What's an Imperium Saber?

Ti Pouchon

Ti Pouchon

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Title says it all, I just have a dumb question.
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Is that the "Sabre Tank Hunter" Rhino variant? Or something else entirely? I've never heard of it.
 
ah, the sabre..
and yes. WD120 gave you the instructions and pattern to make it. Rhino body with land raider parts and with new gun barrel on one side and some extra armour plating (card patterns given)
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Tony Cottrell's Dark Angels version
 
Don’t worry not asking anyone’s preference!! Kinda goes without saying on this forum… :lol:

However, I quite like the redesign, plays homage to the Rhino chassis, but has a different enough favour to distinguish it from a Rhino with a pen sticking out of it. ;)
Perhaps a slightly thicker cannon with greater housing on the body would look a little less awkward?
 
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Brother Meredith said:
Perhaps a slightly thicker cannon with greater housing on the body would look a little less awkward?
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Sounds a bit like a description of Tony Cottrell's Vindicator from White Dwarf 118 but I'm sure there's a happy medium.

Apologies for being a bit late to the party (new member).
 
Probably worth it's weight in, err, plastic these days ;)

I do find the old/new tank comparison interesting. I've always for instance rather wanted the Baneblade or Shadowsword and even started trying to make one after the WD model making guide. I've nearly bought the current kit second hand a few times off ebay, and it does look pretty awesome, but recently opted to get the Armorcast version (not the later one piece Forgeworld version) which offered the interchangeable hulls. Granted I know this one is a recast not an original, but they are hard enough to get hold of anyway and there are enough mould lines that it feels like an original! Anyhow a lot of the appeal of that kit was it having a slightly cleaner look. I don't think that was a really conscious decision on the part of whoever sculpted it for Armorcast, but rather a practical and realistic limitation of both scaling up the EPIC tank and simple resin mould making. However the end result is a tank that somehow feels more grounded alongside the older models. I suspect a new one would have just felt a little too crisp and detailed. That all said I did buy the new "Heresy era" Land Raider having decided to finally give up trying to get hold of a second hand one off ebay since they still tend to be too close to £100 for my taste and I do have one already. So evidently no one set of rules for me!
 
The “proteus” Land Raider is a really nice looking model, manages to hark back to to original plastic kit whilst also having more modern details. I picked up the Spartan which is the estate car version of the Land Raider (and less goofy looking than the original conversion). ;)
 
I have bever warmed up to any of the plastic vehicle kits. The rhino looks like a plastic box to me and so does the land raider. Worse still is the Tonka-toy ork battlewagon. Oooh, look, warboss's retinue gets a free battlewagon! You should really get a battlewagon and turn it into a cventrepiece model for your ork warband! It makes total sense, look here
Yeah, makes total sense to spend 100 quid for a plastic toy truck that would take so many additions and alterations to look halfway proper that you could just scratch-build the entire thing - i.e. get an actual dumpy-looking plastic toy and gussy it up like all the modern ork players do with their trukks.
Naah, not for me. Metal it is and if a metal version doesn't exist or is too expensive (looking at you, imperial jet-cycle), the orks will have to make do without.
 
Ti Pouchon said:
Naah, not for me. Metal it is
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Well they did do that 28mm scale Thunderhawk Gunship in metal for a while... :)
Ti Pouchon said:
The rhino looks like a plastic box to me and so does the land raider.
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I suppose to be fair to the Citadel designers most actual tanks look like boxes on tracks ... although I guess at least the real ones are made of metal for the most part!

To be fair some of the nicest vehicles I've seen have been either fully scratch built or converted toys. To some extent it fits in with the older attitude anyway. The last one I remember thinking "so cool" I saw on here was the Playmobil ship with it's orc crew: https://forum.oldhammer.org/threads/cheap-easy-and-fast-playmobil-orc-boat-conversion.37660/.
 
Eric said:
To be fair some of the nicest vehicles I've seen have been either fully scratch built or converted toys.
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I'm so with you on the first part and so not on the second one - although I do have to admit that the orc ship you linked is a spectacular model, right brill.
However, I've definitely seen one or one dozen too many toy truck with junk glued on all over and a plastic ork squeezed in somehow to still feel that toys on the battlefield are a good idea. Same goes for all the 'Star Wars'- robot walkers.
Funny that you should mention orcs on a ship, though, the one I've made has wheels on it and a steam engine so the orcs can crush their enemies and see them driven before them and so forth. I've built it out of junk and scrap in the spirit of the deodorant-stick hovertank. That's the stuff I really like, scratch-built weirdness on wheels.
 
The slap on the greeblies is certainly an overdone trope, agree on that one! I've always thought the other big challenge with vehicles is scale - bit like buildings and so forth, you can't really have everything at exactly 1:1 scale to the miniatures otherwise it can get too large, but you don't want them too small (looking at you Rhino, much as I'm fond of your diminutive size).
 
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