Looted Mk. III Rhino

After examining the contents in detail, I found a very workable wartrakk, a killer kan, some sentinals that made good scenery pieces, and finally this Rhino. I had intended it for scenery as well, but than after looking at it, and being a Deathskull, Big Mek Gooba figured it was salvagable.

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so 'ere we go!

	Here is a bad picture of it in its "origional" form.
	The first step was ripping off all the really nasty bits that we were white glued to it.
	And the other side.
	Step one was covering over the huge holes and major damage with "new" ork metal.
	I got lucky and found a set of top hatches in my bitz box. Some plasticard made up a good right side replacement hatch, and I added the brush cutter from the regular ork wartrukk. On top, I switched around the hatches, and added the coupla from a Leman Russ.
	Upon request, I remounted the fuel barrell on the rear quarter panel, and chained it in place. In order to hide the front gap on the brush cutter, a couple of sand bags (blue tac, paper towel, and a gallon of white glue/water), and chain was added. The gun mount/coupla got a mount made from sprue.
	Here's a close up shot of the barrell.
	Front end view.
	And another. Note the glyph cut from plasticard.
	Here's a close up of the weapon mount. After much discussion, I decided to make the weapon interchangable. Step one was drilling through the mount itself.
	And than drilling a like hole in the BS itself.
	Here is the piece of sprue that I used, I am unsure as to what model it comes from (GW though)
	And a the weapon mounted. Note that a single length of wire holds it in place.
	Close up shot. Note the small armor plate added to the cupula.
	Here's a rear shot, with the fuel line in place.
I went ahead and primed it, in part to see what other attention it needs. I did add a canvas roll to the top to cover some glue damage, this was made out of paper towel, white glue, and thread.
What shows up in these pictures is that the hull doesn't meet the sides neatly. Unfortunately it was the way the model was put together; it isn't a gap I can fill, the hull actually sits higher than the sides. I am going to have to try and shave down the edge so it is less noticable, but I may have to add more storage to hide the gap.
	Regal Blue was the first coat of paint.
	And the other side .
	Here she sits with a drybush of boltgun, and a few details picked out.
	And the other side