13th Armoured Division Sable Knights - Commander Glofski’s Squadron

Putting Glofski’s Leman Russ Executioner aside, I’ve moved on to the second tank in the unit and named it “Eight Ball”…

This is a Leman Russ Exterminator with Lascannon. As with Glofski’s tank, this is the GW 1994 kit and it arrived from eBay in a pretty poor condition and dark green paint scheme. However, with a bit of TLC and bits from bits box it was resurrected. The main damage was around the turret and it needed a new cupola and some bits of track.

I put track guards on the top as the top tracks were warped and so could be best hidden this way.

The tank Commander is an old, classic, metal Necromunda Delaque ganger with lasgun. I clipped the top of his head off and added a tank commander peaked cap clipped off the plastic head of the one on the tank accessory sprue and filled the gap with a little liquid green stuff.

The paint scheme follows Glofski’s tank by using the blue-grey element as the main base colour but with a camouflage effect included using chaos black, bleached bone and then averland sunset to create a ‘mesh-like’ pattern that feels urban enough for the backstory.

The eagle side insignia from Glofski’s tank was replicated on this tank to tie the two together in the unit (I’m not planning to replicate it on any other tanks in the unit at the moment.) However to make this a unique, personalised tank, I painted an ‘eight ball’ on the each side of the turret and used a standard Imperial Guard black tank number transfer to give it its designation.