Thursday 22 October 2015

Spartan Assault Tank - Counts as Conversion

Have you ever seen fire in zero G?


So as I mentioned in previous posts I have been working on a counts as Spartan Assault Tank. The reason for converting my own are two fold. The first is cost, with the actual tank rocking at over £100 its pricey! The second is aesthetic, I really don't like the over sized and extremely vulnerable to damaging enemy fire tank tracks. They just look silly to me. I'm also not a fan of the slightly extended nose.

I can totally see that people would like this aesthetic, I don't think it is an inherently silly or ugly tank, but not my cuppa thank you very much. What is my cuppa is the grandiose baroque gothic look of 40k, I absolutely dig John Blanche and the fantastically religious overtones of a techno backward advanced civilisation, I dig it good. With that in mind, I sent £40 on ebay and in stores picking up all the necessary materials and also dug around my room for whatever I thought might be useful.

Below is the results so far...












I still have soooooo much to do on this, but I couldn't resist sharing it. It doesn't even have an undercarriage yet! That is one of the next things to do as well as decide how to convert the weapons and mount them on the side. I have lots of greenstuff work to do to smooth out some of the transitions and generally tidy it up from being the mess it is at the moment.

But overall I am really pleased with how it has turned out. Almost considering building a second...

I would love to hear peoples thoughts on this, in particular if I rocked up with this and said I was playing it as a spartan would you be cool with that? I know it doesn't really look anything like one but I hope the rule of cool would win through :)

Peace out,

Rob

14 comments:

  1. only thing i dont like is the bolter placement..... thought about trimming them down and having them out the windows ?

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    1. I did, but they didn't really fit, so I consider putting a bolter through each window as a counts as but I couldn't get the window around them too look neat enough to satisfy me, limits of my skill unfortunately!

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  2. I love it. And I most definitely would apply the rule of cool when playing against it!

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  3. Really nice use of the cities of death parts. Never even thought about incorporating these into non-terrain models before. Looking great.

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    1. It was one of those things where I was browsing bits shops on ebay and the idea came to me, horrible gluing together though hoping I wasn't wasting all the good bits!

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  4. This is a brilliant conversion Rob. You are to be commended. Never thought of using those pieces to spruce up a tank!

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  5. Now that is cool!

    Love all the different bits you are using. Can't wait to see the finished article

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    1. Cheers Naf! Stuck on the guns a little but have lots of lion based detail to add so its looks all 30k jazzed up.

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  6. Dude. That is epic! Looks like it could use a bit more overhead clearance for your guys when they're jumping out, but that's great work. I look forward to seeing further progress on it.

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    1. Yeah, sadly I had marked the point where the window should come down to a couple of times and glued it to one of the old points by accident :( by time I had realised everything was way to solid together to take apart, I'll just have to mark some battle damage on their helmets to show how often they bang their heads :P Cheers dude!

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  7. Its looking amazing Rob. The use of the cities of death pieces works really well for your design.

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