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I like the smaller walkers

They look great

The larger one is coming along nicely too (I like your camo scheme... always have ).

Has the blue changed or is that lighting? It just looks a little mor turquoise than usual.

Thanks a bunch matey, was looking at your awesome walkers (great job, they look amazing.) And me son looks over me shoulder...." I want one Dad, please Dad can I have one for Christmas, Dad where do you get those, I want one now, Please Dad PLEASE........" and on and on and on.

Thanks

Change of tittle scared me for a sec, - not that I don't like the walkers, either big or small - but I was looking to progress on the light tankette.

Then I read you were just waiting for parts and all was good again...

Last fella looks massive indeed!

Inso wrote:I like the smaller walkers

They look great

The larger one is coming along nicely too (I like your camo scheme... always have ).

Has the blue changed or is that lighting? It just looks a little mor turquoise than usual.

Thanks Inso, and the flash makes the blue-gray seem different. I have also a day light LED bulb in my overhead lamp which the small walkers were photo-imaged with, I used the flash on the big guys (I have 3) to get the light effects with the light green and blues of the "eyes" on the big guys.

Camkierhi wrote:Thanks a bunch matey, was looking at your awesome walkers (great job, they look amazing.) And me son looks over me shoulder...." I want one Dad, please Dad can I have one for Christmas, Dad where do you get those, I want one now, Please Dad PLEASE........" and on and on and on.

Thanks

LOL Cam, did not mean to get that boy all excited over me skills and models, the AT-43 is OoP so hard to get now, the Big mecha I got from HobbySearch of Japan, http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/image/10134325a/20/1 is an image page of the basic model, they are made by Plum who makes the in batches, keep checking as once they are not sold out, you gotta grab 'em \fast! I may be as big as Santa, getting white haired like Santa, but I hate the feel of beard growing even though my toy making skills are as good as santa. LOL

Littletower wrote:Change of tittle scared me for a sec, - not that I don't like the walkers, either big or small - but I was looking to progress on the light tankette.

Then I read you were just waiting for parts and all was good again...

Last fella looks massive indeed!

No worries, it eat at me to have to wait first for my monthly to hit the bank account, then to order and wait for the parts to ship from across the pond as the Brits say. Most SM minis are too short to hit his knee unless the basketball jump!


Now for the big guy with the basic weapon layout of the Battle-cannon and chain ripper. Instead of painting the eye on the outside, I pre colored the back of the clear plastic and got an interesting effect.

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Good progress on all your walkers, Shas.

Yeah, painting the inside of clear plastic pieces is something I've always done, usually the inside of the hollow they fit into, but sometimes the rear of the piece. Both look different. Uses the plastic to it's best effect.

 Dr H wrote:
Good progress on all your walkers, Shas.

Yeah, painting the inside of clear plastic pieces is something I've always done, usually the inside of the hollow they fit into, but sometimes the rear of the piece. Both look different. Uses the plastic to it's best effect.

Thanks Doc! the trick was not as well retro executed on the next big fella with the volcano cannon and thunder fist
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with the paint work on the outer lens, base of a blue, then a lightened blue, and then white added again for the inner dot
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More work will be added to the pics soon!

I have since gone back over the camo green to make the green not bleed the blue-grey as well as make the sloppy brush work less apparent. Next will be the black squiggles! I know you all love the squiggles.

the infinity bug has got the better of you too?... I see why^^... well these specialists will fall in nicely with your ranks...

the walkers again blend in so well to your soviet style themed army...the Russian army is such a wild mixture of modern and old fashion in parts you are almost depicting the RL here...

and the big fella.. I am waiting for them squiggly lines now with baited breath...

well i tell a lie here... actually I am with LT here as I want to see more of the tankette... heck... a full squad of these^^... small, quick and deadly tank hunters the lot of them... will they get standard LR pattern tracks?...or will you scratch build them?... I think with coffey stirrers you might get away with scratchbuilding them for this built even...

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
the infinity bug has got the better of you too?... I see why^^... well these specialists will fall in nicely with your ranks...

the walkers again blend in so well to your soviet style themed army...the Russian army is such a wild mixture of modern and old fashion in parts you are almost depicting the RL here...

and the big fella.. I am waiting for them squiggly lines now with baited breath...

well i tell a lie here... actually I am with LT here as I want to see more of the tankette... heck... a full squad of these^^... small, quick and deadly tank hunters the lot of them... will they get standard LR pattern tracks?...or will you scratch build them?... I think with coffey stirrers you might get away with scratchbuilding them for this built even...

Yep, Infinity makes nice minis. I will get more of the factions as time goes by.


Now that I have a red stars, I need to also retro fit them to the 5 Kolossus you traded me for Vik! I also have to make them onto the ones I got from the Miniatures Market, as I did with the bigger than sentinel walkers you all saw.

I am awaiting the newly placed order to Zinge for the treads and commander hatch for the thing, I also ordered a set of 23mm wheels and hub caps! I plan to also make a neat little 4x4 I will next month need to order me some plastic sheets and rods as well from the plastic outlet that Dave and now Theo use. I did check, Zinge track links are the same width as the basic Leman Russ ones.

As for the squiggly lines....took me some time last night, so I think 1 knight a night in squiggles, LOL

Here is Unit 1
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oh... you sure have an agenda there... lots of nice sounding new projects then in the future for us to ogle over...^^

them squiggly lines look very cool...just as expected^^...

the lens by the way looks very menacing too

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
oh... you sure have an agenda there... lots of nice sounding new projects then in the future for us to ogle over...^^

them squiggly lines look very cool...just as expected^^...

the lens by the way looks very menacing too

with that they ship a minimum number of sheets and rods and tubes and such, I will have plenty of materials for the base projects and to create other details as well! I may wind up with variants of the little tanks I have left over missile boxes and cannon barrels still from the Old Crow models.


Yep, and tonight, i work on the Unit 2, the one with the chain ripper and blunt head.


Thank you! I think of the sound effect when they have the Zaku-II light up it's lens when I see it effected by the flash bulb. I love such effects from simple colors and light.


Oh and I ordered some new things from Brother Vinni as well! There will be new bots, I will be arming my 2 mutants with bulkier weapons from the left over Centurion weapons I have, as they will be joined by 3 more of their kin, I also have a large nasty clawed monster from the wastelands coming with along with yet another famous commissar who needs his aide de camp who smells and his lady Inquisitorial Girlfriend who both fascinates and scares the hell out of him!

Now not only do I have Unit 2 camo'd up with the black squiggles, but I have scale with a soldier, and the light tank.
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Now you all get to see just how big these mechas are.

Unit 3 with the Fist
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Oh and Zinge parts are processed so I expect the parts sometime about next week or so

Okay, as I have another 3 of Brother Vinni's Post Apoc Ogres on the way, I have been figuring what would help them look oh Ogryny? Bigger, bulkier guns! Some GS was needed to make the hand grips for the pistol grips look, beefier than paperclips would have done, so my sculpt skills still need work
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And for the other 3 when they arrive to be assigned their very own rippers
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Some of the Brother Vinni ogres will be chopped and shifted a little, I want to have one at least using both hands for the ripper, I will also attempt to sculpt a helmet, maybe some extra armor on the Bone 'Ead to lead them all.

Now, I got to add the new stars onto the walkers I traded other bitz to Vik for, I just had to add some weapons and paint 'em up some. On these I placed the stars on the right hull armor.
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As you all can see, two have twinlinked assault cannons, another 2 have twinlinked missile pods, another has a multi-laser+missile pod, and the far right has las-cannon+twinlinked Missile Launcher.


Now for ones I got from Miniature market, dual twinlinked missile launchers
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las-cannon with twinlinked missile launcher
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And these are Heavy Bolter+Heavy Flamer for rooting out enemy troops
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I am also working on the wasp scout car while waiting for the Zinge tank parts

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Cool little scout car, but you should model the guards hair to be blowing in the wind as they race around the enemy troops. With how fragile the car would be versus heavy gunfire who would bother with a helmet . Either that or the driver needs a dog

 Theophony wrote:
Cool little scout car, but you should model the guards hair to be blowing in the wind as they race around the enemy troops. With how fragile the car would be versus heavy gunfire who would bother with a helmet . Either that or the driver needs a dog

Not much left of the hair when the Military cuts it to the close to the scalp. a dog? Hmm, it would have to be a smallish one with paws on the edge of the cabin, tongue hanging out..Sadly, my sculpt skills are not that great, I barely made a recognizable squig for when an enemy is turned into one by my Orky top psyker.

Yeah the car is small compared to the light tank, and with a radio set up, but nothing heavier than a plasma rifle mounted on the pintle,,,,,,,fire-power is kinda light.

Oh I finally found a conversion model I have sought for my IG air power. a 1/48scale MiG-15.

went and compared notes as to the walkers from Hasslefree I did. The earlier ones you can see they both are mixed with anti-tank and anti-personnel weaponry, the weapons sinmply on opposing sides of the machines so a left/rt then rt left arrangement for the twinlinked assault cannon and the twinlinked tank killing las-cannon equivalent. BT-8a-1 and BT-8a-2 models, the next we have the dual twinlinked assault cannon armed BT-8b-1 and the dual twinlinked Las-cannon(coil gun) BT-8c-1
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That's a massive amount of walking firepower there!

Nice work on those HF walkers... they really suit a set of gnarly gnashers, don't they?

Littletower wrote:That's a massive amount of walking firepower there!

I have counted;
9 x BT-5 Sentinels
3 x Metal Orcas BT-6's
14 x BT-7 "Kolossus"
4 x BT-8 "Grymn"
1 x Dotch Yaga
1 x Kossack
1 x Hussar
1 x Molot
1 x Urod
2 x Sierpe
1 x KV-46
1 x KV47
1 x Monster
1 x Leviathan Crusader
3 x Leynos
1 x Stalin
1 x Luther
1 x Ludwig
1x Lifter Ludwig
That is my total walkers collection to date, all collected over the past several years, the oldest being sentinels and Orcas.

Inso wrote:Nice work on those HF walkers... they really suit a set of gnarly gnashers, don't they?

TY, they just by looking at them cried out "Make me a mouth of teeth!"



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Newer walkers yet to have mud
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Getting their mud
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And 2 supply drops to help with conversion work!

From Zinge, now I can work on the light tank again!
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And for a mystery project.........
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And for the Khadrovian Union fighter strike wings
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 shasolenzabi wrote:
Well, I dirtied down the Nacht-Jaegers Both the ones in mk-II and Mk-III carapace.
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What website are thees models from? great work btw!

Zinge ftw.

And Mig looks ripe for Orky conversion too! MMMMmmm Where did you get that one?

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What website are thees models from? great work btw!

Hey there Stonned, some are old Bauhaus corporate troops from the 2nd edition of Warzone: the Mutant Chronicles, the others are Dreamforge Games Eisenkern Stormtroopers.

Camkierhi wrote:Zinge ftw.

And Mig looks ripe for Orky conversion too! MMMMmmm Where did you get that one?

Yep, just needed Zinge parts, both tread sections pretty muc used, the hatch just fit the top of the turret,

the MiG is for my IG support, although I did make my Orky fighta look like they copied or looted one themselves.

With the parts I got on order from Zinge, I got that hatch for the turret, it would open forwards, allowing as a shield for the commander. granted, it does add some more height for the light tank. Take note that Zinge has an appreciation for our beloved rivets!
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Then I started to work on the tread system, first the wheels so as to help guide the track shoe placement, and then support parts to help with maintaining basic shape. I did the same process on both sides
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Then came the outer armor panels. Definitely needs more smoothing
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Then the upper decking that goes over the treads, just the foundation so far in these pics.
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Then things got more interesting!
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I found some Aquilas, but the latest images do not show that it is any where near finished at all.
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This little tank is a real delight! Very nicely done.... One little thing for me... I would leave the track guards as they are now and not cover them... looks really nice with the support sections and can easily be used as extra stowage space! Just my 2 bob's worth!

Top job though!

 MagosBiff90 wrote:
This little tank is a real delight! Very nicely done.... One little thing for me... I would leave the track guards as they are now and not cover them... looks really nice with the support sections and can easily be used as extra stowage space! Just my 2 bob's worth!

Top job though!

Oh they are getting sealed right now, I will also add no skid paneling to the sloped surfaces, your post will help me make some hatches for internal stowage which also makes for anti-shell buffeting to absorb impacts, or if empty, make spaced armor.

coming together nicely, that little tank. - Though I wouldn't have mounted those pretty wheels, only to cover them with side panels. I would have "looted" them for other purpose and fixed the tracks otherwise. On the other hand I painted the interior of my Land Raiders in the knowledge no one would see the details ever again, too...