Alternate Earthshaker battery models.

[Raven1]

The model is basically out of production. I know forgeword makes one technically but I'm not really looking to spend £260 on the DKoK set. While perusing GW's website and saw the AoS Warp Lightning Cannon and I think it could serve well enough as a proxy model, but I would like to know what the community thinks

 

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[shandwen]

I would say the size of the model isn't horribly off, but the base might be a little small (not having the carriage legs). All together not a bad proxy.

[40kChrista]

http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/319059-artillery-proxies/

 

This should give you ideas for everything you might need.

[Res Ipsa Loquitur]

Use the Basilisk, buy bitz, get a Chimera too.

[Marshal Haduwig]

I personally love this model.

 

https://victoriaminiatures.com/collections/artillery/products/bfg-sledgehammer

 

Still a little on the expensive side (about £60) but not as bad as Forgeworld. The BFG plus the crawler kit looks fantastic. I've just built 2.

[N1SB]

Hi brother, just here to help with an example I was working on earlier.

1st things 1st - did you mean the Earthshaker Battery or the Earthshaker Carriage Battery? Both are in the same Forgeworld Imperial Armour Index, but the former has/needs no crew and fires basically like an automated turret, while the latter actually has Guardsman crew and costs more points.

In my case, I just did the crew-less, lower-points Earthshaker Battery. I basically took the following advice, let me share the results for your reference:

Use the Basilisk, buy bitz, get a Chimera too.

This was from my Renegades & Heretics project. I bought the regular Basilisk kit and just used the guns. Here's basically bits of 1 and a half Earthshaker guns:

Notice that odd T-shape. It's supposed to spill over the back of the Chimera chassis and works as a platform, but doesn't look great. So I added some sandbags...

...and some Nurglings. They're not Guardsman crew, as I said this model operates as a turret, but they're like decoration to explain how the gun can fire.

Then I basically got an open-topped Chimera chassis (it lacks the cover and the lasgun array and turret of a normal Chimera transport) that I plan to convert:

Please note it lacks some things that comes with the Chimera kit, but with a little conversion it can be one, while also allowing it to be converted into other stuff.

Just providing an idea because I already worked 2 of these for Armies on Parade and I actually really liked how it turned out.