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Viktor von Domm wrote:lol... so you play a game with yourself...sounds like you might grow hair on your hands^^

or go blind^^

well i think it s easy fairly... with SM and a low "bodycount" list...try that with guard or orks^^

just a shame no-one randomly goes to GW with a 5k army, I don't plan ahead and just go "hm, I wanna go to the LGS today" unless something's happening, and my only regular gaming buddy collects CSM
but yeah. one thing I NEVER forget to bring, no matter what- my 5 man BP/CCW scout squad Caddius. They've killed more stuff than any of those others.

just a shame no-one randomly goes to GW with a 5k

well i guess thtas why malifaux and warmachine have so much going for them these day...small armies with not too many minis and you can carry them around in only one case...a 5k army of IG, orks or `nids...no way... there goes the spontanety...

so...in an effort of getting things on the way...now my wife and oldest son have joined the fray of rivet making...one reason for me to postpone further wok on the steam tank and get myself dissatracted with other things was that my lower arms get strained rather easy by making millions of rivets...thus my wife and pascal helped me out and made quite a billion rivets for me...thus i had no excuse left and i gone to town on the tank again rivetstyle^^

so here is a still not finshed job but what is now left to do is only minor costemtic chores^^

full view:


front with TW Flamers...here you see some of the still needed work, needs rivets in the inside of the tracks...


turret in all it´s riveting glory...


and the backside to show the boiler and stacks with rivets to bolt things down^^




to be frank...i didn´t include the bottom into the riveting frenzy...there would be rivets needed there but i´ll be damned if i did that...^^

thanks for droping by mates...

vik

Always good to see a rivetted backside.

Talking from a mad mek's point of view obviously.

Love watching rivets appear on tanks, they really bring it all together.

Always good to see a rivetted backside.

this reminds me of jackass (curtesy of MTV... not that i enjoyed that show much...)

rivets are for me the thing that makes a vehicle into a steel beast... without them i would doubt that they are done with steel...i couldn´t really take unriveted tanks seriously...that why maybe i can´t picture myself to go for eldars or tua...they have little to nothing that draws and holds the eye to their surfaces of tanks...they both apear to me way to slippery...

I do think that you need to wrap some iron bands around the smokestacks, though. But other than that, Awesome! Unglaublich! Sehr shön! And all that rot!

Ladies and Gentlemen...

My Shadowsword arrived in the mail today. Ordered from the UK, shipped to New Zealand only to be returned to the Netherlands, its world tour is over.

And there was much rejoicing!

Vik, I took some more pics of the Robogear stuff next to an actual Sentinel. I'll drop them into my blog posts later tonight (after I do some actual work).

at anvil due... i thought about that for wuite some time...for the lower part...connecting to the frame of the hull i did a glue sort of connection with rivets...i have high hopes there...but i too feel the need of some bands on the higher parts of the stacks...the thing is i would have to make the bands and get then some connective seams...is that a problem? i was unsure of that...thats why i havne´t done them yet...any ideas or am i worrying too much?^^ on the bands of course there will be rivets^^

at jeroen... congratz to your world touring shadowsword...hmmmm... this must feel so good to have such a thing in your hands...waiting for assembly...

will take a look later on to your blog for fresh robogear pics^^

Always good to see a rivetted backside.

Though some backsides are more riveting than others.

And yours is very riveting Vik

The tank's that it is, though I don't wish to suggest yours is not... I mean... erm... yours might b.... oo eck

just talk freely, your among likeminded friendly peeps here...share your osessions with us although we dont always feel that way too...does it make you edgy when i say BOLTS....NAILS....NUTS...oh i went there...

Balls.

Bolts for my bolt guns

Nails for my nail guns

Nuts for my....hmm, that one doesn't work so well, guess they'll go to the squirrels then.

*Stealthily slips some more Steampunk Stuff in here*



*sneaks out*

i think it is fair to say we never went that far of topic, then agian whats wrong in steampunk to talk about wooden planks...strong and tight together to make everything slippery and boiling and of course steamy...


and yep maxminis backpacks have tempted me for quite a while...

There first blog update is away!

Only thing though would it be too much to give your IG those backpacks? On my humans I do kind of miss something on their back so I might look into getting some to stick on there.... Eventually.

You know after I finish my Squats, Deathwing and other crazy ideas I get in my head.

Might just have to get some of those back packs for a rainy day

You just made me think that one of the Minimax steamhelms might look really cool on a suitable human.
Sort of superior Ned Kelly.

well i too thought about giving my men some kind of backpacks for a better and working soldier look...for stormtroopers i had thought about cuttting down some vents and pipes of standard marine powerpacks...maybe add some gasmasks... the ones GW used to produce...this might be a good idea... tho i cant see me buying stuff from maxmini in the nearer future... mostly i buy used stuff via ebay... somehow as i am unemployed i feel less guilty to spend my money for recycling stuff for my army than buying it first hand...


and this here i will do one day in a nice scratchbuilt:
(Pic curtesy of jeroens own blog...link is in his sig....^^)

vik

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Might just have to get some of those back packs for a rainy day

You just made me think that one of the Minimax steamhelms might look really cool on a suitable human.
Sort of superior Ned Kelly.

I actually used those Steamknight Helmets along with their Jetpacks...which got me a result damn close to one of GW's newer releases.
Let me scrounge up a pic...

at chibi... maxmini has without a doubt so many beatiful and nice bitz and bites...one could really loose oneself in their shop...
ned kelly...holy...looked him up...gosh...


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for a pre-heresy look these helmets and the jetpacks look quite fitting... for standard marines...so post heresy i think they look a tad to big on the backs...tho the helmets have a ton in style ... this might balance that then^^

They are my Death Guard Raptors, so they were active during the Heresy ^_^

As for the technological developments....Isnt the Imperium kind of going backwards? The more advanced stuff is all older, archaic and technology is lost as time proceeds?

eBay is ones friend if you look to recycle. Thats where I got a big starting chunk for my Deathwing. Got a landraider, five termies, a dreadnought and a bike all in a single bundle for under 40 bucks.

whoa... then you kind of robbed someone... a landraider alone normaly goes for at least 35 euros...is that in the netherlands different?

yep the IoM is pretty getting dumber by the minute....they really waste away...i see them one day fight against `nids with sticks and stones...and thats not funny...i think before all that techno theocracy thing they really were the best faction around only maybe bested by the eldar... but for tech i think the tau are on the winning road...

Actually for me on the GW Site:

- Terminator Squad: 35
- Landraider: 52

No clue what a Dread is going for at the moment though....and yes I did kinda totally 'rob' someone hehe

didn´t talk about aczual GW prices.... these would be off the scale...for me anytime of the day^^ no i talked about average ebay prices...


well i am off for now... need some rest^^


cheers...read you all tomorrow...


vik

Night Vik, thanks for the comments on my Blog as usual

Yeah someone on another thread mentioned a big thumper Cannon thingy and it is £30!!!

Know what you mean about recycling Vik am in the same boat as you.
Not checked Maximini prices yet so in my head I can afford them!

I was just thinking as I was reading above, that the packs I have could be converted. I doubt if I will ever build my SW's army. GW and I are not friends anymore.
So I can just chop up my guys for skirmishy games !

I actually just took apart some space marine / terminator hybrids I made years ago....and ordered in new bits from eBay to return them to full Terminator Status.

I found that using the bits places can actually work out a hell of a lot cheaper, if you shop around some.

Nice work there Vik! got the family involved with rivet works eh? Now when are ya gonna add rivets to the inner tread sections? (the ones facing the hull of the tank)?

Wow, nice tank! And those Assault Marines are kickass.

By chance, could you tell me how to do those rivets? I'm doing a similar (if smaller) scratchbuild and I'm looking to get some rivets going too. Thanks!

Good way to to reinforcement bands, I found, is to just wrap some thin paper or plasticard around, and let it overlap itself. Then put the rivet on the overlap.

Death from above only works when you have badass helmets, and you do have those, so time for some dynamic entrys.

Anvildude wrote:Good way to to reinforcement bands, I found, is to just wrap some thin paper or plasticard around, and let it overlap itself. Then put the rivet on the overlap.

of course... this i will do so...can´t understand why i didnt thought of that myself...

toady even my middle sone was eager to help with the rivetmaking... unfortunatly he is better in inventing cruel machines than his hands are strong enoough to press the punch^^

Not checked Maximini prices yet so in my head I can afford them!

lol...in my mind i am super sexy and a brilliant scribe and my wit is marvelled by men and women alike...only when i open me eyes and i realize i have gone bald....