Super Heavy Vehicle Gallery
Monstrous & Gargantuan Creatures
Super Heavy Vehicles
Adeptus Mechanicus
Orks
Dark Angels
The thunderhawk gunship I bought from Forgeworld came with both main weapon options, leaving me with a spare gun. The only thing I could think of to do with it was to scratchbuild another thunderhawk around it. You can see the results here next to the original.
Praetorian 24th Regiment
From left to right:
- Resin model from Forgeworld.
- Scratchbuilt plasticard copy of the resin kit.
- Plastic kit released along with the Apocalypse expansion.
Modelling Workshop Baneblade
White Dwarf magazine once ran a series of articles called 'Modelling Workshop' that described a number of hobby projects and the most significant of these was the Baneblade super heavy tank at 40K, many years before Forgeworld finally produced a resin kit.
The templates for this were sometimes innaccurate and the instructions somewhat vague but I was still able to put this together.
This image shows the scale of the Modelling Workshop model to more modern Games Workshop Imperial Guard kits, including the current Baneblade.
Squat Stormsword
I created armoured side panels for this Squat super heavy tank in a similar way as I did for the ordinary armoured vehicles - 2mm thick plasticard was used for the base and the spacers but instead of more plasticard for the details I used spare armour plates from the kit itself (along with a second sprue I had to mail order).
Adeptus Mechanicus
Here you see my four warhound scout titans. Two of these are the resin Forgeworld kits, while the other two are scratchbuilt copies. Each copy used about 1500 pieces of palsticard!
In keeping with the background, I name my titans. From left to right are: Sweetest Pain, Backwoods, Starnger and Saint Hilary.
Up from the warhounds come reaver battle titans. These three are entirely scratchbuilt, based on the Lucius pattern instead of the Mars pattern availble from Forgeworld. As you can see, in addition to the two Imperial reavers, I have also built a chaos reaver dedicated to Nurgle.
These are named: Saint Haylie, Play With Fire and Vile.
Next up is the mighty warlord titan. This one is named Dignity.
This image shows the relative sizes of my titans.
Orks
Imperial Armour volume 8 gives rules for customising ork stompas. This Death Skulls custom stompa has been given a bursta kannon in place of its normal main arm mounted gun and a deff arsnal built into its body. This involved sticking as many gun barrels as I could to the model.
This ork big pulsa rokkit is made from a genuine bomb! An RAF practice bomb to be exact. The launchpad is made from a plastic plate while the scaffolding is built from plasticard and .22LR rimfire ammunition containers.
This battlefortress was made by combining lots of Leman Russ track sections I had left over from my squat conversions.
This alternate battlefortress started out as a Baneblade that is now backwards.
A heavily armed scratchbuilt howdah was added to an Age opf Sigmar Maw Krusha to create this feal Snake Bite Gorkanaut.
Converted miniatures remain the copyright of Games Workshop Ltd.