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.

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.

Magnets and Scratch Building

So the Magnets arrived, they are very very very tiny, and so strong, they kept getting stuck to all my tools.

MAGNETS! How do they work?

Tiny Magnets.

I had to paint them to make sure I never messed up the Polarity when I was attaching things, this took some time, and they are very hard to separate.

Kitchen Knife!

I started with the wings for one Vendetta, which went well. I was also able to do the Lascannons for the hardpoints as well as the one for the side of the hull.

A wing

NO DISASSEMBLE!

ASSEMBLE!

 It actually all stays together when you pick it up as well (by the body)

I also needed to have some Autocannons for my Moocon List, well Magnets and plastic tubing/rod can save the day!

First it's a Bolter...

Now, Autocannon!

And another thing I need for Moocon is a Hydra, my parts from Maelstrom only just got dispatched today, I hope they arrive for Xmas, theres a slim chance but hey.

I emailed the guys from Bitspudlo to ask them status, nothing back yet but they could be in the mailbox somewhere.

So I needed to Make a Flak Cannon, with my new materials and some Artistic inspiration I set to work...

Concept Art © Ikebox

And this is what I was able to come up with, I'm quite proud of it to be honest, it looks okay and it's clear what it's meant to be.

Finished product.

Painted 

Mounted on Custom Door Chimera

So thats it, 3 posts in one Evening, blame the camera, and my laziness.

I'll get my List for Moocon up tomorrow and will be taking the camera along on Saturday to chronicle my defeat(s), it's a Fun Highlander style Tournament, no Duplicates and a 1k points limit, looking forward to seeing what people come up with.

Going to play on Thursday night as well, will see if I test the Moocon list or keep it a guarded secret and then surprise everyone with it's idiocy.