WIP: Bane Wolf - Part II

Pleased to say that I made a lot of progress on my tank! Here just a few photos to show how things are going. 

Here is the hull finally glued together. I can say with absolute certainly that I hate putting these tank models together. Give me Flames of War anyway....they're much easier to assemble. But as much as I dislike building these things, they sure are fun to paint! It makes up for all the hours spent cutting, gluing, cursing and re-gluing.

Starting on the camouflage. I really like this particular color scheme. Reminds me of the old Cobra tanks they used to have in "G.I. Joe." But alas, that wasn't what I was going for. In keeping with the WWI theme of my Death Korps force, I kept on adding period appropriate colors.

This is what I eventually got. I was copying the following color scheme...

Now all I need to do is assemble the turret, add the hull weapon, outline the different colors with a Micron pen and weather the vehicle. The next few days should be pretty fun ones!

WIP: Bane Wolf - Part I

I've decided to build a new sort of tank for my 40k Death Korps regiment - a nasty little thing called the Bane Wolf. What does it do, you might ask? It shoots out poison gas and has a hull mounted flame thrower. Because  nothing says "I loathe you" to an opponent more than gassing their army and then turning the corpses into charcoal. Not to mention it's also very, very World War I-ish. So it seems appropriate.

A dry fitting after I cut some of the pieces from the sprue. Unlike previous 40k tanks I've built, they all fit together rather well and shouldn't have much of a problem staying glued together.

I began painting the tank pieces after priming them. This is something new I'm trying with this vehicle. Instead of gluing everything together, priming, and then painting I'm painting the pieces as I go along. It takes a bit more time but I think delivers a superb, clean look. Eventually this tank is going to be covered in French WWI camouflage (hence the blue). My work with Flames of War tanks has definitely made me more confident about doing vehicles.

Everything was going fine until....

I realized I had glued the front hatch to the wrong section of the hull! I may have in fact uttered a few choice words at this moment....

I tried prying the hatch cover off, but it wasn't budging.

This is where the MacGyver skills my friend Ben taught me came in handy, however. 

I've gotten in the habit of scrounging things that may be useful for modelling. Rocks, sticks, coffee stirrers, etc. Basically, I'm always on the lookout for useful items for the bits box. While walking to work, as it happened, I found a piece of a shredded American Express gift card. Thinking that its grooved, gold chip might be useful I picked it up. Not 24 hours later it came in quite useful! While it's not perfect, it'll work for now. Especially since I'm probably going to find something to further cover the hatch.

More pieces painted and ready to go! I'm actually surprised by how quickly this bad boy's coming together. Stay tuned for more updates!