Jams set back Chimera tutorial

[Jam Master Flex]

Hi all,

 

I've had quite a few requests over on the Astra Militarum subforum how to achieve this look:

 

http://i.imgur.com/ZpB2h35.jpg

 

Firstly,

 

Put the Chimera together minus the top plate section.

 

Then using a hobby saw, make a cut just before the top hatch of the top plate like so:

 

http://i.imgur.com/SvHtepm.jpg

 

Once you've done this, make a cut just after the 2nd set of viewing ports on the bit you've chopped off (note you can go closer towards the viewing ports):

 

http://i.imgur.com/DJSmLsR.jpg

 

Once this is cut, glue this section in place:

 

http://i.imgur.com/jqVJhYh.jpg

 

After this, you'll need to do some dry fitting to work out how much plasticard you'll need to fill the gap at the front. Once you've done this, glue it into place:

 

http://i.imgur.com/VMp1rxb.jpg

 

As you can see for the hatch at the front I've used the hatches that were supposed to go at the rear.

 

Any gaps were filled with green stuff, and a small piece of plasticard was used to fill the hatch behind the turret.

 

The turret autocannon is simply one of the hydra battery cannons.

 

It looks like this before any final liquid greenstuff and base coats are added:

 

http://i.imgur.com/wcpZj1T.jpg

 

Hope this is useful for my fellow treadheads!

[Reyner]

Looks great :D where do you get your plasticard from? 

[Jam Master Flex]

Looks great :D where do you get your plasticard from?

I'm in England so I order from Element Games. It comes in one uniform size as an A4 sheet

[our_baz]

Thanks for the tutorial Jam.

To any of the IG forum mods lurking can this tutorial get dropped into Magnetisation Tutorial thread in the IG forum?

[WarriorFish]

We can add it to the resources topic, as it's not a magnetisation tutorial. That can be sorted in a bit as the images will need localising to a B&C gallery and optimising.

[Machine God]

Very nice tutorial and model, so you just lose 4 Las Rifles.

[Jam Master Flex]

Very nice tutorial and model, so you just lose 4 Las Rifles.

Thank you!

 

Yeah just the 4 lasguns, to be fair the first one I made in the completed image was a lot better than the one I did for the tutorial pictures.

 

I think aslong as you're confident enough doing basic green stuff-ing and using plasticard you can cover up any mess up with the length of the top hull, I think I cut it maybe 3mm too short on this one compared to the original.