Kit review, magnetizing, adding LED lights to the Hippogriff and Centaur... also painting

I haven't bought Warhammer in a while... and of course they went ahead and released new Guard vehicles. Well here they are! 

Adding blinking lights, magnetizing, converting and painting an Astra Militarum Valkyrie

Ride of the Valkyries starts playing in the background. 

Adding LED headlights to, magnetizing and painting an Astra Militarum Taurox/Taurox Prime

This took a lot of thought, so bear with me.

3d printing, converting and painting Astra Militarum tanks: Chimera

Follow most steps from the support tank article. In fact, I am reusing the tank bodies here; I just created new magnetized options. Don't know if I'll ever need more than my two existing Chimeras, but I created four extra turrets, just to be sure.

3d printing, converting and painting Astra Militarum tanks: Hellhound

Follow most steps from the support tank article. In fact, I am reusing the tank bodies here; I just created new magnetized options.

3d printing, converting and painting Astra Militarum artillery tanks: Basilisk, Wyvern

Continuing the Astra Militarum tank backlog, here's the remaining artillery tanks. These have big, and I mean really big, guns, so the small magnetized gun mounts could not hold them. I had to devise a different method. Follow most steps from the support tank article.

3d printing, converting and painting Astra Militarum support tanks: Hydra, Deathstrike, Manticore

It's been a while since I painted my nun-piloted tanks and I got the craving for more. However, I don't just want to paint a regular tank black and insert some nuns. Coupled with my new-ish 3d printing obsession, this lead me to experiment with the little open back transport vehicle the nun kickstarter included. Add in a few elements, and here comes the artillery.

Painting a 3d printed Predator autocannon turret

I created my Predator a while ago, but the lascannon turret sucks, and it didn't see much play. Here's the update with an autocannon!

Magnetizing and painting Chaos Warriors as Word Bearers Legionaries

I painted 5 of these guys a while back, and they dutifully functioned as Chaos Space Marines for a while. I always joked that they throw their shields pretty well... equivalent to bolt pistol shots. I now decided to finish another 5, and WYSIWYG them for 40k. 

Magnetizing and converting Scout Sentinels

Based on this excellent guide but with some changes and changing the pilots to nuns.

Magnetizing a Rogal Dorn tank

I did this along with the LEDs.

Assembling a magnetized Plagueburst Crawler with LEDs

I somehow got a hold of a second Plagueburst Crawler. I already magnetized one - I did the same steps here, not detailed again. However, I did decide to do LEDs this time. Just because.

Magnetizing a Plagueburst Crawler

I initially thought of putting a LED inside this tank as well, but a) the interior is compartmentalized and a lot more complicated than the IG tanks b) I couldn't find a good enough exit point for the LED c) I wanted a smoke effect instead. So here's just the magnetized options.

Fixing, converting and magnetizing a Chaos Rhino and Land Raider

With the latest changes to 9th edition Warhammer 40k, most vehicle upgrades became free. Given how well the tanks performed during their latest games, I was inspired to make them WYSIWYG. They were bought second hand and are pretty damaged.

Fixing, magnetizing and painting Contemptor Dreadnoughts

Two ancient Contemptor Dreadnoughts bought cheaply from eBay. Originally painted in Imperial Fist colors.

Assembling Chaos Havocs using the old metal/plastic hybrid kit

I broke out this old Havoc kit for assembly. Of course they are tiny compared to the current iteration of Chaos Marines, and they are supplied with 25mm bases. Time to fix all that.

Magnetizing a Lord Discordant

The Lord Discordant was hard to magnetize - the Astra Militarum tanks were a breeze compared to this. It doesn't look as on the box art due to fitting issues - here goes.

Custom magnetized accessories for Astra Militarum tanks

In the current Astra Militarum codex, any tank can take items from the 'Vehicle equipment list' - augur array, dozer blade, hunter-killer missile - but only the Chimera kit has these items. Since I have 2 Chimeras and 2 Leman Russ tanks, I decided on converting these items so that any or all of my tanks could equip them.

Magnetizing a Leman Russ Battle cannon/Vanquisher/Exterminator/Nova

Disregard the tutorial completely this time. LED work is not compatible with detachable turrets, and I dislike the idea anyway.

Converting Ogors into Bullgryns

Introduction

After the Ogryns, I converted the remaining 3 Ogors into Bullgryns. At least these are useful on the battlefield.