I also used tubes with larger dimensions to create a better transition between the gun barrels and the cannon, as well as making a reinforcing metal band at the end of the gun. I used plasticard pipes from GaleForce9 which I cut to length and fit into the base of the regular battle cannon barrel. Punisher cannon bits are hard to get your hands on if you don’t want to spend a fortune on oversea shipping on ebay and they rarely come up in our area so we agreed to make custom punishers inspired by modern day 30mm automatic cannons. In order to fit them on to the older tanks I had to cut away some of the plastic rims and create a makeshift base for the magnets that would connect the turrets to the chassis. The new Russ kit has a really nice and sleek turret design but it also comes with a much smaller socle than the old ones. Since the tank chassis of his army are from an older (4th or 5th?) edition and we had new turret bits on sprues I had to re-fit the entire base of the turrets. The turrets had to be replaced from scratch and they also longed for a nice camouflage paint job…Įxtreme Tank Makeover – Leman Russ edition In this article I’ll show you how I converted and painted a pair of Punisher armed command vehicles. During 2016 I painted a Destroyer Tank Hunter and a pair of Bombards for him and now we’ve moved on to the heavy armor of the force – his 5 Leman Russ tanks.

I’m currently helping a friend to refurbish his Cadian Armored Company for the upcoming Cadia-campaign and to give his army some teeth.

Leman russ tank conversion