IAF103 Taranis Repulsar Main Battle Tank variants and parts

Welcome to the variants and parts article for the IAF103 Taranis Repular Main Battle Tank.  While another article will tell you about the mighty Taranis in the universe of The Ion Age this time around we are all about the physical 15mm scale models themselves.  All of the pieces with scale and then all of the pieces together that show what you get with each variant when you receive an anti-gravity Taranis kit.  A super cool vehicle designed by Bob Naismith coming out in December 2015 preceded by an Early Supporter Offer on 2nd December.

There are five different variants (A,B,C,D and E) of IAF103 Taranis Replulsar Main Battle Tank so please read on for each of them:

IAF103A Taranis Repulsar MBT Cannon Turret

This is the core type of anti-gravity Taranis the main battle tank with projectile turret.  It is composed of seven resin and white metal pieces which are the upper hull, the lower hull, right and left propulsion fins sections, projectile cannon turret as well as the main gun and the sponson gun in white metal.  You can see them here with a scale of 1cm squares under laying the pieces.  It is easy to assemble and we supply the kit with the finely detailed anti-gravity left and right fins on supporting resin blocks which can be removed with a hobby blade. This vehicle is designed to be used for wargaming and thus it is durable.  Assembled this vehicle is just over 110mm long and 55mm wide.

IAF103B Taranis Repulsar MBT Command Turret

This is the platoon command type of anti-gravity Taranis with projectile turret with additional rotary weapon and comms suite.  It is composed of seven resin and white metal pieces which are the upper hull, the lower hull, right and left propulsion fins sections, projectile cannon turret as well as the main gun and the sponson gun in white metal.  You can see them here with a scale of 1cm squares under laying the pieces.  It is easy to assemble and we supply the kit with the finely detailed anti-gravity left and right fins on supporting resin blocks which can be removed with a hobby blade. This vehicle is designed to be used for wargaming and thus it is durable.  Assembled this vehicle is just over 110mm long and 55mm wide.

IAF103C Taranis Repulsar MBT Energy Turret

This is a Taranis main battle tank with an energy weapon turret featuring a small cabin for a crewman.  It is composed of five resin pieces which are the upper hull, the lower hull, right and left propulsion fins sections and the energy weapon turret.  You can see them here with a scale of 1cm squares under laying the pieces.  It is easy to assemble and we supply the kit with the finely detailed anti-gravity left and right fins on supporting resin blocks which can be removed with a hobby blade. This vehicle is designed to be used for wargaming and thus it is durable.  Assembled this vehicle is just over 110mm long and 55mm wide.

IAF100D Taranis Repulsar MBT Siege Turret

This is a Taranis main battle tank with a double weapon turret for close in destruction. It is composed of six resin and white metal pieces which are the upper hull, the lower hull, right and left propulsion fins sections, white metal sponson gun and the double cannon weapon turret.  You can see them here with a scale of 1cm squares under laying the pieces.  It is easy to assemble and we supply the kit with the finely detailed anti-gravity left and right fins on supporting resin blocks which can be removed with a hobby blade. This vehicle is designed to be used for wargaming and thus it is durable.  Assembled this vehicle is just over 110mm long and 55mm wide.

IAF100E Taranis Repulsar APC

This is a Taranis tank with a re-purposed function as a super heavy Armoured Personnel Carrier capable of carrying a squad or more into battle. It is composed of five resin pieces which are the upper APC hull, the lower hull, right and left propulsion fins sections and the white metal sponson gun.  You can see them here with a scale of 1cm squares under laying the pieces.  It is easy to assemble and we supply the kit with the finely detailed anti-gravity left and right fins on supporting resin blocks which can be removed with a hobby blade. This vehicle is designed to be used for wargaming and thus it is durable.  Assembled this vehicle is just over 110mm long and 55mm wide.

Here are pictures of all the IAF103 parts as single items with under laying scale in 1cm squares for you to look at.  

There are three other articles on the Taranis Repulsar Tanks and the Repulsar Drones which follow on from this one.  We split them up to make them more manageable as this is a big release with a lot of information and pictures.

Thanks for Reading.

GBS

Early Supporter Offers from December 2nd for Taranis Repulsar Tanks and Drones!

Ain't she just the most lovely thing you ever did see!

Wednesday 2nd December 2015 will see the start of the pre-orders otherwise known as the the Early Supporter Offers (ESO's) on the final of the four modes of propulsion Taranis Main Battle Tanks in 15mm scale; the Repulsar (Anti-Gravity) variants.  Designed by industry legend Bob Naismith there will be five variants of the IAF103 Taranis Replusar MBT as there have been with the tracked, wheeled and lifter (hover) Taranis that are already released.  

Alongside the most space opera of the Taranis Tanks and also sculpted by Bob Naismith will be the IAF082 Taranis Repulsar Drones five different anti-gravity robots.  The Early Supporter Offers will run for nine days with all orders containing one or more Taranis Repulsar Tanks being shipped out worldwide on Thursday 11th December 2015 in time for Christmas.

Taranis Repulsar Tank with Energy Turret next to Repulsar Drones

Full details will be given at the time but the Early Supporter Offers will be upon the following codes:

IAF103A Taranis Repulsar MBT Cannon Turret

IAF103B Taranis Repulsar MBT Command Turret

IAF103C Taranis Repulsar MBT Energy Turret

IAF103D Taranis Repulsar MBT Siege Turret

IAF103E Taranis Repulsar APC

IAF082 Taranis Repulsar Drones (5)

The offers will be the same as before with 5% off a single Taranis or 10% off three of the same Taranis or a super 15% off a set of five one of each Taranis.  Every Taranis pre-ordered will come with a FREE pack of five different Repulsar Drones so that is one pack with one tank, three packs with three tanks and five packs with five tanks.  On top of this you will get the IMP28 Missiletoe Claus free monthly miniature worth 0.60GBP in your order automatically and you will get Reward Points on your account for your orders which can be used for future discounts and free items too. The release price of all variants of IAF103 (each of them made of several parts and over 100mm long) will be 20.00GBP and the release price of the pack of five IAF082 drones will be 5.00GBP so you can save greatly by picking up an deal or two for yourself.  Designed, Manufactured and Shipped all from the UK.  These offers will be on our Early Supporter Page.   

Scale Comparison of Taranis with IAF080 Adder SuperBlue....

There will be articles to follow in the coming week which will give you more information. These will be one per day on these subjects:

IAF103 Taranis Repulsar Main Battle Tank variants and parts.

Information Burst : The Taranis Model 32 Repulsar Main Battle Tank IAF103.

IAF082 Taranis Repulsar Drones will be free in Taranis ESO's!

IAF103 Taranis Repulsar Tanks Comparison and Scale Photos.

The full set of Taranis Repulsar Drones - five types.

I want to thank everyone from across the world who took us up on Taranis Tracked Tanks, Taranis Wheeled Tanks, Taranis Lifter Tanks and Taranis Running Drones all HERE.  This December will see the last of the four propulsion types released and the completion of the whole initial range of twenty different Taranis into The Ion Age before we move on into the New Year.

Thanks for Reading.

GBS

Last of the Brightening Star's Taranis Tanks

With what we know now the loss of the Brightening Star should not have happened but then we were only beginning once more to face an enemy that our long dead forefathers had through banished forever.  The Fleet did not arrive in Camarthen space for many months after the loss of the Belkus Labyrinth.  It took time to gather the knights and their musters while thinking always of the threat posed by the Marcher Barons.  But we did not stand idle.  Perhaps we should have though.  Lectus Bowar led his retinue of a hundred Starvaulters and fifty thousand troops of Prydia on a rapid strike again the then fledgling Khanate presence.  The Brightening Star was one of forty Cassillis class Portable Castles that landed in the vicinity of the by then ruins of Pelcan city.   She was not the only one lost but she was prime in the failure of the containment campaign and her fate sealed that of Bowars small force.

The few survivors of Bower's task force that were still conducting hit and run operations when the Fleet arrived in system tell of the Brightening Star being taken by surprise by elements of the Styx Legion.   Several Tesserans of Canthus pattern monocycles powered straight up the Star's foremost sallying ramp and into her belly soon after landing.  Most were obliterated by Angis fire but one must have reached the fore Hurwent generator and detonated against it.  Cowardly but it worked.  The Brightening Star became her very name for an instant as the generator went critical.  Only those outside scouting survived the blast.  Bowar vanished along with his flagship and it set the campaign back badly.  

Those Retained and their vehicles that had already disembarked under fire from the Brightening Star were of the 407th Regiment of Prydia.  A regiment whose main distinction at that time, it has subsequently out of necessity been reformed from ashes, was its insistence upon its Alwite armour pattern colours being replicated upon all of its vehicles too.  This was and still is very rare for the Prydian Army as vehicle commanders adhere to a different interpretation of the Code Gallant and thus do not use the white and red as troops on foot do.  All of the Adders, Mullos, Skylarks and of course Taranis of the 407th were a brilliant white with red paldron detailing.  According to a survivor of the 407th the last heavy asset that the regiment had after the loss of the Brightening Star to Khanate action was a single Taranis Model 9 Lifter Type A  mounting a Bodkin AP 130mm Cannon.  The tank had suffered damage to its GroatVey MkX HeavyIon Reasc Fusion Reactor meaning its mobility was nearly zero and it made a heroic last stand fifteen miles from the blast crater left by the Brightening Star alongside two lances of knights and the last members of a trader crew who had fled Pelcan City when the Khanate appeared.  The survivor claims that this last stand against a full twenty Tesserans with armoured support from the Styx Legion lasted only minutes but the last to fall was the single brilliant white Taranis tank that used its last Phelot Ex22 AP round to destroy a Pugnus tank mounting a Banshee class Atomic Destabiliser as its armour slagged away from the enemies fire.  

With the massive ecological and geographical change and destruction that Camarthen Prime has undergone it is impossible now to find any trace of this last stand or indeed the craters left by the Cassillis portable castles of the task force.  But we choose to believe it occurred.  We will emulate the bravery of Lectus Bower and of the 407th Regiment.

Knight General Obermann.  Fleet Command.  4331IC

Following up on last week's article all about Sam Croes own Barony of Castella and his Taranis Tracked APC I was asked if I we had another version of Taranis that we could share.  I knew that we did and the result is this short article all about the last white Taranis Lifter of the doomed Brightening Star.  While we are still some way off seeing the campaign for Camarthen Prime and the war against the Shia Khan Empire we have been hinting at it since near the inception of this new Ion Age.  The tale above was written during the design process Bob Naismith undertook to create the Lifter (Hover) variants of the Taranis Tanks that we have.  You can learn about the IAF102 models HERE on our blog.

The Taranis Model 9 Type A does look radically different painted in brilliant white with red details.  Not an easy colour scheme to do by any means but I wanted to try it out to see what the heroic last stand from the story extract would look like.  I have to say that it looks superb but its not the colour scheme I have chosen for my own Condot force that I am slowly building up (I am very taken with the Quarrel Company, the mercenary Condots led by the infamous Diodine Sparrow) and while the white and red suits infantry brilliantly for our space opera setting its not the natural shade for the mighty Taranis.  At least not to me.

You can see around the doomed Taranis in the pictures a Hab Dome with attached Anda Missile Pod mount turret as well as a few Retained Knights (taken from code IAF008) who are racing to set up their Anvil 888 Launchers before more alien legionaries arrive.  Those who are eagle eyed will also spot the two legionary casualties...something for 2016 there.

Back when I created the story that you have read above the trader crew were there but we had no miniatures for them but when it came to taking these pictures now I was lucky enough to be able to use the brand new IAF104 Precinct Adventurers miniatures released this month sculpted by Dave Foley.  You can learn more about them HERE.  The scene was set up with no reference to Patrol Angis or the draft of rules for its vehicle and structure expansion Callsign Taranis which is being worked on now but it looks superb I think.  Like a snap shot of a moment just before the bullets and beams begin to fly.

I hope you have enjoyed my little tale about the last brilliant white Taranis and its fate.

Thanks for Reading,

GBS

15mm Ion Age Universe Characters by Dave Foley range begins with two packs released!

“Allow me to create a society around the Prydian Precinct.  One that exists with the threat of the Prydian Civil War within and the Shia Khan Empire without.  The people, the law, the machines and the creatures that populate the planets, the star ports, outposts and even the seedy bars where Retained Knights would fear to tread.”

Our last releases this month see The Ion Age begins the 15mm Ion Age Universe Characters range with the first two packs of five poses released.  Sculpted by Dave Foley and now on their own page of the website. If you are new to this idea please read THIS ARTICLE on our blog. We will be adding a new pack every month and it is my own and Mr Foley's intention to create a 15mm scale figure range that will allow you to get the 'people' of your wargaming on your table regardless of your setting.  Its not all about the armies now is it. Go HERE or read on!

IAF104 Precinct Adventurers

The first pack of 15mm characters in the Ion Age Universe range at The Ion Age.  Precinct Adventurers are the kind of fellows you need in a scrap or to carry out some dangerous work in a place where the law is a little loose.  Sculpted by Dave Foley this pack contains five different 15mm scale white metal miniatures in the following poses.  Male adventurer kneeling with a data slab and connected viewer, a hansom male adventurer advancing aiming a Minstrel Taser pistol, male adventurer in long coat signalling a halt holding a Tumbler SMG, male adventurer  wearing parts of Aketon armour and at guard pose with a Moth Rifle.  Lastly a male adventurer in out moded Alwite armour bandaged head and Minstrel Taser.  These miniatures are great for any science fiction or suitable genre of wargaming in 15mm scale when you want something other than warfare or soldiers on your table.  As always this code can be bought as a pack or as single miniatures or select the three packs and save 10% options  from the drop down menu on the page.  Go HERE.  Price 2.50GBP per pack.

IAF105 Precinct Police

The second pack of 15mm characters in the Ion Age Universe range.  Precinct Police are the local law enforcement on the worlds and colonies of the civilised Prydian Precinct who try to maintain order without the use of deadly force if possinble.  A first line of law and order.  Sculpted by Dave Foley this pack contains five different 15mm scale white metal miniatures in the following poses.  All are wearing light armour plates, a helmet and a wet weather cape.  Male officer holding a control box for directing city services or droids, carrying portable signs and signal equipment, male officer with public address horn, officer with stun baton raised to strike and lastly running with stun baton. These miniatures are great for any science fiction or suitable genre of wargaming in 15mm scale when you want something other than warfare or soldiers on your table.  As always this code can be bought as a pack or as single miniatures or select the three packs and save 10% options  from the drop down menu on the page.  Go HERE.  Price 2.50GBP per pack.

Information Burst!

The two new packs in a new range by Dave Foley (welcome Dave!) are our last releases for November 2015.  Coming after ten new Taranis main battle tanks you would think that we would have nothing more to say but oh no!  Sam Croes was kind enough to allow me to photograph his Castella Marcher Barony knights and Taranis APC and this is on our blog with excellent pictures and a Castellan crest too.  Go HERE.  The month will end with The Ion Age taking part in the awesome Black Friday Weekend that also takes the Friday to the Monday alongside our sister brands Alternative Armies and 15mm.co.uk.  Next week we can tell you the offer but it is an excellent one and something we do not normally do so well worth thinking about for your late month orders.

This month our free miniature in every order is IMP27 Florian Pumpkin Spore. For the whole of November this spooky 15mm miniature is automatically put into every order at the rate of one per order regardless of order value.  It can also be bought in any amount on the monthly IMP page of the website for this month only too before being withdrawn on the first of next month.  The Florians are an enemy of all life on a planet that is not of their origin.  Vast seed pods from the void of space take root on a world before the Florian Incursion begins.  Growing at an exponential rate and re-making existing plants and animals into their own image the Florians spread like a carpet across a planet and take it for their own.  At the limits of the Prydian Precinct they are as alien as life comes!  The miniature is one piece in white metal and stands approx 10mm tall. A great character and start to the Florians.  Of course you earn reward points on all orders too through your account learn more about that HERE.  We realise that some of you may wish to purchase the currently free miniature to get multiples of it without placing a lot of orders so you can do just that.  Visit this page on the website for the miniature at a fair price for a special miniature.  There is a growing page on the Ion Age website where the current and all former IMP series free miniatures are shown so that you can see what came before.  Enjoy and go HERE.

Thanks for Reading.

GBS

Castellan Taranis APC from the collection of Sam Croes

“My fellow nobles I put it to you that among our allies there are few kinder than Baroness Maud who gave her knights and their blood to throw back the Canlastrians.  We owe her a debt and this we can pay by the supply of that most mighty of war machines.  Castella needs Taranis Tanks and we will make sure they have them!”

Princess Cyon, New Glastonbury Tor to the Adden Council, 4330IC 

Sam Croes is the lead designer of The Ion Age and he is a very talented artist and figure painter as well as sculptor and to that end we wanted to share with you an item for his collection that he was kind enough to let me photograph. This is Sam Croes own IAF100E Taranis Tracked APC painted up in the colours of his own Marcher Baron force; Castella.  

Castella is a small one star system Barony allied loosely to Prydia and an enemy of both Canlaster and Yordan.  There is one inhabitable planet in the system ruled over by the great aged Baroness Maud who takes to the field in a suit of highly customised Desteria powered armour.  Castellan knights are well trained and have seen action in many campaigns and recently a fabricators right was given to Castella to make its own battlesuits and indeed even smaller vehicles on Prydian patterns.  An agreement was struck with New Glastonbury for the delivery of several thousand Taranis main battle tanks mainly of the tracked variants.   You will see more of Castella in the future as it is the force that Sam intends to make his own in our own wargaming.

You can see that Castella favours a black and red uniform that is rather distinctive when compared to the other Prydian Army and Leagues colour schemes.  In the pictures the APC is detailed with these colours and a small number of Castellan Retained Knights too.  Its a fairly easy colour scheme to make use of.  As a treat here is the pauldron motto and seal of Castella as an image so that you can get a good look at it.

If you are interested in the miniatures shown here they are:

IAF100E Taranis Tracked Armoured Personnel Carrier HERE.

IAF001 Retained Post Alpha HERE.

Thanks for Reading.

GBS

IAF102 Taranis Lifter (Hover) Main Battle Tanks 5 Variants now released!

"The Taranis Model 9 Lifter series was adapted from the ultra heavy Model 40 Tracked series for local conditions of water heavy landscapes and other such challenging environments unsuited to the Model 40.  The MkIII standard hull for all Taranis models weighs in at standard count gravity 1.0 at around 55 tons of titanium alloy armour and internal systems along with the GroatVey MkX HeavyIon Reasc Fusion Reactor that provides the electricity.  Using the principle of ion particle beam collision to ignite fuel pellets the MkX reactor provides some 3000 horse power or about 3480Kw of usable electrical energy to the power train. The Model 9 features a hover skirt made of Hackamold maxdure composite which is heat and tear resistant and on good ground can reach nearly forty five miles per hour.  There are four trained operators who are drawn from the Fortress and Fleet arms of the Prydian Army.   Using the Bragan Memetic Neural Linkage system the crew are mentally attached to the vehicle and control its system.  This is a dry linkage as all wet implants were banned after the Gurtan Activation.  There is a driver centrally located, a communications and drone controller who handles the screen of drones the tank has and its comms gear.  The third crew member is the knight who operates the primary weapon systems and secondary linked weapons.  Lastly the artificer who oversees the condition of the vehicle and all minor in combat functions often sharing the work of the secondary weapons and drones.  There are a great number of variants and local specialised variants too.  Centrally these are the Type A the most common variant mounting a Bodkin AP 130mm Cannon which features several choices of munitions including the Phelot Ex22 AP for anti-vehicle use and the TX12 Imploder for infantry clearance as well as the Habkut Variacluster which is a middle class multi-target round.  The Type A mounts a secondary weapon the Angis Mk9 22mm Automatic Rifle.  Type B is the command variant of the Model 6 and is allocated at a rate of one to three or one to four of that of the Type A.  With improved comms suite and space for an additional operator if required the Type B has a modified turret with better optics and range finders as well as a Moth 88 Rotary Cannon centrally mounted. Type B also has the Bodkin AP 130mm main gun and the Angis Mk9 too.  Type C of the Model 6 features a turret crewed by a specially trained gunner the main gun being the terrifying super heavy Fretan SBP9 Sequence Particle Beamer with the space removed from the main hull of the gunner being taken up with a small secondary GroatVey MkV HeavyIon Reasc Fusion Reactor slaved purely to the SBP9 and its massive energy requirements for sustained rates of fire.  The Type D is intended for close in warfare in urban and is the siege warfare choice with a re-enforced turret sporting twin Ron MegaMax II 95mm Hi-Ex Launchers.  The Ron weapon system has reduced range compared to the reach of the Bodkin 130mm but its destructive potential matches the hellish maelstrom of the SBP9. Type E Model 9 Taranis Armoured Personnel Carrier.  The Type E features a rear hatch and additional hull armour at the expense of a turret and two of the four crew normally in the tank.  Instead a well furnished internal bay has space for a dozen or more fully equipped Retained Knights or near a platoon of Muster or other non-armoured infantry.  The APC type has a top mounted Angis Mk9 22mm Automatic Rifle giving fire support to disembarking troops and is the favoured transport of most in free fire zones.  Other Trainer Series have details of the less common variants of the Model 9."

Academy Auto-Trainer Series 52, New Glastonbury, 4335IC 

This month we have added ten, yes, ten new Taranis variant main battle tanks to our 15mm range. Five of these are Wheeled and five are Lifter (Hover) propulsion type.  All were designed by industry legend Bob Naismith.  These tanks are large resin and in some cases white metal kits in 15mm scale suitable not only for space opera settings but also near future or many other wargaming genres.  This article deals with the five variants of hover, which we term 'Lifter' Taranis under code IAF102. These are variants (A,B,C,D and E) of IAF102 Taranis Lifter Main Battle Tank so please read on for each of them or go straight HERE: 

IAF102A Taranis Lifter MBT Cannon Turret 

This is the core type of hover Taranis main battle tank with projectile turret. It is composed of five resin and white metal pieces which are the upper hull, the hover skirt unit, projectile cannon turret as well as the main gun and the sponson gun both in white metal. It is easy to assemble and is designed to be used for wargaming and thus it is durable. Assembled this vehicle is about 90mm long and 55mm wide. We offer the choice of purchasing one kit or on the drop down menu the purchase of three with a saving of 10% on screen. Price 18.00GBP. Go HERE. 

IAF102B Taranis Lifter MBT Command Turret 

This is the platoon command type of hover Taranis with projectile turret with additional rotary weapon and comms suite. It is composed of five resin and white metal pieces which are the upper hull, the hover skirt unit, projectile cannon command turret as well as the main gun and the sponson gun in white metal. It is easy to assemble and is designed to be used for wargaming and thus it is durable. Assembled this vehicle is about 90mm long and 55mm wide. We offer the choice of purchasing one kit or on the drop down menu the purchase of three with a saving of 10% on screen. Price 18.00GBP. Go HERE. 

IAF102C Taranis Lifter MBT SPB Energy Turret 

This is a hover Taranis main battle tank with an energy weapon turret featuring a small cabin for a crewman. It is composed of three resin pieces which are the upper hull, the hover skirt unit and SPB energy weapon turret. It is easy to assemble and is designed to be used for wargaming and thus it is durable. Assembled this vehicle is about 90mm long and 55mm wide. We offer the choice of purchasing one kit or on the drop down menu the purchase of three with a saving of 10% on screen. Price 18.00GBP. Go HERE. 

IAF102D Taranis Lifter MBT Siege Turret 

This is a hoverTaranis main battle tank with a double weapon turret for close in destruction. It is composed of four resin and white metal pieces which are the upper hull, the hover skirt unit, siege double turret as well as the sponson gun. It is easy to assemble and is designed to be used for wargaming and thus it is durable. Assembled this vehicle is about 90mm long and 55mm wide. We offer the choice of purchasing one kit or on the drop down menu the purchase of three with a saving of 10% on screen. Price 18.00GBP. Go HERE. 

IAF102E Taranis Lifter APC 

This is a Taranis tank with a re-purposed function as a hover super heavy Armoured Personnel Carrier capable of carrying two squads or more into battle. It is composed of three resin and white metal pieces which are the hover skirt unit, the APC upper hull and the sponson gun. It is easy to assemble and is designed to be used for wargaming and thus it is durable. Assembled this vehicle is about 90mm long and 55mm wide. We offer the choice of purchasing one kit or on the drop down menu the purchase of three with a saving of 10% on screen. Price 18.00GBP Go HERE. 

Here are pictures of all the IAF102 variants as their parts with under laying scale in 1cm squares for you to look at. All of these images and more are on the web pages for the tanks. 

Taranis is a top of the line main battle tank and among the biggest land vehicles fielded by Humans in the Prydian Precinct.  Its a big model and sometimes its hard to tell this from photos so here are images showing the hover variants of Taranis next to other codes in our 15mm range.  Each has a caption to tell you more.

IAF102A with IAF015 Had Dome, IAF043 Power Spire and IAF008 Retained Knights

IAF102D next to Adder Comms Lifter.  Its nearly three times larger!

See how big Taranis is!  A proper main battle tank for your sci-fi wargaming.

Taranis Tanks make use of a screen of Drones acting as a defensive, offensive, repair group controlled by the tank itself. These are IAF081 Taranis Running Drones and these can be seen HERE on our website as a pack and as singles. If you would like to read more about the Taranis in the fictional setting of The Ion Age please visit our blog and this INFORMATION BURST article. Its a great read and while primarily about the Model 40 Tracked Taranis series it tells you all about this miraculous vehicle. 

We have released ten tanks this month and will release the first two non-military character packs sculpted by Dave Foley later this month too.  We will also be taking part in the fantastic Black Friday Weekend offer at the end of November but details of that towards the end of the month.  You get a free miniature with every order and this is currently IMP27 Florian Pumpkin Spore (worth 0.60GBP) you can learn more about that HERE.  We have just upgraded and expanded our Rewards Programme (every customer earns points on every order and can use them for bonuses!) see more on that HERE. Lastly if you have not signed up for our Mailchimp email every week (link is on the top right of our blog's home page) then please do so, its free and there is an exclusive offer with up to 50% off a code every month only seen in the email.

Thanks for Reading. 

GBS

IAF101 Taranis Wheeled Main Battle Tanks 5 Variants now released!

"The Taranis Model 6 Wheeled series was adapted from the ultra heavy Model 40 Tracked series for local conditions of lower gravity and built up areas with weaker infrastructure requiring a weight reduction.  The MkII standard hull for all Taranis models weighs in at standard count gravity 1.0 at around 67 tons of titanium alloy armour and internal systems along with the GroatVey MkX HeavyIon Reasc Fusion Reactor that provides the electricity.  Using the principle of ion particle beam collision to ignite fuel pellets the MkX reactor provides some 3000 horse power or about 3480Kw of usable electrical energy to the power train. The Model 6 features eight large tires made of Hackamold maxdure composite which is heat and pressure resistant and on good ground can reach nearly eighty miles per hour.  There are four trained operators who are drawn from the Fortress and Fleet arms of the Prydian Army.   Using the Bragan Memetic Neural Linkage system the crew are mentally attached to the vehicle and control its system.  This is a dry linkage as all wet implants were banned after the Gurtan Activation.  There is a driver centrally located, a communications and drone controller who handles the screen of drones the tank has and its comms gear.  The third crew member is the knight who operates the primary weapon systems and secondary linked weapons.  Lastly the artificer who oversees the condition of the vehicle and all minor in combat functions often sharing the work of the secondary weapons and drones.  There are a great number of variants and local specialised variants too.  Centrally these are the Type A the most common variant mounting a Bodkin AP 130mm Cannon which features several choices of munitions including the Phelot Ex22 AP for anti-vehicle use and the TX12 Imploder for infantry clearance as well as the Habkut Variacluster which is a middle class multi-target round.  The Type A mounts a secondary weapon the Angis Mk9 22mm Automatic Rifle.  Type B is the command variant of the Model 6 and is allocated at a rate of one to three or one to four of that of the Type A.  With improved comms suite and space for an additional operator if required the Type B has a modified turret with better optics and range finders as well as a Moth 88 Rotary Cannon centrally mounted. Type B also has the Bodkin AP 130mm main gun and the Angis Mk9 too.  Type C of the Model 6 features a turret crewed by a specially trained gunner the main gun being the terrifying super heavy Fretan SBP9 Sequence Particle Beamer with the space removed from the main hull of the gunner being taken up with a small secondary GroatVey MkV HeavyIon Reasc Fusion Reactor slaved purely to the SBP9 and its massive energy requirements for sustained rates of fire.  The Type D is intended for close in warfare in urban and is the siege warfare choice with a re-enforced turret sporting twin Ron MegaMax II 95mm Hi-Ex Launchers.  The Ron weapon system has reduced range compared to the reach of the Bodkin 130mm but its destructive potential matches the hellish maelstrom of the SBP9. Type E Model 6 Taranis Armoured Personnel Carrier.  The Type E features a rear hatch and additional hull armour at the expense of a turret and two of the four crew normally in the tank.  Instead a well furnished internal bay has space for a dozen or more fully equipped Retained Knights or near a platoon of Muster or other non-armoured infantry.  The APC type has a top mounted Angis Mk9 22mm Automatic Rifle giving fire support to disembarking troops and is the favoured transport of most in free fire zones.  Other Trainer Series have details of the less common variants of the Model 6."

Academy Auto-Trainer Series 52, New Glastonbury, 4335IC 

This month we have added ten, yes, ten new Taranis variant main battle tanks to our 15mm range. Five of these are Wheeled and five are Lifter (Hover) propulsion type.  All were designed by industry legend Bob Naismith.  These tanks are large resin and in some cases white metal kits in 15mm scale suitable not only for space opera settings but also near future or many other wargaming genres.  This article deals with the five variants of wheeled Taranis under code IAF101.  These are variants (A,B,C,D and E) of IAF101 Taranis Wheeled Main Battle Tank so please read on for each of them or go straight HERE: 

IAF101A Taranis Wheeled MBT Cannon Turret 

This is the core type of eight wheeled Taranis the main battle tank with projectile turret. It is composed of seven resin and white metal pieces which are the upper hull, the lower hull, right and left wheeled sections, projectile cannon turret as well as the main gun and the sponson gun both in white metal. It is easy to assemble and is designed to be used for wargaming and thus it is durable. Assembled this vehicle is about 90mm long and 50mm wide. We offer the choice of purchasing one kit or on the drop down menu the purchase of three with a saving of 10% on screen. Price 18.00GBP. Go HERE. 

IAF101B Taranis Wheeled MBT Command Turret 

This is the platoon command type of eight wheeled Taranis with projectile turret with additional rotary weapon and comms suite. It is composed of seven resin and white metal pieces which are the upper hull, the lower hull, right and left wheeled sections, projectile cannon command turret as well as the main gun and the sponson gun in white metal. It is easy to assemble and is designed to be used for wargaming and thus it is durable. Assembled this vehicle is about 90mm long and 50mm wide. We offer the choice of purchasing one kit or on the drop down menu the purchase of three with a saving of 10% on screen. Price 18.00GBP. Go HERE. 

IAF101C Taranis Wheeled MBT SPB Energy Turret 

This is an eight wheeled Taranis main battle tank with an energy weapon turret featuring a small cabin for a crewman. It is composed of five resin pieces which are the upper hull, the lower hull, right and left wheeled sections and SPB energy weapon turret. It is easy to assemble and is designed to be used for wargaming and thus it is durable. Assembled this vehicle is about 90mm long and 50mm wide. We offer the choice of purchasing one kit or on the drop down menu the purchase of three with a saving of 10% on screen. Price 18.00GBP. Go HERE. 

IAF101D Taranis Wheeled MBT Siege Turret 

This is an eight wheeled Taranis main battle tank with a double weapon turret for close in destruction. It is composed of six resin and white metal pieces which are the upper hull, the lower hull, right and left wheeled sections, siege double turret as well as the sponson gun. It is easy to assemble and is designed to be used for wargaming and thus it is durable. Assembled this vehicle is about 90mm long and 50mm wide. We offer the choice of purchasing one kit or on the drop down menu the purchase of three with a saving of 10% on screen. Price 18.00GBP. Go HERE. 

IAF101E Taranis Wheeled APC 

This is a Taranis tank with a re-purposed function as an eight wheeled super heavy Armoured Personnel Carrier capable of carrying two squads or more into battle. It is composed of five resin and white metal pieces which are the lower hull, the APC upper hull, left and right wheeled sections and the sponson gun. It is easy to assemble and is designed to be used for wargaming and thus it is durable. Assembled this vehicle is about 90mm long and 50mm wide. We offer the choice of purchasing one kit or on the drop down menu the purchase of three with a saving of 10% on screen. Price 18.00GBP Go HERE. 

Here are pictures of all the IAF101 variants as their parts with under laying scale in 1cm squares for you to look at. All of these images and more are on the web pages for the tanks. 

Taranis is a top of the line main battle tank and among the biggest land vehicles fielded by Humans in the Prydian Precinct.  Its a big model and sometimes its hard to tell this from photos so here are images showing the wheeled variants of Taranis next to other codes in our 15mm range.  Each has a caption to tell you more.

IAF101B with Planetary Militia miniatures and Colobreta Command Carrier

IAF101A next to Adder Wheeled Comms Car its nearly three times larger!

See how big Taranis is!  A proper main battle tank for your sci-fi wargaming.

Taranis Tanks make use of a screen of Drones acting as a defensive, offensive, repair group controlled by the tank itself. These are IAF081 Taranis Running Drones and these can be seen HERE on our website as a pack and as singles. If you would like to read more about the Taranis in the fictional setting of The Ion Age please visit our blog and this INFORMATION BURST article. Its a great read and while primarily about the Model 40 Tracked Taranis series it tells you all about this miraculous vehicle. 

We have released ten tanks this month and will release the first two non-military character packs sculpted by Dave Foley later this month too.  We will also be taking part in the fantastic Black Friday Weekend offer at the end of November but details of that towards the end of the month.  You get a free miniature with every order and this is currently IMP27 Florian Pumpkin Spore (worth 0.60GBP) you can learn more about that HERE.  We have just upgraded and expanded our Rewards Programme (every customer earns points on every order and can use them for bonuses!) see more on that HERE.  Lastly if you have not signed up for our Mailchimp email every week (link is on the top right of our blog's home page) then please do so, its free and there is an exclusive offer with up to 50% off a code every month only seen in the email.

Thanks for Reading. 

GBS