Finally another how-to article from the Greiss man! I decided to get off my butt and taking a 40K break and do something a little different with the armored fleet. After seeing pictures of german panzers, I wanted to give them a more realistic camo feel. I started by adding foliage taken from my old terrain. You can find these trees at any hobby shop. I basically took the trees and diced them up into small sections. Referencing the pictures, I superglued the branches to the hull and the turrents. Voila, that was easy!
Next, I decided to do some things with the Basilik. The bulk of the work was making a gunner's sight. Modern day artillery guns use a sight to reference tube quadrant (up and down) and deflection (left and right). The sights basically consist of crank handles, counter readings, and small buttons. I started with the ammo box off of the old storm bolter apparatus. I cut a small piece of cardstock, roughly the same size as the top of the box and glued it into place. The upper sight consists of the end of a Rhino's side rails and bits of sprue cut to shape. The left side handles are again, cut up sprue and small bits of metal. Again I used the rhino's side rail to attach the sight to the gun. It was then sprayed in white and shaded with bleached bone. I used a rapidograph drafting pen to draw in the dials, counter, and small buttons. A speck of royal blue was added to the top appature.
A ramming staff was made from sprue and the end heated up and flattened to shape. I attached a lanyard, by using thread, superglued to the front of the breech and connected to the gun chief's hand. It was later painted with dark tan acrylics. I attached the lasgun rack, ammo box and tarps to finish it off. Voila! Again too easy!
SENTINELS
Again, I wanted something different. The smoke launchers from an old rhino were attached to the upper roll cage on two of the vehicles. I used the front rhino headlight to make a FLIR/nightsight device for the other. I glued it underneath the chin and painted the openings with chrome silver. I then added a small clear plastic jewel into one of the headlight wells.
Boarding ladder:
Man, I love sprue, you can damn near make anything outta of the stuff. Using the pieces and cutting them to length, I was able to achieve the desired effect. Included is a diagram of what it took to put it together.
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