Tank You and Goodnight

As much as any project is ever finished, I've come to the end of my endeavours in the Badab War and my Astral Claws are 'complete' for now.

Unable to attend the final few events due to distance, money and prior commitments, I will admit that I lost a lot of my motivation.

I have, however mustered up the energy to finish off my last model.

This Predator is another 3d print from the same designer as the Rhino and Vindicator, and as such the main chassis printed well and was easy to assemble.

I ran into issues with the weaponry. I probably should have printed these with the smaller nozzle as the 0.4mm nozzle doesn't really capture the detail massively well.

Additionally, I probably angled the Lascannons badly and so they are not great if you look too closely. Were I to print another of these, I might ask Matt or Pete to do the smaller parts on a resin printer.

Painting was once again done in an extremely simple way to match the rest of the army and transfers were added for simple detailing.

The turret is mobile but I've glued the sponsor weapons rather than magnetising them as I can't see a situation where having them move is entirely necessary.

All in all I'm happy with the outcome of this model as it rounds out my army, adds some necessary heavy firepower and allowed me to test the limits of the 0.4mm nozzle which will help future prints.

Is it the best vehicle I own? No. Does it matter? Also no.

With a bit of moving around in terms of what things count as, that takes me to roughly 1500 points of 'Chaos' Marines should the urge to play 10th edition take me.

I've also scratched an itch I've had to build an army for the Badab War since I got into this hobby. If an opportunity for more scenario play comes again, I can add more to it.

But for now, they're done.

Acquired: -79

Painted: 179

Lead Mountain: 394