Tuesday 4 February 2020

Gaslands! Tamiya Half-track (1:35)

I've added another vehicle to my 40k motorcade (for Rogue Trader or from Gaslands!), this time an historical model pimped up with some sci-fi, kit-bashed additions.
The main model (1:35) is an excellent Tamiya, German half-track - a vehicle that has a whole host of detail and tiny bits of plastic on it's sprue to keep you challenged when constructing. The wheels and tracks are all moveable, but I decided to glue them in place to make painting a bit easier. I think the larger scale just about works. The additions to the build include an Ork gun (rear) and skull, a metal lasergun (?), bits from a computer motherboard, pieces of lego, rolled greenstuff, plasticard plating and other futuristic bits that I found that I believe are from Ramshackle Games.

Here you can see it with a Bob Olley Rogue Trader miniature that I had forgot to paint for a recent painting challenge:




I've put the half-track alongside my other 1:43 scale vehicles here, which looks like the start of a larger scale Gaslands! crew:





And here you can see the kitbashing in progress:






The painting itself was incredibly straightforward. Primed grey, pin wash with brown/black oil paints, quick highlight one with a light grey and then highlight two with the light grey and some white. Some rust and oil stains were added with appropriate colours diluted down and applied in vertical streaks for the rust and splattered on for the oil.

A mix of dry pigment and matt medium was then slathered on to the lower parts of the vehicle, starting with the tracks to show the terrain it has been driving through.

Next up, I'll go back to my Hotwheels scale cars!

11 comments:

  1. Great looking addition to your large scale vehicles, the conversion work is fantastic

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    1. Cheers Dave, sci-fi conversions are still a bit out of my comfort zone, so I'm pleased with how this one turned out.

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  2. Yeah... Zee Germanz were making damn cool post-apo stuff during WWII... ;-)

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    1. Haha. It's some quality engineering! As I was building this I did (as always) think of the history of this vehicle. "Carefully preserved in a barn, survives the apocalypse, found and pimped with new technology to get it running, hundreds of years after it was first made". Or something.

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    2. Yeah, German engineering is the best! ;-)

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  3. Dude that half track turned out phenomenal!

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    1. Cheers mate, the scale's a bit too big, but I think I can get away with it as a military vehicle should look a bit imposing.

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  4. I simply love it, it has loads of charm. Fantastic work.

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  5. Thanks Suber, it was fun to go back to a bit of detailed model making - following instructions and working out problems to solve. Tamiya do make great kits.

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  6. Both models very nicely done, sir. Thanks for sharing :)

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  7. Nice conversion and paintjob, it looks like an old junk salvaged. Not sure about that dodgy looking rabble, they look like trouble.

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