This Catachan Valkyrie was on display at Warhammer World.
The Valkyrie are troop carrying gunships used by the Imperial Guard. They are used to take soldiers into the heart of the battle. Flying through the enemy gunfire, landing in the hotzone and dropping off their payload before flying up in support.
Sometimes the troops are jumping, using grave chutes, from high above the battlefield.
The Valkyrie is armed with lascannons or a multi-laser, and under the wings are missiles or rocket pods.
The Valkyrie, like most of the Imperium’s aircraft, is piloted and operated by the Imperial Navy, with a pilot, co-pilot and two door gunners.
There were some Tempestus Scions Valkyries on display as well.
The Tempestus Scions are elite special forces of the Imperial Guard. They have the best equipment and weapons.
Though not a helicopter, the Valkyrie is used in a similar way.
I do have one of these, but it currently remains unbuilt in its box. I did though paint some for Aeronautica Imperialis.
Outside the Bovington Tank Museum is an Alvis Saracen.
The FV603 Saracen is a six-wheeled armoured personnel carrier built by Alvis and used by the British Army.
It became a recognisable vehicle as a result of its part in the policing of Northern Ireland as well as for its role in enforcing apartheid in South Africa.
As part of the Second English Civil War, you can imagine the use of the FV603 Saracen to patrol urban areas and to suppress armed resistance.
These classic Warhammer Fantasy Ogres were on display at Warhammer World.
I always liked the ogre in the middle, with the hat with the crest and holding the sword with one hand from the top. I never did buy him though.
These are from the 1980s and are reminiscent of the miniatures I was buying back then for my Warhammer (Fantasy) armies. I never bought these, as I was buying Orcs and Dwarfs back then.
In Warhammer World was a lovely Grey Knights army with a range of armoured vehicles. I have been working on a Grey Knights army for some time now. It includes some armoured vehicles including a Land Raider.
In the displays was this Grey Knights Land Raider.
The Land Raider Phobos is the standard main battle tank for the Space Marines, so it is no surprise that the Grey Knights make use of the armoured fist of the Space Marines.
This one had the iconography of the Grey Knights, these were resin doors from Forge World, which sadly are no longer available.
This is a Grey Knights Land Raider Crusader.Designed for anti-infantry assault fighting. In place of Lascannons, the Crusader is armed with Hurricane Bolters. Alongside is a front mounted hull Assault Cannon.
As it doesn’t have lascannons, it has extra troop carrying capacity as there is no requirement for las-power generators for the said lascannons.
A variant of the Land Raider is the Land Raider Redeemer, which in itself is a variant of the Land Raider Crusader. These versions of the Land Raider provide short-range assault support during anti-infantry attacks or for urban street fighting.
The Land Raider Redeemer replaces the Land Raider Crusader’s weapons with the dreaded sponson-mounted Flamestorm Cannons. These massive flame-based weapons send burning sheets of promethium into the enemy, and can be really effective against hardened bunkers. A highly effective vehicle for fighting dug-in infantry in urban areas.
I have been painting up two Grey Knights Land Raiders, one a standard Phobos variant, the other a Mark IIb with sponsons. Though I am now in the process of painting them as Imperial Fists models, but they still have the Grey Knights iconography.
Not quite a dreadnought, but similar this Grey Knights Nemesis Dreadknight was on display at Warhammer World.
Essentially this allows a Grey Knight to be stronger and carry heavier weapons.
It was developed and designed to take on the might of Greater Daemons and Daemon Princes.
There was this Grey Knights Razorback.
Grey Knights Razorback
The Razorback is a tracked, armoured vehicle used by Space Marine Chapters. Its design is based on the Rhino chassis and as such is quite easy to manufacture, sharing many of its design features.
It is sometimes favoured over the Rhino because of its superior firepower, although this comes at the cost of less transport space.
There was also a Grey Knights Stormraven Gunship is an armoured versatile craft that combines the role of dropship, armoured transport and strike craft.
The German 88mm gun is perhaps the most infamous weapon of World War II. Initially designed for anti-aircraft defence, its devastating effectiveness against tanks, first showcased in the Spanish Civil War, earned it a fearsome reputation. Despite its potency, the original 88 was bulky and difficult to manoeuvre.
Recognising the 88’s potential, the Germans developed a two-piece barrel version in 1943. This design was intended for both tanks and anti-tank roles, using the same ammunition.
The Pak 43 was a German 8.8 cm anti-tank gun developed by Krupp and used during World War II. The Pak 43 was the most powerful anti-tank gun of the Wehrmacht to see service in significant numbers.
It appeared as the PaK43/41 on a mobile carriage and the KwK43 within the Tiger II tank. However, production delays for the anti-tank version necessitated a rushed, simplified model mounted on a cumbersome, two-wheeled carriage.
This 88mm PaK 43/41 which was captured by the British stood outside the School of Infantry in Warminster for decades. In 1996 it was donated to the Tank Museum. The decision was made to restore the weapon. Back then, the Tank Museum did not restore its exhibits, it would conserve them. So this was quite a change. The restoration was started in 2008 and was finished four years later in 2012.
This Primaris Repulsor of the Space Wolves Space Marine Chapter was part of the displays at Warhammer World.
The Repulsor armoured transport is a deadly combination of manoeuvrability and raw brute force.
Due to the turbine array at its rear, it has tremendous motive power, held aloft by powerful anti-gravitic generators. The Repulsor is so heavily armed and armoured that is doesn’t skim over the landscape but instead crushes the ground below it.
The tank grinds forward with a deep bass thrum, reducing rock to gravel and fallen bodies to smears of gore and powdered bone.
The Macharius Heavy Tank, often referred to as a “Second-Generation” Baneblade, is a heavily armoured tank of the Imperial Guard. It is larger than the standard Leman Russ Tank but smaller than the Baneblade it was built to replace when none are available. Macharius tanks are built by Adeptus Mechanicus Forge Worlds that are eager to secure large military contracts, but do not possess the Standard Template Construct (STC) designs which are needed to manufacture super-heavy battle tanks such as the Baneblade or Shadowsword.
This is the variant with Vanquisher Cannons.
From Damien Pedley’s collection on display at Warhammer World.
This Cromwell IV tank was on display at the Tank Museum.
The Cromwell tank, named after the English Civil War leader Oliver Cromwell, was the first tank in the British arsenal to combine a dual-purpose gun, high speed from the powerful and reliable Meteor engine, and reasonable armour, all in one balanced package. Its design formed the basis of the Comet tank. The Cromwell first saw action in June 1944, with the reconnaissance regiments of the Royal Armoured Corps.
The Cromwell tank was one of the most successful series of cruiser tanks fielded by Britain in the Second World War. Its design formed the basis of the Comet tank. However by the time the Cromwell first saw action in Normandy in many ways it was already out of date.
Overall the Cromwell was a welcome addition to the British forces, but as with many allied tanks, they were under armoured and under-gunned when faced with the German tanks of the same time period. Where the allies won out was in sheer numbers and probably more importantly logistics.
The Stormblade super-heavy tank is a variant of the Astra Militarum’s Shadowsword Titan-killer tank. It is armed with a Plasma Blastgun instead of a Volcano Cannon, but it is still able to perform the role of Titan-hunter on the battlefield.
This Imperial Guard Stormblade was in the displays at Warhammer World.
Imperial Guard Stormblade
Stormblades are built on Forge Worlds that lack the ability to build true Shadowsword tanks, and thus have to compensate by using different weaponry and other less advanced technologies than the original.
Imperial Guard Stormblade
Another Stormblade from the cabinets.
From Damien Pedley’s collection on display at Warhammer World.
I like the lighting effect that has been used on the model.
