Games Workshop - Warhammer - The Horus Heresy - Legiones Astartes: Deimos Pattern Rhino

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Most of this kit is the same basic build as the Deimos Pattern Rhino. If you’ve built one of those, much of the early part of this will be identical, with the exception of the door pieces being replaced by the mounts for the sponsons. Those pieces come from one of the three frames specific to this kit: The Deimos Rhino is armed with a set of turret-mounted, forward-firing twin-linked bolters located on the top of the vehicle. The bolters are controlled remotely from inside the vehicle and are slaved to the vehicle's target-logis ( cogitator) systems. The Mark 1b Pattern Rhino, the oldest surviving pattern of Rhino tank still in service to the Imperium. The Grav-Rhino was used during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy by the Legio Custodes and the Sisters of Silence. The Grav-Rhino was an experimental version of the Rhino that used anti-gravitic plate technology reverse-engineered from the vehicles of the Eldar to keep the vehicle in motion off the ground. The designs for this variant have been lost by the Imperium, and it is unknown if the Adeptus Custodes or Sisters of Silence still maintains any Grav-Rhinos in their armoury in the late 41st Millennium.

Lupe: Absolutely. It’s hard to overstate just what a wall of releases this is. They’In time, the vehicle became the standard fighting vehicle of Human armed forces across the galaxy. Recovered STC databases provided the early Imperial armies with Rhino variants still in use today, such as the Predator, Immolator and Whirlwind. The remaining Rhinos were slowly wiped out by attrition. Only the work and dedication of the Mechanicum saved the Rhino and several other STC designs of ancient technology from being lost forever. The reliability of the original Rhino design meant that it has changed little over the intervening millennia.

There are many different Marks and Patterns of the standard Rhino and its chassis in use throughout the Imperium, including the following:

Chaos Rhinos can also be armed with a Havoc Missile Launcher, an ancient weapon system that has long fallen out of use in the Imperium. Chaos Rhinos can also be equipped with Destroyer Blades, Dirge Casters, Dozer Blades, Extra Armour Plating, Chaos Icons or Marks, or Warpflame Gargoyles. They may also be possessed by a daemon, or have been bestowed with other "gifts" of the Chaos Gods. In the Fabricator General, we talk about the finer points of construction, conversion, and hobby projects that require a bit more elbow grease and technical know-how. From adding shelves in your display case to building an army display board to making a wet palette, there’s on project too big or small for the Fabricator General. This week, we’re covering how to build a plastic Deimos pattern rhino. The Deimos Pattern Rhino would eventually be replaced by newer marks and patterns, and it is no longer produced by the Adeptus Mechanicus. The Mars Pattern Rhino has become the standard Rhino used at present by the Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes, although some Chapters still maintain the use of relic Deimos Rhinos out of respect and tradition. As you can see here it’s a rhino. All of the parts are lettered and numbered, are easy to find, and are very intuitive. The left and middle sprue make up the entirety of the rhino itself. The sprue to the right looks like it’s just going to be in every vehicle kit, a very generic weapon sprue for pintle mounted weapons with optional gunner and a tank commander. The Hull

A Rhino is crewed by a single Space Marine driver who also controls the remotely operated Storm Bolter. In addition to this, a pintle-mounted Storm Bolter may be fixed to the APC's top hatch, which can be operated by an additional Space Marine serving as the gunner. All Space Marines inducted into an Astartes Chapter are trained to operate the Rhino as part of their training. This pattern of the Rhino also has several different marks, such as the Mark Ic, which is the most prevalent. An unknown mark of Deimos Rhino chassis is used in the construction of older, lesser-known Rhino variants such as the Deimos Predator and its variants the Deimos Predator Infernus and Deimos Predator Executioner. Robust and versatile, and able to resist the most hostile of environments, the Rhino has become the basic troop transport for Space Marine squads. It has also been used by many other trusted branches of the Imperial armed forces, including the Adeptus Mechanicus, Adepta Sororitas, Adeptus Arbites, Adeptus Custodes, and the forces of the Inquisition. Predator ( Annihilator • Destructor • Baal) • Land Raider ( Phobos • Crusader • Redeemer • Achilles • Prometheus • Terminus Ultra • Ares • Excelsior • Wrath of Mjalnar • Angel Infernus • Solemnus Aggressor • Anvilarum) • Vindicator Laser Destroyer • Repulsor • Repulsor Executioner • Gladiator • Astraeus

In the White Dwarf article that launched the kit (issue 103), another key fragment of Warhammer 40,000 lore was expanded upon: the Standard Template Construct. Even then, Rhinos were seen as a versatile mainstay – an STC factory could fabricate them from almost anything a colony had lying around, from compressed plant matter to plywood! During the Iron Warriors and Emperor's Children's siege of the ancient Eldar fortress of Amon ny-shak Kaelis the Iron Warriors deployed over 400 Castallen Rhinos as their defensive line. The Rhino is powered by 2 Mark II Mars Pattern adaptable combustion engines. Each engine runs a dynamo, which in turn runs two electric motors (and recharges the engine's batteries). Each dynamo is attached to its engine using a power coupling, and is independent of the other engines. Should an engine be damaged in combat, there will be a reduction in the APC's speed but the other motor will continue to move the drive wheel.