Imperial Guard - A bit more detail work on the Leviathan

I'll admit I have a penchant for starting up projects that usually prove to be a bit beyond my hobby capabilities. Still, I figure that's how one grows as a hobbyist, gotta push the boundaries! A while back I kicked off a project to build a Leviathan Command Carrier for my guard, and after putting in a fair bit of work, I really felt it went all Top Gear on me: "Ambitious, but rubbish". It went into a box in the Closet of Doom while I worked on other things, but it's been eyeballing me recently so I pulled it off the shelf and busted out the plasticard and bits boxes.

 

When I left off the main structure had been glued up and rather ham-fistedly gap filled. It looked okay from a distance, but was pretty rough around the edges. That being the case, I cut up some thin plasticard to cover up some of the worst of the joins, and started adding in a bit more detail greebles here and there.

 

It's getting a little better now, the addition of some lights, doors and cabling gives the sides and track sections a bit more visual interest, and the bars along the upper front sections will end up holding banners to break up the large flat sections there. I'm concerned about the painting process at this point. The tanks of the 7th are predominantly black with red highlight panels, but I'm thinking that may not look good at this scale. I suppose I could try a reversal of the scheme and go predominantly red with black trim? Or maybe just finish the build, primer it all black and try to sell the darn thing - let someone else worry about how to paint it! Hah!