Thanks ruglud, it is very satisfying to see the terrain developing. I have a lot of detail to go bad and do, but it is nice to have a table filling up again.
I have been watching for a while, but have to say I like where the bridge is going. I did wonder what you were going to do at the other end. Look forward to more. Keep it up.
the kids school seems to be a really active one...
bridge is looking very good... just one minor question... the trainrails you used... two different versions on both parts... does something liek this bother you or is it a concept?
Thanks dr. H. Been watching the wave serpent progress , I'm just not eldar inclined enough to give opinions.
@vik, the school is one of the best in our state (think equivalent all of Germany in size). We don't liv in the school district, but since my wife teaches in it we are able to send them at no cost. The school constantly ranks in the top percentages for test scores, but has been honored or many activities including athletics, social activities, and sports. They also are very fiscally sound, spending less money per student than all other schools in Missouri. We've been very happy this year having moved the kids their from their old school. Honors grands all around and still reading above their grade levels. It's a half hour drive with no traffic for me to take and pick them up each day, but now that I'm a stay home dad it all has worked out.
Two different parts shows that its been repaired over the millennium. Or that the builders used whatever was available at the time. the second bridge is on of my walkways byway and just holdin place right now.
Theophony wrote: Thanks dr. H. Been watching the wave serpent progress , I'm just not eldar inclined enough to give opinions.
Cool, ta. No worries, everyone's opinion is welcome on my thread (as with anyone's I suppose). Good to know you're watching though.
Two different parts shows that its been repaired over the millennium. Or that the builders used whatever was available at the time. the second bridge is on of my walkways byway and just holdin place right now.
Maybe, when it comes time to stick it to a base, you could add the remnants of the previous walkway underneath as if it fell over and was replaced.
Great idea dr. H , I have the cut off pieces and a broken rail that can go in the sump. idea stolen, although can I claim to steal that which was given?
Theophony wrote: Great idea dr. H , I have the cut off pieces and a broken rail that can go in the sump. idea stolen, although can I claim to steal that which was given?
Not sure if you can claim to have stolen it technically but steal away anyway. I'm very good at generating ideas (good or bad) and if they're not used (or written down at least) then they are forgotten forever.
here in germany the whole private school thing hasn´t found much acceptance yet... but... we have a private school just around the corner... and we have chosen this for our kids... as the one school my felix should have attended is way too crappy...all around... so we now pay a fee... but he is doing fine... and that´s what is important... kids need to be at the right place!... being a cop...or a king... you leave your hat at work...but being mum or dad...you wear the hat of office every fething minute of the day...so your responibility never goes on holiday!
Vik, it's a public school. We poor people can't afford to send our kids to private schools. We just live in a different school district which is good, and better than where they were last year. Here you can send your kid to any public school you want, but if you do t live in the district you must pay the equivelant amount of taxes that people in that district pay on top of regular taxes. Since my wife is. Teacher in the district they go to we are exempt from it. The other thing that keeps people from doing it is you must arrange transportation to and from school yourself and they are not allowed to ride the buses to friends homes after school. That's why I drive them everyday and pick them up everyday. But it's all worth it for events like today's.
I'm loving all of this terrain. I've never been a fan of the whole cat-walk theme (unless it's in moderation) because they're a bitch to play around and look silly sometimes. But yours look so damn cool. I can't wait to see your stuff all painted up.
@dsteingass, amen to that. The school we were in had really poor teachers, the performances were sad, and the available activities were negligible. This school has about 1/4 of the students, 10 less in each classroom, and there's always something going on. Today's even was great.
@dangledorf2.0, hey man thanks for the visit. I see your location is Brentwood mo. That's a short drive from here, where do you game, I'm looking to find a comfortable local shop since I moved. Feel free to answer here or in a pm.
Some fun facts from today. The theme was based on the 1904 worlds fair that was here in saint Louis to celebrate the 100 th anniversary of the Louisiana purchase in 1803. You'll notice that its actually the 101 anniversary because the government couldn't get everything together in time. Toasted ravioli were invented here, before that there was only boiled ravioli. Common names in 1904. John was #1, Dave was number 31, victor ( your real name wasn't in the top 200 for men, neither was skalk and I didn't see nathanie1) was number 98.
I'll post pictures later, there on my phone which was dead. Every child in the fourth grade was in semi-period clothing. We also did the Missouri waltz, which was really just the box waltz.
well... as my name is pure german in RL slim chances of that being in any hit list back then...^^
and well... we pay one hundred each month... that is the minimal fee...depends on your family income...and we have currently only one of that...so ...^^
Actually vik, St. Louis is a great mix of old world cultures. Lots of French, German, and Italian. South of saint Louis is. Big German population where many families still use it, or at least the older half of the family. August was a pretty common name on the list, I think top 20.
People underestimate German influence in America. The First World War took so long for us to join because they couldn't decide which side to be on.
America only speaks English because of the difference of ONE vote. During the rise of hitler there was a large national socialist push in the u.s.
@dangledorf2.0, hey man thanks for the visit. I see your location is Brentwood mo. That's a short drive from here, where do you game, I'm looking to find a comfortable local shop since I moved. Feel free to answer here or in a pm.
I used to go to the Miniature Market on Watson. Place was awesome (-20% off of GW product helped a quite bit) and they had great tables and everyone was always real nice, but they had to switch locations or something along those lines. That being said, the last store I was in was a GW in Chesterfield for their opening day. The people that worked there were cool but I haven't stepped into the store since because of GW's weird ass store hours. I think that store only supports 40k and Fantasy Battle also, and my friends and I just started Necromunda so we're reluctant to bring our gangs out of the basement. (Sorry if this wasn't much help )
If you didn't know the place where miniature market was is now "game nite", they had been in south county mall, but took over miniature markets location. They are all right, but not real outgoing. I mentioned I just moved up here and was looking at getting back into the game scene, but kinda got blown off as just another guy wanting to play. Miniature market moved to Maryland heights and their store is a dump. No gaming tables bless they were in the back, just got he impression that the store front was just a "front" so they can be a block a mortar store. All they had out o buy was outdated stuff and clearance gak. All the GW stuff was in h back, and I had to tell them what I wanted and hey would get it after I bought it, no looksies. I haven't tried ogre games, it's probably between where we live, drove by it once, and he website doesn't really show much.
Okay now for an update. Vik challenged my saying I have 5-600 marines. I posted pics over in his thread, but to stop the hijacking I will post other pictures here. Back a Few pages were pictures of the motor pool. Well here's some other photos, please realize all my metal marines are not counted as they are in deep storage.
OVer in Viks I said I had 7dreads of which 3 forgeworld. Well turns out I have 7 dreads and 4 forgeworld dreads, this I just loyalist marines, have a few chaos forgeworld ones also. One of the regulars is in another picture found him after I put these away.
Here's a fast layout of half the first company, 50 terminator legs on bases, all the heads, arms, torsos and stuff are orated in bits bags. The bolter terminators and hammernators are still AWOL, but probably hiding in the space hulk box, I believe it's 104 terminators all together.
Also in the picture is the second company hitch are all decked out in mark IV armour. I ordered the red scorpion sets when they first came out.
The next few are just dome of my favorite characters from the army. The chaplain in this picture has twin iron halo knuckledusters don't miss a sermon or he'll serve you up something special. The techmarines have conversion beamers, one is n old space crusade, the other is plastic rod.
Some other characters including my version of calagar. The guy with the mk IV jump pack is missing the space old terminator axe, he's in mid lumberjack swing.
You might notice none of my guys goes around without their helmets, this is because they aren't stupid. The emperor put time and money into growing these guys, why would he let them get shot in the head without protection. That and I'm terrible at painting flesh.
These guys are getting reboxed and sorted, no getting back into them with necromunda needing attention.
Nope the gal watching the desk was to busy playing video games or something. The guys answering calls were too busy and I guess the guy pulling stock from the back really needed that cigarette an Mountain Dew.
Like I said that's not even counting the metal guys.
All my scouts have scout legs and arms, but the torsos are from the ravenwing box set, robed with the winged swords. I need to check out companies for good heads for the scouts, I HATE the scout heads, and they need to have helmets.
All the mark IV armor guys also have dragonforge bases from the desert range, so o the forgeworld dreads, or at least a few of them. My bike squads need new bases as I ordered them before dragonforge changed to the slimmer style.
Yes, I need professional help. Admitting the addiction is the first step they say.
I figured something was happening when they cut down from 20% to 10% off GW and stopped having as much stock n the store. I really used to love going in and seeing 15+imperial cities stacked up.
I remember when the new Tyranids came out I watched in awe as somebody was carrying like a four foot stack of new kits and trying desperately to balance two little pots of paint on top. But yeah, things did start going down hill when the price hike hit.
i am a big fan of dreadnaughts... i currently only own three...but i would like to get my hands on one of these more robots looking like RT dreads... i own a regular AoBR dread...a converted one that looks like my take on a vernerable one...and then a star crusade one... oh... forgot one that misses the lower half^^... somehow these hilking beasts are rather dear to me^^ ...
and yeah... you seem to have an addiction going on...and this is quite helpful...as i always thought i was having some serious hoarding issues^^
oh..and i would like to see those robed scouts... sounds like a cool conversion!
Ask and you shall receive, knock and the door will be opened. (Read it somewhere )
Here's some scout pictures, like everything else the concept change is basic, I want my boys to have backpacks, not goofy suits. Had to make a green stuff ball to mount the torsos to the legs as the scout legs have a flat connection and the torsos are concave. I think it works out okay th excess green stuff looks like a fold of fabric under the rope belt.
Some more completed, have to redo the shoulder/arm on the sniper. Probably not a great idea to lean on a missile pod to set up a shot.
And since vik loves some dreads, here's close ups of the FW ones. Still looking for their arms, they might be with more dreads somewhere .
Ultramarine dread with you shaved off, added the scorpion brass etch to the chest back when I was going to do a scorpion knock off army. Other one is just the venerable from forgeworld. I like the look of the contemptor now, but the walking washing machine still takes first place.
And the red scorpion dread.
Automatically Appended Next Post: So decided to work on the bridge and abutment. Got two of these fan covers? For lack of a better description from dsteingass and had a couple ideas simmering. This one was the first that came to mind.
Seems basic enough, but I should have. Frame mounting it to the wall.
And the frame needs to be out from the wall a part of a tunnel so
Get to try out the mini diaper clips I got Monday.
You get like 20 of them for $1.50 in the Walmart craft section. You might need them for things....
But what would mak this better? How bout a working hinge? Still working on that, I don't have any glue that holds both aluminum or and plastic
If anyone has suggestions let me know, gorilla glue,e6000, and plastic glue have failed me.
As for sticking things together, it's superglue (CA) or araldite-alike (epoxy). They'll stick anything to anything, it's just that one will set in seconds and the other will require a lot of patience.
I could kick myself, just threw away an old printer a week ago, forgot to scavenge parts @dr. H, no patience here so I found some plastic rod in two sizes nd got the hinge working, so now we have a functioning door to put captured gangers behind. "Rescue this "
Open door with handle
Also while digging some more today....yes there are piles you have not seen I found these.
They are battery packs attached to two red flashing bulbs. I had these set aside for the adeptus arbites vehicles. May have to revisit that idea with my storm troopers.
Supply drop, courtesy of dsteingass.
Dave heard I wanted to try out airbrushing so he hooked me up with on of his spares . I had tried a badger canned air airbrush and given up. Next week I'll have to get the garage setup and go get a hose and regulator for my compressor.
Also more red rods . Oh the things we'll build.
Thanks again Dave.
@dr. H, the door looks too big to me now, but it will allow for larger things from the sump to arrive .
The twin piece to the gate will probably just become the air vent at the top of a tower.
But what would mak this better? How bout a working hinge? Still working on that, I don't have any glue that holds both aluminum or and plastic
If anyone has suggestions let me know, gorilla glue,e6000, and plastic glue have failed me.
i had a thought... you could use matching styrene rods... glue them in place for the hinges to connect... then... when everything is cured... melt them in place!!! with a soldering tool...or even a flat screwdriver heated on a flame......at least i would try it
as for the dreads... cool looking...the stompa feel on the right vernerable...lol^^
and then to your scouts... i like the ravenwing robes... that looks quite fitting... tho i am a bit biased about scouts being fitted with powerpacks...also...i think the rayban cadians head would look good ...
and again back to your fan wark (hurhurhur) looking good... and hopefully you wont fill the grate...it looks really stunng that way!
Vik I hope your wife and kids keep the matches away from you. plastic smoke is not good to inhale, it'll make you go bald....
Stomping dread happened because he was damaged when shipped to me. The banner for it the guy snapped of the top of the model to fit it in the box . Yes he compensated me for it, but really? Why would you sell something on ebay then snap it into parts to ship?
I'm looking for smaller heads than that guys Vik, buy thanks. Also want it fully encased. None can ever see the face of the Theophony and live... Adds to their mystique.
I looked. Puppet wars and mad robot, but nothing jumping out at me. I wan them different than the line marines.
@shaso, if your talking about the marines, those paint schemes were done years ago. But it was quite a chore to dig all those out and set them up. All the other projects don't take too long, but it helped only sleeping five hours over the last two days .
@vik, still don't know on the helmets. I've seen most out on the market, and none are screaming to me. They'll probably be headless scouts for now or I'll have to learn how to paint flesh tones . I'm not a big fan of the beakie helmets, I think there's less than five in my marine army. I trade/sell of the bits I don't use, helps fund the hoard and keep the theme coherent.
Thanks again to skalk who once again gave me an idea without trying
All plastic servitors. Well there's metal in the magnet, but we won't count that, it'd be like counting pins.
Let me know what you think. Still needs close combat weapon and will change to a smaller magnet that will be recessed tomorrow. Date nite with wife. See you later.
Thanks rogue wolves, I like to have movement and power on my board, gives it a little extra.
Okay, so probably no rivet gun on this guy. Still needs a close combat weapon, so ideas would b great. Got back from the trivia night, dint do bad, but it was only my second time ever, we didn't know anyone at our table, and two of the eight no showed. Still came out in top 10 of 40 tables so respectable.
Worked on gun options for the servitors, all magnetized. Here's the multimelta gun.
Here's the heavy bolter which will need some work on the side of it.
@dave, it was just a night sponsored by our local church (just started going to this one two weeks ago, but they're moving we found out last night, guess well be looking again). All the funds went to different charities thy are involved in. The local food pantry, the homeless, and their Mexico mission trips.
@vik, ha ha, good guess. i will try and figure a rivet gun for the next one.
to be honest... book of revelations was the only part of the bible i ever read...oh and parts of genesis too...they tend to be quite mythically... back then this was what i was reading then...same timeline was when i was reading greek myths and so on...
I've probably read revelations more than the other books of the bible also vik, everyone reads the end of the story first .
Worked a little more on the servitor.
Should it have a banner? I think I'll keep the tiny skulls from the banner as kills and commendations.
Rivet gun ho!
May have to use Viks idea of fire to melt the granny strip to the gun, the glue won't hold captain, I've given her all I've got.
Backpack will be where the rivets come from.
Thought about making shears, but the pieces were too big.
keep the skulls but loose the banner...i´d say...
and while shears would be cool these are too big... maybe scratchbuild them by PC?
and i had a huge collection of junk and other materials for hobby scratch building... recently i have thrown away so much... there are materials you can go insane about... no glue works for real on them... thus i am particularly picky nowadays for my materials...when even superglue gives you a hard time to attach stuff to junk... really... what has the world been coming to...?
and by all my heart... i never read books the ends first! spoiler!... but with the bible... it is not meant to be read from cover to cover...more leafe through and stop at your leisure... at least when me is concerned^^
@dave, it probably would be easier, or I'll look at zinge industry stuff.
@vik, I think reading the New Testament is a better starting point, then go bak and read the Old Testament to see how it all fits together. Psalms is also a great place to go daily, just to give a little praise and glory. Joking about reading the end ristorante, haven't done that since grade school.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Okay, had some time before the baby shower so...
Rick the riveter got a playmate, not the sexy kind either but he IS made of plastic, so a little sexiness might be involved.
Rick the riveter and Ted the torch are both former gangers who's sentence was to be lobotomized and sent back into the underhive for community service. After years of ripping off hubcaps, now they work in an underhive auto shop. Rick rivets, and Ted does all the cutting and heavy lifting .
A car shop you say, but I've never seen cars in the underhive!
Well that was before, seems Rick and Ted were good at stealing cars, so good you never saw any cars parked anywhere. But now the chop shop is legit.
Or getting there a least.
Baby shower was loads of fun , but the cake and BBQ was good. Thought we were catching a break when it was done at 4pm....4hours of furniture shopping later I wish I could do some live action necromunda and shoot someone. still haven't seen anything that's not an arm and a leg which won't make me retch every time I look at it.
@vik, thanks, might keep the I beam if I can paint the angled end like hot metal, and make smoke for the end of the multimelta.
@dave, I was thinking little people mover similar to the old battlestar galactica show where the pilots rode on a little skiff sort of thing. Either that or a deuce and a half, any ideas?
Okay,so the tram idea has come and gone, now I'm thinking that the imperium wouldn't care if the servitors walked to work or not, just that they got there. So what to do with six wheels and left over parts.....
A hive maintenance crew platform. Dispatched to repair critical systems, or to cut them off and reuse them in other areas of the hive. The servitors need to be well armed because gangers don't like it when someone cuts off there cable access for lack of payment.
Thinking this guy might turn into tech Sargent Chen.
Quick mock up of the crew platform. Very preliminary stages. The plow on the front will probably disappear and be manipulator arms. The back will most likely be a flat bed for parts, but I have some spare bits that I'd like to use so it might become a boxed truck.
Front view
Some of the other bits that I'd like to use.
Talisman counters will become varying sized orange safety cones. I have dozens of these sitting around.
I have a couple of the steps for the side of land speeders, to assist the servitors climbing into the vehicle.
The inside door part from the land raider with winch, jack hammer and wrench.
Old necron glow rods for traffic flares, illumination sticks.
Old oop rhino light bars, for road barricades.
And the cable coil from a razorback sprue.
Church this morning. Then an afternoon of furniture shopping (where's that emoticon of me blowing my brains out?), I'm giving up, wife gets new furniture today. One way or another the furniture shopping stops today. If you don't see anymore updates after this then I'm dead, in jail or on the run.....if the cops come looking for me I won't be at the donut shop .
1. Go with Leather furniture, it will last longer and ultimately be more kid-proof than fabric, pay for the extended warranty, this is one of the few times where this Capatalist Practice will actually benefit you (if there are no electronics involved).
2. The vehicles don't have to necessarily be servitor vehicles, they can just be industrial in nature, the Deuce and a half idea is seriously where this should go! It looks too much like one already..and is completely awesome so far! Those two winch panels are screaming to be a side-accessed toolbox, think of a tree-trimming, railroad maintenance, or municipal power truck (with or without the cherry-picker bucket boom)
I really dislike leather furniture. Something about the feel, I think we're going withe the second set we both like. Not as good of quality, but will be able to do a love seat for our bedroom, couch, two chairs and ottoman for family room for the same prices as just doing the couch in familyroom.
Hopefully it'll last ten years and the kids will be out of the house. Will definitely do the extended warranty though.
Oldest might have pinkeye, so I'm with her at the clinic with her now. Might have company tomorrow, one good thing about being unemployed is I won't have to listen to a boss about missing work. One of them had the nerve to complain about my kids getting sick, and how he hasn't missed a day of work because of being sick. My response was less than cordial. "Just because you come to work sick as heck, coughing all over, and spreading the flu to at least eight employees last month, doesn't give us a reason to emulate you. Unlike you I wash my hands in the bathroom after coming out of a stall. My three kids go to grade school, my wife teaches and I work retail, we are around people and get sick, deal with it!" He never gave me problem after that, and started to wash his hands.
As for the truck, definitely a repair vehicle for the imperium. I have some mock ups at home, if I'm home with Sarah while the wife goes to church I'll get some picks up.
We got Bonded Leather, a lot like a Bible cover from Sofa Mart. I didn't think I'd like leather either, but this stuff is very nice. Puppy claws don't even dent it.
As for bosses like that, they are pathetic human beings, no compassion.
Bridge is looking awesome, and fantastic attention to detail. I can think of loads of cinematic ways the hinge mechanism would come in useful ingame too! One or two catapulted gangers by the end of a brawl, I'm sure
Truck is looking interesting, can't wait to see where you take it. Great use of the ?Stormtalon parts. I'd personally stick the hinged door at the back - makes more sense for loading it. Wouldn't be able to get stuff of reasonable length into the side door!
i second the objections against leather couches... we have a fabrics one and i have sitten on leather ones...in summer this feels wrong...and in winter even worse...personal taste however...so i wont do any judging here^^...
your ex-boss was a jerk... and these need a good see to... but you can´t really teach them...although...getting him to wash his hands can be counted as a major success!
as for the truck...atm...i can hardly tell heads from tail.,..so...i have to sit this one outr a bit more to be able to actually have something to contribute...but tools at the front sounds wrong... better in the back...and i am a bit unsure about the robotic arms...but don´t let that fret you...
oh... how many kids do you have again? and how old are they? my sons are almost five and seven years old...
and your oldest has "pinkeye"? is that this infection of the eye? and it spreads when touched by lil kids? it´s kinda epedimec in kindergartens all over the world...
Vik you'd be a great doctor, you figured it out. My daughter got it from another kid,Sarah my oldest is ten. Zachary and Lillian are twins and are eight years old.
Door up front would be the access to the driver compartment. Most storage will be on the top or back. I think the tools up front will probably work best.
I can't wait to see where this goes either to be honest. I have a crane boom I made a long time back, it's in one of the pics. Might be able to make a cherry basket for it.
@scarper, there actually storm raven parts, with the axels being sentinel parts and wheels from marine bikes.
Depending on how big you are intending to make the cab (and how many crew will be using it) that door might be a bit large for just a simple access hatch. If this truck is just meant for "normal" humans to drive and that's a hatch for big and bulky space marines (correct me if I'm wrong, my part spotting usually is).
Looking at the front of that cab it gave me an idea for an alternative. You could hinge the windscreen up and add small, pull out/fold away steps (Like you might see on an A-10 for example, my model A-10 has one anyway). But that does depend on what else you have planned in the cab and that would only really work for the driver.
As for the tools. I would say towards the front if that is where the crew are likely to be working...then again, thinking of examples, a fire-engine (fire-truck for you over there) tends to have all the doors at the front and all the tools at the back... That probably makes more sense if things are going to be worked on towards the rear of the truck, I say rear then.
dsteingass wrote: The M26 is the style I was thinking, with the toolbox just behind the cab, the rear drive wheels do the pulling and/or carrying of heavy equipment.
It also lends itself perfectly to 40k style of vehicles with those angles on the body - add some rivets and a heavy bolter (or five)and it's job done...
@ruglug, that adept us vehicle was actually what I was looking at when the inspiration finally hit. Ruglug where is that other vehicle from, the shiny one, reminds me of a toy I had as a child.
Definitely thinking tools up front as having them at the back might lead to them being misappropriated by some locals. If they are up front then they are less likely to walk away.
@dr. H, the cab is small. It's the turret from the storm raven kit. There's no place for a full person, just a half servitor. The screens will be painted black. The width of the truck is only as wide as the rhino top hatch. Not really meant for troop carrying, just tool moving.
@dave, m26 looks very promising for what I'm after. Thanks for that, looked at more source photos. Couches will be here Tuesday. A grand less than what we were going to get, decided only to do family room now.
Not getting much chance to work on stuff today. Watching little house on the prairie with the family, it's so mu h fun to torture the kids, they lost tv choices for the day while at the store buying furniture.
That's the one. But I'm thinking of a toy from the late 1970-1980s. It was about 1' long and 8" wide. It had a keypad on the top and you could type in the arrow for direction, how far, a turn direction, and how far. The tank would drive that far turn and go again. My brother and I spent hours at a time playing with it. Ran the batteries deAd and would drive my parents crazy asking for more batteries. It had an attachment for a tray and cup holder so the kids could send the TV dinners to their parents in the other room.
That was a good Christmas. A new neighbor moved in and he collected gijoes as well. He had that model and that spring his dad built us a 8'x12' sandbox that was3' deep. We built the biggest sand forts we could, then worked out battles using bottle rockets and m4s. So much destroyed plastic, and burns.....the burns.....
We had a big garden, which was mostly sand, we dug rivers, then filled them with the garden hose, and a couple of days later the weeds grew along our "rivers" and we had jungle terrain.
Many MIA joes and weapons are probably still buried there today!
shasolenzabi wrote: That carrier,,,,oh the ideas for making it into a Land Leviathan, treads and all!
Here I was thinking about making a functional avengers helicarrier with it and a couple of these
Although I should stick to only 30 projects at once and try to remain in a budget.
Truck with cab on the front.
Toolboxes right behind cab
The other part of the stormraven on top will disappear. I'm going to make the truck more boxy.
Also not going to do the manipulator arms on the front o the truck. Might use the arms, one off each side, as stabilizers for when the crane or bucket are in the air.
Right now the wheels are magnetized on, so the front set can turn 360*, the rear two are glued to each other, but the component is separate from the body. Probably make the back if the truck a picket bed like on logging trucks. That way this beast can haul conduits, pipes, I beams ir anything long.
Built the tool chest and cab section. Cab is just tacked on for photos.
Found two of these bits, think they'll look good as exhaust ports? Possible placement.
And here's the cab, tool chest, and exhaust in place. Front tire assembly is backwards, but magnetized for easy painting and adjustments.
Let me know what you think.
Possible ideas.
Putting the sentinel legs behind the tool compartment, each facing outwards so they can come down like stabilizers.
Not sure how to mount the crane, so it might just become a flat bed, or if I find the right tube/ bottle, a tanker. Maybe the drive to my kids school will give me ideas.
Got the wife to approve a small purchase for me, so I'll be stopping by hobby lobby today for a airbrush hose, hopefully a regulator as well, and thinner. Don't know what else I'll need, so if you think of anything o ahead and post. I'll check on my phone while waiting with the kids.
I think it's awesome! Don't forget to tack on a shovel, pick, and rivet gun somewhere for emergencies Maybe move the cab back over the front wheels a bit?
No way to move the cab back without making this about a half inch taller. I think I'll be able to put a ram or at least a bumper under the front of the cab, it might help it look a little less like the driver is hanging out there.
Dave, what do you use for a cleaning solution and to thin the paints down?
Depending on what that box (that the tools are connected to) is for you could attach the crane to the top of that. Couple of semi-circles, a rod as a pivot, a piston or two (lots of rivets obviously) and Robert is your mother's brother.
Yeah the front wheels could do with being a bit further forward.
If you don't do the crane, you'll need a winch on the bed to drag things up into the back (like those small flat-bed car transporters).
Buy a big bottle of windex for general cleaning, and some regular airbrush cleaner (Spectra-tex available at Michael's) for end-of-day cleanings. Learn to field strip and reassemble the airbrush like a rifle, but with regular cleanings, you won't have to much. Lube is important, brand doesn't matter, it's usually a blue goo, I use Iwata Super-Lube because that is what my local hobby shop stocks. For thinning, Testor's Universal Thinner is the most available, you can use water or windex too in a pinch . Don't believe what people on the internet say about the blue coloring in Windex, it isn't pigment, and they are just scared of their tool, they don't understand it, so they believe in hokum.
Not getting much chance to work on stuff today. Watching little house on the prairie with the family, it's so mu h fun to torture the kids, they lost tv choices for the day while at the store buying furniture.
HA! cruel parents crossing the street
the more i see of this truck i get warmer with that build... BUT... i think you need double axis on the front... and maybe an axis so that you could have the backside of the truck better get around curves?...and what was your impression about the sentinel legs as stabilizers... did they look too big? i know i am the devils advocate again but someone needs to point out these things... i bet you could scratchbuild them in the right scale (assuming they are indeed too big)
cheers, vik...and no...i am no doc... only of that sort you would need for torturing peeps with boring lectures
I thought about a double axel up front, but no more spare wheels, could lays steal them from the sprues of unassembled bikes. The hard part would be another axel. I could always scratch build one, but I'll see how this looks without first.
My supply drop failed. The hose I bought at hobby lobby had the wrong fittings on the end. I have a few hours so I'm headed to harbor freight and a different hobby lobby. I did get the thinner and some game color paints there though. Also picked up winded at the store while getting groceries.
Not the best but one of my favs
General tsao, honey chicken, hot braised chicken, pork on a stick, crab Rangoon, and white rice. Plate one.
Didn't bother with the other plates. People around me looked at me funny when I took the picture. Didn't want to explain that it was to show guys across the country what i Ate on a miniature forum dedicated to little plastic men where I am part of a league of extraordinary riveters. it makes it sound so bad when I type it out
Speaking if rivets...
Got to do some 1:1 scale riveting to replace the broken rivets on this 70+ year old mail slot. Didn't have a real rivet gun so....
Supply drops, yes multiple.
Harbor freight, about $30.00. Includes rivet gun, carpenter square,hose, airbrush cleaner brushes and helping hand (2.99).
Here's it with the other stuff from today.
Paint thinner, windex, and three paints. Also got another hose, but it was the wrong size and $20.00 more than the harbor freight hose, so it goes back.
Also in the picture.....judge dredd movie from redbox. Haven't seen it yet, and had a coupon for $0.50 off, so I'll watch/listen to it today and tomorrow.
People coming to take old couches in the morning an new furniture to come tomorrow also. That with kids gymnastics means very little Tim to do stuff. 1:30pm here and finally hitting he shower. Too much info there
Going to have to hit harbor freight again when my birthday pops around. Saw a nice tool cart that the compressor and airbrush stuff can go on and I can roll it into and out of the basement. Storage boxes were okay, maybe I can find some of the tilt bin storage boxes when I have more time. Didn't even look at the power tools as I was trying to conserve money and time. Never went into their stores because I heard quality was crap, but I'm looking at small tools that get little wear, so not too worried. They also had a real cheap airbrush set $150.00, but you got six airbrushes, holders, hoses, and a spray out bucket. I might look at it more as I'm still not even a noobie.
food looks tasty...chineese food always brings a big satisfied grin on my face^^
and the suply drop looks very promising, i own that third hand too... and what do you intend to rivet with that rivetgun?
and is that judge dredd or is it the new one dredd? the later i didn´t really enjoy that much...even though the critics say it stayed more to the original....for me sly will always stay dredd
That's the new one, I liked them both, especially the SLy one...It looks MUCH better on the Blu-Ray format though ...except the green-screen flight scenes- those benefited from VHS quality
I call HERESY on Vik & Dave... While Sly's Dredd had a great comic book look to the costumes (especially the ABC Warrior) and backgrounds (I have a movie book on this and it's full of great images that could translate onto the Necromunda table), he committed two ultimate sins - first he slurred his way through the lines - I AM THE LAW was the most awful part as he made no comprehensible sense... Second, and this is the cardinal sin that he can never be forgiven for, he revealed the face of Joe Dredd.
I will admit though, that I kinda enjoy the movie for it's cheesiness - similar to the way I love Flash Gordon...
IMHO the new Dredd is far superior... Urban is a great Dredd, plus no face reveal...
well carl urban sure did a great show...and his sidekick...well...rarrr^^...and ma-ma was even the best... but i dislike this way too open and selfsupporting brutality... that is not really my style... rape, skinning alive and even worse stuff... not my cuppa tea really...
beside...compare the two lawgivers and do your own judgement
Vik it's only a rental. Don't know I they have "redbox" in the eu. It's a freestanding movie dispenser, you just need a credit/debit card, and you rent the movies for$1.25 a night, o $1.00 if you reserve it online. If you sign up fo junk mail they send you coupons each week either fo one night free rental or $.50 off. They have locations at every McDonald's and Walmart, plus hundreds of other spots. You rent them from any machine and return them at any machine. We rented som before vacation last year, popped them in the car DVD player for the kids, stopped at a McDonald's along the path, dropped off that movie and got another. Really cuts down on the "are we there yets".
Kids gymnastics was called off tonight, well changed to a time after their bedtimes for some stupid reason, but that might give me some auto working time. Dinners been in the crock pot all day and the house smells of hickory BBQ sauce.
I'll write my movie review in the morning. Might even get to watch it twice while waiting for the furniture to arrive and depart.
now that sounds like a cool marketing strategy...that hasn´t reached germany to this intensity here... and yeah ... i beleive this would make traveling way easier^^
by the way... during your yesterdays posts you mentioned baby showers... if your kids are eight and ten years old... who is the baby??? i am confused^^
Vik it's for my brother in law and his wife. They are expecting a little girl in late August, early September. It's there first child, and they live out of state. Actually he works for ABInbev. Nd is being transferred from California to New York.
Vik, apparently the over long muzzle is the Lawgivers 'silenced' mode, so that explains that then and I will derail Theophony's thread no more (for tonight at least)
Dredd Is a really Good action movie. Its also a REally good Dredd story (since there is no earth shattering stuff happening, just a violent drug gang....)
The best part of the movie is the music, and how it complements the action.
I'm down or a good action movie with no plot, or one big enough to drive a bus through. A bus that has to go a a certain speed or it will blow up. A bus that keeps running into problems that slow its speed down, but they are able to maintain speed so it doesn't blow up. I think it's called the bus that shouldn't slow down.
Okay, first impression, great movie.dredd needs to frown more. After the above vagrant got squished I think I saw a smirk. Will watch again tomorrow while waiting for furniture.
yup shaso, the movie lawgivers had a much 40k vibe going on....
what i didn`t like/ understood/ surprised me...was the amount of freaking sunshine you got in the new movie...???? sunshine? and so many open spaces when filming outside... the old one always had that narrow space feel...even in the fast car/bike chase scenes....
Of course who wouldn't love to have the vulcans that tore through the hab block?
Little work on the truck. Saw a lot of different inspiration pieces taking the kids to school yesterday and doing my supply runs, but none really struck me. So I went with plan G. The imperial tow service gets very little attention I game, so I think it's time they do.
Still needs detail work, but basics are laid out
Working ramp , I leave the hydraulics to someone else, like blackadder or mxwilder
Landspeeder antigravity device not working? Call the professionals at Imperial Towing! Where roger and Ted are always on duty (read life sentences).
Definitely some mudflats needed, fine details still need work, far from finished.
My other daughter is sick today, so she gets to watch Barbie and the pink shoes, I get to watch skyfall. They picked up old couches already, now just waiting for the new furniture to arrive.
Different view of Mega-City1, and maybe that was the southern sector? a rare break in the clouds? lower budget meant using a real life urbanized area with some odd CGI buildings added in? not sure. the Comics never hinted at so closed in a feel as this was a sprawl hive city 40k wise, the Stallone version was also supposed to show sprawl, but the buildings were closer together. But the comics did have wide areas and aircraft too!
now i finally share your vision of a truck^^... tho... you think you would really feeling good enough about that build if you wouldn´t add at least a "looking like " hydraulics detail part?... think deep thoughts here you know you want to...need to
and speaking of backdrops... hows working with yon thrid hand for you? was it a worthwhile buy?
I haven't used the third hand yet. I've been working with big pieces last night, and watching tv, moving furniture today. Tonight my oldest has a violin concert, so it will be morning before any fiddly (see what I did there ) bits get worked on. So far skyfall is an excellent movie, but needs more fight scenes.
I found Barbie and the pink shoes to be just another Barbie clone movie like the last four/ five, this is I think the third version of swan lake they have done.
On a nonbarbie note, saw this on the road today, and said, you just don't see good it's like that every day. Almost makes me want o do imperial fist.
It also gave me ome ideas to detail my truck .
I never could understand why the heartland was wiped out, but the east coast was spared, did the bad guys think Washington, D.C. Was in the middle of the country? Or did they know where it was and knew how ineffective they were?
Automatically Appended Next Post: Kil the food making and bring them to their knees, remnants were left of the burger wars, literally people wielding weapons wearing the uniforms of Mickey D's and the Burger King
How dare you moly that GW is infringing on anyone else's ideas or ip. That is treasonous and will see to you being executed, or at least a long time trip to the iso cubes.
Our burgers aren't grown anymore, they're imported from beef farms in brazil, where nazis hideout and plot our downfall.
So does that mean that Disney World is in Mega City One - cool
After all this talk of 200AD, I'm feeling the urge to go find my old issues - So many good stories, but would love to see the Chopper stories on the small (or big) screen...
So sitting at my oldest daughters violin concert reminds me how much I hated playing violin as a child. My brother got all the musical talent, me I can't even clap to a beat. But luckily the concert is for all the string orchestra in the district, and it's at my wife's high school. The looks of the school just hit me being a great necromunda terrain piece. Will take some pics and post when I get home phones almost dead. Wife texted me that now my son has the same symptoms as his twin sister and her fever still hasn't broken so ill have both of them home with me tomorrow.
Had my tonsils out they say you can't get strep after that, but I've gotten it every year from them. Pink eye I avoid like the plague. My daughter must be lysoled every ten minutes around me. She does a good job washing, but we had that trivia night on Friday and they were around a lot of new people. I think she also helped out in the nursery, so she might have gotten it from one of the babies.
My phone battery is dead so my photos from my wife's school will have to wait till morning. All I can say is the mascot is a tiger.
On the bright side I can't take the little sickos around great grandma and great grandpa, so no basement work tomorrow.
If the truck gets sick, hen it becomes the cultists ride. A buddy of min worked for enterprise rent a car years go when they were looking fo thei new slogan, one of the suggestions from his group was "wanna get picked up tonight? " if the truck goes chaos I'll need a dead sexy beast hanging off the truck asking that. Thinking the pork chop express from big trouble in little china and the monster riding the back of it.
Truck work, not much change, but not a lot of time involved as well.
Front view of truck with roger and Ted.
Side view of loaded truck.
Still needs lot of work, but not tonight.
Oh and realized my iPhone and iPad were linked so I can show some of the pictures from my wife's school. Her schools teams are the Tigers. And the school just got this bronze statue this year, it's in the center of the cafeteria.
Unfortunately it wasn't in place for even an hour before a new tradition came to pass....seems the tiger is anatomically correct and the students have begun to rub HIM for good luck the patina is showing a lot more in person than on the picture.
The school has placed concrete barriers around the statue to try and keep graffiti and other things from happening, but not working too well. My wife is so proud
That's not the terrain project though. Thank goodness. The cafeteria is a nifty area. The school is I think 60+ years old, but the cafeteria section is in great shape. It's in the center of the school, and is three stories tall in the center, with staircases on either side. The classrooms and library look down into the cafeteria, but are glass block windows. And all the heating ducts are out in the open, but painted to blend in. Also roof supports are spread out, but show nice girders. Very nice overall industrial feel in my opinion.
Also roof skylights
This might become a future terrain project, and the size of it made me think of the peach tree in Dredd. The gymnasium that the concert was in also would be a cool setup. I might try and do a school themed necromunda table. Have juves fighting a turf war in the school. Have heat packing teachers, and innocent bystanders.
Absolutely excellent terrain inspiration, Very 40k, with the raised Overseers office and all. I can see the HO train bridge parts right away!
and Dave saves the day again, I was thinking "man that's going to be a ton of cutting to do all those trusses". Kiddos went to bed without a fever, they were just complaining to my wife to try and get out of school today. Not happening, get dressed nd ready for school. Guess I'm going to the grandparents for more cleaning out today.
That skyrim video was awesome. Almost makes me want to get a decent video gaming system. But alas I would spend my entire day in front of it and less terrain would get done.
Okay so servitor three is up and running with close combat arm (mechandrite tentacles) and plasma cannon, but I need a name. So lets begin the first (that I know of) name that servitor contest.
Post your name suggestions here. Hopefully they'll go with roger the riveter and Ted the torch
Since its supposed to rain tomorrow I'd better get the lawn mowed, hopefully some plastic glueing tonight.
@dangeldorf, yes it is guitar string, couldn't tell you what cord, because I'm that skilled musically. And thanks, the truck is being parked in the garage for a little while.
@shaso, not quite feeling fire squid as a name, but thanks for the suggestion.
tweedle dum....... that shall be his name henceforth
your truck and it´s load should better be loaded equally on the sides... the big barrels are all on the left... that might get complicated in curves...
and i hope your kids get better soon... it is always very strange to see our kids ill... they have so much energy when they are fit... seeing them all tired and sick is really making me feel sad for them... thankfully we never had pink eyes in our family... and that even tho both kids went to kindergarten and my wife even works as a nursery nurse...so in fact plenty of oportunities for that plague...
one thong tho... your tweedle dum... his tentacles need to be more curvy... try to bend them more... atm they look rather too stuff...but the concept is sound!
as for rubbing certain parts of statues...we have a park here where there is a naked man sitting... a bronze statue... all green with verdigris all over... kids tend to climb on that build... but as i´ve seen even my kids climb on that statue... by no means would this cause the polished look on some parts ... i never felt the urge to touch a statuebut it seems many peeps do???? crazy world...
@vik, tweedle dum will have his chords bent more in he future, the glue was till hardening. My kids are still full tilt on the energy level possibly more energetic. As for how the truck I loaded somebody keeps reminding me that here is no safety in he underhive.
at Dr H.... shhhhh that was my line... made a clever plan to lure theo into producing another one^^
and well... fill them up with chocolate icecream or somthing... some soul food...to make them feel better... when thew mind gets up again the body follows...
and well dave is not currently here so ... safty... yes please
1. It's a low G sting, acoustic, brass, and from a better, more expensive set I'd guess by the tight weave.
2. Dave is always here 3. He is an assault servitor, he first melts a hole, then climbs in through the molten hole and chews up his opponents with his lash so Smelt-scourge?
Guitar strings I bought years go at toys are us. Got five different strings for five bucks, so I don't think they're too great. At least one of the other packs keeps unwinding when I cut it.
I'd love to make more of these guys, fills a spot in my marine chapter that I hadn't thought I could do from there plastic, but no one seems to have the bits. I posted a swap shop request but no takers so far for these pieces. I guess when you buy a stormraven and shell out so much money you don't leave pieces laying around .
Raining here again so all my outdoors plans are shot. Thinking of rearranging the gaming area in the basement. Would mean more area for me, but less for the kids. I spend more time own there, but seems like a hollow excuse, so will most likely stay the way it is.
Spent two hours bits sorting, I know I made some headway, but doesn't look like it. Thought about the dimensions of the cafeteria project, even at 1/4" scale it would be over 4' long. I'll need to rethink it, or change the size around. Also trying to come up with an idea for collapse able bleachers for the gymnasium, can't get the mechanism figured in my head, will do some searching to figure something out or the school project might not work.
These bleachers are a little different. They slide out from the wall starting ith the bottom step first and it goes all the way out first, then the second step goes out, taking the first hat much further. They can control how many steps come out total, so if they only need two rows, bam two rows nd the rest are still stacked up.
I guess I'm getting hung up on nothing it's not like I'd have them open and close during a game, but it would be neat . I just have to wrap my head around doing more terrain. I just think the hallways and alleyways would be a neat change o scenery. I'm just afraid someone might see the layout an think I'm going to go attack he school.
Time to step back and evaluate doing an arbites precinct house or bastion perhaps.
Here's a pic of the old bastion, bulkheads and cardstock.
I forget if its hyenajoe or dr. H who's building I now out of plastic. I had this set and th ire base, but like all my gorkamorka, necromunda stuff it got ruined while I was traveling on business, card all got wet. I have the bulkheads still, but I'm gonna rebuild them, make them better, make them plastic, give them rivets.....hopefully less than $6,000,000. But a current GW prices that would still be a bargain.
The jpgs ar saved on a temperamental computer. I can print them, but they just won resize correctly. I'll try to get them pulled up again, but the computer is older than my twins. Fin for typing reports and some of my old video games (alpha centauri, might and magic v), but not much else. I've got to get a newer system but he ipad does most everything except type what I want it to.
I forget if its hyenajoe or dr. H who's building I now out of plastic. I had this set and th ire base, but like all my gorkamorka, necromunda stuff it got ruined while I was traveling on business, card all got wet. I have the bulkheads still, but I'm gonna rebuild them, make them better, make them plastic, give them rivets.....hopefully less than $6,000,000. But a current GW prices that would still be a bargain.
It must be Hyenajoe as I'm currently on a Waveserpent.
Might just be the picture on the box, but I think I prefer the look of that bastion compared to the current one I've seen...
Look forward to whatever you end up building... Decisions decisions eh?
I was in the middle of trying to get dinner done when typing it, got the two of you confused and couldn't look it up. I know you both stop by so thought one of you would speak up . I think this with a landing pad for small ships, landspeeders, or Valkyrie. Want to use my flashing light gizmos from the same time period. It might double as my chapter outpost on a Backwater world.
Just back from the twins soccer practice. I know I'm out of shape, but really feel it when one of the two coaches didn't show and I had to fill in and play soccer with 8 eight year olds.m kids and I showed up early and practiced for a half hour before the hour scrimmage. My side lost terribly, mainly because the goalie couldn't stop a shot. You'd think a 6'5" 300 pound guy who is half the size of the goal might be able to stop a shot. this is a young healthy mans game.
Problem is it is printing a piece that's 4" x6" down to 1.5" x 4" so not even proportionate. I already deleted the file, will try to find another file to make it work. Lawn work today as well as two hours at the License bureau with nothing to show for it.
The kids have there carnival at school tonight, so I'm there with them now to be first I the rides.
The carnival is for the end of our school year. They have a week and a half left before summer vacation. They get a full vacation this year as summer school was filled up with students who had to make up classes.
Got some work done this morning on the bridge. Didn't know how to make it work, so I just started cutting and gluing. After a few minutes I realized that my bridge was just the right size for my truck. Not planned, just worked out that way.
Bridge down.
Bridge up.
Now I just need to find the best anchor point for the pistons and set the whole bridge on a sheet of plasticard.
Inspiration dried up on the landing platform temporarily, so went back with this project. Hopefully have time today to start playing with the airbrush, but with Mother's Day tomorrow I need to come up with something. The wife doesn't appreciate me buying or building her terrain so my focus might be off.
dsteingass wrote:It's spring here Vik, carnivals are traditionally outdoor-good weather affairs in these parts
ha! we celebrate in winter such things... try walking around with tights in cold weather ...
and that last were quite some cool shots theo... it always is a good thing to see projects in perspective... now we can better realte to the truck AND the bridge... which results in...me likes!
Well, weather here is beautiful for a change. Decided to do some outdoor work. This old house needs work, and we bought shutters to replace he original ones on he front. After getting he old ones down I opened the new shutters, and found a bitz drop I wasn't expecting. The shutters are packaged back. Back with eight lovely plastic shipping blocks inside. I think they'll make great piers for necromunda
Got to love housework . I didn't have the right masonry bit so I had to go to the hardware store to get those, an will be leaving for the twins soccer match shortly so the shutters I'll have to wait till tonight.
I like that look! Free plastic is the best plastic. It's chilly and overcast here, we got in a nice bike ride before the rain. hopefully the trend continues of us getting your weather the next day.
That's what she said yes mentally I am younger than my kids.
The trucks not that big, the tires are from marine bikes not ork vehicles, so that does throw the image off.
Done with the shutters, hopefully I can do something with the plastic spacers I got.
Oh and in other news my kids won their game, 2-1. They lead the league in first place with a season rank of 2-0 undefeated baby
Had these parts for a while, so with only a few minutes of free time I decided to knock together another walkway. Think I'll try something different with the other spare parts I have.
Went to the outlet mall with the family, momma got to go nuts shopping best gifts are the ones you pick out yourself. I also saw this in one of the toy stores. I passed on it so the wife could feel the trip was for her, and not a regular trip.
It's a Melissa and Doug "over the river bridge", a working drawbridge that has the wooden tracks for the kids trains. Would make a quick and easy toll bridge. Has working gears and all for $29.99 at the outlet store. May check ebay, but I think my bridge is doing good for my purposes.
Scored one new in box on ebay for 6.99 plus shipping. Last one
LOL... see...good things come to those that can wait...and do careful research
as to that new walkway... looks way wider than all the other, am I right? is it currently shown upside down or will railings follow?...and what is the brownish stuff from?
It is roughly as wide as the other walkways. Maybe 1/4" difference. It is right side up, I just need to find some type of railing to use. I was looking at ho train track and just using that on the sides stood on edge. The brown thing is actually ho scale girder bridge walls. Picked them up way back at the start of the thread when I went to the local train shop. got two sets of them for $2.50 because they were out o package.
I'm making it part of my agenda for the week to go by the pawn shop that I pass pretty frequently. I've never checked them out, might find something cheap there, or realize I have some stuff to sell .
well... with lotsa faith I have entered the pawnshop at our neighbourhood, but every time there wasn´t any useful stuff...and then when my kids got thrown out for just being kids two times by an old grunt that works there... my family is banned to leave any money there anymore... I can´t stand old guys that hate kids...
but good luck nevertheless...
as for the width... it looked to me as if it was wide enough for a LR to pass over...must be the angle then
Must be a job requirement. Like the red shirts at GW. Now I've only been to 2gw stores, but at the first the guy was almost humping my leg to get a sale. The second store the guy was busy humping a leg of a father who brought his son into the store, both of them for the first time. I heard him saying that lord of the rings was a fantastic game with loads of players.....loads is right, just not around here.
New tool from micro mark, might order a set. Sold in packs of 2.
True, you could build it, but a couple sets of their brass bar clamps and squares would be more useful methinks, but a bigger investment. Still, it wouldn't hurt to have a set of those.
Did some work on the pillars to try and tick them up a bit. Can't find my regular hole punch to pop holes in the flat upright bracing. But I did find my old 1/16" hole punch to make rivets .
I will probably use these pieces as an elevated train or subway pillar. Might have other ideas later, but that's the first that popped into my head.
those vertical spaces inbetween these already riveted parts i think could do with some riveted plating as well...and i think the round rod you could do to make looking like a pipe...just add some flanges here and there and all is good...
1/16 rivets... i recently got me one of that size too... especially for minis this size is the best... only bested of course by slized rod rivets^^
Will attempt flanges.....giggles...remember reading Dave's old blog about that definition....it IS Mother's Day here after all.
Was working on the rest of the plating after posting the last picture. The black dots are roughly where I was wanting to drill holes to look like unistut.
I've always was. Basic painter and never tried weathering. But end of last year the store I worked at was cleansing some epoxy grout pigments. The quart sized boxes were marked down to $0.10 each and had about ten different colors being discontinued by the store. Asked the boss if he'd sell them all cheap. He laughed and said penny each if you buy them all. I now have a tote full of fifty some boxes in the garage. No idea if they'll work for weathering pigment, but for less than a dollar pft. Instead of watching the boob tube I'll have to watch some YouTube to see how to play with these things. If it works out these run normaly $4.00 a quart and they're readily available all over the u.s. and Europe.
Any powders will work, from chalk dust to ground up Artist's pastels, you can mix them with thinner to make washes, or apply them dry. They just don't have a binder, so you only need to fix them with something. Future or varnish works perfectly for this. Many people are scared of powders, and I don't know why, it's less risk than paint because you can wash/thin it away until you've got it the way you want it. People are just scared of things they don't understand, human nature I suppose.
Waiting in line at the license bureau, I though you saw wild things at Walmart. Lady next to me smells like weed and has fallen asleep a few times while waiting. And nobody can read the signs. No wonder the ladies are so grouchy.
Paint? Is that German for something else vik? Cause me breaking out paint probably will be a while. Might see the spray paint, but need to play with the airbrush first.
dsteingass wrote: Scientific studies have shown that talking about using an airbrush is 100% less-effective at increasing skill than actually using one
epic mate... simply epic that one!
and theo... you should paint more.... really... i am admittedly not the guy who should be yapping about that but seriosuly... paint!... although... i know fully well that building in nine out of ten times gets you more fulfilling results than painting... but ... well even if one would paint like rubbish... it is still better than unpainted...slightly^^...ach... what the heck... do as you see fit... we get eyecandy this way and that^^
Basically painting is waiting on my wife's job, if she get the promotion, I can afford new paint. If she doesn't then I can't afford new paint right now. Also waiting on a tribunal decision on my unemployment. My former employer is trying to claim I intentionally did something to get fired and claim unemployment. Obviously not the case, but until the state decides my unemployment checks are in limbo. Have had some interest from my applications, but nothing solid yet. Plus the timing just sucks. Painting might help the stress, but the paint colors I need got changed by GW, and if i change my chapter colors life is going to suck.
oh... well the GW color change sure is a very valid reason...i can understand that...
as for the boss thing... man... seems there is as much of a chance to get a good and trustworthy boss as if to get a good politician...or king...i hope for the best... and i can see how this can affect you ...checks freezed is totally unfair...
Here in Missouri, lawmakers are trying to pass a bill that says if an employer claims the employee acted out of misconduct, then the employee forfeits any chance of collecting unemployment. Businesses flip the bill for unemployment by being charged more unemployment taxes by the state, so every business is trying to claim it each time to save there bottom line. It no longer about taking care of your employees and developing the future, it's about cutting the higher paid employees, and filling the spot with cheaper inexperience labor.
I miss the old days where employees were treated fairly, and compensated for what they are worth.
your country gets darker every day it seems...and some of these tremors are felt even here... what you describe is short of asocial behavior... the poor and unfit are mowed down...we wont see a zombie plaque in our time... but what the current wind hopefully brings is that soon some really evil men will get some severe punishment here on earth... not today...sadly but hopefully not in the too distant future... really this can´t get on forever like this...?!
Vik I think we'll see a reveloution here in the not too distant future. There are so many on unemployment, while companies keep reaping huge profits and the upper management takes an unfair percentage of the profits. Government involvement in keeping people down is also getting tiresome to most and our election system is broken when a popular vote doesn't matter for th presidency.
On another line, I stopped off and finally took those pics I said I would last week, but kids were sick so...
Hope these might help Dave out with his truck build
Oh, I made sure my paperwork said "no fault termination" before I signed it! I learned that lesson a long time ago!- you don't need new paints, the ones you already have will work, just thin them!
They refused to change it, and I refused to sign. Doesn't stop the wheels from churning on. I just got the paperwork for the trial date next Wednesday at 2pm. It's by phone so no two hour drive to the capital , waiting or paperwork from my employer that I requested last week, it will show my case clearly.
Good luck! Sorry I know it's a pain in the ass! I've been there before! I have to admit, I got an evil grin today when I paid for my Interview suit with my unemployment money, felt as if I was sticking it to them one last time in a way
The other bummer today was my wife was passed over for two of the three open positions. The third they called all the interviewees (not my wife), but one of her friends in the office said that she WAS supposed to get a call. We'll see tomorrow, when the interviews are to happen if they call her or not. Fingers crossed and more than a few prayers as well.
When you start riveting, sometimes you just can't stop.
Pier 2.0 has reworked plumbing, used two different sized rods this time cutting one tube into 1/8" collars for joints. Waste pipe at the bottom will be drilled out. I'm thinking about placing plasticard on the sides and back of these piers, and just have this be the front. Might use a few of these to be the front of the arbites precinct.
While I was riveting I figured might as well do some other terrain decorating, so the gate got rivets as well.
That nice stack of rivets is about three times that size now, even after fixin these plates. I tried scraping all the rivets into a small ziplock yep Baggie, but began to look out the basement window when I heard a police car go by. My mind instantly though I was getting busted. He's a man alone in he basement at 10:30pm, sitting in front of a table using a piece o plastic to drag a line of fine white particles across a cutting pad into a small clear Baggie. It might of been the fumes from he glue bottle that was still open causing me o think this though.
Moral of the story, if our cutting plastic crack in your basement late at night, make sure your glue bottle is closed, or the glue might dry out.
Finished making the second of these towers, so I think I'll use them for the front of a building. Should it be: an adeptus arbites precinct house, an outpost for my marine chapter the Theophony, or the meeting hall for the League of Extraordinary Riveters? The adeptus mechanicus need not apply, unless they give a Titan cohort as a tithe , then they can have it.
Front wall, middle two sections shall become the doorway to the sanctuary.
If I make operable doors, then this would give me space for smaller tanks, vehicles to make it in and out.
It would need to be wider for a land raider with side sponsons.
YES!... do a fortress!!! do it... from a former friend... I've heard that story of the 1000x1000 apartments in heaven... that´s the look I would apply for a room
I think we soon need some kind of world revolution... the pushers and stealers of this big world... the people that are the cause of slaves in asien clothing factories that burn to ashes... your oppressive bosses... that all needs to be shoved off the face of the world...
heck... even us average people flinching by the police just driving by teaches us something of the ways of the world... we get raised with an uncertain feeling that we have something done wrong...regardless of if we actually do wrong... really... people in high places spin the world in a way to make us feel that helpless and crooked...but we are not the crooks...not us...
*rant ended...for now...*
and that truck pic... that is a classic one...surprisingly I have had such a vehicle on my to do list for quite some time... I got three tray pieces of a toothpastethingy in red plastic that I always intended to be used for building a lorry...weird, eh?^^
Riveting done on the sides of both columns now. need to find a good screen and keyboard for walk up "guests to ring and announce themselves. also have some ideas for lights.
Little bit of bridge work. I didn't want to mount it down to the ground yet, but it is now glued in place, so is the support pier.
Pistons work holding the bridge up straight and even at an angle.
@shaso Very true, it still wields me out all the people who are talking to themselves in public, carrying on conversations, and not all of them have Bluetooth headsets. It's a personal quirk of mine, but I don't even use speaker phone unless absolutely necessary, or I'm sitting waiting for the next available operator. It's just too impersonal. I mean if you can't devote the attention to having a conversation to me by holding the phone, then I must not be important enough. Drives me nuts when my wife answers the phone while driving, she pays more attention to the phone than the road sometimes .
@dave, no problem sir, meant to do it the previous week, but the kids were sick. This was the last week for their gymnastics class for a while, so it was a quick stop without going out of the way.
@vik, our uniforms will be blue jeans and t shirts, no khaki smell here . This will also help our roster numbers since it is the casual look and people who aren't members of our revolution will easily be mistaken for the cause.
Hell I dont even have a cell phone. Beat that! I get a kick out of the people that will try to text my landline
And I guess to stay on topic here, holy bat gak! You do some really impressive work. Ive even stolen some of your pics and saved em to a folder for future ideas Im hatching
@kingcracker, thanks, steal them as I have stolen most of the ideas and changed them to fit my needs. I never wanted a cell phone, but my wife got me to get one. Now it's like a very expensive game boy for me. The only good thing about it is I can check dakkadakka when I'm out and about. I think it has more capabilities than my old desktop computer as well.
Supply drop, cause I couldn't help myself. After seeing it at the discount store and hinting $29.99 not bad, a look on ebay got me one or $.95 plus shipping. Woot half price, came in good shape though the box was trashed.
When he bridge lowers down it trips the crossing guard bar causing it to raise up allowing people across. The little handcrank on the right side raises and lowers the bridge.
The visitor side of the bridge is just higher than one bulkhead, so I'll have to sort that out, the home team side has lots of neat bits.
Speaking of bits, while unboxing the bridge I realized how much good stuff I've been throwing away over the years. In the foreground you can see the plastic bars that hold the toy in place in the box, and also the wire ties they use to tie them. Power cables and scrap bits. I think babies have a lot more smarts then we give em credit for. Babies get their Christmas presents and play with he boxes and wrapping paper, we wad them up and hopefully recycle them. Babies also get milk from a better source than bottles
Good on your adopted parents and your birth parents. Birth parents for knowing you we're destined for hobby greatness and giving you a shot, and to your adopted parents for sharing the love they had.
The other part of the supply drop, got these from the grandparents. Worked at their place again today for half the day, hence why I haven't been online much.
Three melamine cabinets, not the top of the line guys, but they had been sitting unassembled in poppys garage for over a decade. Since hey can't pay me anything for all the help they've been giving us stuff. I've cleaned out so much junk that they don't need the extra storage. Some of the boards have some water damage, but with careful stacking, none will be wiser. Getting these is making swapping shelves and basement areas more realistic to me.
The walkway on the bridge is one what narrow, just under 2", so only foot traffic, and not big dreadnoughts first thing to get changed on the bridge will be the beautiful blue water on the cardboard between the bridge sections.
Speaking of bits, while unboxing the bridge I realized how much good stuff I've been throwing away over the years. In the foreground you can see the plastic bars that hold the toy in place in the box, and also the wire ties they use to tie them. Power cables and scrap bits. I think babies have a lot more smarts then we give em credit for. Babies get their Christmas presents and play with he boxes and wrapping paper, we wad them up and hopefully recycle them. Babies also get milk from a better source than bottles
LOL... and to be frank... I have collected these and playmobil or lego sprues (you sometimes get the latter too) and when the time arises they will make great stuff...I am sure about that^^...
that bridge looks lovley... BUT... we both know one hard fact, eh? it now needs two for that awesome look...am I right ?^^
I don't think this bridge is getting a mate. Wife got passed over for the three positions in her district. All the administrators choice and everyone seems baffled. She's put in for other districts now, so supply drops will definitely be dwindling. I'm still looking for work, but she really wants me to be a stay at home dad. We tightened up our belts back when I left my last job, and were fine as long as were responsible so no worries. Just projects will be slower in he future.
I've been very domestic today. Sometimes I get in the cooking mood, today I made. Meatloaf, and froze enough for two mor batches, prepped taco meat to have one of our kids favorite meals, and go some short ribs ready. Won't have to do anything except side dishes for he next few nights. Still have left over BBQ chicken that will make another meal.
Hooked up a new t.v. In the family room today. We're finally going flatscreen at least in the family room.
Dave if your looking for any GIJoe stuff let me know, here's a toy shop down the street that buys and sells all the toys from our youth. Gijoe, mask, transformers, heman an Barbie. They also have an arcade with real arcade machines inside . They have limited hours, but since my availability is open I can go and peruse.
Ah, very interesting to have a place like that close by Theo! I tend to watch over the roommates' 7yr old when they do not wish to have him along as he slows down the shopping wandering about and almost bumping into things! (He really has to learn awareness of his surroundings!), so about as close to "parenting" as I get honestly.
I got a ten year old and twin eight year olds, they pay no attention to what's going on around them, and they're noisy. I remember as a kid I would weave back and forth between people in the mall, but never cut them off, I'm always apologizing for my kids walking in front of people and abruptly stopping.
I think it's from the t.v., the shows I watched had me wanting to be an all aware stealthy ninja . I always walked with light footsteps trying to sneak up on people and scared the out of everyone because I could be right behind them and them not notice. My kids can't enter a sports stadium during the playoff game without drawing attention to themselves.
well... if you can keep buys at a modest range and still have a worthwhile life... than this often is how it is supposed to be... we currently live of my wifes pay alone too...and I even go to school instead of working... and she pays that bill too... and the odd new cloth for her hobby (sewing) is in it for us too... we just skipped from our planned holiday trip though... tough choices sometimes have to be made......
is there a chance to get the knowing about why your wife didn´t get chosen for the other positions? zero out of three is a pretty nasty chance I say... smells a bit fishy to me...?...
you americans... we only have one tv set at all...ok... mind you...it is quite big and flat too... but we only ever watch tv in the living room... and don´t eat while watching... the kids always get way too mesmerized by the telly^^ (mind you... the odd pizza does disappear due to my wife and me eating and watching big bang theory and so on^^)
She's inquired with the decision makers, but hasn't heard back. She's been the principal fog summer school for the last five years, and fill in for them as needed. She always gets raving good reviews from parents and faculty, so were mystified.
We have one t.v. In the family room, one in our bedroom. And now three unplugged in the basement. We don't let he kids use electronics during the school week, so it's just the wife and I watching just before bedtime. I watch/ listen to Netflix while doing housework, modeling or anything else unless my radio is on. I just bought a digital antenna today, for he last few years we've only had satellite or Netflix, no watching current tv.
aha...that´s why you watched so many superhero comic shows^^...
she even works as principal and everyone loves her work and still?... that sounds like a scam... or possibly she is too expensive to promote?...that happens quite often...
She is well paid now, but a first year administrator gets paid h same unless they have a doctorate I believe. She has two bachelors degrees and two masters as it is, so the district might save money by promoting her and hiring a new teacher.
Odd about the wife getting passed up, I know blacklisting occurs in the jobs fields, but if they are now extending that to spouses of blacklisted workers...... :(
Ah, the kid is also an Asperger's so he would be more aware if it were trains as trains are his fixation at the moment. I have been infecting him with my own Asperger's regarding tanks LOL!
Unfortunately here in Missouri there's no real way to get answers. You can ask, but hey not have to tell you anything. She might be able to go through the teachers union, but the administration can always say that they chose the three best candidates for interviews and she just didn't make the cut.
Missouri is also a "right to work state", which means your boss can fire you for any reason he wants, and you really don't have much recourse. It's kind o where I'm at right now. They said I provided poor customer service, which isn't true as all my sales numbers can show, but now I must speak to a Tribunal about it to get my unemployment. I'm not concerned, it will be great if I get it, but won't be he end of the world if I don't. My former boss got upset with me a year ago after I hurt my back. I reported it to him, but he didn't follow protocol and it cost he store more on the bottom line as a result. He looked bad but couldn't do anything right then about it, because if I got fired within 6 months of the incident there could be a lawsuit. He waited passed the 6 months and then targeted me. In retail you can build a case against anyone for anything, and hats hat he did to me. If I can prove it in front of the tribunal next week, then it will be substantiated enough where I might be able to pursue further action against the company and him personally.
that would be a good deed then if you succeed... I would go ballistic if something like that would happen to me...it is really so unfair...I hope he get´s his fill!
I'm trying not to hold a grudge. I think the biggest thing that will show during the hearing is that I am eligible for rehire. Why would you fire a salesman that is outdoing everyone in the district for poor service, and then as you'd rehire him in a minute.
Yeah "right to work " states are crappy that way. Although you also do not need to tell them you decided to quit, just not show up as you get a better job. but yeah, they can fire you for wearing the wrong colored shirt to work.
Wow you certainly get stuff done, making me feel rather lazy! I must confess despite having seen a fair amount of games of necromunda played I never joined in with it, but it always seems to inspire some seriously in depth and interesting blog threads.
Right to Work is a joke, it's just a Fascist pre-emption to the day when we all become corporate slaves. Sorry about your wife's pass-over man. Oh man, if you ever go in that shop and spot an original COBRA Night Raven, I'd be interested if it's under $100!!
Last time I was there they had one with the box.the box was beat up and the toy had obviously been out and played with, but it had everything. They had a uss Flagg, and the huge cobra and gijoe bases. These guys don't play around . When I drove by after my kids soccer practice tonight it looked like thy may only be open 3-4 nights a week. They also have old Lego sets.
OOh! That is LOVELY!
I see he has a HQ in the box too! I had one of those!
We have a store similar here, also keeps strange hours Mon-Thurs by appt only, Fri-Sat 12-5 or something strange, I need to go check it out one of these days!
Thanks Theo! There was some good eye candy in those pics!
I'm sure it's such a niche market that they have real jobs to help support the business and the limited hours just fit in nicely with their lives. Maybe they'll hire me, I'll work for plastic
, I'm just not eldar inclined enough to give opinions.
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