Land Raider Mark 1

Before
After


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80% there. I still have to paint thestowed gear, fuel cans, the driver mounts as well as leman russ style missle launcher system. All of this was on there previously of course but I stripped as much as I could to do this build. I want to have her done by tomorrow night at the latest and then I'll start on the Black Templar version of that Land Raider driver that just camoe out. If all goes well this one will be done for sure. I'm equiping another with updated lascannons but she will be heavily damaged looking when I'm done and the last is going to be a destroyed objective marker or part of my mechanicum building from the cities terrain. Not sure yet.

Where did you get that. I want one for my Deathguard.

I see ya kept the treads. They look good now that they're painted

I don't' know, if I were you I'd keep the last randraider just to drop them all down in apoc.

I might. I'm playing with the points now to see hwat I can fit in 3000. Thing is the other two may be shell land raiders. Unpainted and without weapons on the models just proxies as I want to work on my Hellhammer Bane blade. Doubt she will be done at this point but I want to try.

As for the tracks I didn't have any to mess with so may do the conversion to one of the others to see how it looks and keep this one old school. It does look better if they are painted right though. Course so monotonous painting all thos track pins.

https://2img.net/h/i182.photobucket.com/albums/x172/harmon75/Warhammer%2040k/Mark-I3.jpg

https://2img.net/h/i182.photobucket.com/albums/x172/harmon75/Warhammer%2040k/Mark-I2.jpg

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I don't think I'll ever be happy enough with this model to say she is done but for now she is just that. Fresh from her refit and painted in a minimal wear style to reflect a recomissioning from mothballs so to speak I give you all a Black Templar Rogue Trader era Mark 1 Land Raider.

I onl built this model because of Gronk (aka. Iron Death Tank) from the TSOLAR comic strips (Turn Signals on a Land Raider) http://tsoalr.com/?p=267 . I really just need a squat to go with it now to finish the theme.

Link to TSOLAR
http://tsoalr.com/?p=796

tight work as usual man.

that shit is hoooooooooooooot

by the way those are predator sponsons right? my Mk I has different (shittier) looking sponsons

Cool beans. got a 7.5 rating on Cool mini or not so far

http://www.coolminiornot.com/208199

I can't ever seem to get above that for most my work though my BFG stuff which is the easist to paint averages 8 or better sometimes.... go figure.

Mike,
I would say that most of the stuff on CMON that scores 8.5 and above showcases alot of advanced techniques like some serious blending, sculpting from scratch, and NMM.

I wonder if the BFG stuff is rated on a different scale, or is less scrutinized maybe?

Eitherway, getting a 7.5 I think says how great your work is . I doubt I'd get that high a score for anything that i've painted.

Don't be so humble Stephan, that WE hero with the dryads looks pretty awesome!

Mike, I get that this is the older land raider model? (Not a 40k player). Did you have to repair it or strip the paint? Lots of people showed admiration for restoring the model? In short, what's the story behind it?

Ah this model was an ebay purchase. As you can see the orginal pic above. I simply stripped and pried most of the parts off till I had a workable base and then re-primed her chaos black with about three coats. Needless to say this was my first assembled model paint job and I found it drustrating getting into all the nooks and crannys and of course having to leave certain hidden areas unpainted because I just couldn't get the angle to paint them right. Still this was alot of fun.

Now I do have their advanced painting guide and intend to start trying more blending techniques and non-metallic painting soon to see how I do. Wish me luck.

I only tried blending when I got to Miami, and it's doable. NMM is not for me: takes to long and I see nothing wrong with regular metallics. (Pembroke) Bill has a really nice lord of khorne done in NMM though

Mike you mentioned you wanted to paint a Khorne Lord mounted on a Jugger.

Actually thats's my wife who want's to try it. I figure it will be her stocking stuffer. She saw it in my White Dwarf and likes the look and color's. When it's done I'll post some pics. She is actually pretty good.

You know the one things I wish I could change on this model I couldn't was the Gas cans. Who goes into battle leading with fluel strapped to the front of their tank? Ah well was glued on there so well with one of those plastic melting glues it would have ruined the front of the model.

Also... Does anyone have the original stats for this model they could post on here. I'm curious how it is different from the new Land raider and what the point difference between on the old and new would be.

Michaelharmon wrote:You know the one things I wish I could change on this model I couldn't was the Gas cans. Who goes into battle leading with fluel strapped to the front of their tank? Ah well was glued on there so well with one of those plastic melting glues it would have ruined the front of the model.

Yep, you would have probably ruined it. I've had orc arms break at the elbow instead of coming off at the shoulder where I glued them onto the torso

NMM is a real time consuming process, because it requires a very straight line where the light and dark meet along edges. and doing it on round areas can also be a nightmare. I have a vampire lord on a abyssal terror where I did the small brass stitches and the brass tail in NMM brass, but when I got to the sword on the vampire, I mess up too many times that I had to call it quits cause I built up too much paint on the edge.

I just finished painting a Hordes warlock using a combination of dipping, blending, drying brushing, and using a floor wax to give the leather areas a sheen thats not as bright as gloss. The dipping process took off probably about 4 hours worth of work that I would normally take for a model like this.

I'll put it on my blog as soon as I get a decent camera pic of it.

I just noticed Stephan is a proud Male, Pisces, and Tiger hahaha (look under the hebrew hammer pic)

edit: actually never mind, seems I'm one of the few who didn't put down any of that info

Ovich wrote:NMM is a real time consuming process, because it requires a very straight line where the light and dark meet along edges. and doing it on round areas can also be a nightmare. I have a vampire lord on a abyssal terror where I did the small brass stitches and the brass tail in NMM brass, but when I got to the sword on the vampire, I mess up too many times that I had to call it quits cause I built up too much paint on the edge.

I just finished painting a Hordes warlock using a combination of dipping, blending, drying brushing, and using a floor wax to give the leather areas a sheen thats not as bright as gloss. The dipping process took off probably about 4 hours worth of work that I would normally take for a model like this.

I'll put it on my blog as soon as I get a decent camera pic of it.

I think someone needs to post a dictionary of acronyms. For example what the fuck is NMM?

rokassan wrote:

Ovich wrote:NMM is a real time consuming process, because it requires a very straight line where the light and dark meet along edges. and doing it on round areas can also be a nightmare. I have a vampire lord on a abyssal terror where I did the small brass stitches and the brass tail in NMM brass, but when I got to the sword on the vampire, I mess up too many times that I had to call it quits cause I built up too much paint on the edge.

I just finished painting a Hordes warlock using a combination of dipping, blending, drying brushing, and using a floor wax to give the leather areas a sheen thats not as bright as gloss. The dipping process took off probably about 4 hours worth of work that I would normally take for a model like this.

I'll put it on my blog as soon as I get a decent camera pic of it.

I think someone needs to post a dictionary of acronyms. For example what the fuck is NMM?

Non-metallic metals, a process of using flat, opaque colors to give the impression of a metal surface.

Ok. Now lets post a nerd/internet acronym dictionary.

http://thegamingsherpa.blogspot.com/2009/01/land-raider-mk-i-or-mk-ii-that-is.html

Check it out. Someone thiefed my pic for their web blog. I'm kinda touched.