Blackadder's Landkreuzer P500; Der Wühlmaus

[Blackadder]

The Black Library of Caltroon:

The Black Library of Caltroon mentions the 'Armories' carved out of the living rock in the mountains of Cardiff boarding the Tyne estuary. What little is known of the 'Armories' is there are numerous galleries that go on for miles on each level and and it has never been established how many levels there are.

All that is know is all the exploratory parties no matter how well armed and provisioned never return from the depths and sometimes eerie howls reverberate from below............

So they are described in the Novel, 'The Lords of the Starship'

The Blackadder has exhumed from the safer levels a forgotten behemoth he calls the Landkreuzer P500; Der Wühlmaus.

[url]http://i.imgur.com/gCCG15S.jpg[/url]


More than half again the size of the 300 tonne Baneblade the P500 weighs in at 500 metric tons and was the creation of the Blackadder when he tried to scratch build a Baneblade from images he found on the internet more than six years ago.

Not being as practice as he is now about all he got right was the width of the hull and tracks from the front, 8.4 meters. I guess that excludes the sponsons.

Seen here compared in size to his favorite tank Arethusa

[url]http://i.imgur.com/MF75gyP.jpg[/url]


Once again Blackadder has taken up the cudgel and will attempt to complete this monster as a noble companion to his titan squad.

[url]http://i.imgur.com/8keowq4.jpg[/url]


Of course this will be in the Lucius pattern and I may revamp the asymmetrical superstructure and center the turret.

It will have dual Main cannons, outsized sponsons dual Lasers surmounting the sponsons that will house 90° arc rotating bolters.

[url]http://i.imgur.com/5JS6Q1o.jpg[/url]


So aside from everything else I intend to do this shall also be on my plate.

After all I have 38,000 years before these have to be ready.........

[Darren Richardson]

ohhh that looks awesome even in it's current state...

[Blackadder]

[quote name='Dono1979' post='2730032' date='Jan 9 2015, 07:12 AM']
This could be the perfect candidate for the new Super Heavy available to the Solar Auxilia in the latest Horus Heresy rulebook (Book IV); the Stormhammer.
[/quote]

It pays to share your work on the internet. You literally have a world of input to draw on. Thanks very much for this information; you have given me an edge on replicating in hardware the image offered in the rules with virtually no regression The machine imaged and mine are virtually identical with very few amendments.



Now it just remains to be seen if I alter my intended trajectory to this new information????????????

[Blackadder]

Unilateral Development;

One thing that has alway bothered me about this tank was the unilateral asymmetry of the superstructure of the Armorcast model. Since I am redesigning this tank I decided to make the casement symmetrical (and center the turret) which regretfully eliminates the character of the original, superfluous as that may have been. Other than causing angle incident headaches it served no discernible purpose; nevertheless I am sorry to see it go.

[url]http://i.imgur.com/KNgyHgc.jpg[/url]


So after producing a paper template I transferred the coordinates to styrene and rough cut the piece with scissors. (Yes I know the lines are not symmetrical but I know what they mean.........)

[url]http://i.imgur.com/QGdkYrL.jpg[/url]


Once the top is glued in place I can sand the bevel and add the sloping casement.

[Blackadder]

Turret Toolboxes:

One thing I do know, the toolboxes on the back of the turret have to be executed with a fine degree of tolerance. It is very easy to make them lopsided and then they just look like hell; it would be better just to leave them off.

When I refurbished my Armourcast Baneblade I just cast them out of resin and sanded them into shape easy peasy

[url]http://i.imgur.com/p0GJbDu.jpg[/url]


but today I am going to build them from scratch as I don't want to play with all that messy resin.

[url]http://i.imgur.com/6MAWrez.jpg[/url]


So we start with the false bottom plate and I don't know how big/deep I want the boxes so I made the plate a tad extra long. When it's finished the end plate should be relatively square i.e.equal on all four sides but I won't know the dimensions until I get the angled side on.

[url]http://i.imgur.com/pUvzaqE.jpg[/url]

[YorkNecromancer]

ne thing that has alway bothered me about this tank was the unilateral asymmetry of the superstructure of the Armorcast model. Since I am redesigning this tank I decided to make the casement symmetrical (and center the turret) which regretfully eliminates the character of the original, superfluous as that may have been.

Oh, but the asymmetry! The asymmetry!

All joking aside, this is a niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice looking start. Good luck! I find that with superheavies, it's all about the endurance.