From GregB: Epic 30k Land Raiders

XIV Legion Land Raider detachment, ready for Epic 30k gaming action.

One of the great aspects - among many - of these group painting/sharing efforts is the inspiration you get from fellow participants.  Sometimes you see someone's work and you think "oh man, I want to try that!" - but you don't have models or figures, so the urge can safely subside.  But in other instances, you realize that, not only are you inspired, but you have a small shed-load of the stuff yourself that you can dive into. And so it was with Iannick's excellent recent efforts on Epic 30k, I simply looked at another spot that is the mess of my painting desk and pulled out this detachment of Land Raiders.

You can get a glimpse of the definitely-not-carbon-neutral emission systems here...

These vehicles are painted in the livery of the XIV Space Marine Legion, known as the "Death Guard".  Very charming bunch, as you might imagine. The Land Raider is one the main combat vehicles used by the Space Marines, and is an iconic piece of kit from the Rogue Trader/30k/40k universe.  Many variants of the basic, WW1-era-inspired hull have been issued by GW over the years, but they went particularly bonkers with these things in their 30k universe, and there are many variants of the vehicle that accomplish essentially the same purpose - a very heavily armoured vehicle that can take out enemy armour AND transport a unit of marines.

Mortarion's lads ready to roll out...

The armoured housings on each side of the vehicle mount a pair of laser cannons.

The Land Raiders of the Space Marine Legion arsenal start out at "heavily armoured", and move toward "very heavily armoured", with the final flavour, "very, very heavily armoured" coming at the cost of some troop carrying capacity. This is an "Armoured Proteus" variant, and as such, falls into the "very heavily armoured" category.

There is a twin heavy bolter mounted in a bunker-style armoured casement on the top front of the vehicle, between the tracks.

There is an additional heavy bolter on a pintle mount on the commander's hatch. You know...to shoot even MORE things.

Deploying whole squadrons of these bonkers vehicles in a game of Epic is SUPER fun! These things had been sitting on my desk, base coated in black, for almost a year...it's been a while since I have added new items to my Epic 30k collection.  Iannick's excellent work inspired me, and so I whipped these fellows up over the weekend.

Many thanks to Iannick for inspiring this fun distraction! Thanks for reading.

GregB