I've managed to finish another of my Vongola City State Land Ironclads in the form of the Capo di Capo Command Ironclad:
Capo di Capo
Armed with a heavy gun turret and a fearsome broadside, the Capo di Capo is the largest of the Vongola's landfleet and is the city states proudest achievement.
The Capo di Capo is also equipped with a supercharged quad boiler which can allow it to put on an impressive head of steam when least expected.
As all things Vongola, it is somewhat temperamental though and prone to exploding at inconvenient times. This is not seen as too much of a hinderance though as it has allowed the mighty machine an advantage in combat, be it getting into a position that will allow it to bring its full armament to bear or speed out of the way of a battering from enemy ironclads.
Originally a Sovereign class from the Brigade Models range, I reworked the broadside as it was slightly miscast and added more super structure and a new smokestack. It took a surprising amount of work to paint it but I am quite pleased with how it turned out.
I've already put it through its paces in a quick throwdown game between Vongola and Dwarven Ironclad landfleets and despite losing the game (Lambo class Ironclads explode very easily when trying to attack larger Dwarven vehicles!) it did quite a bit of damage to the Dwarven command Ironclad and if I'd managed to play a few more turns, I suspect it would have made mincemeat of my Anvil class Ironclads who were defending the Black Water facility from the rapacious Vongola!
Capo di Capo and Lambo class Ironclads
I have been reworking my Song of Blasters game to work with 2mm and am quite pleased with how it has thus far turned out and I am looking forward to playing more games with more fleshed out Landfleets duking it out in the near future!
I'm also seriously pondering the foolishness of trying to put together a Middlehammer force in 28mm scale for some retro nonsense which I fervently hope to talk myself out of as it is a very silly idea but than again...
Anyhoo, enough of my ramblings!
All the best!
That's one lovely steam tank, the painting is really effective.
ReplyDeleteThanks! I rather enjoyed painting it and hope to add a second squadron of smaller ironclads soon!
DeleteIt looks like a kind of model that wouldn't be too hard to build myself.
ReplyDeleteGreat colourscheme by the way.