At about this point I thought I'd better tackle the weapon sponsons. These things are bigger in proportion to the Mycenaean than the regular land raider patterns, so they will absolutely dominate the finished model.

The base sponson brackets were initially easy enough, just a sandwich of plasticard. The mounts themselves were more fun though, modelled on the land Raider ones but scaled up to 200%. The drop pod missile launcher is something I'm currently rethinking, but the forward arm it is mounted on is there for a reason I'll get to eventually (parts just ordered in from UK).

A test fit to the tank 'wall' itself confirmed I had the size and layout about right.

Now, I hope to make several different weapon layouts once I've completed the 'base' configuration of this tank so I want to keep the weapons replaceable. But what would the base weapon array look like?

Well, I wanted official guns to help tie this tank into the GW range, so that limited my options. I went through the FW catalogue with great interest, but settled on...

Plasma. As much as would fit on the sponson. Which is quite a lot.

The parts are from the Dark Angels four engine landspeeder. They might be a fraction smaller than those on a Leman Russ Executioner, but there's not much in it. By my math each sponson now has almost as much firepower as two Astra Militarum battle tanks.

I had intended to magnetise the lower mounts so they can be swapped out and independently rotated, but they're not quite cooperating, so will likely just be superglued in place.