47-38 Planetary Defense Force

Both Leman Russ were salvage jobs, bought second hand in poor condition. Added chaos iconography to cover damaged areas.

The Militia’s heraldry is a VMC Dark Prussian Blue half cut diagonally over a VMC Deep Green half.

Both are custom built around a metal warp lightning cannon. The darker one was built first. I regret glueing the Skaven to the base; I magnetized the crew on the second one.

The bulk of the model is made from various sizes of popsicle sticks layed across a plasticard frame. The wheels are 25mm bases attached to a wooden dowel axle.

A word of advice: paint this in sub-assembles. The first one I didn’t do that and there were a ton of areas I couldn’t reach later.

Third artillery finished. This was just mixing the bits from the plastic Skaven Warp Lightning Cannon and Screaming Bell, along with a barrel from extra plumbing pipe I had. This was my first time using Scale 75 Inktensity line. The wood was primed black, dry brushed light grey and bone in alternating layers. Then it was airbrushed using a 3:1 mix of Intensity Wood and Intensity Chestnut. I love how the wood turned out. Too bad I tried these so late in the process, they are awesome!

The core is a Starship Troopers Chicken Walker, with the crew and main gun replaced with GW bits. Three with lascannons and three with autocannons.

My only regret is that I have to track down more of these models if I want to expand the squad.

The discipline masters are Skaven packmasters carrying bolt pistols in their off hand.

The medics are Poison Wind Globadiers. One arm was replaced with a narthecium stolen from Fabius Bile.

Force Commander: metal Warlord Queek  on Erebus’s base. Left arm replaced by Tzaangor champion’s bolt pistol arm. Space marine backpack along with Iron Halo from Primaris Chaplain.

Rogue Psyker:  plastic grey seer from screaming bell kit. Left hand replaced by Necromunda Escher auto pistol.

Callidus Assassin: metal Deathmaster Snikch. Arms replaced by plasma pistol and power sword from the MkIV marines. Casualty is a plastic Catachan with their right arm replaced by one from the WHFB chaos marauders. I believe this model is the best I have ever painted anything.

Plastic Clan Rats with either arm swaps for Cadian lasgun arms or weapon swaps for metal lasguns/autoguns.

Back in early 2000s I bought a ton of loose Imperial Guard weapons with the intention of making a Catachan force that was only gun barrels sticking out of tall static grass. I never got around to that project so had lots of weapons available for conversions.

These were surprisingly complicated as they are conversions of conversions. Originally they were a mix of plastic clan rats heads/arms/feet on plastic night goblin bodies to represent plague monks (built long before those had their own plastic kit).

Pistols are from the Kharadron Overlords Arkanaut kit. Plus a few from Tempestus Scions and Cadian Command sprues. Vexilla is a WHFB banner attached to a Cadian com link backpack.

Missile teams are a simple arm swap for metal missile launchers from the Steel Legion range.

Lascannon teams are a metal Skaven Jezzail cut just past their hands and a metal lascannon cut at the bend. It is highly recommended that you pin these together. The cannon mount is from the metal mortars with an attached WHFB chaos marauders shield. All mounted on a dreadnought base.

Heavy flamer teams are simply Skaven Warpfire teams. I added 40k bits to the base to make it clear these weren’t just fantasy models.