Tag: Scratch build

Chimera 2 scratchbuild tutorial

I made a second Chimera, and I think Improved on it. These templates have a lot of fiddly bits to cut out by hand, but the detail looks good when all finished!

I’m pretty happy with all three, now.

Scratchbuilt Chimera

The hull, made of chipboard, glued together with Heavy Bolter bit and Autocannon made from plastic tubing fro a hobby shop.
The hull rubberbanded to the side tracks. The tracks on these things are incredibly gribbly.
Close up of the glued tank, with chipboard track guards.
Turrent swivels on blue tack.
Unpainted completed chimera next to the rhino.
Black basecoat.
Paint job without all the Inquisitorial icons.
Printed cardstock banners and icons are tacked to the tank.
Both tanks all tatted up.
Burn the heretic!!

I love the Inquisition in Warhammer 40k. I have several warbands of them in my collection. As they ally with my many armies, I need specialized transports for them. I already showed you my paperhammer rhino, so here is my paperhammer Chimera. (rhino shown for scale & upgrades I did on it)

Chimeras are extremely difficult to build, with all their weird angles and compartments. Hard but fun!

Next up will be an Inquistorial Mk1 landraider. It’ll be my third landraider to scratchbuild. After that, some sort of flyer for the Inquisition. So much fun.

Scratch building a Rhino

Modeling has been consuming my brain, as of late. I WILL get back to drawing, but I am having fun with this, again.

And I can’t just buy a tank kit and build it, I need to build it from scratch with cardboard, because, reasons. Well, the reasons are it’s more challenging, more fun (to me) and costs next to nothing.

Edit: I reworked the whole model after years and glowed it up. So much better!!

I’ve found some templates online and have fankensteined them together, with glue and spare bits. I’m quite happy with the process. I was able to print on chipboard as a guide, but all that will get painted over.

Here is a template I used as a base.

Here is another I have:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/17H1rIQzF6P7tChMvHzhXGT52VhaaFo-e/view?usp=sharing

And here is a template sheet I used to make it a MK 1. I also added leftover bits from various kits.

I aim to make a few of these to act as rhinos for my inquisition, whirlwind for my Spacemarines and chimera proxies for my Imperial Guard (part because I love the rhino chassis and part because I hate the chimera chassis & because rhinos are infinitely easier to build than chimera).

I have some weapons rigs worked up that I can swap out. Keeping weapons choices similar to chimera, the characteristics and stats are virtually the same rules wise in 8th edition. My core of Imperial Guards is RT era figures, and they ride in rhinos back then, so it fits!

As I whip up a few more,I’ll try and take more progress picks as I go and update here with them.

These are fun.