I used all of my extra 1/4" chicken wire patching holes in the 1:1 fence! I'm not using my wireform stuff out there though She is a sighthound, that means she sees every bird, squirrel, and especially rabbits from a long way away We took a really long walk today, the first nice day of the year, and that seemed to calm her curiosity about the other yards.
The joke is on them when there is only dirt and blackness and their hateful hearts. Yeah I'm listening to the Boston emergency services radio online thanks to Galorn for the link.
dsteingass wrote: The joke is on them when there is only dirt and blackness and their hateful hearts. Yeah I'm listening to the Boston emergency services radio online thanks to Galorn for the link.
well they probably have tow to three years... end up hidden in a whole somehwhere on the other side of the planet...and then some marines put a bullet in their sorry excuses for a skull... just like they did with all the other chaps they caught in the last couple of years...and rightly so... courts shouldn´t be sullied with sorting stuff like that out...
dsteingass wrote: The joke is on them when there is only dirt and blackness and their hateful hearts. Yeah I'm listening to the Boston emergency services radio online thanks to Galorn for the link.
well they probably have tow to three years... end up hidden in a whole somehwhere on the other side of the planet...and then some marines put a bullet in their sorry excuses for a skull... just like they did with all the other chaps they caught in the last couple of years...and rightly so... courts shouldn´t be sullied with sorting stuff like that out...
The courts are for the closure of the families. Wher I feel a bullet solves a lot, some of the families need that time. Especially because there's not enough of them for each victim to have a turn pulling the trigger.
Seeing as how it's being discussed here, I just want to say how sad and sorry I am for the States after the Boston bombs, I really hate waking up and seeing that dominate the news with footage and images of normal everyday people trying to enjoy their day and do something fun when financially the globe is getting harder to survive on, and then these small minded hate mongers feel it's their right to dominate a populations minds with fear and self righteousness by killing and maiming those they feel aren't holy enough to be following their own god and belief systems.
my heart goes out to all affected!
and to lighten the mood a bit, you have some good ideas to stop rivet from bounding away from you :-) I'm guessing your yard is fully fenced? you can get the electronic boundary collars (I don't really like them but they do seem to work) or you can just teach her 'Calm' and then she can chill with her dad in the his Nerd kennel? :-) treats are the key mate, just not too many...... then again if she has too many and get a bit fat!..... she won't fit through the fence! omg I am brilliant eh!
Electric collars work good on the larger breeds, but the smaller ones tend to be smarter in my experience. I had a friend who's tiny dog would lay down near the border of the fence and creep up to it till the warning buzzer would go. She'd sit there until the battery in the collar died and then go meet her boyfriend down the street.
I know, I'm so sick of killing in God's name, if there is a God, master of creation and life and all that, he/she certainly wouldn't condone this.
Ladygeek and I have been discussing the electric fencing options, yes the back yard is surrounded by fence and bushes, but on the bush side, it's a small embedded fence, which needs to be upgraded in parts.
(waaay too) Early this morning we had heavy thunderstorms, and we found out the thunder scares her, but once she was into our bed and finished kissing us frantically, she calmed down Oh the joys of puppy raising @LDD, that's an insane project!!
I immediately shared the link with a guy I know who had built several 1:1 R/C R-D2s
dsteingass wrote: I know, I'm so sick of killing in God's name, if there is a God, master of creation and life and all that, he/she certainly wouldn't condone this.
Ladygeek and I have been discussing the electric fencing options, yes the back yard is surrounded by fence and bushes, but on the bush side, it's a small embedded fence, which needs to be upgraded in parts.
(waaay too) Early this morning we had heavy thunderstorms, and we found out the thunder scares her, but once she was into our bed and finished kissing us frantically, she calmed down Oh the joys of puppy raising @LDD, that's an insane project!!
I immediately shared the link with a guy I know who had built several 1:1 R/C R-D2s
I thought you would like it dam youtube lost hours of my life again
ARGGGHHH bless she don't like the thunder, a friend of ours had a little jack russell satffy cross who hated fireworks, she even climbed into the washing machine once the door was open don't worry.
Have you seen the kickstarter for secret weapons tablescapes? They just previewed the urban streets boards. Between that and the scrapyard bases I think they just made a modular necromunda table. That and the small set is currently a 4x4 table.
I don't know how your house is laid out, but my mother in law had run the electric dog fence around the yard and then also throughout the basement rafters. It kept the dogs from getting on the carpeted areas of the house. Might be worth thinking about if you could run the wire around the yard and protect the manufactorum as well. Keep the important things safe....yes I meant the dog too.
Oh no, JFK Airport is in NYC. It was the JFK Presidential Library (East from the Marathon site, near Logan Intl. Airport) that had a fire. Ex-Presidents always get a Presidential Library/Museum in their hometown (or thereabouts) apparently it was unrelated.
I think Google Maps SimCity view is awesome, so I had to share
I believe it was just coincidental from what I read yesterday. Some sort of electrical fire.
The collars do t hurt, tried the on myself before our dogs. It gives a slight buzz and low pulse letting them know they're getting close to a bad spot. If they continue the. Then They get the shock.
My mother in law had dogs that had bad potty problems, it was easy to clean off the other floors, but was ruining her carpet. I thought it might be a good way to keep her from eating some of the small gaming stuff.
oh no, she's been really good about only playing with her toys. She's pottying outside, not in the house, they are easiest to train when you teach them the expectations from the first day home .... Well I caught her drinking Ladygeek's leftover coffee from this morning. Ladygeek won't leave her cup within snout range anymore
Automatically Appended Next Post: @Vik- Boston's streets were laid out for horses and Buggies a LONG time ago, it's one of the worst traffic cities in the whole country!
really? i thought NYC would be that city...or roma?...or mexico city?
oh and coffey for dogs... ouch... i bet you had her running around even more then^^...i think what your lil beany will teach you is a new perspective... (even if you had pets before...)
OMG, she was unbearable yesterday! NO MORE COFFEE for her!
She had a much better day today though, so did I, I got the soft top on the jeep, and finished the 1:1 puppy fence
It's not ZOmbie proof, but it should give her plenty of room for her much-needed excersize @Vik- remember, Chicago burned, and Manhattan has been torn down and Biggerized over and over again, a lot o those buildings in Boston are Historical sites now. Mexico City is in..well Mexico
Pure speculation, but do you think the bombings were a home brew terrorist group? With it being the last day for taxes, and Boston having been the historic site of the tea party fighting over taxation without representation? Last I heard on the news there hadn't been anything new, if things have changed forgive my ignorance.
Is the dog wearing a black bandana, or does she have a black ring around her collar? The coloring there looks a little different to me.
Probably some Tea-bagger or other pissed-off individual I'd speculate. Hell Reagan's speech-writer, Pat Buchanan is calling for "Civil Unrest"- Should put his ass in Gitmo for inciting Terrorism as far as I'm concerned. Poison letters, all kinds of amateur gak going on today. We're either nearing another enlightenment, or another Dark age.
Bean is wearing her new harness, better for walking her, if she darts onto the road at the last minute, you can pick her up by it if necessary without hurting her little neck.
Then there is the gun debate, which I think is just a diversion to piss EVERYONE off on both sides while they turn us into a Nation of Rich Aristocrats and poor peasants without even a fight.
dsteingass wrote: Then there is the gun debate, which I think is just a diversion to piss EVERYONE off on both sides while they turn us into a Nation of Rich Aristocrats and poor peasants without even a fight.
Yep, and there is a crazy bit of info that European news has latched onto that has been kept out of our media., the Police transcripts mentioned 4 individuals sighted at these mass shootings 4 individuals who are never caught, always one doped out or dead patsy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireteam
Put this all together, and you get a bloodchilling pattern and agenda making in the works
Theory: Special Ops Fireteam willing to commit attacks on civilian population to help push the issues of "gun control" placing the blame on individuals, even when spotted and mentioned in Police radio transcripts, these fireteams are never arrested, just a corpse of "Suicide by Police fire" type taken with convenient note, or one so doped as to give no fight when taken in, and the one they said was the batman shooter did not match pics of the named individual, making more a case for the happy pills not keeping folks happy more than guns are bad, but the idea that anyone would commit to such an agenda to push via the very thing they claim is bad is insidious, and shows how inhuman the authors of such an act or acts actually is.
Personally, if caught, both the fireteam and the ones who commissioned these acts would be all riveted into little metal leaky boxes and dropped in the Marianas trench
shasolenzabi wrote: Theory: Special Ops Fireteam willing to commit attacks on civilian population to help push the issues of "gun control" placing the blame on individuals, even when spotted and mentioned in Police radio transcripts, these fireteams are never arrested, just a corpse of "Suicide by Police fire" type taken with convenient note, or one so doped as to give no fight when taken in, and the one they said was the batman shooter did not match pics of the named individual, making more a case for the happy pills not keeping folks happy more than guns are bad, but the idea that anyone would commit to such an agenda to push via the very thing they claim is bad is insidious, and shows how inhuman the authors of such an act or acts actually is.
Personally, if caught, both the fireteam and the ones who commissioned these acts would be all riveted into little metal leaky boxes and dropped in the Marianas trench
Now when moving to here I did see a Apache hovering over and aimed down the Highway which I felt a bit odd. And the black helicopters only come out at night don't you know? the white vans in day, black vans at night. Filter your water!!
You should check the conspiracy theories about the Port Arthur massacre that happened here years ago, 30+ innocents hunted and killed face to face by one man! that was the tipping point for Aussie gun laws.
Aaaaaaand on a lighter note...... a feather!
hmmm Rivet is looking pretty chilled happy and adjusted! (I will continue to call her Rivet until ..... well... I just will o.k!) and the 1:1 fence looks the goods :-) also the rust weathering effect on the bumper of the Jeep looks almost as real as your models! speaking of, are you working on anything even with the distraction of a new child?
shasolenzabi wrote: Theory: Special Ops Fireteam willing to commit attacks on civilian population to help push the issues of "gun control" placing the blame on individuals, even when spotted and mentioned in Police radio transcripts, these fireteams are never arrested, just a corpse of "Suicide by Police fire" type taken with convenient note, or one so doped as to give no fight when taken in, and the one they said was the batman shooter did not match pics of the named individual, making more a case for the happy pills not keeping folks happy more than guns are bad, but the idea that anyone would commit to such an agenda to push via the very thing they claim is bad is insidious, and shows how inhuman the authors of such an act or acts actually is.
Personally, if caught, both the fireteam and the ones who commissioned these acts would be all riveted into little metal leaky boxes and dropped in the Marianas trench
beware the black helicopters...
Nonononono, don't be distracted by the helicopters, look out for th......... (We now return you to your regular programming)
Ahh the Bumper..One of the sore spots I have from the Gentleman who first owned the Jeep and performed the "restoration" himself. But remember, this is Indiana, the climate here is not very kind to steel, but he must not have prepared it properly before painting it, it has bubbly rust spots here and there, just done poorly IMHO. However, he bought the Jeep new in 1986, and was the original owner, so he loved it well and made all the modifications himself.
No, no furless children are in our future, guaranteed
Yeah, if no one has stepped forward and claiming their group did it, they are very gutless.
terrorism is gutless per se... bombing innocent can´t ever be called justified... killing a soldier in mid battle or putting down a dictator for being a ruthless animal is one thing... killing elder, kids and females... that is like shooting a dog...or cattle... it has no honor... never...
Well, messing with people from Boston is just a bad idea in general. Mix big, Irish Catholics with the techno-wizards from MIT...these people will wish the FBI catches them first
dsteingass wrote: Big storm coming my way right now, tornado watches. Yeah, not the best week.
Their over us right now, front sidewalk is flooded. Last year drought, this year flood, next year nurgle of khorne. Well at least I haven't had to water the landscaping we did two weekends ago.
Honestly I don't watch the news that much, but all the rivers I pass are really high. Our old house (still in the process of selling it) flooded a few weeks ago, sump pump went out. Still the buyers want it, just got to get to closing on it. This sale has been nothing but a horror story. Affton is part of St. Louis, but for us to flood it would take God going against his word of not using a flood again. I think my house is at an elevation where the arch would have to be underwater for us to flood.
Think you got it wrong there Dave, I was more of the retching persuasion than the .
Still it was a good sketch, but not as good as the old William shatner sketch at the comic convention. "Have you even kissed a girl?" And "that was obviously the evil Kirk from episode...." Classic
dsteingass wrote: I know, I was quoting the first thing Hf said to Chewey
Yes, that old SNL skit was priceless
I'll have to rematch it, my kids were going nuts while I watched, only heard parts. Just rewatched the snl sketch, just as good now, I knew guys like each of them, one had all the tech manuals and spoke Klingon fluently, just in case the future Trekkers came back to our timeline.
i am quite puzzled why shatner always tired to stay earnest in his productions most of the time... i think he has a more comedic talent as his carreer shows...
Well, this project for an IPMS-USA review has ground to a halt as I discovered this morning as I settled in to work on it..
The wrong sprues in the box for the wings of the building!
oops MiniArt I could use the bigger parts, but the roof wouldn't fit
It's pretty European in design, most US Train stations of the era were more wooden, but I really do like it. I sent the word up the chain to see If I can get a replacement kit or sprues, so it's on hold for now...what to do now...?
Sorry Vik, I've been at this a few hours now, and all I've got is frustration
I'm afraid I don't know the first thing about designing a tank or halftrack. I'm just clueless...and a stupid-looking box with treads
I will start with a disclaimer and say that I haven't built any tanks either...
But I think I see one of your issues with this half-track and well, I can offer some advice about how I'd go about it.
First of all they are nice tracks you have there so it's right to try and show them off and not cover them, but... having plugged in "half track" into a well known internet search engine... I noticed one major difference between all the real world HTs and your's here, and that's the box that makes the rear end is usually sat on top on the treads (or to look at it another way, the treads are recessed into the lower half of the rear end), the passengers are often sitting on top of the tracks. What you've done is put the tracks on the sides of a square without a recess/overhang.
So what I would do is make a box that is only just higher than the tracks (taking account of ground clearance) but narrower that what you have there. So that the overall width of the box plus tracks is the total width of what you want for the whole vehicle (or rear end at least) to be. then build the top of the box out over the tracks.
Also it's probably good to make a sketch of what you want to end up with for the whole vehicle so you have something to work towards and not trying to make it up as you go along.
And you're right Dr. H
However, trying to take them off my piece of gak, it shattered into a million goddamn parts and I can't find one of the bogey parts, so it's over.
I seem to have lost my patience for modeling altogether.
Oh No! That's sucks dude.
These things happen and you will bounce back.
Go chill, come back to it later. It doesn't look like a major piece is missing that you couldn't make yourself and maybe after a little break you may even find it staring at you.
i can see you followed your own basic shapes doctrine here...
wich is all good... just downsize everything you think is right.... that was a lesson i had to teach me too... you never see everything i do when i post my stuff... i´ve torn or thrown against the wall many pieces you will never see... so treading on something is a part of the learning process^^
don´t throw away your first steps in a bigger universe have faith...
well as this is much better looking...this also raised the question as to what you are up to ? will it be a halftrack as the extra pair of wheels suggested or have your plans shifted with the new design?
The cross brace makes me wonder what is planned for going inside... Although if you make it with an enclosed rear then no one will know it's there... it's just that half-tracks are usually lack roofs.
This bit just raises the rest above the treads. I've got the US M3 Halftrack in mind, even though the treads on that old legend were set up differently. Either way, the Large Zinge tires are my only available options for the front wheels.
Right now, I think I'm going to steal heavily from this design
-at least that's the plan right now, may change, I dunno.
What I hint we see is the difference between 28mm scale and heroic 28mm scale, which I think should be renamed "rivet scale".
As you can see the 28 mm size is too puny to handle rivets of Dave's caliber. Thus a new creation must be developed, an the engineering must pass the test of holding 28 rivets
Like the idea of the half track, but do have to agree about needing the big drive wheel in the front.
Also, Dave, all you have to do is look at my thread for inspirations, just smaller scale than I have done with my monster sized beasts of steel! I also plan on future to order more Zinge tracks for some light tanks to make as subs for sentinels, and Zinge's basic wheels and trads remind me of the Renault FT somewhat.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Oh, and the Zinge was used for "Ork Geah"
Well, this was an enjoyable Sunday project to get the hobby blood pumping again, not being a perfectionist, or even historically accurate... just modeling and painting wargame style.
Glad it got you back into it. EVeryone needs projects hat are pointless no and again just for fun. It looks great by the way. Did you get the model as a one off or are you getting into bolt action?
Thanks, I bought the rulebook, this, a couple of jeeps, and a couple boxes of figs last year at GenCon. I haven't played it yet..but that's true for almost all of my games. I just like miniatures
Nice work Dave! that looks sweet :-) the dusting over the main colour is simple but makes it work so well! and it's great to see you doing something tangible again, another project for the museum of Dave! I must visit one day as long as admission isn't too steep?
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It looks simple, but painting Olive Drab to scale is more difficult than you might think. I used three shades of OD, and three weathering powders, including white. I think I am in love with white weathering powders now.
It needs stowage and the .50 gunner needs more work on his face still.
dsteingass wrote: Thanks, -=]_,=- Members have a lifetime membership
It looks simple, but painting Olive Drab to scale is more difficult than you might think. I used three shades of OD, and three weathering powders, including white. I think I am in love with white weathering powders now.
It needs stowage and the .50 gunner needs more work on his face still.
Oh phew! lucky we have a lifetime membership to enter Museum of Dave! I mean, after one visit i'm sure we'll want to go back again and again! especially as we've also seen the sort of food served at the on site cafe! brisket anyone?... Mmmm yes please!
Oh I have no illusions that painting Olive drab was easy! it's an entirely different skill set to paint historicals and similar models, have you seen some of Sons of Orar's work on here? I can't seem to believe how someone so young can paint like that! when are you gonna do the stowage and face? should be sweet when you finish it!
that halftrack looks sweet!... really ...that Olive Drab looks very good... you gotta love that WWII look!... also thanks for showing how tiny compared to heroic scale the bolt action stuff is... i really had played in my mind with the thought of getting me some vehicles one day o another for my own dirty needs.... i think i better stick to scratchbuilding then^^
and for your own creation...
i think the ground level... there is something wrong wth the level of the bottom plate... the wheels and the tracks are a bit lopsided it seems?...
will this be an open top drivers compartment or closed?...
I had to lower the front to be level, if I had slightly larger tires, it would look better, but this is all I have to work with. 'm borrowing heavily from the M3 halftrack, the lower plate looks off now, but it will be the running boards to get into the cab, I'll make 40k-ified fenders that angle up and over the front wheels, no curves. I'm not yet sure how the cab will be yet, but I'd like a Chimera-type Multilaser or lascannon turret where the .50 ring is on the M3, offset on the passenger-side. I don't care if 40K is British, my Gak is driven on the correct (left side)
Mark 5 half track looks the biz' on first impressions.
Ground clearance doesn't look too great, but that probably won't look so bad with the cab, etc. built around it.
The height of the running boards looks fine though.
Ha, it's called the "Right" side for a reason (although that argument works both ways ), but I would have been surprised if you had built it right hand drive.
:okes head in:: where's all the catachan stuff? :p is this a flames of war thread? now see stein, this is why i don't put pics of my tanks up, because then they see these beasts and say, ah yes, now that's more like it. Seriously great work bud
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See you found a use for the square tube . Looking good. Hav you seen the renders for the dreamforge hand mag troop carriers. Their dead sexy. They look even better with rivets though.
We are anxiously awaiting stage 2 deliveries now, stage three is also delayed, but o glorious day when it arrives. I got on of the crusaders, pics in my gallery with an attempt at lighting it up, also in my gallery is pics of the still unassembled resin version he first made available.
I'm planning on using the Eisenkern as either van Saar, or as adept us arbites. They are beautiful models, multiparty plastic, and the accessory sprue comes decked out with so much goodness.
Let me know what you think of them. He is developing his own game system as well. All the models are being produced by wargamesfactory factory, so the price is definitely right.
They are larger than GW, but the hangman will be roughly th size of a land raider and have parts to have 10 troopers actually harnessed in the back, or extra conversion bits.
They are calling them Hannomags, but they are wheeled, and using a reactor engine to power it, nice APC model and I want some, as well as the troops to use as well.
Thanks, It's a very cool-looking APC, but it's slightly too stealthy for the rest of my clunky-looking fleet. Who knows..perhaps one day I'll discover aerodynamics
I'm thinking the half-track will be a Munitorum vehicle, complete with windows with guys in forage caps with elbows out the window..and maybe a dog too
have you looked at inmygraven images thread? he has some welsh medieval fighters... they have big dogs......
but for a good dogmeat you need a real shepard...
Automatically Appended Next Post: the compartment shape looks good... but the backside/storage space looks a bit too high...
i think atm you suffer from the same desease like me... i always start way too big with my projects... as if i am secretly aiming for 54 mm scale and not 28mm^^...
Well, perspective is everything..and of course patience 1. It's still just a shell, it'll be built up on the inside
2. What good is an armored wall if it doesn't protect you?
3. the top of the bed MUST be at the same level as the top of the cab if the turret thingy idea is gonna work.
4. you should always look 3 or 4 steps ahead of my WIP shots
and well... there you are with that riduculous realism^^...
well, i see your point then^^... yeah it is atm really basic shape... so i again have to train myself in the most of the hardest virtues....patience^^...
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4. you should always look 3 or 4 steps ahead of my WIP shots
lol...yeah... as if we could think your way as good as you do^^
It does look a little bit large compared to that chap in the window. But I don't think it's as bad as it first appears.
At least when I first looked at it I though that whole piece was the door and then realised that you have a door set in it.
A couple of things maybe worth trying:
Make the cab lower than the rear section by 5mm to 1cm (depending on how much you have to play with) maybe more.
Also remember that with the bonnet on (and if it's made high enough) the cab won't look too big.
Then (I'm thinking as I type again) the front wheels may become dwarfed, so lowering the front relative to the back may actually make them look bigger than they are...maybe.
How big are those wheels / the whole thing compared to your average 28mm 40k chap? It looks from previous pictures that the wheels are about shoulder height? Compare that to the relative heights of the other half-track with it's chap, I think it looked like the front wheel was maybe waist height?
So...maybe lower the overall height of the vehicle and make the wheels and tracks look larger in a typical OTT40k fashion (like the overly large cannons), rather than building the vehicle to scale with the wheels/tracks.
Edit as conversation has moved on as I typed. Scrap some of those ideas then.
The only thing that pops into my head is that the 50.cal really needs a barrelchange.. i think they have shot one too many bullets with it also great work on that scratchbuilt halftrack. imo it looks abit overscaled tho.
Cool ta. I think the front end will make or break it. I think the options for the bonnet are to keep it flat like on the M3 half-track or have it slope slightly towards the front (like that B&W pic) or exaggerate the sloped grill that you have on the M3. And the arches will have to be suitably big...but not too big... I would suggest much dry-fitting unless you have a patented Skalk Mr smashy hammer...
HAHA!! i just realised that i made commet 1337! i'm so 1337! and no, i don't expect any of you to even know what that is.. it's game related. but basicly it means "elite" here's a link if anyone wants to read about it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet
Thanks Bebop and Rigel!
Hmm. let me take some elevation pics...
The floorboard is slightly lower than the bed, but the bench seat is slightly higher than he bed..if that makes sense.
Keep the arguments coming, I'll do my best to either refute them, or fix them
Oh yes, the frame is lowered slightly there..I had to do that to make the front wheels level. Like I said, bigger wheels would've been preferable, but it was either these..or these
and just something that came to my mind. what if you took four wheels in front instead of two?
i mean they are so small anyways. but then you probably would have to make the front abit longer.. i think that would look really cool!
I'm thinking a duel front wheel set-up would look great on this beast. And as for how these work, I give you the Tyrell P34 - The most famous six-wheeler in F1 history and the only six-wheeler to win a Grand Prix, in Sweden 1976
And Nemo's car from League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Pic#2 is the reason it's a dumb idea IMHO That's the most ridiculous-looking tractor I've ever seen But this is what is known as turbo-redneck[img]
Although, here is a Deuce and a half with front Duallies
But it's a post-war civillian job, and all-wheel drive, a half-track doesn't need all-wheel drive, the fronts simply steer.
The caption reads: Duals were added to the front in soft mud and marsh conditions for greater floation. Do NOT do this on dry pavement or you risk breaking axles!
Sorry, I'm not putting Duallies on the front LOL, it's a half-track and the tank bits do the work
i think if not sloped, then the hood should not be too angled looking... if you have enough material...then try to sand it more curvy...
other than that... get every damned hammer out of your way...as this is a very good looking work as is! i like it very much! you certianly made a dream become a reality here!
by the way...do you want to inlcude a giant sized bumber or even a dozerblade on that one???... the way you still haven´t done something on that part it looks as if you carefully planned ahead of something superior looking
meh..You're right as always Vik...
The scale is just too off, kind of depressing really.
I don't think I want to work on this anymore right now, perhaps I'll finish it later like I did the Corvega when I get an idea and some motivation. If this many of you are questioning the proportions, I should listen.
40K miniatures are ALL unproportional and we are all brainwashed into thinking that is "normal"
You can be brain washed, my mined will stay dirty. 10marines only fit in a rhino after they have been beaten up, swallowed and out by a greater deamon. The suspension of disbelief is gone for me in 40k. That's why I'm doing bloodbowl and necromunda. Trolls, minotaurs and plasma pistols I can believe, but a marine transport that could possibly fit 10 genetically altered super humans with the footprint of a Volkswagen beetle is beyond me.
Soapbox over. Set it to the side, you'll get a better idea when you least expect it. I've done so with a few of my necromunda projects. And most have come out better now.
More bad news I'm afraid...
I've always found that a trip to my local Hobby Shop is usually a cure for depression, so I fired up the jeep (glad I put the soft top on..since it's fething RAINING and SNOWING!!)
>And I found this.
A perfect Tank Chassis!
BUT..I get to the counter, and find out they no longer accept my IPMS-USA membership, or any club member ship (for years It's always gotten me a 10% discount on all things plastic), now it's been replaced with some cheesy rewards card where you've get 3% back for every $100 you spend..how crappy is that!?!
Anyways, this new store may be closer to my house, but I think I'll have to drive across town from now on to the other store when buying plastic to get my 10% discount.
and... i am not argueing about the size per se... just on minor details... the size my friend... i hate rhino´s or for that matter landraiders for their size...my own tanks... well they are all supersized... because i like them to have a certain air of convincing around them...
so your halftrack is good in our shared view of the realistic heroic 40k universe... just not in scale with your other vehicels...
and that is a nice buy... but you will do something to get it closed, eh?
Here's the little backstory on the box
You can see it's all molded in baby-gak yellow too.
and here is the detail of the plan
I can probably skip most of the engine, transmission, and inside detail if it's all going to be covered.
Is it really that close to the Chimera footprint?
I've been trying (and failing) to find a good !GW chassis to build Chimeras from and I gave up, deciding to scratch some Hanomags together in the right size... but the size is important to me (as long as it's close).
that means if you skip these parts... you can use them all later for other stuff! good planning^^
and i dunno why but someone has told me about all the pre war preperations of germany back then... i think they did even more disgused planning...warmongers the lot of them...!
Dave, if its the size of a chimera, then maybe you could make a variant of a salamander scout tank. Add just a little armour to the driver compartment, and a small cannon and voila.
lol... even the kit makers have been sneaky fellas...
and why starving?... germany back then was quite a nice and cultural developed country... the stuf what happened later... it needed have to happen at all... but these basturds wanted it to happen...
the thing is... in all these time travel stories... they only set out to kill the barbling idiot... instead they should have planned in a bigger scale... fragging one idiot never solves problems that scale...
Not that i don't like that you are buying and building vehicles and stuff. cuz i really do, in fact i love when you build vehicles! and they truly look amazing when you finnish them.
but what happened to bag end? i mean the last we saw of it was back on page 15 i think.
and i love that they snuck a turret in there! but it's kinda funny that there is nothing to put it on those teasing mother ers!
Well, it is incredibly detailed
But not as wide as a Chimera
Mind you, this is an Old-Skool Chimera, which has wider hips than the new kit
@Didde- Bag End is a HUGE project, much bigger than I ever anticipated it to be.
Wow the detail on the trundles are awesome, that side shot reminds me of the show howe and howe tech. They built the ripsaw tank, and in one episode the have it stripped down just to the gears and treads, like in your picture, and then run the treads while they shoot it with small arms, 50 caliber rounds, mortar shells, and then an ied. It survived all the tests and is being looked at by the government.
Well, these don't snap together and stay very well, even after clipping each one from the sprue, you then have to hold something smaller than your finger and then trim the dingleberries with a knife. I don't think this would be possible at all without liquid cement, my new friend
You can buy all sorts of tread sets like this, most of the aftermarket sets i've seen are for a specific model by a specific mfr. though. Seems like they would be tailor made for the sprockets and running gears though. not sure how they would fit anything else?
Tat is some pretty cool stuff! It lacks the correct amount of vegetation though, the flock he used is a good base, but it needs more and greener grasses.
Also the Hobbit holes are not in the correct Hobbiton layout
I have grass on the brain because I spent the whole day over at ye olde ancestral home in Ohio mowing the crap..now I need to mow my own grass
Check out the shiny facelift the barns got though
New siding, roof, doors, windows
I haven't seen them look that good since I was in diapers I think I can only wish I'll look that good when I'm 100
i think i could only cope with that landscape for a fortnight... longer and i would go spare...all that free horizon stuff... *shudders*...
and that green grass is on the verge of looking unnatural...really... looks almost as if it glows... what are thy putting in the hose these days? electricity?
That was just the early morning sun, it was wet with dew here, and hour earlier it had frost on it from the freakishly chilly spring nights we've been having. If my camera battery hadn't died, I'd show you more of the horizon..fields everywhere you look, but the horizon ALWAYS has patches of woods in the way, otherwise you would be able to see the curvature of the earth it's so flat
At night though, the stars are like nothing you've ever seen, far away from city lights and smog.
At night though, the stars are like nothing you've ever seen, far away from city lights and smog.
that is probably what i am really envious about...
i only ever saw once the milky way... that was quite beautiful and disturbing as well... we were having a night op during service back then ...marching through some fields... really pissed off and exhausted... but during a short breather i looked to the sky...... didn´t happen that way ever again...
I should make a 40k army based on the Ohio State Highway Patrol, they are World-renown for being Fascists Their logo is even reminiscent of something Mouth off when they are giving you a speeding ticket, and they do this
To get back to a discussion of a couple pages back, and considering our resident german Vik seems to know feth all bout it, i'm hereby offerin meself as a database for anyone wanting to know about german pre-war warmongering say from 1927 and oonward. I'm considerin meself somewhat of an enthousiast if it comes to nazi-german warmachines (not ideas mind you, just the army and its structures) and if necessary, my best friend just graduated magna-cum-lauda on the subject of Königsberg and all things related, so i think i can figure out almost anything we might all need to know. Heck, his professors even had to do research because he had facts discovered them boys didn't even know about. The kid is now 27 and europe's leading expert heheheheeee...
As another sidenote... do you guys think there would be a market for stuff like say my sofas, matrasses, closets, toilets and stuff in 28 mm or heroic size?
See, everything offends a Texan j/k Brian- had to lure you out of the woodwork somehow
Yes, from my studies, the Treaty of Versailles left the proud people of Germany in some dire straits.
My family immigrated from there in 1840, trying to escape the problems of that era.
Probably a market, but probably not very big..The 28mm Nuka Cola machine market isn't as large as I thought it would be..I'd buy your stuff Maus!
As a League member, Galorn gives you a discount remember
Well, I'm up way too damn early for a Saturday. Strange dreams plagued me all night. I think I'll make a pre-dawn raid on Dunkin Donuts too see what strong coffee and copious amounts of sugar will do to my already disturbed mindset...
Dave it's probably a farm hangover since you were nostalgic yesterday. Having your blood pumping again and remembering what it was like to wake up so early. Just remember now you have rivets in your blood and your meant to stay up till the we hours of the morning playing fallout. That should rid you of all that homegrown goodness.
yuck....well...mind you... my tea pot looks disgusting to some... but i know a good teatarnish is good for the taste... but i wouldn´t want to taste other peeps spit...yuck indeed^^
I've started to be tempted by the aroma of coffee again. Never drank the stuff. Kept myself hyped on Mountain Dew and dr. Pepper for the majority of my teens and twenties. But two and a half years ago I went caffine free cold turkey. It was a bad couple of days, but haven't turned back since. I never like the smell of coffee, mainly because I worked at a grocery store in college and they had the coffee on one side of the aisle and dry dog food across from it. Never combine the two smells if it can be avoided. I tried coffee while in Nicaragua, fresh from the plantation, it was okay, but just never acquired the taste.
Ayersville is even smaller than Smallville There is gas station, dairy bar (only open in the summer), crappy pizza place, school, and fire station, that's it.
dsteingass wrote: Actually, I first heard it in the GNR Enhanced mod for FO:3, which adds a bunch more period music to the radio in-game
Sorry I thought you was being sarcastic
Why no model update tracks defeated you in the end LOL
OK I got one for you, I want to build some minis but the arms I really have high hopes for are not released yet, do I wait or try to find alternatives ?
That depends on how quickly you want them done I suppose.
I don't want to put the tracks on until after I fgure out the top, all that pressure and pushing and clamping would likely destroy them, they are very fragile. As previously stated, I have no idea how to design a tank.
did i ever tell you lot that i have no ability to smell anything? has it´s benefits... but downsides too... i cant smell the odor of my wifes hair for instance and i couldn´t even smell my newborn kids...(for those of you who have witnessed a birth...you know what i am talking about...)
Vik I'm in the same boat, worked with fertilizer too much, can't smell most things. Somehow I smell my son every time he farts though, I'm told he's particularly pungent though .
@Dave
I see your point it could break or damage the tracks under pressure, especially with them being Individual tracks.
I want to build them now but I want them to look the best I can make them, I think I will wait for the arms to be released then.
My sense of smell has gone weird over the last 2 years, I have even been to a specialist that can't figure it out.
Everything smells wrong, like perfume smells of alcohol only, not the good kind either,most things have an acidic or mouldy smell to it.
Dave, I might have missed it but the tank kit your building are you going to build it as the plans have it, or do you have another nefarious plan? Inquiring mind and all.
Theophony wrote: Dave, I might have missed it but the tank kit your building are you going to build it as the plans have it, or do you have another nefarious plan? Inquiring mind and all.
Have you ever known Dave build anything straight out of the box
Theophony wrote: Dave, I might have missed it but the tank kit your building are you going to build it as the plans have it, or do you have another nefarious plan? Inquiring mind and all.
Have you ever known Dave build anything straight out of the box
that be downright heresy...!
so i doubt it
and yep... wish i could smell the bad smells to be able to smell the good stuff too...and i visited a doc for that too... he was all interested and meant to send me to some scientists... for their amusement so i´ve elt... but also he said to me...there is nothing else to be done for me...darn...
And for smells... Before they added in some nice bridges the 2-3 hour drive to my Uncle's house would have the fun of having to go along a highway in the middle of nowhere, which for a nice stretch had a dump next to it. So a fun 5 minutes or so of that.
My first time in New Jersey, Ladygeek took me down the Jersey Turnpike so I could experience the infamous smell of what garbage, sewer, oil, and swamp smelled like
@not_u, got you beat bud, my first home after we were married (a condominium), had a great view of a garbage dump from our back porch. It wasn't too bad as the company that ran the facility really took care of it, and used enough lime o whatever to keep the smell down, at least that's what the wife told me.
Here I thought Dave always started out with the intention of building it as the box, but the riveter inside takes over and greatness follows.
Yep! Except I discovered with the latest kit, the 1/72 Railway station that the instructions were printed wrong, so MRC/MiniArt is printing new instructions and shipping them out. I saved it before being mass-marketed too heavily
Don't forget to add that to the resume. Expert instruction reader/fixer. It should go under the skills heading, under riveting and slightly above chasing Wild tangents in threads
dsteingass wrote:My first time in New Jersey, Ladygeek took me down the Jersey Turnpike so I could experience the infamous smell of what garbage, sewer, oil, and swamp smelled like
i think she draged you along for pure eductaional reasons... your underhive sets will gain just with that the extra quality only reality can teach you...again this goes to show...she is indeed a keeper^^
Haha that's great, very cool setup. The Ent looks as good as can be for a giant Mobil tree made of Legos. So HS soon till you get one and have a duo between it and he Death Star?
Passing on the Lone Ranger Legos, even though I loved the show as a child, I can't get over the looks of Tonto. No wonder he calls the Lone Ranger kemosabe if he's forced to dress like this!
Hey Dave can I get a little bump. Added some stuff, and will hit another update shortly.
Aww come on man! It's Johnny Depp! And Union troops! We haven't had Wild West LEGO for years!
I feel like painting today,
Looking for work and attempting armor modeling is depressing me
My sincerest apologies Vik..I respect your talent for it, but I just don't have it. It doesn't hold my interest, it only frustrates me.
Very nice vulture you have going there Dave. I envy the imperial guard and all their wonderful toys, especially those punisher guns under the wings. Almost enough to make a convert out of me....but not quite. My marines will have to be completed before I do any other GW army. Now I might pick up some GW vehicles to build a guard army using my dreamforge Eisenkern troops, but I will at least wait till all the dreamforge stuff comes out first.
It is Johnny depp, I will give that credit, but he just is making Tonto look like a tool. I'm not Native American at all, so I can't say I'm offended, but it just looks like a slap in the face to me.
I'd love if they do enough figs to make an F-Troop set. I want to blow up my own watchtowers
Power n function Lego are my favorites. I got the caterpillar dozer a few years back as well as some of the other powered kits. My son go the RC train set for Christmas as well as the police and fire stations.
What exactly is a 4-6-0 train Dave? It's probably something real basic and I'm overlooking it.
It's how the Steam Engines were classified, counting the wheels: 4 front steering, 6 drivers, 0 rear steering There were many variations before Diesel took over
<nerd> Actually, Dave, the classification of Diesel wheel arrangements is as complex, in the United States. Only if you expand Steam to include worldwide and prototype arrangements do you get, roughly, double. </nerd>
whoa.... good news on the lego front it seems... reminds me strongly of the deathstar build... and the lone ranger sets... that train does look awesome...!
your camo looks stunning... i love that tiger stripes camo!
how come so much is happening here on dakka when i choose to go to bed early??? *mumblegrumble....*
-at least that's the plan right now, may change, I dunno.
when are you gonna do the stowage and face? should be sweet when you finish it!
you cannot steer a vehicle very easily that way 
