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Published: 2011-12-17 11:25:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 2524; Favourites: 51; Downloads: 31
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this is my converted Predator tank, can be used as a dakka pred or anti tank due all weapon are exchangable.it futures 6 massive legs and 2 front arms, one having a small cutting claw and the other having a huge grabbing crushing claw.
it has a storm bolter on its underside to protect itself from units that want to attack from below, a hunter killer missile, a storm bolter on top and it can use the regular weapons as lascannons, an autocannon and heavybolters .
this vehicle counts as a walker (Obvious isnt it
) and has some rules of a defiler for its front legs.there are still some minor flaws on the model but i like it how it is now.
the model took me about 2 months to build paint and complete.
the fotos arent great but for a way to detailed image youll have to download the file as usual,
enjoy and comment if you like.
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thank you
its a kitbash of 2 kits;
i used the regular predator tank kit from wargaming, and the huntsman spider tank kit from ramshackle games. and some random "1 of a kind" spare bits and pieces i had laying around....
biggest problemi had making it? cutting the resin properly without breaking/meting it, and weight, the legs bend when it gets warmer deu to them being made of resin instead of wargamings plastic, i updated it and gave it a stand (wargaming clear fly base) a while back so the legs dont deform anymore...
glad you like it.
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to bad they aint real.... thank you
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So, I can't see this in any of the fluff (possibly because I'm quite unobservant) but what are you playing these boys as? Are they a kind of renegade marine company, or are they straight-up chaos boys, or what?
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nope, i pulled these custom things from a lovely corner of my brain, so no you're not unobservant about these custom adaptions.
i play them as a renegade marine company, since their believes a a bit different (still rewriting everything so no big details) with the biggest thing being heretechs (or is it hereteks), they loot enemy tech and use it against them, xeno tech is a no go for imperial standards but they just flipped them the finger and did it anyway, got them banned/renegade
thats a very simple version, they also got banned into the warp but that is what im still rewriting...
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Yes, that is the general impression I got. I look forward to seeing more of these chaps!
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Very cool conversion, but it looks kinda under-gunned
This arent the defiler legs, right? I really like the "crushy" klaw
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nope these are legs from a spider tank kit i bought from Ramshackle Games, as for guns... he got guns on top, on the sides, and on the bottom, and all its legs are razorsharp.
and yeah i like the crush factor of that one to
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I think it wants a hug. Maybe XD
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he will hug a defiler without any doubts.... to death that is XD.
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O.O ............................ XD EPIC! 100% originality
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Crab people Crab People ... Crab People Guess the reference?
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wowie, whats your landraider like? a giant lobster? ^^
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LOL, would be a fun project, but no, according to the fluff i wrote i cant have landraiders nor bikes nor land speeders.
though i can have marines riding bears which on their turn can count as a bikesquad
but first things first, i really need to do my basic troops, i only have heavy support at the moment
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lol ok ^^my next projects going to be "the grand transmuter" wich i wanna play like fabius bile, the only problem is: i dont want to use the bile miniature since genetic mutation wouldent work on an army without any flesh X3
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hmmm try to find mechanical tentacles then
other than those non flesh mutations are rather hard to do...
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mm yes well i allready have my "Matter Knights" built from grey knights. i used liquid greenstuff to fill up all the texts on the armors and currently im "painting" exaltations on them. the painting plan is to paint them in different metal colors and the exaltations like skaven warp stone.
For the the "mutation dice roll" i thought of raw matter for berserker, golden warriors for sable mutation and "philosopher stone" for "I've created a monster" i thought of philosopher stone as matter from the warp trying to get back in its realm at any cost
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sounds good but the only way to actualy find out if it works is to build a couple and try it on the field itself.... at least that is how i work out my units, and if a unit fails in its thought up setting i either convert it to another or let it be pretty on the shelf
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haha, well in the end its still a full bile unit, fabuis bile and, have u ever seen that bastard on the field? i only once n well this guy rocks ^^
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well, if it rocks, then just use the darn basterd
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yarr ^^ c'mon fistbump with that green xenogenetic binics X3 +offers transmuted skeledon fist for bump+
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That is just about....the most awesome thing I've ever seen! Well done on the conversion. Do you proxy it as any other vehicles in game or count it as your special rules, and do those rules pay off when the thing is such a bigger target than a standard predator?
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thank you very much.
well i either let it count as defiler or as a predator in non friendly games, while when i play with friends or free for all games, it counts as a combi of both predator and defiler. ill post the rules when i have made them final.
and i do not know how it plays yet, will play today to test it, i hate that it has to go up against tau hammerheads but 
and yes its as wide as 3 rhinos while lenght 1,5 as i didnt place the legs that far outward.
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Not just the legs but it's higher too so line of sight for the other team is probably even easier. That said good luck against the Tau, they have an obnoxious amount of dakka.
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just came back, it was slaughtered the first round after it took down two battle suits and half a markerlights-team (3 units).
it took a shot to the legs from an anti air gun which he called an ion cannon.(which also took out an aircraft with incoming infantry)
the 3 shots it fired, all hit but only the 3rd actually went trough and wrecked it (was nice cover after that 
now im thinking about giving the thing some sort of shields to save it from such an impact once, like a void shield. or a structure point so it takes 2 hits before it collapses, as technically it is one of the strongest vehicles i can have (according to my own fluff).
do you have ideas for it?
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Usually I don't make my own units and rules for the sake of being modest and not wanting to make things overpowered. Instead I usually use the fun custom model of choice and proxy it with a model that for more or less intensive purposes would serve the same thing. For example I had a Squiggoth for my orks, looked cool but I didn't have the proper rules for it. Gave it some shooty weapons and counted it as a battlewagon. Similarly with a vehicle such as yours, I would first see if Forge World has any units that resemble what you're going for here. Otherwise maybe try counting it as a land raider with the appropriate weapons and a ram or something for the claws. You have a cool vehicle, it just seems like (as with the regular defiler) it doesn't have the armor that it would need to survive. On the same token use that to your advantage. My friend plays chaos and uses his defiler as a bullet magnet first few turns which lets him focus the rest of his forces elsewhere with less chance of being shot at.
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i agree on it being a bullet magnet, but in my opinion it goes down to fast, or im just a terrible dice trower 
i was just considering this, as normally i think it would survive a
Str 7 ap 3 heavy 3 attack.
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I dunno honestly, I think you just need to either field another big vehicle or scary unit to divvy out who's getting shot at, or use the distraction as an advantage, maybe get some jump units or units on bikes that can cover the battlefield while the enemy is distracted.
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bikes are out of the question but jump battalions are in the making. also i am making a second one when i find the time for it (i have all the arts already
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Cool ...
Are you going to write more additional rules for this one ?
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thank you,
and maybe, for now im just merging the rules from a defiler with a predator, for the future im planning to improve and finalize that mixture... that will be after some testing.
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This is an impressive build.
Out of interest, what are the legs made of?
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thank you,
the legs are made from resin, they come from the huntsman spider kit from ramshacklegames. im planning a second one but the resin is kinda bad, it needs lots and lots of fixing, some legs of this model broke twice while building... but again, it turned out better then i expected.
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No, NO don't do tha... ahh...
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