Titans, Artillery, and More!

I visited my friend McGyver the other day and he had some really cool stuff he'd been working on that I was overjoyed to be the first to see.  I took pictures of course.  I will probably get some serious Chaos pictures in the coming weeks but for now these pictures will have to do.  The secret to most of the models shown is that the minimal amount of pieces required to build the models is used while other pieces are substituted.  Almost all of my friends tanks don't have a bottom, and you would never be able to tell.  If you give him 3 Leman Russ tanks, he can build six, if not nine if he has extra bits.  His imagination is nothing short of brilliant.  Check it out.

This Basilisk was made with Chimera sides, treads, and a front armor plate.  The cannon is a sharpie and pen with a super glue container lid for a recoil drum on the top.  Super heavy tank wheels were used to seat the cannon in place.  It looks legit, and the sand bags were created with molding putty.  You simply flatten out the putty, flip one end over the other, and then place it where you want it.  It's thank easy.  When this tank is painted it you won't be notice that it was scratch built with bits.  The amazing thing about the crew area is that the steel legion troops are actually working on turning a wheel to adjust aim and ram another shell into the breach.  

Need to find a use for all of those Deathstrike missiles?  Once again super glue lids can cover the holes normally left over once you build a Manticore tank using the smaller missiles.  So this big missile now looks really cool as seen below, and with a few left over sprues you can whittle down a launch ramp.  The Deathstrike missile tanks seen below are all scratch built only using chimera sides and treads with left over rhino and super heavy bits.

This is an artillery trailer.  My friend shortened the chimera siding to make it smaller.  You can see the cut on the top right on the visible chimera side.  There are shells loaded onto the trailer, a very simple platform bridges between the chimera sides, and there are tons of little details like an assault cannon is used as a heavy stubber on the very back with sand bags built up to protect the trooper manning the stubber.

This tank commander is from my friend's steel legion army.  It is a very authentic pose and I am jealous that none of my tank commanders have that pose.  Although I do tend to shy away from exposing my vehicle operators in combat.

Using the mega bolter from the shadowsword kit my friend made a unique Punisher Leman Russ tank.  This tank is totally scratch built using only bits and plasticard.  It looks grungy and nasty.  I love it!  It looks like it could truly wipe out a unit of Dark Eldar in a round.

Here is a picture of my friend's 3rd Steel Legion titan.  Yet another unit design sans forgeworld bits.

Do you have a battle cannon laying around?  Look what you can do with it.

Take note of the brilliant use of molding putty for the sand bag fighting position. 

This looks awesome.  It brings flavor to any 40K battlefield.

One scratch built chaos titan!

Two scratch built chaos titans!

I have shown this Imperial Guard titan before but the detail in the cockpit is worth showing off.

Why yes it was scratch built.  I like the use of the computer fan on the back of the titan.   

I think this scratch built Ork stompa speaks for itself.  Ork vehicles require only that you build a model and then drop it 3 good times.  Makes all the difference in the world.  Orks just rock. 

The real Sons of Anarchy.