Friday, 2 October 2015

IAF100 Taranis Tracked Tanks Comparison and Scale Photos

IAF100 Taranis Tracked Tank with Five Running Drones!
The Early Supporter Offers will be coming next week and as we stated in the previous of today's postings there are more articles to come before then about the IAF100 Taranis Tracked Tanks all five variants and their drones that will feature in the offers. Click on the link HERE to see plain backdrop painted photos and click HERE to see an article with all the resin parts and dimensions of the kits. 

This article presents to you a series of scale photographs showing Taranis alongside other items from our 15mm range that are in your wargame collection. Each photograph has a caption that tells you more. 

Taranis Tank advanced uphill with female Retained Knights
A Red Adder Combat Car next to Taranis Siege Tank
Planetary Militia dismebark from a Taranis Tracked APC
Muster Khamel Tracked Bike next to Taranis Seige Tank
Energy Turret Taranis with Hab Dome and Cratered Hab Dome
Brothers in Arms!  Taranis with Skylark and Mullo vehicles
Taranis Tracked Tank with Steornade Battlesuits
Planetary Militia Infantry next to stationary Taranis Tracked Tank
Taranis with PM Officer, Colabretta Carrier and Hazelwurm Patrol Car
Do you feel sorry for the Canlastrian forces...I do!
Its a mighty big vehicle and damn impressive too! Bob Naismith has done a fantastic job on bringing my idea of what a futuristic science fiction space opera Human tracked tank would look like into a resin reality. There are more articles to come including one on the Taranis Running Tank Drones and an Information Burst fiction article followed by joy of joys the ESO's themselves! 

Thanks for Reading. 

GBS
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13 comments:

  1. Allison M.2 October 2015 at 12:42

    Wow. This looks great. The clean lines, oval air intakes and flat profile give it a plausibly military but futuristic look. A lot of sci fi stuff is all rule of cool and shot traps everywhere, but this is a stylish nod to "realism", if that word can be used about something imaginary :)

    It also reminds me a bit of the tank in "Unreal Tournament 2004", which I spent way too much time playing...

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    1. Gavin Syme (GBS)2 October 2015 at 14:18

      I know that game, that takes me back. Thanks for the kind words. Real enough but space opera is what we are aiming for with the vehicles since there are no real battlesuits or space knights as it were.

      GBS

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  2. Mark Burgess2 October 2015 at 18:21

    Great stuff Gavin, I'm looking forward to the ESO offer!!!

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    1. Gavin Syme (GBS)3 October 2015 at 09:11

      Thanks Mark. Not long now. The offers will be superb value.

      GBS

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  3. Don M2 October 2015 at 22:45

    Excellent design, looking forward to getting my hands on a few!

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    1. Gavin Syme (GBS)3 October 2015 at 09:11

      Thanks Don. Next week they will be on the website with offers on a single and on three all with discount and free items too.

      GBS

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  4. Kull3 October 2015 at 07:11

    45mm wide would have been enough...

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    1. Gavin Syme (GBS)3 October 2015 at 09:12

      Some people like it wide. :-) Thanks for your comment Kull.

      GBS

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  5. Inquisitor3 October 2015 at 15:00

    This line of products is looking great! Nice look to your models and they tie into each other well.

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    1. Gavin Syme (GBS)4 October 2015 at 09:13

      Thanks Edgar. We are on the way to a big universe just watch us grow.

      GBS

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  6. Grizzly3 October 2015 at 18:09

    Really like the looks of these. Any change we can see how they compare with other manufacturers? My Khurasan tanks need some opponents!

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    1. Kull3 October 2015 at 21:54

      the whole point of the ion age line is to make you play their universe with their rules and their miniatures to the exclusion of any inter-compatibility with other 15mm SF lines...hence the scale creep and the large dimensions of the tank...however the Khurasan Red Banner line, the Khurasan Siler and the CMG Dragamaa are semi-compatible with it...

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    2. Gavin Syme (GBS)4 October 2015 at 09:17

      Thanks for your comments guys. On the odd occasion we will do comparison shots with miniatures from Alternative Armies and 15mm.co.uk as Ion Age is part of the same company and of course we show comparison with other models in our range which many people have. We do not show comparison with other makers as this is the domain of third parties such as Dropship Horizon blog and indeed there are so many other makers to show some and not others would be unfair. As for what Kull says certainly we do want you to purchase our products of course we do but remember the Taranis is a heavy weight vehicle and actually its dimensions are based on the Challenger 2 plus 10% wider so its in scale. See the previous postings on the blog for photos of all pieces with sizing. Thanks. GBS

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