Dave's new Hobby Adventure thread | More buildings for the Building God!

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**dsteingass**

Honestly, I just more or less copied the Texico Corporate scheme colors. It's not original, but I figured that it works for Texas and Mexico. Texico is the weakest and most broke Mega Corp in the fluff.

**shasolenzabi**

for some reason, i see the orange and the light browns and think, of Pumpkin pie

**lone dirty dog**

Pumpkin pie

you yanks and that stuff

Some of those tanks definitely have potential for Grot tank conversions me thinks

thanks for those pics seen some but not all of them.

**dsteingass**

Yeah, I think they definately would work well for grots. I've only seen them under a glass case though. Not held them.

**shasolenzabi**

Still, those stubby howitzer like guns do scream Lobbas!

**lone dirty dog**

Add them to the to buy list then

**Thraxas Of Turai**

Phew...just looked through all of this thread over about 5 days. Hobbits, terrain galore, Billy Bragg, Daft Punk and now a Gencon motherload of goodies. Cannot wait to see what you do with all of that stuff.

**Theophony**

Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
Phew...just looked through all of this thread over about 5 days. Hobbits, terrain galore, Billy Bragg, Daft Punk and now a Gencon motherload of goodies. Cannot wait to see what you do with all of that stuff.

Well Thraxas if you have a spare month you should check Dave's old thread

. Theirs a gold mine in there as well.

**Viktor von Domm**

dsteingass wrote:
I'll have to take a pic of one for ya then LDD ALthough, the tanks aren't out yet, they were on display with the expansions, but they need to fulfill the KS orders before they release them to the rest of us.
I'd trust (both of our) Kias over any GM product

So, I spent the night painting, not done yet, but you might get the idea now.

These are similar to Infinity models with all the damn armor panels (but not the dinky limbs) many highlights and details still to add. At this point in the early morning, all the orange and brown looks the same

that fella up front is missing an arm???...on purpose or did beany have a hearty meal on him?...

painting looks very good... love the vivid green inbetween...

now we just have to see you scratch build something so that we get our old dave back!!!

also... when doing a google picture search for steam trains and so on your steam walker always pops up...you´re thus google famous^^

**dsteingass**

Thanks Thraxes! Welcome to the madhaus!

Vik

the arm is on the cork/upholstery pin/precision device back there

The walker is unique for sure. I've been itching to build something as well.

**Viktor von Domm**

lol... now that you mention it... perhaps...it is on the cork... but you made it an invisible cameo appearance

and yes... please... a cool steampunky contraption!!!! *does happy dance*

**Valhalla130**

Where is this walker we speak of? I vaguely remember it, but GIS fails me.

**dsteingass**

Here

**shasolenzabi**

Ah! clunky in the steam-punk way and armed with a pair of vicker MGs

**lone dirty dog**

When I did my search for steampunk trains this came up

I miss this kind of update

**Valhalla130**

That is really neat looking.

**storag**

I really miss Dave's awesome scratch-building skills

Dakka isn't the same without Dave's regular updates... At least Vik does something

Seriously, I learned quite a lot about modelling just by watching this (and previous) thread.

**Warboss_Waaazag**

That's about as STEAM as one can get, I reckon.

**Theophony**

I'll just leave this post over here.....seemed to remember someone who enjoyed the 1980s

, cause who's scooby doo going to call when he finds a real ghost?

Wyrmalla wrote:
Updates? Updates... Woops, been a while.

Well this came up on Crooked Dice's Facebook page.
Then these were posted... (due out in September)

Four Paranormal Exterminators, sculpted by Mark Evans.

Ectoplasm Entity

**lone dirty dog**

Dam where do I get those

awesome find

OK did it again forgot to read the text

pretty pictures must read before writing

**Camkierhi**

Yup Daves back! Every imaginable concept being discussed on one brilliant thread.

Keep coming back and looking at the Mercs, liking them a lot.

**dsteingass**

I began clipping billions of Deadzone sprues and fiddling with them for MERCS ideas. Thinking of ways of hybridizing them with scratchbuilds for MERCS terrain.

The Ghostbusters are fantastic! Slimer has been eating a bit too much though. I like how they are all sculpted mid-capture.

**Dr H**

Sounds interesting.

Yeah, I thought Slimer looked a bit on the large size too.

Nice sculpts though.

**dsteingass**

Oh I ordered the set nonetheless

Thanks for the link Theo!

Terrain in Mercs works in a tiered Elevation Rating system, ER1-ER3. ER1 is roughly 4 feet (windows, railings, linear cover- minis are considered ER2) ER2 is the next 4 feet (the part you look and shoot out of) , and ER3 is the second storey. So the standard 3 inch Necromunda/40k/Infinity/etc. floor heights work well.

Page 9 here if you're interested http://megacongames.com/download/mercs-quick-rules/

**weetyskemian44**

Nice ghostbusters figures - their faces even look right. You should make a ghost capture diorama! Maybe?

**dsteingass**

I saw a Die-Cast ECTO-1 in 1/18 scale@ GenCon at a booth for a ridiculous $200+ price, but that's the wrong scale. I'd probably need something closer to 1/35 or at least a 1959 Cadillac ElDorado Ambulance kit to build upon.

**Theophony**

No problem dave

, always willing to help others spend their hobby budget

.

1:1 scale build of ECTO-1 http://www.cardomain.com/ride/502330/1959-cadillac-eldorado/?__federated=1

**M0rdain**

1:43 scale there was also the 1:18 dicast on ebay for £60 so someone was trying to rip off convention goers.

**Camkierhi**

Miss you!

**Viktor von Domm**

lurking is catching on these days it seems...