Towards the end of last year, for the club tournament, I did some repainting and upgrading of my hellhammer. The upgrading was mostly in relation to rebuilding and fixing a few issue with the model, which I brought of a fellow club member a few years ago, mostly because I wanted a superheavy. Here's a couple of picture of the vehicle as I bought it;
Headless and handless commander, missing lascannon, broken heavy bolters and on the far track, just visible, missing links in the track.
The rear end of the tank. While it's all present and correct, it needed a bit of an upgrade, as you can't see all the details unless you really look hard.
It took a while to do but the whole tank has had a repaint, keeping to the original colour scheme but reducing the colours to more muted tones and adding in some extra glass prices, while also changing the colour to a gloss blue from the slightly washed out yellow. First up though, the tank commander update.
New hand with laspistol and new head, with helmet and face mask. The laspistol is a little but pointless but goes to the old "drive me closer, i want to hit them with my sword" thing. the helmet is there for two reasons, one it means i didn't need to paint the face and secondly it looks cooler. He's all business and i imagine there is data scrolling up his eye lenses, enemy targets, ammo counts, engine speeds, orders and the like, all within easy reach.
The rest of the tank repaint can be seen here and while the colours haven't changed much, still brown and green, the tones are more muted. I could have changed the colours and made it all green or put camouflage on but i decided to keep it looking as original as possible.
The grey panel on the side is not unpainted or been missed, i left it grey on purpose. This is where a panel was missing when i bought it and was originally painted to hide it but i decided to paint it grey, like its been primed or its the under chassis and the armour panel is missing or been damaged and the crew is waiting for a new replacement panel.
Lastly, painting wise at least, is the rear end, which contains quite a bit of detail. I've repainted the lights and the intercom system to make them stand out more and look functional. I've also repainted the reliquary on the other side, with mechanicus symbol and purity seals. This adds some details to the rear, which is actually one of the more detailed sections of the vehicle.
The front view, showing the Hellhammer in all its glory.
One thing that needed to be fixed was the tracks. There were several section missing at the front of the left hand track, so I did some chopping to get some extra track links. While it's not perfect, it's pretty good, you'd not notice from the picture above. Anyway, I broke off some sections of the tracts from the bottom of the tank and chopped off some of the links and halted some to fill the gaps and used the whole ones to patch the front of the tracks.
Chopped tracks
Not perfect, you can see the gap about a third of the way along, but in game its not really something anyone will notice.
So there we are, the updated Hellhammer, completely battle ready and, as we've seen, some time beast on the table top.