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What Ambull said!

Thanks for the comments guys. Here are the plans for the vehicle. On the solid green areas, you are to fold the part over so as to have the same color on both sides. This is the basic out lay of the vehicle. The weapons, extra items and figures come from your bitz box. You can also transfer the templates over to plastic card and make it out of styrene as well. The wheels are a bit different from the thread, in that you cut the roundels out and wrap the wheel strip around the roundels. The lugs are done the same by wrapping it around the finished wheel and cut off the excess. Enjoy the build and post some of your builds or modifications. With that said, you are welcome to modify it to your hearts content and it also makes a good Orky Buggie. See you all around the forums.

The Imperial Navy Landing Craft.

This idea came to me while watching the water borne operations in the movie Enemy at the Gates. While the beach head in Saving Private Ryan was outstanding, The Russian front sequence at the beginning of the movies, resembled something of a 40K battle field. The Vessel takes its origin from the Higgins boat but very much different. In the Imperium there has to be some worlds with large bodies of water, with oceans and waterways. While there is the use of skimmers, a navy must also have water borne crafts. These are needed in the making of bridges and the crossings of bodies of water. So now I give the Imperium the use of water crafts for those special needs. And now begins the build thread.

Here are a few more updates on the landing craft. In the last photo, I have a port side style window in the cabin doors. Later on in the build I will change this to a view slit style window. Even though this project is in paper(cardstock) it is also transferable to sheet styrene. The styrene will insure that you can place it in the bath tub and make it float. There is enough space in the hull and in the cabin, that you probably can motorize the model. The paper version will suffer greatly in the water. Enjoy and see you next posting

Great work, I´m constantly checking updates everyday to see your progress.

where do you get your ideas? do you just build along or do you make a concept draw beforehand?

i tried some tanks to scratch built in the past, but they were doomed for the wastebin after the first two or three stages...

keep on astonishing me^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:Great work, I´m constantly checking updates everyday to see your progress.

where do you get your ideas? do you just build along or do you make a concept draw beforehand?

i tried some tanks to scratch built in the past, but they were doomed for the wastebin after the first two or three stages...

keep on astonishing me^^

It is all of the above. For the Scout vehicle, I made a few line sketches and then I looked a ATV's and Military dune buggies. For this Landing craft, I googled and researched a bunch of actual LCM, and for the Gyro-copter, I looked up that James Bond version starring Roger Moore. I start to build and sometimes I get carried away with the details and find something that may look cool. For this Landing craft, I was worrying about the Ramp being able to go up and down and I came up with an idea but that is is a little further up the line. This landing craft can handle about 25 figures, or the scout or small vehicles and about 10 figures, the crew not included. I am pleased that you enjoy the builds.

Now as for armored vehicles, check out paperhammer40k.com, and in the downloads section are a bunch of tanks, armored vehicles to include the Bane Blade and Shadowsword

Here are the next installments for the landing crafts. There are two rudder control access hatches. you can keep both and place the pilot house in the center. In my case, I opted for the pilot house to be on the port side. The pilot house foundation is framed as well as the upper deck. The deck framework is wide so as to allow for the upper deck to be glued firmly. Along with the upper deck framework, there is a center support that will avoid the upper deck from warping inwards. Tabs can be used here but I prefer to frame the edges for strength. The pilot house has the armored view slits instead of portholes. The frontal area can be left as is or in my case I opted to use an old Rhino rear ramp as the frontal armor. The angle look to the frontal armors is much better than the flat face. So this is it for now, will return later for more updates. The Ship is finished, I just have to fix the photos and maybe add a few more details and embellishment. I have some ideas for added looks. The crew will be from modified Catachans, and the cargo deck has many possibilities, like a platoon of Mordians, Tallarns, Cadians or Catachans along with a small vehicle or a deck full of supplies and miscellanea. I have to go on a trip shortly so if you do not see any updates, it is because I will not have internet access, unless I go to McDonalds or Starbucks for their free Wi-Fi access. See you all next posting.

More outstanding work sir. Look forward to more of these excellent builds.

God, when I see your creations, is it any wonder that I start to fantasise about building an imperial guard army?...

but one thiing after the other...

monkeytroll wrote:More outstanding work sir. Look forward to more of these excellent builds.

I am glad that you like the build thread. I will be out of the loop for a short while but will return with more. One thing about Warhammer, even though GW has their models, it is a cornucopia of imaginary vehicles, building and things that are not covered by them.

Viktor von Domm wrote:God, when I see your creations, is it any wonder that I start to fantasise about building an imperial guard army?...

but one thiing after the other...

While I build the Imperial guard stuff, it could easily transfer over to Chaos and to the Orky Boyz as looted vehicles. Here is an almost finished photo of the Landing Craft. The build will lead up to this and beyond with more added details.

*****sighhhh****

I say it once and i say it again: amazing.

amazing work

Beautiful work. its amazing what happens when you have some paper and imagination (I sadly dont)

Thanks for the comments guys. Glad that you enjoy the thread. Here are a few more updates on the landing craft.

Added the ladder from my bitz box. The railing poles are toothpicks. The oxy tanks are also from the bitz box but again, they can be easily made from card stock. Added a buch of small details to the upper deck. That is all for now, See you all next posting.

Well I am back after a short vacation. Here are a few updates on the Landing craft. It almost finish at this time, just a few details here and there. I have some more photo updates to fix and prepare for your enjoyment. Here the railings build continues. I use heavy twine for the railings and at each end a hole was drilled to place the railing cables in.

Here are a few more updates on the LCP (Landing Craft Personnel). I used a fuel cell from GW as a reference. AA battery was used as a template. Rolled the strip around it to the thickness of the Battery. A landing platform was constructed and the fuel cells were attached to the aft section of the LCP to the outside of the craft.

Now to work on the payload deck, but first drill the holes for the fuel lines later on in the build. The side access panels and the engine access plate are em-placed. The deck has the option of being glued in place or left removable. The removable option gives you the opportunity to construct different configurations of the payload. Make as many copies of the deck area and make it as a troops only on the deck. A cargo/supply option, a small vehicle option or a combination of any thing that will fit in the cargo hold.

Here are a few peeks of the plans. It stands now at 6 pages. there will be three versions. One will be line drawings which can be adapted to sheet styrene. The other two will be in color with one version shaded in. The rivet locations will be indicated on the color versions. There are still some more details to put on the plans but be patient, the plans are in the works.

More updates on the landing craft. Finished off the deck and the aft area exhaust system.

awesome!

I say to the heck with this easy for you small scale stuff, I say challenge yourself and go Stormraven or bust!

Narse wrote:I say to the heck with this easy for you small scale stuff, I say challenge yourself and go Stormraven or bust!

As of this time frame, there is no official Storm-raven schematics but I have seen concept builds of a flying rhino, flying land raider, a kit bash from a land raider and valkerie. I did a version a long time ago out of sheet styrene for an imperial drop assault ship which I may re-do later but I have considered something for a storm raven but I am waiting to see what comes up from the Warhammer community. I believe that here at Dakka-Dakka, someone has made a kit bash of the Storm Raven as well.

Now on with more photo updates. I placed the side armor plates sans rivets. The first step is to place the front prow center piece with the top angle facing down. Next is to glue the bottom part of the ramp down and wait for it to set. Once set, glue the sides down and force the prow to take its curved shape. If you use styrene, use the thinner sheet to be able to get that shape. The view mesh is from a window screen then trimmed on the edges with thin strips. There will be a gap from the view mesh and the lower ramp. A strip will take care of this. On the other side, slip strips are placed down and the front access panel is centered. So much for now, and see you all around the forums.

More updates on the LCP. The hinges are attached to the bottom and a straighten paper clip is the rod connector.

The black strip is the waterline mark and it will also serve to cover any gaps in the connections between the lower half and the upper half of the hull.

The ramp is attached and the hinges in this beta build will be colored in later in the build. At this step, you can see the forced curvature of the prow as mentioned earlier.

The side view shows the waterline and the ramp in the down position. then the 3/4 view with the ramp in the up position.

Finally a view from the rear to the front. I have caught up to my photos and now I have to work on the screws and rudder. The guns will be upcoming soon as well.

I guess that if you have a boat, you must have propulsion. I was thinking along the lines of a jet propulsion system but settled for the old fashion screw. In this version, I did a four blade prop but they generally tend to be a three blade system. When making the blades I made them individual and glued them to a center hub rolled around the end of a tooth pick. For better stability of the blades, make a curve in them so as to have a round base. If you place them flat on the hub, they will tend to bend which ever way they want. The curve helps to hold them straight.

For the rudders, I laminated the center to about the thickness of the toothpick and wrapped the skin around it. I drilled two holes aft of the water vanes and the blades. In this position, the blades are protected and if it was real, it would help to avoid a lost prop blade. Be sure to cut/trim the toothpick so that it will fit into the holes fully.In this beta build, I had a large gap in the aft section. To cover the gap I made a strip and covered it. The plans should avoid this but if you have a gap, a strip across will take care of that problem.

That´s amazing sir.

Ruzto wrote:That´s amazing sir.

Than you kindly Ruzto.

I just finished the cannons and will be posting them soon. See you all next posting.

So here are the cannons. This section is pic heavy. I do not have plans for the cannons but if you follow the thread, you should be able to build one as well. Other options are to use one from GW or the one from the Sentinel in Patorochs archives over at paperhammer40k. The photos are self explanatory and do not need too much verbiage. This section could be a thread upon itself as well. So without further ado, here are the photos.