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on the right above my catagories section is my first battle report with 1500pts of Blood Drinkers space marines vs my ork Blitz Brigade! make sure you take a look!

Looted Wagons

here are some photographs of my looted wagons together:

 

the most vigilant of you will have noticed that i swapped 2 turrets around midway. Don’t believe me? look for yourself!

Looted wagon no.3

my third looted wagon with a bomgun. this one was originally a second hand leman russ demolisher . i removed the turret (for another project) and took the turret from a hellhound. removed the heavy flamer, and replaced it with a normal leman russ battle kannon. removed the sponson weapons, then the sponsons themselves. put them both on one side. built up a firing platform. added a magnetised spot on the railing for a big shoota. orkified the lascannon in the hull, changing it to a “gatlin” style big shoota. armour plated and battle damaged the whole thing.  also added a bunker style “vision slit”  next to the front big shoota to break up the profile more. added a killa kan engine i had lying around to the back. added a crate of shootas (not glued on) onto the firing platform (can be removed to put orks on if i want to model orks hitchin’ a ride.)

here are the pics!

side with plasticard skull glyph (fiddly!)

Other side with firing platform (mostly made from two sponsuns and a land rader opening hatch)

the back with the killa kan engine, removable big shoota and crate of shootas

front with firing platform

front with vision slit, 2 big shootas and boomgun 🙂

 

 

Battlewagon / skullhamma battlefortress

I bought this battlewagon from ebay for 48 pounds. it hadn’t been packed very well so i virtually poured it out from the box as it was in so many pieces. it was made from a shortened land raider, with some other form of non GW vehicle making the cabin. it came with a FW death-rolla, zzap gun, 2 big shootas + 2 rokkit launchas. it was a nice model but VERY fragile. first off i strengthened the body considerably with foamboard:

i made the death-rolla removable, as well as the entire top half, to make it much easier to transport.

the two halfs are magnetised together, this is what the battlewagon looks like put back together:

next i made some small details. First up a more orky engine, then the main change was making a rail on the walls of the troop compartment imbedded with magnets. this meant that i can attach any combination of defensive weapons onto it. I also added glyph plates onto the body, and covered up gaps in the build.

side view with glyphs, weapons and Big Mek CogNutz

rear/top view with the more orky engine, and a clearer view of the troop compartment.

i have strengthened the body with powerful earth magnets, it snaps together nicely, and also can be taken appart for storage.

painted:

and here’s an in game pic of it:

I scratch-built a new level to the wagon, to role-model it on the skullhamma rules. However, i personally like the idea of battle-fortresses as multi-leveled beasts rather than just a scaled up tank (A.K.A. Baneblade.) Therefore the new level was designed to in some way emulate this idea, and i wanted the Skullhamma kannon to be housed internally and peer-out from the Battle-fortress like it would do from a gun-emplacement.

beggining structure:

built up with plasticard:

The new level consistied of a swiveling large gun, on the roof were three magnet spots, which i usually place two twin-linked big shootas and a kannon. Can you spot the looted fish’ead drone in the following picture?