I am doing some tanks for the Warhammer 40K game. I hate the tank barrels for them though…they look like toys.
I can’t seem to find a website that shows alternate barrels. Does anyone know of one? And any recommendations as to what kind I should stick on these tanks?
Here’s a link to what the MBT looks like
you may want to try sci fi section? this is mainly real armor
Yes, but the tanks are not sci fish. They are an amalgamam of ww1 and ww2 tanks.
If you have such an issue with me posting here, well, I’m sorry. You are free of course not to click on the link, or simply to ignore the post. But if you are so sensitive that my posting here really hurt your feelings or inconvenienced you in some way, I humbly apologize.
The help I am looking for is what WW2 tank barrel would look good on these tanks and where can I get them.
I am by no means a Warhammer 40K expert (or novice for that matter) but aren’t the cannons supposed to look like that? Being a large bore cannon and all. I know there are several variations to the cannon for different tasks (seige, anti tank, plasma cannon) and I’m sure they have different looks to them.
I have never seen different pics.
I think you could get away with simplifying the barrel too look more like a Sherman’s barrel, just make it a larger bore to accomodate the large cannon.
I hope this helps…
I didnt mean to sound mean, I just thought that warhammer was sci fi and i thought that you were asking for replacement warhammer barrels.
You could try a short 75mm, I believe a 75mm KwK 51 would fit, maybe. Sorry
There are hover tanks. I wouldn’t have posted here for advice on those. I want my tanks to look real. Thanks for the advice.
If you want them to look real, get a model of a real tank. You can use whatever barrel you want since these are not real tanks. Sorry, but I agree, you would probably get a better response in the Sci-Fi forum.
For non scifish tanks? I want advice from tank modellers, not gundam modellers.
I looked at your pic and I don’t know of any replacments that would be that thick compared to what is there. However, got to Greatmodels.com and search
“barrel 1/35” . They have them for a number of tanks. Most are long and thin compared to the one on your WH40k tank. You would probably need to scratch build a mantlet, etc to hold it but you probably figured on doing that anyway. Also I am assuming that model is a 1/35 if not try 1/72 or maybe 1/12.
Keifer…have you taken a look at any more of the forgeworld sight to see if they offer any bits that can be applied? You could also consider scratchbuilding one.
Leman Russ’s tanks eh? hmm I think I melted mine in a microwave once… anywho, you can’t really add a Scale Armour barrel to a Leman Russ for the simple reason that true scale NEVER works with HERO SCale… sorry bro, but sometimes the Truth hurts!
Still don’t get it. These are not real tanks, they are Sci-Fi. Show me referance pics of a REAL tank as seen in the above link you posted. In the game you play, they are supposed to be some weird amalgamation of WWI and WWII tanks. There is no such thing in actuality, therefore, they are Sci-Fi.
As posted above, you are not going to find any 1/35 tank barrels that are that huge and out of proportions. Most tank barrels are long and slender, like a rifle barrel. Your best bet would be to scratch one out of plastic rod or tubing. Some poeple also turn new barrels out on a lathe as well.
Good point…just trying to scale something in 1/35 to that would be a nightmare. What are they, like 28mm or something? What does that equate to scale wise, less than 1/48?
I think 20mm is 1/35th, I think, not sure though
54mm is approx. 1/35 scale. 28mm is about 1/72 scale.
the thing is with this Games Workshop stuff is that one thing may look 1/35 another may look 1/72, the figs may be 28mm but there really isn’t a set scale… I think I would get some PVC pip and build a cannon man, it seems like you want one big enough!
If you compare some warhammer 40K figures they are about 1/48 in scale, but even the 1/35 tank guns wouldn’t look kul or mean enough on these tanks. I saw a bunch of forgeworld tanks wil long and huge barrels that make them look almost like a merkava on steroids. If you really want a smaller gun, a T-55 gun would look pretty kul on that tank chassis.
Built a few GW tanks but not the Lemon Russ, best bet would be to scracth-bulid one unless you do find something on-line that you like. May want to use some PE, etc to help detail the gun
40k is by measureing the hieght of a man 1/60 now since everything is kind of cartoony in that the men are wider and the tanks are shorter it makes it hard to insert anything forign into 40k but 1-48 vehicles actually look pretty good standing next to 40k ones. However 1/48 scale tanks are few and even then the guns need to be enlarged, a would be impresive 30mm cannon looks more like a las rifle and is way to flimsy to be a game peice. I being perfectly happy with the cute goofyness of the leman russes gun am usually happy cutting off the brech and extending it a little with some smaller tubing to look more like a german 88 but if you are really not happy either buy say tamiyas 48 tiger or a 35th one use the barrel on the russ and use the tiger for something else trust me youll find a use for it maybe even give the tiger the russes gun makeing them both legal GW models huzzah beat the system. but I would avoid the metal barrel mod kits for “real” tanks because mounting would be a pain, it would be quite heavy (possiblely rolling the tank) and if it is too long you will not be able to shorten it.
And people don’t look down upon 40k gamers everyone needs their reason to model. Some people find it in modeling vehicles that had an effect on their family, or something some people make models of things they just think look cool I like many 40k models make crazy vehicles to too perform a roll in our armies based of course in some reality and mostly in the image of WW2 german vehicles now I’m working on a Stug Assault gun not any specific make or model but something that captures the essence of that class of vehicle. So please do make fun. Why on easth do you make what you make if you can answer with something other than because its fun then you can mock but otherwise thats all we are doing we just have better imaginations and don’t have to wait for kits to come out.
Long live the scratch builder!
Keifer, I have to agree, and I play 40k. The tanks don’t look anything like real tanks, or an amalgam of WWI and WWII tanks. They looks like tanks out of a Popeye cartoon. They are their own thing. They always look terrible when someone uses AM details for real-world tank models on them. It’s best to start with the look of the 40k vehicle, then make pieces that are truer to what you consider a “real” Leman Russ would look like.
We offer this advice to you, not to put you down, but to prevent you from marring your Russ with some things that just look too “real-worldish” for it. IMO, there is nothing that makes a Leman Russ (or a Land Raider, or whatever) look sillier than a real radio array on it, or real-world stowage, or real tools, etc. It just throws a very bright light on the other elements of the kit, which of course are very exaggerated (hence my reference to them as “cartoonish”).
Post pics of your Russes though, I’d love to see them.