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Ruzto wrote:Nice work, I relly like your camo.
Can you give some tips how to do it fast and easy? I´ve been thinking to use M91 and RK62 in one of my platoons.

Thanks Ruzto.

But I am afraid there is no way to do it easy or not at least fast way. But you can save some time if you use wet palette and paint the camo parts for 10 guys at the same time. It is boring as hell I can tell you.. But when it is done it is done. But post some pics when you get your troopers done. I really want to see Imperial Guards with M91 and RK62.

DRommel wrote:Very nice and easy yet stylish minis, but I really dig the chimeras! You managed to combine WW1 and modern IFV look just as well as on original Chimera (which was a mix of WW1 tanks and BMP vehicles). Do you plan to build more tanks that way?

Thanks DRommel. Yeah I am going to build some more tanks in some point. Leman Russ is probably going to based on German Leopard 2. And I need to make more Chimeras of course. I don't know if I have time or inspiration to make all the chimeras from scratch but we'll see. But there is going to be more tanks.

marvlev wrote:Me likey!

Thanks marvlev!

That "Chimera" is really cute. Nice job on it!

JohnHwangDD wrote:That "Chimera" is really cute. Nice job on it!

Thank you very much sir!

To be more specific I really love your chimeras, because I think the GW ones just don't look like how APCs should, They are HUGE. Yours however are really good lookin'.
Are You aiming for something similar to the Finnish camo in WW2 on the tanks? I don't really like the camo on those but that's just my taste.

marvlev wrote:To be more specific I really love your chimeras, because I think the GW ones just don't look like how APCs should, They are HUGE. Yours however are really good lookin'.
Are You aiming for something similar to the Finnish camo in WW2 on the tanks? I don't really like the camo on those but that's just my taste.

This camo pattern has nothing to do with Finnish tanks in WW2. I was aiming for NATO camo pattern which has been used since 1980 by America and many European countries for example.

Finnish didn't even have much tanks in WW2. In winter war Finland had only total of 32 "tanks" and in continuation war there was just the ones that were looted from soviet army during winter war and some tanks from Germany. And there wasn't any standard camo pattern not that I know. In winter war those were painted mostly with grey and white colours and in continuation war there wasn't any standard camo pattern either.

This is awesome! Really cool love the shocktrooper squad.

Great Stuff! love the work and love you've put into you army!
and as what was said earlier, be patient! it'll eventually get completed!

Xenon wrote:
This camo pattern has nothing to do with Finnish tanks in WW2. I was aiming for NATO camo pattern which has been used since 1980 by America and many European countries for example.

Finnish didn't even have much tanks in WW2. In winter war Finland had only total of 32 "tanks" and in continuation war there was just the ones that were looted from soviet army during winter war and some tanks from Germany. And there wasn't any standard camo pattern not that I know. In winter war those were painted mostly with grey and white colours and in continuation war there wasn't any standard camo pattern either.

Sorry if I wasn't right, I just thought to recall some similarly painted T-28s and KV-1s. Surely I didn't remember well, sorry again. I loved the movie Talvisota btw.

SirGordonblixt wrote:This is awesome! Really cool love the shocktrooper squad.

Thank you SirGordon.

alarmingrick wrote:Great Stuff! love the work and love you've put into you army!
and as what was said earlier, be patient! it'll eventually get completed!

Thank you for engouragement! I try to remain patient.

marvlev wrote:Sorry if I wasn't right, I just thought to recall some similarly painted T-28s and KV-1s. Surely I didn't remember well, sorry again. I loved the movie Talvisota btw.

No need to be sorry mate. Btw here is a picture of some T-28 in finnish camo of ww2 if you are interested.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/T28_parola_1.jpg

And yeah Talvisota is a great movie! And if you like it there is also great Finnish historical movie called "Tuntematon sotilas"(Or in english "Uknknown Soldier") There are two versions of it. Both are pretty good.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unknown_Soldier_%281955_film%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unknown_Soldier_%281985_film%29

Xenon wrote:
No need to be sorry mate. Btw here is a picture of some T-28 in finnish camo of ww2 if you are interested.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/T28_parola_1.jpg

And yeah Talvisota is a great movie! And if you like it there is also great Finnish historical movie called "Tuntematon sotilas"(Or in english "Uknknown Soldier") There are two versions of it. Both are pretty good.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unknown_Soldier_%281955_film%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unknown_Soldier_%281985_film%29

Thanks for the info! Yeah that camo is a bit different than yours

Will try to get the movies!

Loving the Chimera. Looks just right for the mix of realistic and future pew-pew guns.

Kudos.

@Disjointed Entity: Thanks mate!


Good day!

I've done with the first chimera now. There is some things I am not happy with but I'll move on now and fix them later in some point..












Thanks for watching!

Sweet sweet stuff you got going on here.

Fantastic! That tank has really impressed me.

Thank you guys!

Great looking Chimera.

Looks amazing mate.

Thanks.

Nice job with a good scale tank for your IG, very good work. I liked the camo scheme for the men as well, those are urban based scheme,right?
Again good job, the diorama on the HW squads are pretty good as well, bravo!

Looking brilliant still, have youplayed any games with them yet, if so how do they play?

Thanks to both of you.

Young_Logan wrote:Looking brilliant still, have youplayed any games with them yet, if so how do they play?

Unfortunately I haven't played any games yet with these.. I prefer playing with painted models only. So still need to paint couple of units. But soon I can play. And I am sure they will play nicely. I just need to learn to play again. I have played only couple of games of this edition.. But I'll report when I get to play my first game with this army.

Hello fellas!

Sorry this is actually not quite a update but one guy on the other discussion board asked for group shot so I thought I'ld post it here too if some of you would like to see it too. But I try get some "real" updates in couple of days.. Have been working the second Chimera and I hope I can get it finished during upcoming weekend..


Click the image to see larger version.

ok, you have built tanks that are made of pure awesome... i know you think they are made of plasticard, but no... pure awesome.
i love everything about what you have done here and i will for sure take what you have done and use it in my own creations!
keep it up!

sweet stuff man I love the... well everything.

p.s. what do you use to cut the plasticard I can never get a straight line on my own work (that might be the reason all my custom stuff is orks!!!).

again that is sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!!!!!

Thanks guys!

bigmeklover wrote:p.s. what do you use to cut the plasticard I can never get a straight line on my own work (that might be the reason all my custom stuff is orks!!!).

Well there is two ways to cut it. Well maybe more but these are the ways I use the most.

One way is to use metallic ruler and sharp hobby knife.. Take the ruler and put it on place where you want to cut. Take sharp hobby knife and draw straight groove with it along the ruler.. So just instead drawing line with pencil you draw the line with hobby knife! Then use the metallic ruler to bend the plasticard against hard surface (for example table).. And becouse of the groove the plasticard snaps cleanly to two pieces.

And second way is to just draw straight line with pencil to the cardboard and use sharp scissors to cut it.

This is some very impressive stuff man, kudos.

Fattimus_maximus wrote:This is some very impressive stuff man, kudos.

Thanks!

I got build of the second chimera done.. Going to start painting it tomorrow.









And here is just some pointless trivial information. I counted the amount of rivets in these tanks.. And guess what! There is 372 rivets in one tank! That means total of 744 rivets in two tanks..


And btw I am currently building up four more chimeras. I got new design and all! I'll post some pics when there is something nice to show you!

Superb work... and FOUR Chimeras?! Do keep us posted.

Can't wait to see a bigger group shot of them all later some time... The last one was great!

Thanks Cosmic! And yes four chimeras.

Here is some pics what I've done so far. Not looking very impressive yet but don't worry.

bigmeklover wrote:p.s. what do you use to cut the plasticard I can never get a straight line on my own work (that might be the reason all my custom stuff is orks!!!).

If you do a lot of conversions (like my IG, for another example), rotary photo cutters are great. We have one, and it does a great job on sheet styrene.
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BTW: Your "counts-as" Chimeras are how big relative to a regular Chimera? Same dimensions?