1. In the deep, umbral, darkness of the pit, the fires of industry burn. The foul subterraneous city of Swill sits on an ocean of oil, its smog-choked slums, soaked black by belching smokestacks, weave a suffocating labyrinth of rowhouse horror for twenty thousand Workhouse wretches. Whispers spread through cobbled streets of a mysterious canned flesh known as The Thing in the Tins. An unimaginable abomination able to fulfil its owner’s deepest desires in this sweltering ruin of industrial revolution and verminous brick. To escape their living hell, pitiful labourers, fishwives and flensers, broken, wracked and twisted by mutation, gut each other like pilchards in their desperate search for the Tins. Fueled by oil, metal and hate they build cruel warmachines in the depths of the world. Shuddering Scab tanks, grind down ginnels overflowing with tar, Shoals of Sprats, in unprecedented numbers, swarm in the shadows, and countless bands of impoverished debtors incinerate their rivals in brutal skirmishes to the barked orders of merciless Factory Cults. Dark clouds gather over Cist. Dying travellers fatally wheeze sorry memories of the abyss. Croaking Klaxon crows call out to the most foolhardy Regiments. Gather your troops, fix bayonets, and descend to the pit city of Swill

I started with the main body of the tank which of course is a fish skull. This is sculpey wrapped around some tin foil. I put it in the oven too long and burned it, but it doesn’t really matter too much. I started attaching pieces of styrene for metal plating since this is a tank. Studs are nail art half spheres.

The tank treads were pretty difficult to make and these things are flimsy AF. The’re a mi of styrene, plastic gears, and zip dies. I will be hiding a lot of crimes later with muck and mud.

After adding styrene plating, I worked on the mouth of the tanks. I cut up a bunch of blackpowder rifles and styrene tubes and made them look like they are bristling out of a hole in the mouth. I’d like to think that rather than having one main cannon, it’s just a shotgun blast. For the tank armor plating I made little sheets of scales from hole punched paper. The driver is an ACW model and the other model is a Perry model of some sorts. My plan is to make his spear trailing various flags and fish shaped kites. I had this bent spear from a Reaper mini and thought it would be cool to have that sprout from the forehead like an angler fish. I grabbed an lantern from a random Warhammer sprue and attached it.

I think it’s ready to be primed so I can get a better idea of how much I have and how much more crap that I need to add to it.

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