Defilertank - Basecoat

So I thought I'd put theorising aside for a bit and do something practical.

On my girlfriends advice (A much better painter than me) I dry-brushed the base colour on this rather than paint it normally and it turned out much better than usual so I'll be using this method from now on.

Now I need to make Heavy Bolters for the 'sponsons' and Autocannons for the 'turret' so I can use It as a Predator in my semi-mech/mech Marine lists.

Defiler Tank - Undercoated.

The Night Reapers renegade chapters Dark Mechanicum are proud to unveil the D3F1L3R Modular Tank

Available with a variety of weapon load-outs to suit the tastes of even the most violent of Chaos Lords.

FRONT

SIDE
REAR
TOP
ANGLED
DISARMED

I resisted the urge to stick more spiky bits on it as I wanted it to be obvious that this was a mixture of Chaos and Xenos technology.

Defilertank - Update

So I've made the 'sponson' guns and mounted them on plasticard with magnets behind so they can be easily swapped out for other configurations.

The radar dish is also magnetised and has been built to act as a 'blank' should the vehicle be 'counting as' something with no front weapon option.

There's a few spiky bits been added on the rear and underneath at the front.

FRONT VIEW

SLIGHTLY 'ARTY' ANGLED VIEW

A few more spikes and chains and it should be ready for undercoating.

Defilertank

As I mentioned a few posts down I found an old project that I'd started a couple of years ago and then forgot about...

The idea was to build a more tank-like version of the Defiler that I could also use to 'Counts-As' pretty much any vehicle that had a turret, sponsons, a front mounted weapon or any combination thereof.

This would obviously involve magnets and luckily I happen to like using magnets so that wasn't a big problem.

The main gun is a Hellhammer cannon that I chopped off when I turned the aforementioned Hellhammer into a Baneblade. It's magnetised, as is the mount so I can swap it out if I ever need it to be something radically different from a battlecannon looking weapon.

The 2 sections on either side of the main body that have black plasticard in them will act as my sponsons. There's already a magnet behind them so I can interchange weapons mounted there as well. Firstly I'll build Autocannons for them so It's usable as a 'standard' Defiler and later I'll make some kind of Close Combat weapon (A circular saw or similar) to 'Count-As' Additional Dreadnought Close Combat weapons (my most used Defiler Wargear option).

Next stage will be to make a magnetised mount under the 'chin' so I can pop another weapon under there if required.

Progress so far...