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Warhammer 40K Casemate Basilisk

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Some Duck with an Ultimax:
I thought I might as well make an entry....

This is something I've had lying around for a while now. On the way back from a tournament at Warhammer World with the whole club, I may or may not have left the gun platform and shield on a train...  :-[ To make things even better, it wasn't even my Basilisk, but club property....

Rather than purchase an entirely new tank for the club, I decided to do something more interesting (and cheaper - shhhh) and build a casemate structure for it. I've been working on it since the end of summer or thereabouts, and it is actually at a further state than these pictures show, this was just my 'prototype' stage to test the dimensions out with cheaper (and easier to cut) materials.

Classmate Basilisk by SomeDuckWithAnUltimax, on Flickr
Classmate Basilisk by SomeDuckWithAnUltimax, on Flickr

I shall upload more photos of the build process as soon as I get round to putting them on Flickr.

Thanks for looking!

Some Duck with an Ultimax:
Here are a couple of photos of how I built it - a plasticard structure made to vaguely the same shape as the cardboard prototype was. I still had the gun barrel and mounting from the kit, so these were re-used.

Classmate Basilisk by SomeDuckWithAnUltimax, on Flickr

Classmate Basilisk by SomeDuckWithAnUltimax, on Flickr

Cutting and gluing the plasticard is a relatively easy process, but I reckon I spent at least eight hours with a file making it all fit together before I took these photos, and then at least another two hours after I took them smoothing it out in places.

Frank3k:
That looks good - how thick is the plastic card? It looks pretty thick.

IO'm lazy and I've been using a Silhouette cutter when I need shapes cut out of styrene. It's not great, but usually slightly better and definitely faster than cutting by hand.

GTX_Admin:
 :smiley:

Some Duck with an Ultimax:
Frank, the plasticard is a combination of 1mm (for external faces) and 2mm (for internal components). I built it like that cause it's for tabletop gaming and even more so cause its tabletop gaming at a club, where people tend not to be as careful as if they were using their own stuff.

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