MK 1 Land Raider Conversion/Restoration

[Rickfactor]

I was introduced to WH40K in 86/87 and had a few marines that I eventually assembled but gave up on long ago. About 2 summers ago, I picked up a few items and started to paint and learn the finer points of the hobby. I wanted something from the old school so I purchased a box of junk on ebay. In the bottom of the box under the old Rhinos and two newer Land Raiders, I found the tracks for a Mark 1 Land Raider which I always wanted but never purchased. I realized early on it would not be a true Mark 1 but somewhere in between the early and current version.

Its missing everything except the two sides with tracks but I had some newer Rhino and Land Raider bits as well as some plasti-card. If you are going to start converting stuff using plasti-card, I highly recommend a bag they they have called "Odds and Ends" which has a wide variety of strips, sheets, etc. I also suggest you get some hollow square style as it helps putting sheets together at right angles.

[Rickfactor]

[Nurglesprince]

Looks bad *** thus far sir

Dan

[Bigred]

Oh this is going to be cool!

I miss my 2 Rouge Trader LRs...

[dwez]

I'm going to start refurbishing my own MK1 soon. The only thing missing are the side doors and front dozer grill, but I may adapt an assault ramp too. I was also going to magnetize the pintle mounts so I could run Hurricane bolters and possibly firestorm cannons

[Rickfactor]

Primed and rust spot undercoat with some hair-spray and salt before the base coat.

[Rickfactor]

[Bigred]

Now it just needs some RTB1s to dress it up

How can you not build a Heresy army around that sweet ride!?

[Darren Richardson]

WOW you made this using a few left over parts!

Damn that is an amazing model, with an even more amazing paint job, I take my Metaphysical hat off to you sir!

[Pauly Addams]

Truly, truly stunned with the finished result, superb.

You wouldn't happen to do video tuts of your airbrushing techniques? That's some of the nicest airbrushing & weathering I've seen in a long time.

Thanks for sharing

~Pauly