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These will be modified, I had chopped the flash suppressors for another model off, and will use the plastic tube stock of the right size to replace them.

Oh these sponsons will be brilliant!

that as much i am sure off^^ and will eagerly await the pics to prove^^

cya^^

Wow you've been busy!
to take away the noticability (Is that a word? It is now!) from the asymetrical turret, add some extra gubbinz to the flat areas of it.
I really like where this is going, and it's one of the best WIP tank conversions I've seen on dakka!
keep up the good work!

and I agree with vik. about the assault cannon being the best looking and hving stuff on the flat areas.

Nothing shall remain without details. Working on sponsons with auto-cannons and heavy Stubbers on them.

yeah for autocanons^^

i myself am musing the thought if i should use bolters for the sponsons...? i fear my own stock on autocanons wouldn´t make me make symetrically weaponsoutloads, which i think is a must have!

Well, here is the Auto-cannon/Heavy Stubber sponsons.
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Now how do you like that?

if you tell me now that you have made them movable after all too then i throw away my chisel and my paints and start growing pigs in the land...^^

seriously, looking cool!, tho i have to say seeing you cutting up autocannons somehow makes me cringe^^ all that beautiful weaponry cut to size...argh^^
the smaller gun...what does it count as? looks a bit like a vickers or will it be a bolter, i am afraid the pics again wont yield enough information to recognize completly^^


*throws away modeling tools...* he did it , first pic shows it clearly now that you actually made movable sponsons...damn you...for my own sponsons i have decided for now as i use the foam that this will be a thing when i go for a second tank...then i will include some other features i think... i even thinking about a nonmovable turret...would probably be a neat feature but too much work currently on this project to get it work...plasticcard is in that regard the better material all the way through if you want mobility...

vik

Viktor von Domm wrote:if you tell me now that you have made them movable after all too then i throw away my chisel and my paints and start growing pigs in the land...^^

seriously, looking cool!, tho i have to say seeing you cutting up autocannons somehow makes me cringe^^ all that beautiful weaponry cut to size...argh^^
the smaller gun...what does it count as? looks a bit like a vickers or will it be a bolter, i am afraid the pics again wont yield enough information to recognize completly^^


*throws away modeling tools...* he did it , first pic shows it clearly now that you actually made movable sponsons...damn you...for my own sponsons i have decided for now as i use the foam that this will be a thing when i go for a second tank...then i will include some other features i think... i even thinking about a nonmovable turret...would probably be a neat feature but too much work currently on this project to get it work...plasticcard is in that regard the better material all the way through if you want mobility...

vik

Vik, they do swivel. Tube in tube stocks help.

Yeah, it is a unpleasant job, but they do need to be set up for the swivel. Oh the Heavy Stubbers, yeah like Vicker water jacketed MG's.
I made it from Ork shootas.


If I had the foam instead, I would be making flats with holes and making pegs for the weapons for the mobility.^^ No need to throw in the towel yet Vik. It can be done! all you have to do is look at your project with different eyes.

the thing with the foam is that it somehow hinders movability... the turret i maybe try even...this will take some considering materials but i think at least this could be achieved...the sponsons...well i could at least make a new take on them and redo from scratch as i haven´t invested that much work on them atm... so there is still enough or rathe rnot so much comittment atm to that part of the project...in fact the turret even might go too through a rebirth... as all is in constant flux^^ for now i only had planned to use sewing bobbins to make tube from to instal the weapons into and thus making the mounts of the sponsons...this idea could very wel be made whole from cardboard i guess... i still have some pretty thick cardboard...gosh mind is racing^^

OH! bobbins and pins! that is the way Vik! the foam would hold the pins in place as they help make the bobbins swivel! Same basic prinicipal to the tubes, just slightly different!

damn, I wanted to be the first to make the connection between the stubbers and vickers...darn you, hairdressers...

the foam would hold the pins in place as they help make the bobbins swivel!

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hmmm do you think one upper and one lower pin would be enough? this might cause wobble in the construction when the weaponarm is turned...hmmm....if i am lucky i have bobbins of different sizes and this could make all the difference...

0You won't know until you try Vik!^^

yep that i will!

hey Vik, don't forget that you already have tube stock lying around your house, it's just in a form you never thought about using in a model before. you have pens and q-tips, remove the ink chamber from the pen and use the outside of the pen, you can use the ink tube and writing nib as a rokkit by trimming it down to size and super glueing the end so the inkl doesn't leak out. as for the q-tips just remove the cotton and you'll see where you need to trim it to get rid of the area that was melted to hold the cotton in place. save the cotton and attach it to a base and paint it up as smoke, then when you have a weapon destroyed in game, you pull the smoke base out and place it in the appropriate area.

EDIT: and straws, almost forgot the drinking straws.

If you're using Plastic q-tips (cotton swabs on sticks) that is. Paper ones don't work so well as tubes.

But yeah, pens work great for that. Drain the ink out of them, and if you have big gel pens and smaller regular pens, the inner tubes fit within each other pretty well.

you are all totally right.... have some already chopped up felt pens from my kids lying around and have forgotten almost about them...the q-tips i will absolutley use...the idea to make markers of the cottonbuds is new but so nice that i will efinatly try that one out^^
as for other more unigue looking barrels my wife recently provided me with lots of pens from an old satchel she had lying around...some rather nice detailed things now in my collection.... i also recommend the search for spent ink cartridges of inkpens will show what i mean in my blog shortly...i have rummaged around in my scratchbuild box and came up with some cool looking bits... also what i havent seen here around for barrels to be used is cable tech... lots of chopped up bits in my box from computer cables like serial or parallel cables and even networkcables might make fantastic weapons...do take a look at my collection... i bet you have this stuff lying around too at your cellar or wherever you store such thingies^^

Well, I don' t have a basement, but the old odd bitz lying about are mostly from model kits as you have already seen.

But the Vanquisher tanks in my collection have bic barrels!

Um I might have something that will work 1000 times better than the gauss I have spare grills from the GW basing boxes the engine would be more visible through that.

sonofruss wrote:Um I might have something that will work 1000 times better than the gauss I have spare grills from the GW basing boxes the engine would be more visible through that.

You'd probably have to mail it then, but I have no cash presently.


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More work done on the massive perun tank.
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Plates are being added as well.
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Exhaust system is in place, I have to add pix with the end caps, they help to point the exhaust down and to the rear
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Armor plates and vision systems for the turret!
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It is slowly coming together!
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whoa! the only thing that still looks a bit empty is the sides of the tracksystem...otherwise i think you almost finished the tank! i really like the exhaust system you built, thats the look! if by chance you can add curved pipes to the endings then the look would be completly superb!


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oh and did i tell you how much i like the sponsons? they look very classy in design! your tank looks straight from a historybook! i think you need to find out to built the as of now used bitz from plasticcard and tubes and then you could do your own production of cool looking tanks and make a fortune by selling those beasts!

what vik said. ^^

I do think you need to put some cleats or something on the tread shoes themselves, though. They look just a little smoothe and bare for something that's going to be grinding through the mud.

Could not find curved pipes, but may make a more steam punk-ish "L" shaped down pipe for the exhaust system, I already have made parts that could accept a second part for that, otherwise they resemble racing exhaust ends. ,"<I" is the shape.

Oh the track shoes will get their attention, just a lot of the same basic pieces cut for them is what is needed. Then they will have the kleats and hinge parts.>

tanks looking good. for the exhaust pipes you say steampunkish, but my mind pictures using tube stock cut at different angles and glued together making a three or four part elbow as it were. Not sure we're talking about the same thing, but i think the end result will be similar.

SebastionSynn wrote:tanks looking good. for the exhaust pipes you say steampunkish, but my mind pictures using tube stock cut at different angles and glued together making a three or four part elbow as it were. Not sure we're talking about the same thing, but i think the end result will be similar.

Yeah, a two piece cut to make a sharp angled down vent for the exhaust is what I wound up with, very simple design.I will have to make the L-join show rust as that would be the issue with such piping from those days.
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Based upon piping I have actually seen from old pix.


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Second sponson in place, and added some other touches to the Perun tanks.
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Needs fuel cans back here I think.
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The other side.
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Wonder what it will take to get the kleats and rivets details on? the beast will look fantastic, what say others?

i am a fan...if one would ask me^^
just came to recognize the steelplating on the trakcsside...exellent! (it is time to go for a wash, well actually not but would help a great dieal to let us see some outlines better...)
the exhausts look very convincing, and i lkie that detail that they face down now... this means someone in the mechanarium planned to make a tank not seeable miles ahead^^...my own tank will of course get exhausts due to steampunk tech that will face upwards...i have yet to think this through as to the how and where...


by the way...when will the meshugge making riveting begin? i bet you will be a crippled man afterwards^^ all those many rivets could be exellent for toturing a mere man^^ but as you are a tanklover i guess you will overcome^^


great work man!

vik


and to prephrase shrike... what me said^^

Kleats before the rivets, I may just use the glue dot rivets as they will be rounded.

if this works it could save me a lot of work... will be waiting till then... not that my tank is anything near that stage^^

But you can use my work for reference.