A genuinely lovely model. I want more of them ;-)
Showing posts with label Solar Auxilia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Solar Auxilia. Show all posts
Thursday, 9 July 2015
Solar Auxilia - Dracosan Transport (Part 4 - finished!!)
I really enjoyed doing this tank. Forgeworld have put so much detail into it that it almost paints itself. They didn't leave much room for decals though!
A genuinely lovely model. I want more of them ;-)
A genuinely lovely model. I want more of them ;-)
Monday, 6 July 2015
Solar Auxilia - Dracosan Transport (Part 3 - detailing)
I like the way this is going!
There's still some way to go (searchlight, exhausts - including a repair, gunner, smoke launchers etc.) but I'm definitely getting there!
There's still some way to go (searchlight, exhausts - including a repair, gunner, smoke launchers etc.) but I'm definitely getting there!
Thursday, 2 July 2015
Solar Auxilia - Dracosan Transport (Part 2 - starting to paint)
The paint is going on!
Since my earlier post, I've masked off the tracks, searchlight and weapons and then re-sprayed the whole tank with grey rattlecan primer.
The masking was removed and the whole tank brush-mottled with a slightly darker grey, before getting a heavy drybrushing in white.
Next I will start work on tidying up the details on the tank, which is all brush-work. I like this two-phased approach of "broad brush"/"detailed work". As long as you're prepared to treat the detailed phase as "pick out the important bits - don't try to paint everything" I end up with a tank which (I think) looks great overall and isn't too time-consuming to do.
More news as it comes in.
Since my earlier post, I've masked off the tracks, searchlight and weapons and then re-sprayed the whole tank with grey rattlecan primer.
The masking was removed and the whole tank brush-mottled with a slightly darker grey, before getting a heavy drybrushing in white.
Next I will start work on tidying up the details on the tank, which is all brush-work. I like this two-phased approach of "broad brush"/"detailed work". As long as you're prepared to treat the detailed phase as "pick out the important bits - don't try to paint everything" I end up with a tank which (I think) looks great overall and isn't too time-consuming to do.
More news as it comes in.
Monday, 29 June 2015
Solar Auxilia - Dracosan Transport (part 1 - rebuilding)
I semi-accidentally seem to have fallen into building a Warhammer 30K/Horus Heresy army.
I was looking for transport options for my Imperial Guard/Astra Militarum army and found a tank up for grabs on eBay for a snip. I grabbed it up before I realised that it was actually a Solar Auxilia Heresy-era tank.
It was in a shocking state when I got it; Mis-built, parts missing etc.
I knew very little about this tank when I got the model. A bit of research told me that it could carry 10 troops if fitted with a demolisher cannon, or 20 if fitted with a twin-linked lascannon. When it arrived, it had neither. In it's place was some sort of control-panel gizmo which as near as I can tell has nothing to do with this model.
The model should also have a searchlight (missing) and a pintle-mounted weapon (missing).
Also missing was the gunner's head.
Off to the bitzbox!
I wanted to be able to carry 20 troops so I went for the tl-lascannon option. I had a couple of old metal space-marine shoulder-mounted lascannon that I glued together. I then removed the control-panel doohickey and routed out a hole in the model and glued them in place, covering the join with green-stuff to represent a flexible cowling like on Chimera hull-mounted weapons.
I had an old flamer which I cobbled together with an old pintle-mounted storm bolter to make a pintle-mounted flamer. An old searchlight was added and the gunner's head came from one of the free-standing pilot models that come in the Valkyrie set.
Judging by the casting quality and the quality of the resin I don't think this is a Forgeworld original. It's a telling sign that it came in a box festooned with Chinese characters too, I think. As such there was a fair bit of warping so some green-stuff filling was required too.
There's not much I can do about the missing rockers from the back.
Still - it's shaping up!
I was looking for transport options for my Imperial Guard/Astra Militarum army and found a tank up for grabs on eBay for a snip. I grabbed it up before I realised that it was actually a Solar Auxilia Heresy-era tank.
It was in a shocking state when I got it; Mis-built, parts missing etc.
I knew very little about this tank when I got the model. A bit of research told me that it could carry 10 troops if fitted with a demolisher cannon, or 20 if fitted with a twin-linked lascannon. When it arrived, it had neither. In it's place was some sort of control-panel gizmo which as near as I can tell has nothing to do with this model.
The model should also have a searchlight (missing) and a pintle-mounted weapon (missing).
Also missing was the gunner's head.
Off to the bitzbox!
I wanted to be able to carry 20 troops so I went for the tl-lascannon option. I had a couple of old metal space-marine shoulder-mounted lascannon that I glued together. I then removed the control-panel doohickey and routed out a hole in the model and glued them in place, covering the join with green-stuff to represent a flexible cowling like on Chimera hull-mounted weapons.
I had an old flamer which I cobbled together with an old pintle-mounted storm bolter to make a pintle-mounted flamer. An old searchlight was added and the gunner's head came from one of the free-standing pilot models that come in the Valkyrie set.
Judging by the casting quality and the quality of the resin I don't think this is a Forgeworld original. It's a telling sign that it came in a box festooned with Chinese characters too, I think. As such there was a fair bit of warping so some green-stuff filling was required too.
There's not much I can do about the missing rockers from the back.
Still - it's shaping up!
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