Land Raider MkIIb in the Forge World display cabinets at GamesDay 2009.
Workbench feature on my Mark IIb Land Raider.
More photographs of the Mark IIb Land Raider.
Land Raider MkIIb
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Prometheus Command Land Raider
Ultramarines Prometheus Command Land Raider from the Forge World displays at GamesDay 2009.
The Prometheus is an extremely rare variant of the famous Space Marine Land Raider. The few Chapters that have access to the Prometheus use it as a command vehicle due to additional sensor and communication equipment it contains. This allows Force Commanders to liaise with squads out of direct range and so better co-ordinate attacks and force actions.
Busy Ultramarines Land Raider
This Ultramarines Land Raider was entered into the GamesDay 2006 Golden Demon awards.
It is very, well let’s call it busy… what I mean by that is that there is almost too much detail on the model and as a result it looks cluttered and thrown together. Still good effort.
Undercoating the Grey Knights Land Raider
Grey Knights can use Land Raiders, when I first started putting this force together I knew that if I was going to get a Land Raider it would have to be the Forge World MkIIB Land Raider.
However I was also lucky enough to receive a second Land Raider as a present. It was the Terminus model, however I decided to build it as a standard Land Raider.
Having made the model I gave it a black undercoat.
I kept the weapons as separate assemblies, I would also be adding the tracks later too.
Now I made a mistake when I ordered my Mark IIb Land Raider, you get a set of doors and I (foolishly) asked them to replace the supplied eagle doors with Grey Knights Land Raider doors. Now what I didn’t realise was that the side doors on the sponson are not the same size as the Land Raider doors, but are in fact the same size as Rhino side doors. So the Grey Knight doors are too big! However this meant I could use them on this new Land Raider.
Notice how the doors are at the rear, it never made sense to me to have the main weaponry firing in the way of the side doors… so the main lascannons are at the front and the access doors at the rear.
See the full workbench feature on this Grey Knights Land Raider.
Grey Knights Land Raider
Grey Knights can use Land Raiders, when I first started putting this force together I knew that if I was going to get a Land Raider it would have to be the Forge World MkIIB Land Raider.
However I was also lucky enough to receive a second Land Raider as a present. It was the Terminus model, however I decided to build it as a standard Land Raider.
Having made the hull I kept the weapons as separate assemblies, I would also be adding the tracks later too.
I made up two possible variations on the frontal weaponry including Heavy Bolters and Lascannons.
Now I made a mistake when I ordered my Mark IIb Land Raider, you get a set of doors and I (foolishly) asked them to replace the supplied eagle doors with Grey Knights Land Raider doors. Now what I didn’t realise was that the side doors on the sponson are not the same size as the Land Raider doors, but are in fact the same size as Rhino side doors. So the Grey Knight doors are too big! However this meant I could use them on this new Land Raider.
Notice how the doors are at the rear, it never made sense to me to have the main weaponry firing in the way of the side doors… so the main lascannons are at the front and the access doors at the rear.
See the full workbench feature on this Grey Knights Land Raider.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mark IIb Land Raider
Having given my Mark IIb Land Raider a black undercoat, it needed a second coat.
This is to be a Grey Knights Land Raider, though I may use it now and again as an Inquisitor transport. Next stage will be the basecoat.
Full workbench feature on the Mark IIb Land Raider.
Grey Knights Land Raider
At GamesDay 2006 there were a fair few demonstration games, in this game, Grey Knights battle Chaos Renegades. Here is a Grey Knights (or possibly an Inquisitorial) Land Raider.
More photographs from GamesDay 2006.
See how I am painting my Grey Knights’ Mark IIb Land Raider.
Mark IIb Land Raider
I have undercoated my Mark IIb Land Raider with a black undercoat.
This is to be a Grey Knights Land Raider, though I may use it now and again as an Inquisitor transport. As you can see from this shot though, the undercoat didn’t really cover the front, so I might need to give it another coat.
Next stage will be the basecoat.
Full workbench feature on the Mark IIb Land Raider.
Space Marines on sale at UK GamesDay
According to the Games Workshop website, a variety of Space Marines stuff will be on sale at the UK GamesDay on the 14th September including the new Drop Pod.
Dropping from orbit, the brand new pre-release Space Marines will be in extremely limited supply. That said, we’ll be taking 2000 brand new plastic Drop Pods – an amazing 89-piece plastic kit – not to mention the all-new Thunderfire Cannon and the all-important Codex: Space Marines.
We’ll also be taking supplies of the new Sternguard and Vanguard Veterans, the mighty all-plastic Land Raider Redeemer / Crusader, as well as the many new Special Characters including Captain Sicarius of the Ultramarines and the Chapter Master of the Crimson Fists, Pedro Kantor.
Hmm tempted.