There is a large Apocalypse game coming up at my local game store. Chaos against Imperials in an extreme city battle titled "Winter Assault". I have been working on city terrain and boards for the upcoming event including a huge 2' x 4' spaceport terrain piece. I decided that I better get a start on any big units I planned to bring, since all models are to be fully painted for this event. My girlfriend was kind enough to feed my hobby over Christmas so I am the proud owner of Imperial Guard Baneblade kit. Since this will be for my Chaos army, and the last thing my Chaos would do is stand back, I made the kit into a Hellhammer for some up close and personal firepower. After purchasing the extra sponson kit from GW, I started assembly and de-imperializing the tank. I scraped eagles and whatnot off the kit and added more Chaos bits. I am currently working on giving the tank some battle damage.
One thing I like is having options with my lists and models. Those of you who have seen my other tanks know I also love magnets. So I wanted to use my magnets to allow me to swap and add or remove the extra side
sponsons. Since you have the option of using the standard
sponson load out, adding 2 more for a total of 4, or removing them
all together and upgrading the side armor, I knew I would need to be able to add and remove all the side
sponsons. So using a
Dremel and a few small magnets I was able to convert the side weapons. The
GW kit is actually very easy to change with these magnets. below you can see that there really is not much cutting needed to make this work.
With all the side
sposons magnetized and even extra flat armor ready
in case I wanted to do without, the tank should be ready soon for some primer and scab red paint.
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