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Just a little note to say that the Stug Chimera Conversion kit featured below has now been snapped up by Master Crafted Miniatures - http://mastercrafted.co.uk/





Hopefully it should go into production soon. I'm quite excited to see it cast up properly and generally done better than I could manage in my garden shed.

A big thank you to all those who made encouraging comments on this piece when I first featured it. I'll now be starting work on another conversion kit. Not sure what this will be yet so I'm happy to take requests. If you have any Chimera type preferences leave your comments here and I'll do my best to accommodate.

I need more rivets.

Interesting, I'll be keeping an eye on this.

ASLAV conversion kit, but you dont need the wheels. Tracks are just as cool.

I like this! You could use it as either a salamander or a griffon that has an Armoured Crew Compartment, or even put a huge flamer in the weapon mount and call it a hellhound. Great looking conversion kit tomcra, any idea when it'll be ready for general release?

Not yet I'm affraid. I only just sent the Master off.

That ASLAV idea is a good one. I've seen a lot of set-back Chimera configurations. To be honest though there are already kits out there that do a good job of this.

Blood and Skulls Industry do a good one (http://mordian7th.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/mordian-7th-regiment-new-chimera-test.html)

I can vouch for Ben's work, the stuff he does is brilliant, design and casting.

A slightly taller kit with a larger caliber main gun, in fitting with a wargame where the handguns are chambered in "canned ham". Also a smaller caliber, much longer gun perhaps with muzzle brake.

I look forward to being able to buy these, they look terrific.

That's pretty slick.

 VikingChild wrote:
I like this! You could use it as either a salamander or a griffon that has an Armoured Crew Compartment, or even put a huge flamer in the weapon mount and call it a hellhound. Great looking conversion kit tomcra, any idea when it'll be ready for general release?

For the love of....Would you please not help me come up with reasons I need this?!?!?

Can't wait until they are available!

Very cool. I can see myself magnetizing different weapon options onto my chimeras with this kit and running them as Griffins one game, hell hounds the next etc. So many possibilities!

Nice work. Has anyone here dealt with MCM before? They've got some good looking parts there as well.

This is pretty cool. You could use it as a basis for any closed compartment artillery piece, a really sick looking Salamander, an actual "StuG" Leman Russ army maybe, and who knows what else.

I'd gladly treat my tanks weapons as hull mounted to have an excuse to field these

 Azazelx wrote:
Nice work. Has anyone here dealt with MCM before? They've got some good looking parts there as well.

Ben from MCM did some of the CAD parts in the Exo-Lords range, Happy to vouch for him!

Its a really nice tank kit also!

AH

any news on this? this looks like its gonna be an epic kit.

Any eta yet?

 Sgt.Roadkill wrote:
any news on this? this looks like its gonna be an epic kit.

Any eta yet?

I expect it will take a little longer than 2 days from OP for any major update...

UltraPrime wrote:

 Sgt.Roadkill wrote:
any news on this? this looks like its gonna be an epic kit.

Any eta yet?

I expect it will take a little longer than 2 days from OP for any major update...

True. But it would be nice to know if their startup time would be in say 8 weeks or 8 months. I'll need to buy more chimera!

 Insurgency Walker wrote:

UltraPrime wrote:

 Sgt.Roadkill wrote:
any news on this? this looks like its gonna be an epic kit.

Any eta yet?

I expect it will take a little longer than 2 days from OP for any major update...

True. But it would be nice to know if their startup time would be in say 8 weeks or 8 months. I'll need to buy more chimera!

This

I really hope this is still in the works, I am really excited about it. Not trying to be a bother, but if there is any news I'd love to hear about it, good luck!

Can't find anything on their site linked in the OP. I hope they didn't drop this. I'm actually kind of wanting these now. No idea what I'd use them for, but they're too cool to pass up.

I was thinking some sort of Griffon or something like that. I'm an artillery fan for my guard though.

 Skoda wrote:
I was thinking some sort of Griffon or something like that. I'm an artillery fan for my guard though.

I was thinking of running them as medusas with an enclosed compartment. That's the best fit I can think of for the model.

That would make sense, but I think the Medusa has a bigger bore than that. Also, I already have some of the Maxmini Siege Guns being used as Medusae. I haven't found a good Griffon replacement, they really are lacking imho. They're cheap and useful, but hard to find kits for. I've been thinking about what else to use it for, and maybe a really cool looking Devil Dog? Something along those lines as well? Some sort of AA gun? I love the model and I would find some place to make it work!

When I saw this thread pop back up I thought it might have had some news.

Hi all
Speaking of Griffons i'm currently working on a stand in for one of those. I'll post some pics in a day or so.

Any chance of an update on the kit in the OP?

After speaking with the original poster..He said the kit was sold to http://mastercrafted.co.uk/ .I've yet to learn anything else..So yes some new info please!!

Hi all
For info you're probably best emailing master crafted miniatures directly. Since selling the piece I've heard that he's managed to get some decent casts from it which is good news. Perhaps if they start to see the demand for this piece they'll bring the release date forward.
Sorry i can't give any more info but i only sold the master.

tomcra wrote:
Hi all
Speaking of Griffons i'm currently working on a stand in for one of those. I'll post some pics in a day or so.

Do you plan on selling a master of that to master crafted also?

 Insurgency Walker wrote:

tomcra wrote:
Hi all
Speaking of Griffons i'm currently working on a stand in for one of those. I'll post some pics in a day or so.

Do you plan on selling a master of that to master crafted also?

Possibly, although it's not a done deal. I've got to finish it off before I start working out who might be interested in it. That chassis is pretty much done. I've just got to spend some time working out what sort of barrels it might be supplied with. I might do it without any at all and leave it to the buyer to work out what they want to mount on the thing. The coupling is like the front cannon coupling on the Foregworld Malcador so it would take a bit of modelling to get something pre-existing to fit.




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By way of a teaser, here's the Griffon type model that I'm working on.



I'll do a proper thread for this model tomorrow with multiple camera angles etc. For now though .... enjoy.