Maxmini Start Designing a Sci-Fi Gothic Tank
May 18, 2012 by brennon
Maxmini don't just work on alternate heads and guns. Sometimes they like to spread their modelling wings and go for a project with a bit more scale. Check out the Gothic Tank KV-2 below in its beginning form...
I'm loving the ideas behind this vehicle simply on the grounds that it looks like something from Red Alert! The Tank will eventually come out compatible with 28mm scale and boasts a moving turret that could be swapped out for alternate weapons in the future. Get your magnetic construction bits ready folks!
It will be fun to see how this turns out, and we'll keep you posted on its progress.
Does this look like the tank for you?
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Now this is a clever idea – people already use the chunky look of KV-2 kits to make counts-as Leman Russ tanks so why not take the hard work out of the conversion? Fluffwise you could maybe argue that one Imperial world lost their STC blueprints but somehow managed to find some for this in an old archive, so they started building these instead. The battle cannon and gothic arches blend well with the tank frame so far, should look good when it’s done.
The good ol KV2 such a bad ass tank even in the future it will kick arse…just don’t rotate turret as you climb a hill.
Also as certain sci fi games are basically ww1 meets ww2 anyway why the hell not
Thats kinda clever. They took blocky tank design and gave it some gothic arcs.
These would be perfect to represent a 40k scale Ragnarok from the Epic Siege Masters range. I want many of them.
I think it could actually pass as a Weird World War tank for a Russian force, whose fluff would not be the standard Socialist state, but rather a theocratic matriarchy based on an orthodox church, the Second Byzantium that the old czarist Russia always claimed to be, but with ancient Slavic gods.
If the above sounds a little complicated just imagine a few of these tanks steaming across a frozen tundra, along with these guys http://images.cryhavok.org/d/3192-2/Bear+Cavalry.jpg and a Baba Yaga, dirceting the dryads into a charge.
Now there’s a thought…why have hordes of unwilling conscripts when you can have hordes of perfectly willing zealots? Interesting idea @lucas I must say…
Good thing USSR no longer exists, or they’d have to explain to the NKVD their abuse of IP 😛
I think a Char B would be a better base for a Leman Russ kitbash than a KV2 and some of the WW1 British tank kits would make great starters for a lot of 40k vehicles 🙂
Over all I think it looks good. The only thing they could do to make it better is swap the barrel location with the orb bellow. It will still look chunky but the cannon will look more balanced.
I am suddenly reminded of the Vostroyans and the Medusa V campaign with this thing.