Tarasque - Leman Russ assault transport

Tarasque - Leman Russ assault transport.

I am finished with these heavily armed troop transports for my Death Korps of Krieg collection.

They are based on the Leman Russ chassis. By removing the turret and move the engine block to one side, combined with the extended troop transport areas the Imperium have built a heavily armoured troop transport bristling with guns.

The design of the Tarasque assault transport is heavily inspired by the artillery vehicles based on the Leman Russ chassis used by the forces as the Solar Auxilia some 10 000 years in the past from the timeline of 40k.


The name Tarasque was taken from a really strange mythological creature

The tarasque was described as having a lion-like head, a body protected by turtle-like carapace(s), six feet with bear-like claws, and a scaly tail like a serpent's tail in a text (pseudo-Marcelle or pseudo-Marcella) which is similar to and roughly coeval with the Golden Legend, and issued poison breath according to one hagiography (pseudo-Raban Maur) of perhaps somewhat later date.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarasque

Sounds like a really ugly beast, perfect for my special homebrew vehicle.

Work in progress pictures of these beast can be fount at:
http://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.com/2022/09/work-in-progress-imperial-guard-leman.html

Rulewise they will use the Leman Russ tanks stats, but with two pintle mounted options. The turret is removed and a it can transport. There are small doors on the sides and Im thinking its enough for a scrawny guardsman living on corps starch rations, and I added a larger door at the rear.

The Mechanicum sculls looking over the engine, blessing it with its gaze...
Hey it might work, best not to upset the machinespirit...

All the weapons are swappable to give me added tactical flexibility. The main idea  with the project is just to fill all the weapon mounts with heavy bolters but maybe I will change my mind for a future game. Now I have the option.

The Tarasque seen here with a dismounted tank commander and a guardsman.

 

Alpha Legion Scout marines

 
With the new edition of Horus Heresy many of my Scout or Recon sergeants were not legal any more so I have painted a small group of scout marines to fill up the numbers.

The miniatures are built mostly with bits from the miniatures from that transport land speeder that I dont know or care whats its called.

I went for a grey colour scheme with camouflage textiles in somewhat multi cam inspired pattern.

Turnip 28 - A unit of Hussars

 

I have finished a small unit of hussars for my Turnip 28 collection, in the game they are known as whelps, light cavalry.

Its hard to beat the dashing look of an hussar uniform and I just needed to included a rot-ified version in my force.
Their mounts are almost all taken over by the rot, some creatures that historically would have been known as horses.

So please explore further in the wonderful world that is Turnip 28