Thanks man, The hardest part, is dealing with the fact that this is a $300 kit. I can handle screwing up a $40 Chimera kit, but this one was a bitch. I caused more damage cutting the resin parts from the channels (sprues) than was present from the casting process and shipping, then my primer coat got lumpy in places and I have more surface texture than I intended in spots. I really hope I start to enjoy this kit soon with the weathering, because it's been a helluva lot of work so far.
Automatically Appended Next Post: I made it to Best buy and got my Space Marine (PS3) and Fringe Season 3 on dvd and even managed to get a hard edge highlight of Gretchin Green on and decals placed (splotches are the gloss undercoat prep for the decals)- those will be hid by later dull coats.
Automatically Appended Next Post: and the finished bits of my Catachan Imperial Guard army
Veterans with shotguns and meltaguns (all converted)
the few Armored units who made it past camo paint stage
1st Platoon
ok will do. I am ready to take a sponge to the bomber with charadon granite for chipped paint..havent quite got the courage up to commit to it yet....scary..kinda
somehow your pics are mostly grainy.... your minis deserve a better cam!!! the vets are awsome... did you use goliath plastic arms from necromunda? got a couple of those too... for some reason i never thought about using that way.... great idea!!!
love that army... and somehow catachans rise like fungus^^
Yeah, I need to learn how to use the camera, I'm sure it's more user error than quality of camera. also, my primer coat went horribly wrong, but didnt notice it until the green was applied, so the aircraft has a grainy texture under the paint. DOH!
THis is the auto setting on the camera, better than me
i ´ve heard often people complain about primer being grainy...sometimes i think like this...extra free texture... nothing to be sneezed at^^ well of course that only aplies with bigger surfaces with big models... on the average footsoldier thats a blow of course^^
Reinforcements have arrived
Lascannons
and Heavy Bolters
They will of course get grass and jungle foliage like their finished comrades in the Autocannon squad, but I'm calling the painting finished for now.
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did you use goliath plastic arms from necromunda?
Yes! lol those were some of my oldest bitz in the box!! I first used them with catachan bodies on Space Marine bikes for rough riders, but that project never got finished
i like the way you posed your minis on the HW bases.,..that guy with the shovel is pure win, very good captured movement! also i like how you used that mortar arm on the other fella...looks like he changes the battery on the lascanon! from what did you make those bolter shelss by the way? also i have to say from that distance the frosted primer is a bit looking through but i think in game you seldom will see anything of that stuff! the poses and the paintjobs cover this up to all extent!
funny how you don't notice painting mistakes until you photograph them....The bolter shell casings are little glass beads, they are a bit out of scale, but I think it's the shell belt that comes out of the ammo box that is really out of scale, bolters are supposed to shoot big, explosive shells
Automatically Appended Next Post: Yeah, looking at these pics I notice I need another coat on the vests, and the guns themselves need more work, Will see if I can't improve on them some tonight
well for the vests i think a darkening wash ad you are good to go, a tad on the bright side they are currently...glass beads... if you have any could you show them unpainted? i think the paint makes it very much into a whole new form...
ok, I'm not sure if you have them in Germany, but here in the US, women (and men I suppose) make jewelry from these little beads. These beads temselves are just small cylinders of colored glass, hollow for threading a hemp rope or whatever they want for a bracelet, necklace, etc.
I have a little pill bottle full (a lifetime supply) from years ago, but they are quite cheap in a craft store such as Michaels or Hobby Lobby, I think you can get that stuff even at Wal-Marts and other superstores
you can see that mine are not perfectly round, they have some flat sides
ok missunderstanding... i understood and knew what you used and probably know of a place where to get them, i just wanted to see them in their natural state as then i could see how they transformed^^ i have played with the thought of useing spagehetties cut to size for that job by the way^^
I am uniquely fortunate to have a wonderful girlfriend who understands my hobby. She bought me the Marauder Destroyer!! Definitely a keeper. I've had an ex-wife and several others that didn't understand, relationships are a bit like modeling, each attempt gets better
No, it's not the title of a new sitcom, I painted these fellas up to get my platoon up to full strength.
I found a bunch of OOP Catachans digging through the bins at GenCon.
YES! A left-handed Guardsman! Don't let the inquisition find him and his taint
And here is all that I can call "table ready"...you should see the unfinished pile!
how much points are gathered there? looking good and that pirate of a catachan is super! that sword is even bigger than him... catachans are such muscled up guys^^
That is 2009 points (in a not-exactly legal build I know) in a painted state. I still need to decal and weather all of these tanks, plus I have to finish painting:
1 Baneblade
1 Stormhammer (superdetailed)
1 Leman Russ Exterminator (old metal weapon)
1 Leman Russ Executioner/Demolisher/Punisher (I magnetized the weapon mount)
1 Chimera
1 Salamander Scout (scratchbuilt upper hull on a Chimera )
3 scout sentinels
3 Tank Hunter sentinels
and a mob of more troops
I want all my troop units to have all the optional troops painted up so they can be fitted into any kind of list I want to play
10 years of collecting man! Maybe I'll be ready to actually play by the time the new edition of 40k comes out next year. Plus I have a gaggle of Cadians, OOP Valhallans, and Tallarns too that I've been picking up here and there just for the nostalgia value. I envision a Valhallan Artillery Company detachment a-la Commissar Caiphas Cain in the Salamander. Even if they might loo ka bit odd with the Catachans, all the novels talk about IG Regiments being composed of remnants of other depleted regiments and that's fluffy enough for me.
Nice stuff mate. I'd like to see more close-up pics of the more interesting guardsmen. Like, you didn't even post the CO yet. Where did you get your shotguns?
lol, I don't really like my CO, that's why I haven't shown him off! The shotguns are a mix, mostly old Necromunda plastics, Orlocks and Goliaths specifically. I got some new clippy lights this weekend, I'll see if I can shoot some better photos tonight. I've seen some great articles on converting shotguns from Guard Flamers, but I can't seem to find them at the moment, but basically it involves cutting the flamer at the forestock and inverting it, using the flamer tubes as your barrel and magazine, then combining them with a lasrifle stock and grip. The black vet is carrying such a conversion.
I know, the one vet that looks like he is from 300, his shotgun looks more like an M79 grenade launcher, but oh well, beggers can't be choosers.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/349548.page as it happens to be in this thread i think are some really good conversions shown... and by the way mine are shown too... which i am rather proud of as they look like they could pack quite a punch^^
i think that a tallarn and catachan force would be a good troop amalgam... these two forces have much in common...cadians and catachans on the other hand make catachans always look like penial troops...which would be in your case of your army be quite unfair!
Apparently, I need some serious practice with this camera.....but they still look like crap to me..Perhaps it is my paintjob..I dunno
The Vets
the kitbashed shotgun I was rambling about earlier.
a kitbashed melta (pipe gubbinz from manufactorum kit)
i think your conversions are very good and i am very much jelous of some ideas you have done. i think some of these i have to nick^^
the melta conversion, secon pic, looks extremly steampunk in my opinion...also i like the idea of that underslung talon grenade launcher! that is quite a nice idea especially to a catachan army as i picture them as some nam army and this fits in so many ways!
as for your pictures... i think there is a photograhpic titorial of great helping here... mom...
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/317430.page
this should greatly help you imrove your pics... and my two cents:
don´t go too near, zoom in instead... some focus related problem then wont happen, and also your lens wont be darkened by shadows from the mini... i think the running vet shows that problem a bit...
also i think taking daylight pics whenever possible is the way to go as this produces the best results... using artificial lights always produce somewhat fishy colors and thus loos like you ruined your work...which is in fact definatly not the way it is! fact, period!^^
HAHAHA! How else do you think I got this outrageous accent?
not intended, but lolz now that you mention it!
Oh really?..hmm..I never liked her that much...better off taking the dremel wire wheel to her?
Thanks, he was a lot of fun to paint, all that rip to play with highlights.
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Automatically Appended Next Post: And some very WIP Armor (Fresh from the Adeptus Mechanicus Showroom...)
Weathering will follow, I promise, someday, maybe
i like your camo style... would mean much in actual combat but it looks very stylish! is the onehanded bolter guy allowed anymore? would guess not...as for the femme...i would of course keep her^^ muawwahhhaaa^^ no seriously she is a nice addition and i would love to have one day more of females in my army... well never say never^^
Thanks, I'm not sure I really like the camo, but I am now committed to it, so I'll just need to keep painting tanks that way. I am really hoping that the weathering (and yes I intend to use the powders as well as oil paints (like on the Marauder Destroyer). If I do it right, the camo pattern shouldn't be too overpowering...Still, it is a bit scary to ruin the showroom finish.
don´t be too modest about the camo scheme, i like it very much! in fact you tried a lighter one most peeps use darker versions... yours is a very set apart theme and thus original!
when i see your pointing commander in the tank... i remember the colonel from apocalypse now... i think one day you have to model him with his cav hat and all his glory^^
No, I just got the weathering powders , have never used them before. The Marauder Destroyer was my first time using oil paints (el-cheapo burnt umber and black) but that was it! I still have no idea how to mount it, it came with the oval base and clear plastic stand from the Valkryie kit, but that isnt strong enough to support the sheer heft of that girl...She is corn-fed for sure! I've seen people use acrylic rods, but I have never seen them in a store...then there is the gutwrenching task of drilling into the finished bodywork at the right spot for best balance....oof
Viktor von Domm wrote:a giant smoke colon to obscure the rod
Automatically Appended Next Post: Also, really nice guard! Really love the characterisation of the newer catachans with the different parts and heads. I've also got a soft spot for the older metal models, so kudos on them too. Ace!
god damn that is a big green tank^^ would take me ages to paint that^^ will he get same camo or will you make it look a bit different...after all it is a special item...
I haven't decided yet Vik...I guess that is why it's still just a big green tank with natural shelf dust weathering! I am tempted to force myself to use my airbrush for the camo, but I'm not sure I have that much control over that damn finger trigger yet. It was easy for the belly of the Marauder Destroyer, all white, but I may have to use some of that masking frisk stuff, I'm not sure yet. I suppose I should quit talking about it and actually work on it huh?
well you could use putty for masking....you know the one kids use to make snowmens and such like things? playdoh and such stuff... and later on you just pull it off...could work...
natural shelf dust for weathering... lol...that cracked me up^^
one day i would like to use an airbrush myself...but thats currently out of the question...no room, no money... well this song gets quite old...
to tell you the truth... every time i make something i like doing for hobby reasons i dream about selling that then for real...but then i see how i fail my own design and then later on dump that idea again...one of these days i should really go to town with a good design and mabye cast some and then sell them... there is a guy at ebay germany that sells almost every week a nid droppod made out of a casted begabricks egg...
and he gets about 15€ each.... not only violates others properties but he does it way small but it still produces cash....
dsteingass wrote:Yeah, I need to learn how to use the camera, I'm sure it's more user error than quality of camera. also, my primer coat went horribly wrong, but didnt notice it until the green was applied, so the aircraft has a grainy texture under the paint. DOH!
Not sure if anyone has mentioned it later in the post but the inimitable Sam Green from GW Sutton Coldfield (he's now actually in GW High Wycombe) taught me that if you put your spray can into some not-quite-hot water before spraying it warms up the paint slightly which helps it go on smoother. Also, try and let the paint dry at room temperature, i.e. indoors. Not sure just how understanding your missus is about that sort of thing - we have a downstairs toilet with a fan that I chuck my models in while they dry which works fine.
For painting camo on tanks I have to say you don't have to be commmited to one style. You can make up backstory why some tanks are painted different as example old age, pre-heresy with lots of battledamage or be it imported from a different forgeworld planet.
I used to paint also in the gw camo style, but I switched to a different on which I believe fits better in an jungle enviroment. (knarloc green, black and khemri brown)
These are very nice, I especially like the weathering you did on the flying thing! How did you do the oils? I can only get a sloppy muddy look with mine .
Thanks, I think the idea is to gloss coat first (this gives the oils a slippery surface to work on)and make it sloppy and muddy-looking, but once the oils are dry (about a week), use the acrylic body paint to touch up over the top of panels and such.
Cool, thanks for the help, hopefully I can try that when i get home tonight Also, do you have a commissar that you're planning on painting? I want to see what you would do with one. :nod
Edit: oops, just saw him, he looks awesome! He is, like your other stuff, a perfect balance between neat/ordered, and dirty/gritty. Just like catachans should be
Thanks Glom! The commissar was unfortunately in the flight path of some airbrush overspray, so that is where his "pox" come from, but I havent bothered fixing him.
Well, Im not sure where to start. The vets are really cool, the Hvy Wpn bases look great, the overall paint job is fantastic. And the bomber, the best. You said it cost $300? You got your moneys worth on that one. Looking forward to more.
OK, I'm revving up this thread in real-time as of today. I've needed to take a break from my furious but well-rewarding Necromunda Project work.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/1050/399826.page#3557527 And while I was back home a few days for a funeral , I stopped into the hobby shop in my old hometown and found this 1:32 scale M65 280mm Atomic Cannon.
This will be a bit of a recap for those following my Necromunda thread derailment, but I am including these things for continuity's sake, feel free to scroll down to new shineys)
I am a total Cold War geek, I am constantly amazed how in the 1950's the US was building bigger and bigger and badder Nuclear devices, but had NO CLUE about things like radiation and fallout, seriously dangerous Gak, and common sense now, yet they had their finger on the trigger. ugh.
Anyways, The US ACTUALLY built this thing, about 20 of them I think.
The Theory was, that they could get away with using tactical Nuclear Warfare, meaning, using small, nuclear arms on troop formations or other things, then marching troops into the wake of it to mop-up! We actually believed this, crazy!
Anyways, they test-fired this thing, IRL with a nuke, in Nevada...once.
Is that NOT totally 40k?
To top it off, I found a Government Propaganda film that documents the test as well as limbering, unlimbering, loading, etc.
Automatically Appended Next Post: My Atomic cannon will "count as" a Hellstrike Missle Launcher I guess, but I don't really care about the rules. I want to model it unlimbered and in a sandbagged firing trench, crewed by a bunch of sweaty Catachans!
Construction begins:
The Rear Firing Deck sub-assembly
Elevation gear sub-assembly
Glued inside as well as plasti-welded the outside joints of this assembly, it looks like it will take most of the stress of raising and lowering the gun barrel.
Yes, the kit can be limbered or unlimbered. The barrel actually collapses into itself wen limbering, just like the real thing!
All of the moving parts are meant to move Didn't you see the box cover "does everything but fire"
However, I will not be making mine limbered, it will be in firing mode.
A perfect, sturdy joining of the frame
@Vik, catchy tune, but the only word I can understand is BOOM! lol
actually i realized just now how big this is... i bet this would count as terrain on any table...gosh... that mini is looking for a change really dwarved...
on the contrary mate! i think this is a mouthwatering pice of a model... and your idea with two tractor chimeras sounds brilliant...thats transport for the gun and even for the support crew... i call that clever planning! i was just referring to the size which would justify keeping the documenbtatin of the modelmaking in your terrain thread...
dsteingass wrote:
It is perfectly sized! Just close your eyes and magine two modified Chimeras as Prime Movers!
you need to extend Chimaera's platforms, well use Basilisk (or maybe.... Manticore/Deathstrike) hull found on that boxset and make an extended hitch platforms
Lone Cat wrote:
you need to extend Chimaera's platforms, well use Basilisk (or maybe.... Manticore/Deathstrike) hull found on that boxset and make an extended hitch platforms
=^.^=
No, it doesn't hitch that way. The gun is going to be firing, not limbered. There will be no wasted Chimera kits for prime movers I'm afraid.
The kit's prime movers will be used for different projects.
It will not be limbered.
It will not be limbered.
It will not be limbered.
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The recoil system even has some of the original movement (see the video link I posted on the last page too see how it works) but will need eventually cemented into place, constantly raising and lowering it in gameplay would probably break the delicate gear system.
say do you own a fitting crew to maintain that canon? i mean there are old oop catachan gunners around.... that would be very cool to have these guys around...even the tank crew... the fellas just siiting on top of tanks, the hangers on would be a nice addition... and paying 50 bucks for that kit i guess is more than worth it... also the $ is so low atm... iirc that for me it would be quite a bargain^^
Ahh Vik, I'm going to be forced to convert every single crewmember! A crew of 7!
Yes, quite a good value, which is why I bought it in the first place!
I went into the shop with the intention of finding more 1/4" tile textured plasticard, and stumbled on this and another Renwall 8" Self-Propellled Howitzer from the same line. These kits are re-pops of old 1960's kits, the molds and the Renwall company name apparently obtained now by Revell.
left side platforms, that is the Traversing Wheel (the gun can traverse 360 degrees and raise to an elevation of 55 degrees)
It has a maximum effective range of approx. 20 miles.
Who cannot imagine these guns popping up undetected from the death world jungle canopies?
I think the fluff will include the Catachan's amazing ability to stealthily deploy these, making them unable to be spotted from aerial recon untill the moment a battery of them opens up and starts shaking the Planet's crust!
well i have the catachan codex...but i don´t want to spoil your mood doood^^ but anyway... this means 7 new shiny...for a given value of shine... catachans custom made to fit the maintanace crew... i say....yay^^
i have actually only ever built one kit of revell... but i have some paints from them and their plastic glue... which i can only recommend most dearly...as for their kits... huge range doesn´t cut the mustard... agonizingly huge^^
I love the old 3rd edition (?) Catachan codex, it has some epic fluff!
Also did you buy the howitzer? If not that would also be amazing and would look cool alongside the hellstrike.
It looks like I will have to scratchbuild one additional platform
The right side platforms, the hydraulic elevating levers, and the Elevating wheel
The ramming chute doesnt fold away during firing as it would on the real thing, but oh well, I was going to model the crew in the loading positions anyways.
LOL Vik, We don't need no stinking codex!
Automatically Appended Next Post: Even if I never use this as a Deathstrike in-game, it will make a very cool objective.
just looked through this and i have concluded that MAN that plane is AAWSOME!! and that cannon is huge as poop. only thing they are missing is some scratch built munda bulkheads (:
Looking quite epic! The scale shots really blew me away!
I'm dreaming of a sweet scenario where one side is trying to infiltrate behind enemy lines and stop the mega-cannon from firing. It has seven wounds (one for each crew member) and counts as cover for the crew. I think you should do it!
@ Chibi lol, yep did you see? even a newspaper can protect you? lol
@Rawson, great idea! I can see it as pivotal in a campaign too, whoever controls the gun at the end of game 1 gets a free Deathstrike blast in the second game, etc.
Besides, for apocalypse, I could make a datasheet for it and it would be perfectly legal.
Outstanding job, I mean, just simply beautiful. I'm very impressed w/ the way this is going, reminds me of when I converted a toy PAK to be a basilisk lol.
Rawson wrote:I think you should swap out the skull for some sort of mechanical bit. Other than that, looking great!
Yeah, been thinking about that. Or what if there was a ladder there and he had one foot on the rung? I can replace the pointing hand with a gripping hand, either gripping the carriage frame or the ladder.
Crew conversion #3 done, and the ladder idea from earlier, but I compromised by leaving the pointing finger,
The guy on the other side, I'm not sure what he is doing, but then if you look at the loaders in the video from the real thing, I'm not sure what the guy over there is doing either, so it looks right IMO
Amazing; yet again! Are you using -I can't tell atm- the plastic catachan squad or the command squad for the models? I can see some of the heavy weapons crew but can't put my finger on the other parts.
I am using parts from Every Catachan Sprue ever made man! Originals, Command squads, and HWT. Because open right hands are so damn rare, I am even using some dwarf hands for those.
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That makes 5,Two more to go!
Thanks Guys!
I don't "do" GS. I am not a sculpter. But I will use some Squadron Green Putty to fill in shoulders and cracks before it's all done.
A Hand Crank similar to the pins
Although the ammo hoist is powered by the hydraulics, the hoist can be operated by hand for greater control.
Nice work Dst, those Catachans add some real life to the piece. That beast is going to eat a lot of your paint when your done ;-) Thanks for the history of the arty piece too , i found it interesting.
the hand cranker looks cool, and i dont think ive said this before but i really like the catachan who is holding onto the pipe in the very left of your last pic
Great work, bro! This project is really coming along! I especially loved the bird's eye view with all of the little Catachans running around
My two cents:
The dwarf hands aren't doing it for me. They are just too big, imho. I don't know if you used them on more than two guys, but the ones that I saw were the two on the left.
Yeah well, This is the bane of every Catachan Army I'm afraid. The hand on the post is a Dwarf Hand, but the cranker guy's hands are both Catachan grenade throwing hands. Even on the original Catachan Sprues, hands are all inconsistantly chunky. On the new Command sprues they are human-sized, and on the HWT sprues they are different yet. If you have a suggestion for open or gripping right hands, I'm all ears. Otherwise this is whatcha get!
Catachan has a higher-than-Earth gravity, so humans develop shorter and more muscular. There will be no damn castes or bluebloods, or any such class crap in any of my fluff. This is Sci-Fi, I get enough of that gak in real life.
If you all really can't deal with the big hands then I'll paint them brown and call them gloves.
dsteingass wrote:If you all really can't deal with the big hands then I'll paint them brown and call them gloves.
HAHA, that's some very smart problem solving! Much simpler than finding the perfect bitz. Hands can be so hard to match, especially with those catachans. Every arm is a different size. I think calling them gloves could be a great bit anyway, to add to the utility of reloading a giant gun.
I was kind of impressed with the way I did the cranker hands myself, considering they are both the same left hand (I sliced the thumb off the right) and drilled them both to give the natural pose of an overhand grip one would use on such a crank.
dsteingass wrote:Catachan has a higher-than-Earth gravity, so humans develop shorter and more muscular. There will be no damn castes or bluebloods, or any such class crap in any of my fluff. This is Sci-Fi, I get enough of that gak in real life.
If you all really can't deal with the big hands then I'll paint them brown and call them gloves.
Sorry, DST, didn't mean to push so hard. Please don't shoot me with a 280mm tactical nuke
Things really are looking great here! When you work at such a high level, the CC gets kind of nit-picky So, if you think about it, the lame "big hands" CC is really your fault
i saw this and was simply like ...OMG IT IS BUEATIFUL.......i can see the fluff working out for it as well as the weapon . it looks SOOOO good i plan t get some russian hinds in my army thinking it would make it look awesome and u've just Blown me away....so say ...where did you get one of these again
THanks Ezekiel! It was originally a Renwall Kit from the 1960s, now the rights and molds for Renwall are owned by Revell and they have re-popped this kit as well as some others, but apparently those are now discontinued. Leave it to Revell to quit making kits everyone wants and keep re-issuing the ones no one wants.
I got mine at Phil's Hobby Shop in Defiance OH but it can be found online still if you google it.
man... did i miss out on so much... that disco bunch of catachans can partee like anyone!!! really splendid work mate! had to imidiatly go to your big gun thread again when i went home! the idea of giving the hands a gloved look would be a good idea... maybe if you are still aplying the green putty you could add a sort of ring around the wrists to show that this ios a glove?
the newly added rivets yet again manifest your membership in the leaque! extraordinary work!!!
Ash 1 wrote:
I'd say that was a perfect amount of 40k additions, well played.
Yeah? I'm thinking so too. I can't think of anything else it needs.
I bought 10 lbs of air-dry clay. When I'm feeling like getting messy, I will roll up an ass-ton of sandbags, I am thinking I need to capture the feeling of a Vietnam firebase to pull it off.
Sandbags are always good, try to avoid making them too big. I know from my first experiments that it's all too easy to end out with things that look like 50 kg mealie sacks.
I have a one small FW piece (Steel Legion HB base) that looks like they are behind a stack of Futons!
Rolled/draped camo nets are also good for breaking up big spaces; tool boxes in a contrasting colour always look the part, there is a closed one in the Baneblade kit and an excellent open one with loads of spanner/wrenches in the SM Whirlwind kit, you should be able to get both from a bitz seller on eBay or elsewhere. I have pictures . . .
Great find with that overhead shot of the fire-base.
I actually saw one of these fired as a demonstration at Fort Sill the year I went through Field Artillary School. What a magnificent sight. Thanks for sharing this.
heck man... what is the inquisition any good for... see those big churches all over the world atm... look up their ceelings... in the time of jesus and the holy thingies the artizians still made green mans hanging form the ceilings to mock the christians...same with the leaque and the inquisitions... the inquisition has the power to shoot... but we... the riveters have the knowing of the building...
three guesses and the first two doens´t count who will come and be weeping like small girls when the first tanks will fall apart on duty because of suitable riveters at hand in time of needs...
Rogue Wolves wrote:wow this is one of the few times i can remember seeing you coming out of your own thread, but by the 867 posts, im sure i saw you, just dont remember
I am kind of a shut in...it takes a great thread to make me comment and brother it was worth it
Rogue Wolves wrote:wow this is one of the few times i can remember seeing you coming out of your own thread, but by the 867 posts, im sure i saw you, just dont remember
I am kind of a shut in...it takes a great thread to make me comment and brother it was worth it
I am letting the glue on the rivets cure completely before painting. It's so awkward to hold in a hand, that I'm afraid I'll be tearing rivets off. If the weather holds up tonight, I'll prime it black and spray it with OD Green.
Oh, I seriously thought about building the modified Chimera Prime-movers. The forks still slide onto the gun carriage perfectly. But after much thought, even though it is technically possible to make a completely limberable gun, my previous decisions to reinforce the foldable platforms with plastic strip and my conversions of the crew in the loading positions made me decide not to. It would look cool though.
well you can always later on decide to add the transport "traktors"... maybe you even try to scratchbuilt them...as i mentioned before... would love to see your take on a complete self made vehicle one day...
probably leafing through a dictionary? lol...one of my english teachers said to me i probably had a case of dyslexia...but he said it with a smile...which in the now and here might actually be a cruel thing to do towards a student...
dsteingass wrote:Oh cool, speaking of "sights" what is the sextant-looking tool thing they use to set the angle?
I have a sworn duty to the =]_,=, I know full well what my responsibilities are!
It was used a lot like the sextants on a ship in place of a good compass. They were replaced, mid-fifties I think, with reflex collimators, a large lensatic compass on a stand, basically.
nice stein looking foward to seeing this bad boy all painted! question do you plan on doing the medical gause camo strips things like Ash1 if not i say do a small amount!
yep i just picked up alot from dollar store, plus real life wise, the net would be covered in metals or something like that to prevent the enemy from seeing it from on uav or some device, i cant remember which, but i think that the catachans would want to keep a gun like this out of harms way
back in my days in service i hated that stuff... those nettings always made everything dirty... when on action you were always so sticky... i hated the combination of plasic and string...
oh well, i guess we are going to have to stick to toys and video games ):
Automatically Appended Next Post: btw im glad you didnt say awww yea marines! everyone else sucks! because when i was younger thats what most of my freinds said, and im like you have no idea what you are talking about ...
Viktor von Domm wrote:...for me true soldiering is lying in mud and cursing about the food...
I actually liked the food they served in the Army. And MRE's, the only thing I didn't like was the powedered eggs they would serve for breakfast. I learned quickly to steer clear of them and go for the grits!
Back on topic: What color scheme are you going for? I know you said something about camo nets, and that would be awesome!
OD Green with a steel-colored central barrel just like the original with some sort of yellow highlights. no painted camo. I'm going to fly by the seat of my pants on the camo netting, I don't have that bit planned very well yet.
For netting maybe cheese cloth, or something with a finer mesh, and then glue little leaf-shaped paper all over it? Dunno.
MRE's are Meals Ready to Eat. Basically survival food, pre-packaged with yummy accessories like tabasco sauce, M&M's, crackers and cheese paste. Mmmmmmmmm.
you had tabasco sauce in those...we only god a hundred year old biscuits and called them concrete...also the meals we had in the MRE´s were kind of awful...but then when on action we had this smallish choclate piece... ate it and you needend had to use the toilet for about half a week...and if you ever had to make a dumb in the woods in late summer you knwo it is not that funny... so a bit of indegestion was a nice thing to have ...
Oh, I get it, you were asking if I was serious that I liked the MRE's, not what they were. That's cool, no one I was in the service with could belive me either. Now, when I first got in, the MRE's were rubbish, but after a few years, we actully got new ones (well, made within the last decade or so), and they were much better. I wish I had a couple of cases right now as a matter of fact.
I hear they are even better now, 15 years after I got out. Ahh, memories.
Anyway, @ D-stein: Don't forget the camo-net spreaders for the net. Long poles with supports on the end that look like giant flowers.
well i seriously could no understand what the term MRE was meaning... but you may have a freaky tastebud or two^^ but maybe as a real army the U.S. army has a need for better food than the bundeswehr...who never are far away from a shopping mall^^... a former friend when on a army trip(what is it called fr real?) took his big sack full of coke bottles... all 1.5 litres... and nothing else... no socks no underwear...just coke... he said he pukes when he has to drink the stuff they serve him...
RSJake wrote:Now, when I first got in, the MRE's were rubbish, but after a few years, we actully got new ones (well, made within the last decade or so), and they were much better. I wish I had a couple of cases right now as a matter of fact.
I hear they are even better now, 15 years after I got out. Ahh, memories.
It's true. Some of my buddies in high school and university would go to the army surplus store and get MREs for camping trips. Not bad for not having to cook in the woods
Looking forward to seeing some paint, DST! You haven't forgotten how with all the modeling you've been doing lately, have you?
I wish I could find some of the powdered oxtail soup I once had from British army rations. It was amazing when I was sitting in the rain on sentry duty as a cadet.
had that at the last weekend when visting my family folks on their holiday... i was not allowed to go with them during meal times...so my wife baught me some asia noodlesnacks...800ml soup and noodles... with some slizes of vergetabes and meat... importan factor was the spice...made all edible if even yummy to me^^
the kitchen women looked quite threatening to my wife...the holiday was a mother child vacation for health issues of my wife...she had lots of smaller and bigger illnesses during the last year... so kind of therapy... she and the kids were covered ...but me, it was suspected i would eat from the childrens dishes and that would be tantamount to stealing...such are the things of small peeps in possesion of short amounts of power....
Sorry about your wife's health probs man. Maybe I am not understanding what you mean exactly? It sounds horrible, Is this some sort of man-hating place?
no i was just a not wanted guest...one that doesn´t paid...i slept even in their rooms and this was too not allowed...so in fact right was on their side...but there is such a thing as family ties and decency...well...some peeps are just that way...
Oh ok, I see now! Sorry I had this mental image of a mean-old lunch lady who hated all men because her husband left her 20 years ago and she blames all men! lol
that figure (women is such a broad term...lol) is quite fitting....somehow kitchenfolk tend to grow spherical and get that evil glint inn their eyes...that is for official kitchens...your ma or others were not meant...
dsteingass wrote:Why the do mold lines ONLY show up AFTER a primer coat?
Because they are conniving little .
dsteingass wrote:
What exactly is going on with your PUTTYing in this picture? Did you sand it after priming? Also, there are some unfinished PUTTY blobs visible on the inside of the far housing wall.
Are you watching Johnny Depp overdubbed in German? It seems like he would lose a bit of his flamboyance.
The League =]_,= is the Union of any Hobbyist who demonstrates extraordinary, unique, or obsessive riveting skills. We don't have a secret handshake or anything though.
I want to see how this beast progress' 
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This will be a bit of a recap for those following my Necromunda thread derailment, but I am including these things for continuity's sake, feel free to scroll down to new shineys) 
I just assumed I had this thread subbed. I didn't. Oh well.
Seriously though, I really appreciate your comments Neil! That really means a lot coming from you man! 
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you wont eat anything else after that...concrete, remember?
