The ATV “Ziege” (Chimera) of the 1st Germania Imperial Guard Regiment
To compliment my home-brew Space marine chapter ” Galactic Knights”, I want to do an imperial guard unit of the Germania system too.
The system consists of three habitable planets and one Death world. The planets are called Ruhr, Germania Prima, Germania Secunda and New Berlin. Ruhr is a forge world, Germania Prima is a death world, Germania Secunda is a agri world and New Berlin is a hive world. Further out from the systems sun are two Gas giants near the Mandeville point. The System was once colonised by the Galactic Knights chapter after destroying an Ork force on Germania Prima. The dialect spoken in the system is German. Of course High Gothic is the language of the Administratum of the System according to Imperial law. The Regiment was raised on Germania Secunda a long time ago.
The vehicles and the equipment of the Soldiers is manufactured locally on the forge world Ruhr. Therefore it differs from the equipment of other worlds imperial guard units quite a lot .
I used a real world vehicle of the German Bundeswehr as template for the “Ziege”. The vehicle is called Boxer.
The armored transport vehicle, short GTK Boxer is a wheeled armored vehicle. The special feature of the GTK Boxer is the construction of an eight-wheel drive module on which an exchangeable mission module is mounted.
So enough words here is the build of the prototype :
The basic shape. All parts are from extruded polystyrene .
Testing the wheel arrangement:
Adding details like hatches, engine room air-condition etc.:
The finished prototype with rivets etc.
The first cast of the undercarriage
Many more pictures of the build and real world vehicle here:https://wargamesgazette.com/2018/07/02/the-atv-ziege-chimera-of-the-1st-germania-imperial-guard-regiment/