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Here's the pics what to you think. I'm about 50% done. To do's include Loader arm, back platform, and crew.

Nice work. Could use some rivets


The breach assembly is a nice touch.


Since this is an ongoing project, I'll move it over to Blogs...

Can you give us a play by play on the gun and breach assembly?

My friend, this is seriously cool

Looking good; I'll be keeping an eye on this one.

It looks really good. I've always been annoyed by there being no model, FW or Citadel, and no viable conversion for the Colossus. You pulled it off well.

Very nice!!!

Got home from work and flung myself at my project. Here his the progress. Added a two track covers on back for a control panel and the loader arm. And started the Loader arm. I did alot of leggo raiding tonight.

PICS Hurray!!!

Yay Lego Technic comes to the rescue!

Very nice conversion - you've now persuaded me to make my own rather than buy the forgeworld model.

Vlad

Love the attention to detail.

This is awesome - but beyond my skill and/or patience to build personally, sadly.

So, I'm still holding out hope for a GW plastic kit.

Or, the FW route.

Or, perhaps you'd be willing to build some more...

Lol, worth a try eh Alpharius?

That is looking super cool! The gun parts are bugging the hell out of me though (because I feel like I should recognize the parts), what did you make the barrel etc out of at the beginning, the parts look really familiar.

That is looking super cool! The gun parts are bugging the hell out of me though (because I feel like I should recognize the parts), what did you make the barrel etc out of at the beginning, the parts look really familiar.

Its just a 3/4" wooden dowel wrapped in pasticard. Then the ends have various diamoters of plastic tubing. The breach assemblies source was from a small motor from an old toy I had that wripped apart for the little metal bits on the. So the metal and that off white end of the breach is from that. The back back end of the ends is a searchlight which is probably what your thinking off.

More pics soon, i've glued on almost 200 rivets and I'm only about 1/3 done. And yes I am counting my rivets to the bitter end.

Great work, really cant wait to see it painted up

Absolutely awesome work!!!

I think the pistons on the back of the breach assembly would look better if they were larger in diameter, but other than that it looks amazing And I love the use of those lego parts. I cant remember what they (those style of Legos) were called though

I dint know forge world built one of these things? The bombard is a very different tank if you meant the one they have on a leman russ hull.

This conversion kicks arse esp the lego crane might have to steal that for when I get around to making a techmarines rhino. Nice work.

That line is now called Lego Technic. But I know thats not the orginal name for when it came out 12-15 years ago, which I too am stuggling to come up with the name for it.

Superb stuff! Always a pleasure to see some serious tanky goodness! Feel encouraged to finish off my medusa now...

Wow, great use of plasticard! Between this, gitsmack and dave taylor, I really feel like I need to start working with it.

Lego FTW!

Great plasticard work. Amazing bits! legos, are those cord tie-down things for the loading hatch? what ever it is - awesome!

Hmm, this is most thoroughly bodacious. Excellent work, and my most sincere thanks for gracing the world-wide-blag with your incredible project.

Well much progress has been made as promised. I hit an exact total of 375 rivets used. I have some minor house keeping on a few spots then the main part of the tank will be ready for priming. I still have alot more work to do with the crew. By far the thing that enjoyed building the most was the ammo crate.

PICS

Thats a big plasma gun, I like it . How do you get your GS so smooth and symmetrical on those shells and the pieces of the breech assembly?

Some really nice detailing, keep it up.

@ Deathwolf --I cought my tools and sometimes my finer in alittle bit of vasilene. Then I just work it with my finger by barelly brushing it until its smooth, it only works for large open areas but its effictive.

It clicked what it reminded me of... the large 'nuke' container from robocop 2 lol.

How is that for obscure??

http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/576/robocop2s2od4.jpg

Have to say that this looks pretty damn cool