The Imperial Guard Tread-head thread

[major soma]

more pics of the bassi

[Diter VonGoad]

How do you obtain that grey color? I mean what do you used that shade?

Heavy dry brush of shadow Grey over a black under coat, followed by space wolf grey.

[Logarithm Udgaur]

How did you model ERA armor on those chaos tanks?

Probably some type of textured plasticard/sheet styrene. You should be able to pick some up at an architectural supply shop.

I have managed to get some more done last night and it is nearing completion. Have fitted little atch in open position above the middle section where all the pipes etc are. (The bit on the new hull section with the Hellhoud kit.) I am going to have to make up some sort of smaller tractor to carry spare rockets and load them. Not sure what to use yet. may just make a trailer?

Also attached is photograph of Baneblade and Shadowsword on my bench.

If that is not a Manticore , I am a loyalist.

[Borsil]

Love flicking through this thread - lots of great work folks

Ah, that Balck Widow. I was thinking maybe some current day army had a missile system called after the spider and perhaps it looked similar. Good name though, I may adopt that.

Only RW military vehicles that use Black Widow I can think of is an old WW2 American tactical bomber/night fighter and the YF23 prototype fighter - maybe you heard it referring to one of those?

[Volchek]

How did you model ERA armor on those chaos tanks?

The "reactive armour" on the chaos tanks is sheet styrene. You can get "sidewalk" or "tile" in varying square measurements, from 1/16" to 1/2"

I love the stuff. The tile grid only shows on one side. Score the slot between the tiles with a sharp Xacto blade and it snaps apart nice & clean. It's awesome if you are trying to scratch-build something and don't want the tile grid to show because you can simply use the grid as a measurement, snap off what you need, and turn it flat side out.

[Hrw-Amen]

Logarithm Udgaur - I tried to not make it look Manticore'ish. I always felt the missiles on a Manticore were a lot bigger. That is why I have put 8 on it and not just the 4. I guess it could be used as one, but I was thinking more of a Hydra role, just with ground to air missiles rather than autocannon.

There was a post a few days ago about a Tanith army. I got mine out this morning to photograph for that. Although it is quite a few years old, I remembered that I made quite a few scratch built vehicles for it. Mainly half-tracks, but there are ne or two other conversions, like the Salamander. I can remember Gaunt riding in one of those. Also the Wartracks, they had something similar when escorting a convoy at one point.

[N0th1ng c4n b34t 3lv3s]

A more extensive amount of armour here than at Kursk! A collective spectacle of mad IG tankbuilding. It's good to see that a lot of people scratchbuild and doesn't hesitate for chopping up and recombining tank hulls. I expect that more light, armoured cars will pop up here once FW releases their Elysian buggy.

But now, just to drive a manic point of mine home at such an obvious spot...

Well, you deadhard 40k tankers, what about a Fantasy challenge for the Skaven release?

Rules: First one to build an insane vehicle out of Doomwheels - a monster truck, for instance - wins. Reserve doomwheel is obligatory.

[Hrw-Amen]

Here are some small trucks made from the old fashioned Ork ones many years ago. I think the front cab roof was from the Armagedon Setinel if memory serves. Sorry, I have not posted them before as they are not actually tracked. But if anyone is interested. I juist made them to tow small field guns. Apart from one which is pulling a longer trailor. This was inspired by that caravan thingy that the colonel rides around in from the film Battle of the Bulge, if anyone remembers it?

If you want to see some Chaos armoured cars that I built then here is a link. They are supposed to be those Steg4 ones from the Gaunts Ghosts that Gaur's forces were using.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm3gOy-QTqs

[nooker]

Hrw-Amen, I like your stuff. I made something similar out of paper for Necromunda & Gorka Morka:

[Hrw-Amen]

nooker - I use stiff card for a lot ofmy things. I made the Tanith vehicles so that the backs were large enough o take a whole squad of IG troops. Those buildings that you have photos of, did you paint them yourself or can youbuy them already done, ready to make up? They look pretty good for a city scape.

major soma - Thanks for the basi photos. I was wondering what the small turret on the top is made from?

[major soma]

It was a spare turret from a korean apc kit

[nooker]

Hrw-Amen I assume you are referring to this:

and I bought the PDFs from World Works Games (http://www.worldworksgames.com/). I really like their stuff. That one came from one of their PC (Platform Command) sets which I have all of. I also have their Mars Station set which is very cool. Since you print it off onto cardstock, it is prepainted.

Ooops, sorry, this is the tread head thread. Both the PC Battleground & PC Red Sector have some great treads that work great for GW games.

[de Selby]

Hello, not been in this thread before, but I have just finished painting 1500 pts of IG so here is some treadz for your headz.





Detail:

[malika]

Here are some small trucks made from the old fashioned Ork ones many years ago. I think the front cab roof was from the Armagedon Setinel if memory serves. Sorry, I have not posted them before as they are not actually tracked. But if anyone is interested. I juist made them to tow small field guns. Apart from one which is pulling a longer trailor. This was inspired by that caravan thingy that the colonel rides around in from the film Battle of the Bulge, if anyone remembers it?

If you want to see some Chaos armoured cars that I built then here is a link. They are supposed to be those Steg4 ones from the Gaunts Ghosts that Gaur's forces were using.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm3gOy-QTqs

Got bigger pics?

[chromedog]

Well a black widow is a spider native to most parts of the world, the one I was thinking of was it's Australian varient, which has a red, orange stripe going down it's back. Any way the point is this spide has a cool name and matches the description of you vehicle.

The Aus variant of the Black Widow is simply called a "redback". It's like a third cousin-twice removed.
While venomous, it hasn't killed anyone in years - the antivenine is at every hospital as it was one of the first produced by CSL. Most bites will make you quite sick, but you'll get over it. Only the very young, old and those with compromised immune systems die from its bite.

Interesting thing is that the redback and black widow are still close enough as a species that they can interbreed. The offspring LACK the usual markings - and ARE deadly. For some reason, the weaker redback makes the BW venom more deadly in the hybrid.

Nice work on the tanks, though.

[SSG Snuffy]

@de Selby: Great work on the tanks & APCs! The mud is quite convincing, and I really like the boots on the back deck. I can't say that I'm too fond of the blue lascannons, but... to each his own. Very nice, overall.

[Desert thunder]

I like the boots on the back of the tank. It's an interesting touch.

[the_yuk]

Does that mean we have a barefoot tanker? The mud is really good looks nice and sticky.

[Mr Kibbles]

Awesome weathering/mud de Selby.

[de Selby]

@de Selby: Great work on the tanks & APCs! The mud is quite convincing, and I really like the boots on the back deck. I can't say that I'm too fond of the blue lascannons, but... to each his own. Very nice, overall.

Cheers! I deliberately went for unrealistic colours on the futuristic energy weapons in the army, to make it look a bit more sci-fi. I know this is a bit marmite-y.

I like the boots on the back of the tank. It's an interesting touch.

Thanks, I nicked the idea from someone else (can't remember who) who used an actual tank detailing kit including spare boots.

Does that mean we have a barefoot tanker?

I liberated them from this vet sergeant, Doc Butcha style:
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y89...y/S1036640.jpg

Awesome weathering/mud de Selby.

Thanks for all the positive feedback. The weathering, such as it is, is just some khaki sponged on to represent older dirt and then a load of my own mud mixture, which is budget snow mix (baking soda, white glue and water) plus brown acrylic paint from a squeezy tube. Pathetically simple, like me.