I'm almost done the Minotaurs! I only have 2 special characters left and then that's it! I finished the summer off by painting the last vehicles for the chapter. This includes the Land Raider Crusader! You'll notice the side sponson weapons are quite a bit different from the standard Land Raider (or any land raider). As I mentioned before, this army is a repaint, including the Land Raider. The original crusader side sponsons were originally multi-part metal hurricane bolters. Each included about 8 pieces that no longer seemed to fit together. As I struggled with it, I had flash backs to 15+ years ago trying to assemble them. I had forgotten what a pain in the ass they were. I had no interest in trying, so looked online to see if I could buy the new plastic sponsons. That was too expensive to justify, so I turned to my bits collection. I managed to find two rotary cannons from Kromlech that would work as an equivalent to the hurricane bolters. I figured they looked like they were low strength, but had lots of shots, so work well as a proxy. To mount them, I flipped the metal bracket for the bolters around and clipped off one end. With the help of some green stuff I then managed to set the guns on the brackets convincingly enough. It really pays to keep old crap around for years until the right project presents itself.
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This was really boring to paint. Combining the worst aspects of miniature and terrain painting!
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Rhino rehab #2
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Quite the beast!
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Kromlech cannon
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5 comments:
The land raider looks great, especially the new kromlech guns
Very nice.
Great work Mike - way to stick with the Land Raider...I probably would have binned the thing. The Kromlech weapons look excellent, well done all around.
PS - I have the same view regarding drop pods...
I think the Kromlech guns are a huge improvement, I'd happily call this my favorite Land Raider I've ever seen.
Love those Kromlech guns. Nice job on the vehicles dude.
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