Gear Krieg - Italian Combat Walkers

[Agis]

There are two models established in the Gear Krieg background:

The LC1/40 Light walker and the LC42 47/32 Medium Walker. The light walker used the drive and legs of a Geramn Walkuere, while the LC42 was based on the heavier Donner/ Thor walker. Following this lead I started the conversion with the legs of the corresponding German walker models.
LC1/40 Light walker
The hull looks IMO similar to a Fiat L6/40 Light Tank - A two-man light tank. I bought the L6/40 kit from Battlefront and used a cupola from the Walkuere kit, added a German MG and an Italian tank driver. Mount the Walkuere legs and your LC1/40 is done.
The resin hull has to be filled with milliput or a piece of plasticard.

Since you get two tanks in the FoW blister I decided to build another one, this time using the turret. One turret received the 20mm Breda while the other one got a flamer / MG from the Shiki kit.



LC42 47/32 Medium Walker
The LC 42 is based on a Semonvente 47/32 su L6/40. This hull really fits the bill. I used again a FoW kit.
Fill the space for the track and add the tankers from the kit. I also used the 47mm gun since the LC42 is using the same gun.

To achieve a heavier look (just adding the hull resulted in a pinheaded model) I added Walkuere arms and grenade launcher.

On the left arm I attached a rare earth magnet to mount a German 3.2 cm gun or a Laser.

Works for me! ;-)
Full background and more pics here: http://www.adpublishing.de/html/15mm_italian.html

[Heresy]

 

Nice job Agis, you've just open a new window of posibilities

[Agis]

Nice job Agis, you've just open a new window of posibilities

Thanks, Italians are not only underrepresented n "normal" WW II gaming...

[Agis]

Finally painted...


LC1/40 Light walker


Full story and WIP pics here: http://www.adpublishing.de/html/15mm_italian.html

[No Such Agency]

Finally painted...

Looks great!  At least as good as some of the actual GK models, if I may say so.  And of course your paint job always do them justice.  The "LC42 47/32 Medium Walker" is good conversion work too but did turn out kind of vertically unbalanced, because the legs are so massive.  Still, they're much needed possibilities, given the limited number of GK models available.

I wonder if GK could make some extra $$ by selling the legs separately  , so people could convert other (FoW, likely) ranges to use in the game?  I doubt it would cannibalize sales of their unique models much, but what do I know?

[Jakar Nilson]

I wonder if GK could make some extra $$ by selling the legs separately  , so people could convert other (FoW, likely) ranges to use in the game?  I doubt it would cannibalize sales of their unique models much, but what do I know?

I know that DP9 has done some on demand casting of Heavy Gear parts, so I guess you can send them an email asking.