A few months ago, I played my first game of Warhammer 40k Apocalypse, the older style version where you simply played 40k at gigantic table sizes and point limits. My infantry-heavy Guard list suffered horribly in terms of board control, I just simply couldn’t get anywhere. While I now know the Move Move Move Order trick to move individual squads at frankly insane speeds, it doesn’t help the rest of my men who go without an officers order.
I was resolved to buy a few transports, big ones. And I didn’t want Stormlords; while that Baneblade variant is plenty capable, and really is the better option, I decided to get myself a couple of CRASSUS ARMOURED ASSAULT TRANSPORTs.
Memes aside, the CRASSUS ARMOURED ASSAULT TRANSPORTs are something I’ve been wanting for years, and are not always in stock at Forge World. I purchased them months back, as part of a joint order.
They were simple to put together, although suffering some panel gaps that I couldn’t really fix very well with green-stuff.
I needed to paint them in a scheme that fit with most of my Imperial Guard regiments, so I went with a khaki colour. Vostroyans are often depicted with tan or khaki tanks, and Praetorian Guard armour is often depicted on other blogs in a cream or khaki colour as well. Tallarn tanks are also conveniently happy in any desert colour.
However, I was stuck at home today, and had to use what paint I had available. I went with Rust-Oleum Camouflage Khaki, a spray that dries quickly and very flat. Before I got to spraying the hull, I sprayed the interior components with Vallejo Spray Primer Grey. This is a very light grey, which looks good as the inside colour for a bit of contrast.
I really like the look! It wasn’t entirely pointless, as I wanted the ramps to drop, and the inside would show, if only just. I therefore gave it a fairly lazy interior paint job.
I then used green-stuff(as well as I manage at least!) to fill in a few gaps. Then I hit it with the khaki spray.
I then got stuck into painting it. I’m not the best painter, but I gave it a good try. It has been a while since I painted a vehicle quite this heavy and large. Mostly, it was a mix of drybrushing lighter shades on, picking out details, adding metallic tracks then washing them. The real secret ingredient was mud, a lot of Stirland mud, to really make the tank filthy. I’m planning on repainting my tank fleet, and while I certainly wouldn’t go as heavy on the mud again, I’m still reasonably pleased by the result.
Lets have a look, shall we?
Of course, the eagle eyed among you will notice I was working on two…
The CRASSUS ARMOURED ASSAULT TRANSPORTs were a fun project, and minus the months they were sitting unassembled, they were assembled and painted in less then 24 hours. I’m reasonably happy with how they turned out!
They should be…interesting to game. Transports are at a new low in the current ruleset, and smaller table sizes make them a hard sell. But I’ve always enjoyed playing my 40k games a bit more ‘realistic’ and combined arms then most, so they will definitely see some table use!
Thanks for checking in, and I hope to catch you in the next post! Happy Wargaming wherever you are, and may the light of the CRASSUS ARMOURED ASSAULT TRANSPORT guide your way.
*The Author makes no apologies for introducing you to CRASSUS ARMOURED ASSAULT TRANSPORT memes.
Not by Strength, By Guile 
Those look great- can see them being very useful in games on a larger table.
Cheers,
Pete.
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That’s what I’m hoping for! Sure beats walking.
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These are brilliant! 🙂 I could do with them in 20mm scale to use for Alternative WW1 armies! Not that I’ve got any Alternative WW1 armies, but I would have if I could get some of these! Nicely done!
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Thank you!
They do have just that right amount of archaic, old school design that would make them fit that need!
Alternative WW1 you say? I’ll need to look into that, that sounds like an awesome idea for a setting!
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I recall seeing two alternative timeline ranges of minis set around WW1, although both in 15mm scale I think. One was “All Quiet In The Martian Front” and was basically a second War Of The Worlds with the Martians invading in the WW1 era. Can’t remember the name of the other one, but when the Brits exploded their massive mine under Messines Ridge it opened a portal to another dimension and all sorts of nasty stuff came through (think Chaos-warped British WW tanks)! I think I’d probably tend to go for a Plan 1919 approach, when some of the new tank models would be coming into service, like the Mark VIII, Char 2C, Fiat 2000 and K-Wagen – this would work for me since I’ve got all the infantry I need anyway, but a Crassus model would fit nicely into any of these settings!
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Oh yeah, it totally would! Ever considered 28mm? You lose some of the epic scale but you’d get access to a lot of models. And with plastic WW1 kits coming out these days it’s nowhere near as expensive as it used to be. And in plastic, you can “weird war” them up really easily!
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https://atropos28.wordpress.com/2021/04/21/living-nightmares/ this guy does great things in a WW1 setting gone horror
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Since most of my stuff is in 20mm I’ll stick to that scale, although a 28mm Crassus would be a true 20mm monster! Thanks for posting the Atropos28 link – nicely Weird War One alright! 🙂
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