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Squat Trikes go airborne

Well a new Squat Trike was revealed over on the Warhammer Community website as part of Warhammer Fest.

Unlike the trikes of old, these new ones have no wheels, these are hover trikes.

I like the look of the rider, even if he doesn’t have a beard!

I bought an issue of the part work series Warhammer 40000 Imperium. I usually see the first few issues of part works in the newsagents or at WHSmith, so was interested to see they had issue #31 in stock. I haven’t really been paying attention to this series, however I thought I would see what was “free” with his issue and I was quite intrigued to see they had a Ruined Factorum sprue. So I bought it. The model has two pieces, a larger ruined building and a smaller ruined corner. They are easy to construct and I initially gave the model a white undercoat.

I then gave the model by a spray of Mechanicus Standard Grey Spray.

I used Humbrol Tank Grey 67 spray to give the underfloor a darker feel before giving the model a Mechanicus Standard Grey Spray.

Here is the smaller corner piece.

The next stage will be shading the model.

Undercoating the Haemotrope Reactor

After picking up a copy of Warhammer Imperium with a Ruined Factorum I did start thinking about whether to get some future issues, or picking up some past issues. In the end I bought issue 27 which came with a Haemotrope Reactor.

After constructing the Haemotrope Reactor I gave the model a white undercoat.

More ruins in the bag

Having picked up the Ruined Factorum sprue that came with Warhammer 40000 Imperium 31 a couple of weeks back, I set myself a reminder for today, to purchase issue 34 for the second sprue .

The ruins are from the The Battlezone: Manufactorum – Sub-cloister and Storage Fane kit which did cost £37.50 at Games Workshop and contains two similar sprues. So at £8.99 you would be making a saving of £9.76. However you can’t buy the kit anymore anyhow.

This time, as before, you get two more corner ruins, all coming on a single sprue.

The final models, combining the ruins from issues 31 and 34 (did) look like this on the Games Workshop website.

Another view.

Undercoating the Ruined Factorum

A couple of weeks back I bought the latest issue of the part work series Warhammer 40000 Imperium. I usually see the first few issues of part works in the newsagents or at WHSmith, so was interested to see they had issue #31 in stock. I haven’t really been paying attention to this series, however I thought I would see what was “free” with his issue and I was quite intrigued to see they had a Ruined Factorum sprue. So I bought it. The model has two pieces, a larger ruined building and a smaller ruined corner.

They were quite easy to construct. The next stage was a white undercoat. I used a can of Corax White Spray.

Plastic Land Raider Proteus perhaps?

With the announcement of the plastic Spartan Land Raider Assault Tank it got me thinking, will we also a plastic Land Raider Proteus?

There is a resin model from Forge World currently available.

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.

It would mean producing a new hull for the plastic tracks, but that would mean replacing potentially one sprue with another.

Of course this would mean returning full circle to the original plastic Land Raider model which was released in 1988, well nearly.

Constructing the Haemotrope Reactor

The sprue has fifteen parts. I really do like the thick plastic they use on these kinds of models, gives them real heft and weight. The model goes together quite easily.

The instructions do provide advice on which parts to leave to dry before continuing the build. I made the mistake of removing parts 11a, 11b and 11c whereas the instructions were clear to do each part individually and affix it to the model, before moving onto the next piece. So I had to guess where they went.

The reverse of the model.

The next stage will be a white undercoat.

Constructing the Ruined Factorum ruin

The model has two pieces, a larger ruined building and a smaller ruined corner. The larger ruined building has five parts. Two walls, two floor pieces and a skull Cog Mechanicum symbol. I really do like the thick plastic they use on these kinds of models, gives them real heft and weight.

The first stage is to affix the skull Cog Mechanicum symbol to the round hole in the wall.

Then glue the two walls together, letting it dry before adding the floors.

The other side.

The walls look like metal rather than stone. This has got me thinking about how to paint the model.

The next stage will be a white undercoat.

Constructing the Ruined Factorum smaller corner

Last week I bought the latest issue of the part work series Warhammer 40000 Imperium. I usually see the first few issues of part works in the newsagents or at WHSmith, so was interested to see they had issue #31 in stock. I haven’t really been paying attention to this series, however I thought I would see what was “free” with his issue and I was quite intrigued to see they had a Ruined Factorum sprue. So I bought it.

The model has two pieces, a larger ruined building and a smaller ruined corner. The smaller corner piece has two parts and they fit together easily.

The other side.

The next stage will be a white undercoat.

Haemotrope Reactor

After picking up a copy of Warhammer Imperium with a Ruined Factorum I did start thinking about whether to get some future issues. I was less interested the figures, but was curious about what scenery models were in the series.

I did review previous issues and there were three issues with containers! I have a box of the Munitorum Armoured Containers so was less interested in these.

Looking over the previous issues, issue 27 had a Haemotrope Reactor.

Designed and deployed to provide additional power on the battlefield, the Haemotrope Reactor is an indispensable tool for armies wishing to unleash ever-more destructive waves of plasma upon their enemies. An imposing structure, understood fully by few, it is used to bolster the defensive capabilities of the Void Shield Generator – or amplify the already intimidating destructive capacity of the Plasma Obliterator. In a pinch, the Haemotrope Reactor can be used as cover; this can be a terrible decision however, as the cowering warrior opens himself up to the potential of horrific injuries resulting from power leaks…

I managed to pick up a back issue of this from Forbidden Planet. As well as the magazine there is the single sprue with the parts for the Haemotrope Reactor.