Sunday, November 16, 2025

An armoured landship, did you say?

I've had an idea for an ironclad 'behemoth' for the Prussian VSF army (for Hordes of the Things) for a while now. I'd been inspired by this sort of thing, but wanted to put my own unique 'spin' on it. I ended up with this:


I began my mapping out what mathematicians call a 'net'.. 


This was then cut from light card


The 'chimney' (after all, it's VSF, steam driven) came from a small piece of card tubing.


The wheels were left over from some colonial British guns



Applique armoured plates were added. The boiler arrangement is more small card tubing, and the 'condenser coils' are old biro springs. Finally a few boxes and hatches were added.





Now, I'm not that happy with it. I don't feel that it captures the aesthetic I was after, the Prussian land ship look that ought to be more sophisticated than this. However it will do for now, and I did enjoy the creative processes. So that gives 61 of the 72 points needed for Big Battle HotT.. getting there. Maybe some Hordes to even out the numbers, and perhaps some more blade.


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  1. Ben CatoNovember 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM

    Looks good Robin.
    For the infantry any friendly landship is better than no landship 😁

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