Day 3

First update, but actually started a couple of days ago. My land raider arrived from my ebay purchase (see the first image, I got three carcasses, plus a load of useful oldschool tank bits for 15quid!). First step was to break it to pieces. It wasn't put together brilliantly, but the glueing was fairly tidy and it's only had one coat of primer and one coat of red. Unusual for old tanks like this.

After it was broken I had to decide what to do. First I removed the tracks. As much as I love the big old chunky things, they just don't work with the new style I'm trying to inject into old models. So I chopped them all off, and got rid of the wheels too. I'm planning to run tracks around the edge, in a similar style to the current ones. I bought two boxes of tiger tracks which will look the part I think. Should be a nice cross of old school and modern.

I also stretched it by chopping the sides and adding in 45mm. Fairly arbitrary number, but it will make it roughly the same size as a new raider when done. The patched parts are fairly rough at the moment, but most won't show and those that will will be tidied later.

I'm just about to start the weapons, which will be more like the forgeworld pre-heresy raider than either the GW models.

For the hull I'm not going to replicate either old or new, but something in between. I'm keeping the front plate from the old one, but instead of the vertical box thing below it I'm going to put in an access ramp. Hope this will work nicely.