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I got in a goodly bit of brush time this week, and opted to spend it on my Medusa/Vindicator. Sure, sure, some Ork units probably deserve paint more than this after last weekend's game, but oh well. They'll just have to wait.
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| The starting point from this tank's last appearance on here. |
In 30k, Blackshields have access to Pariah armor and weaponry, so why not vehicles too? In this particular case, It'll serve as a Medusa (on a rhino hull), with the same stats/point cost as the original. The only difference will be the omission of the hull mounted heavy bolter. Call it the cost of proxying.
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| The basic (and as usual, sloppy as hell) color base coats and dry brushing. |
In 40k, this will serve as a Vindicator with my Chaos renegades (yes, said renegades are in fact my Blackshields from 30k). Given that I only have one opponent with which to play 30k, I figure making the army cross-compatible with 40k is a good idea. In the latter case, they'll be recently-minted renegades, and thus bereft of the usually over-abundant spikes and mutations on every surface of...well, everything..
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| Edges all cleaned up and ready for decals! |
The decals are a mix of those from
Fall out Hobby's Evil Machine Cult and the
Betrayal of Calth's Word Bearers. The two work fairly well together I think, and give it a fairly unique appearance. After applying the decals I finished up the sensor pod, the right 'eye' of which I drilled out to serve as the pintle mounted combi-bolter.
Following that I got to the fun part and dirtied it up. Nothing too heavy though as I didn't want to obscure all of the runes. Also, unusually for me, this tank is bereft of battle damage or scarring, not even any rust. I suppose I got ahead of myself as I usually add that before the dirtying up part. Oh well, I guess it's a
new build.
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| Ta dah! |
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| The cannon's operating instructions no doubt.... |
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| ...and the loading instructions, lol. |
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| Quite intimidating from this angle! |
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| I wanted to use the lens in the mouth as the gun, but from the side, there's nothing behind it really, meaning there was nothing to resemble a weapon's housing. |
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| In studying after action pict captures, Imperial observers from both millenia have found these runes and symbols to be mystifying. |
Anyways, I'm quite pleased with the end results.
5 comments:
That did turn out awesome! I like thise decals too!
I like that fact the that the Blackshields were concerned enough to include instructions.
lol, a lack of Techmarines to provide personal instruction will do that...
Magnificent !
thanks!
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