Ultimate Land Raider WIP Update!

Salamander Land Raider WIP update!

So I got all the green stuff work done finally. On to paint for the Obsidian Chariot.

WIP pics:

I used a lot of inspiration from all over the internet for the design, not to mention a deep dig through the bits box.

The side colums were made with a combination of plasticard, green stuff and basilisk earth shaker cannon barrels.

I press molded vulkan's personal icon to make the center pieces to the ceiling structure. When I was drafting the idea I pictured a sort of under ground almost dwarf like forge built into a cavern yet still refined and not so much stone cut. (tons of pics, keep reading)

The sides of the flamestorm cannons I

completely, and shamelessly stole from Chapterhouse. I didn't want them on doors though, so I had to improvise and make my own to put on the flamestorm sheilds. They do amazing work and I have purchased a fair

amount of stuff from them so I was able to justify it to myself at least.

The real pride I have in this land raider is it's construction. The doors are fully magnetized and ever movable piece is movable. I also magnetized the sponsons to switch from Redeemer to Crusader.

On top of that, the roof of the land raider comes off to expose the inners which I plan to detail as greatly as the outside.

In order to have the top open that giant hole h

ad to be filled. I was going to uses lego gears and bits to make it look like somthing more mechanical but I kept forgetting to get some when I'd go back home from my old Lego stash So I just dug up stuff to make it look sort of mechanical and I'm meh about it. It could definitely be better and is the weakest area of the whole model but it works for what I need it to do: cover a giant hole.

The doors slide open. I actually had no idea that these inner doors moved. They just pinch in together between the two halves of each tread side. The outer doors are just held on with a magnet.

I tried to hinge one side and it was a HUGE pain in the ass and, with the chains, didn't work. I'm no engineer, I proved that.

Another reason that I wanted the inside to be visible is because I want to put a mini dioram

a in there.

The idea is that this guy, I don't who, is some

kind of explore/forgefather assistant, whatever, and he's looking though a section of the tome of fire. There is a sevitor and servo skull bound to the tome or something to assist in the information retrival and 40k universe stuff like that around him. I imagine that books are more digital than actually paper/ink. It's nothing amazing, but just a touch that adds character to the land raider. I'll leave off with a trail of pictures of the diorama.

Enjoy! Feel free to ask and questions you might have and check back for up dates on this bad boy!