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.

One Page Rules Infected Colonies/ BOM Cthulhu Cult Papercraft Minis

OPR Template Cthulhu Infected Colonies Complete Download

Here is the completed sheets for you to download and print. They can be used for my RPG or as the Infected Colonies for One Page Rules. I worked briefly with OPR on these, but they wandered away from 2D minis. They were fun, though.

Phineus the RPG can be purchased HERE.

Scratchbuilt Chimera

The hull, made of chipboard, glued together with Heavy Bolter bit and Autocannon made from plastic tubing fro a hobby shop.

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.

Old and New Minis

While I try and figure out what I am doing with my comics, I am continuing to paint through my pile of shame. I got some of the newer D&D minis and painted up a Beholder and a Grell (both seen here accosting my Imperial Navy).

I’ve also dug out some 30+ year old Ral Partha minis that I never got around to painting. I painted up a dragon and an Otyugh.

I also painted up a Gryph Hound for my Breachers’ Cyber Mastiff and my Hrud Rangers for my Ordo Chronos force, along with a proxy Jokaero Weapons Smith for my older Inquisition lists.

I have a bunch old old Ral Partha Star Frontiers and Gamma World minis that are on my hobby table, should be fun to paint them up!

Inquisition Motorpool

Here’s my Inquisitors’ rides. Some official rhinos, a scratch-built rhino, scratch-built chimera, scratch-built proxy Corvus Blackstar and proxy Immolator/chimeras. In the back are my proxy Russes for the allied guard I have.

I have the icons all affixed. These were just printed on label stock and stuck on.

I have a bunch more infantry to paint up, and some more Sisters as well. I’ll post more when I finish them.

Additions to My Squats

My birthday was 2 weeks ago and I got some models as gifts, so I was distracted to build the backlog of models for my Squat armies. I found some very cool proxies from Bulldog and Meng. I have another Meng Tank I aim to convert into a Squat Battle tank on it’s way. The Bulldog robots, surprisingly ended up being the same size as the Ambots. Bot are the perfect size for Squat sized robots for my Guild Master.

Now that I have this out of my system, I can get back to some drawing.

Acroyer Knight Titan

My Acroyer Knight Titan for my Imperial Armies. Made from a random mech model, the head of an Acroyer Micronaught, gun from a mech warrior toy and Gatling cannon from a GI Joe bike.