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Definitely more :D
Definitely yes on the Coaxials.
Decided against coaxial MGs in the end to save time. I don't rule them out for subsequent companies. I just got a biut behind and wanted to get it all done before I lose interest - a perennial problem of mine! I've about seven coaxial HS on some Vanquisher turrets I have planned for a while from now, which might make up for this lot.
I thought I had a Dread problem.
It's comforting to see I'm not as bad off as you.:)
Cheers, old man! :D
*Jawdrop* Wow. Thats, You sir, Are an addict. Where can i get some?
The key is to go a little mad, then a little more, and gradually slide into total insanity.
*GACKKK* That's a LOT of tanks. Did you ever see that Space Marine versus Imperial Guard tank battle in White Dwarf? Loooong time ago now.
You should totally do a massive battle with all that stuff, mate. Probably have to find a local gaming group for that tho!
OOIIII!!! You've painted your Thunderers and you didn't tell us!!! Post a shot of them here. Now.
Great stuff mate.
Cheers, old man! Come to think of it, most of the bottom right of that pic's been repainted. The Exterminators and Thunderers both into my new yellow standard. They're up in the last few pages looking a lot different from how they did in that pic. That probably means I do need to get a new pic up. Ack.
I must have missed that massive tank battle - I know I'd remember it if I'd seen it. I do plan eventually some large game, and I'm definitely going to be parcelling pieces of the whole out to sub-commanders! Final vehicle count is creeping northward from 200, but estimated finish date is still unclear!
:eyebrows:
some people have a lot more money than sense :p
I have much more money than sense . . . because I have so very little sense! ;)
Here's the company together.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/AnglersAll.jpg
Detail of the dustcover - white Milliput with gauze pressed onto it for some texture. I'm not sure how the sandbags on this one will come out. We'll see.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/AnglerDetail.jpg
In response to a request on another forum, here's what the turret looks like on a Russ-size chassis. Bit of a shell trap, but not too bad otherwise.
Yepp, its a shelltrap alright :D
Looking nice, Mate ! So i get no MG 34/42 AA guns ? Well, well i think you know your stuff and will just sit back and enjoy the show.
The turrets are coming along nicely and i cant wait to see them painted.
Also im longing to see how your going to do those hulls, as ive been trying to do a more slender LR-hull for a long time and you know how far ive come ...........
Might not reply everytime but im allways here, mate !!
/ SDKFZ
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some people have a lot more money than sense :p
Or they donīt have wife and kids. :)
.....but....but....I DO ! :D
/ SDKFZ
Urm... What's a shelltrap?
Looks kinda in scale actually- the normal LR turret is just stupid. But we all knew that :P
@ Jihad_Ragsta: A Shelltrap is when you fire a projectile at a tank and it hits on a surfice that deflects the round down and into the tank via the roof of the hull.
....to put it simple...:)
/ SDKFZ
Yepp, its a shelltrap alright :D
Looking nice, Mate ! So i get no MG 34/42 AA guns ? Well, well i think you know your stuff and will just sit back and enjoy the show.
The turrets are coming along nicely and i cant wait to see them painted.
Also im longing to see how your going to do those hulls, as ive been trying to do a more slender LR-hull for a long time and you know how far ive come ...........
Might not reply everytime but im allways here, mate !!
/ SDKFZ
Well, I've got a coax on an oddity below . . . but not quite what I had in mind.
Or they donīt have wife and kids. :)
That's true! :D
Urm... What's a shelltrap?
Looks kinda in scale actually- the normal LR turret is just stupid. But we all knew that :P
Cheers, old man! I'm still peering at these suspiciously, thinking summat must be wrong! A shelltrap's a result of poor tank design. In this instance, a shell that hit the front of that tank might be deflected upward - but this would only ensure that it (or its explosive force) hit the bottom of the turret, rather than harmlessly dissipating in air.
Here they are with some colour. Halford's yellow primer and Army Painter green messily applied.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/AngleCam1.jpg
Tidying up will follow - before messing them up again. Er. Hang on, I'm making extra work for myself here! I have done a little work on a smaller chassis, but I'm not really happy with what I've managed. It's so low and short that I might make it into a Centaur instead. I'll get some pics up shortly. In the meantime, here's a turret a friend persuaded me to work on yesterday.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Comparison.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/HT3.jpg
Yep, TL Battlecannon with coax HB. The idea is for it to be a tribute to the Soviet Heavy Tank in Red Alert. It's going to be a custom chassis job as well! She suggested it should be the regimental commander's HQ vehicle, which sounds appealing.
I wonder how that tank looks when firing.......:D
Cool look anyhow ! Small and boxy LR.
/ SDKFZ
I wonder how that tank looks when firing.......:D
Cool look anyhow ! Small and boxy LR.
/ SDKFZ
Ah, y'ninja'd me on Shelltraps! That turret mounted on that tank would probably fly off backward whenever it fired. 0-60mph in half a second. ;)
Update last page, chaps.
Cheers, MATE !! :D
/ SDKFZ
Here's what I've got with the little un. I think it's only slightly too small, but almost definitely so. Before I give up on it the almighty Jabba will hear your pleas for mercy. Er, I mean, does anyone disagree? ;)
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/TooSmall1.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/TooSmall2.jpg
Yep, i think its to small. But the design looks like a Churchill tank, cool !
/ SDKFZ
Yep, i think its to small. But the design looks like a Churchill tank, cool !
/ SDKFZ
I knew it was making me think of something WWII when I made it symmetrical. I just couldn't think what! Well, people keep your eyes open for a Centaurish some time soonish. I'll have another go at this. I think I'll go for a 110mm length to it this time and replicate the traditional Russ rhomboid appearance, but I'll retain the low silhouette of this fella (35mm).
Thanks for telling me what a shelltrap is everyone :)
Mr P, thanks for spraying something (heck anything!) with Army Painter Green, been wondering how it looks on models for a potential future project.
That latest set of tracks looks too small, make it into a recon tank OR invert it and you have a Rhino!
But you're going to have to do something based upon a Churchill now. Perhaps with a Petard Mortar mounted on it ;)
Ooh, in time, in time! ;)
I've got a new chassis half done. Quite Whippet-like, I think.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Whippy1.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Whippy2.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Whippy3.jpg
Size looking much better ! Like this design. Will be nice to see how you do the tracks and sidepanels.
/ SDKFZ
Good news, SDKFZ, I've done a spot of work on the hull and sidepanels! Though I realised while taking the pictures that I haven't left anywhere for the exhaust! So, er, the next ones will have it on the back plate, but this one will probably have it mounted at the rear right atop the track guards.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Whippy4.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Whippy5.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Whippy6.jpg
Hull armament will probably vary between Heavy Bolter and Heavy Flamer. No sponsons on these wee tanks, in case I didn't say before. In truth, if one is gaming with someone who's comfy with one using scratched/kitbashed vehicles, said player probably won't mind if one mounts a pintle and coaxial HB on the turret, and a hull HB, and plays it as a Russ with sponsons. But neah . . .
If your gaming-pals are as "nuts" as mine are, then they wont mind at all, just love your creativety !
Side panels looking great sofar !
Im longing to see the whole hull complete !
Keep it rolling, Mate !!
/ SDKFZ
Here she is, SDKFZ! I'm taking her out for undercoating now. Tracks are very plain, but I plan to apply a wealth of mud to them (as Tinners mentioned in his log t'other day) to obscure the lack of detail. They won't all have dozers. I just felt like putting one on this fella.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Whippy7.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Whippy8.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Whippy9.jpg
Height is 2 1/8" including the turret, if anyone's interested. That makes her just slightly taller than a Russ hull without turret.
There's something mildly wrong with this in my eyes, it's probably the fact that the upper deck of the tank is pretty much completely flat. It just doesn't feel right, if you take my meaning?
Aye, no hatches aside from the main one. I'm afraid there really isn't much room. On the next one I can place the exhaust on the backplate, pull the turret right back and just have room for some small hatches at the front. D'ye think that'd help? And I could add a slightly raised platform for the turret, allowing me to place some treadplate on the top of the hull.
Here she is with her basic two colours. The flash has rather washed out the green here, but I'll get some better pics later on.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/PW1.jpg
Yar, raise the turret up a bit, that gives you more room for "detail".
Now that you've put some paint on it, you can see gaps that need filling :D
Yar, raise the turret up a bit, that gives you more room for "detail".
Now that you've put some paint on it, you can see gaps that need filling :D
Always the bloody way! :D
Mud, mud and more mud - that's my answer!
Tommygun
07-10-2009, 06:28
I like the chewed on look of the dozer blade.
It looks like the crew decided to just shoot through the part that was in the way.
MrP, remember Bondo is your friend, just look at all my tanks.
It hides all my gaps and mistakes misjudgments.
Aye, it does, doesn't it? I'd better weather it appropriately. :D
Bondo? Ooh, I've not run across that before. I shall look into it!
Not much to report today. I got started on an assembly line for the external sides yesterday, but a friend distracted me with Scrabble on Facebook for hours! Anyway, here's what I've got so far. Sides in various stages:
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ProdLine1.jpg
Every side hatch (albeit still lacking full riveting)
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ProdLine2.jpg
And the closest to completion I have is this:
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ProdLine3.jpg
In a word, I'm going to run out of rivets soon! Off to see the dentist this afternoon, and some friends popping over this evening, for which I should probably tidy away the five billion fragmentary tanks . . . so don't expect much more today!
I think Faolan has a point, try raising the turret with a spacer ring so you can get som details on top.
Production line looking good sofar. And then theres those rivets..............
Good luck at the dentist, Mate !
/ SDKFZ
Thankee, old boy - dentist went fine, and I now have another filling. Huzzah!
The riveting work is long. And I lost Saturday through no fault of my own . . . and because of it got irritated . . . long story short, a Shadowsword and BB are in the post to me. D'oh! Anyway, all the right-hand sides are shaped and need pretty much just rivets. Four of these are done, five nearly so. I watched Quantum of Solace last night and - in between making and eating a pie - turned 12" or so of 1mm plastic rod into rivets. I'll need more, I know it!
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ProdLine4.jpg
Oh, yes. For these two new Supers, shall I maintain continuity with my current BB and Shadow or go with the scheme above? That is, which of these two choices do people prefer?
1) Dirty yellow.
2) Yellow and green stripes/patches.
Tommygun
12-10-2009, 08:59
I know that problem.
Right now I'm chewing up 1mm rod like a rat through cheese.
Go with dirty yellow.
Dirty yellow like it's your favourite stripper, mate.
Bladelord
12-10-2009, 14:31
I think that armour would account for quite some divisions. Insane and ambitious, but mostly insane. :eek:
I know that problem.
Right now I'm chewing up 1mm rod like a rat through cheese.
Go with dirty yellow.
Ooh, don't talk to me about rats.
Dirty yellow like it's your favourite stripper, mate.
I don't know that I have a favourite. Maybe I should! ;)
I think that armour would account for quite some divisions. Insane and ambitious, but mostly insane. :eek:
Yup, that's me! :D
Yellow it is, then.
I lost today, too. I don't know whether I'll be losing tonight. It depends on circumstances again outside my control. So I guess I'll cut up some rod and wait for the phonecall that will let me know.
I think I said it before but I'll say it again... You sar... are maaAAAaaad! :D
Sooo many tanks!... LOVE IT!
Bladelord
18-10-2009, 22:12
Perhaps you should consider installing motors into every single tank and th-
I meant to say nothing. :angel:
Mad, eh? Well, those things I ordered have turned up. So now I must be even madder! :D
I think I have seen someone install an engine into a BB chassis - but that was someone who knew what he was doing. I'm a Classicist by training, so I'm better at scowling at High Gothic than doing anything practical. ;)
Mad, eh? Well, those things I ordered have turned up. So now I must be even madder! :D
I think I have seen someone install an engine into a BB chassis - but that was someone who knew what he was doing. I'm a Classicist by training, so I'm better at scowling at High Gothic than doing anything practical. ;)
He even installed motor into Space Marine Land Rider. Rhino is I think on edge, where you can put motor with RC control.
He even installed motor into Space Marine Land Rider. Rhino is I think on edge, where you can put motor with RC control.
Crazy! I completely lack the skill set to do that - not to mention the additional cost! But I have great respect for those who do.
Crazy! I completely lack the skill set to do that - not to mention the additional cost! But I have great respect for those who do.
Yeah. Btw I have here cheap small RC tank, that I will try slice up to pieces and install into plastic rhino, but I have to build new wheels instead these parody of wheels. I think it can be done, but it is really on edge :)
Christ, you have what, over a hundred tanks?
Maybe you might want to look at flames of war, which is a lot smaller. Might be easier to get the same fix cheaper and easier without taking as much space. I don't know that game's rules, but it's likely you can use more of the models in a single game.
Alternatively, as you have so many battletank, why not try your hands on a Leviathan or a Titan?
Yeah. Btw I have here cheap small RC tank, that I will try slice up to pieces and install into plastic rhino, but I have to build new wheels instead these parody of wheels. I think it can be done, but it is really on edge :)
I look forward to it, old boy!
Christ, you have what, over a hundred tanks?
Maybe you might want to look at flames of war, which is a lot smaller. Might be easier to get the same fix cheaper and easier without taking as much space. I don't know that game's rules, but it's likely you can use more of the models in a single game.
Alternatively, as you have so many battletank, why not try your hands on a Leviathan or a Titan?
Including all vehicles the planned total is a little north of 200, of which over 100 are Russ variants, I think. But I need to do another count. It would make more sense to use a smaller system, I agree. Rest assured I'm not opposed to smaller scales - my Napoleonics are 6mm, for instance - but it's become a sort of obsession. ;)
The Baneblade is mostly complete. I've mislaid one of the viewing slits and I need to replace about a million rivets, but - God willing - I should have it done tomorrow. I didn't name the first one, but I know Baneblades are supposed to have names, and I've just watched an episode of Have I Got News For You, so I'm feeling a bit whimsical. So I might call it Barry the Baneblade.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Barry1.jpg
Ah, it's riveting work, this!
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/RivetingStuff.jpg
Why aren't I out skiing or something? Oh, yes, skiing's more expensive! Well, back to replacing rivets.
Hm. Wasnīt be better this wide turret, that use Ash on his baneblade? :)
Hm. Wasnīt be better this wide turret, that use Ash on his baneblade? :)
I did toy with widening this one, but in the end I just decided to follow the route of laziness and leave it as is. I hereby promise that when I get round to buying BB#3 in the distant future I will chop up and expand the turret!
I did toy with widening this one, but in the end I just decided to follow the route of laziness and leave it as is. I hereby promise that when I get round to buying BB#3 in the distant future I will chop up and expand the turret!
:) Laziness is powerfull master. When I have BB in hands I want it with wide turret and rectangular eye-slits on hull. Not these gothic ones.
I have only shadowsword in box, it waits for right time to conversion for stormblade. :)
:) Laziness is powerfull master. When I have BB in hands I want it with wide turret and rectangular eye-slits on hull. Not these gothic ones.
I have only shadowsword in box, it waits for right time to conversion for stormblade. :)
Tell you what, to make up for my prior indolence, I'll give my Shadowsword rectangular vision slits too! ;)
Barry the Baneblade is now going out to be undercoated, so I can start on that in a moment, I guess!
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Barry2.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Barry3.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Barry4.jpg
Just great, Mate ! Cant wait to see Barry with paint. BTW, why did you redo the riveting ? Something ive missed ? Great work anyhow !
/ SDKFZ
Just great, Mate ! Cant wait to see Barry with paint. BTW, why did you redo the riveting ? Something ive missed ? Great work anyhow !
/ SDKFZ
It's something another chap pointed out. I might never have noticed it myself, but then again perhaps! Er, it's the mould technology. Whenever hull parts have an angle in them they have rivets that all point directly upward, which means that horizontal hull pieces are fine, but angled ones have rivets poking out at 45 degrees, which just looks freaky. The sponsons have annoying mould lines running across them, so it's a matter of either cautiously filing them or just filing the whole side and replacing them all!
Anyway, I undercoated Barry the other day, but haven't had a chance to post that. Horribly busy last few days!
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Barry5.jpg
I've decided the Shadowsword will be called Sian. On general principles of sh-noises, rather than after anyone. I have a feeling I know/knew a Sian, but I can't pin it down. Just going to undercoat her. Er, the Shadowsword, that is.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Sian1.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Sian2.jpg
Shadowsword looks great, Mate ! Nice to see that you found the time to paint that Baneblade too. About those rivets.....yepp, i know, but im to lazy to do anythig about it :D I just file those moldlines flat and leave the strange rivets as they are, no one has given me any feedback on them sofar.
Keep up the great work !
/ SDKFZ
It's something another chap pointed out. I might never have noticed it myself, but then again perhaps! Er, it's the mould technology. Whenever hull parts have an angle in them they have rivets that all point directly upward, which means that horizontal hull pieces are fine, but angled ones have rivets poking out at 45 degrees, which just looks freaky. The sponsons have annoying mould lines running across them, so it's a matter of either cautiously filing them or just filing the whole side and replacing them all!
It is actually limit of used technology. If you make two pieces steel molds for plastic injection machines, you have to check all these parts and angles, that can be problem for fast removing finished piece from mould without destroying this piece. This is why these parts have that bad rivets. Same as rivets on preheresy shoulder pad for Space Marines.
Tommygun
26-10-2009, 04:53
Seriously when do you sleep!
Shadowsword looks great, Mate ! Nice to see that you found the time to paint that Baneblade too. About those rivets.....yepp, i know, but im to lazy to do anythig about it :D I just file those moldlines flat and leave the strange rivets as they are, no one has given me any feedback on them sofar.
Keep up the great work !
/ SDKFZ
Neah, it's valid, since it is the usual way - but I feel the need to do it. That said, I have just noticed that I forgot to replace the rivets on Sian's engine compartment. D'oh!
It is actually limit of used technology. If you make two pieces steel molds for plastic injection machines, you have to check all these parts and angles, that can be problem for fast removing finished piece from mould without destroying this piece. This is why these parts have that bad rivets. Same as rivets on preheresy shoulder pad for Space Marines.
Aye, and I can't complain too much about the technology, since without it we should have no supers!
Seriously when do you sleep!
I have drunk 4 litres of Coke in the last 30 hours, so the answer to your question is: frantic jittering and twitching like a panicked rabbit! ;)
I applied varnish last night to selected spots ready to receive transfers. Then I slept. No, really. So I can now apply transfers. Then more varnish. Then paint!
There's still a long way to go with Barry and Sian, but I have made a start on covering them in crap, and I've got the decals done.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Barry6.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Sian3.jpg
I'm getting that cruddy feeling one does get from too much Coke now. Eyes beginning to feel as if bees have placed wax around them! ;)
Unkle Ghazzkull wants you!
*imagine a poster with an wide eyed ork pointing at you*
skrew da imperium! Defekt!
Good work anywayz.
Very nice Tanks, Mate ! Love how they turned out. I like that well used look youve made on them.
/ SDKFZ
Cheers, fellas. No Orks for this Imperial commander . . . not today. Barry and Sian are done!
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Barry7.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Barry8.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Barry9.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Sian4.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Sian5.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Sian6.jpg
Should I go for a (Forgeworld) Shadowsword or a (scratchbuilt and kitbashed) Stormblade to complete next, people?
Should I go for a (Forgeworld) Shadowsword or a (scratchbuilt and kitbashed) Stormblade to complete next, people?
Buy plastic Shadowsword and kitbash this plasma cannon. :) Althought I like more this full resin model, that has less details than this plastic with Baneblade parts. But I donīt like its prize and these bended resin parts.
razormasticator
02-11-2009, 16:57
Should I go for a (Forgeworld) Shadowsword or a (scratchbuilt and kitbashed) Stormblade to complete next, people?
I own one of the Forge World ones, and I can tell you its beautiful.
dangermouse425
02-11-2009, 17:01
MrP, the way your tanks look is an inspiration. I'm trying to achieve something similar with my current project, really weathered and look like they're half way through a really long campaign etc. Great stuff!
Buy plastic Shadowsword and kitbash this plasma cannon. :) Althought I like more this full resin model, that has less details than this plastic with Baneblade parts. But I donīt like its prize and these bended resin parts.
I own one of the Forge World ones, and I can tell you its beautiful.
Slight problem, chaps - not only are they both mostly done - here's a pic from a few weeks ago:
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/SB1.jpg
- but I actually got the Shadowsword from a friend who left the Guard a few years back, so it's already mosty assembled . . . with a few glaring gaps. So it's going to get masses of camo-netting to hide them all! I still haven't decided which to work on - and have been in a funk again - so I spent last night mainly cutting three foot of 1mm plasticard rod into rivets, plus a bit of work on those Light Russes.
MrP, the way your tanks look is an inspiration. I'm trying to achieve something similar with my current project, really weathered and look like they're half way through a really long campaign etc. Great stuff!
Cheers, old man. It's really much simpler than my old way - which mainly involved screwing up delicate painting! This dabbing tanks with paint-dipped sponges really comes out nicely, I must say. :)
I caught tank fever again, thanks to you MrP.
This time though, I decided to be smart and go Flames of War scale, lol.
As to the glaring gaps, you COULD use some 2 part greenstuff on it, or that Mr Dissolved Putty (which is Squadron Green Putty thats been thinned out in acetone).
Tbh, I just don't trust my capabilities with GS, old boy. The really bad gaps are right by rivets, which makes me even less happy about fiddling with things. I'm happier hiding the whole under camo netting than having an area with some badly distorted rivets. The flash has washed out the depth from these, but you can get a fair idea.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Gap1.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Gap2.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Gap3.jpg
Shifting down to 15mm just so you can actually get a good-sized force onto a table that doesn't require its own house? For shame, sir. ;) Seriously, though, I'm glad to see you back at tanking again, old boy! Which force are you collecting?
@ MrP : Have you tried superglue ? My Hobbystore sell them in different "thicknesses", if you use the thick one, it fills those gaps quite nicely, just a small tip ;)
Keep up the Tank production line, Mate !
/ SDKFZ
Ah yeah, bad spots on some of those. I see what you mean, although I don't mind obliterating the occasional rivet- since enemy fire would as well!
King Tiger platoon is my starting point, you know, an army for 30 quid.
le Mediko
27-12-2009, 17:55
Very nice weathering effect on both monsters... I SHOULD buy a Shadowsword anytime!
Dear me, I've been letting myself go! I was only abroad for about the first two weeks of December, so I have no idea why I've left such a huge gap in November. The subsequent explanation is pretty much: one thing and another!
Didn't finish the Shadowsword afore I left, so I shall have to get back to that at some point. Still probably too lazy to do more than stick camo-netting over the gaps, but I'll bear the superglue in mind, SDKFZ. Cheers!
Thirty quid for an army, Faolan? Yeesh . . . it's always painful when I compare my spending habits for 40K with the smaller stuff. I've got some 6mm Napoleonics and ACW, and the amount you get is crazy! :D
Cheers, le Mediko! You're right - they're fun to model, even if you don't play much Apoc.
Right, I have been up to stuff. Mainly this, I suppose. Tommygun's to blame for this, of course. I saw his lovely Mach turret and wanted one of my own! The main guns are 1/35 128mm guns from a Trumpeter kit of a German WWII SPG (converted from a design that failed to become the Pz V, I think).
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/DSCF3316.jpg
The 128mm guns were to be used on the Panzer X series, the superheavies.
How much did the Trumpeter kit set you back?
The 128mm guns were to be used on the Panzer X series, the superheavies.
How much did the Trumpeter kit set you back?
Neah, it's a chassis intended to be a tank that got converted into an SPG. Let me just go find it. It's the VK3001(H) which was one of the contenders for the Pz VI chassis. Confusing a Panther and a Tiger - what am I like! :D Anyway, they had two chassis, and popped a 12.8cm arty piece on 'em. Here it is (http://www.achtungpanzer.com/heu.htm)! And this is the kit (http://www.cybermodeler.com/hobby/kits/tru/kit_tru_1515.shtml). I was with some mates and ambled into a toyshop in Wales or Cornwall, I think, and found a pair of 'em on sale for some knockdown price. Ģ10 or Ģ15 each, maybe? But that would have been about three years ago, I'd think.
Well if you find an insane deal like that again, let me know mate!
Well if you find an insane deal like that again, let me know mate!
Will do! :D
Tommygun
05-01-2010, 00:22
Those barrels do make for elegant looking Vanquisher cannons.
My Vanquisher barrels are ugly, but I will make do with them.
Those barrels do make for elegant looking Vanquisher cannons.
My Vanquisher barrels are ugly, but I will make do with them.
Rubbish, old boy. Yours are gorgeous! :p
I'm still mildly concerned that these are slightly too thin. But I shall make do.
Mrp,
Let me tell you you are the reason I signed up to this forum. I have just spend a couple of days (at work, when the boss is not looking...) to read trough your topic and you came such a long way since the first post. To be totally honest I wasn't too impressed by your first models, but the things you are doing lately are amazing!!! There is still hope for me!
Keep up the good work!
And just one more question. You said somewhere you use a Halfords yellow primer. Can you tell me which yellow paint that is in the Halford range. Living in West Kerry, Ireland, we have a general lack of modelling shops, but we do have a Halfords nearby! And this yellow would make a perfect undercoat for my Ork Half Moonz Vehicles!
Thanks a lot!
Edwin
Aw, bless you, old boy. That's just the sweetest thing! :)
Halfords Primer in Yellow (they seem to have yellow, grey and white where I am) in a 500ml spraycan is, I believe, what it is. Good luck with the Orks!
I've not got a lot more done on the turret. I've sheathed the sides roughly, and added the ammo-holding kerjigger on the back.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/DSCF3325.jpg
I keep being distracted by the ephemera of knocking up vehicle hatches and doorways for bunkers. Insufficiently interesting to photograph on their own, as it's something of a production line!
Some advance since last time.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/DSCF3326.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/DSCF3327.jpg
That looks awsome, Mate ! Like the look of it, nice details and great guns.
Sorry i cant remember, have you made a Hull for this beast ?
Anyhow, keep up the great stuff !
/ SDKFZ
Cheers, old boy! Er, I do have a Mach hull, but I don't know if I'll use it for this fella. A little more done in an hour - though not one hour's worth! ;)
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/DSCF3328.jpg
That's a very nice looking turret, Mr P, nice to see business is still booming on your Forgeworld!
I assume you'll be scratchbuilding the hull too? Perhaps make it broader than the standard one, that turret looks bigger than the standard Mach. Or you could base it on the Mammoth tank from Command and Conquer :D
Keep up the good work.
Great idea to use those "rocket ends" from the Sturmtiger ammo as ventilators !
Nice to see this tank in the making.
MVH
Cheers, J_R, I think you're right; it is a bit larger! I have a hull around somewhere which I put together in slightly too much ignorance, so it's about the size of a Baneblade. It still needs lots doing to it, but I think it's big enough. Cello! Er, viola? Voila! Yes, that's it! ;)
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Hull1.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Hull2.jpg
Nicely spotted, SDKFZ; a cookie for you, sir! She's almost done. I just want to add some more strengthening struts to the ammo storage, and maybe stick something in the blank front left area - though I'm not really sold on a targeting box - and a few scopes up top, and I'll undercoat her.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Turret1.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Turret2.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Turret3.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Turret4.jpg
Thanks for the cookie ! :D I dont mind the size, it bigger, so whats the problem ;) If it was smaller, then i could understand that some one ( pickey ) might say that you were going to get an unfair advatage, but this is just cool !
/ SDKFZ
Been in a funk again, so only just taking the turret downstairs to undercoat. I have some plans for a trio of Supers - but what I'm mainly thinking on atm is an armoured train for Apocalypse. I will field it on table in one of two configurations: a) engine plus armoured compartment or b) add a flat trailer to the engine and armoured compartment. It is the armoured compartment I'm thinking of now. I'm converting a Playmobil train for this, so I'm going to make a plasticard shell to hang over the original carriage. The shell is about 4inches/10cm tall, about 8 inches/20cm long and 4.5inches/12cm wide. Each long side will have a pair of sponsons (one fore, one aft) mounting twin-linked Heavy Bolters/Flamers. There will also be armoured shutters out of which passengers can fire such things as lasguns and special weapons. I'm not sure what to put on the roof. I might go with a basic Macharius turret, since I have one (not the one I've been working on lately, but another) somewhere or other.
This is not all set in stone, and so does anyone have suggestions? Replace the side sponsons with Battlecannons? Stick a Hydra turret on the roof? That sort of thing. Plans appended below. All measurements in mm.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Trainside.jpg
The window for suggestions is closing. For once I'm working with some semblance of speed. Three of the sponsons are largely complete. TL Heavy flamers in one pair and TL HBs in the other - though I shall have to scratch them in a while. The roof-mount is still not definitely settled.
LANDTRAIN !!!! HURRA !!! Im all eyes :eek:
/ SDKFZ
cool idea. have you seen this one, it may give you some ideas
http://www.ironhands.com/train.htm
cool idea. have you seen this one, it may give you some ideas
http://www.ironhands.com/train.htm
Aye, she's a beaut, that one! I shan't be going quite that route, since I'm not sure how my Dad and younger brother would respond to me permanently altering the original toy. This despite the fact that it otherwise sits abandoned and dusty in a box in the garage. We're a fusty family like that! :D
I had forgotten about that one, though. I shall have a poke about and see whether I can find much in the way of skull motifs around the house. I suspect not, as back in childhood a newly arrived priest at church had a thing about Halloween, so Mum cut back a lot on the decorations we'd always had. Tsk!
Here's the lovely box. Only the top and 3 of 4 sides attached so far. Needless to say slight errors in measurement have left one of the sides all wonky, so I'll have to trim away at and fiddle with it. Russ intervenes for a sense of scale.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Carriage1.jpg
And something else I might work on tonight. I have the main guns for three done (in pretty basic form, admittedly).
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Banesword.jpg
Here are some roof concepts.
First, one turret with a big gun. Mach Vanq turret illustrative only.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Concept1.jpg
Second, central AA turret with TL Las turrets at one end and TL something else at the other. TL something else invisible here, since I ain't made 'em yet.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Concept2.jpg
Third, twin AA turrets, located in opposite corners to allow maximum fields of fire for both turrets.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Concept3.jpg
I'll also be adding some weapon emplacements to either end - probably a total of four TL HS mounts on the ends, one at each corner.
Undercoated a support vehicle that's been sat around for ages.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ChimaeraChassis/Support.jpg
And began work on the fighting compartment of the first of the three planned Baneswords. Just what is the Imperium compensating for?
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/FCa.jpg
Tommygun
29-01-2010, 09:26
I don't remember Thomas the Tank Engine being that angry?
professormorbius
29-01-2010, 10:05
hey where did you get the flat bed for the train carrage from as gaes ago i built this http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=194879 and I realy should build the rest of the carriages?
Grand looking, Mate ! Looks like WW 2 Armouredtrain cars.
Like that support 6x6, like my salamander but with better wheels. I used the gw ones.
/ SDKFZ
No update atm, as I fell into another funk earlier. But give me a few hours and fingers crossed . . .
I don't remember Thomas the Tank Engine being that angry?
Sent to war by the Fat Colonel-Commissar, Thomas was rather upset that the Orks had fired at his friends Percy and Clarabel. So he resolved on a policy of Exterminatus. ;)
hey where did you get the flat bed for the train carrage from as gaes ago i built this http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=194879 and I realy should build the rest of the carriages?
Oh, I recall that - nice work, old boy! I mistyped earlier. It's actually the low-sided vehicle here having a rock dropped in it - but I was forever taking the sides off to put on ACW chaps with a cannon that I misnamed it! http://www.collectobil.com/catalogue/items/4053.htm
Grand looking, Mate ! Looks like WW 2 Armouredtrain cars.
Like that support 6x6, like my salamander but with better wheels. I used the gw ones.
/ SDKFZ
I found these on eBay ages ago. Naturally, having put them on several vehicles, creativity dried up part-way through the process! Better luck this time, I hope!
Right, the basic structure of the three fighting compartments is complete.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/FCTrio1.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/FCTrio2.jpg
Looking ace, Mate ! Eagerly awaiting more progress. ( Looking like three Shadowswords :D )
/ SDKFZ
I love that train idea. RED ARMY
Cheers, fellas! Needless to say, I completely wandered off track. I've got targeting boxes on the compartments, but I'll hold off on an update there until I have some work done on the hulls. Perhaps this afternoon. For now, Molly the Macharius has had some transfers affixed.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Molly.jpg
And finally, the thing you were all waiting for weeks ago, then forgot you were waiting for at all. Drum roll, please! Yes, it's Banewolf and Punisher, the comedy duo from the 41st Millennium!
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ChimaeraChassis/Banewolf1.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ChimaeraChassis/Banewolf2.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ChimaeraChassis/Banewolf3.jpg
Ooh, image limit, you rogue!
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ChimaeraChassis/Banewolf4.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ChimaeraChassis/Banewolf5.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ChimaeraChassis/RussChassis/Punisher1.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ChimaeraChassis/RussChassis/Punisher2.jpg
La-di-dah.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ChimaeraChassis/RussChassis/Punisher3.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ChimaeraChassis/RussChassis/Punisher4.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ChimaeraChassis/RussChassis/Punisher5.jpg
Tommygun
04-02-2010, 11:04
Molly's looking nice.
That turret reminds me of that French battle ship that the Germans took the turrets off of and turned into a giant pill box during WWII.
Can't remember the ship's name.
The Commissar needs to visit your motor pool to motivate the mechanics to take better care of their tanks.
Cheers, old boy! I agree - there's something very naval about all the twin turrets - inevitably, I suppose! I might have to paint a pristine black tank now you say that. :D
Following up the above work on regular tanks, I have been at work on the chassis of the three coming Baneswords. I may have called them Banehammers before, but that was an error. The Imperium's tank names are so similar that you will surely forgive me. Here is one beside a GW plastic Shadowsword for a sense of scale. I have a second at the same stage of production, and a third awaiting my ministrations.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Banesword1.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Banesword2.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Banesword3.jpg
Geting more intresting day by day. You seem to just crank out the Tanks by the minute, Mate ! Why dont i do the same ? Lets see, work, more work, kids, house, firebrigade, motorcycles......the list goes on :(
So much to do, so little time !
Great work, Mate ! Keep up the good work.
/ SDKFZ
Geting more intresting day by day. You seem to just crank out the Tanks by the minute, Mate ! Why dont i do the same ? Lets see, work, more work, kids, house, firebrigade, motorcycles......the list goes on :(
So much to do, so little time !
Great work, Mate ! Keep up the good work.
/ SDKFZ
Aye, a lot of free time means a lot of tanks! ;)
A faux how-to here! First, drink twelve two litre bottles of water and save the bottle caps. Second, drill holes with a pin vice in your model's sides, and through the centre of the bottle caps. Third, unite the two with screws, and secure with a dab of super glue.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Banesword4.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Banesword5.jpg
Then get some pieces of plasticard and join your two "be-wheeled" pieces together as squarely as possible. Then secure them to the rest of the frame. Glue the thinnest plasticard around the wheels with superglue. This will be what the tracks are glued to later on.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Banesword6.jpg
Pics continued:
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Banesword7.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Banesword8.jpg
And some comparisons with the plastic GW Shadowsword.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Comp1.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Comp2.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Comp3.jpg
Plastic-fantastic ! :D How often did you have to go to the bathroom after all that water ? ? ! ! :evilgrin:
What do you plan to do to the insides of those bottlecaps ?
Do you plan to add an enginecompartment after the turret or under it ?
....still watching you ..........
/ SDKFZ
Aye, the engine section will be at about the height of the deck around the fighting compartment, and will protrude maybe about 2" back. I'm going to hide the bottlecap gap with plain circles of plasticard. I'll obscure the lack of detailing with copious mud at the weathering stage. The front and rear bottlecaps will get a bit more love. Today I'm going to start applying tracks, and work on the engine. I don't think I have enough tracks for this Baneswrod, and I certainly don't for three, so work will pause. I also need another twenty 1/2" screws to secure the wheels to the other two vehicles! On the plus side, I do have all the bottlecaps I need, as I spent about a year collecting them some years ago. A few hundred of them have been living peaceably in the attic since then. ;)
I probably should stick here a legal disclaimer, warning anyone who's a bit too suggestible that drinking 24 litres of water in one day is actually fatal! This should be obvious from how often doctors and so on tell us to try to drink about 2 litres a day, but I don't want to be responsible for anyone hurting themselves!
Oh, pics last page, anyone who's just seeing this page.
le Mediko
26-05-2010, 21:33
Very nice work in finishing the wheeled salamander. The only critic I can do concerns the suspension. Spring could maybe be stronger.
The use of water bottle caps to make roadwhells is brilliant, but remember : if drinking too much water could be dangerous, what could happen if you use Beer caps or even 15 years old Whisky!;);)
Very nice work in finishing the wheeled salamander. The only critic I can do concerns the suspension. Spring could maybe be stronger.
The use of water bottle caps to make roadwhells is brilliant, but remember : if drinking too much water could be dangerous, what could happen if you use Beer caps or even 15 years old Whisky!;);)
I've been drinking even more water of late! Part of the reason for my hiatus in posting - for which apologies! - is that I've been going to the gym a lot more recently. Lost two stone so far. Only five more to go. Ahem! Anyway, yes, I'm more at risk of not enough water than too much these days.
I have a few updates to post here, but I'll start with this one I've been working on today.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3624.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3625.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3626.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3627.jpg
This poor fellow has been repainted about three times, and has been subsequently sat unattended upstairs for months. I saw him today and decided to change his gunshield, since I feel about as fond of the original as every other IG player out there! The protected area at the back was inspired by the work of a chap I saw online. I'm afraid I didn't note his name, so I cannot give credit where it's due. I think I've made the gunshield too high, and when I do the next one, I'll remedy that error. There's still plenty of detailing to do, but I'm just over-excited at having built something with a working hinge!
EDIT: I have also begun a blog! http://veganhaggis.blogspot.com/
I felt the gunshield on the first was a little too high, so I wanted to have another go while I was in the swing of things. The MkII, as it were, also differs slightly as the Basilisk already had track guards, which made the fitting a slightly different procedure. I know I have a third Basilisk somewhere - though it is in hiding tonight - so I will probably try this again tomorrow. For now, however, here's the MkII gunshield.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3628.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3629.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3630.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3631.jpg
Mr.p How many tanks do you have? ANd what are the chances of a group shot.
Tommygun
06-06-2010, 06:18
Mr.p How many tanks do you have? ANd what are the chances of a group shot.
The technology for a ginormous wide angle lens does not exists yet.
Perhaps in 20 years camera technology will have caught up with him.
But by then he will have made more and they still won't fit into the new camera's view, thus causing the "Mr P Paradox" or just the PP problem if you will.
Tommygun's right. Numbers are out of this world. I've got some photos from last year some time with most of them, but not all. Here you go.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/1.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/2.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/3.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/4.jpg
Plus, here's the final version of the Basilisk. At the urging of a friend, I have tried to get the front shield at an angle so that any shots fired at it head on would deflect upward and to the side. Frankly, there's not a lot of space, and what I've managed wouldn't do a great job, but I've run out of Basilisks to refurbish, so that's an end to it!
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3632.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3633.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3634.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3635.jpg
They've all been undercoated and now await me having some time to attend to them more. Not now, mind, as I'm off to the gym shortly!
bigcheese76
06-06-2010, 11:37
Just seen that army shot of all the tanks. Made me amazed at how many tanks there were, but also sad. I have been out tanked.
the good thing about this topic and mrP for that matter
is that seeiing his lot of tanks makes me feel good about my own lot of tanks
:D
he has so much more than me, that it makes me feel good and not guilty about the amount i have:D:angel:
looks great again mrP keep it up dude.
ever gonna play apocalypse with them??;)
Just seen that army shot of all the tanks. Made me amazed at how many tanks there were, but also sad. I have been out tanked.
It's not about who has the most wins.
There's dice involved.
Cheers, fellas! Aye, Vex, you're right - dice are not my strong suit!
tryanotherone
06-06-2010, 19:40
@Mr.P: You, dear Sir, are a very bad case of being a tank-o-holic.
Other than that, ... well done.
Very impressive.
It's always bad when OCD latches onto a hobby, aye! :D
I have mainly been working on those buildings today. I should have some pictures up in the next few days. For now I present the three Basilisks in their final colour scheme and with transfers applied, prior to weathering. I promise I won't repaint the things again after this! The first numeral denotes their company, #5, the second is their squadron, #1, and the third is each vehicle's identification within the squadron.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3636.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3638.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3639.jpg
Continued in next
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3640.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3641.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3642.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3645.jpg
You have two clues to work out what I am about. First is the word Lernaia, which with Google should give you a firm idea. Second is this picture.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3646.jpg
All will be clear in a few hours, if it is not yet!
An update on progress so far. Note I have finally heeded the good example of others and begun to use Lego pieces to ensure good clean right angles! There are some more hidden within the hull.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3647.jpg
Still some basic work to do, but it's taking shape.
OMG how many tanks?!?!!? :eek: thats damned impressive!! ;) you sticking to ground forces or will you be branching out to the flying tank arena as well?
Cheers, Xepher! I'm more of a ground chap, aye. I have looked into aircraft, but I'd have to start cutting things into new shapes. Change frightens and disturbs me. ;)
I've been distracted by Rome: Total War for much of the evening, but I have reconsidered the height of the turret. I think it's got a Sturmtiger vibe now.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3649.jpg
Right, she's had all the details save somewhere for the driver and gunner to peer out. I'm off to do that and then undercoat her in a sec. Here she is just before that.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3650.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3651.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3652.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3653.jpg
Interesting design young boy.:) I use lego part, when Iīm creating molds. I donīt know anything better.
Cheers, Tom. In all honesty, the turret was dictated largely by the sheer size of the VMB. After all, it is supposed to be mounted on a superheavy! While that's drying, I'm working on some Basilisks. One pictured here, and the other's hiding in the background without a top yet.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3654.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3655.jpg
Hm boxy big cannon. So why not. Are you sleeping sometimes? :)
Sauragnmon
10-06-2010, 10:24
I agree, it does seem to have a Sturmtiger/Brumbar feel to it with the turret layout. Though it is only altered by the rear position of the turret relative to the hull of the tank. That said, she's a monster.
The Basilisk keeps with the German feel in a way, presenting itself with an almost Panzerhaubitze 2000 feel, with the massive enclosure around the gun.
I did have a nap earlier for an hour or so, but I've been working again this afternoon. ;) I did the basic work for the second Basilisk, and then began work on a very low Thunderer. Unfortunately, I'm having problems with Photobucket this evening, so can't put the pics there. I'm unwilling to put them on here as attachments as my computer is a recalcitrant old so and so, and it would probably take me a quarter of an hour at least!
Interesting point about the resemblance to the modern arty piece. I think it's unintentional, but these Basilisk bits have been waiting for chassis for two years or more, so I am honestly not sure of their design origins any more!
Inspired by le Mediko, I decided to cut down some spare sides I had, but wasn't sure what AFV to make with the result. I ended up deciding on a Thunderer. This wasn't a great plan, in retrospect, as I ended up having to build up the height of the chassis again! Ah, we live and learn. Since these photographs, taken last night, she has had the forward fighting compartment extended rearward by an inch, and then a gentle slope takes the hull down to the rear of the hull.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3656.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3657.jpg
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I'm afraid this is one of those rare times I have to say I'm really not a fan, my friend. It's boxier than a Semovia (or however those Italian tanks were spelled), without half the grace of a melta'd Leman Russ.
I'd redo the front end to add a bit more slope to it, and then scratch build the cannon - pattern it off the old metal & plastic Vindicator.
Yeah, it reminded my mate of a Semovente, too. Oh, well, I'll take the gun off and have another pop.
Mr P, it's nice to see you on the ol' 'Seer again! Well done on all your hard work at the gym- credit where it's due! Keep me informed on your weight loss, you have my support :)
That refurbished Bassie looked like a great rescue, well done. As ever I was intimidated by the sheer number of tanks in your group shot! Y'know, I do believe there are slightly LESS than previously??
Can't see the latest work cos I;'m at work right now BUT I did want to place a comment and tell you keep up the good work!
I'm actually working on my first scratchbuilt tank myself you know... Update on my log tomorrow I hope...
Keep it up!
Hertic Bane
12-06-2010, 15:09
well done and keep up the great work
Cheers, fellas! Aye, I think you're right, J_R. I think that was from an earlier shot on a 6' wide set-up, whereas the later one was 4' wide, so looks fuller. I really should do another . . . some day! I've just seen thy Ragnarok, and she looks good. I see you've a lot for me to catch up on. I've been a bit useless since these forums all got subdivided. :o Here's a spot of work with the Thunderer. I've boxed in the hull, extended her forwards and back, and managed to find one of the new Russ Devastator barrels - although I've yet to glue that in place. It strikes me it'd be a bit easier than making a new one!
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3660.jpg
A spot of paint on the AdMech Lernaian Hydra. Just pondering which transfers to apply to her.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3661.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3662.jpg
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Darkhorse
12-06-2010, 23:55
All of this is in Congleton?
Mate we've got to get you into Chester sometime... somehow...
I don't know if I can still fit all of this in the car, tbh, Darkhorse! ;) Nice to see someone knows where the town is, though. I always just say "near Manchester" to foreigners.
I don't have very much to show, as today I have been mostly painting black. Tyres, tracks, exhausts, the insides of gun barrels - all black. I've varied that with a little dark brown on the base of some buildings. In the interest of putting something up, here's a series of pics of things which are blacker now than when I got up.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3665.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3667.jpg
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le Mediko
16-06-2010, 12:44
Hi!
Cutting Leman Russ sides is always a pleasure : I'm happy we will have rather similar Thunderer.
Among your recent work, I especially like the design of the AdMech Lernaian Hydra. It remember me some experimental vehicles built by the Soviets on the T26 chassis.
You built very original models those times, with "something" different! A really unique taste!
@ Mr P: Great to see that your forge world is still churning out new Tanks, Mate !
On the subject of Thunderer, isnt plastic wounderful ? I love not having to work with all that metal anymore. Just use the leftovers from all the other tanks.
Looks great sofar, Mate !
/ SDKFZ
le Mediko
16-06-2010, 21:56
I agree 200%...
Plastic is definitively easier and more versatile!
Cheers, fellas! I don't think my Thunderer can possibly measure up to yours, le Mediko. You've got a lovely piece of work there!
I have at last finished the Lernaian Hydra! What's more, I have pictures to prove it. ;)
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3675.jpg
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Interesting my friend, but I have to say it. I think it is time to slow down with building too many tanks and try to think, how to improve painting, weathering on builded tanks. You have here certainly reserves and as we both know, there are guys, who are really good with this. Like Ash, le Mediko and some others.
Try think about it. It is impressive sight to see many tanks, but much better will be with nice paint.
Aw, I'm quite happy with it atm. I see where you're coming from with the last tank. The lack of an airbrush means I'm stuck with car paints, and certain parts of the Hydra reflect that I should have gone back over some spots with the green and cream from multiple directions. In addition, the soot on the right exhaust seems to have gone very strange! I mainly find that I can get quite a few vehicles done this way, and the sheer mass of stuff to do puts me off developing the vehicles as well as others do. Plus, I compare it to my earlier attempts, and can't but feel I have leapt forward. Another leap might tire me out. ;)
Finished Vulcan Mega-Bolter Hydra on the last page, chaps!
An unmatched pair of vehicles for your viewing pleasure today. Both are from the 6th company of my yet-to-be-named artillery regiment. 621 is the first vehicle of second battery, and 612 is the second vehicle of first battery. The Imperial Guard does have small batteries, doesn't it? Three guns, really? Anyway, I hope you like these!
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/612a.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/612b.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/612c.jpg
And the rest of the pictures.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/612d.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/621a.jpg
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I hope my response didn't sound dismissive or snotty. I honestly do like the look of what I've been producing lately. Anyway, apologies for the hiatus. I fell into a bit of a slump. Now, however, I'm over it. To prove it, here's a Banesword I've been working on for a bit.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3744.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3745.jpg
The Banesword's the long-range artillery variant of the Shadowsword. I do have the barrel, but forgot to add it for the picture. So here she is with the gun at an earlier stage of her life.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Comp2.jpg
Klaus, not Santa
06-07-2010, 21:35
A.C.E.!
Nice start on that Banesword. I really like what you got so far.
How are you going to do the tracks?
Leave them relatively blank as they are and then simply cover them in mud?
Cheers
Klaus
Cheers, Klaus! Coming from you, that means a great deal! My plan at the moment is just to leave the tracks plain and coat them with mud, as you say, but I suppose I could do something with them.
I've worked a bit on the engine of the Banesword.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3748.jpg
I have also moved almost to completion on my first Stormblade.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3749.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3752.jpg
This little fella has quite the history. I built the chassis initially to serve as a carrier for a Deathstrike Missile - long before the current IG Codex - as I felt that a Chimaera wasn't really enough for an ICBM. Then one day I knocked up the Plasma Blastgun from a bit of wood, some gardening wire and some plasticard, and wanted to mount it on something right away. Remembering that one of the theories for the appearance of the Leman Russ (i.e. its failure to look like a modern tank) is that it's an STC's modification of a tractor or somesuch, I decided the same could apply to this beasty. So in-universe she was originally a large urban construction vehicle, to which was added the main armament of a Stormblade which was otherwise wrecked. Back to modelling now. For many months she's been gathering dust, until last night when I suddenly grabbed a lot of plasticard, rulers, knife, and pencil, and started measuring, cutting and gluing. So now she has an engine compartment and some side armour plating. She as yet needs a spot of prettifying, but I should soon be able to start work on painting her!
le Mediko
07-07-2010, 11:54
I love this one, the gun is very well done and the idea to install it on left side is brilliant. I will use your idea for my upcoming deathstrike if you agree.
By all means, old boy! I'm most flattered! :)
MrP, is that 1 or 2mm plasticard for those long side sections?
For the Banesword it's 1mm with 2mm strengthening out of sight. For the Stormblade it's 2mm. This first Banesword looks a bit too flimsy in that area, so the following two will have it thickened so it's as thick as or thicker than the Stormblade.
Klaus, not Santa
07-07-2010, 17:38
Ah, it's always nice, when the itch to complete an older model rises and you can't help but to give in and complete the baby.
And honestly, with that history, she deserves to be completed...NOW :)
Cheers
Klaus
Thanks MrP, since I'm thinking of doing something similar. I'm going for the laser cutting, so I'll have 2 of each large piece cut out of 1mm and laminate them, given that 2mm sheet is almost 3x the price as a 1mm sheet.
siskoash
07-07-2010, 22:13
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3752.jpg
I love this design!
It looks like something a beseiged world would throw together from what was laying around in order to keep the fight going.
Bravo!:D
Tommygun
08-07-2010, 00:28
The Banesword has a unique look to it.
To me it looks like a 1920s tank design.
It really stands out.
Can you use the small batteries as Griffins?
Cheers, fellas! I added a few last details, and she's done. I'm just about to take her outside for undercoating.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3753.jpg
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Ethan Hunt
08-07-2010, 21:15
Very nice "StugPlasma" tank. Good idea of a Plasma tankunter/bunkerbuster with the gun assimetrically added and all.
Cheers, old boy. The off-centred nature seems to be rather popular. I might have to try another! Well, she's got the base coat, half the weathering and all the stowage and so on done. I'm just about to hit her with weathering powders to tone down the yellow some more.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3761.jpg
She's done now. I varnished her not twenty minutes ago. I'll wait until daylight to see whether I missed anything. I'm actually a little resentful, as I varnish my models outside, and that's where I sleep - I'm English; put the temperature north of about 75F and I just start shutting down. How those madmen in red woollen coats conquered half the globe beats me! ;) Er, anyway, so I'm putting off going to bed until the fumes have safely dispersed, and am baking in my bedroom for a bit.
Ah, it's cooler this afternoon than it was last night. I think I'm living in some sort of topsy-turvy house! Anyway, pictures!
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3763.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3764.jpg
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I decided to call her the Duke Don - since it was fairly easy to make up from pieces of the Superheavy transfer sheet - and give her an appropriately 40k motto, Mors venit (Death has come).
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3767.jpg
Klaus, not Santa
11-07-2010, 12:54
Amazing result (as usual) :)
And fast paint too - really great.
BTW, we had here in Germany 38°C yesterday and at night it only cooled down to 29° this morning...tropic it feels.
Cheers
Klaus
Cheers, Klaus! I'd like to thank you for insisting I get on and finish it at once! :D Happily it's only 24.5 here right now, which is up a couple of degrees on earlier. Why the house is getting hotter after midday and as we move toward evening, I don't know.
I've been doing a spot of work on an open-topped Trojan, having varnished transfers to that cut-down Thunderer (see earlier posts. Photos to come). I am toying with the idea of fielding these little fellas similarly to Centaurs, i.e. they are both open-topped, more usually used for ferrying artillery pieces, and have space for a Heavy Weapon-toting chap to set up his piece. Given Trojan armour of 10/10/10, they'd also be endearingly easy to destroy. The image in my head is of half a dozen or so of these little fellas zipping about the battlefield and being slapped down by any fire that comes at them! Anyway, here's the current subject. As you can see, it has a hull-mounted Heavy Bolter, a pintle Heavy Stubber, a Hunter Killer Missile, and with an additional Heavy Weapon would mount ridiculously more firepower than a Centaur. On the other hand, it's clearly a glass hammer.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3768.jpg
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FINISHED STORMBLADE ON LAST PAGE.
The resin cast wheels, how tall are they and from where?
Klaus, not Santa
11-07-2010, 19:54
What a sweet little bug!
Really nice - but more rifles (7) than wheels (6)?
:)
Really nice - and what would be their battlefield cost?
In order, as I've been having a wee tipple. ;)
1) Cheers, Vex!
2) 32mm from some bloke on eBay many moons ago, sadly.
3) I . . . didn't manage to cost it up before coming up with the idea. Probably something Forgeworldian, and thus overpriced. ;)
It's a supply vehicle....it's free. ;)
It's a supply vehicle....it's free. ;)
Heh, aye, put it with a Bombard - and i do have a battery of them, I s'pose! :D
Right, no real update here. I managed a little work last night, but then I decided to go for a walk. After a few drinks. Was this wise? Judge by my account.
Warning: This has nothing to do with wargaming. Now read on.
First, read an early twentieth century account of a chap's adventures in South America. Second, get yourself very drunk. Then go for a walk.
I walked along a track, took a slight detour, came back toward home, then decided that it wasn't long enough and that I wanted to see the regular and silver pheasants who were way down by the river. So I climbed down the slope. Climbing down a slope when drunk is fairly close to falling down it. Fortunately, I banged into a felled tree, and straddled it, slowing my descent. Then I fell down a bit more, and determined I would cross the river. I forget what motive impelled me. I know I wanted to get on the other side for some reason. Anyway, I ended up in the water a bit muddy and scratched. I gave up on my iPod at this point. I also removed my thick socks, which I was wearing with sandals because I'm a Tory (or because it was cold) prior to traversing the streamlet.
So I'm attempting to cross the River Dane - a grandiose name for a mere rivulet - and I am somehow atop a tree which has fallen across the river. I see that I'm not going to get across thus, and lower myself into the water with a splash. Striding is what some idiot would do, but since the bottom is unclear I pick my steps carefully. Given that I am drunk this evens out and I only fall a few times. I come out on the right bank and shout at some distant horses for some reason. That'll teach them not to aid my crossing!
Stumbling out of the refreshingly cold water onto the muddy bank I see the angle of the slope I must remount to get back to the path. There are nettles everywhere on it. Well, bugger that! It's amusing how the human mind fears short-term inconveniences and puts up with long-term ones. I turn about, cross the river again and end up on the far bank. By this point there are no pheasants about. Who could expect it when a drunken idiot has been splashing and swearing his way across the river.
I forge across the river but now, I'm sorry to say, my narrative breaks down. Crushed by the weight of the booze I have drunk my memory gives up the ghost. I shall reconstruct as best I can, but fancy may enter this account. I surge up the opposing bank, brushing past trees (and let's say discovering a colony of elves hell-bent on defeating mankind. I vanquish them. Give me your plaudits.). Breaking forth from the cover of the trees, I find myself in a luscious, dew-soaked green field. Here our certain narrative may recommence.
So drunk was I (and indeed am I now) that I misplaced the traversing of the field. At the time and subsequently I thought I must have veered to the right of the original path. In truth, I was way over on the left. Be that as it may, I gaze warlike across the field, ready to engage in fisticuffs if any bull should consider this his home. As you can guess, there was no bull or I'd be dead or severely injured and you'd not be reading this. So I cross the field and drop into a hollow where runs the fence, crowned with barbed-wire, which separates this field from that. Especially because I am drunk I am wary of barbed-wire.
All too conscious that I could rip a hole in my ********, I place my rucksack of waterlogged electrical goods and sodden papers atop the wire, and straddle that. You can rejoice in my falling skewiff to one side in good heart. I merely shredded one leg of my shorts, and my testes remain attached. I storm aggressively up the hill in the direction of a farmhouse I have seen. Since I am labouring under the misapprehension that I am to the right of the track, I veer to the right of the farmhouse, aiming to rediscover the track.
Again my memory breaks down. But I find myself eventually at a minor country road, near some llamas which I fail to look for or photograph. Though I expect that my camera is very dead. I had earlier tried to use my mobile telephone, and it had flashed at me, crying out in a proto-semaphoric way that it was cruelly abused by its current owner and that it needed to be rescued from being half drowned and dragged up and down hills and valleys. As its current master I irritably ignored it and pushed onward, deprived of my only means of securing help.
I veered left on the country road, passing a large plastic tree, probably, and I drunkenly stumbled down a road, passing morning commuters idiotically contributing to the economy. Fools. I don't recall my descent of the hill and ascent of my drive. I do recall Mum's shock on opening the front door. You see, I had forgotten my key, and so rang the doorbell. I do mean forgotten. My key was in my rucksack, but I was too inebriated to know it. Picture the scene. Your son, staggering, soaked to the skin, spattered with mud, with two small scars on his face and his body covered in others, stands before you. You ask in concern what happened! He, completely unaware of his appearance, says, "I fell over." Then he ambles off and has a shower. Truly, mothers are ill-treated by their sons!
So I had a shower, fell into the second guest bed and awoke to Dad solicitously asking if I was ok. Again I just said that I had fallen over. I stumbled about, peering into a mirror and staring at the scars on my legs - for in my exuberance I had forged hardily through nettles, which raised a fetching rash, through thorns, which greeted me with scars, and into this and that, leaving me with two bruises on my upper left arm, the precise cause of which continues to puzzle me. The nettles even now make most of my legs, all my hands and part of my arms tingle. There is no pain unless I flex my hands, which are pock-marked with thorns. In fact I notice now that a thorn is still stuck in me. I shall end now and go remove it.
I want to see the rest of you doing such idiotic things while drunk or I shall be most displeased!
Logarithm Udgaur
12-07-2010, 20:59
That whole account reminds me fondly of that episode of Peep Show where they get lost on the Moors (also where Superhans tries to kick drugs, great episode).
Also, very nice work on the Salamander/Trojan. It looks much like some of the amphibious vehicles I have seen.
Edit: Is it ok if we do such idiotic things while sober?
Edit: Is it ok if we do such idiotic things while sober?
I call those weekdays.
Commander Ray-Ban
12-07-2010, 21:18
Wierd..........Looks okay, but some of them look.....weird..
I don't know whats better, the adventure itself or the poetry that narates it
Ooh, dear me. I need to add the coda that this was an expensive adventure. I didn't kill my camera, since I didn't have it with me. Thank God! However, I did drown my truculent iPod, so that needs replacing. I also can't find my 'phone's battery, so I am not sure if it will work again, even if it isn't drowned. The shirt and shorts I wore are filthy and badly ripped, so I probably won't wear them again unless I plan to impersonate a tramp.
Anyway, cheers for the kind words, fellas. Normal service will be resumed shortly.
Would it be wrong for you to have more adventures instead?
Well, if you guys are prepared to contribute to an alcohol fund, I promise to provide more examples of stupid behaviour. ;) There's a nice gash in my right inner thigh, which is almost in need of stitches. :D
Logarithm Udgaur
15-07-2010, 03:58
You can just tell anyone that notices that your ex-bird was a vampire.
Logarithm Udgaur
15-07-2010, 13:25
That, and just mentioning Vampires (as long as they are the sparkly kind) is sure to get you in with another. At least here 'cross the pond.
Mr P, can I just say that your Stormblade is absolutely stonking! I saw it on the Tread Head Thread and immediately came over here to pass comment.
I'll be honest with you- I really didn't like the construction in it's early stages but the finished product looks totally brilliant.
I also like your Griffons, muchos coolness there!
Hang on a second- just remembered something... How's your keep fit going?! :D
MrP, you should whip up some Leman Russ sponsons and try my new template! :D
Neah, my ex was pagan, but never drank my blood (that I know ;) ). Cheers, J-R! Ah, the keep-fit's stalled a bit. However, tomorrow (yeah, manana, bad sign!) I plan to restart and get back on the saddle for a month and a half or so of intensive stuff. Then I'm going to have a holiday in Greece. Fingers crossed it'll be cheaper than last year. New templates, Faolan? I'm intrigued - could y'link me up, old boy?
Right, to new business! These last few days I've been working on a few turrets and a leftover bit of superstructure from the Trumpeter 1/35 Sturer Emil kit. There's an old cliché that failing to plan is planning to fail. I have no idea where I'm taking the superstructure at all! I'm just sticking stuff to it to seal it up and up-gun it. Maybe it could be some sort of blockhouse. Anyway, here it is with the turrets. The bases, guns and mantles were glued in place months ago. I'd angle them if I were making them now. To make up for that lack of slope, I thought I'd angle the sides. On one of the turrets this has gone rather awry. However, I like the utterly skewiff look it has, so it's staying.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3780.jpg
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Well, first off, I put an access point on the back of the "maybe a bunker".
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3795.jpg
Then I spent too long "riveting" the turret bases for some Baneblades. I'd done most of the work on these things ages ago, and then they'd sat about for years (literally, I think) because I couldn't face blocking in a few gaps. So the other night I filled the few empty panels, then got out the old GS and took care of the rest of the gaps. Then today I took care of the rest of the rivets.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3796.jpg
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Here's proof I'm not just photographing one and claiming it's two!
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I may have mentioned that my grandiose plans for superheavies are in part based on their sponsons. Guardsmen will know that one can stick with the basic HB/HF sponson and Lascannon turret on either side or one can double this or remove it entirely, augmenting the vehicle's AV. So each of my super companies - it seems strange to refer to a trio of vehicles as a company, but there we are - will have a vehicle with double sponsons, one with greater side AV and a plain vanilla choice. This factored into my decision to buy a Baneblade the other day. I initially picked up the Shadowsword box, but then I remembered that the third and final Shadowsword in my trio is to be the double-sponson chap. My third Baneblade, on the other hand, is to be the chap with extra side-impact crash protection (which means I should perhaps call him volvo?), so there we are. The spare sponsons will sit about until I go mad and get a third Shadowsword.
So what have I done? I replaced the angled hull rivets, which are limited to ugliness by the manufacturing procedure. I realised I had too few side armour plates, and knocked up a new long single piece out of 2mm plasticard. I then decorated that with some nice, simple squared plasticard, meaning this to depict ERA. I then replaced the upper side plates with a single piece of 1mm plasticard, and stuck some treadplate on that.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3850.jpg
A significant benefit of this is that I now have lots of spare bits and bobs to decorate my scratch supers. I've pretty much run out of gubbins to stick to them. I still had gubbins, mind - but it didn't look right. I removed the screwed-up rivets from the turret, and also chose to get rid of the mount for the searchlight. I may yet reattach that somewhere; we shall have to see. For now, however, I have covered the gap with the name plate. I need to check my transfer sheets, but if it's possible, I'm inclining toward the name St. Dom, after a mate with his own religion. Technically, it should be God Dom, but I think the Ecclesiarchy of 40K would frown on that sort of heresy!
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3851.jpg
With two intentions, I replaced the engine hatches. First, I wanted the bits. Second, I wanted to get a slightly better view of the engine bits than usual. I also replaced the port hatch on the turret. Should I say port or left? It is a veritable land battleship, after all. Mm. I also replaced two hull hatches, and glued plasticard flaps over the gaps left when I decided to retain two viewing ports for the bits box. I don't like the replacement of the final s with z. It is to me as fingernails on a blackboard are to others.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3852.jpg
In conclusion,2 I am a bit sloshed, so all the standard things apply.
She's had a nice coat of yellow, and I've painted the ID # on the ERA rather than use transfers, for the obvious reason. I'll take her out shortly to hit her with varnish so I can apply a few transfers. I'll also touch up the undercoat at the back, as I see it hasn't hit every angle. I think I made the exhausts a little small, but there's no point worrying about that now.
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Hello! Anyone out there? ;)
Not much to say. I varnished St Dom for transfers, then secured them with another coat. He's as shiny as a Mr Universe competitor right now.
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Looking good mate, your plsticard fu has definately improved since the early days and the yellow scheme is interesting but nice.
Keep it up
Cheers
Sheep
Lord Xarxorx
30-07-2010, 04:51
Sweet scratches!
Impressive overview.
greetings
Not a big fan of the numbering as you've done it; while I love the idea it looks a bit messy - may just be the picture though - which is a pitty, because overall it's a /beautiful/ design - like all your work.
Thankee, fellas. I know what you mean, kaeota, but I'm not much cop when it comes to manual dexterity. I used to try to tidy up my errors, but I found I'd err, tidy, mess up the tidying, try to fix that, screw up, and throw up my hands in dismay! So these days I just try to hide things with post-screw up weathering. I hope it isn't too noticeable in the pics below.
Sorry for the long delay. Real life again. However, I've got things a bit more under control these last few days, and now I present to you the third and final Baneblade of my IG force.
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And here she is with her brethren.
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Fingers crossed the Shadowsword will arrive soon. I really want to get that company finished off as well.
Beautiful! Again and again your skills make me jealous!
Thanks, old boy! I plan to make Shadowsword #3 a bit extraordinary. I must admit that I'm getting tired of the plain yellow scheme. So I shall spice it up a bit. For now, though, a little terrain piece I am in the process of painting.
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Construction and paint details here (http://veganhaggis.blogspot.com/2010/08/terrain-waterpetrolliquid-gas-storage.html).
Aw, the one time I do a fairly clean bit of painting, nobody's interested? Shucks! ;) Anyway, I've been meaning to do some work on tents. Pretty self-explanatory, this. Get a base, cut some cardboard to about the right size, then use a hot glue gun to secure it to the base thus.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3905.jpg
Then dilute some PVA and use toilet roll to texture the cardboard.
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They're drying now, so more on that later. Annoyingly, no sign of the Shadowsword. More annoyingly, I have no idea whatsoever where I have put the missing track links for the resin Shadowsword I need to complete. Hence this!
I'm also working on a couple of large boards (2' by 4') for gaming. This was to be a river board, but now it'll be a dried-up one. The excess grass will be swept off tomorrow when the glue's dried.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3907.jpg
Beneath it is the next subject for the operating table: a trench board.
Sorry mate, but your tents are a bit tall for triangle tents ;)
Yeah, I'm just going for a gaming table look of a tent rather than exacting realism. ;)
In fact, I did mean to incorporate a sentence earlier to the effect that people with any experience of camping (or living in tents in some other fashion) would be thoroughly underwhelmed at the sub-par approximation of tents I have produced. But I am a bit lame when it comes to recollection! :D
I like, what you are doing here!
The tanks look awesome and the terrain is also really good! I like the tents, especially. It`s so easy to do something like this, but first you have to get the idea!
I like it!
Cheers, old boy! I will either produce a lot less or a lot more in the next few days, as Mum is in hospital, and the nature of her condition has yet to be determined. So I shall either be biting at my nails or distracting myself with inanities.
This chap's been waiting for some love for a few months now, but I've finally got round to finishing off his port HF sponson. Because I dropped my keyboard onto one of my toes last night, scuppering my plan to go to the gym this morning. I'm just about to take him out for undercoating - lascannon turrets and main gun excepted, of course.
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Photographer
24-08-2010, 15:00
Brilliant job!
Cheers, old boy! Basic colours are on Banesword #1. Yes, I've got a bit bored of plain yellow. Transfers have been applied. I'll take it out and varnish them forthwith.
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Logarithm Udgaur
25-08-2010, 02:15
Excellent name choice. The more colorful palette is nice also.
Cheers, Mate ! I see that the old tankworks are still up and running, great !
/ SDKFZ
Cheers, fellas! It's quite impressive how many names one can make out of the GW superheavy transfer sheet. Obviously, it isn't great, and the fonts are neither interchangeable nor contain the whole alphabet, but one can find some things if one plugs away for a while. "Admiral Thrawn" will be a future name now I've found it can be knocked up from Dominator and Imperial Wrath. :D
I did a spot of targeted spraying of the Banesword's tracks. So they are now mostly black. But it'll be two-three hours before they're dry and I can proceed further. So for now onwards to Banesword #2. She has no sponsons, having replaced them with ERA for AV14. Her name will probably be Admiral Thrawn. See above.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3921.jpg
First job is finishing off the tracks, and then I'll move on to the ever fraught business of trying to line them up properly when gluing them to the main body!
@ MrP: I see that your Tankfactory is still running at full throttle. :D
Looking good sofar. The "Admiral" will be a nice addition to your growing Regiment.
Tell me, itll be your number what super heavy ?
/ SDKFZ
Erm . . . well, in terms of completed ones, I've now got three Baneblades, a Shadowsword (and another some tracks of which I've mislaid temporarily), the construction vehicle-cum-Stormblade, the Monstrous Kindness . . . so this will be only the sixth finished one - unless I get distracted. :o
I was looking at my plans last night, and found I'd made more bits and bobs than I had thought. The final structure should be this:
Superheavy Tank Regiment:
Command (Baneblade) Company: 3 Baneblades: Barry, St Dom,
1st (Stormblade) Company: 3 Stormblades: Duke Don
2nd (Shadowsword) Company: 3 Shadowswords: Sian (name needs applying),
3rd (Banesword) Company: 3 Baneswords: Monstrous Kindness, Admiral Thrawn,
4th (Macharius) Company: 3 Macharius variants: Molly (Vanquisher),
5th (Stormsword) Company: 3 Stormswords
So once Admiral Thrawn is done, I'll be about a third of the way through. Phew! I'm an idiot!
@ MrP: Me too, Mate, me too ! I have seven super heavies sofar ( one not fully painted, yet. )
Keep me motivated !
/ SDKFZ
We'll have to have a race against one another or something. ;)
Right, she's really starting to come together with these colours.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3924.jpg
Meanwhile, Lego is helping to ensure the straight lines of her sister.
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Some slightly mangled tracks at the back there. The fault was (of course!) mine in failing to allow more room. I shall remember next time, unless I forget.
@ MrP: God bless Lego, to be used for everything and everywere :D
Sad about those tracks, theyll be a pain in the *u* to get right again.
Nice progress, otherways.
Love to race or something........the thing is just...............how ? :eyebrows:
/ SDKFZ
I guess we'd just keep a running total. Although perhaps for tank-aholics to do that is as unwise as alcoholics!
A bit of a diversion from the Baneswords for a moment. I found a bit of 2mm plasticard in a draw, long since set aside to serve as the base for the fighting compartment of a Stormblade. I had the Lego out already, from working on the Baneswords, so I thought I'd knock up said fighting compartment. This thing's going to be pretty solid, I fancy! The pictures need no explanation for anyone who spent their childhood sticking these blocks together. I just knocked up a superstructure and am building a shell around it.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3925.jpg
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@ MrP: Cheers, Mate ! :evilgrin: (ill drink to that !)
Good idea for a "jigg" youve made there. Stupid me for not thinking of using Lego, i allways use more plasticard :rolleyes:
Keep on building, Mate !
/ SDKFZ
Cheers, old boy. I tried out another one with some different Lego bits. I'll take some pics later on. A considerable amount of progress on Banesword #2 today, given yesterday was a day when I got nothing done! She needs more rivets on the sides of the fighting compartment and some more detailing on the aft of same. She's almost ready to go undercoated.
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@ MrP: Nice work, Mate ! Is it just me or is that enginecomartment just a tad to long :shifty:
Best of luck, Mate !
/ SDKFZ
Ooh, you're probably right. I'll shrink #3's down a bit from that. Cheers, old man!
I'm just off to undercoat her. She's had some rivets, a rear door, a place to install comms antennae, and a bit of plasticard on the central for'ard hull.
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I made eight lascannon.
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I've another eight to make.
maybe you should stop making tanks and go over to the big side.:D
leviathans, capitol imperialis,ordinatus or titan on tracks.:D
i mean after all these tanks is their still any creativity left?
maybe some bigger machines as a command centre for all this tanky goodness:)
EDIT: Scratchbuilt lascannon at the bottom of the preceding page.
Another shape of turret one can make with Lego. Again, it's pretty obvious what I've done here. She's received rivets since this was taken, and I carefully drilled out gas escape holes around the gun's mouth. Later I had a look over some pictures of the FW Stormsword and realised that I haven't made this gun long enough! So I shall end up hiding them when I extend it. Shucks!
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maybe you should stop making tanks and go over to the big side.:D
leviathans, capitol imperialis,ordinatus or titan on tracks.:D
i mean after all these tanks is their still any creativity left?
maybe some bigger machines as a command centre for all this tanky goodness:)
You're a fiend, you know. Your persuasion pushed me into making these supers, but now you want me to make larger ones. ARGH! :D
Chaps, a question with a point to it occasioned by an observation. I peer at the list of updated threads and see one thread with x thousands of views and y hundreds of posts, then I look at mine and see it's lower. Doubtless this isn't the case for every thread (since many have fewer posts! ;) ), but it does make me wonder - especially when I've been doing lots of work and not getting many responses in thread, what I might do to change the situation. I might not follow the advice or it might be impossible to follow (see TomG's suggestion a few pages back that I improve my painting. I've always been basic at the very best! If I can exceed the blobbiest, most simple things then I've surpassed my low expectations!), but I nonetheless ask for it now. I am a bit low after achieving quite a lot in terms of construction - for me - but a lot less in terms of response.
What can I do to get more people viewing and commenting on this log? More coils of chain on the super following Admiral Thrawn? A paint scheme more adventurous than the current triple one? More rivets? Fewer rivets? Some things will be beyond me - a tank that moves of its own volition, for instance! - but I'm willing to give something a go! Let me know.
@ MrP: Sorry, Mate :confused: Beats me.................i always like to have a look at your work and as you say, you are very productive.
You must have one of the largest collections of tanks i have ever seen.
I wish you the best of luck in your quest, but i dont have any solid ideas to give you on your search.
Good luck, Mate !
/ SDKFZ
Mr.p I am a lurker at best I have followed your thread for well over a year now, though I rearly post something I want you to know there are some who you have inspired to try some scratch builds of thier own don't geet discourgaed
Chaps, a question with a point to it occasioned by an observation. I peer at the list of updated threads and see one thread with x thousands of views and y hundreds of posts, then I look at mine and see it's lower. Doubtless this isn't the case for every thread (since many have fewer posts! ;) ), but it does make me wonder - especially when I've been doing lots of work and not getting many responses in thread, what I might do to change the situation. I might not follow the advice or it might be impossible to follow (see TomG's suggestion a few pages back that I improve my painting. I've always been basic at the very best! If I can exceed the blobbiest, most simple things then I've surpassed my low expectations!), but I nonetheless ask for it now. I am a bit low after achieving quite a lot in terms of construction - for me - but a lot less in terms of response.
What can I do to get more people viewing and commenting on this log? More coils of chain on the super following Admiral Thrawn? A paint scheme more adventurous than the current triple one? More rivets? Fewer rivets? Some things will be beyond me - a tank that moves of its own volition, for instance! - but I'm willing to give something a go! Let me know.
i like this topic and i find you a nice guy always in a good mood so it seems.:D
dude you make lots and loads of the same tanks, nicely executed nicely painted but its all the same.
for example: you can have 10, 25, 50 or a 100 russes,chimera,s or whatever
it will look cool. but its still the same and people notice that
another example:its like having 10 baneblade,s yeah sure its nice and very impressive on the table in a game, but they look still more of the same thing.
if you made 10 baneblades and don,t make more than 3 per version you get the variation going., it stimulates others to make something like it and it stimulates you to go and grab the apocalypse codex and make some different titan weaponry.
and what,s so special about 10 of the same thing or 20 of the same thing or 50 of the same thing. well all together on one picture is cool, but it won,t get you lots of responses.
so if i made 100 russes 100 chimera,s and 100 baneblades and made 120 pics of the progress it get just as much response as to make 1 pic of the lot together:D
that,s one of the reasons i asked you to make superheavy,s to keep it original, and now i ask you to make extreme superheavy,s or gargantuan superheavy,s:D just to get your head exploding with anger:evilgrin::D
Well, it's only 50 pages.
50 pages of awesmendousness!
I like the chains and plan to steal them. Where do you live?
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I also think of those many poor legos forever entombed in warmachines of incredible design. Could you make one out of all legos?
Would you like more critique?
There are certain details you've done immensely well. Like the hatches in your pictures above. Then other parts aren't. Take the interior side of the front track unit, right side seen above. Lacks the detail the hatches have. The tracks "could" have more detail unless they are to be covered with mud and stuff painted to look like mud and dirt and sticks and grass and others things tanks squish when it goes over them.
You do have a wonderful body of work! imho
Jackmojo
30-08-2010, 05:42
What can I do to get more people viewing and commenting on this log?
The only suggestion I would make is to edit the thread subject when you add more cool stuff, i.e. new blah blah on page XX.
I do think your stuff looks great. :)
Jack
You honestly want advice on responses etc? Well, okay. Just as a foreword - you're a God, and nothing I ever do will equal your work.
As mentioned above, it's a /lot/ of the same. Though I'm always impressed to learn how people do things, and am MORE than impressed by your army, it's nothing /new/. Perhaps try a few newer things, a plane or something. Or maybe even just a larger tank, or even something smaller but fresh. Something that we can look at and go 'That's MrP's work', ya know?
On model advice, the tracks are a big let down for me; I see these beautiful tanks, with details and intricacies that blow my ******* mind, and then tracks that remind me of what I was making with popsicles in grade four - and I wasn't happy with it then. I know they're tedious, and I honestly have very little in the way of advice with them, but I'm sure with a quick browse around here you'll be able to find a nice and simple way to do them; or even look at machinator's treads (sorry if I misspelt that name, it's off the top of my head).
The only other reason I could think of is because there's only so many times we can bow to you before our backs start hurting :D
Cheers, fellas. I'll try to take all that on board! Thanks for the kind words and kinder help. :)
Right, nothing to photograph, but I am going to resurrect a project previously mentioned which is inarguably unusual. I hope to have some pics up in the next week or maybe next few days.
@ MrP: ....................waiting......................s till waiting...........:angel:
/ SDKFZ
Colonel Jacka
31-08-2010, 19:07
Mr P,
As one of your devoted fans and on behalf of all the other lurkers, crack on. Sometimes qty out does quality. Mate your Army is Brilliant because you have built it.
Klaus, not Santa
31-08-2010, 20:56
Well, actually I think you're post is one of the very good ones. 991 replies and 71,240 views is not at all bad - eventhough I do agree, only 13 votes IS disappointing.
As most others say, your work is great and the amount of tanks you crank out is astounding, but that is probably the core of the "dilemma" - tanks, tanks, tanks...it gets a bit repetitive ... and what more than "oh great" "super army" can we say? ;)
If you look on the other hand at andrea1969's post with 1063 replies and 141,157 views, that seems to "perform" a lot better - but I think, this is because it is sooooo "different".
3D Eternal Crusader and a 3D landraider (expertly executed too), this sparks replies, because it is so new and different.
But again, I wouldn't worry, your post is on my subscription list and I was one of the 13 voters :)
Cheers, lads! :D
I still have no pictures of the project proper, as it's taking a bit longer than I thought to do the sides. However, here is a teaser.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3963.jpg
Shadowsword #3 arrived today, but I shall try to concentrate on the large project instead.
Hah I was hoping it was something to do with... Chimeras ;)
Hi there MrP..
As a long term lurker too, I had to drop by and say, dont be discouraged.. your work is great, and also very instructive.. I have seen a lot of techniques and ideas that you have used which I too shall hopefully be following..
As of this moment, I am also 'subscribed' to you thread .. though been following it for a long time..
Looking forward to your new project.. iterjecting something different does increase interest in a PLOG.. so awaiting your next posts with great anticipation..
Continue the great work..
Best wishes,
Carl
@ MrP: Is that a............Battleship ??? !!!! Eagerly awaiting new updates.
/ SDKFZ
Cheers, lads! :D
I still have no pictures of the project proper, as it's taking a bit longer than I thought to do the sides. However, here is a teaser.
.Your not being nice!!!! Show us the wide shot!!! I always look forard to you projects, and yes I am one of the 13. Mrp. maybe you only have a few people who follow you but I would bet unlike most of the treads your has the same people coming back for one one the longert time periods So cheeer up you ARE MY PLASTIC CARD IDOL.:D
Gents, I am very touched at this outpouring of support and kind words. I tend to lose the ability to say anything sensible when I get a bit emotional, so I'll just say thank you. You've made me jolly happy! :)
Faolan, I do feel bad about not getting round to that yet. I promise I will by the end of tomorrow! :o
@ MrP: Is that a............Battleship ??? !!!! Eagerly awaiting new updates.
/ SDKFZ
Well deduced, sir! technically, she's a monitor for coastal support, but she's got big guns like a battleship, so I shan't quibble much. ;) Here's the big chap you saw a little part of earlier. For a sense of scale, the wee dark figure you can see amidships is a metal Catachan.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Blogging/DSCF3964.jpg
I was surprised, looking back through my records, to discover that I started work on this ship almost two years ago! But after cutting out the upper and lower hulls, the main gun turrets, bridge tower and the funnels, work stalled. So a few pieces are missing. You see I've somehow lost one of the funnels as well as a few of the gun barrels. Those I haven't lost have broken loose at one point or another. So I have some repair work to do as well as the new work. I do have definite plans to get her finished this time. And within the next fortnight or so!
For those interested in the armament, it's as follows.
Main guns: 3 triple-Medusa turrets
Secondary and AA armament: 4 twin-linked AA Lascannon (2 either side of the superstructure amidships), 3 Manticore AA turrets
The Manticore AA turrets may be degraded to firing merely AA-capable HK Missiles, since the missile models are much smaller than the Manticore missiles.
@ MrP: Now thats a new take ! :D Looks ace, Mate !
Do you have a sea/river on your gaming board so that you can us this baby ?
Love to see how this turns out !
Great work !
/ SDKFZ
Not at the minute, but I think I shall have to make one! :D
EDIT: Large project revealed at foot of last page.
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