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I'm not so sure about the forklifter, my guess is a tandem-axle trailer chassis combined with a one-axle tractor. But whatever, definitely the best motorhome ever, and something worthy even of Yarrik himself! - - Now, about Vic, I'm sure he will will return once the holidays are over. You can't combine familylife and an internet geek presence in times like these.

Now, koelsch beer, okay I guess if you are from Cologne. But up here we like our beer - well, tasting more beer-y less lemonady, you know... plus they serve it in ridiculously small glasses. But at least it's made from barley like its hould be, not from wheat like in some forsaken corners of the republic...

That's right, Mr von Domm, I'm talking about this abomination served in YOUR city! With a shot of fruit sirup even! Man, can't you drink your beer with a shot of clear Schnapps in it like every good countryman should?

Vik may be spending time playing console games with his kids

***gasps*** "pheeewww" finally I have crawled from underneath a heap of schoollife, greasy food, gift wrappings and the ait is not longer cluttered by merry songs...."pheeww" indeedy...

but to all of you that are still within the deepest festivities ...: Murray...er...merry Christmas...!

Hruotland wrote:@red harvest: if I recall my German Folk lore correctly, I have never heard of a Belschnickel. But we are a country of ginormous local cultural differences. Myself, I am a Lower Saxon from the northern parts. Wikipedia tells me this "Belsnickel" or "Pelzmäntle"(meaning "fur coat") is stemming from the Palatine and Franconian area somewhere in the southern parts, or what we "Fish Heads" call "south of the weisswurst aequator". We do not know much about those parts. They seem to drink the wrong type of beer, sometimes even (lo and behold! wine, speak funny and are definitely not Bavarians. On the other hand, Vic is from Berlin. They also seem to drink the wrong type of beer, speak funny and are definitely not Bavarians. So maybe they have a Belsnickel there?


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well concerning the console, XBox Kinect. It is soooo much cooler not to have a controler while doing things like running, dodging, throwing things, kicking balls without holding a bone in your hand - AHEM DID I JUST WRITE THIS I DID NOT MEAN WHAT YOU MIGHT THINK NO REALLY!

LOL... well I know the "Knecht Ruprecht"... which has some strinking similarities to the belschnickel it seems... from appearance to modus operandi...as well as the tendency to be the darker side of santa...but surley we all wont want to see naughty kids hurt, eh?...... after all...been there, done that...

also... decisions have been made...and we went for a Wii U... because some friends of us also own one and the kids might thus be able to play online with them... , and we could use the old games as well... and Mrs von domm was only to be tempted to get us all this console in the end... we also got inifinity and so everything was golden... so we thought... but alas it was not... as we unwrapped our gifts and the kids were overjoyed by the stuff they got, in the end we couldn´t start the damned thing... after consulting the support we will have to replace the wretched machina...*shakes fist*... the disappointment in the eyes of my kids will have to get soothed on Saturday by someone from the store...mercy by upon that poor soul!!!

Hruotland wrote:Advent is heavy business for parents, we all know. Hope you have time to relax sometime along christmas, vic! I found this pic and thought you might like the inspiration...

I've seen that while surfing for steampunky goodness from time to time... an impressive built... and a truly interesting future project...

Red Harvest wrote:Thats really cool. Looks like it is built on a forklift chassis?

My Grandfather mentioned the Belschnickel a few times. His Grandparents were from Lower Saxony and Westphalia. I suspect it is the Westphalian side that knew of it. The Pennsylvania Dutch here in the US-- who are of German descent (should be Pennsylvania Deutsch) also have the Belschnickel. I just think it is an amusing idea.

Never knew Germany would be so compartmentalized, but I guess it makes sense. Now about the beer, Kolsch? That's good stuff.

And Vik seems to have taken an extended leave of absense. I hope he makes it back for the contest. Or just to check in. Who else can keep those pesky welders at bay?

compartmentalized... red... you don´t know the half of it... the U.S. is called the melting pot... well... Germany always was called the patchwork rug... as all the small countries and lands of misery have been sewn together by the sword...
as for Kölsch... well... we´re talking beer... not lemonade... right?... and a good beer needs a strong body... not something that only hints of body leftovers ...

Camkierhi wrote:We do miss the master!

Excellent pic there, totally love the concept. Can almost see a couple guardsman with a stubber mounted on the top, and a Commisar stood waving get me closer! Just needs an Aquilla on the front!

dunno about any master sitting here next to me...but me, myself and I have been hiding a bit.. lurking occasionally...sitting in my armchair...and looking in awe at the deeds of you lot here...

Hruotland wrote:I'm not so sure about the forklifter, my guess is a tandem-axle trailer chassis combined with a one-axle tractor. But whatever, definitely the best motorhome ever, and something worthy even of Yarrik himself! - - Now, about Vic, I'm sure he will will return once the holidays are over. You can't combine familylife and an internet geek presence in times like these.

Now, koelsch beer, okay I guess if you are from Cologne. But up here we like our beer - well, tasting more beer-y less lemonady, you know... plus they serve it in ridiculously small glasses. But at least it's made from barley like its hould be, not from wheat like in some forsaken corners of the republic...

That's right, Mr von Domm, I'm talking about this abomination served in YOUR city! With a shot of fruit sirup even! Man, can't you drink your beer with a shot of clear Schnapps in it like every good countryman should?

hey Hruotland...no need yell at me... I've only drank "Weisse" once... never did it for me... but I like Bock, and other more stout like beers... "Köstrizer" for instance... and some Czech beer too... and of course the "Guiness"... as this is a meal that can be served in a pint... that´s what I call a beer...

as for that vehicle...hmmm.... a commissar command vehicle...now there is a nice thought.... (kept for future needs^^)

shasolenzabi wrote:Vik may be spending time playing console games with his kids

wish I could old matey... wish I could... alas it is one of those long time curses... getting a RC car and no batteries as the shops only open after the weekend...
well... hopefully we´ll be with a new one on Saturday... then the games can start...


but for now... let me show you what my beloved santa got me for Christmas...:



42 new eyedropper bottled paints...brushes, and even a cute Kromlech Orc Pilot!

well... I wanted to replace my old GW paint pots for quite some time now... and this is my new chance to up my game in painting...hopefully...

and to show you that I intend to progress on that road... here is a little lick of the lolly so to speak.....a little blurry sadly... but a little WIP nevertheless...:






well... I hope you´ll like... more to these later on...

cheers, and merry merriness for all of you!!!

yours truly vik

Sad to hear about that no-show with the console, Vic! There is a retailer out there that will have to crawl on the floor on Saturday! At least to have his noggins dunked for your kids' amusement!

The part with yelling: well you drink Bock, you are atoned for everything! All is cool! Maybe I can invite you to a good barrel-drawn Herforder Red even on occasion!

well... maybe we can persuade...harangue him to give us an infinity figure for free...^^

we know Germany is THE beer country... eh?^^... thanks for the invite... I bet that´s a good one... it is funny... there are so many beers... some of the good ones you wont see anywhere else tho... as the major ones aren´t often the good ones...

Well, no console, but at least some good paints to work with!

Looks like a handy amount of gifts and paints.

Also, I return. Again because I must have all the dramatic entrances.

Nice start mate but you really need to get cracking, hey have you checked out the new bearskins Mad Robot Miniatures are releasing might be of interest to you

dramatic entrance, eh? comrade?... well... I know about that one^^...see below... and welcome back!

at shaso... now we have a fully functioning Wii U and we´re not afraid to use it daily... the avengers game is quite nice... it is soooo funny to destroy cars or chuck pedestrians into the Hudson river...

at LDD... the bearskins I actually think look weird... but the ornamental breastplates are awesome... I have recently obtained eight lizard steeds and these would make some great riders...



as for the paints... well... I started to put them to good use already... pics of proof following below... as you might possibly remember I made these small grot tanks from PC and from scratch...







and this one...:








these are so far my heaviest weathered projects ...the pics are still WIPs as everything is still pre- wash...

and also... OneManNoodles rang in the next round of the ongoing LoeR terrain building competition...
this time its about accidents... as ...well...they happen...right?...
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/629845.page#7478948

and I have mused about what to enter... I recently did my annual new years eve salvage through our neighbourhood and among a plethora of wooden sticks from firecracker rockets...I found this... a very big dome...


the idea is to make a big grot rocket... a lunar landing vehicle...kind of...

to create lastly a diorama that is related to this old classic cinematic scene:




of course with lots of small green evil weirdos all over the place...


what do you think?...

cheers, vik

Your tanks are beautiful, and your weathering is brilliant, looking very effective so far.

That is a BIG dome, looking forward to this, I love the concept, and you could easily have it as playable dangerous terrain, even if the Grots are not represented by either player, a grot crash in the middle of a battle field would be so typical! Or it could represent a drop pod or your grot army! Yup brilliant idea sir.

Fantastic to see you.

the idea to use it as a drop pod I had too...

it is one of those hilarious ideas that has to prove its worth on the table... I think for this setting the moonish character of the base is the most important factor... never made any craters before... so I see here the main obstacle so far... the pod/ rocket I think will be quite straight forward... also... the original source provides already so many nice and league worthy shots I won´t be without further guide^^

and thanks mate... as said on another page
praise goes to our mate cam here too for these tanks, as I see him and his productivity with a small scale time resources as one who can do miracles while having lots of stuff around his ears to do all day... (and again we definitely need a saluting orkmoticon !!!!)

Maybe for your craters, Jam Jar lids, of different sizes, upside down and then use Polyfiller or something close. A drier mix to build up the sides of the craters and water it down and pour the centers, that way you get smooth centers. If it cracks it will look even more effective. And for rubble, the "rocky cat litter in PVA glue makes excellent rubble/scatter debris.

cat litter... good idea... maybe I should get me a small package... as we don´t have a family pet...hmm... and the jam jar lids...(sounds like a new terrorist organization...doesn´t it? ) that is a good idea! I think when I start working on this base the original dimensions will soon be achieved by me... (OMN did a smallish miscalculation at the comps OP...)

originally I had planned to make the whole base in plaster...as a friend of the family provided us with a 10 kg package... but I think to only use that for the base it would soon get way too heavy...better I use foam too...hmm....

Aha, the Viktorian Space cannon conveyance module!

Love the grot tanks Vik!

What in the name of the hive mind layer that egg? O.o

Craters you say?

I've always made them from polystyrene as per this tutorial...

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/553099.page#6081064

But you can also make them from aluminium pie cases...

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/362989.page

Nice to see the tanks in glorious technocolour vik Good job!

Excellent idea for the grots-on-the-moon

Pie tin craters are a good choice. Not considered jar lids before, that's a nice idea.
I've always liked using cut down toilet/kitchen rolls for the basis....cut a ragged edge, use some parcel tape to create a bit of a slope on inner and outer surfaces, then liberal application of pva and scatter.

Fantastic colour scheme on the tanks there matey

Excellent tanks. With quite the dramatic entrance. And thanks. Love coming back.

Lovely Tanks VIK... looking really cool and a sweet paintjob on them also! (The "wonky" exhausts are my favourite!)

Really nice idea Re: the comp also... cant wait to see what you do with it! Craters sound good... sounds like you have plenty of different styles and types to try out...! One nice thing is that if it is a "moonscape" that the unfortunate Grots crash onto... all the impact craters will be different due to the variety of objects and impact types that occur..... so.... try out one of each type of crater I think!

Vik has a good start on Orks to face his Viktorian guards, and they have armor company to boot!

What size rocket head is that ????? all the ones we find are small crappy rubbery plastic ones ........... I think they are rocket ends ? Uuurgrgrghhhhhh

Either way like the idea of a crashed pod maybe add some droids as well

Like the grot tanks see they are looking the Bizzz combat colours and all that

Lizard steeds are they the old skool cold ones or the new raptor ones ? please say old skool like the idea of rough riders chestplates kind of what I am going to use mine for.

You should check out Col Gravis heads selection some great SP stylise heads, would work great with the chest plate

Somehow I imagine those widdle grot tanks waddling behind a mega-tank, going like "quack quack quack quack!" And next to the three tanklings, a termonuclear warhead big enough to end the solar system in one go... from one exteme to the other. Nice find, btw!

Good work on the tiny tanks.
Good to see the grots got a good deal on the pair of them (b.o.g.o.f)

That's a large, shiny tip you've got there, Vik...

Interesting concept, look forward to it.

Tanklings. Lol. good one. They look like they were fun to build too. A good thing. Now what was that nose cone in its former life? it reminds me of those panty hose eggs (L'eggs brand.)

Speaking of Moon Landings... I'm reminded of that Wallace and Grommit short, "A Grand Day Out" Great stuff.

Nose cone for a cyclonic torpedo as all stuff in WH40K is massively oversized for it's job!

So had to google L'eggs, as I'd never heard of panty hose eggs before The wiki entry mentions that crafters and artists found the packaging useful.

Hey Vik, had to quit lurking... excellent job on the grot tanks. They are wonderfully grotty looking & make me smile... which is EXACTLY the job of a good grot tank!

The stairs are actually cool. Of course we want better pictures as well.

apropos of nothing mates... carnival is around the next corner... so I have started making props for my kids costumes... you could say they will be going as guardsmen...

but they get some pumped up weaponry...after all their dad can´t let them fight the good fight with torchlights only...,)

so this is what my youngest, oskar will be wielding... still WIP...but soon to be painted...:



a build I started in 2010...whew.... now I feel old...

well...anyways... have a nice day mates...

cheers, vik