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Haha, I'd love to live up to the Dr. Frankenstein nickname. Let me know if you would like some heads built with a specific painting or picture in mind. I might be able to put something together.
well what about some head looking like Ahab? the one from Moby Dick? either tophat or captains hat...even a british naval officerhead from the napoleon age... the one with two peaks , like a nelson, admiral nelson that is^^.
found a link where a guy has conveted cadian and catachans into the british style, but he has used lots of greenstuff, i think you could achieve a similar style with much less, might have a tinker in the morn, if the arty lets me off .
http://s4.invisionfree.com/Boot_Camp/ar/t9223.htm
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Viktor von Domm wrote:well what about some head looking like Ahab? the one from Moby Dick? either tophat or captains hat...even a british naval officerhead from the napoleon age... the one with two peaks , like a nelson, admiral nelson that is^^.
vik
I'll poke around for bitz, but I don't have much in the way of historical mini's. I'll talk to some IG players at my local store....see if I can trade em parts next 40k night.
I draw the line at trying to make Cromwell though, he was an ass.
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sounds cool to have a store near you. mines to far away, about one hour drive with our famous transportsystem...
its nothing i want to do with lots of minis in a suit-case that draws to much attention...
Yeah, its about 2 miles for me in downtown oakland. 3 blocks from a really nice ganga store too...good smoke, good mini's, and chinatown is another block up the street...cheap eats.
Viktor von Domm wrote:well what about some head looking like Ahab? the one from Moby Dick? either tophat or captains hat...even a british naval officerhead from the napoleon age... the one with two peaks , like a nelson, admiral nelson that is^^.
vik
Have you seen Eureka miniatures Pax Limpopo stuff - I use quite a lot of it with my Praetorians. I do fancy a Steam Space Marine outfit with their figures though...
Viktor von Domm wrote:well what about some head looking like Ahab? the one from Moby Dick? either tophat or captains hat...even a british naval officerhead from the napoleon age... the one with two peaks , like a nelson, admiral nelson that is^^.
vik
Have you seen Eureka miniatures Pax Limpopo stuff - I use quite a lot of it with my Praetorians. I do fancy a Steam Space Marine outfit with their figures (Hardloves Impervious Suits) though...
For steampunk kasarkin you may consider vostroyan models.
The USS Orinoco was a Federation Danube-class runabout that was in service with Starfleet in the late 24th century, attached to Deep Space 9. It was outfitted with a sensor pod.
today i can offer you no pics but some serios questions.
due to some build realted needs/mishaps i need to built some ornamental designs for the middle part of the hull of the blimp...
i need specifically some designs that would work as an aquilla stand in. to be precise, i dont want to do the aquilla. the army is set in a kind of alternate 40k universe which doesn´t have an emperor but an empress instead. could be you´ve heard of her:
"Empress Victoria... she now leads the galaktic empire of common wealth for more than 20.000 years. due to some serious injury she had to be held in life support by her chief physician within a giant iron lung. this and some other special developed mechanisms made her live a very long life indeed...."
so this is a very short insight of the fluff surrounding the force i am wanting to build. and for this special occaision i need again the help of the fair dakkaites to help me in this design quest... the sigh should be about at least 4cm wide and 12cm high. please bear in mind that the hull of the blomp will be 51cm long (peaks/domes not included...) so it shouldn´t overshine the hull...i had thought about 12cm:12cm but thats not obligatory...
so if you have some ideas i will be deeply in your debt...
p.s. the material used will be cardboard as of the collegebook nature...i plan on a layered look...
I woud love to make one of these, but actually make some sort of balloon inside that could be refilled and properly sealed so it wasnt 1 minute wonder, so it would actaully float above the gaming table!
Great Fluff Vik , so its old Queen Vic for your empress , very clever love it , with pretorian style guard . will knock up some designs in the morn, but i think you should now have the queen vik as your female bust statue on front of your airship.
You evil tower destroyer you! The inquissition has its beady eye on your Immposter Deamon Queen! to the Time warp machine ordo hereticus! we shall have her head for this Blasphemy!
in a singsong voice: nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah!
is your liwwle towerthingy broken, awww...don´t cry. your emperor may build you some more then...
hmmm the queeny as a buststatue? would you brits do something like that?...wouldnt that be something like treason? hmmm also isn´t it a great coincidence that the queen and me share the same nome du guerre`?
lol
ha send all ye men ye got, we will teach ém a thing or two...
omg and i thought that german tv was lunatic...was i mistaken...
but the essence of this vid would be that an airship with the queens likeness in front of it has got some seriuos powers that can only stomp the unworthy to their well deserved ends...
hmmm well one has to calcultate its options...
we´ll see, vik
Automatically Appended Next Post: so i made my own first attempts at designing some sort of flag for the Victorian Empire...
tho it is still the fourthieth millenium it is very british indeed...
with the surprem ruler The Empress Victoria a flag could either look like:
or like
i´ve also done some tests with an impere sign from star wars to be changed with the rebel crest or the "V" but i´m not that satisfied with that...
personaly i like the blue to black change. the black stands for the mourning state the epress lives in. shortly before she had to be positioned in the afore mentioned iron lung her neloved husband and king died of influencia and left her alone... she never recovered from that tragic loss and ordered the whole empire to let the royal blue to be banished from all use... also due the stressed state she was in, she began the great conquering of all there is to compensate for her loss.
her reign marks a new dawn on technological breakthroughs as spacetravel and very heavy weaponry were developed. constantly adaption brought wonders of technology to the average man, that would otherwise be only usable for the wellsituated...
although traveling is doable with tremendous speeds being still british you still have to travel with dignity and that restricts speeds not suitable for respectable men...
so whenever troops or civics are traveling they do so with great dignity and therefore with a more steady speed...therefore the use of airships and balloons.
the galaktic empire of common wealth is not a christian empire anymore. after her great loss the Empress also declared all forms of religion as a crime tantamount to treason. with great efforts this was brought to the people by making the wellfare programs of this empire to erase all needs for solitude through religion. the few nests of traitorous religgious groups are constantly sought out and are so few that they are rather to be nonexistent.
....to be continued...
vik
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Wow i can see you have really thought about the story. It seems very plausible , just what i would expect from the tyranical british Empire. subdugating any planet for its Imperial Tea supplies! just because it could. like an overbaring and petulent bully of a child. English colonisation sucks and lots of people here still think that Britania rules the world, and lements for its loss! Never admiting to themselves that Britain Success went hand in hand with India America Scotland and Africa's loss! as well as many more. I say good riddance to that imperial Buffoonery we were never great just tyranical!
Oops bit of a rant sorry, as you can guess iam not a typical patriot, prob comes from my dual heritage being written on my skin, not in my blood!
but i guess this is all just fantasy , so the subjigated can be the tau! nobody likes Tau right!! lol
Edit i like the black flag looks great like when spiderman turned to venom ! or when superman died . i think the gothic V looks better than the starwars logo though! more traditional! .
Well Vik it seems all the ingrediants are here , time to start cooking! and i think you will have a great cake!
pic
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starsdawn wrote:Flags of "God Save the Queen" or with the initials "VRI" for Victoria Regina Imperatrix
^Fixed that for you
Famous images that I'd assosciate with Queen Victoria, and which would make decent iconic images for plags would be her silhouetted profile, her tiny crown, the coat of arms of Great Britain or Victoria's royal cypher:
Ahhhhh steampunk empress in her iron lung. Do you remember that bit in the 40k fluff about how the custodes collect the emperors tears for holy relics? How about when emperess vic in her iron lung drools they collect it in sacred vials and sell it as medicine? Sorry this idea is probably in poor taste...
The flag is goon - very alternative history
Automatically Appended Next Post: when I say goon I mean good right. Dont know how that happend the n isn't even in the same part of the keyboard as the d
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at starsdawn, thanks for the help, tho i have to say i dont want to do slogans on the flag. i know its been done and it might look, but its also not only a matter of style but also a matter of doable. when it comes to tiny cuts, i stink^^
at neil:
when it comes to NOT being patriotic we can just
cause we both have realized that our both countries, that great bully of nations, are not what they want to appear to be. the history of both is far to corrupt and brutal to idolize it.
that´s why i go for the british theme, cause no one could then portrai me as an idiot, bigot man or a nazi. that would definatly apply when i would have gone the german theme way...
i still remeber braveheart at the battle of stirling where he makes some enemys...that speach is the best of the movie...wanted to post it here but coul´dn´t find it on tube...
by the way we hadn´t talked about that but now i´m more than curious, where IS your familyline from? by the way i got myself some indiarelations as well. you have to see my sis for that matter, she fits the look far better than pale me^^...
cheers mates, vik
Automatically Appended Next Post: so now goon will be for evermore a new word for me^^...
goon night...sounds somewhat aussie, doesn´t it?
hehe^^
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well you go for english i go for german and french lol then we can both be happy, i have cut off some napoleonic helmets and made ww2 geman ones ;-) they look pretty good , sashes , eppuletes, ww2 helmets and lasguns !
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