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now! do i dectect a glimpse of thing to come? a nice scratchbuilt vehicle for your orks would be a looker^^

You already saw the Skrap-trukk, but yeah, i am thinking a fighta-bomma for the Ladz

that would be cool, and on a sidenote i would love to see how you do wings and how you attach them to the body of an airplane...

That will be another whole thread! This one is for tanks!


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aye sir!

Gotta keep things straight now don't we ?

Took me a while to figure out what the hell "kleets" were.

I thought it might be something from a related, but different language (dutch uses 'k' where English uses 'a hard C' for instance), but then I realised you meant "Cleats".

Very nice detailed work.

My own sabres will have a hull mounted anti-personnel weapon, and no sponsons either.

Gotta keep things straight now don't we ?

no space for nonsense anymore...*trods off with sullen face*

*runs back with a new genius idea*
did a google search now for "cleats" and thought i might contribute this here on the more term of treadmounted superheavies...cant get more heavy than this:

http://apollomaniacs.web.infoseek.co.jp/apollo/crawlere.htm

chromedog wrote:Took me a while to figure out what the hell "kleets" were.

I thought it might be something from a related, but different language (dutch uses 'k' where English uses 'a hard C' for instance), but then I realised you meant "Cleats".

Very nice detailed work.

My own sabres will have a hull mounted anti-personnel weapon, and no sponsons either.

Yeah, I will find a way to have the Missile launcher worked in on the side of the turret.

Viktor von Domm wrote:

Gotta keep things straight now don't we ?

no space for nonsense anymore...*trods off with sullen face*

*runs back with a new genius idea*
did a google search now for "cleats" and thought i might contribute this here on the more term of treadmounted superheavies...cant get more heavy than this:

http://apollomaniacs.web.infoseek.co.jp/apollo/crawlere.htm

The shape of the tread system for the crawler is nice, you also get to see one in the extra download for Fallout -3 where you get to travel to an airbase and the thing is used by the enemy for satellite control of nukes in orbit!

ahhhh fallout 3... one of these days i have to get me a copy...money issues still...

Hey Shaso, wasn't there a tank that used overlapping shoes on the tread track? something like a deck of cards fanned out. anyways, dude keeps talking about using bread clips as tread shoes in Vik's thread, and the only way that i could figure out how those things could be used as treads would be to overlap them kinda like the cards in the pic.


I also found this on the web tonight, and after seeing it, i'm gonna build this as a super heavy Ork Scorcha.

is that beast a flametank??? looks even now perfectly orkish^^

my first attempt in carboard was with overlapping treads...used too thin cardboard but the ida was my first try...

@ Vik - I don't know WHAT that thing is, but I LIKE IT!

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Vik, it's either a flame tank, or a giant hairdryer!

yeah, hairdryer it is saying to me too^^ with the settings:
dry, done, well done and charred...^^

@Sebastian: Yeah, maybe they overlap that way, I have seen that other shoes overlap, especially the WWI style.

Also, that was an odd engineer vehicle the Soviets made in the 1950's. Hella super-skorcha though!


@Vik: Ok Vik, understood, the money issues I have as well.

There's a Hungarian vehicle that is similar but it is hooked up to a water tanker.

It's used to fight fires.

Blows a huge spray of mist at the fire. This cools the core below combustion temperatures. Not a water jet, but fine mist which absorbs much more heat.

As to the crawler, I saw that on "Dirty Jobs" (Mike Rowe got to grease one of them up and do some of the regular maintenance - while it was moving. The crew who work on it don't have much in the way of kind words for the beast.

Found some more.









Sorry, my inner child has emerge................again













Ok, i think thats enough........................................for now

Nice images you found Mr.-Squigi.

Chromedog, yeah, Mike Rowe would find the weirdest jobs that also were filthy to do. Maintaining a moving crawler sounds like Grot Rigger work though.

ah...exactly the man i need for me own thread...



*leads shaso by the hand*

LOL! need more comments for the tank you are working on?

I have to find a tip for the PVA glue, rivets time!


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Experimentation on the turret
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Once I got the hang of it, wow! I could almost make candy like this!
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More as it flowed on how to do it.
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how did you aply the glue? i read somehwere to use a toothpick...looking nevertheless really nice...this is also quite a big time work...sometimes i think if we just did a lifezized "model" we would have to invest into the same amount of time...^^

I poured PVA glue into a smaller glue container that was empty, and used a canula tip and squeezed out the glue, like a candy or cake icing sort of situation!

More turret
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to tell you the harmfull truth i am not really sold on the methode of this rivetmakeing...i feel already bad for telling you that but i think they look to big...tho this might change when painted...and a thought crossed my mind... you could use a nail and push it slightly into the cured rivet to make an indent... thus better explaining why they are bigger than all your other tank rivets...sorry mate...don´t shoot the bearer of bad news...

It does take practice and more finesse, if they do not shrink down right I can just peel them off and work on making smaller ones it is PVA glue, not perma-bond.
I remember the past where you were not at first old on my paint scheme either

First hull based rivets
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There are some al;ready set for replacing, especially now that I have a better control on the method!
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But it no longer has skin as smooth as a baby's bottom
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lol... talk about orangeskin^^ well i guess you are right with your comments about that i was not at first sold by the konfederacy paintscheme...sometimes an idea needs to be digested and after then it can be fully apreciated^^ and you are right, pva glue is very forgiving... with plasticcard at least^^ cardboard is another issue^^

the structure will be quite dominant in the finished look...thus maybe you can realy press the look of a WWI tank forward!

the lower side of the tracksystem look best so far... practice makes perfect as the old ones say^^

And more of the right side armor rivets
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Left side was pretty much done before I snapped the pic
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Front!
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Hull and turret together
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Also, remember, I used a similar approach here, but had a more primitive set up
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The glue is far more liquid than cake icing^^

i think the mainbody is good as it is... the turret i think you should do a review yourself...
also i saw a thing that left me wanting...the connectionpart between sponsons and the tracksystem... will you add something there to visually connect the two parts together? like a "L" structure along the line, and then on horizontal and vertical space give it a close riveting line?

I was leaving the impression that like the MK-1thru-V the sponsons could slide back into the hull for shipping.

does it really do that with the mark 1 to 5??? cool...so there then a bit of oil and grease hints for better sliding then? nice idea...

Viktor von Domm wrote:does it really do that with the mark 1 to 5??? cool...so there then a bit of oil and grease hints for better sliding then? nice idea...

All a part of a cunning plan!