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Ultramarines Life Size Rhino

When I visited Warhammer World in September 2024 I took another photograph of the Ultramarines Life Size Rhino outside the front of it, as one does.

It looked a little cleaner than it did back just six months earlier in March 2024, someone must have given it a clean.

It was originally used as a promotional piece for the THQ Dawn of War video game. THQ gave the Rhino to Games Workshop who then gave it a repaint in Ultramarines colours.

It has suffered a little from being outside and is slightly battered and rusty, but this does make it look more “realistic”. This is how it looked twelve years ago, slightly shinier. The dirt and dust was purposely added as weathering to make it look more authentic.

Ultramarines Life Size Rhino outside Warhammer World

More photographs of the Ultramarines Life Size Rhino.

Basecoating the Legions Imperialis Rhino Transport Detachment

I got the Legions Imperialis: Rhino Transport boxed set as a present last Christmas.

The Rhino is the most widely used armoured personnel carrier in the Imperium. Based upon ancient STC technology, the fundamental design is robust, reliable, and easy to maintain, with an adaptive power plant that can run off a wide variety of fuels. Within the Space Marine Legions, the Deimos pattern was the most widespread, serving as the basic armoured transport available to the Legiones Astartes and the foundation on which a number of other war machines were based.

In the box you get two sprues that can be used to construct ten models. I made up five of the models and gave them a white undercoat.

I then gave the models a spray of Army Painter Demonic Yellow.

The next stage will be painting the tracks and other details on the models.

Starting on the Legions Imperialis Rhino Transport Detachment

I have been thinking about getting some miniatures for Legions Imperialis since it was released. So was pleased to get the Legions Imperialis: Rhino Transport boxed set as a present last Christmas.

In the box you get two sprues that can be used to construct ten models.

I am thinking I will paint these as Imperial Fists.

The first stage was constructing the models. Unlike the older Epic models, which were a single casting, these are multi-part kits. They were not as fiddly as I thought they would be, however there are quite a few parts, for example all the exhausts are separate parts.

I constructed five of the models.

You get various options when modelling these in terms of the hatches.

I have constructed one as a command Rhino.

The detail on these small models is quite amazing. It will be challenging to do them justice when painting them.

I think it would be great if there were conversion kits for these models from Forge World, but that isn’t going to happen. Thinking about the other five models in the box, if I might do something else with them, but I will probably paint them also up as Imperial Fists Legion Rhino Transports.

The next stage was to give the models a white undercoat.

The next stage will be the base coat.

Armoured Vehicles of the Imperial Fists

There are many different Armoured Vehicles of the Imperial Fists at Warhammer World.

The Rhino, or more formally, the Mars Pattern Rhino, is an Imperial armoured personnel carrier (APC) that is widely used throughout the galaxy by many different factions, though it is a mainstay vehicle of the Adeptus Astartes. It has provided safe transportation since the days of the Great Crusade, transporting its cargo of Space Marines swiftly and safely to the forefront of battle.

The Repulsor is an Imperial anti-gravitic main battle tank intended to provide armoured support for the Primaris Space Marines of many different Chapters.

The Repulsor armoured transport is a deadly combination of manoeuvrability and raw brute force.

Due to the turbine array at its rear, it has tremendous motive power, held aloft by powerful anti-gravitic generators.

The Repulsor is so heavily armed and armoured that is doesn’t skim over the landscape but instead crushes the ground below it.

The Astraeus is a symbol of the Imperium’s might, unbowed by the dawning of a bloody new millennium and unbroken by the onslaught of its foes. The Astraeus is a super-heavy tank, similar in form to the smaller Repulsor transport in use by the newly created Primaris Space Marines.

Ultramarines Rhino at Warhammer World

I recently visited Warhammer World. The life sized Rhino was still there guarding the entrance.

THQ, who had commissioned the Rhino for their Dawn of War video game “gave” the Rhino to Games Workshop who then gave it a repaint in Ultramarines colours.

More photographs of the life sized Rhino.

Legions Imperialis: Rhino Transport

I have been thinking about getting some miniatures for Legions Imperialis since it was released. So was pleased to get the Legions Imperialis: Rhino Transport boxed set for Christmas.

In the box you get two sprues that can be used to construct ten models.

This was the first time I had seen these models in the flesh. They are smaller than I thought they were going to be, but are (obviously) bigger than the older original Epic miniatures. However I thought they would be larger than they are.

I like how the box has come with transfers covering the many legions of Legions Imperialis.

When it comes to painting models, I do like to see how others have been painted. These are the images from Games Workshop.

I am thinking I will paint these as Imperial Fists.

The first stage will be constructing the models. Unlike the older Epic models, which were a single casting, these are multi-part kits.

Deimos Pattern Rhino in the desert

The Rhino is the most widely used armoured personnel carrier in the Imperium. Based on ancient STC technology, the fundamental design is robust, reliable, and easy to maintain, with an adaptive power plant that can run off a wide variety of fuels.

This is my Deimos Pattern Rhino in the desert.

Rhino getting in the way of the Typhon Heavy Siege Tank.

My other Deimos Pattern Rhino (note the two cupola bolters).

See the workbench feature on the first Deimos Pattern Rhino.

See the workbench feature on the second Deimos Pattern Rhino.

Deimos Pattern Rhino

I was pleased to see one of the new Horus Heresy releases announced at Warhammer Fest was the Plastic Deimos Pattern Rhino. So when it was available for pre-order I clicked through and ordered the kit from my local FLGS.

Having finished painting them, I photographed them on my desert terrain board.

I was lucky enough to get a second Rhino for a Christmas present. This I painted in the same way as the first Rhino.

See the workbench feature on the first Deimos Pattern Rhino.

See the workbench feature on the second Deimos Pattern Rhino.

Headlighting the Rhino

I bought the plastic Deimos Pattern Rhino when it came out in the summer, you can see the workbench for that Rhino here. I was lucky enough to get a second Rhino for a Christmas present. The model has many more parts and is a more detailed kit than the original plastic Rhino kit that came out in the 1980s. I constructed the model to the instructions, though I left the tracks off to paint separately. I gave the model an undercoat of Citadel White Scar. I gave the model a couple of light coats of Daemonic Yellow. I also painted the bolter and exhausts with Leadbelcher. I then shaded the model. For the next stage I used some Citadel Layer Yriel Yellow. I took a large brush and gave the model, what I would call, a heavy drybrush. I then did some more drybrushing. I then fixed the tracks to the Rhino.

The next stage was adding some more details to the model, namely the headlights.

For the front headlights I used Citadel Layer Dorn Yellow. For the other lights in the headlights I used Citadel Base Mephiston Red.

I then did the protective grilles with an UNI black pen, rather than use paint on them.

I now need to add some more weathering.

I then do need to add some transfers.

Here is this Rhino with my first Deimos Pattern Rhino.

See the workbench feature on the Deimos Pattern Rhino II.

Tracking the Deimos Rhino

The next stage was to affix the tracks to the Rhino.

With the tracks for the Rhino I gave them a spray of Mechanicus Standard Grey, this was followed by a heavy drybrush of Gorthor Brown. The tracks, once dry, had a wash of Agrax Earthshade Shade. After painting and shading them, I drybrushed them lightly, first with Leadbelcher. I then did a very light drybrush with Terminatus Stone.