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The Austin Loadstar is a British light truck that was built by Austin during the 1950s. A military 4×4 variant known as the K9 was also produced and was used for several purposes including an ambulance, water carrier, recovery vehicle and radio truck.
This Austin K9WD Ambulance was on display at the RAF London museum.
The Forgeworld Grot Bomb Launcha is probably one of my all time favourite models. I have three of these, one is finished, the other two are a work in progress.
I found the chassis of one in of the boxes with my Land Raiders. Having painted the chassis with a spray of Citadel Zandri Dust. I painted the exhausts and the rear deck with Leadbelcher. I then gave the model a wash using Citadel Shade Agrax Earthshade. I drybrushed the model. I gave the tracks a heavy drybrush of Gorthor Brown, followed by a lighter drybrush of Leadbelcher.
The launcher system (launcha) was already painted black and drybrushed with a metallic paint. Though I think this one was from my other Grot Bomb Launcha.
I touched up the white paint on the Grot Bomb pilot to later paint with green flesh tones.
I also need to paint the driver. Well I also need to find the driver as well.
Still some work to do.
The Alvis Salamander is a six-wheel drive airport crash tender with off-road capabilities, developed in 1956. This one was on display at RAF London.
It shares the same common Alvis six-wheel-drive chassis and other components with the FV 601 Saladin armoured car and FV 603 Saracen armoured personnel carrier. In turn it led to the FV 620 Stalwart load carrier which was derived from the Salamander.
There are Orks who have looted Imperial weaponry. Not only can they use Space Marine weapons they can also borrow the transport.
A Looted Rhino is an Imperial Rhino armoured personnel carrier that has been looted from a previous battlefield by Ork Lootas and is now used as a transport for their WAAAGH!
I wrote about my Ork Looted Rhino and where I was in progressing it.
I was painting the tracks for my Repressor and Razorback when I realised I had three sets of tracks. It took me a while, before I realised that the tracks were for my Ork Looted Rhino. I actually thought I had affixed them, but obviously I hadn’t.
I had painted the tracks on the sprues.
I had drybushed them with Leadbelcher.
I realised I had no idea how the different parts were affixed to the Rhino. I also had no idea where the kit instructions were. So, a quick Google search found some Rhino instructions. The tracks were marked L and R, which of course meant left and right. It was useful to see the instructions as there were seven parts for each track.
I snipped them off the sprues and affixed them to the Looted Rhino with superglue.
This is the underneath view.
They were relatively easy to fix, though they were a little tight fitting them under the fenders or mudguards.
I now need to touch them up where they joined the sprue. I will then do some additional weathering, using shades and drybrushing.
I started my Ork Looted Rhino many years ago, and the process I used is outlined on my workbench feature on the Looted Rhino.
The Land Raider is an Imperial main battle tank and troop transport which serves as the “armoured fist of the Space Marines.”The Land Raider’s heritage predates even the founding of the Imperium of Man, yet it remains the single most destructive weapon in the Adeptus Astartes’ arsenal. The Mark IIb Land Raider Phobos is one of the earliest marks of the standard pattern of Land Raider. The Mark IIb Land Raider Phobos is the only pattern of the standard Land Raider Phobos that uses the older armoured sponsons, as they do not allow the weapons they hold to fully rotate.
I got a Forge World MkIIB Land Raider and was originally painting it up as a Grey Knights Land Raider in desert camouflage.
I wrote up some reflections recently on my MkIIB Land Raider, on the current state of the painting and what I needed to do next.
I also noticed that there is a part missing the, the hull top front bolters. I will have to find where I put that piece.
Well I was pleased to find the missing parts and these have now been reunited with the Land Raider.
Still got to decide what colour I will be painting the model.
See the full Mark IIb Land Raider workbench.
The English Electric Lightning is a British fighter aircraft that served as an interceptor during the 1960s, the 1970s and into the late 1980s. It remains the only UK-designed-and-built fighter capable of Mach 2.
The Lightning was designed, developed, and manufactured by English Electric, which was later absorbed by the newly-formed British Aircraft Corporation.
An English Electric Lightning Mk 1 was on display at Duxford.
Back in April I wrote after seeing the plastic Spartan Land Raider Assault Tank I did wonder if we would see a plastic Land Raider Proteus.
With the announcement of the plastic Spartan Land Raider Assault Tank it got me thinking, will we also a plastic Land Raider Proteus? It wouldn’t be too much of a step to have a plastic kit of this Land Raider? Essentially the Spartan is a stretched Land Raider.
After it was announced back in August, today we see that we are going to be able to pre-order the plastic Land Raider Proteus next week.
Before the Spartan Assault Tank there was one true king of armoured troop conveyance – the Land Raider. Many patterns of these lumbering tanks exist in Legion armouries, but none have the pedigree of the venerable Land Raider Proteus, which now returns to the Age of Darkness with a new plastic kit.
I do like this model and I am seriously considering getting one, depending on the price, to go with my Deimos-pattern Rhino.
So, now we are returning full circle to the original plastic Land Raider model which was released in 1988, well very close.
The BAC Jet Provost is a British jet trainer aircraft that was in use with the Royal Air Force (RAF) from 1955 to 1993. It was originally developed by Hunting Percival from the earlier piston engine-powered Percival Provost basic trainer, and later produced by the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC).
This BAC Jet Provost T.5A is on display at RAF London.
In addition to the multiple RAF orders, the Jet Provost, sometimes with light armament, was exported to many air forces worldwide. The design was also further developed into a more heavily armed ground attack variant under the name BAC Strikemaster.
There is also a BAC Jet Provost T.5A on display at RAF Cosford.
As I have been washing and shading some large models recently, such as the buildings I got in Warhammer Imperium and my Deimo-pattern Rhino I have realised that my mop brush is a little too small. I was finding that the wash or shade was getting patchy.
So I think I will go and get a bigger mop brush, not too big as it still has to fit into the pots of shade I have.
I will be using it on my Land Raiders, the Repressor, and the Munitorum Armoured Containers.
The English Electric Canberra is a British first-generation, jet-powered medium bomber. It was developed by English Electric during the mid to late 1940s in response to a 1944 Air Ministry requirement for a successor to the wartime de Havilland Mosquito fast bomber. Among the performance requirements for the type was an outstanding high-altitude bombing capability and high speed. These were partly accomplished by making use of newly developed jet-propulsion technology.
When the Canberra was introduced to service with the Royal Air Force (RAF), the type’s first operator, in May 1951, it became the service’s first jet-powered bomber.
In addition to being a tactical nuclear strike aircraft, the Canberra proved to be highly adaptable, serving in varied roles such as tactical bombing and photographic and electronic reconnaissance. Canberras served throughout the Cold War, in the Suez Crisis, Vietnam War, Falklands War, Indo-Pakistani wars, and numerous African conflicts. In several wars, each of the opposing sides had Canberras in its air force.
The Canberra served for more than 50 years with some operators. In June 2006, the RAF retired the last three of its Canberras 57 years after its first flight.