[Archive] Munitorum Armoured Containers

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Admiral:

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Details are very nice, and the gothic elements don’t distract in my eyes. The eagle head corners is a clever arrangement for hooking onto with a crane. I’ve no ideas why you’d put storm bolters on a freight container, but I guess they could as well be used as levitating Rhinos? :stuck_out_tongue:

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Skink:

I love the fact that for the Imperium a freight container MUST be more heavily armed than the average Imperial Guard soldier :D.

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Abecedar:

Its in all the movies. The last remnants of the unit retreat into a miraculously heavily armed container.

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Admiral:

I love the fact that for the Imperium a freight container MUST be more heavily armed than the average Imperial Guard soldier :D.

Skink
But of course, it makes a lot of sense now that you point it out. The cargo is valuable, the Guardsmen less so, and are equipped accordingly.
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Thommy H:

They look a little boxy.

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Dînadan:

I've no ideas why you'd put storm bolters on a freight container, but I guess they could as well be used as levitating Rhinos? :P

Admiral
They're probably STC designs so more than likely it's just a case of the Imperium using the same base structure for both a shipping crate and a modular armoured emplacement - I can easily see them being linked up some how to build a makeshift temporary fort to guard an important mountain pass, roadway, etc
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cornixt:

The Imperium is all about inefficient designs (octagonal?!) over tradition.

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Fuggit Khan:

The paint jobs are the nicest detail.

I guess the circular design behind each bolter could be cut out/converted to be a hatch? So a guardsman could be operating the bolter, kind of an adhoc defensive structure?

The Imperium is all about inefficient designs (octagonal?!) over tradition.

cornixt
That’s why these containers have Gothic cathedral windows/vents along the top :wink:

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Dînadan:

The paint jobs are the nicest detail.
I guess the circular design behind each bolter could be cut out/converted to be a hatch? So a guardsman could be operating the bolter, kind of an adhoc defensive structure?

Fuggit Khan
I think they are actually supposed to be hatches - if you look closely you can see matching circular marks on the floor of the open containers which to me implies that they have hatches on the top and bottom so that when they're stacked people can move between them.