Land ship ? Like a dwarf juggernaut but far superior and evil? (Save that badboy for an artisans)
I spent nearly all day Sunday going through your archived blog, 43 pages of it. Amazing amount of ideas and great conversions. Nearly every photo is a finished unit. Crazy. Quite a bunch of your stuff didn’t quite make it here. I see you did the dragon rider I did like a decade before me.
An idea I don’t think you have covered is the acolytes of hashut with a petrified sorcerer (backgroundin warhammer armies project 8th or 9th edition) berserker s maybe too .
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I am not yet sure which basic concept to choose. Should it be a classic sailing ship? Similar to the Marienburg Landship. Or more in the direction of steam punk? It would also be possible to use a modern ship as a basis. Difficult! A contest would probably speed up the decision considerably!
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So there is a unit of Berserkers in my army, also a petrified sorcerer - he is positioned on the war mammoth of Grenadier.
A petrified sorcerer carried into battle by 2 or 4 chaos dwarves would also be cool. The acolytes of the Hashut could take over the part, which models could fit there? Let’s think about it … 
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I was thinking the chaos dwarfs by forlornhope games is 1 idea, they are more dishevelled in appearance and have the right kind of weapons.
You might come up with something better.
I thought one of you Air ship platforms might make a good base for a landship. Maybe it is too small for your tastes. Thinking return of the jedi here.
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For CD’s I would probably use something other than a standard sailing ship, such as an early ironclad, or ancient galley format with steampunk conversions for the wheel or walking mechanisms. Modern would work, but require more conversion. I also like the idea of using an airship base, as put forward by @Zoddtheimmortal
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Do you mean those dwarfs?
The old Grenadier Dwarves by Nick Lund form (with some exceptions) my complete dwarf squad for SAGA - Age of Magic.
A Dark Eldar model could possibly really be the basis for a CD landship. I’ll have to check the GW website.
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I quite agree - with conversions!
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I’m just afraid that on closer inspection the Dark Eldar models are too small after all. 
The battleforge ones. There are over a dozen on ebay or Facebook
Typing in land ship on Google brings up some great ork 40k ones, the idea could be tidied up and would work great for cds.
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This would also be a cool Artisan’s Contest!
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Not if you chop of opposite sides and cobble them together. 
A model that will represent the petrified mage has been ordered. There is a plan for how the petrified mage will be worn. The models for the unit “Acolytes of Hashut” have also been selected.
Only what the landship will look like is still open. I am wavering between a cog or a monitor as the basis for the land ship. What do you think suits the chaos dwarves better? I’m really thinking about it … both variants have advantages and disadvantages.
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I don’t understand, what do you mean by cog or a monitor?
Tank tracks?
Whatever you do, a crows nest with an unfortunate on top looking as comical as possible would be really cool. Not necessarily easy to do though
I mean these two types of ships:
A medieval Coq:
A Monitor:
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Ohhhh thanks for the explanation, I’d never have worked that out. I think I prefer the wooden one. But I’d consider a mixture of the two. With a big steam engine somewhere, possibly a sail too with a pirate cd sail and a naked troll slayer or gobbo up top in crows nest. A big cannon pointing forward.
I think ral partha do pirate dwarfs…don’t know if they fit cds enough. You’d need some armoured guys too
Swivel guns on the sides?
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The cog, I reckon, offers more modelling opportunities.
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Cog, but put turret(s) on it like the monitor, and whatever other steam or chaos dwarfy conversions you are planning for the locomotion bit. My thought process is that if you are doing a landship… everything below the waterline is showing and it likely still looks alot like the cog below the waterline.
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Ships are cool hobby projects, we had so much fun playing Naval Warhammer back in the day! My ships were heavily inspired by USS Monitor.
For landslips Id look on early WWI tanks for inspiration, Tsar-tank if you wanna go bonkers. 
Or maybe pre-WWII Soviet designs like the T-35.
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wow… that thing is cool! guess ill be making another war machine some day…
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