land speeders assembled and primed

One last group photo before I rip apart the land speeder and warthog to combine them into what’s on the right.

land speeder + warthog = land sporthog? Wart speeder?

Last pic before they’re primed, to show the different plastic parts that make them up. Basically everything up front is warthog and the bed of the truck is filled with land speeder bottom. You can see my yellow plastic making up the closed canopy, hopefully I’ll find a way to make them look like they fit in.

Check out the finished but unpainted product! Sure there are some rough edges, some parts I could attack with green stuff, but for now I’m priming them and calling them done version 1. If I nitpick and perfectionist they’ll never be painted, and I’d rather fix some paint later than leave them unpainted and unused forever.

Check out the front of the one on the left. I thought I would mount the weapons to the inside fender, but suddenly I realised it’s the perfect place for a jet style air intake. So I cut out the fender panel along the lines the toy gave me, and put part of a hair comb behind it for an intake grill and to hide the ugly plastic innards. I’d like to do this for the other one too, thankfully it’s screwed shut rather than drilled shut, another benefit of working with toy models!

 

Next post on these babies will be them painted! Not sure what color scheme my army will be still, so I may do one red and one blue to test. Probably half silver like grey knights colors.

Land Speeder Warthog v1

Step 1, disassemble warthog and land speeder.  The warthog unscrews into several parts.  My land speeder was model glued, so I was worried I’d have to carve it up, but it just sort of split apart when I started prying on it.  I cut open the bottom back of the land speeder to use upside-down as engines in the warthog’s back.  This makes the warthog look less like a truck and more like the Delorean time machine, pretty badass IMO. 

I got a yellow no-trespassing sign to use as cheap plasticard and used it to close the cockpit and to pad up the engines to make them fit flush with the warthog.  I spent entirely too long working on the windows trying to get them to fit and bend.

I think the land speeder model is the ugliest new-generation model they make, but turning it from a flying car to a flying warthog makes it look pretty awesome I think.  I cut windows in the doors and put some tape as clear window, but I’m not satisfied with the job done with the doors.  It’s hard to manufacture parts that match the excellent detailed McFarlane warthog, but I thought completely closed doors would look off considering the size of the front window.  I’d like to put scouts inside the cockpit, since in my army all vehicles are piloted by scouts, not full space marines.

Not sure exactly where I’ll mount the weapons, but of course they’ll be magnetized.