yup^^

been working on the details of the tracks...and a little sidetracked thingy i did some weeks ago for my sentinels i will show later...^^

Cool!

There is one other thing I wanted to share with you. Its probably a little too orky for you but I thought it was a good idea when I saw it.

http://www.shapeways.com/model/237928/orky_hex_bolts.html?gid=mg

Obviously these are bolts rather than rivets but its a cool product

very nice look, did you test them? the pic in the shop looks like a 3D image...this could be hlepful for other future projects tho...thanks for the linky asylum_inmate


as for coolness...

how about that?




the grill/vent is from Zinge... check out his blog here on dakka, he produces nice and good resin details for many purposes!


one question tho, as you now see the trackssystem in almost finished status...should i cover the treads like in some tankversions done or rather the open version?

It's looking good Vik! I really like all those tiny rivets. I think you should try it out, covering up the top tracks. Don't glue it on yet, have a look first, and see if you get the feeling right.

problem is if i want to do that i would need to cut away some substance of the treads beforehand...bloody problem right there...^^

oh and thanks...did a bit of the other tracksystem too but for sanity sake i had to make a pause^^

Yeah, all the tiny bits would drive me crazy.

Just make some rough track covers maybe? about the shape you want the real ones to be. or you could just do a mockup, make another piece of track, with the covers on it. Just to see, though that would be a lot of work extra

Good work Vik!

I would leave the tracks uncovered tbh as it has more the landship type feel

Viktor von Domm wrote:very nice look, did you test them? the pic in the shop looks like a 3D image...this could be hlepful for other future projects tho...thanks for the linky asylum_inmate

I have to be honest I have never ordered from that site. I just like finding suppliers of obscure bits, and thats how I found them
(These are what drew me to the site http://www.shapeways.com/model/243499/rude_techno_fist__f____you_.html?gid=rg, yeah, childish I know)

They just seem to do small scale 3D printing based on user submitted designs, if you got their homepage I think you can download the software to make your own designs, there are a few people who make warhammer compatible parts there so its worth looking around

Nice uinon jack!

Why cover up those lovely treads?!

Just time to protective coat the shoes and then they should be safe for a spray priming! Nice vent by Zinge, and the rivets are looking very nice for your design!

COmin g along nicely now vik, and that is a cool vent you found there.

Soooo is my tank almost done yet, Vik?

well if you would want to actualy buy a scratchbuilt j3r03n then this beast would be even heavier than shadowsword or a baneblade^^ ...and we aren´t done yet... much more to come...

thanks monkey, the vent really pushes the detaillevel forward! got quite a bunch of other items too that will feature from timne to time here...

well shrike i was a bit unsure as to let them be purely uncovered...hmmm seems they are worthy to be shown completly^^

the rivets are a tad big i guess but the look works quite fine for me...i have to find a middleway inbetween doable work and good looking i guess...as for need to know the rivets are 1.5 cm in diameter...

hazzer...wait till you see it painted...will be a gothic union jack then! by the way do you recon it would be cool looking if i add rivets to the union jack too? after all it is part of the sidearmor...

after your post i googled just for fun the word landship and got some realy impressive suggestions to prove your point chibi^^

scrazza:after my last riveted up tracksystem (both are completly done now!!!!) i let the idea slip for now...

asylum_inmate: lol that is a nice find... one might ask tho how you found that product and by what kind of search did it pop up^^ interresting concept to do small runs after customers own designs...this has to be kept for later use^^


oh and did i say i have done the second tracksystem too? well i did^^ so more to come tomorrow... i spare you the repititive pics^^ tomorrow then more fresh detailed stuff coming up^^

cheers and thanks for your nice comments^^


vik

Vik, you tease!

well i aim to please...








(rhymes even^^)

LOL! oh you!

Looking SUPERB Vik. Is it wrong that i am loving the way the card makes it look like the tank is made of wood? Probably............

I like the amazing amount of detail you're putting into this project keep it coming as I'm eager for more!

Super work mate, the rivest and plating suit you beast , and the vent is a welcome addition , who votes for Vik to paint his behemoth in wooden plank colours ? would make an interesting take on tanks .

I wonder, if he rivetted the rest of the plates, maybe they would count as strips of metal armor? or is he going to do more of the special iron work like the main hull and turret have over laid on the "planks"?

at shaso:

is he going to do more of the special iron work like the main hull and turret have over laid on the "planks"?

well i had thought about that... i am a bit undicided about that if i would make with further "fretwork" detailing the tracks way to busy looking...your thoughts?


at neil:

the rivest and plating suit you beast

lol...was that pun intended?^^ anvildude would probably... he came up with that idea too...tell you what, make a mockup if you are in the mood and i give it serious thought, deal?^^

at NecronBender:
thanks mate^^...definatly more to come^^

at Perkustin: seems there is a movement gathered here thats on the outlook for some wooden tanks? hmmm i have to give that some serious thought... if i recall correctly even my wife upon looking at the tracks said they looked like wooden planks...

later i will update you with the latest in steampunky tank design...^^


vik

Can't wait to see it.

ok, done a bit of try and error kind of to the tracksystem...i did an optional fretwork to the outer sides...err...pics describe it better i guess^^





is this too much or just good enough?

Looks fantastic Vik!
I would say that it looks the part!
The extra fretwork ties the sideplates in with the hull by having the same style. Good move imho

ok... i was afraid i might overdo the look...this piece was just for try i will make a better one and then on the other side as well

thanks chibi^^

bloody hell vik that is amazing picks up jaw

thanks mate^^ the thing is with this later deatilwork...what with my not so accurate work i have to build everything later on in match to fit try and error way...but when one has figured out how to work is flowing^^

well if you would want to actualy buy a scratchbuilt j3r03n then this beast would be even heavier than shadowsword or a baneblade^^ ...and we aren´t done yet... much more to come...

Who said anything about buy? *cracks whip*

Weight should be fine....Im sure they'll let me carry it on ze plane. After all only a short hop from Amsterdam to Berlin ^_^
(I checked Car too but damn...8 hour drive >_<

i read recently that even mini figs with weapons aren´t allowed anymore on planes...stupid eh?

as for whips... got a copperplated bum...so little to no effects for that...

New detailing adds a gak-load of coolness to the beast vik, and as to the Union Jack, I'd keep that un-riveted.

And someday you'll have to regale us with the tale of how you got your tail copper-plated.

thanks monkey, and my copperplated tail... now that would be telling^^, can´t have that , now can´t we?^^

as for the uniion jack getting rivets, you´re probably right, the victorians would have been bound to find a way to not to dishonour the flag by adding rivets to it...and besides, i think i would pretty much over do it then with the riveting...^^

been busy... all your nice and helpful comments are really boosting my creativity and productivity! thanks mates for that!

as the tracks are seemingly done, it is time to work on more technical thingies^^...behold the boiler (WIP):





the flash did some crude effects on the glue but i guess once cured this will look quite good...note that this is very early wip status of the boiler and thus it will see some more work done in form of plating and stuff...

can anyone guess what inspiration was involved in the form of the boilder?^^


vik

no guess on the inspiration, but good work!

ahh... i think there are some peeps around that might guess that still^^

thanks shrike^^

Excellent work Vik! the fretwork on the tread system is a nice touch and fits so well with the rest of the design concept.
Two schools of thought were side by side with Victorian design, the Industrialized minimalism, (Plain smooth plates with rivets/maybe welding,) and the artistic approach, and this tank looks like the artistic approach!

Now my Perun is from of course a cold austere industrial utilitarian approach of design concepts, hence why my big monster is all plates and rivets with only Aquilas added.
The Perun on my thread is all about cold, hard functionality.
Afterall, it comes from a cold, hard place.

Your beauty here is from a place that appreciates the functionality, but also appreciates form as well as the function.

The Khadrovians I feel would view your world as a decadent, and overly extravagant peoples!

For my IG art is for hanging on a wall, or standing in a museum as they see it. But your tank shows that your space Victorians believe that you can have both art as well as performance, in fact, your tank is an awesome display of performance art!

And what Shaso's just said is a pretty good summary of the Steampunk ideal, actually. Functionality, but done in a beautiful way.

And I still think Vik should try a wooden look. Just paint one of the sides brown and see how it looks. You can always paint back over it again.

thank you very much! i think with your words you have captured all that i have tried to achieve in one post! for me the victorians indeed represent a twisted in time and space version of the ourworldy victorian british army. the sense for art and fine materials cobbled together with the harsh funcionality of a brutal tool like the tank..."while we have to act brutal as we slay our enemies, we can still do it like artful gentlemen!"
tho i wouldn´t go as far as saying that your perun looks cold...not by a long shot my friend! won´t have something that unnice said about it! no, while i see they live in a harsh and unfreindly envireoment the khardovians have to rely far more on efficience than the victorians as i picture my guardsmen to mainly work their bloddy deeds in the lands like african steppe or the european trench wars...whereas you have the icy wastelands to conquer and hold...thus your imperials have a quite more hostile enviroment...the amount of detail you put into your perun simply makes it not possible to see it as cold... the tank has a soul...come to that most vehicles show some kind of charcter after time...if you insist the perun would lve up to it´s name and be a weapon starring powerhouse of untamed ferocity, steel clad and ready to smite its foes wherever they are...
the steamtank here is rather a more posh looking variant of a super heavy...they come to the front line eventually, but they will never be in a hurry...this would be an unforgiong ungentlemently behavior...thus not happening! ^^

Nice tank you got there, looks a lot like a British WWI tank, really fits in well with the theme.
I really like the tracks to, simple but effective.

thanks lord creed

tho i would now if i do another one one day not use the foam anymore...hopefully next tank will be all plasticcard then...

Those treads are EPIC. Lose the flag on the side and re-cast it so I can have treads for making tankes for my Iron Warriors!

nah...the flag is needed^^ and the tracks were rather easy made from some thin foam i got...

Viktor von Domm wrote:thank you very much! i think with your words you have captured all that i have tried to achieve in one post! for me the victorians indeed represent a twisted in time and space version of the ourworldy victorian british army. the sense for art and fine materials cobbled together with the harsh funcionality of a brutal tool like the tank..."while we have to act brutal as we slay our enemies, we can still do it like artful gentlemen!"
tho i wouldn´t go as far as saying that your perun looks cold...not by a long shot my friend! won´t have something that unnice said about it! no, while i see they live in a harsh and unfreindly envireoment the khardovians have to rely far more on efficience than the victorians as i picture my guardsmen to mainly work their bloddy deeds in the lands like african steppe or the european trench wars...whereas you have the icy wastelands to conquer and hold...thus your imperials have a quite more hostile enviroment...the amount of detail you put into your perun simply makes it not possible to see it as cold... the tank has a soul...come to that most vehicles show some kind of charcter after time...if you insist the perun would lve up to it´s name and be a weapon starring powerhouse of untamed ferocity, steel clad and ready to smite its foes wherever they are...
the steamtank here is rather a more posh looking variant of a super heavy...they come to the front line eventually, but they will never be in a hurry...this would be an unforgiong ungentlemently behavior...thus not happening! ^^

Ah, just stating the cold hard facts of Khaddy life.

qoute "can anyone guess what inspiration was involved in the form of the boilder?^^ "


Hellhound chimera ? or crassus armoured transport


http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/CRASSUS-ARMOURED-TRANSPORT.html

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Imperial_Guard/Imperial_Guard_Tanks/ARTEMIA-PATTERN-HELLHOUND.html


where ever the insperation comes from it looks good mate,
@ shazo , nice words matey you really summed up Viks tank , although i do agree with vik your tank is a still a piece of art , cold fuctional brutalsit art , designed by corbusier for utiliterianian folks , un like the dandy Vik -Torians

well they should more embrace the power of the steam... one never feels cold when in the vicinity of a full powered steamboiler!

see for yourself and get a warm feeling by just looking at^^



i hope i can put a smallish grill from zinge in the gap of the fretwork here...stay tuned for a later update in the evening^^

vik

...that 8 hour car drive is looking better and better, Vik >.>

Mwahahaha!

It amazes me that you are able to make that beast look better and better.

ain´t seen nuffin`yet...well yet is now and this means update time is upon ye! repent!

see now it is obvious that this is indeed going to be a steampunk tank:




the pipes of the exhausts are made from cardboard bobbins.. thus perfectly cut to shape and good to glue on the hull...the connection between boiler and pipes is beneath the hull^^ clever idea, eh?


and the next thingy i want to share is specially for shrike to tempt him into buying a holepuch for his own:

a sentinel close combat weapon...made from plasticcard and done in the same fashion like the fretwork i did for the tank...it looks like the theeth of the sawblades...







vik

Oh Yeah Baby!
It's stacking up well Vik!

thank you sir^^

This is great!
This baby comes along nicely - I really admire what you can do from "cheap" cardboard!
Wizardry!

Cheers
Klaus

Holy... wow, just... wow!!
Subscribed,subscribed,subscribed!!

thanks klaus, from you thats a mighty compliment!

joshoftheforest: thanks man^^ and hope you become a regular around these parts^^

Looking very cool with the boiler and stacks in position. Will there be reinforcement rings on the stacks?

And nice work on the chainswaw.

love your use of plasticard

^
what they all said.
great work as usual, ect. ect.

I just might! Absolutely adore steampunk and your tank is simply breathtaking!

thanks fellas, thats all lovley to read^^

my internet has hickups currently so i might be out of touch abruptly...

but if all works smoothly i will show tomorrow some new feats^^

@Neil101: True, the harsh functional beauty of the Perun is that is quite the functional monster, and will be effective for killing other vehicles, light vehicles and infantry Folks back in 1915 or so would have been stunned by this beasty!
Utilitarian Khaddies, and the dandy-esque Vik-torians.

@Vik: Awesome that the grill fit! Love the stacks, they fit it to a T! (Tea?) Yes, if you can, make re-inforcement bands for the stacks! when you paint the boiler-grill, make it all orangey-yellow to show it is burning fuel for the tank!

Awwe yeaaahhh... Spikey smokestacks, now that's what I'm talking about.

Now, when you finish, you'll need to take a look at some of the tutorials for smoke and steam effects- use those on your smokestacks, so they are belching black fumes from the burning coal.

glue-hard cotton wool and paint it black

hello friends! update time again!

first answer to your comments:

at shaso:
the grill to the boiler is the smaller version of zinges stuff, on the tracks the grills are the bigger version...thanks for the praise of the stacks, i was rather lucky to get a technique to cut the points out without any dammage caused to the bobbins...i used a fitting piece of wood inside the bobbins and thus the knife had something to press against...rather easy but someone has to think about this idea^^ thankfully it was me^^

at anvildude:
thanks, i new you would like them, i rumaged around my box of odd bitz and came up with that... i knew i wouldn´t get away with plain stacks^^ and you bet that there will be when finished some black oily smoky clouds billowing out of the stacks^^

at shrike:
neil has done some awsome flame and smokeeffects with some cottonwool i guess...before i do mine i have to take a refreshing peek at his gallery for insights^^


so i said above update... and i did some work... glue work that is...i firstly glued the sponsons to the main body...the tracks are currently still free but will be glued later on... they stit however around the sponsons and thus i was able to provide you with a footage to show an actual now tanklike looking scratchbuild that is not anymore in fear of falling apart^^


also note the last pic is a scale shot to show how really big this beast is compared to a mere predator tank i have lying around^^ and no it is not in fact an epic predator^^


front:



backside:


and the scale comparrision to the predator:

talk about true scale... any tank that big is true! period^^ (as in: no one could say after being rolled over by thsi: i can´t believe it... look at the size of that thing...in this behemoth you don´t have to belive in... just trust yer eyes^^



as of now i know what needs to be done... the insides of the tracks need taking care rivets wise and also rivets on the turret and the body...but still i think some details are missing.... i think one is that i need a means of entrance to the beast... tho i have an escape hatch in the front...beneath the lower flamer, but still there needs to be a main entrance...any ideas of you more known tankapreciaters out there? also what else do you think is needed still? i am open for suggestions!


cheers, vik

that tank is really coming together now mate.
the scale was very...enlightening ^^

yup... i got pretty used to it´s size and then as i wanted to make scale shots for comparrision i thought why always use minis ? why not an actual tank...boy did i make a stupid face then...^^ the predator looks like a toy^^...er...then again...?°_°

Blimey, she is a big girl isn't she?

Hadn't quite grasped it was that big, all coming togehter nicely now

yep, definatly a big girl...with big guns^^

as of now i know what needs to be done... the insides of the tracks need taking care rivets wise and also rivets on the turret and the body...but still i think some details are missing.... i think one is that i need a means of entrance to the beast... tho i have an escape hatch in the front...beneath the lower flamer, but still there needs to be a main entrance...any ideas of you more known tankapreciaters out there? also what else do you think is needed still? i am open for suggestions!

Think you need to make a plate on the back "We Brake for No One."

..or "We Brake for Crumpets."

lol^^

LOL! Vik the tank of yours is truly massive! I think it even is bigger than Perun! I was inspired by you pics to take some size compariosns with a chimera and leman exterminator.

*looks sheepish* do you recon i overdid the size? well one thing is for sure... the aim was a more truescale tank...and then the predator is a very tiny can to begin with...

Superheavies are allowed such scale Vik! You did it! that is looking about 1.75 times the width, and definitely twice the height of the Perun! I used a Chimera as they are about the same dimensions roughly as the predator. A Mighty big tank for the Apocalyptic future battlefield! It would make a Baneblade nervous! A definite 4structure point beast!

A big girl with big guns indeedy!

and well stacked if I may so say

super stuff Vik just great to see how big she is.

i recon she must have at least a crew up to 10 men... i think she collects men^^

I calculate that my Perun needs 10men, my estimate is that you need more for the steam system needs feeding crew as well as maintenance, maybe a 12 man crew as high as 14 for some land battleships!
Let us see, the 4 sponson guns, the driver, heavy flamer system, the main gun needs loader and gunner, commander, and at least an enginseer and servitors for the engines., 12 men needed,

Perun needs 4 sponson gunners, driver, radio/bow gunner, barbette operator, turret needs gunner and commander, and an enginseer.

that is a reasonable amount of crew, i before thought about two feeding and maintanance but i think your aproach is far much sensible. when i see this amount of crew i am a bit reminded at the manpower a stardestroyer of star wars needed...namly over 10.000 people... think about that when you see next time one of those ships going boom^^


by the way do you recon where i should make some entrance hatches? i am currently out of my wit where to add them...

For a construct that big, safest areas are the belly and the rear. I would make a hatch to the left or the right lower rear. maybe a ladder on the back to the entry hatch on the panel just close to the stack. OR the lower facing panel on the mudd facing plate. Some tanks also had side armor door hatches made of armor for the crew to climb in through and then lock. Looking at the side panels, it will need a "ladder" and then be close to the front sponson area. But one on each side would also work. The belly hatch is usually an emergency hatch for escapes.

I see that, I think "Hey, looking good! The fretwork's really nice."

I see the second pic, with the scale, I go "Bwuuuhhh??!!"

That is BIIIIGGGGG!

Er, rather, GGRRROOOOOßßßßßßßEEEE!

True Vik has built Ein Riesige-Dampf-Panzer!

i see you all get fluent through steampunk in german^^ thanks

anvildude.. when i took the scaleshot pic i thought nothing of it... then i first saw it on screen i thought...urghh this can´t be right... then i thought NO, this is exactly right...a heavy monster like that must be that big...and with this monster one can actually imagine a crew fighting and living inside for some time! and when will we see some of your work? (haven´t forgotten about that^^)

at shaso: i think you are right i will try to make a basic deign of a hatch... i even thought of making hatches on each spnson on the top... tho then i wouldn´t know how the crew might climb there... the union jack is a definite likitation to the design...points for style... minus points for use it seems^^
the position near or beneath the stacks is a good idea, there it probably will be in good use...and i ladder i also have from zinge that just waites to be used^^ so if i am able to make some work done on the heavy then this will be it!


vik

Wow, it looks awesome. Great work!

thanks mate^^

I don't know. Probably as soon as I can either borrow my Vater's Smart Phone, or when I find the USB cable for my digital camera.

Viktor von Domm wrote:i see you all get fluent through steampunk in german^^ thanks

just looked it up on a translation program

at shaso: i think you are right i will try to make a basic deign of a hatch... i even thought of making hatches on each spnson on the top... tho then i wouldn´t know how the crew might climb there... the union jack is a definite likitation to the design...points for style... minus points for use it seems^^
the position near or beneath the stacks is a good idea, there it probably will be in good use...and i ladder i also have from zinge that just waites to be used^^ so if i am able to make some work done on the heavy then this will be it!


vik

But those points for style are part of the Vik-torians style. As for hatches, yeah, side hatches and that rear hatch with ladder parts for crew access.

did a rear hatch and will show pics later, and yep you are right, one of the major aspects of the steamtank is the style...totally flies via rule of cool^^

Exactly, rule of cool applies, especially at the massive Apocalyptic scale battles.

Wow , she's a big un, I like big butts and I can not lie
You other brothers can't deny.....etc..

well big is certainly beautiful when it comes to your gargant,
the eteam pipes , or exploded cigars are my favourite. really gives it that Vik - Torian look . You have really outdone yourself on this project matey , and you should be justifiably proud of your great achievements . Your even being referenced in the venerable Monkey Trolls thread , along with some other notable dakka genious

Look forward to seeing your engine grill in place . and then the funtimes of painting

Look forward to seeing your engine grill in place

er...should there be another one still? what withndetails i am currently a bit low on ideas here...also the tank feels sometimes a bit cramped with stuff...next big work is finishing the riveting on the inside of the tracks and also some on the turret...and the body...then truly the painting might begin...*starts chewing fingernails*^^

Oh yeah i forgot i already saw it I dont think the tank needs any more details , it is fine as is .

"pheww" *wipes away sweat* ^^

As good as the detailings and style of the tank are I think its quite a bit too big.

Wow!
That's really big - almost beats the ZEUS
The proportions of the tank by itself look quite right and harmonic. However, to me the driver position and the hight turret seem to be too high - at least compared to the tiny tank.
Maybe you could do a scale shot with a standard IG trooper in front and one on the fender?
I think this would give an better idea of the scale and proportions - as those old tanks were in no relation to any reasonable size anyway
Cheers
Klaus

at klaus:

i will upload some scaleshots this evening, reasonable request^^
as for the heights of the turret and others... i tried to be as much truescale as i could...sometimes i grant you i may be a bit bigger than needed...has something to do with making up the shapes as i went along...next time i will do some more planned aproach on tankmaking! saw inbetween many falts i had to totally redo, thus creating sometimes a wild mix of not exact edges and angles...this wont happen next time!
i figured that in the turret the gunner would be rather standing behind the mechanisms rather than sitting...well that was my reasoning behind some measurements at least...


at lukewild 1982:

the size is rather not a feature that gives me problems, the main cuase i built it wasn´t gamerealted...so rules and such things didn´t aply here all that much...it was a (bigger than i thought) sideproject to go along my growning imperial army...there will be other vehicles coming in the time being and these will benefit greatly from some of the facts i learned with this tank...besides i restocked my tools quite a bit since i started this and thus better parts can now be made^^


cheers to all, vik

No worries Vik, with the weapons and armor and such, I can use my copy of the VDR issue and make that Steam-tank of yours with points costed in as well!

so my friends i promised some scaleshots and although they are later then i wanted here they are...

viewpoint in the front and vet


entry hatch in the rear and two vets


turret with hullstanding vet


sponson with two vets for scale and height comparrision


and some vets in a nonchanlantly kind of way lounging around the steamtank...


also some hatchshots for detail showoff^^

emergency front hatch (with flash)

without flash for better detailshoing


and the rear entry hatch full view



beside taking pics i got a bit lazy on the tank...i hope i can motivate me to work further on him today...


cheers, vik

Definitely the Superheavy class of tank, and roomy inside except for the internal gears.

also pretty stuffy one might geuss... after all there is a steamboiler and coal and all such things...maybe they went for crude oil to be used instaed of oil...this would help a bit...

Blessed prometheum as the fuel supply, and it can be liquiified or left as ore.

this is a good idea...

Is all part of the lore and fluff in the WH40K novels.

just looked it up on lexicanum...sometimes thats pretty much needed for my understanding of the universe...thank god of the wiki nation^^

Still looking good...how close to some paint?

Wow, I didn't think it was that big, looks real nice.
I really love your vets too

yep my vets... after dooing them and purchasing millions of catachans via ebay i ever since contemplating the idea to make a pure aussie force of their own...

and yep...big is better^^

at manoknok: rivets first... lots of `em...

Looking good Vik, any idea what color scheme you will use?

on the vets or the tank?
the tank will be a sandy color with a bit of off white and some red aplicvations...the vets done in a aussie fashion might get a totally new scheme... i am pretty stuck with the sandy and red and white... after all my SM are done with the exact same colors too... so a nice and refreshing scheme might be needed here...

Sounds good to me for both Vik

Go Vik Woo! Looking awesome mate.

thanks mate^^

Thanks for the scale shots Vik , also good to see you Ig guys still bushwacking about

I think I should just set up an automated post every time you update with pics saying:
"great work, mate!"
or
"looking good!"

nope... you could get creative with words... i know you have it in you^^

at neil:
yep they are bushwhacking like nothing^^

Why not do the 'gingerbread' up in black or Tin Bitz-style Metallic?

'gingerbread'

sorry you lost me there, must be a vocab impediment on my part...

Viktor von Domm wrote:

'gingerbread'

sorry you lost me there, must be a vocab impediment on my part...

You're not alone, vik

Vocab?
I'd love to give constructive critiscism but I simply can't find fault with it.
I'll try to when you start painting though- "you missed a spot"

lol... well actually i am working atm on a transport tank...i think i am a friad to finish the steamtank so that i have to paint it afterwards and then ruin everything with a crappy paintjob...

Gingerbread- like Am die Hexenhoff.

do you mean "knusperhäuschen"? like that:


so you refer to the fretwork i did with the holepunch? that should be done in tinbiz and black? so a rather darker tank you suggest? something like a steam lokomotive? hmmm this is at least a working scheme...the only problem i see it wouln´t realy well blend in with the rest of the army... tho i give you that thsi could be done with less effort as the tinbitz would only need to be used as detail and drybrush for weathering...hmmm...someone got thoughts to that too?

Stetig nährt sich das Eichhörnchen!
I'm impressed by your staying power when it comes to your tank. Loads and loads of rivets and one can see the endless hours invested into this project. Even though the overall design isn't exactly my cup of tea, I admire the results of your relentless work.

WOW Wowowow!

Didnt know you'd finished it! It's huge-ly awesome. Will you find a big enough paintbrush? Are more scrathbuilds on the way?

Perkustin wrote:WOW Wowowow!

Didnt know you'd finished it! It's huge-ly awesome. Will you find a big enough paintbrush? Are more scrathbuilds on the way?

heh, try painting a shadowsword with a medium brush

Viktor von Domm wrote:lol... well actually i am working atm on a transport tank...i think i am a friad to finish the steamtank so that i have to paint it afterwards and then ruin everything with a crappy paintjob...

I briefly considered a tank kitbashed together out of 8 Landraiders with a Landraider as a on-board tank...then I did a mental calculation of how much the models would cost.... >.>


Oh yeah for gaks and giggles try looking for Warhammer Landmate on Google

this might be actually even simpler as how i see it the parts used would only cost a small fortune but the assembly i don´t see so stressfull...but nevertheless the whole damn thing is a brick and a half....if i ever saw one...whoeee


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at perkustin...definatly other scartchbuilds on the way... i wanted for some time to make a big walker and then i am currently working on a kind of chimera...

at shrike:

heh, try painting a shadowsword with a medium brush

depends of the amount of detail you want to show...one could paint the whole thing only with tinbitz drybrushed on black primer and then some wash and your done^^


at baiyuan:
yep das eichhörnchen ist noch lange nicht satt und muss noch einiges sammeln^^

the rivets i find actually once made the aplication quite a tranquile activity...and when done rewarding as anything!

Yep seen that beast before!

that tank is ridicoulous!

neil101 wrote:that tank is ridicoulous!

It carries normal sized rhinos and predators inside it as well.

awww... was meant to be an addition to your oddball thread... now all is spoiled^^

i think i better get to bed...it is again half past one in the night...darn...


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one thing tho... linky to the mega raider...
http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5071&page=3

burn your wallets and then gauge your eyes^^

PM Away Vik! Lets see if I can get you drooling over some more plastic/metal crack.

About to post pics of scratched Perun!

shasolenzabi wrote:

neil101 wrote:that tank is ridicoulous!

It carries normal sized rhinos and predators inside it as well.

Would it be too much to ask whether there is actually enough room for the optional extras for powering the mobile fortress?

I think it is powered like the Flintstones car....lot of holes for Guardsmen to put their feet through so they can walk it forward.

I did not build that thing! BUT knowing GW and the fluff, the treads have the engines and power plants for the mobility inside them. I did however catch it years ago on Warseer, and the guy also built Tau monstrosities as well as that OGRE sized beast!

I reckon the Flinstone idea is more plausible than engines in the treads

Next time I move a Rhino instead of making vroom vroom noises I am gonna have to do that baddiddely-baddiddely Hanna-Barbera sound that Fred and Barney's transport makes!

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:I reckon the Flinstone idea is more plausible than engines in the treads

Next time I move a Rhino instead of making vroom vroom noises I am gonna have to do that baddiddely-baddiddely Hanna-Barbera sound that Fred and Barney's transport makes!

LOL!

Big tank, not sure of the marines over the tread area they must have no lower body or it was ground away by the tread.


piant paint paint, really want to see that tanky of yours in colour!

lol
Thought they were Turrets

You know the "cut a lady in half with a chainsaw" trick...

LOL! Servo turrets made to look like Marines!

Viktor von Domm wrote:

this might be actually even simpler as how i see it the parts used would only cost a small fortune but the assembly i don´t see so stressfull...but nevertheless the whole damn thing is a brick and a half....if i ever saw one...whoeee

meh, not enough anti-tank.

Viktor von Domm wrote:
at shrike:

heh, try painting a shadowsword with a medium brush

depends of the amount of detail you want to show...one could paint the whole thing only with tinbitz drybrushed on black primer and then some wash and your done^^

hey, my stompa was meant to be like that ^^
took around 4 hours from bitz to stompa (not including waiting for it to dry)
and now I have his little killa kan minions! (waiting for the mother to return home with the camera)

at shrike:

waiting for the mother to return home with the camera)

that sounds almost like : my doge ate my homework...kind of...

with the marines firing above the treads he really was not careful enough...this looks ridiculous...but i do give shasos idea consideration that the engines are inside the treads... after all it is a double width tracksystem and thus this might at least feasable... not that any amount of motors could move that fortress and when the road ahaead wasnt paved before then the tank (for lack of a better word...) wouldn´t move anyway a meter...

at santobell:

piant paint paint, really want to see that tanky of yours in colour!

cheesh^^ your right...

at jeroen: dorlled all right already^^

at chibi and jeroen: that flintstone joke made me crack^^


vik

LOL! That is a 40K tank reality has no place!

that is almost sigworthy^^

LOL! True, but it is a noted saying for most gamers!

well i go that route provided i dont have to use punny tanks in games^^

LOL!

well kids no picupdate today... i have been busy with scratchbuilding but the project i have been working on is not deemed fit to be shown just yet...

but i do want to share something... recently i have talked about my kids...the two younger ones felix and oskar...on neils blog and how they are interrested in the in getting to be read the second codex imperial guard... the only one i have currently^^ (besides the old catachan one too) and after that today my middle son felix played a bit with lego tech and came up with this:


his statement to his work: it is a machine to peel away the skin of men...anyone think that this is not worthy to be put here? i see a future scratchbuilder if anyone^^

again just wanted to share some parental pride^^


vik

"An instrument for the flaying alive of men"

Being of a more delicate and squeamish nature I would be seriously worried not proud Vik

Sadistic cruelty obviously runs in the family!

well i feel flattered...thanks didn´t think you`d notice... getting your kids into brutal games and trying to gauge their fellow kids on the playground with a shovel doen´t happen without lots of encouragement and teaching....one might say at first glance that this is only a habit...but it really involves coaching a lot...so thanks again...i will say him that you asked after him...by the way i still got your adress on the envelope...

























after all i am german...one might never know...hehehe

Viktor von Domm wrote:at shrike:

waiting for the mother to return home with the camera)

that sounds almost like : my doge ate my homework...kind of...
vik

here in good old germany we already had fathers day...what will yer collection of pops get from you?

Ladies and Gents, unrelated to this topic entirely. I think I found my Chimera stand ins w00tle! *happydances*

Alright then, slightly back on topic of said Victorian Army.

Here Vik make a detachment of troops belonging to one of her Majesty's Colonies:



Not to be too harsh but seeing they were treated you could make them conscripts, get a nice big unit of maximum 50 models as cannon fodder. For the Empire!

Link Included for completeness sake.

LOL! share a linky?

It is the Half Ute from Ramshackle, which is similar sized to an actual Chimera (And bigger than the Nova Scotia APC I ordered) All I need to wait for is the Old Crow one but im pretty sure itll be the Ute. It looks well awesome.



Edited my above post too...damn you were quick to reply. (Also sorry about the image size here, bit bigger than I anticipated)

i can see that this can work good with your squats... for me the position of tracks and weehls is a bit meh...mabye you can get them switched?

It actually comes in parts, as in the cabin is one piece, both treads are seperate pieces, as is the bottom back, the loading area, the four wheel housings and the 4 wheels. All loose pieces and the cost of the thing is still only 6 GBP.

Viktor von Domm wrote:here in good old germany we already had fathers day...what will yer collection of pops get from you?

stepdad will get nothing as he does nothing.
dad will get a card cos' I didn't have time to go out and get a prezzie due to exams and such.

wow that really sounds mean reading it back.
rest assured, it is a valid reason.

yep i know there stuff...they even have some nice new robots that could also work lovley for ogryn stand ins...


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shrike wrote:

Viktor von Domm wrote:here in good old germany we already had fathers day...what will yer collection of pops get from you?

stepdad will get nothing as he does nothing.
dad will get a card cos' I didn't have time to go out and get a prezzie due to exams and such.

wow that really sounds mean reading it back.
rest assured, it is a valid reason.

your bunch of father your choice... in your age when you don´t feel the part then what they get is what they deserve...is what i am thinking...

wow vik nearly at the big five ^^

but yeah, stepdad does sod all each day and dad I just didn't have time to get something for.

said that last time i aim for the big fiver^^

hopefully i understands

well one day you'll go on holiday and I'll post like mental saying "HAVE I GOT MORE POSTS THAN YOU YET?!"
and I'll be a chapter master and you'll be a commissar.

thinking about it, a venerable dreadnought is a lot higher rank than some random commissar...hmm...

that day is set...come secon of july we will go for a forthnight vacation...on a farm...for the kiddies^^

at jeroen:
just remebered these turban heads...they would be a nice addition to my force...something indish was also searched and panned for my guys...


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no way... commissars rule...

Glad to be of service, Sir Von Domm.

I am currently browsing the Ramshackle Vehicle Bits area and wishing I had more money.

...I also gave in to my Deathwing urges.... >.>

Viktor von Domm wrote:that day is set...come secon of july we will go for a forthnight vacation...on a farm...for the kiddies^^

at jeroen:
just remebered these turban heads...they would be a nice addition to my force...something indish was also searched and panned for my guys...


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no way... commissars rule...

2 weeks?
NO FAIR! I'M OFF FOR TWO WEEKS TOO!
aw, it'll be the same!

I'd like to see a commissar execute a 5 meter tall genetically engineered robot super warrior
anyway getting late, see you tomorrow!

anyway getting late, see you tomorrow!

...I got to work till 6:30 UK time... *crais*

well this is when i will be getting up in the morning^^

and six foot tall robots can be shot too, after all what´s a boltpistol for?

and deathwing is cool...got about 20 terminators waiting to be one day formed into a deathwing for myself...

I just like the thought of playing a 1500 point game and only using 19 Models. ^_^

I doubt its very practical but still made of awesome.

saves a fortune on dices...look at all the orc players going poor for buying all those dices...

Im a roleplayer though, I already have enough dice to build a house...

lol...these are things that just happen to accumulate^^


so this is my night call...fare the well mates and see ya all `morrow!


cheers, vik

so short a trip you had

lol...whut? no what i´ve meant is we go for two weeks (frotnight aint it?) starting the second of july...in the dark time ahead i hope the dakka planet will still be working without me and that my threads wont be reased after a good modreading all the senselessness^^

Disappearing vacation eh?

yep deep into the woods...we are gonna build dams...wooden castles an all the fun stuff the kids might be up to when making holidays on a farm with horses, goats and dogs and those other animals street kids mostly see only on their dishes^^

Sounds nice. When you get back, there may be a finished Fighat bomma and rusty tank to view!

well the tank you will probably have finished even before we go on the trip...the bomma by then when we get back will probably even painted and testplayed^^ given your pace of modeling^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:well the tank you will probably have finished even before we go on the trip...the bomma by then when we get back will probably even painted and testplayed^^ given your pace of modeling^^

When are you dropping off the web?

guess about the first of july in the night CET...we are driving to our holiday on the saturday the 2nd of july somewher in the morning hours...

Oh, you have plenty of time to see work done then before you go!

so i thought^^

Ah, well, I guess I will see more posts when I get up later.

had to do some chores...will update in the evening so you later have something to look upon...promise!

j3r03n wrote:I just like the thought of playing a 1500 point game and only using 19 Models. ^_^

I doubt its very practical but still made of awesome.

heh, I have a 5,000 point army...
with 35 models.
10 TH/SS termies
10 TH/SS jump pack vanguard veterans
8 captains
korvydae
shrike
chapter master Areth Caan (made-up SC)
chief librarian with lotsa gear (made-up IC)
3 chaplains
fully kitted out, all IC's with artificier armour and either a bike or jump pack.

lol... so you play a game with yourself...sounds like you might grow hair on your hands^^

or go blind^^

well i think it s easy fairly... with SM and a low "bodycount" list...try that with guard or orks^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:lol... so you play a game with yourself...sounds like you might grow hair on your hands^^

or go blind^^

well i think it s easy fairly... with SM and a low "bodycount" list...try that with guard or orks^^

just a shame no-one randomly goes to GW with a 5k army, I don't plan ahead and just go "hm, I wanna go to the LGS today" unless something's happening, and my only regular gaming buddy collects CSM
but yeah. one thing I NEVER forget to bring, no matter what- my 5 man BP/CCW scout squad Caddius. They've killed more stuff than any of those others.

just a shame no-one randomly goes to GW with a 5k

well i guess thtas why malifaux and warmachine have so much going for them these day...small armies with not too many minis and you can carry them around in only one case...a 5k army of IG, orks or `nids...no way... there goes the spontanety...

so...in an effort of getting things on the way...now my wife and oldest son have joined the fray of rivet making...one reason for me to postpone further wok on the steam tank and get myself dissatracted with other things was that my lower arms get strained rather easy by making millions of rivets...thus my wife and pascal helped me out and made quite a billion rivets for me...thus i had no excuse left and i gone to town on the tank again rivetstyle^^

so here is a still not finshed job but what is now left to do is only minor costemtic chores^^

full view:


front with TW Flamers...here you see some of the still needed work, needs rivets in the inside of the tracks...


turret in all it´s riveting glory...


and the backside to show the boiler and stacks with rivets to bolt things down^^




to be frank...i didn´t include the bottom into the riveting frenzy...there would be rivets needed there but i´ll be damned if i did that...^^

thanks for droping by mates...

vik

Always good to see a rivetted backside.

Talking from a mad mek's point of view obviously.

Love watching rivets appear on tanks, they really bring it all together.

Always good to see a rivetted backside.

this reminds me of jackass (curtesy of MTV... not that i enjoyed that show much...)

rivets are for me the thing that makes a vehicle into a steel beast... without them i would doubt that they are done with steel...i couldn´t really take unriveted tanks seriously...that why maybe i can´t picture myself to go for eldars or tua...they have little to nothing that draws and holds the eye to their surfaces of tanks...they both apear to me way to slippery...

I do think that you need to wrap some iron bands around the smokestacks, though. But other than that, Awesome! Unglaublich! Sehr shön! And all that rot!

Ladies and Gentlemen...

My Shadowsword arrived in the mail today. Ordered from the UK, shipped to New Zealand only to be returned to the Netherlands, its world tour is over.

And there was much rejoicing!

Vik, I took some more pics of the Robogear stuff next to an actual Sentinel. I'll drop them into my blog posts later tonight (after I do some actual work).

at anvil due... i thought about that for wuite some time...for the lower part...connecting to the frame of the hull i did a glue sort of connection with rivets...i have high hopes there...but i too feel the need of some bands on the higher parts of the stacks...the thing is i would have to make the bands and get then some connective seams...is that a problem? i was unsure of that...thats why i havne´t done them yet...any ideas or am i worrying too much?^^ on the bands of course there will be rivets^^

at jeroen... congratz to your world touring shadowsword...hmmmm... this must feel so good to have such a thing in your hands...waiting for assembly...

will take a look later on to your blog for fresh robogear pics^^

Always good to see a rivetted backside.

Though some backsides are more riveting than others.

And yours is very riveting Vik

The tank's that it is, though I don't wish to suggest yours is not... I mean... erm... yours might b.... oo eck

just talk freely, your among likeminded friendly peeps here...share your osessions with us although we dont always feel that way too...does it make you edgy when i say BOLTS....NAILS....NUTS...oh i went there...

Balls.

Bolts for my bolt guns

Nails for my nail guns

Nuts for my....hmm, that one doesn't work so well, guess they'll go to the squirrels then.

*Stealthily slips some more Steampunk Stuff in here*



*sneaks out*

i think it is fair to say we never went that far of topic, then agian whats wrong in steampunk to talk about wooden planks...strong and tight together to make everything slippery and boiling and of course steamy...


and yep maxminis backpacks have tempted me for quite a while...

There first blog update is away!

Only thing though would it be too much to give your IG those backpacks? On my humans I do kind of miss something on their back so I might look into getting some to stick on there.... Eventually.

You know after I finish my Squats, Deathwing and other crazy ideas I get in my head.

Might just have to get some of those back packs for a rainy day

You just made me think that one of the Minimax steamhelms might look really cool on a suitable human.
Sort of superior Ned Kelly.

well i too thought about giving my men some kind of backpacks for a better and working soldier look...for stormtroopers i had thought about cuttting down some vents and pipes of standard marine powerpacks...maybe add some gasmasks... the ones GW used to produce...this might be a good idea... tho i cant see me buying stuff from maxmini in the nearer future... mostly i buy used stuff via ebay... somehow as i am unemployed i feel less guilty to spend my money for recycling stuff for my army than buying it first hand...


and this here i will do one day in a nice scratchbuilt:
(Pic curtesy of jeroens own blog...link is in his sig....^^)

vik

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Might just have to get some of those back packs for a rainy day

You just made me think that one of the Minimax steamhelms might look really cool on a suitable human.
Sort of superior Ned Kelly.

I actually used those Steamknight Helmets along with their Jetpacks...which got me a result damn close to one of GW's newer releases.
Let me scrounge up a pic...

at chibi... maxmini has without a doubt so many beatiful and nice bitz and bites...one could really loose oneself in their shop...
ned kelly...holy...looked him up...gosh...


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for a pre-heresy look these helmets and the jetpacks look quite fitting... for standard marines...so post heresy i think they look a tad to big on the backs...tho the helmets have a ton in style ... this might balance that then^^

They are my Death Guard Raptors, so they were active during the Heresy ^_^

As for the technological developments....Isnt the Imperium kind of going backwards? The more advanced stuff is all older, archaic and technology is lost as time proceeds?

eBay is ones friend if you look to recycle. Thats where I got a big starting chunk for my Deathwing. Got a landraider, five termies, a dreadnought and a bike all in a single bundle for under 40 bucks.

whoa... then you kind of robbed someone... a landraider alone normaly goes for at least 35 euros...is that in the netherlands different?

yep the IoM is pretty getting dumber by the minute....they really waste away...i see them one day fight against `nids with sticks and stones...and thats not funny...i think before all that techno theocracy thing they really were the best faction around only maybe bested by the eldar... but for tech i think the tau are on the winning road...

Actually for me on the GW Site:

- Terminator Squad: 35
- Landraider: 52

No clue what a Dread is going for at the moment though....and yes I did kinda totally 'rob' someone hehe

didn´t talk about aczual GW prices.... these would be off the scale...for me anytime of the day^^ no i talked about average ebay prices...


well i am off for now... need some rest^^


cheers...read you all tomorrow...


vik

Night Vik, thanks for the comments on my Blog as usual

Yeah someone on another thread mentioned a big thumper Cannon thingy and it is £30!!!

Know what you mean about recycling Vik am in the same boat as you.
Not checked Maximini prices yet so in my head I can afford them!

I was just thinking as I was reading above, that the packs I have could be converted. I doubt if I will ever build my SW's army. GW and I are not friends anymore.
So I can just chop up my guys for skirmishy games !

I actually just took apart some space marine / terminator hybrids I made years ago....and ordered in new bits from eBay to return them to full Terminator Status.

I found that using the bits places can actually work out a hell of a lot cheaper, if you shop around some.

Nice work there Vik! got the family involved with rivet works eh? Now when are ya gonna add rivets to the inner tread sections? (the ones facing the hull of the tank)?

Wow, nice tank! And those Assault Marines are kickass.

By chance, could you tell me how to do those rivets? I'm doing a similar (if smaller) scratchbuild and I'm looking to get some rivets going too. Thanks!

Good way to to reinforcement bands, I found, is to just wrap some thin paper or plasticard around, and let it overlap itself. Then put the rivet on the overlap.

Death from above only works when you have badass helmets, and you do have those, so time for some dynamic entrys.

Anvildude wrote:Good way to to reinforcement bands, I found, is to just wrap some thin paper or plasticard around, and let it overlap itself. Then put the rivet on the overlap.

of course... this i will do so...can´t understand why i didnt thought of that myself...

toady even my middle sone was eager to help with the rivetmaking... unfortunatly he is better in inventing cruel machines than his hands are strong enoough to press the punch^^

Not checked Maximini prices yet so in my head I can afford them!

lol...in my mind i am super sexy and a brilliant scribe and my wit is marvelled by men and women alike...only when i open me eyes and i realize i have gone bald....

Heluva lota rivets there mister Vic. The whole thing is beginning to take on a professional air - Time for paint?

pull the other one it got bells on^^... no seriously today i built something entirely else but i guess tomorrow i will add the last rivets in the inside of the tracks... after that the sealing of the tracks can begin and then its time finally for priming...whoa...never thought that this might actually happen^^

wait, PAINT?!
ON ONE OF VIK'S TANKS?!
*rubs eyes*
so when do you get back to the airship?

lol... that is in fact one of your favorite line, eh?^^
dunno for certain....

lol airship. Always good to have a few different projects on the go

for future or ratehr ongoing projects i have aplenty...as for the particular airship...wetty havn´t you seen my wokr on it already? a bit dusty but well it´s all i `ve got...^^

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/326515.page

Viktor von Domm wrote:lol... that is in fact one of your favorite line, eh?^^

shrike- the ex you never had:
why are you starting on one of those tanks? you still haven't finished playing with your airship!

Ah, but he is at the 90-some-odd percentile done with the tank! (of course tanks are easier projects than airships) But Vik is likely to head back to the Hippodromes after he is done with " ' Ole Steamy" on this thread!

tell you a secret... after the tank is done...gods provide time and motivation...i have a thing to do for my middle son...we recently read and reread the old imp codex and he showed me the "policemen" guardsmen...namly the mordians...now i optained some 30 something models via ebay of the old void minis and will make him a quickly done police force...maybe then we can get a game on...a bit necromunda style arbites...

besides:

shrike- the ex you never had:
why are you starting on one of those tanks? you still haven't finished playing with your airship!

ROFL!!!!!

I HAZ A STORMLORD!

*Thwaps Vik*

Work Harder.

Nice bit for the son!

congratz^^ fully assembled? pic or it din´t happen... yer know them rulez here...

Yeah! show that Stormlord!

j3r03n wrote:I HAZ A STORMLORD!

*Thwaps Vik*

Work Harder.

I HAZ A SHADOWSWORD!
I HAZ A FORTRESS OF ARROGANCE!
I HAZ A MR POTATO HEAD STOMPA COMPLETE WITH THREE KILLA KAN KIDS! (hey alliteration)

Viktor von Domm wrote:congratz^^ fully assembled? pic or it din´t happen... yer know them rulez here...

all too well *sigh*, I doubt I'll ever get away from that...

Shrike, mine was free though

And I will totally post pictures....on my blog. Soon.
Even got a Squat in the turret an everything.

j3r03n wrote:Shrike, mine was free though

so was my mr potato head stompa

Pics so it did happen!

And yes I updated my blog...shaddup!

General Overview Shot:




Say Hello to my little friend...




Shrike> Niiiice! Only Mr Potatohead Stompa Ive seen is the one by Irondog, and his looks awesome

Were those Tatchkomas?

Anvildude wrote:Were those Tatchkomas?

No, those legged things behind the tanks are the heavy walkers from AT-43 Redblock units, Models i would have added to my own collection one day.

shasolenzabi wrote:

Anvildude wrote:Were those Tatchkomas?

No, those legged things behind the tanks are the heavy walkers from AT-43 Redblock units, Models i would have added to my own collection one day.

I was wondering if that question was directed at me. Shaso is right those are indeed the Heavy Walkers from AT-43 Red Blok, so called Dotch Yaga's. The place I got them from actually still has stock they have... *peeks* ..45 left.

j3r03n wrote:

shasolenzabi wrote:

Anvildude wrote:Were those Tatchkomas?

No, those legged things behind the tanks are the heavy walkers from AT-43 Redblock units, Models i would have added to my own collection one day.

I was wondering if that question was directed at me. Shaso is right those are indeed the Heavy Walkers from AT-43 Red Blok, so called Dotch Yaga's. The place I got them from actually still has stock they have... *peeks* ..45 left.

Hmmmmm, Once I can afford to buy,,,money is a major matter.

They are $20 a piece, and their original price is 59,99 still though, I get that if money is an issue even 20 bucks can be too much. I don't think they are moving very fast so there is time.

j3r03n wrote:They are $20 a piece, and their original price is 59,99 still though, I get that if money is an issue even 20 bucks can be too much. I don't think they are moving very fast so there is time.

Cool!

hmmm the red block line and the terran line (?) are very tempting to me too...alas the money doesn´t come raining in as i wish it would... so the need for new shoes...er ...felix new shiny arbites is first to be sated...^^


ah...so yez got a shadowsword...plenty of plastic gathered on your table...the reason i envey you jeroen is not for your many models...got my own unfair share of plastic crack in too much bodys lying around the place... why i envy you is for this big gaming table seemingly standing just there in an empty looking room...that´s luxury...wanna, wanna^^

schadowsword by the way looks ace^^

j3r03n wrote:Shrike> Niiiice! Only Mr Potatohead Stompa Ive seen is the one by Irondog, and his looks awesome

yeah I saw that shortly after I started work on it, a friend said to google it and his came up.
front shot:
http://picasaweb.google.com/ConnorMarrs39/20110129?authkey=Gv1sRgCKDB5YiqhPF1#5567615147495492770
other shots (and other models)
http://picasaweb.google.com/ConnorMarrs39/20110129?authkey=Gv1sRgCKDB5YiqhPF1#

always nice to see your stuff shrike... but we need new minis^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:always nice to see your stuff shrike... but we need new minis^^

well with today being father's day and all I couldn't go and get pics up, but I managed to spray mr potato head's red blok minions before I went out. keep bugging me and I might have pics at least taken by next weekend. ^^

*bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs,....*

oh and I think I may have to make viktor croaks a death korps commissar, I can't afford to fork out £25 for one model and I have a death korps commissar coming in the post, which by happy chance also has a cloak, is an authority figure and has a decent model.
funnily enough he comes with a pistol in hand and I have a zinge mauser spare...you do the math

that sounds like a fitting plan^^

before i can use my nice bunch of zinge armory i have to finish something or other^^

and have an early night... cheers fellas

see you tomorrow!


vik

weetyskemian44 wrote:Heluva lota rivets there mister Vic. The whole thing is beginning to take on a professional air - Time for paint?

Yep weety Viks thread is always riveting

nice work mate , it seems it really is painting time now, good luck

well sometimnes it is revolting too...on prepuberty talk too^^

Can't wait to see the painted version.

Look Vik,

I found you a Queen Victoria!



So...whens your birthday?

lol... ahve you looked into one of my other threads? when beginning the steampunk voyage i came up with some fluff...the mini you showed is ace looking and would be a nice addition...if not for the fact that queen empress victoria is now situated in an iron lung...she had a near terminal illness that only could be cured by being put into this:



but the good thing is she now lives for more than 40 millenia...


but do spill the beans, where did you found HER MAJESTY?

I have actually, I am working through your Zeppelin thread now that you mentioned it a bit back. And No! You spill your birthday to me...or your address and I might sponsor Her Majesty for you. My PM Inbox is always open to you, Mr von Domm

i think i have something done here now...holy moly... seems there is so much tempting going on ...how could i say no to such an offer....argh....

but do read on... i also have the ogryn thread and the iron templars and the earth angels thread...and some more to come in the nearer future...

gosh methinks i have to make a pm...

..you might want to include those threads with a link too

so.... many.. threads ...must re ...read ...

neil101 wrote:so.... many.. threads ...must re ...read ...

Amen Bruddah Neil!

hmmm i always wanted nice and funny quotes of my freinds rather in my sig...you recon jeroen that i should rather make links?....hmmm tough choice...

at neil... sounds a bit obsessive^^

I am...your friend? <3

...Also dont quote that!

And no, just meant you should include them in your PM to me

lol... yes you are...
at first when i joined dakka i was not really chosy...thats why shrike and neil are my friends too...
but then i was rather picky about adding friends to the fold^^ and you have endured quiete well my capless musings here and there...so...

Viktor von Domm wrote:lol... yes you are...
at first when i joined dakka i was not really chosy...thats why shrike and neil are my friends too...
but then i was rather picky about adding friends to the fold^^ and you have endured quiete well my capless musings here and there...so...

vik, I want a divorce.

oh you said you were the ex i never knew i didn´t wanted...i am confused...ok divorce... but i keep your mini collection...and we can still be friends...?

Viktor von Domm wrote:oh you said you were the ex i never knew i didn´t wanted...i am confused...ok divorce... but i keep your mini collection...and we can still be friends...?

I was your ex but you proposed on that night where you had too much to drink.
and we can NEVER BE FRIENDS!
but we can be mates

I was your ex but you proposed on that night where you had too much to drink

if i can´t remeber that incident that is probably not a good sign...

well then just stay mates...otherwise i would have to explain some things to my wife...and that could get nasty...

Done and Done.

you know there is bound to be some form of delayed retaliation?^^

...Yeah I dread the day when I get free stuff in return in one form or another...the Horror.

Shrike protect me! Also....I'm single....howyoudoin?

me or shrike...he is still underage... not even you foreign dutch can do something about that i guess.. and me i am married and have three young sons... aged 10/5/and come saturday 3...^^

Congratulations, dont send me cake. Seriously. It is a lie.

I was married :/ Long story.

well... marriage is sometimes not for the faint of hearts...*faints*^^
no seriously...everybody should live like they want to...

my kids are great... the five year ofl one is getting into the stuff...and of course the oldest is into it fom head to...^^

well if i just could make two armies work then the gaming could commence...but somehow something keeps me from actually achieving a complete army...could it be....dakka????

Cake is a lie? Nooo. Say it's not so Oh, I see, phew, that had me faint of heart for a moment there.

And no vik, it couldn't be dakka. That's heresy.



It's not like I could have done anything else in the last couple of hours

Dakka? ....and now you wonder why I never started a P&M Blog.

Of course maybe I should for either my Deathwing, or the Helghast Look-alike IG.

It's not the upkeep of your personal blog(s) that sucks time away, it's the keeping up with everybody else's

Go start one right now.

Now.


Go on.




We're waiting...

I haz a blog in my Signature? Go read that? ...please?

well i said to jeroen for quite some time to start his own here on dakka... it is not the same when done on his own in a secluded area in the internet...you can´t post any slutry pics and stuff...it´s a bit like being at a party but stayiong in the kitchen with the totally not hot maiden and stuff...i mean since you can add the pics of your blog here too you could start one and i still promise to cemment without any caps on your own blog^^

now is that a deal? and


Helghast ???



nice looking...but thats not the army your building in your blog right now... so here is an oportunit to strat a whole different blog...^^

everybody goes multiblog these days^^

Yes Helghast...I actually have that same picture waiting to be used for a paint scheme.... I knooooow! *whiiiine*

Remember all those Dwarf Squats I made....where I used actual Cadian Arms, from actual Cadian boxed sets?

I got arms from eBay and assembled all 40 of them...even got 6 extra out of the Heavy Weapon legs. 16 Special Weapons, 8 Flamers, 8 Grenade Launchers, 5 Sergeants and the rest troops.

I also mentioned the 50 Pig Iron troopers I had...so I got about a 100 Imperial Guard Models assembled now..

now as you say it, the pig iron heads... yep..i remember...

i have never heard of helghast before...a game? the link was just from google pic search...

and in shops you get the HW legs rather cheap... so i used them too as much as i could...


by the way... i still have some catachan legs i would love to attach to a cadian torso... but there is that issue with the double belt then...how to solve...and dont say shave one off too fast... it isn´t that easy... i tried and ruined one alredy... was a recycled one but stil...

Helghast are indeed from a game. Namely KillZone....and they are depicted as being somewhat futuristic space nazi's of sorts. Not exactly the most lovely of backgrounds, but they do look way cool.

thats the thing with nazis anyway... they are crap... but you have to grant them they look the sharpest while doing atrocities...horrible truth... and i say this with a great grandfather that was in auschwitz...
there is something about a black clad officer...that old gemran WWII helmet and these boots...somehow you feel lower when you see these peeps... the designers knew their stuff when they made the uniforms...

Yes they did. Im going for the black clad, glowing eyes, gas masked, bayonet look. ....which is a mouth full.

j3r03n - Sorry, didn't see that there Some good stuff there, and found another company begging for my credits (Scotia Grendel). But vik is right, you should throw some of it up on here, if everybody posts on Dakka it makes it so much easier for us to keep track of everything

vik - look at the troopers in my chaos blog, most of those are cadian torso's on catachan legs with the belt chopped off. Alternatively, just make sure they have plenty of gear on their belts.

to say the least...have you looked into wargames factory stuff for your army as well? in your blog i got you a link of an ebay seller that even sells arms seperatly and even heads...tho i have the german eads now about over a dozen now...
there are cthulu heads as well in these sprues... you could use those for psykers and such like models...would look cool i guess...

I did actually order in arms seperately...and some bits for converting....and some stuff to re-complete my Space Marine terminators....

And...

I am starting to come around about maybe making a P&M blog but I got no clue on where to start, do I repost....start over...wut? I also dont want to abandon my blog so I need to dual post (which is doable even if the Dakka layout is less pretty ^^).

at monkey...:facepalm ... yep gear `em up... that can cover up plenty of misstreatment...i should have thought that myself...




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i´d start with a clean plate... you can say for backlog refer to your blog... and then start with current work...maybe get some pics of your current models as an appetizer and then get to the main meal...i boldly started asome totally meaningless threads that i later on clad in a whole new meaning... you can change the name of the thread too ... so there is no real loss whatsover... and if you are bored of the downtrodden thread...start another one.... this is all after all just stored electricity...^^


well you make it pretty with pretty pics of yours^^

Start with a few pics of what you've done already then just continue from there, no need to fill all the gaps, if they want to see the history they'll check your other blog. I'm sure there's plenty of peeps around here who'd enjoy your take on squats. And as vik said, you're just starting the Helghast - ideal

Extra wargear - covering gaps since 1784

Extra wargear - covering gaps since 1784

ROFL!!!!!

see what monkey said... and he is way more mature as me... believe the vernerable monkey troll...

Gits.

I am? I mean, yes, I am! I'm wise and sensible and mature and a model citizen and I'm writing about tiny robotic fungus men from space that I make in my spare room.

And I think he's coming round vik


edit : Hang on, was that just your way of saying I'm old?

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/377583.page#2965904

...I dont know are you old?

well he is answering monosylabilic...(who difficult word at this late a time^^) so maybe he is working on a new thread already^^

if he is coming around, then due selfpreservation as our combined stare to make him do our biddings could otherwise render him senseless...too bad that any length of time at dakka does the same... so he is in for a straight jacket either way^^

I guess that some of us have actually fallen asleep already, Vik. And I do think it is not me.

well some of a more vernerable line might need a bit of a longer sleep...we have to care for them after all...they took care when we were wee too^^

also: got yer first customer^^

...I iz goink to bed now....ooh look a new title! ...I hope the mail gets in tomorrow with my bits....or my robogear Condors...

congratz and have a good night! will do the same...all that typing gets me pretty sleepy too...

Nice work J3r03n on the squats and all!

Vik and Monkeytroll, I made my Vasily's violators using cadian torsos and ctatchan legs with SM arms. I however did not clip ithe second belt off as that gave me more space to work with for all the gear they have on, and it made them more "Heroic" sized for me.

Viktor von Domm wrote:now as you say it, the pig iron heads... yep..i remember...

aye, I was gonna buy some.
still might...
but after I get my ork dread mob done, which means I need to buy an ork deff dread...
so maybe in a month or so...
to keep me amused painting-wise, I sprayed the killa kans and a few other misc bits I never got round to, maybe on saturday I'll head down to my LGS with some tin bitz and boltgun metal

Well, if I were to make more troops, I would get Pig iron heads and such, But I got the Wargames factory greatcoats, so all set there.

Oh yeah, new chapter of the orks in fiction.

And about monkey being old, as far as forum rumours go, Monkeytroll was around when tin was originally discovered and five minutes later invented the word "ork".

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???? Looks like you over edited Vik!

argh....

beside stupid banter i tried to comment your idea of enlarging cadians with the extra belt...with gear a very good idea!

Agreed. Seems he was a bit too happy with his edit button ^_^

lol... me and the edit button are like strained friends^^ i try to call him as seldom as can be^^

LOL! Oh Vik, silly boy!

Now for the Vets, I have shown pics of them and most were well taken as they looked ready for all trouble, keep in mind that these are my ":Tank hunters" for my IG

well they will of course look totally different, but as neil recently did his more non heroic looking penial legion guys with dust tactics legs it is a thing to make them this way...maybe some tall teutonic conscripts^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:well they will of course look totally different, but as neil recently did his more non heroic looking penial legion guys with dust tactics legs it is a thing to make them this way...maybe some tall teutonic conscripts^^

True, the Dust Tactics troops are also good, tall but well, it is only a slight difference.

Damn you all! Now I looked up Dust Tactics and like it >_<