Showing posts with label hellhound. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hellhound. Show all posts
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Praetorian Hellhound

Saturday, 23 April 2011

And the second BoB entry for April, my hellhound. I think I posted unpainted pics of these here before, but here it is with some paintwork. I need to do the weathering and try and scorch the end of the flame cannon but other than that it's almost there.


I've got all four Chard pattern vehicles on the desk next to each other at the moment, and I have to say they look rather cool. Love that whole standard pattern reused for different things vibe. One more vehicle on the same pattern for next months BoB, then we're onto the as yet unnamed artillery pattern vehicles. Harness pattern perhaps? hmm
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Praetorian Flame Tank

Friday, 31 December 2010

Ok didn't make it back for the other posts last night, spent two hours debugging the blog layout after posting those photos. Bah.

Anyway, new day new update. And we'll start with a scratchbuild I've had in mind since I started my Praetorians. The Hellhound.

Once I got the urban war chemical plant set from ebay I always had the tank selected, but wasn't sure about the turret. As the praetorian afv's evolved I decided I didn't want a turret. The chimeras have pintle-mounted turret weapons and only the command squad vehicle has a turret. So I went for a hull mounted flame cannon thing.

To differentiate from the normal heavy flamers I used a piece from the hellhound kit, then bulked out the bodywork and mounted it on an old tamiya oil drum.

I'm quite happy with the look of this, I spent a lot of time studying Hobart's funnies to try and get a feel for modifying stock chassis into weird and wonderful ways. Particularly happy with the tank at the back and the little bullet shield for the feeder hose. Seems jury rigged and suitably ad-hoc.

Tank just needs it's tracks, which are now assembled and at time of photo were drying, hence the balancing act in the final pic.





Spot of final detailing and it should be ready for priming.