Scratchbuilding: Making a Leman Russ - Dredo style :-)

Greetings boys and girls!


In this tutorial I'll show you how to build something a little different......
I'm a guard player (naturally because I love tanks :-D ), but although a GW Leman Russ is a good tank model, I wanted to make my guard army look more modern.While I do own three GW Leman Russ tanks, I designed some new tank models to represent a Leman Russ. I drew my inspiration from Forge World Macharius which I think is a great tank model.

 Hope you'll like it :-)

So let's start!

Things you'll need:
ruler, scalpel, liquid superglue (reccommend Loctite superglue), PVA/Drvofix glue, 300g/400g paper, 1mm cardboard paper, regular paper, various IG tank bitz.

1. Glue the parts on corresponding paper and cut them:

2. Start combining outer track panels:

.....and building tracks:

3. Next is the hull:

4. The Turret:

5. Then combine track, hull, and turret:

6. Next comes the weapon. For now I'll just make a battlecannon, when I start making more Russes, I'll make every weapon available:
Take a regular size brush and wrap a normal paper around the handgrip (note. the paper tape is 7,5 cm wide and 210 cm long)

7. Wrap a 2,5 cm paper tape around one end of the battlecannon tube and another 1 cm paper tape around the other end of the tube:

8. Set the cannon tube on the turret and draw out the line and cut it out:

9. And position the turret on the hull:

10. Next come the tracks; cut out a wide cardboard strip (cca 1 cm in width):

............and cut out the strip into small chunks (cca 1cm width, 5mm length), you'll need lots of them:

11. And glue these strips on tracks:

12. The tank is finished! I glued some various tank bitz to better represent the model:

13. I didn't put any sponsons on the tanks because I'm not a big fan of them, but if you want to you can glue the Leman Russ sponsons on the track panels:

You can get the template here.