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i read recently that even mini figs with weapons aren´t allowed anymore on planes...stupid eh?

as for whips... got a copperplated bum...so little to no effects for that...

New detailing adds a gak-load of coolness to the beast vik, and as to the Union Jack, I'd keep that un-riveted.

And someday you'll have to regale us with the tale of how you got your tail copper-plated.

thanks monkey, and my copperplated tail... now that would be telling^^, can´t have that , now can´t we?^^

as for the uniion jack getting rivets, you´re probably right, the victorians would have been bound to find a way to not to dishonour the flag by adding rivets to it...and besides, i think i would pretty much over do it then with the riveting...^^

been busy... all your nice and helpful comments are really boosting my creativity and productivity! thanks mates for that!

as the tracks are seemingly done, it is time to work on more technical thingies^^...behold the boiler (WIP):





the flash did some crude effects on the glue but i guess once cured this will look quite good...note that this is very early wip status of the boiler and thus it will see some more work done in form of plating and stuff...

can anyone guess what inspiration was involved in the form of the boilder?^^


vik

no guess on the inspiration, but good work!

ahh... i think there are some peeps around that might guess that still^^

thanks shrike^^

Excellent work Vik! the fretwork on the tread system is a nice touch and fits so well with the rest of the design concept.
Two schools of thought were side by side with Victorian design, the Industrialized minimalism, (Plain smooth plates with rivets/maybe welding,) and the artistic approach, and this tank looks like the artistic approach!

Now my Perun is from of course a cold austere industrial utilitarian approach of design concepts, hence why my big monster is all plates and rivets with only Aquilas added.
The Perun on my thread is all about cold, hard functionality.
Afterall, it comes from a cold, hard place.

Your beauty here is from a place that appreciates the functionality, but also appreciates form as well as the function.

The Khadrovians I feel would view your world as a decadent, and overly extravagant peoples!

For my IG art is for hanging on a wall, or standing in a museum as they see it. But your tank shows that your space Victorians believe that you can have both art as well as performance, in fact, your tank is an awesome display of performance art!

And what Shaso's just said is a pretty good summary of the Steampunk ideal, actually. Functionality, but done in a beautiful way.

And I still think Vik should try a wooden look. Just paint one of the sides brown and see how it looks. You can always paint back over it again.

thank you very much! i think with your words you have captured all that i have tried to achieve in one post! for me the victorians indeed represent a twisted in time and space version of the ourworldy victorian british army. the sense for art and fine materials cobbled together with the harsh funcionality of a brutal tool like the tank..."while we have to act brutal as we slay our enemies, we can still do it like artful gentlemen!"
tho i wouldn´t go as far as saying that your perun looks cold...not by a long shot my friend! won´t have something that unnice said about it! no, while i see they live in a harsh and unfreindly envireoment the khardovians have to rely far more on efficience than the victorians as i picture my guardsmen to mainly work their bloddy deeds in the lands like african steppe or the european trench wars...whereas you have the icy wastelands to conquer and hold...thus your imperials have a quite more hostile enviroment...the amount of detail you put into your perun simply makes it not possible to see it as cold... the tank has a soul...come to that most vehicles show some kind of charcter after time...if you insist the perun would lve up to it´s name and be a weapon starring powerhouse of untamed ferocity, steel clad and ready to smite its foes wherever they are...
the steamtank here is rather a more posh looking variant of a super heavy...they come to the front line eventually, but they will never be in a hurry...this would be an unforgiong ungentlemently behavior...thus not happening! ^^

Nice tank you got there, looks a lot like a British WWI tank, really fits in well with the theme.
I really like the tracks to, simple but effective.

thanks lord creed

tho i would now if i do another one one day not use the foam anymore...hopefully next tank will be all plasticcard then...

Those treads are EPIC. Lose the flag on the side and re-cast it so I can have treads for making tankes for my Iron Warriors!

nah...the flag is needed^^ and the tracks were rather easy made from some thin foam i got...

Viktor von Domm wrote:thank you very much! i think with your words you have captured all that i have tried to achieve in one post! for me the victorians indeed represent a twisted in time and space version of the ourworldy victorian british army. the sense for art and fine materials cobbled together with the harsh funcionality of a brutal tool like the tank..."while we have to act brutal as we slay our enemies, we can still do it like artful gentlemen!"
tho i wouldn´t go as far as saying that your perun looks cold...not by a long shot my friend! won´t have something that unnice said about it! no, while i see they live in a harsh and unfreindly envireoment the khardovians have to rely far more on efficience than the victorians as i picture my guardsmen to mainly work their bloddy deeds in the lands like african steppe or the european trench wars...whereas you have the icy wastelands to conquer and hold...thus your imperials have a quite more hostile enviroment...the amount of detail you put into your perun simply makes it not possible to see it as cold... the tank has a soul...come to that most vehicles show some kind of charcter after time...if you insist the perun would lve up to it´s name and be a weapon starring powerhouse of untamed ferocity, steel clad and ready to smite its foes wherever they are...
the steamtank here is rather a more posh looking variant of a super heavy...they come to the front line eventually, but they will never be in a hurry...this would be an unforgiong ungentlemently behavior...thus not happening! ^^

Ah, just stating the cold hard facts of Khaddy life.

qoute "can anyone guess what inspiration was involved in the form of the boilder?^^ "


Hellhound chimera ? or crassus armoured transport


http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/CRASSUS-ARMOURED-TRANSPORT.html

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Imperial_Guard/Imperial_Guard_Tanks/ARTEMIA-PATTERN-HELLHOUND.html


where ever the insperation comes from it looks good mate,
@ shazo , nice words matey you really summed up Viks tank , although i do agree with vik your tank is a still a piece of art , cold fuctional brutalsit art , designed by corbusier for utiliterianian folks , un like the dandy Vik -Torians

well they should more embrace the power of the steam... one never feels cold when in the vicinity of a full powered steamboiler!

see for yourself and get a warm feeling by just looking at^^



i hope i can put a smallish grill from zinge in the gap of the fretwork here...stay tuned for a later update in the evening^^

vik

...that 8 hour car drive is looking better and better, Vik >.>

Mwahahaha!

It amazes me that you are able to make that beast look better and better.

ain´t seen nuffin`yet...well yet is now and this means update time is upon ye! repent!

see now it is obvious that this is indeed going to be a steampunk tank:




the pipes of the exhausts are made from cardboard bobbins.. thus perfectly cut to shape and good to glue on the hull...the connection between boiler and pipes is beneath the hull^^ clever idea, eh?


and the next thingy i want to share is specially for shrike to tempt him into buying a holepuch for his own:

a sentinel close combat weapon...made from plasticcard and done in the same fashion like the fretwork i did for the tank...it looks like the theeth of the sawblades...







vik

Oh Yeah Baby!
It's stacking up well Vik!

thank you sir^^

This is great!
This baby comes along nicely - I really admire what you can do from "cheap" cardboard!
Wizardry!

Cheers
Klaus

Holy... wow, just... wow!!
Subscribed,subscribed,subscribed!!

thanks klaus, from you thats a mighty compliment!

joshoftheforest: thanks man^^ and hope you become a regular around these parts^^

Looking very cool with the boiler and stacks in position. Will there be reinforcement rings on the stacks?

And nice work on the chainswaw.

love your use of plasticard

^
what they all said.
great work as usual, ect. ect.

I just might! Absolutely adore steampunk and your tank is simply breathtaking!

thanks fellas, thats all lovley to read^^

my internet has hickups currently so i might be out of touch abruptly...

but if all works smoothly i will show tomorrow some new feats^^

@Neil101: True, the harsh functional beauty of the Perun is that is quite the functional monster, and will be effective for killing other vehicles, light vehicles and infantry Folks back in 1915 or so would have been stunned by this beasty!
Utilitarian Khaddies, and the dandy-esque Vik-torians.

@Vik: Awesome that the grill fit! Love the stacks, they fit it to a T! (Tea?) Yes, if you can, make re-inforcement bands for the stacks! when you paint the boiler-grill, make it all orangey-yellow to show it is burning fuel for the tank!

Awwe yeaaahhh... Spikey smokestacks, now that's what I'm talking about.

Now, when you finish, you'll need to take a look at some of the tutorials for smoke and steam effects- use those on your smokestacks, so they are belching black fumes from the burning coal.

glue-hard cotton wool and paint it black