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Hi Necros

On some recent Forgeworld items I had great success plunging the bent items in to just boiled water for about 10-30 seconds (depending on thickness). Once I'd removed them and straightened them I plunged them into cold water to keep their new shape. It's a system that has worked so far for me. Hope this helps if you haven't tried it before.

Looking forward to the next update.

Cheers
Dave

Cool thanks I'll try the boiling water trick. It's not bent bad, just a little warped you can prolly see it in the pic

Happy days!! I can't wait to see this momma take shape again. Stegadons are always getting in the way, but if your paintjob on that is anything to go by, this is gonna be a beautiful leviathan. Hope your bent piece turns straight!

So, got the hydra and the shadowsword. Built the shadowsword turret and attached the barrel with just some blue stuff for now. Also just placed the hydra on the back, I still have the fix the bent barrels and all that stuff. I'm thinking I might also add some of those railing pieces all along the top and I will have to use some plasticard to build up that empty space at the bottom of the shadowsword turret. I'm not sure if I like the extra long barrel on top though, so I'm wondering if maybe I should do the vulcan megabolter there instead?

here's a valks eye view and a grunts eye view

Does the shadowsword turret...turn?

Yeah it's OK, I mean I can see what you were going for so not bad.



fantastic stuff.

now go paint it.

Vulcan Mega bolter - you know you want to ; )

Cheers
Dave

The turret doesn't turn.. yet I was thinking about making it turn though. I'd have to build a bottom to it and rig up a rod thing to make it spin, and get it dead center so it spins right. I'm gonna build the megabolter too and see how she looks

well done but you should try and get the hydra barrels strait

wheres the command deck/bridge

It is beautiful.

Maybe the stormsword or the doomhammer guns might work better. They are shorter. But to have a vulkan mega bolter would be immense. It would make that Leviathan a real firebase!

Great pics necros, keep the project alive!!

Can you do something to make the inner barrel of the hull cannon a bit narrower? Fit a ring inside it maybe?

Right now it looks a bit too big, too much like a drainage pipe, even by GW standards.

I want to add some view ports to either side of the gun barrel since this was also going to be like the command deck. I think I'm gonna just lose the big barrel for the shadowsword cannon. I'll try the vulcan megabolters but I might also try it as the banesword, stormsword or banebammer. Now that I know how big the pieces are for the turret and the hydra guns I can finish building the other stuff for the top floor

Also I think since there's those 2 extra heavy stubbers for the stormlord I might stick them on either side of the front porch

I'm in the camp that thinks the long barrel on the shadowsword cannon looks weird with the silhouette. And I'm also with Kid_Kyoto on the main cannon looking a little like the opening to a culvert rather than a cannon. I think the front porch would look solid with some small arms - heavy stubbers/heavy bolters/stormbolters/etc. Looking fantastic, though!

Day off today I put the vulcan megabolter together (mostly). Here's a shot with it.



I think it's like the opposite of the shadowsword now.. seems too small, but the other was too big. Maybe I'll go with one of the other guns, like the stormsword, doomhammer or banehammer?

Yep, too small now. The cowling almost completely hides the barrels from this angle.

I liked the longer cannon, I actually didn't think it looked to funny. If you want something shorter then perhaps you can just trim the barrel down in length a bit?

crush the xenos. I like the way you did it. does the back open for guard tanks to enter.

OK now I think I got it I took all of the smaller cannon bitz and stuck them together, so it's like half as long now but still lots of details



the back opens to let troops out. Leviathans can transport sentinels but this one won't The Capitol imperialis is the ginormous tank that can transport russes, I think it would be like 2x bigger than this is.

You were absolutely right to change that again.
While I really like the vulcan mega bolter, it didnt look right at all.

This is looking pretty snug though. Well done!

HAWT!

That is immense.

Nice - the cannon looks great on it, now!

That cannon just gave me an idea for when i buy my own shadowsword, but I personally prefer the longer cannon on this thing. Besides, isn't the volcano cannon the stongest weapon in the kit?

I've missed this thred so far, amazing stuff!

Will have to say that the 2nd floor should have been a bit lower, so you could have fitted a command bridge. IMO.
I realize that the heigth of the CoD walls makes that hard for you...

But hey, it's still great

Azmo

Ok, you've had an entire weekend now!! Jack bauer could have saved the world twice in 48 hours!! do you have any progress?? I'm so impatient

s.j.mccartney wrote:Ok, you've had an entire weekend now!! Jack bauer could have saved the world twice in 48 hours!! do you have any progress?? I'm so impatient

LOL * CRACK * that was the sound of a whip!

(but i agree with him, i want progress )

s.j.mccartney wrote:Ok, you've had an entire weekend now!! Jack bauer could have saved the world twice in 48 hours!! do you have any progress?? I'm so impatient

You know, he actually did manage to finish his tank about 30 hours ago, but then it turned out that the plastic bags he got his Forge World parts in, were actually filled with a deadly poison which threatned to wipe out the entire continent, unless he manages to save his Ex-Girlfriend who got captured by russian terrorists which were actually hired by a rogue agency of the united States government who were actually hired by....

By Gork, I can't stand 24....

sad thing is my girlfriend claims my weekend :( or at least my saturdays. Today was filled up with house hunting. But, I did manage to get the roof of level 2 done, and turretized the shadowsword roof thingy with some plastic tube and now it spins around

Next I have to add something to get the hydra mounted so that can spin properly too. Oh and I also fixed the bent hydra barrels, ran em under hot tap water and bent them straight also cleaned all the resin with simple green, including the new hellhound bitz.

I also built some more porch railings to go around the top behind the turret, but it was getting in the way of the hydra spinning, so I'm just gonna leave the top flat. I'll get some pics when I finish the hydra stuff .. just a day or so

I got everything built now. Here's a pic with the front turret in 2 directions to show how it spins



I think I'm pretty much done. I could keep going and going adding bitz all over the place but then I will never get around to painting it. I think I'm also going to leave the Doomsday cannon like it is. yeah it's massive and you can fit a whole space marine inside the barrel, but then every other tank in the game has obscenely large and out of proportion guns too. Besides, it has to be big enough to live up to a name like Doomsday Cannon.

I'm gonna paint it in stages, bottom hull, then top hull, then all the guns separately. It's gonna take a long time. I will probably take several breaks to work on some other projects while I paint it but I'll post pics of progress I want to get some more lizardmen done at the moment... I also have a baneblade & hellhound to build and paint.