WBRBloom's Genestealer Cult crawler

[WBRBloom]

Hello brothers! As promised, I broke off the 'finished GSC' thread, to start a new one, since I believe this one HAS to have its own dedicated space.

 

About a year (and some change) ago, my wife bought me a Creality Ender3V3KE 3d printer. That is an FDM printer (for those not familiar with 3d printers, it is a filament printer or Fused Deposition Modelling printer).

 

I've printed a few bits and bobs here and there (nothing illegal, mind you, mostly originally created stuff) such as sci-fi consoles, or industrial floors, etc. Granted, some where heavily inspired (emphasis on 'heavily') by games such as Necromunda or Kill Team, but that's about that.

Fast forward a few months, and I've started printing bigger stuff, which I won't get into details here. After finishing my CSM army, and being content that I won't be doing much with it, I decided to start on my GSC army project.

 

I always liked the underdog feeling that the GSC had: everyday men and women of industrialised planets and forge worlds, assimilated by vanguard forces and rise up to the oppressive Imperium, which will lead to their ultimate demise. Their weapons of destruction are the chains that held them down: survey vehicles, rockgrinding trucks, heavy mining equipment. Their clothes and gear worn from everyday use in the mines and incinerators. Even one of their fortifications is a tectonic fragdrill, used in creating localised earthquakes to bring down their enemies. That, along with a memory of what was called 'Mobile Base Crawler', an Enclave engine from Fallout 3, gave birth to the GSC Crawler Volcanic Drill.

 

In my mind's eye, this thing was basically a mobile laser drill that got repurposed to serve the nefarious ways of the Four Armer Emperor. This slow moving behemoth moves around in four individual tracks, using technology provided by the Omnissiah to excavate planets and bring to the surface precious minerals. Some alterations from the cult were made: salvaged twin heavy bolters, heavy mining laser emplacements and the laser drill itself, repositioned to bring its fury forwards, instead of downwards. In game terms, this would 'count as' a Shadowsword tank.

 

The whole platform would be a sprawling conglomeration of equipment, power generators and hybrids, both neophytes and aberrants, since the place needs a lot of hands (pun intended) to function. It is still a heavy work in progress, as a lot things still need to be fleshed and filled out: positions of the superstructure/driver's compartment, generators, power cells, weapons... I am still dry-fitting the majority of the stuff, and printing greebles to fill in empty spaces (I am sure I'm going to be left with a ton of extra stuff) and see what it sticks.

 

In any case, here are some pictures. I'll try and upload them in chronological order but since it takes some time to print new stuff, it might become a slow process until this things gets painted. I hope you'll enjoy it.

 

The first four pictures are the crawler itself. This is four 'simple tanks', with their tracks glued upside down (it seemed more fitting than to glue them the actual way, since this is an industrial vehicle, not an assault battle tank), and the actual platform, which are four flood tiles inspired from Necromunda (I speculate, not 100% sure).

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited yesterday at 11:35 AM by WBRBloom

[WBRBloom]

The next set, is the beginning of the superstructure/driver's compartment. Initially I thought of making this a power generator/pit for the weapon, but felt too crumped for something like that. Along are some of the greebles I've been using, the main body of the weapon, its barrel and how I first imagined it would go.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited yesterday at 11:35 AM by WBRBloom

[WBRBloom]

As this thread would become too pic heavy, too fast, I'll just finish up with the latest progress, which is the state of the vehicle presently. I have added some miniatures to see the scale of the whole model, and if I should make any adjustments. Some alternative setups have been tried (off-centre weapon for example), but now I'm almost 100% certain that central should be the way to go. My arm and the weapon are for scale. Some more greebles. The driver's cabin (which is halfway complete at this moment).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited yesterday at 11:43 AM by WBRBloom

[Firedrake Cordova]

I dunno, I think the gun could be bigger   (I think that was my inner Ork talking).

 

It's going to be an impressive beastie, isn't it? What's it going to count as?

 

If you're worried about being pic-heavy, have you considered image galleries or blog posts, and linking to them? (with a single image in-line in your posts, perhaps?)

[W.A.Rorie]

Impressive

[WBRBloom]

1 hour ago, Firedrake Cordova said:

I dunno, I think the gun could be bigger   (I think that was my inner Ork talking).

 

It's going to be an impressive beastie, isn't it? What's it going to count as?

 

If you're worried about being pic-heavy, have you considered image galleries or blog posts, and linking to them? (with a single image in-line in your posts, perhaps?)

 

 

I was planning on fielding it as a Shadowsword (opponent permitting, of course). Just to stress here, I'm not modelling for advantage, quite the opposite actually. If my calculations are correct, this monstrosity would be roughly 1,5 times the size of a Baneblade chassis.

 

In regards to the galleries and/or blog posts, I haven't thought of it. Or better, I did but I haven't had the best experience with the galleries. I'll give it a try again. :)

 

@W.A.Rorie thanks!

Edited yesterday at 02:55 PM by WBRBloom

[Firedrake Cordova]

Ah, it being a Shadowsword makes sense given the size of the frame and colossal gun.  

 

Love the Ork "Doc" quote