Author: Felix

Epic Imperial Guard Leman Russ conversion

Here is an Imperial Guard Leman Russ conversion from Simon’s collection.

These conversions were made, probably about ten years ago.

It’s a Leman Russ but with an Ork turret.

From a fluff perspective, it can be easily imagined that an Ork army overtook an Imperial Guard tank factory and utilised many of the components including the turrets on their own tanks and battlewagons.

If I remember correctly, from Simon’s perspective I think it was because he had all the Ork vehicles from the Epic 40000 boxed set that he decided to use the Ork turrets. I have posted another conversion to the blog before.

Inquisitorial Stormtroopers

With my Inquisitorial Stormtroopers I was giving them a desert feel I knew I was going to use sand, but also wanted some rocks as well, so I used some slate from the Warhammer 40K Urban Basing Kit. Having added the rocks I then using PVA (white glue) flocked the based with some Games Workshop sand. I do like the sand which has some small larger pieces of gravel, which adds a lot of nice texture. Once dry I then painted the bases Bestial Brown and drybrushed them with Bleached Bone.

See the full workbench feature on my website.

Evolution of the Land Raider

The Landraider is the single most destructive weapon in the Adeptus Astartes’ arsenal. Protected by bonded ceramite and adamantium armour, the Landraider is impervious to all bar the most destructive weaponry. Equally impressive are its armaments – four lascannon and twin-linked heavy bolters allow the Land Raider to deliver punishing support fire capable of decimating enemy infantry and tanks alike.

Evolution of the Land Raider

Those of us old enough know that this model of the Land Raider is now how it has always been… This is the MkIII Land Raider there as both a MkI and a MkII.

Originally the Space Marine Land Raider looked like this. This is from the Rogue Trader era and used the concept of symmetrical parts to reduce the number of sprues that needed to be cast. Compare that to today where we have plastic Stompa kits and virtually everything that Games Workshop now sell is in plastic.

Evolution of the Land Raider

This (I believe) is the three-up version for the Epic version of the Land Raider.

With the release of Epic 40000 a new version of the Land Raider was envisaged which because of the time did not need to worry about number of sprues.

Evolution of the Land Raider

This is very similar to the current  version and the MkIII is derived from this model. Of course it will be familiar to those gamers who know about the Forge World MkIIb Land Raider model as that Forge World model is a version of the Epic model.

These models were on display at GamesDay 2005.

More photographs of the MkIII Land Raider.

Ork with Rokkit Launcha

This Ork conversion has had a Rokkit Launcha using a metal grenade and Shoota. This is a work in progress. The base is done, the basecoat for the skin is done. Most of the metal work has been drybrushed with Tin Bitz and Boltgun Metal.

Still to do are the skin highlights and more detailing of the belts and clothing.

See the front view of this model.

Full workbench feature on my Orks with heavy weapons.