The first and most obvious thing to do was too allow the main weapon to be switched between Baneblade Cannon and Helblade Cannon, a very easy swap with a disc magnet inside the Manlet, and another inside the turret mounting for the manlet.
Of course this presents a problem of Sponsons, these I fitted with much smaller disc magnets inside the track assembly and within the sponson itself (though I've not got a complete set of Sponsons as an alternative/additional set yet), the armour plates were likewise fitted giving me flexibility to have no sponsons (for the extra armour), one pair of sponsons or two pairs of sponsons in either the fore or aft positions.
I did'nt want too stop there either though.
As I've got a spare upper hull section from the Leviathan I've made this swapable with an additional pair of large magnets, one fore, one aft mounted on cross beams (which also provide additional structural strength when the plate is not in place), I'll modify this hull section into a Shadowsword style hull (i.e. no hull weapons or turret, instead a mount for a single main fixed gun) which will also have swapable weapons allowing me to field a Shadowsword, Stormblade or Stormsword potentially. The rear engine block I've also left swapable with a single magnet on the aft cross beam, I did this when news of the Stormlord from Apocolyopse Reloaded first came about, which indicated a Chimera style layout for the Baneblade Chasis Transport variant - though this has since proven not to be quite accurate I've left it as an option with a view to attempting some sort of alternative layout on this idea in the future.
And with that it's job done for the time being, I'm gonna be tinkering with a spare turret on and off for an Imperial counterpart to the Chaos Plague Reaper (i.e. a turreted Inferno Cannon as mounted on Imperial Titans), I'll come back to painting in due course - other things are on top of the pile.
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Nice to see some praetorian stuff! I'm glad your getting the sisters done. So many people leave their armies unpainted and primed.
How do you think this one will be painted? What about the different sponsons/hulls etc? Do you anticipate having a general colour scheme with the special parts of each tank varient in different colours etc to distinguish them more clearly? i.e. red turret for the baneblade, blue turret with white markings for the shadowsword?
Keep it goin!
Not planning to do the gattling style Heavy Bolters on the Baneblade?
Regardless, I'm still impressed by your work, and this will act as a good tutorial for when I get one for myself.
Aye, I'm happy to be doing a bit more Guard again, though it's only because I've made so much progress with the Sisters, though I'm not looking forward to going back to do the highlighting much later on.
I've not made any firm decisions about the Baneblade's scheme yet, definately they'll be different markings for each different vehicle it can represent, though that means a fairly generic basic hull, I'll do some thinking nearer the time.
No, no Gatlings on this one, my logic being that the Baneblade is a genuine Forgeworld artical and so is fitted with Heavy Bolters, while the other vehicles (and weapons) are local produce of Praetoria's Manufactorum.
That's great work there.
I've only ever made a backpack on a Marine magnetized.
Taking the time to do this adds so much more functionality and versatility to your model.
Very impressive.
Awesome job on the magnets. I'm a big fan of using them myself. Your Baneblade is truly inspiring!
Thanks guys :)
Hopefully I'll be able to expand on this further an further, I just cant see myself wanting that many Super Heavies at any one time, but like to have the options.
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