Blight Wheel Miniatures Roll out the Mantis Tank
January 22, 2012 by brennon
There are some pretty impressive Sci-Fi tanks out there. A lot of them are pretty chunky and covered in big guns, but what about a walker tank with a bit of personality? Check this out from Blight Wheel Miniatures...
And here's a sense of scale just to show off the size of this spidery Mantis Tank nasty.
Pretty great looking piece of kit. Maybe a potential Necron conversion waits on the horizon, or even an Adeptus Mechanicus piece?
What do you make of the Mantis Tank?
I do so need tht thing!
Cool design and really beautiful paintjob. That’s a fantastic bit of kit.
It’s going to look very menacing with a few of the smaller mecha arachnids from Blightwheel flanking it as it strides into battle.
Nice looking, don’t think it fits the aesthetic of necrons enough but it certainly looks good for other stuff.
That’s a model for a paint project. One of the forces in Infinity could do with this.
Great objective for Infinity. Or maybe a 30k Tomb Spider or something retro like that.
It’s Ad Mech-capable 😉
I like it, it looks very reminiscent of the robot drones in an old anime called Dominion tank police.
What that reminds me about is that tank from the first Ghost in the Shell movie that Kunasagi fought against.
Could even work for weird ww2? Lovely kit
im thinking old school Tau, back during the heresy.
BoW Justin
From a fluff point of view in the Heresy Era I think the Tau were still living in caves and throwing rocks at one another.
and could you change the headline to BLIGHTwheel? this stuff is seriously cool. lets get their name right.
triarch stalker conversion should be pretty easy with this.
Perhaps a conversion to the Cygnar “Electric Spider?” I don’t really like the current model for their battle engine.
Not BRIGHT but BLIGHT, and yes it’s a terrible mantis. useful for 40k (ad mech, stalk tank defiler and many others) or for Cygnar !
Waiting the pre order !
Can’t wait to ad it to my Micro Art Studios Iron Brotherhood force… 😉
looks quite nice could be used in lots of games infinity tag , warmahordes or 40k seems good to me
It will make a great fun multi-component vehicle for Caprice (Heavy Gear Blitz). Awesome piece. Reminds me a bit of the little scientist bug transformer from Bayformers 2 “Put brain on ze table!”.
Very original. A kind of steampunkish.
Love it. Kinda matrixy. Nice to see someone trying something different. For 40k, regular tanks, like Predator, are beautiful in their own right. Models like the looted bandwagon and devilfish give that concept a small nudge and Defiler is downright odd. For other games, like warmachine, warjacks have their niche along with dreadnoughts. But generally speaking they all follow one or two concepts. It’s a tank and not much has changed there since the great war or it’s a tank with a different orientation and means of propulsion. It’s nice to see something clearly distinct that changes some of the… Read more »
I would kill in order to be able to paint lenses that well. I thought they were real, the paint job is perfect. Whoever painted this model is an incredible artist in the truest sense of the word.