Scorpion Tank - Halo Miniature Fan Project

Fan-made Miniature based on the Halo Franchise. Project to model a Scorpion Tank for the out of production game Halo: Ground Command. This Scorpion Tank was created from scratch and modeled to a high standard that aimed to be a close match to the official miniatures in terms to detail and proportions. The final design blends elements of official art, and my own creative liberties.

A very complex undertaking, I started this project around the last week of June 2023, and finished it in the first week of August. Although a physical Scorpion tank model was my primary reference, which itself was based on Halo: Reach's look, I also incorporated some elements that I liked from the new Infinite design in small detail areas. This model was designed with magnetization in mind to give the turret and treads articulation, but on top of what was asked of me, I did some engineering to allow the Scorpion and Sun Devil variant's turret to be able to rotate up and down in a 40° arc in addition to rotating left and right.

This was a fan project, and that meant that I wasn't afraid to take creative liberties where it felt right - the official design for the Sun Devil anti-aircraft tank felt opposed to the overall UNSC aesthetic, not to mention appearing to be impractical, so instead of having the quad anti-aircraft cannon be in a fixed 45° angle upwards, the barrels point forward like its more iconic sibling, and has more sharp, flat surfaces like the rest of the model.

Commissioned by Steven Fine for the Halo tabletop game fan community, this project was completed August 2023.

Halo © Microsoft Corporation. This Model was created under Microsoft's "Game Content Usage Rules" using assets from the Halo Franchise, and is not endorsed by or affiliated with Microsoft.