Tank-Hunter Sentinels

[YorkNecromancer]

Just converted up some Tank Hunters from a pair of old, badly painted Sentinels I had knocking around. They're sitting downstairs with their undercoat drying at the moment, but here's the shots of them with the weapons finished and glued on.

http://th02.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2014/184/0/2/2014_07_03_20_09_35_by_yorknecromancer-d7p3cll.jpg
http://th04.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2014/184/2/9/2014_07_03_20_09_47_by_yorknecromancer-d7p3cl7.jpg
http://th09.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2014/184/1/0/2014_07_03_20_09_24_by_yorknecromancer-d7p3clt.jpg
http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2014/184/f/9/2014_07_03_20_10_03_by_yorknecromancer-d7p3cky.jpg

The weapons in question are Dominator-class Heavy Antimateriel Cannon (counts as Lascannon); just gives a little bit of visual difference to the pair of them. The weapons have an automatic breech ejection system round the back, as well as the old Bren-gun style magazine to give them that rickety old weapon feel.

[rallyfox]

Your gun, it's so big.....;)

[YorkNecromancer]

it's so big.....

http://digitalcrush.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/victoriagif3.gif
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii283/Peddler32/SerasVictoriaGunsMotiv.jpg

(And yes, both pilots are female. :) )

[rallyfox]

yeah that's about right.

[DETHMOKIL]

Those guns would look great on a chimera or taurox kitted out like an armored car. With like 20 shell casings flying all over the place.

Reminds me of the German 3.8 flak gun, that big ol' magazine that you'd empty in 5 seconds :D

[YorkNecromancer]

All painted up:
http://th03.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2014/186/a/6/2014_07_05_22_35_40_by_yorknecromancer-d7pdei1.jpg
http://th00.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2014/186/0/1/2014_07_05_22_35_54_by_yorknecromancer-d7pdehr.jpg
http://th08.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2014/186/4/e/2014_07_05_22_36_04_by_yorknecromancer-d7pdehe.jpg
http://th04.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2014/186/e/f/2014_07_05_22_36_38_by_yorknecromancer-d7pdeh6.jpg
http://th03.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2014/186/c/f/2014_07_05_22_37_01_by_yorknecromancer-d7pdeh1.jpg
http://th02.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2014/186/3/d/2014_07_05_22_38_46_by_yorknecromancer-d7pdegn.jpg
http://th05.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2014/186/d/8/2014_07_05_22_38_58_by_yorknecromancer-d7pdegc.jpg
http://th01.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2014/186/a/e/2014_07_05_22_39_10_by_yorknecromancer-d7pdeg5.jpg

[SirTainly]

Looks amazing with that suitably hefty cannon!

[CoffeeGrunt]

Well that looks suitably terrifying! Is this for a Sisters counts-as army?

[Proiteus]

Nicely Done, that autocannon looks amazing! :D

[YorkNecromancer]

Is this for a Sisters counts-as army?

Nope.

http://www.lounge.belloflostsouls.net/showthread.php?45369-The-Women-of-The-Bifrosti-121st-Astra-Militarum-Regiment

I have a Sisters army, but I am something of an infamous feminist, so wherever possible, I try to include female models in all my armies. There are many reasons for this.

1.) It encourages more female gamers to actually pick up 40K at our school games club.
2.) Female models look f***ing badass.
3.) Personally, I am utterly sick of male models all the f***ing time.
4.) I am even more sick of emaciated skeletons with double D breasts wearing the standard military issue corset, suspender belt and high heels. I have female friends who serve, and that crap is demeaning to them and their courage.
5.) My partner thinks they're cool, and started to play 40K as a result.
6.) It's the 21st century now. Come on, this shouldn't even be a thing any more.
and finally
7.) Dear god, have you seen how crisp the Statuesque Miniatures sculpts are compared to those goofy damned Cadian plastics? It's like comparing the London Philharmonic playing Mozart backed by Metallica to a homeless man playing the theme to 'Barney' on a bean can using the corpse of a dog which died of syphilis. Those Cadian plastic heads are just the worst. Not to mention all the questionable moustaches which have started cropping up in the Tempestus. It's like, moustaches are maybe fine if it's 1973 and you're at Studio 54, but even then, not really. They just make you look like a creepy sexual predator with a collection of burned tiny shoes in his cellar's coal-fire; they look even worse on models. Not to mention, how do you put on your gasmask safely?

So yeah, not Sisters. Imperial Guard, dammit.

[Anggul]

That gun is sweet.

I also like that your female models don't have the ridiculous cup armour most female models seem to have.

[DeathJester57]

Nope.

http://www.lounge.belloflostsouls.net/showthread.php?45369-The-Women-of-The-Bifrosti-121st-Astra-Militarum-Regiment

I have a Sisters army, but I am something of an infamous feminist, so wherever possible, I try to include female models in all my armies. There are many reasons for this.

1.) It encourages more female gamers to actually pick up 40K at our school games club.
2.) Female models look f***ing badass.
3.) Personally, I am utterly sick of male models all the f***ing time.
4.) I am even more sick of emaciated skeletons with double D breasts wearing the standard military issue corset, suspender belt and high heels. I have female friends who serve, and that crap is demeaning to them and their courage.
5.) My partner thinks they're cool, and started to play 40K as a result.
6.) It's the 21st century now. Come on, this shouldn't even be a thing any more.
and finally
7.) Dear god, have you seen how crisp the Statuesque Miniatures sculpts are compared to those goofy damned Cadian plastics? It's like comparing the London Philharmonic playing Mozart backed by Metallica to a homeless man playing the theme to 'Barney' on a bean can using the corpse of a dog which died of syphilis. Those Cadian plastic heads are just the worst. Not to mention all the questionable moustaches which have started cropping up in the Tempestus. It's like, moustaches are maybe fine if it's 1973 and you're at Studio 54, but even then, not really. They just make you look like a creepy sexual predator with a collection of burned tiny shoes in his cellar's coal-fire; they look even worse on models. Not to mention, how do you put on your gasmask safely?

So yeah, not Sisters. Imperial Guard, dammit.

You rock for those points. As a male progressive feminist myself, and a member of our nations military, I can honestly say how refreshing this mindset is. If you haven't seen Victoria Miniatures Arkadian Female Guard, run. Do not walk. Google it. They are the best representations of military females on the market.
-DJ

[Pauly Addams]

These are superb, love the scratch Autocannon, love the pilots :)

[Krefey]

Some great work. You've also convinced me to buy some of those female heads for a future project I'm planning too :)

[CoffeeGrunt]

@York Necromancer

Ah, I very much approve then. :)

I was debating sprinkling in female Guardswomen into my Gue'vesa, as the Tau are very much about equal opportunities. What would you recommend for a "Femme Cadian" look?

[YorkNecromancer]

You rock for those points. As a male progressive feminist myself, and a member of our nations military, I can honestly say how refreshing this mindset is.

To quote Alan Moore's 'Top Ten':


KAPELA: Just look above you. Do you see? That is called the immense board of lights. And there is the Great Black and, strewn across it, small and surrounded and vulnerable and brave, there is the Great White.

COMMUTER: Oh. Oh, yeah. Of course. Hah. You know, that's perfect. That's really perfect. And the Great White... I mean, there's so much more black. A-are we losing?

KAPELA: No. Once there was only black. We are winning.

We feminists are outnumbered. We have less power. Those of us who are male and have listened to our sisters - rather than telling them they are wrong, they are lying, they are making up lies, there's nothing the matter, that the world is perfect as it is - have it easy. We are simply decried, shouted down, threatened, insulted. Our female sisters, who have less power than us, suffer the most horrendous cruelty at the hands of cowards and children. They are told to go back to the kitchen, threatened with rape, threatened with death a thousand times over.

But we are winning.

If we weren't, why would they abuse us so horribly, shout us down so vociferously? Nothing screams louder than a dying animal.


What would you recommend for a "Femme Cadian" look?

Honestly? The same thing the men are wearing. The only difference between a male Cadian model and a female Cadian model is the head piece - that's kind of the point.

If you're doing Gue'vesa, I'd use Tau bodies and webbing pieces with Cadian arms and legs - possibly swap the lasgun for a pulse rifle/ carbine, and then have a sprinkling of bare heads; the Marine scout ones are good for chaps, and AFAIK Statuesque Miniatures are the only people doing heroic scale ladies.

NOW, Statuesque HAVE said that they're going to do a line of alternative heroic scale women's heads with berets, and if these prove popular, they'll do helmeted heads too. If that's the kind of thing you (or anyone else reading this) would like, EMAIL THEM AND LET THEM KNOW.

Seriously, browse their site (http://statuesqueminiatures.shop033.com/c/4535597/1/resistance-fighter-accessories.html) and have a look at the truescale heads - if I could get those in heroic scale?

Yes.

All the yes.

[CoffeeGrunt]

Sorry to hear all that, it sounds horrible. I've grown up in a culture of name-calling, so it thickens one's skin to it after a while. That said, I've never had any violence done to me, so I've been lucky that way.

A pity those girls aren't in Heroic 28mm, though most of them are a bit too "pin-up" for what I was going for. I was considering head swaps, but if there were kits with more lithe physiques then that would've been preferable - there's more to a women's shape than just her head, after all. Would feel a bit lazy to just lump some girls' heads onto the more bulky body the Cadians have atm.