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2013/04/19 02:22:17
Subject: Dave's new Hobby Adventure thread - Advanced Riveting for your Vault 101 dweller
"dave you are the definition of old school..." -Viktor Von Domm My P&M Blog : It's great how just adding a little iconography, and rivets of course, can make something look distinctly 40K-adamsouza
"Ah yes, the sound of riveting.....Swear word after swear word and the clinking of thrown tools" "Nope. It sucks do it again..."- mxwllmdr
"It puts together more terrain, or else it gets the hose again...-dangledorf2.0
"This is the Imperium, there is no peace, there are only rivets" -Vitruvian XVII
"I think rivets are the perfect solution to almost every problem"- Rawson
More buildings for the Building God! -Shasolenzabi
2013/04/19 07:34:36
Subject: Dave's new Hobby Adventure thread - Advanced Riveting for your Vault 101 dweller
i am quite puzzled why shatner always tired to stay earnest in his productions most of the time... i think he has a more comedic talent as his carreer shows...
"dave you are the definition of old school..." -Viktor Von Domm My P&M Blog : It's great how just adding a little iconography, and rivets of course, can make something look distinctly 40K-adamsouza
"Ah yes, the sound of riveting.....Swear word after swear word and the clinking of thrown tools" "Nope. It sucks do it again..."- mxwllmdr
"It puts together more terrain, or else it gets the hose again...-dangledorf2.0
"This is the Imperium, there is no peace, there are only rivets" -Vitruvian XVII
"I think rivets are the perfect solution to almost every problem"- Rawson
More buildings for the Building God! -Shasolenzabi
2013/04/19 10:32:22
Subject: Dave's new Hobby Adventure thread - Advanced Riveting for your Vault 101 dweller
It's green vinyl coated so, I don't have that shade of green
"dave you are the definition of old school..." -Viktor Von Domm My P&M Blog : It's great how just adding a little iconography, and rivets of course, can make something look distinctly 40K-adamsouza
"Ah yes, the sound of riveting.....Swear word after swear word and the clinking of thrown tools" "Nope. It sucks do it again..."- mxwllmdr
"It puts together more terrain, or else it gets the hose again...-dangledorf2.0
"This is the Imperium, there is no peace, there are only rivets" -Vitruvian XVII
"I think rivets are the perfect solution to almost every problem"- Rawson
More buildings for the Building God! -Shasolenzabi
2013/04/19 19:48:10
Subject: Dave's new Hobby Adventure thread - Advanced Riveting for your Vault 101 dweller
Well, this project for an IPMS-USA review has ground to a halt as I discovered this morning as I settled in to work on it..
The wrong sprues in the box for the wings of the building!
oops MiniArt I could use the bigger parts, but the roof wouldn't fit
"dave you are the definition of old school..." -Viktor Von Domm My P&M Blog : It's great how just adding a little iconography, and rivets of course, can make something look distinctly 40K-adamsouza
"Ah yes, the sound of riveting.....Swear word after swear word and the clinking of thrown tools" "Nope. It sucks do it again..."- mxwllmdr
"It puts together more terrain, or else it gets the hose again...-dangledorf2.0
"This is the Imperium, there is no peace, there are only rivets" -Vitruvian XVII
"I think rivets are the perfect solution to almost every problem"- Rawson
More buildings for the Building God! -Shasolenzabi
2013/04/20 12:58:47
Subject: Dave's new Hobby Adventure thread - Advanced Riveting for your Vault 101 dweller
It's pretty European in design, most US Train stations of the era were more wooden, but I really do like it. I sent the word up the chain to see If I can get a replacement kit or sprues, so it's on hold for now...what to do now...?
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"dave you are the definition of old school..." -Viktor Von Domm My P&M Blog : It's great how just adding a little iconography, and rivets of course, can make something look distinctly 40K-adamsouza
"Ah yes, the sound of riveting.....Swear word after swear word and the clinking of thrown tools" "Nope. It sucks do it again..."- mxwllmdr
"It puts together more terrain, or else it gets the hose again...-dangledorf2.0
"This is the Imperium, there is no peace, there are only rivets" -Vitruvian XVII
"I think rivets are the perfect solution to almost every problem"- Rawson
More buildings for the Building God! -Shasolenzabi
2013/04/20 13:38:17
Subject: Dave's new Hobby Adventure thread - Advanced Riveting for your Vault 101 dweller
Sorry Vik, I've been at this a few hours now, and all I've got is frustration
I'm afraid I don't know the first thing about designing a tank or halftrack. I'm just clueless...and a stupid-looking box with treads
This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2013/04/20 17:39:36
"dave you are the definition of old school..." -Viktor Von Domm My P&M Blog : It's great how just adding a little iconography, and rivets of course, can make something look distinctly 40K-adamsouza
"Ah yes, the sound of riveting.....Swear word after swear word and the clinking of thrown tools" "Nope. It sucks do it again..."- mxwllmdr
"It puts together more terrain, or else it gets the hose again...-dangledorf2.0
"This is the Imperium, there is no peace, there are only rivets" -Vitruvian XVII
"I think rivets are the perfect solution to almost every problem"- Rawson
More buildings for the Building God! -Shasolenzabi
2013/04/20 17:54:36
Subject: Dave's new Hobby Adventure thread - Advanced Riveting for your Vault 101 dweller
Have you watched Boston Legal? The best parts are the closing a with him out on the balcony with his cigar an beverage of choice.
LOL, Theo your mind is an amazing place, never change.-camkierhi 9/19/13
I cant believe theo is right.. damn. -comradepanda 9/26/13
None of the strange ideas we had about you involved your sexual orientation..........-Monkeytroll 12/10/13
I'd put you on ignore for that comment, if I could...Alpharius 2/11/14
2013/04/20 18:35:54
Subject: Re:Dave's new Hobby Adventure thread - Advanced Riveting for your Vault 101 dweller
I will start with a disclaimer and say that I haven't built any tanks either...
But I think I see one of your issues with this half-track and well, I can offer some advice about how I'd go about it.
First of all they are nice tracks you have there so it's right to try and show them off and not cover them, but... having plugged in "half track" into a well known internet search engine... I noticed one major difference between all the real world HTs and your's here, and that's the box that makes the rear end is usually sat on top on the treads (or to look at it another way, the treads are recessed into the lower half of the rear end), the passengers are often sitting on top of the tracks. What you've done is put the tracks on the sides of a square without a recess/overhang.
So what I would do is make a box that is only just higher than the tracks (taking account of ground clearance) but narrower that what you have there. So that the overall width of the box plus tracks is the total width of what you want for the whole vehicle (or rear end at least) to be. then build the top of the box out over the tracks.
Also it's probably good to make a sketch of what you want to end up with for the whole vehicle so you have something to work towards and not trying to make it up as you go along.
I hope this helps anyway.
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2013/04/20 19:26:49
Subject: Dave's new Hobby Adventure thread - Advanced Riveting for your Vault 101 dweller
And you're right Dr. H
However, trying to take them off my piece of gak, it shattered into a million goddamn parts and I can't find one of the bogey parts, so it's over.
I seem to have lost my patience for modeling altogether.
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"dave you are the definition of old school..." -Viktor Von Domm My P&M Blog : It's great how just adding a little iconography, and rivets of course, can make something look distinctly 40K-adamsouza
"Ah yes, the sound of riveting.....Swear word after swear word and the clinking of thrown tools" "Nope. It sucks do it again..."- mxwllmdr
"It puts together more terrain, or else it gets the hose again...-dangledorf2.0
"This is the Imperium, there is no peace, there are only rivets" -Vitruvian XVII
"I think rivets are the perfect solution to almost every problem"- Rawson
More buildings for the Building God! -Shasolenzabi
2013/04/20 19:53:47
Subject: Dave's new Hobby Adventure thread - Advanced Riveting for your Vault 101 dweller
Oh No! That's sucks dude.
These things happen and you will bounce back.
Go chill, come back to it later. It doesn't look like a major piece is missing that you couldn't make yourself and maybe after a little break you may even find it staring at you.
Mastodon: @DrH@dice.camp
The army- ~2295 points (built).
* -=]_,=-eague Spruemeister General. * A (sprue) Hut tutorial * Dsteingass - Dr. H..You are a role model for Internet Morality! // inmygravenimage - Dr H is a model to us all Theophony - Sprue for the spruemeister, plastic for his plastic throne! // Shasolenzabi - Toilets, more complex than folks take time to think about!
2013/04/20 20:14:42
Subject: Dave's new Hobby Adventure thread - Advanced Riveting for your Vault 101 dweller
I found it by stepping on it!- it didn't break.
I've been chilling for several weeks now..I think I need to get out of the house or something...
"dave you are the definition of old school..." -Viktor Von Domm My P&M Blog : It's great how just adding a little iconography, and rivets of course, can make something look distinctly 40K-adamsouza
"Ah yes, the sound of riveting.....Swear word after swear word and the clinking of thrown tools" "Nope. It sucks do it again..."- mxwllmdr
"It puts together more terrain, or else it gets the hose again...-dangledorf2.0
"This is the Imperium, there is no peace, there are only rivets" -Vitruvian XVII
"I think rivets are the perfect solution to almost every problem"- Rawson
More buildings for the Building God! -Shasolenzabi
2013/04/20 20:29:13
Subject: Dave's new Hobby Adventure thread - Advanced Riveting for your Vault 101 dweller
Perhaps not the best way to find something, but it works.
Change of scene can work wonders for many things including patience and inspiration.
Mastodon: @DrH@dice.camp
The army- ~2295 points (built).
* -=]_,=-eague Spruemeister General. * A (sprue) Hut tutorial * Dsteingass - Dr. H..You are a role model for Internet Morality! // inmygravenimage - Dr H is a model to us all Theophony - Sprue for the spruemeister, plastic for his plastic throne! // Shasolenzabi - Toilets, more complex than folks take time to think about!
2013/04/20 20:39:26
Subject: Dave's new Hobby Adventure thread - Advanced Riveting for your Vault 101 dweller
i can see you followed your own basic shapes doctrine here...
wich is all good... just downsize everything you think is right.... that was a lesson i had to teach me too... you never see everything i do when i post my stuff... i´ve torn or thrown against the wall many pieces you will never see... so treading on something is a part of the learning process^^
don´t throw away your first steps in a bigger universe have faith...
Thanks for putting up with my whiney fit guys Redesign 1
"dave you are the definition of old school..." -Viktor Von Domm My P&M Blog : It's great how just adding a little iconography, and rivets of course, can make something look distinctly 40K-adamsouza
"Ah yes, the sound of riveting.....Swear word after swear word and the clinking of thrown tools" "Nope. It sucks do it again..."- mxwllmdr
"It puts together more terrain, or else it gets the hose again...-dangledorf2.0
"This is the Imperium, there is no peace, there are only rivets" -Vitruvian XVII
"I think rivets are the perfect solution to almost every problem"- Rawson
More buildings for the Building God! -Shasolenzabi
2013/04/20 21:39:28
Subject: Dave's new Hobby Adventure thread - Advanced Riveting for your Vault 101 dweller
well as this is much better looking...this also raised the question as to what you are up to ? will it be a halftrack as the extra pair of wheels suggested or have your plans shifted with the new design?
The cross brace makes me wonder what is planned for going inside... Although if you make it with an enclosed rear then no one will know it's there... it's just that half-tracks are usually lack roofs.
Mastodon: @DrH@dice.camp
The army- ~2295 points (built).
* -=]_,=-eague Spruemeister General. * A (sprue) Hut tutorial * Dsteingass - Dr. H..You are a role model for Internet Morality! // inmygravenimage - Dr H is a model to us all Theophony - Sprue for the spruemeister, plastic for his plastic throne! // Shasolenzabi - Toilets, more complex than folks take time to think about!
My P&M Blog :
no mixing^^
