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We have public transport as long as you only want to go anywhere once, unless there are leaves on the track then you really are fethed

I love sweden even more now

Here we have plenty of busses

Not just in the cities.

AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:Dave I think Max is doing it for a friend...

A friend that happens to own his own mini company........


Yes it is for commercial conversion...


If it turns out well enough....


I am having trouble with aesthetics, though... i got a little time though....


Yes they are sewdish guns, DiDDe....

This will probably be cast in pewter so fewest number of pieces and nothing really thin can work....


Dave, did you see my blog on the front page? I didn't.... hmmmmm.... I will look again.....


I have three sons, 18, 16 and 13 years old. They will never drive anything I own........





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Through the night the 11 Mars patterns and 1 Lucius will be getting together. I had hoped to start sooner today but things conspired against me......

Monday, regardless of the state of cmpletion the warhounds have reached, I will switch gears for a day or two and begin a thunderhawk and two or three more Reavers. Two or three depends on how I feel about all that plastic bending at the moment I start them.....

Will not be around at all over the next three days but I will be working so expect a hella update Sunday night/Monday morning timeframe.......

For now, gotta get some grub.......

*rubs hands* well i´ll be there to watch those marching hounds!!!

Probably because its easier to ask than on my own thread as more people follow this one.....

What is the length and width of a Thunderhawk gunship?

What is the length and width of a Stormraven gunship?

Inches only please


thanking you in advance

A FW Thunderhawk measures 19 inches long and 17 inches wide.

Thanks max... Trying to get ideas together for scenery... and well, I was considering a scratch built landing pad on struts. so was considering making it for either thunder hawk size or stormraven.

Well, Good luck with that, UAC. I hope it goes well for you.

I am BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Hopefully over the next two days I will stand up 12 warhounds, three Reavers and the body and wings of a thunderhawk.

I know, I know....


I have said these things before.

On top of all this I am getting ready for a tourney this weekend that has over 200 dollars in prizes AND the weekly FNM and Modern tourneys at my FLGS.

I will be running a dual lash list that has the potential to run away with the tourney. I am hoping no one brings any Stormravens.....


Ok, so where I stand.....





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ok so i know there are only ten there. patience is a virtue.....

haha crazy! Lets see if your output matches your ambition!

Good luck at the tourney.

mxwllmdr wrote:Hopefully over the next two days I will stand up 12 warhounds, three Reavers and the body and wings of a thunderhawk.

So let me do some math here: with a few assumptions (like titans take the same amount of time to build, and you don't require any sleep) that leaves 3.2 hours for each titan

mxwllmdr wrote:I know, I know....

So you already knew that, huh?

Good luck on your mega project of creation and sleep deprivation, Max!

Oh it will.....


I am actually having a fed up crisis with people that don't do what they say they will so I am determined to compete this one........


then move on to bigger and better things....


And here we have a good start on the leg pieces and toes with the final two main hulls....




Ok, a fair number of people have asked about certain parts of my building so some tut shots up soon. I actually had hoped to have the =]_,= Article up soon but have missed the deadline......

I am still writing it though and will get back to it this evening.....

Do you have some sort of a part pattern or blueprint you are working from?

I am using the templates I made from my Khorne pattern for the mars and for the one Lucius I am using my templates from the Twin Lucius build. I think it will go quick once the grind of the main construction is finished.....

That's good, but what did you make the original templates from?

Direct Observation of the actual models. It was a bear. I know mine aren't 100% accurate but they will look good. I am hoping this is the absolute last Titan build I do. I know I won't need anymore....


I think the reaver is the only one that I did not get hands on time with a real FW model in order to plan.

Wow man, that's real talent!

Thank you, Dave. But really it isn't. The real talent lies in coming up with something all your own. Like you and Vik. That is why I am starting to take other jobs. No real major income but I get to design things and if the get accepted by the buyers than I know I am on the right track.


I can't wait to start the Knight set.

Oooh! Knights! What direction are you heading with them?

yeah it is man! I know, I built my Stalingrad ruins directly from old b&W photos, not everyone can just do that!

Well, see thats the question. I want them to be Knight world Knights but with a newer feel. I kinda liked where Silver was going with his but i think I am gonna need them to be a little bit more imposing.


What are your thoughts. After all, if they get bought, then they will be commercially available and player feedback in a model has always made them better.


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Dave, where are the Stalingrad ruins posted at?

With all of this talk of clients and whatnot, will you also be joining the ranks of casters? Or will you stick to your normal "scratchbuild-everything-like-a-champ" modus operandi?

mxwllmdr wrote:I can't wait to start the Knight set.

That sound rather exciting! Where does one find stats for a Knight? I've asked many, many folks and no one can give me an answer. Are they just fluffy?

BTW, shouldn't you be building titans instead of rambling on Dakka?

Honestly, If I were you, I'd design the Knight as pre-Heresy..that way when GW releases more official Knight kits (and you know they will, b/c marines are not OP enough already ) yours will not be obsolete.



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Rawson, they introduced Knights in the Horus Heresy Novels, then they released a kit for the latest Grey Knights codex. More are definately coming from GW.

Theres rules for knights in a bols apoc supplement, as well as tempus fugitives admech codex. I personally use the admech version, more balanced imo.

I subscribe to the school of thought that knights should be around 6-7". When i made my warden thats what i aimed for. I dislike the ones that almost hit warhound height.

bigdaddy made some awesome knights a while back, which looked pretty damn cool.

PHH was always the plan. Yes, I am rambling and working. Stats can be found on BoLS I believe.....

Yes, I am joining the ranks of caster. My will be shipping out cast sets of all my models to the "guy".

I am hoping that my supplies arrive soon. But not crossing any fingers. I have had to set up a lot of systems I didn't already have to make this freelance gig work for me....

Are you gonna aim for Mars pattern, lucius or something else entirely?

edit: Oh yeah, and as an aside, i quite like using mine with the same rules as FWs Mega Dreads.

dsteingass wrote:Rawson, they introduced Knights in the Horus Heresy Novels, then they released a kit for the latest Grey Knights codex. More are definately coming from GW.

Ah ha! You mean that Dreadknight is not just a bad play on words? (GW Exec. Pitch: "It's like a Dreadnaught, but different") Leave it to me to assume that GW did something stupid instead of cool


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Also, thanks Vit and Max for the stat links

It's actually a pretty cool kit IMHO. They aren't sarcophagaii like Dreadnoughts, regular guys pilot them like a sentinel, but they have the neuro impulse controls like a titan.

I agree on the height thing, too, Vit, but fluff puts them around 8-9". which is just short of 2 or so inches short of a warhound. But 6-8 makes sense in the Dreadknight sort of way. Problem is wiht the knights the pilot is completely enclosed. Not strapped like a baby in a harness to the front. this would lead one to believe that the kngihts had to be a bit bigger than dreadknights because all that cockpitting around the pilot makes for bulk and there is no seemingly unneccesary bulk around the knights I have seen produced. Hence, an obviuosly larger frame and therefore stature. So that proportions are accurate....

Btw, a dreadknight is not a regular admech knight. Afaik, knights were pretty much single pilot titans.

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Oh, and Knights predate the whole Mars versus Lucius thing.....