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So one of the models I am working on for my 8th edition blood angels army is the space marine primaris repulsor.
Let me be honest here.
This model sucks.
It looks like games workshop took a cool tank chassis covered it in glue and rolled it around in a bucket of random weapons bits. It is one of the most static models I have ever seen.
Now I love what it does on the tabletop. It is a ton of fun to roll all those dice and make hover tank noises and you push it around the table.
I have been shot by them in a tournament. It took like 15 minutes to resolve all the guns. It smoked my sad little plague marines.
That being said I wanted to roll one i thought i could do a bad ass job spiffing one up and making it look like it should.
Above you can see (and buy if you need one) the standard pose of this hover tank. Mind you its a hover tank that is hovering blandly in one spot.
I started off by buying chunks of the tank off of ebay. I purchased the hull the turret and other things by the end of it I might as well have just purchased the kit.
I made a few tweaks most noticeably to the magnetic hover plates to open the model up and see more of the hull of the tank. There is a ton of smooth space on the tank that is going to be covered in blood angel art when it is done. But even then we got the static tank just sitting there.
The goal was to give the tank the idea of movement and power that given its size, bulk and rules it shows on the tabletop. What I learned is that it takes very little to make completely alter the composition/aesthetic of a model.
All I did here was take a piece of card stock pipe and cut it at an angle. Then I added a substantial amount of glue to get this sucker fixed to the base and fixed to the model. We now have a tank that is banking and slewing its turret around to acquire a target for its 400 shots.
The addition of a flag i think from the age of sigmar empire unit (whatever they are called now it was just in the bits box) helped further the illusion of the tank hauling ass across the battlefield.
Anyway it doesn't take much to make a model truly standout from its peers this is an example of just that. Also below is a kit I purchased from amazon that I can highly recommend. You get a random sample of plasticcard stock pieces. This is perfect for terrain and base work and all sorts of random mini related projects. I have used it far more than I ever expected to.
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-falconator