Lamashu Minethrower

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This is an Imperial Guard vehicle I had in the back of my mind for quite some time. A Minethrower inspired by the real world german Skorpion, British Shielder and Polish Kroton. I designed the roof and the throwers myself, the other parts are mixed together and modified from Vontraggs excellent Maximinus Thrax bridgelayer, his alternate Chimera rear doors and a targeter from the Minotaur. Note that like the original this vehicle has multiple (in this case for) throwers, each with 4 magazins, each of which has 4 tubes, filled with 4 mines each. So 256 thrown anti-tank mines per complement. I did my best to make everything fit and have a test print currently in the working. If I realize any problems with that I will update the files. Some comments to get it right: I included different types of Magazins. All full, lightly depleted (1a to 1d), medium depleted (2a-2c), heavily depleted (3a-3d). Alternatively it should just as easily be possible to print the full one and use a drill to simulate the mines already fired. As of now the round based mountings fit very tight to the roof structure. In my opinion perfect for adjusting them to a specific angle and leaving them that way. If you want to rotate them freely, print the mounting, magazins and magazin-to-mounting-plug at 98%. I'm not completely sure if the magazin to mounting plug will work as intended. Try it out, use a 2mm wire instead if it doesn't work or just glue the magazin into a position that looks good. The targeter is optional. I found it looks nice beside the turret hatch, but a Stormbolter might fit as well The file "Lamashu core" is just the tracks, chassis and armor plates put together, if you prefer to print them in a big block. Regarding the mine files: I included 5 variants: the mine as intended alone (anti_tank_mine_complete), is meant to be added on top of an stl of a base of your choice. I assume it's to fiddly to be printed on its own. anti_tank_mine_holes_for_0.5mm_wires might work on its own, if your printer can handle holes of 0.5 mm diameter. You can then add the "legs" in form of a 0.5mm wire. mine_token_1-3 are what I would recommend: 25 mm bases with 1-3 mines on top. The mines are raised a bit above the base, so that one hopefully can add texture paint, grassing or sand without the "legs" of the mine being covered. Regarding the mine size: they look small, but they are already (in scale) twice as high and wide (so 8x the volume) of the real world equivalent. That should be enough even for WH40k Lamashu_assembled hopefully clears up how everything is meant to go together. So, that's it, have fun