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If you have any scratchbuilt vehicles....show them here


Here's 1 of my Land Raiders 'In the Works'.....built it using cardboard,sponge,pieces of wood & a couple of nuts.
Also my Rhinos,Razorback & 1 of my Drop Pods built with the same materials & a couple of bits from other vehicles

I've only scratchbuilt a single Rhino in my wargaming life, done with cardboard, poliestirene and a wooden rod for the wheels.

^Nice ..I've seen pics of your's before.....

Reason why I'm building such alot of scratch built vehicles is the fact that the real thing costs more than an arm & a leg over here.....eg: normal Land Raider = £60 ( when converted from our Rand currentcy )

^This Land Raider of mine cost me £5 including paint

Same here, since the postal office works in shady and dodgy ways you want ALL you get from a foreign country to be trackable and not handed by them, and that means FedEx, which costs the same as a Rhino.

Finally, the customs office bites a 52% of the total ammount of the goods + shipping, so a $35 Rhino ends costing me $106.4, which is 1/3 of the average monthly payment here.

^ I know what you're talking about..... I've imported all my Model Railroad stuff from the USA..... But back to the scratchbuilding thread

Almost done ...just awaiting some 'spare bits' Bolters for the 'Hurricane Bolter' mounts & a Heavy Melta + figure for the opened hatch

Here are my partially scratchbuilt vehicles. The chimera chassis on the bottom are kit, but the tops and backs aren't

manticore:


exterminator:

^ Wow! Very nice.

Come on folks,show your scratchbuild vehicles OR even models...even terrain

OK here is my Xenos pattern APC





And My still unfinished Tau superheavy "Leopard Shark" ( which I plan to did into soon, maybe this weekend) note this is just the turret, and engine so far.




I also have plans for a Tau artillery vehicle , will post pics as it comes along

I'm loving that "scorpion tail" turret! =D

Soo'Vah'Cha wrote: OK here is my Xenos pattern APC

Reminds me of the apc from the movie aliens

^ I like very much what I see.....feel free to show your progress on here aswell

So,here's my Land Raider once again, added some more detail.....getting my Hurricaine Bolters tomorrow ...then out with those wood pieces, in with the bolters & this beast is ready for war

Soo'Vah'Cha's stuff seems a cut above the rest

So, here's mine, all still WIP

Grot Tanks


Big Trakk


Battlewagon


Gobsmashas





Gargant

I like the Orc stuff nice and neat with good lines, plastic-card is such a great thing ain't it

The Gobsmasha realy stand out realy effective use of wear and tear on the plates of armor, and those big wheels look perfect for running over stuff.

I think the grot tanks will look awesome with that same treatment ( I may have to build me a few myself)

And the Gargant is very WAAAAGH! keep it up

for SpDDmN
What materials do you use in your scratch build, because I am very impressed with your methodical approach to it, taking things a step at a time and such.
(Nevermind the above duh! You stated your materials at the head of the thread), you have acheived some very impressive results for the materials you have used, if possible you should see if you can locate some sheet plastic to try your talents on, sometimes chain resturants ( such as Mcdonalds) will throw out their advertisement boards ( the ones that are lit up on the menu) and those are actually pretty high quality plastic.... just some food for thought.

^ thanx for that info,I'll go ask them,,,,,I can even use it on my Model Railroad layout ( another hobby ) then.

^the Orc stuff looks very neat indeed...lots of detail.

I add custom touches to my stuff so not only is mine handmade, but also slightly different.....I also customise my scale model cars ( yet another hobby ), so that my stuff is unique in my own way Keep those pics & info coming

Cool stuff everyone!
Here's a group shot (not the LR and dread), nothing's painted sadly:



Here's my most recent big project, also not painted :(



Check out my project thread (linked in my sig) for all the WIPs!

^The tank is the most fething ridiculous thing I've ever seen. Also, fething awesome.

OMG "OLD SCHOOL THUNDERHAWK" Well that just pisses all over what alot of people have produced. It looks awesome exactly like a scaled up version of the old Epic One.. Brilliant... The super aerodynamic Brick..

For the Tau super heavy tank i would buy a 1/72 model of an ISRAELI Merkava Tank and then do a mega conversion..

If I manage to get hold of one of the ALIENS APC's I would buy two or three and make an "ORDINATUS" for Weapon Apocalypse (FACT!) ..

@HadoukenAvenger: Thanks, I'm glad you like it, it's actually based off of a real GW pic that can be found in the current rulebook, it's the big Black Templars splash page somewhere in the middle of the book. You'll have to play a bit Where's Waldo to find it!

@mwnciboo: Thanks as well, that's exactly what I was going for, I really love old school designs! As we can see with the new Stormraven, the more things change, the more they stay the same!

Thought you guys would like to see what I started with on monday ( 14/02/11 ) when building my Land Raider

Wow!
Some very, very nice scratchbuilds!

Well since I almost exclusively scratch build my stuff, I'll have a lot to show
The ZEUS WIP:

and finished:


The CHARON WIP

and finished:


STALINZ ORKAN (KAZUSHAAAH) WIP

and finished


Nighthawk - STRIX - WIP

and finished build


BOREAS Kinderegg Walker - WIP

and finished


my very early DEI GRECI vehicles


and of course the ATHENA




Cheers
Klaus

Goodness Klaus, I definately remember your WIP thread, great stuff as I remember and see, you must really live and breath scratchbuilding!!!

Some amazing scratchbuilding here.
unfortunately i'm not this talented

Wheeled Imperial Guard APC made of cardboard and bits.

WIP



finished

Hello LordCreed,
unfortunately your images don't work (at least for me) :(
Cheers
Klaus

klaus, i think you prety much won the most epic scratch builds months ago,

on topic! i have nothing to add realy, apart from a few realy crappy ork trukks that iv yet to properly picture.... and a kitsmash(ww2 verkulz - orkz), but there all rubish realy, :S

All of this scratch built work is amazing and inspirational! I really like the Xenos pattern APC...is Ripley piloting it?

Klaus, not Santa wrote:Hello LordCreed,
unfortunately your images don't work (at least for me) :(
Cheers
Klaus

oh I´m sorry, here's my gallery
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-22901-13489_Wheeled%20Chimera%20Scratch%20Built.html

@Klaus:








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OK this is also in the proposed rules area but it is my latest scratch build so here it is...






hope you guys like and the experimantal rules are here
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/346850.page