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Post by praetorian13 on Apr 4, 2011 16:02:42 GMT -5
Many years ago I first discovered Ebay. This was my very first purchase, a poorly painted and terribly assembled bane blade with a shadow sword insert. I stripped the paint and unglued it, put it in a box and never had the gumption to finish it. Well, my traitor guard has been recruited to be on the side of the Great Enemy in an Apocalypse game so I was thinking that this tank would be a good fit to make a chaos baneblade. Aquila scraping as per usual. The sponsons were all wrong as they originally had 3 bolt guns per side. I had to drill out the sponsons to take the twin linked heavy bolters and then rebuild the outside with plastic cardstock. I replaced the turret mounted TL Heavy bolters as well. ( had bought a grab bag of bits and it included some of the heavy bolters from the Land Raider variant SCORE!) I added some Chaos plates and then painted it in the rusty red tone I have been giving to my Blood Pact traitor guard. It may not be on par with the new plastic model but good enough for the ruinous powers I say!
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Post by Gabriel Lupus on Apr 4, 2011 16:54:05 GMT -5
Variety is always good - Have you ever compared it to a GW Baneblade? If so, how's the size comparison - ok/a bit... of a concern/individualising?
Bravo on returning it to active service!
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Post by Yeti's Yell on Apr 4, 2011 17:33:39 GMT -5
WIN
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Post by Dedrier on Apr 4, 2011 21:01:14 GMT -5
Very cool, I like it. Those rivets are HUGE though.
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Post by emptyhat on Apr 4, 2011 22:56:39 GMT -5
Classic! I love stuff that reminds me of playing Final Liberation as a kid.
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Post by praetorian13 on Apr 5, 2011 21:08:54 GMT -5
It is a smidge shorter front to back than a Baneblade otherwise they kept pretty true. I still have the White Dwarf somewhere where they gave full sized patterns to build one out of plasticard and tubes! Armorcast used those when they made the licensed ones I swear they used split peas or something for the rivets!
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Post by Paradill on Apr 6, 2011 5:27:48 GMT -5
That's some good stuff! Congratulations on rebuilding it with such dedication.
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