Celestial Lions Land Speeder (Part 2)

After many months of neglect, time was ripe to turn my attention back to the Celestial Lions Land Speeder. I must confess that I sorta forgot about this model. But when looking through my 2017 posts for my year end review, this caught my attention again. And my imagination, as I still think this would be a fun thing to include in my Kill Team games.

After assembly, of course.

After far too much contemplation regarding the undercarriage gravplates, I chose to just make them a darker metallic color. The gold kind of shines through creating this weird tonal effect that I like.

The grav plates.

I worked on the interior next, if you can call the crew compartment of an open topped vehicle like this an "interior". I made the buttons and switches an assortment of colors, as the rules of old school sci-fi dictates. I used Dark Reaper on the seats, which amused me a bit because it reminded me of the seats in a car I used to own. Granted my car didn't have docking ports for power armor, but then the idea of Space Marines chill'n in a comfortable ride makes me grin. After all, there is no way they could actually feel that comfort through that power armor, right?

They don't recline, but they are heated.

Satisfied with things at this stage I turned my attention to the rear jet exhausts section of the speeder. I painted it in a few tones of metallic using Bolt Gun metal and Nuln Oil.

Ready to assemble the hull. 

Everything regarding the main body of this thing was ready to be assembled. You may have heard the tales of woe regarding this original Land Speeder's challenging assembly. Really, you just need Plastic Cement, patience, and lots of rubber bands.

No such thing as too many rubber bands.

And this is where we leave off for now, with this model banded up and the glue curing.