Vehicles of the Adeptus Arbites
Adeptus Arbites are essentially the Imperium’s police force. They are not so much a local police force, most planets and systems have their own, they are more interested in making sure the Imperium’s laws are followed. Closer to a FBI or secret police type setup. Anyways, For my list, I needed three types of vehicles; Chimeras, Rhinos and Exorcists.
My chimera is pretty standard. No modifications were needed. I went with the dark blue and silver/black paint scheme to match the rest of the army. There is a company that sells custom decals, so I bought a set with roman numeral sevens; the precinct number of my arbites.
For the rhino, I used one of the older Sister’s of battle rhinos as a starting point. I removed the emblem off the front with a dremel and used the standard Rhino doors, rather than the sister’s ones. To give it a little more bulk, I put some of the track guards form the new IG vehicle accessory sprue on the front. I also put a new storm bolter on the top.
The Sister’s pipe-organ style exorcist looked completely wrong for my arbites. I wanted something bulky and armored to represent the long range tank of the arbites. I started with a chimera body. Instead of the lasguns, I placed a strip of plastic behind the holes and painted it a dark grey. It was an easy fix and doesn’t look too bad.
For the exorcist missile launcher I ordered the new whirlwind launcher sprue from GW. I took the missile pods and removed the center support piece that seperated them. I then rotated the pods 90 degrees and glued them together. Some sanding of the railings was required to get them to fit well. I then glued the pods to a round base and glued a small rod vertical to the bottom of the base. The rod goes in the hole on the top of the chimer and the round base fits perfectly over the old gun turret spot.
As you can see from the pics, I havn’t finished painting all of them. I hope to have them done sometime in the next 3 years.
