Dirge Inferno - Slaanesh Land Raider - Very Early

[Lord Konrad Chaos]

I mean early. I haven't even bought the kit yet!

Basic Idea

Right, now that the main bulk of Satanic Mantra is complete (visit my website, the 8th Grand Company), as in Medusa, Hemlock, The Creatures That Kissed In Cold Mirrors and Coffin Fodder, I now need to start work on the three main centrepieces of the army. A Land Raider, much needed for Coffin Fodder to be intact to earn back the 322 points I spent for them. I want it to be dark, gothic to the extreme, and look sick and twisted. I'm thinking artwork by the legendary Paul Allender and Cindy Frey, like those below.





I want them to be plastered on the open spaced of the tank, most probably with customised transfers. I want alot of chains, some spikes, and a sick crucified Dark Angel Space Marine. Barely alive, if that, his robes have been desecrated, covered in blood, dirt, sweat, urine, tattered, ripped, everything. That's just to taunt my regular opponent, Ross, who plays Dark Angels.

But, the real thing to hopefully set the Land Raider apart is inside the belly of the beast. When I buy it, the Land Raider will have a speaker and MP3 player inside, batteries and all, to play battle music! I'm using an old, cheap MP3 player, I'm going to get the smallest speakers I can find, and shove them in. I'm not doing an interior for the vehicle, but the hatch can open and close, purely so I can reach the MP3 to switch song/battery. I'm having the speaker taped to the roof of the tank, on the inside, obviously, and make one of the hatches have a hole big enough to let a decent amount of sound through, while not showing a large gap. I want people to walk to my battle and wonder where the music is coming from.

But, I must wait untill I get paid in 2 weeks before work can even begin! So, I must compile my playlist! Expect alot of Cradle of Filth! Main songs to go on there will be 'Dirge Inferno', 'Medusa and Hemlock', 'Coffin Fodder', 'I Am The Thorn', 'The Creatures That Kissed In Cold Mirrors', 'Satanic Mantra', 'Nymphetamine (Fix)', 'Death Magic For Adepts', and some other stuff.

I'm mainly looking for some ideas to help get the speakers sorted, but any help would be very much appreciated

[ihsahn]

what would be cool for the speakers is make them look like the Drige Casters and have them mounted on the Raider. Also for the music...I'm no fan of Cradle of Filth, but to him his own. What I'd use is Gorgoroth, Emperor, Rammstein, Deathstars, and Ministry for my Raider's sound track but it's up to you though.

I'm planing on getting another Raider myself. I'll be getting the Pre-Heresy conversion kit from FW alnog with the FW Chaos tank crew, FW Chaos Land Raider tracks, Iron Warrior Land Raider doors, and GW Chaos vehicle bitz. My credit card company is going to love the amount I'll be spending on my Raider. As a start on the project I've got a name for it "Dies Irae" what'd ya think?

[Fabricator General]

Hey dude,
couple of ideas for you. For your speakers it would be rather easy for you to get a very cheap set of ipod speakers - the kind that just plug strait into the headphone jack. Just take apart the speaker casing and position inside the tank as you will. In addition, EMA model supplies (see the useful sites section) do a range of fine brass meshes which you could use to replace sections of the roof or sides in order to increase the sound available.

Secondly, I really like your idea about putting artwork on the side. If you have or have access to a decent inkjet printer, you may want to try the following:
www.craftycomputerpaper.co.uk/products-Inkjet-water-slide-decal-paper_151.htm

[Lord Konrad Chaos]

ihsahn said:

what would be cool for the speakers is make them look like the Drige Casters and have them mounted on the Raider. Also for the music...I'm no fan of Cradle of Filth, but to him his own. What I'd use is Gorgoroth, Emperor, Rammstein, Deathstars, and Ministry for my Raider's sound track but it's up to you though.

Main reason for the Cradle is because almost all of my armie's units are named after Cradle songs. My Troops units are called 'Medusa', 'Hemlock' and 'The Creatures That Kissed In Cold Mirrors', and so forth.

It won't all be Cradle, there will be some Deathstars, Sabbat and general gothic music, mainly classical stuff. Plus maybe some Apocalyptica, Nightwish and Machine Head.

[brotherfelix]

You are playing chaos. ANYTHING GOES. I say you should blast the My Little Pony theme song from the cartoon just to throw people off. Not all the time mind you but REMEMBER: True chaos beings are completely random. Though theres nothing wrong with a theme your making a chaos army and half of the time normal chaos marines aren't sure whats going on. Slaanenutse marines are even more far gone thanks to all the drugs they do. Well that was my two cents.

IRON WITHIN IRON WITHOUT, BF

[Lord Konrad Chaos]

Been doing some work on the beast.

www.freewebs.com/lordkonradchaos/workinprogress.htm

[ihsahn]

dude! I hope that you'll be getting the Emperor's Children Land Raider doors/ Chaos Raider tracks from FW for your Raider, and not use the doors/tracks that come in the kit. Because useing standard Chaos LR parts will kill the potential for your Slannesh Raider to be fully realised.

[Lord Konrad Chaos]

Well, two things are stopping me use them

1) They are not Emperor's Children, they are instead the former Black Claws Chapter, now known only as Satanic Mantra, purely because their Daemon Prince is Satan himself.

2) I want more open areas to place the Vomitorium Artwork as Transfers.