Land Raider

Land raiders are just the best

The doors open and everything 

There's lots of little internal bits that really bring it to life when that big assault ramp drops. 

Only thing is that once all the doors and panels are in place it's way too dark to actually see all these little details unless you shine a torch in there or are able to fit a Led to the roof somehow.

Well there was an option to add a multimelta so of course that has to go on but there was nothing in the box. Seems to only be available in the Redemptor version of the kit. Grrr. 

No worries though I stole one from the land speeder I got at the same time. 

 This does mean my Land speeder typhoon squadron has one with the heavy bolter rather than multimeltas all round. Could be a useful point reducing option...... 

Redemption awaits those with Stompy robots

I got the Redemptor dreadnought in the Dark Angel combat patrol box a while back but never did a post for him.

Went with the anti infantry roll just because you get to throw a fist full of dice with two gatling guns blazing. Fragstorm in the chest just because I thought it looked cool.

Diamond plate experiment

When coming up with my new Deathwatch army I needed a new base type for them. With my Birthday looming I wanted to add some non model options and perused the modelling & hobby section of element games website. 

 There I came across green stuff world's rollers. I've seen GSW's stuff before but it usually has a £12 delivery charge from Spain. But Element had them in stock. I liked the look of diamond plate to give my Deathwatch a industrial / space ship vibe. So on the list they went with some more DAS clay. 

 I've been using DAS quite a bit for bases to give the ground more texture and height so was confident in this material. 

In amongst the models someone kindly got me the roller and  I pumped out some experiments. 

Not every base was perfect and it's going to take some experiments to see how it works best. As a starter for ten I'm happy enough. Now to stick some models on them.