Warhammer 40K: Land Raider Complete

Decided to call it a day with the land raider since I have no further ideas on enhancing this. It is my prototype anyway. My first large model/vehicle.

 

 

 

 

Most of the parts were drubrushed with Necron Compount do create a dusty look on the model. Hopefully, the next Land Raider I build (either Redeemer or Crusader) have a better job than this. Anyway, a sneak peek on what is coming in next.

Dark Angels Company Veterans. These guys will be populating around every company (at least 2 10 man squad) except for 9th Company Assault since robes are not exactly jet pack friendly.

 

 

Tau Commander Arra'Kon of the Farsight Eight. The legs from the finecast, for some reason, was quite tilted to the back. I decided to give him an action pose of dodging back an attack and moving to retaliate. And yes, I forgot to take a photo of the sprues for my sprue post, which kinda suck since this is from the Tau Commander finecast which is a web exclusive. In my defense, I was actually drooling when I unboxed it. Never expected to see this in the shop.

Warhammer 40K: Land Raider Part 3

The month of May had plenty of activities. I was trying to get my Land Raider in time for Legio's 6th Anniversary bash while becoming a father of two. Sadly, I ran out of ideas instead trying to figure out how to improve my Land Raider. Somehow, I managed to get some additional iconography from e-bay to spice up the unit as seen below.

 

 

 

 

It is still a long way to go as the model still looks plain to me. Other then weathering, I am still trying to figure out specifically what else to add on/paint to the model. Thanks to the recent Wira's 750 Beginner Tournament and Legio's Birthday Bash, I've gotten some ideas to add to the model at a later time.
For now, I got myself some side project which I just completed earlier today which I will write about in the next post.

Warhammer 40K: Land Raider Part 2

Just a short update as I did not get much done this session around since the family head out earlier today. At least it is now about 70% completed.

 

Initial layer of basecoating

 

 

 

Main chassis completed with the threads and exhaust painted. Side door and pontoons are magnetised

In case anyone's interested on the magnetization

The magnets uses were 2mm niobium magnets which I got from miniwargaming.com some time ago. The panels are using a thin tape magnet which I recently bought from Daiso. This is not the best solution for magnetizing the parts, but does help to hold them when needed. I am currently looking looking for alternatives of the tape magnet since it is a weak magnet piece and also a little too thick for my liking, as seen in pictures above.

Warhammer 40K: Land Raider + Dark Talon Part 1

A new month has started and I was getting a little itchy since I did not do much painting job over the month of April. Since I had completed about 30+ Deathwing Terminators for my Deathwing Company, I decided to celebrate by getting myself a Land Raider for my company (since they are the only vehicles allowed as Deathwing Vehicles).

Calculating my points, I found that I would have an enough total to redeem for another unit of sorts. Since the Swarmlord/Hive Tyrant was sold out, I went ahead and got myself a Dark Talon/Nephilim box set to add to my army. I was also hoping to get a Crusader/Redeemer box set which was also out of stock, hence the generic Land Raider.

Assembling the Land Raider was certainly a challenge as there were quite a lot of details inside which made me want to paint although it will most likely not visible unless one decided to take a very close look into the interior.

Among the many key points/tools I picked up a long time ago from various sources (web and books) on building vehicles, the most useful was the use of rubber bands. You will probably see plenty of these in the shots as a good amount of time, they were not glued together. Also, painting with thin layer of paints does help a lot in getting a proper consistency to prevent cloud streaks on the paint job.

Land Raider

The initial assembly

 

 

Assembly after priming

I decided to add the Hunter-Killer missile launcher and a storm bolter with a closed hatch on this model. I might just e-bay additional top hatch for this.

Land Raider rear panel

Land Raider side panel. Just a simple colouring

All panel interior

 

After gluing the pieces together for the first time. One of the sides was already glued earlier as the opposite side has a gear system for the front hatch

 

 

 

Land Raider after everything the rest of the main body and track is glued. Weapons and side doors are left unglued. I am planning to magnetise the Lascannon and the side door panels to the model later. In case you were wondering, the Lascannon and side doors were painted earlier to be used as a guide on for the rest of the hull to match.

A peek into the rear panel

A closer shot. Looks like I should have at least washed the panel.

Hopefully this model would be complete with the next round of painting.


Dark Talon
I decided to go ahead with building a Dark Talon instead of a Nephilim fighter since the Dark Talon has no optional equipment swap and it looks more majestic with the iconography on the hull. In other words, a badass.

 

After initial assembly. The two halves were not glued together since I did not glue the cockpit unit completely. Plenty of stuff to pain inside before it is ready.

 

 

After priming

 

 

After initial basecoating.

The model was basecoated with several layers of  1:2 mix of Dawnstone:Abbadon Black. The last layer was about 1:1 mix. I just did the basecoating since I was working primarily on the Land Raider today. One rule I learned about painting black is that never use pure black, even if the primer for the model was black. A little shading will bring out the details of the model. Of course with a little edging.

Hopefully the Land Raider will be completed soon.