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.
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 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.
