Things to do...

Most things have been primed, I have 1 week to complete painting of everything you see here to get my army ready.

Tanks

My flamer conversions (I am so proud of these)

Troopers flamers and a Melta

Chimeras

Hydras

Manticores

  I made the Autocannons from a bit of Plasticard, magnets and Heavy bolters, they look good.

Autocannons

Flamers and Meltas

Everything!

It's a daunting task but should be dooable, tomorrow I think I#ll start with the tanks and see how things go.

Special Weapons and a whole Stack O' Tanks

So I went to do a bit more tonight, only just realised that I have so much to do before next Friday, it's going to be a struggle.

I have noticed that I do have a lot of Chimera Hulls now, hopefully this will be good.

I submitted my list Yesterday so the nits are set in stone and I need to do a fair few things, including 2 Melta Gunners and 2 Flamers.

Conversion time, GO!

Stack O Mech!

Magnetised hull (property of weetabix Ltd)

Flamer on

 I stuck the Manticore turret together and also assembled my Flak Cannons.

Manticore

Flak Cannon

 Then I started working on my Special Weapons so I got a Valhallan and some Cadian Bits and got to work.

Flamer time!

Guy No 1 done.

No 2 Front

No 2 Back

No 2 Side

 I added in some innards of a Network cable to make the fuel feeds, I'm happy how these turned out.

For the Melta gunners I kinda called it in, take Lasguns then add Melta Ends, these were cut from the Multi Melta sponson weapons that were intended for my Leman Russ, I'm sure that they'll look good when painted.

Melta Gunners

Things to do...  Autocannon conversions x3 for my Heavy bolters, Undercoating and LOTS of painting.

Building for Warpcon

Got a bit done tonight, Magnetised the Chimer Turrets. As well as the Hull weapons, these will be interchangeable on sponsons for Leman Russes, if they ever become useful.

Chimera Turret, Multilaser

Flamer Options

Magnetised 

Sponson style flamer

The normal Flamer

I also started to magnetise the Flak Cannons for installation

Magnetised Flak Cannon

 I glued the Missile for the Manticores, they'll get fully assembled tomorrow.

Missiles good to go

Here are my four APC style Chimeras which are nicely modular and can be made into Hydras/Manticores.

The Christmas Presents.

Mech Stacking, a very strong Technique, I have eight Chimera hulls now and three Leman Russ, plus the Banewolf and Vendettas. The Warpcon List will see 10 Tanks  2 Planes and a few dudes.

My Armour Pile

An update, Long time coming.

With all the festive times going on I haven't really done much, now that Warpcon is 16 days away work needs to get done.

And loads needs doing:

• Hydras (waiting on parts)
• New Chimeras
• Hull Heavy flamers for Old Chimeras (magnets)
• Flamer troopers need painting
• Heavy Bolter to Autocannon Conversions
• Manticores!

So my order from Old Crow arrived, which means my list gets a shake up, Tactical missile Turrets!

Parts

Blu-tacced together

Now because I don't have that many Hulls I need to put one on a Leman Russ Hull. the other will go on a Chimera.

On a Chimera Hull

On a Leman Russ

Because I need to use a Russ Hull I have to remove the sponsons.

I got the main bodies of the chimeras assembled and did some testing with the sizes of the top of the hulls.

Hulls

Completed Hull, will add radar on the white hatch.

To get another hull I needed to take my Basilisk apart, then I started to make the new base for mounting a Flak cannon or similar.

Dissassemble!

New Base

Rear fit

I need to get the plasticard textured so will probably try and spray and or drybrush over this netting, or glue it on. but that's pretty low priority.

Texturing

I also went to magnetise a new Chimera turret, just in case Heavy Bolters make a comeback!

Multilaser

The plan is to magnetise all the hulls along with the Sponsons for Leman Russ, I have a lot of spare weaponry so this should be easy, once I work out the best way to go about it.

Flamer positioning.

Sponson ideas.

Weapon Selection

There'll be loads more updates in the coming days/weeks, as I work towards getting everything done in time, even after it's all assembled and tidied it'll have to be painted, I think it's going to be close.

Chimera Factory

So I took it upon myself to make my Chimeras. The 4 of which that ill double as Flak tanks, thinking about it and lists and such made me realise I really need about 4 more of top of these.

I had to remove all the bits from the sprue, which took ages. and then I put some things together. I got a bit high off the glue.

All de-sprued

Tracks.

Assembled sides.

Tracks added on.

I then started working on the "APC Style" Chimera design. The concept is to have something that looks a bit like a modern APC.

Cut the Rear

Add on the front.

After that I gave up, was getting annoyed with Blu Tak and nothing staying together,