the super heavy vehicles coupe up in too little of a space. In hindsight, I should have tried to mold them as a hollow object, rather than a solid chunk of resin, might have been able to stretch out the production for another possible three to six pieces. Another problem is a concern about attaching them to the necessary bases with screws instead of just straight glue. Either way, they will look good at the local GW store whenever another Apocalypse game is set up for play.

Another random in progress shot...

Another installment on another installment on the Excelsior land raider. At some point I had the wacko idea to make it look more akin to a relic tank dating back to may be even before/during the heresy era. So got a pair of volkite cannons, and had to figure out a way to make it fit the sponsons on the chassis. If anyone ever decides to do this themselves, I suggest you use the gun supports from the LR crusader, since there is much less to cut off on them than the las cannon supports. On the other hand, the las cannon supports do have more mechanical bits on them.

And I am calling it quits on the painting for the Primaris. At some point you just got to be merciful, put down the paint brush, and set it on the display shelf. Now to finish the damn land raider....

Calling it quits on sculpting all of the detailing on the Rhino Primaris, Will be tormenting it with a paint brush in a little bit. Referring to the legend of the Dragon Gate, the Primaris gets to be decorated with carp/koi while the LR Excelsior gets dragons, and one big big eagle. The dozerblade is magnetized, and the turrets are held in by simple friction. Was going to make it be modular enough to be a predator, but the side doors kind of put the cabash on that. Basically is going to be a support tank whenever on the table top.

A few new WIPs...

Long time, no head shot.... So, to offer proof that I am still alive and being productive, not slumped over my work desk decomposing, here are a few pics of "my version" of the Landraider Excelsior and Rhino Primaris. I started this sometime last year right about when the exclusive kit was made available(only from the big store in Britain). I like the concept of a paired set of vehicles that give some form of "buffs" to other units on the tabletop, but wanted to do something larger scale or more bling covered than what was released. Kind of how my BlingBlade baneblade tank project from years ago. May be it is over the top, but then again we are talking about 40K.

Hopefully more will come soon.