From JeremyM, Imperial Guard Vehicles, the Armoury (110 points)

Hi all,

So time to keep going on the chambers and return to my Imperial Guard army. This time to much needed vehicular firepower for my troops. So 'amoured vehicles' for the armoury. These are all 3d printed from some thingiverse files. They are called the 'magnetic modular vehicle.' I have a love hate with these, as the concept was so amazing, where you could make so many different imperial guard vehicles, but the fit and finish leaves something to be desired. This is partially due to me. I started these early in my 3d printing journey and didn't make the most ideal resin printer supports for them, but  they also have issues due to the nature of resin vs fdm printing (these are likely meant for fdm not resin printing). Resin prints can sometimes suffer from warping due to the suction forces pulling the print off the plastic onto the build plate. As well they tend to shrink slightly. This meant several parts from this project did not fit properly. I had grown so frustrated with these I had actually toyed with the idea of binning the entirety of it. It didn't help that I had some magnetization errors. Anyone who has glued a little magnetic into a model improperly will know how frustrating it can be to try and remove...But I preserved with the project mostly because  they took up around two litres of resin and at least a month of my time (in print time alone), so I have tried to salvage what I could and stick with my 2021 resolution to make the best one can out of life.

I continued with my 'vresh' blue-grey scheme, and went for a sort of urban camo look to them. The artillery is how I'll start off. You can quickly see that dissassembly makes storage of these so much simpler than if they were fully glued. Basically the creator made the two side tracks and front of the vehicle common across the range. Then the main chassis and weapons for the various guard vehicles connects via magnets to those common pieces. 

Here is a missile launcher with two types of missiles as well as an anti-aircraft gun. The magnets were fun with the weapons as the missiles easily detach and the A.A. guns can be posed and swiveled pretty easily. 

And finally the chimera light tanks, the ones I'm least happy with. What isn't featured is that I painted up about 15 different attachments to the big turret gun as well as lighter caliber weapons that attach to the front end of the vehicle (that can also be used in the above vehicles as well). I'm least happy with these because of the poor attachment of the side treads. The square block that connects the pieces didn't fit properly in the cut outs and it leaves a pretty sizeable gap with all of the vehicles. With the more stationary artillery type pieces above, its less of an issue, but with something you would need to pick up and move in a game repeatedly, like these tanks, its an issue. Every time you pick them up it feels like the whole model will just fall apart. My solution will likely be to just use the above artillery pieces as 'magnetic and modular' and just print the treads and front ends for these two tanks and glue them on directly. Hardly the end of the world and its nice to have a solution to salvage the project once I get around to printing them eventually.

All told I printed 3 sets of the treads and front end, and then 6 chassis from the various vehicles. In painting challenge terms I think that gives me 4.5 28mm vehicles for 90 points and another 20 for the room for a total of 110.