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Good lord Theo, you must be one of the most prolific scratchbuilders when you get going... You get an idea itching your brain and you scratch away until the concept is in plastic... Then you scoot off with another idea... It must be exhausting being you and having so many cool ideas in your noggin'

Oh, BTW, Flyer looking very cool so far

Ah, tasty new flyer in the works!

@everyone, thanks for the approval, this has been a quick fun build, sometimes things just work themselves out right.

Just spent last 7 hours at Fourth of July activities over in Illinois. We had the backdrop of the arch and beautiful weather, great friends and explosions what could be better. Only sucky thing was they had cell phone jammers going, so I haven't been able to check anything out during the lulls.

Tomorrow is a day of rest, BBQ, and possibly bloodbowl sounds good for a birthday to me.

Have yourself a good Birthday Theo! sounds like you'll enjoy it :-) your latest scratch work is coming along beautifully! and the Paulson walker is really cool! looking forward to more progress with this latest frenzy you're in lol!

Happy B'Day!

Happy Birthday Theo.

Thanks again guys, I'd like to say turning 39 hasn't taken away the hobby mojo, at least I feel I might still have some left.

Woke early his morning (I'm never getting a birthday breakfast in bed because I wake up before everyone else), and went to look at my jet. It stood the all important eye of seeing it the second day and being happy with ones creation.

So scrounged my bits boxes again, and realized I didn't have enough parts to make more of these , but I had enough to get started...


The second tempest chicken has hatched. It still needs som legs/landing gears, and the jets. I used the other parts from the drop pod to make temporary jets. They could become permanent, but I'd like to have them more matching than mismatched. Although hey will have slight differences as the wing missile pods I'm unwilling to purchase another storm talon for. The pods come with one backside and two fronts. So more cutting, cursing and comparing leaves me with this.

9different pieces on each pod, and I still don't have the back of it closed off. It seems decent on the dry fit in the first picture, and nothing paint won't fix later.

Also pulled out the mecha from its primer hole, looks like an even coat, so now just need a color idea. It's one of the North American faction light mecha, so in honor of the Fourth of July it might get a red white and blue color scheme. Though I may just go with a standard military scheme, but giant robots should never try to blend in to the background.

Looking good so far.
Missile pods look the part.

As for the paint scheme, maybe do it mostly normal military colours and then do a few sections or armour panels in red/white/blue?

happy birthday old grunt!!!

this time of year must be like a celevrations marathon^^...

the second chicken tempest looks almost like a sibling to the first one! very well done again! even if some parts are missing... this is why i love steampunk... when you can´t have matching gear for every mini you just pull the steampunk means made-individually-produced-card and sit justifed in the bleeding sunshine

and i vote for a nice blue/red/white paintjob... and totaly weathered... that would look awesome! soot and maybe some rust... could have a social meaning after all

@Dr. H, thanks, I thinking along your lines with mostly military color and probably a shoulder with the red whit and blue.
@vik, we have my bday today, my sisters on he 10th, and my niece on the 30th. Sept. is our party time of the year, my brother in law, sister in law, grandfather in law, and assorted others all within a week of each other.

Anybody share a birthday with someone famous, or that the have a kindred spirit with?
I worked with two people over h years that I really got along with, found out later that we shared the same birthday, also a former pastor friend o mine has the same birthday, and we had great times while on a mission trip together. Lastly I also share the same birthday as comic book legend John Byrne, who is one of my favorites of all time. Just wondered if yo guys have that sort of oddball connection with anyone.

@rsjake, thanks I got the package today, like a special birthday celebration that I wasn't expecting, now to crack one open

Also my ebay supply drop hit

24 dwarves, 2 sets of the bloodbowl grudgebearer teams. I have since mounted 13 of hem on the beer cave bases from Galorn and got half a game in with them tonight between BBQ and s'mores. I'll try and get them primed in the morning.

Tomorrow will probably be taken up most of the day with cleaning. We have been hunting for a home church for a few months since the move, and were pretty sure we found one about a month ago. We had dinner two weeks ago a the pastors home with his family, and they are supposed to come over for BBQ lunch tomorrow. We went to watch fireworks with his family and four other families yesterday, it's great hat they are roughly our age and our kids are close enough in age to get along and occupy themselves.

Got some nice pics for terrain at he fireworks, I'll try n post them up tomorrow as well. Some of he St. Louis skyline from the Illinois side of the river, som bridges, an observation tower that was pretty neat, and some silos with a cargo elevator that extends to the Mississippi River. The airshow was okay, but no jet fighter , still the biplanes, and WWII planes were excellent.

Cleaned the basement this morning to be ready for guests.

Bookcases still need a lot of work.

That's the most of my desk that I've seen in months.

Urban renewal on the necromunda table. I will be rebuilding it with all the cardboard buildings that I have been getting.

Pastor did not make I to our house today, his boys are sick. His wife came over to have girl time with my wife though. So my boy and I went o eat Chinese food look at car dealerships, and went for a road trip to miniature market.com. Saw a nice standup that Dave might enjoy.

Didn't buy it, but they had some clearance starter sets of c.o.g.s. for $35.00

They also had a wall of Imex plastic toys, look silly, but I've seen people use them, and $7.00 each is cheap.

They seam to be able to fire there own missiles with springs.

ah.... these look like robo gear stuff... highly valuable stuff mate! specially the flyers and the walkers... good use on the legs and so on... and also their tracked parts of the tanks are of high value for conversions if you ask me...
ah... the famous nuka cola bottles from jake!... (i shouldn´t too often write high value... i sound like a stupid teleshopping dude^^)

with so many events in your family and so on it is a wonder you can stay sober for five minutes ...
also... john byrne is one cool artist, it is probably not possible to sum up what an impression on the comic book scene he made... from DC and marvel... he had them all and he made them all!!!

and:

it's great hat they are roughly our age and our kids are close enough in age to get along and occupy themselves.

that´s what i would call a win win situation... and because it is not often the case... all the more worthy of a
and while it didn´t happen this time... next time better luck!

Yep vik, they were robot ear, they had all those little sets, the front of the store is garbage, all their discounted to sell junk. They keep everything else in back.

Had to ask for them to grab what I wanted.

Breaking open the box of operation Cerberus. You get two unique figs. The American is awesome. He is a chef complete with the pouffy hat, he has a tank strapped to his back that runs two flame pistols off of it .

The axis character looks like a catholic schoolgirl with a sniper rifle. Good detail on her as well.

The building components comes out to be.

They are slightly taller than the necromunda bulkheads, but still great pattern and usable as Dave showed.
There are two door sections, two wide double window fronts, three inside wall corners, 15 outside wall corners, 15 of the panels in the picture between the inside and outside corners that are filled in windows, eight of the narrow solid walls top right, 6 of the narrow double window top center, and three of the wide double window top left.

There's also a rulebook, and a clear counter. I'm going to start throwing some of these together to get an idea of the layout possibilities.

miind you... if you are one future day really interested in these robo gear sprues... the look to ebay... you will get them cheaper there... or try to get them from russia directly as they produce them there!

and i wanna see that cheesy sniperess^^...

and yeah... those building parts look rather promising!... and i bet you could add a bit of PC to your bulkheads (by the way... nice piles there^^) and you can combine them pretty well with the dusty stuff

That's a nice haul Theo!! I'm impressed!

After seeing these walkers in hand I'm not touching the robot gear stuff. This stuff is amazing. The details are crisp and clear, and parts move, at least some of them do.

The walker tilts up/down at the waist, and the shoulders are plug and play. The guns have some moving bits, like tilting, or swivel on the rocket pods. I picked up three of his box for $11.00 each on sale, because it comes with one walker and three different arm options.

Operation Cerberus comes with lots of building bits. One box for $31.47 built all this.

It was designed to build the left building to three stories and have a couple bits left over. The only thing I didn't understand was the cardboard floors they provide. They are too short to go side to side, so if heavy weight is on it, he section might bend or print loose. But a hick umm age brought my plasticard found some .080 plasticard which fits exactly in the floor joints.

For vik a shot of the figs.

And a shot of the book with the drawings o what they should look like.

The somewhat cheesecake art on he back of he box has the girl looking more like a nazi emo hooker than a sniper, but I guess that helps to sell it.

Building section next to bulkhead for I've comparison. I like the difference in height. You look at older American homes and they were taller than the newer ones are on average. It will also give more of. Retail/ home look than the necromunda industrial feel. These can make some fabulous hab complexes.

Also on a different note, got my bloodbowl figs completely mounted to their bases and primed them this morning. Here are the frosty mugs, plus two extra figs from my basic team. I'm going to try and make my own death roller, I refuse to pay more for an ugly single figure than what I paid for the entire team.

The two blitzers in the back row will be added to the team later in a competition or tournament. They are all on galorn's bases from rivetzone.com

Nice haul of plastic crack Theo.

It's cool stuff isn't it? The cheesecake is growing on me. The Allies have A Bazooka Joe Marbo, and a "Rosie" fig that I must have. The Chef is cool, he's a spy working as a Chef deep inside Berlin.. he's Basically Vik

Ha ha ha, I hadn't even opened the book yet to read the description or history on the guys yet. My project for the day was to clean up the basement, take down my necromunda buildings and build the old cardboard buildings so I could see just how big my collection is.

Mission complete

That's a 6'x4' table

That's without walkways or the roughly 6"x6" square buildings being set up. I also have some gorkamorka terrain that I got in the ebay wins. You can see I even have terrain on top of terrain on top of terrain and for some reason I'm looking at some ebay auctions on more necromunda

On a hotter note our AC has broken down, it's been hotter than hades hive after an exterminatus order. Hopefully we can get it fixed quickly, or replace it cheaply.

For some reason, when I read the thread title, I think of the intro to "The Forbidden Zone"

Going down, down, down
How far can you go?
You might fall into the forbidden zone
Going down, down, down
It's driving me insane!
Everything is different, but nothing has changed!

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This thread is absolutely fantastic.

Wow! Theo!! That is impressive!

@smitty, thanks a lot, never seen that clip before it was fantastic. Now I need to make a servo skull with a boxing glove and a hat
@dave, that's what she said. There's something to be said about having the basic cardstock buildings. Especially given my slow painting nature. Also I still have about half of my bulkheads unused.

I keep watching these ebay auctions, there's two out there right now that would be great for people wanting he bulkheads and terrain to have a full table, I think the hoarder in me really wants to buy them. Please someone else snatch them up.

Theo had a "Dust-storm"

For vik a shot of the figs

thanks mate... much apreciated! but say, the plastic looks rather softer than GW´s stuff? the bended firearms of the sniperess for instance...??? or am i wrong? and they appear to be more realistic in scale as the heroic GW scale...

and now that your frosty mugs are primed... lets see some lick of paint here and there and of course are you more than capable to make your own deth roller!...no doubt about it!

as for the filled table...

that must´ve took the better part of an hour just to put everything together to just take that pic... and it would have taken at least another hour after some playing with everything until i could have made an effort to tuck it all away :(

On a hotter note our AC has broken down, it's been hotter than hades hive after an exterminatus order. Hopefully we can get it fixed quickly, or replace it cheaply.

ouch.... what temps do you get these days? we are facing around 30° celsius the coming week... so i am too rather vexed of this already....

Getting ready to leave for church when I was thinking about the dust buildings. If I don't make a back of the building, and just have it set up on a table edge, I can make a much taller Hab block. Create the floors and all. Would make for excellent sniper perches.

Vik, it took about two hours with sorting all the bits and fixing some of them as we'll.

We're looking low 90s Fahrenheit all this week. So really want to get the ad resolved quick. When we bought the house we got a home warranty, I'm just afraid that they'll pro rate the cost because of the age of the unit and home.

Sadly, furnaces and central air units usually don't last more than 10-15 years anymore. Edge-of-table or facade buildings are always a win, I'm not sure why more people don't do edge-of-table buildings.

I chime in on the edge of table issue... sounds like a winning formula!

and I hope your AC will soon work again...these temperatures... I am barley able to breath... lifting a limb is not included for this... and civilized clothing won´t happen then...so no going out then^^
and I do hope and cross my fingers for no extra costs due to this...and yeah... can´t see a live time of a working AC ... too many parts in movement and weathering (the bad one...the one we don´t like...) is bound to be cruel on these things...

My "City of Death" has several table edge buildings. It gives people logical, safe, places to deploy.

@briancj, logic? In 40k? No I get where your coming from. Also considering boarding up some windows to necromunda fly them. Gang house style, for when the spryer's come to target the settlements
@ Vik, great news, we called three or four people to set up times for them to stop by and look at it, one came right over, he lives fiveminutes from us. He fixed it with parts in his truck for $130. A steal for that fast of service on a Sunday afternoon. The house is cooling right now, unfortunately while I was waiting for him I discovered my front passenger tire was flat, all the way down to the rim of the hub, changed that, but there's a new bill out of the blue.
@dave, oddly enough this unit is 18 years old and had been running fine, just blew a Capacitor. Johnny5 is alive now, hopefully for a while.

Well..better than a power converter! You would've had to go all the way to Tashi Station to pick that up!