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The Achilles-Alpha pattern Land Raider is the most durable vehicle currently in the service of the Legiones Astartes. These vehicles shrug off weapon strikes that would cripple other battle tanks, and are proof against even the most toxic environment. The weaponry of these vehicles is formidable, featuring an advanced quad launcher and powerful volkite batteries.
Named for the ‘Great Beast’ of Ancient Terran myth, the immense Typhon Heavy Siege Tank was developed by the Mechanicum alongside the Spartan, with which it shares a basic chassis design.
The Typhon’s primary armament is the massive Dreadhammer cannon, and was created in response to a request from the Primarch Peturabo, master of the Iron Warriors. He demanded a Legiones Astartes war engine that could rival the great batteries of the Imperial Crusade Army in firepower, but manoeuvre and deploy at the speed of a Space Marine force.
This beautifully painted Imperial Fists Damocles Command Rhino won the Forgeworld Best of Show prize in the 2005 UK Golden Demon awards.
The radar dish moved around and as you can see in this shot, the inside included “real” lights (made from LEDs).
It was very well painted and made good use of the Forgeworld Imperial Fists doors. Though I wasn’t too sure about the “highlighting” on the radar dish. The aerials are well done and add to the overall effectiveness of the model. Probably not too practical for a gaming model!
The weathering is very subtle and very well done, sometimes I think it can be too easy to over-weather models.
This Damocles Command Rhino won the Forgeworld Best of Show prize in the 2005 UK Golden Demon awards.
The radar dish moved around and as you can see in this shot, the inside included “real” lights (made from LEDs).
It was very well painted and made good use of the Forgeworld Imperial Fists doors. Some very nice weathering as well.
See more photographs of the Damocles Command Rhino.
This is a nice Imperial Fists Space Marine Rhino, which was an entry in the 2006 UK Golden Demon awards.
This is the Forgeworld Command Rhino. This model is from the Golden Demon Display Cabinets at GamesDay 2005.
It won the Forgeworld prize in the Golden Demons. The radar dish actually randomly rotated.
The painter did a lovely paint job. Inside were flashing lights, you can see a red LED in the following photograph.
In my opinion this should have won the Gold Golden Demon for Warhammer 40K vehicles.
Just look at the detail and superb paint job. Certainly an inspiration for me.
This was my favourite entry from the Golden Demon at GamesDay 2005.
It was very well painted and there were some little details that brought a smile to my face, the internal panels were lit and the radar dish rotated one way and then another…