October 2017. New minis for Epic Armageddon. I didn't see this coming.I was asked if I could lent some Land Raiders, said yes and realised too late that I hadn't that many. So I made some, keeping close to the design of GW's Epic Land Raiders. They were good enough and I wondered how far I would be able to increase the detail level and so I tried to model some vehicles with a detail level comparable to the 28mm models GW produces. That's what came out of it: |
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Land Raider I started with the Land Raider, as I had just done one. The number and Wolfhead are decals, everything else is modelled including the eagle. The model is 35.5mm long. At some time I did a version with pivoting Lascannons, but in the end I choose to fix the cannons, because mounting the weapons was very fiddly. The Twin Heavy Bolter and the 2 large hatches are separate pieces allowing some additional variation. |
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Predator Annihilator The second main battle tank of Space Marines is the Predator. It comes in two flavours: Anti Tank in form of the Annihilator and Vlose Combat Support as Destructor. I started with the Annihilator, because it features strongly in my typical army list.Looking at the tracks, you can see that I leaned a bit heavy on the spray can. |
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Whirlwind I'm probably the only one using Whirlwinds and I love them. There are variants withe raised and straight launchers and even one firing missiles. The hatch is a separate piece and with the non-firing versions the launcher as well. |
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Hunter In games terms a very expensive AA tank, based on the Rhino with some additional armour. The weapon is a seperate piece and there are two versions of missiles being fired. |
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Land Speeder Now something completely different. There are two version with minor differences and two heights of stands. The crew has studded shoulder pads. |
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Warhounds It's rare that I do larger models, but once in a white.... The armylist called for some Warhounds. The GW Warhounds are ok, but I like the Forgeworld style better. At the beginning I designed the head to look like the FW one, but later on I changed that to a wolf-head to be in style with the army.
The weapons are separate models and fastened with magnets, which allows them to be exchanged and to pivot. The hip is a single piece with stubs to mount the legs and torso. When the legs are "posable" the feet have to be separate parts as well. All in all a Warhound consists of 7 pieces. There are 4 different legs. Each can be used s right or left leg. Right now there are only the two standard weapons, more might follow. As an afterthought I should have mounted the torso to the hip by using magnets instead of an pin. |
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Predator Destructor For a different list I needed a Predator Destructor so I designed some. Which was quite straight forward after having done the Annihilator earlier. WIP. |
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All together now Some group shots - without Destructors, |