Deathwatch Land Speeder Storm - Special Forces Vehicle homag

[Brother Morgan]

Deathwatch Land Speeder Storm

 

I managed to finish my homage to Special Forces vehicles yesterday from a rescued ebay Land Speeder Storm:

 

 

So the weapon pay load is 2 Twin Heavy Bolters, Twin Assault Cannons and 2 side pintle mounted single Heavy Bolters. I decided to crew the vehicle with Deathwatch Veterans from less common Chapters (from Shapeways): 

 

Storm Warriors piloting

Imperial Castellan co-pilot

Halo Dragons Pintle mounted turret

Dark Hands Left side operator

Knights of Eternity Right side operator.

 

Each of them have a holstered Bolt Pistol and the standing Veterans all have a slung Bolter. The compulsory Deathwatch Icon was added to the front glacis. The Twin Heavy Bolters and Assault Cannons were taken from the Master of the Ravenwing kit. The side pintle mounts were from Zinge Industries with the single Heavy Bolters from the Attack Bike kits. The turret cupola was taken from the rear Taurox hatch.

 

 

This shows the front right side. Everything was edge highlighted - painful, but looks good! The base was made up of my compulsory dead swarm of Genestealers and Hormogaunts!

 

 

The right side Heavy Bolter was converted to have the ammo box on the right side. I really like the Chapter Badges on these Deathwatch Veterans.

 

 

This shows the left side. Luckily the side gunners have magnetised boots to stop them falling out!

 

I had great fun making this and painted it in record time for me!

 

Please feel free to comment and ask any questions.

 

Regards, Brother Morgan

[Mazer Rackham]

Excellent!  I like this a lot.

 

A good rescue.

 

I can see some room for stowage as well, if you wanted to over-egg the pudding.  Maybe IG rucksacks for the habitual 'Bergans' that get thrown on vehicles like this, hung off the gravplates or at the back over the wings.

 

MR.

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Excellent work, sure to make Orks weep in despair at the idea "Humies got more dakka than us!"

[Archaeinox]

Certainly one of the more believable vehicles in 40k. The teams guys and SF sure do like making it sound like there's more of them in a fight. Was def jealous when I saw the vehicles bristling with guns

[Guest Triszin]

That's a lot of dakka

[Brother Morgan]

Excellent!  I like this a lot.

 

A good rescue.

 

I can see some room for stowage as well, if you wanted to over-egg the pudding.  Maybe IG rucksacks for the habitual 'Bergans' that get thrown on vehicles like this, hung off the gravplates or at the back over the wings.

 

MR.

 

I did think about that Mazer, but I wanted the outside to be clean but I did add extra ammo (you can't see in these photos) on the internal benches. 

 

Excellent work, sure to make Orks weep in despair at the idea "Humies got more dakka than us!"

 

I'm trying to make my models as "realistic" as I can. I try to add spare ammo to all of my models. The books imply the space marines have a number of spare magazines but on the models you don't tend to see anything.

 

Certainly one of the more believable vehicles in 40k. The teams guys and SF sure do like making it sound like there's more of them in a fight. Was def jealous when I saw the vehicles bristling with guns

 

Thanks Archaeinox, I admire all Special Forces and I definitely think their small number need as much firepower to keep people's heads down.

 

That's a lot of dakka

 

Thanks Triszin. If you want a lot of Dakka, you should see my Space Marine Fortress:

 

 

 

Regards, Brother Morgan

[Maschinenpriester]

Wow that is looking pretty retro and cool! So much dakka.

[Bjorn Firewalker]

That's one grim-looking fortress.