Games Workshop have licensed a part-work based on the latest version of 40K. With the exception of the first couple of issues, they are all £7.99, which for someone just after the figures may (or may not) be good value. The issue for Christmas week contained the Munitorium Container sprue.
Now £7.99 is less than the individual cost of a sprue from the box (of three) sold in the GW stores (and is just cheaper than the cheapest on-line stockist - your prices may vary).
The sprue builds one Munitorium Container (with optional Storm Bolters), three fuel drums and four ammo boxes. The one I bought was in a sort of Mournfang Brown colour.
One side of the sprue.
The other side of the sprue.
There is interior detail if you want to build it with the doors open.
There are a few issues with this kit.
The first one is more an aesthetic issue, as you can see, the components are actually two copies of each other. Now this does not have any major problems, only the top and bottom are really affected. It just seems cheap - the top and bottom components could be different to give some simple variation.
A more significant problem are the feeds to the aforementioned top and bottom components. I wonder if they were laid out by a trainee and they had to correct it by adding the thick feeds due to fill issues.
They are awkward to remove without damaging the surroundings. My method was to remove the surrounding sprue from the main sprue.
I then cut the intervening outer sprue away.
This allowed me to get my sprue cutters in to gaps between the ribs, angled so the cut was along the slope.
Once cleaned up, the edges were not too bad.
Assembled container (Humbrol Liquid Poly and Tamiya Extra Thin Poly cement).
It is a pity that the doors cannot be hinged. There are some fit issues with the doors, there is a bit of a gap all round. Some more positive location and a better fit would help.
The other side.
The roof (the bottom is similar).
If it moves, salute it, if it does not, paint it
The container is intended to be part of an Imperial Guard base. Like most militaries, the maxim is "If it moves, salute it, if it does not, paint it". This means it will have a simple paint scheme.
I decided to go for a completely Citadel paint finish.
After undercoating with Citadel Chaos Black spray, it was sprayed with Citadel Death Guard Green. The "eagle beak" hooks were painted with Citadel Abaddon Black, as was the control panel with skull.
The Imperial Eagle was from a year 2000 GW decal sheet (part number 99 51 01 05 004) which was very very shiny. The numbers and the Cadian Gate were from a 2003 Cadian sheet (part number 99 51 01 05 005) which was not quite so shiny. It took a lot of Humbrol Decalfix to get the eagle to lie flat over the surface.
There was some chipping of the decal with Citadel Death Guard Green. The whole container was dry brushed with Citadel Dry Nurgling Green. Once dry, the whole container was washed with Citadel Athonian Camoshade. The roof and the angled undersides were washed with Agrax Earthshade, as was the lower part of the door and the surrounds. The whole thing was dry brushed again with Citadel Dry Nurgling Green.
The control panel was repainted with Citadel Abaddon Black and the skull painted with Citadel Leadbelcher. It was then highlighted with my ancient Citadel Mithril Silver. The eye of the skull was then spotted with Citadel Ceramite White followed by Citadel Mephiston Red. The buttons on the control panel were spotted with some veteran Citadel Bleached Bone.
The skulls on the sides and the doors are left in green, the crew painting had no orders about decoration, though they left the Mechanicum supplied control panels well alone.
The roof.
When I based them, I was going through a "slotta bases are evil" phase. The circular bases were punched out from plastic card using a sharpened piece of conduit. After I lost access to a band sander, I started cutting square bases.
They lack back packs because I did not like them very much.
