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[ChernayaAkula]

^ M113?

The giant Tau dropship is beyond awesome! So is the bridge-layer! 

[Sauragnmon]

The irony is, that Rhino is actually straight up OOB.  That's the way the new-series production of the Rhino looks, since the mid-late 90's when they recut the whole design of the Rhino from the original model.  They refined some of the details, but the rhomboidal appearance of the core and the trapezoidal track units are the same original.

It does in a way look like the M-113.  And in game it's about as tough as one, maybe a little tougher.

I could always put up some of my 40K miniatures shots here if you guys want, I've done a number of pieces, I collected for years and have done my own custom pieces in that context as well.  You might say that's where I started my whif preparations.  I did models, then I got into 40K because it was models that I could do something more with, then I stopped having regular access to playing the games, kept collecting a little, the prices got a little too steep, I noticed the prices of ship models weren't as bad, I remembered SR's stuff and the rest I've explained before.

[Steel Penguin]

the rinos a cross between the M113 and the FV432, its used a the base for a family of vehicles by GW, the MICV is the razorback and the light tank is the Predator, the moder iteration of which look amazingly like the FV432-30, in its auto cannon variation.
   my reaction on the Manta was "woah" and then i realised that ive nowhere to put a new coffie table and im still slightly concerned vis the ability of the resin to support its own weight, and not sag. ( i had an interesting chat with some one who claimed to own one of the Nid bio titans, who said he had it glued to a wooden base but didant realise that the table it was setting on caught the sun, over the corse of a summer afternoon the legs softened and bent so that its body was touching the base).

[Jschmus]

I snapped a few 40K models at the Nats.  I know Warhammer stuff when I see it, but I don't know the names of any of the machines.

[Sauragnmon]

In order of appearance, those would be:

Baneblade Superheavy Tank - Imperial Guard.

Hunter Tank Destroyer - Imperial Guard, essentially a Jagdpanzer Leman Russ.

Land Raider Crusader - Space Marines.

All three are unmodified out of box builds.  A lot of the people do it for the paint work, your displays are inspiring me to have to pull out some pics of my own work and show it off here.

[Cobra]

Very Cool!!!!! Small Q:got Any Valkyrie Gunships?? just asking. Thanks for Posting Such Cool Stuff!

[retro_seventies]

i'm a bit of an old fart - i remember playing 40k in the late eighties when it was called Rogue Trader. 

I had a whale of a time playing with an undead imperial guard legion - do GW still make box sets of plastic skeleton warriors? They were great for bashing together with various bits and bobs from around the place...lasguns and bolters, german Kaiser helmets and potato masher grenades, and the fun that i had with building vehicles too.  Back then (the old man said, sounding older than his 34 years) we didn't have these fancy vehicle models - you were lucky if you had a rhino or a land raider, and they weren't around for years. 

Lots that you could do with plasticard and 1/35 tank models though.  I see what Steel Penguin means about the M113 and the FV432, i know that i used all kinds of things as a base for my vehicles.  I certainly remember a couple of Marders being abused.  Mesh all over the place, extra armour, bed rolls and fuel barrels.  Brilliant.

I even had skeletons in goggles and board shorts on hoverboards....working out the rules for flyers on the 1st edition Rogue Trader/40k was a bit of caper.

My brother was an ork kind of guy (in so many ways), and he had some brilliant things going on - the things that he did to any number of VW beetles and 2CV's were great.  Orks hanging off them, lots of battle damage melted into them, new panels all over the place, just great.  Did a great tank (i think it was a crocodile) with a weirdboy tower on the back - brilliant.

Yes - photos of your Warhammer Whiffies would be great!

I've a good mind to start this whole thing all over again.  I'm off to look at the price of rulebooks and miniatures.  I'll still build my own vehicles i think, more fun that way, and more personality.  Cookie cutters are great...as long as you're making cookies.

[pyro-manic]

I play a bit (read: very, very rarely), and have a small Imperial Guard force. I also have a small Imperial Navy fleet for Battlefleet Gothic, featuring some modified and scratch-built ships. (The BFG rules are free to download from the Specialist Games section of the GW site, for anyone who's interested)

I really fancy doing an Ork raiding party and an Eldar force (either all on jetbikes, or walker-based) for 40K, and I'd like to do a Chaos army for Warhammer Fantasy, but GW models are so expensive that I can't see it happening any time soon.

[retro_seventies]

Rarely is the word - i haven't even fondled a citadel miniature since....probably 1992.

Everything i had i gave to a guy that i used to work with, and i now live on a different continent.  I think i'd like to have a go at something again though - if not from a playing point of view, then certainly from a modeling and creative point of view.  I still have a fondness for the undead and would welcome the opportunity to do something of that ilk for 40k.

I looked at skeletons, and GW (not surprisingly as it's been about 20 years since i bought them) don't do the box of 20 skeletons on sprues for less than a tenner anymore.  That being said, they still do have SOME plastic skeletons, and i'm sure i can get hold of some sprues of 40k weapons from somewhere.  Right then.  It appears that the game is on.  I'm off to echo bravo now, to see what i can find over there....

I wonder if i can get hold of some 1/35 or smaller skeletons anywhere for less than GW are selling theirs for?


Pyro,
BFG was one of the few new games that appeared as i was leaving the hobby that looked really cool.  I'd like to see your fleet if the urge to post pics ever grabs you...

[philp]

Never played the game but one of our club members had done some great conversions with the vehicles and uses the figures in lots of his dios.

I have had this idea for a dio or possibly a game.  Kind of an Atlantic Wall type beach defenses only manned by Imperials against Orks invading in landing craft (of the Ork variety).  The gun on the Basilisk would look good with a shield and imbedded in a bunker like Merville.  Some heavy weapons defending the main bunker.  Predator turret on a Tobruk, some of those Forge Works emplacements for turrets, missiles, etc.

Course, the only kit I have is an Eldar Grav Tank.  Saw an online article once where a guy was detailing one of these with a full interior but can't find it anymore.

[pyro-manic]

retro_seventies: I'll see what I can do. I'll have to dig them out and take some pics, but give me a few days and I'll post 'em up. BFG is great fun - really simple rules-wise, and but very deep - tactics dictate who wins, rather than just sheer brute force as 40K so often does. Different fleets have very different strengths (eg. Imperial Navy ships work well in groups, concentrating their firepower and launching massive volleys of torpedoes, whereas Chaos ships are individually powerful and fast, but have weaker frontal armour and generally lack torps.) I first played it with print-outs of the rules and card triangles representing the ships. Great fun.

[upnorth]

I've posted these before, but as the subject of Warhammer has come up again, here is the only Warhammer model I've ever built:




Its the Eldar grav tank with some bits and bobs picked up at electronics and plumbing shops. I also carved in a few vents to give it a bit more surface detail and intrest.

I paid about 60 Canadian dollars for it back in about 2002 and when I opened the box and saw what my money got me, I felt more than a bit taken. I enjoyed the model and dressing it up a bit, but I likely won't touch Warhammer again unless the prices come down.

[gooberliberation]

I found this picture on the interwebs not too long ago

[ChernayaAkula]

^ That's excellent!

[Mossie]

retro_seventies: I'll see what I can do. I'll have to dig them out and take some pics, but give me a few days and I'll post 'em up. BFG is great fun - really simple rules-wise, and but very deep - tactics dictate who wins, rather than just sheer brute force as 40K so often does. Different fleets have very different strengths (eg. Imperial Navy ships work well in groups, concentrating their firepower and launching massive volleys of torpedoes, whereas Chaos ships are individually powerful and fast, but have weaker frontal armour and generally lack torps.) I first played it with print-outs of the rules and card triangles representing the ships. Great fun.

I remember the original Space Fleet.  I'm going on memory, but I think it was a bit of a flash in the pan.  The ships where quite different to the current BFG.  They released a whole Imperial fleet, a Tyranid fleet & a handful of Eldar ships.  I think it was quite popular, but the rules weren't fully developed & there wasn't a huge range of ships available unless you wanted to pit Imperial fleets against each other.  It kind of went by the wayside & the idea was ressurected as BFG, but with new rules & models.

Some of the original Imperial fleet can be found in this link, most ships were a sword/dagger inspired design:
http://www.star-ranger.com/Stuff/ImperialGothic.htm