Inquisitor vehicle - Mechanicus Airbarge

[DapperAnarchist]

This is an idea that's been bouncing around my head for a while now, so I though I'd get going on it. So for, its entirely made from abandoned projects of yesteryear (a bit from some terrain, originally from a housemate's abandoned Basilisk, the base from my Archmagos, who now has a new one, and the bottom from an Arbites patrol car made from a WWII armoured car), but I will start working on other parts soon -  a cluster of chimneys between the round stone circle and the "engine block", masses of wire and tubing reaching out from below that circle, something on the "engine block", perhaps - and I'm thinking of making a helmsman and some observer Servitors in the style of Blanche's Martian landscape from the 5th Edition rulebook - think the proper title is Chime of Eons.


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[Heroka Vendile]

Looks like the basis of a good little project there.

[Flinty]

Nice idea for an aerial vehicle. I can see a quiet, slow drift across the landscape being able to catch more than a few unawares, only too late do they realise that is not the shadow of a lone cloud...

[DapperAnarchist]

I'm not actually certain if it will have any weapons - perhaps the foremost Servitor will carry something... Any suggestions? Now I think about it, I'm considering some sort of Multilaser/Gatling weapon...

Some more progress

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[precinctomega]

Interesting.

I like the idea of it being a cumbersome, low-level, unarmed skimmer, perhaps following buried magnetic "rails", so it can actually be a mobile terrain feature over which characters can fight, or use as moving cover.

R.

[Myriad]

Civilian vehicles are always good pieces for scenarios, and just to look impressive.  This being the imperium, it can always have some small scale weaponry, although for a mechanicus barge this is perhaps less likely, unless it's stationed somewhere expecting trouble.

Looking forward to seeing progress.

[DapperAnarchist]

I'm thinking that one servitor, the one that will sit in the little notch at the front, will carry some sort of semi-ceremonial weapon - military equipment is so prevalent in the Mechanicus, and from the descriptions in, among other things, Visions of Heresy of Mars, it seems that everyone has a weapon, or a bodyguard. Though the picture on which it is based has no weapons, so perhaps not.

[biggreengribbly]

You could always have some kind of industrial hardware that has... offensive applications 

[RobSkib]

This needs a massive gantry on top with some kind of giant magnet or claw for salvaging, or maybe it could be a repair barge that fixes broken mag-rail, so is equipped with all kinds of moving pistons, rotating machinery and dangerous plasma vents!